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{
"Godspeed":{
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"antonyms":[
"hello"
],
"examples":[
"a hearty Godspeed was extended to all the departing troops"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greeting(s)",
"salutation",
"salute",
"welcome"
],
"related":[
"leave-taking",
"send-off"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieu",
"au revoir",
"ave",
"bon voyage",
"cong\u00e9",
"congee",
"farewell",
"good-bye",
"good-by"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go ballistic":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The partners went ballistic when they lost the business deal of a lifetime."
],
"synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anger",
"fulminate",
"rage",
"rant",
"rave",
"snap",
"snarl",
"sputter",
"storm",
"tee off",
"vent",
"vituperate",
"bristle",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"glare",
"glower",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"warm",
"burst",
"explode",
"flare (out)",
"flash",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"madden"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill out",
"cool (off or down)",
"relax",
"hush",
"quiet (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"simmer down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"go down":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"when's the drug deal supposed to go down ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go on",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go in on":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"related":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go on":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"an unfortunate tendency to call those who disagree with him \"brainless goons \""
],
"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",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"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"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the crime boss threatened to send the goons after him if he squealed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"go over":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
],
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languish",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crater",
"crumble",
"flame out",
"choke",
"crack up",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"fall down",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"related":[
"catch on",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"cook",
"percolate"
],
"synonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go through":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He'd recently gone through the process of obtaining a driver's license."
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"related":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"do",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"make",
"negotiate",
"perform",
"perpetrate",
"prosecute",
"pull off",
"put through"
]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I know how that feels because I've gone through it."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive",
"assimilate",
"digest"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
]
},
"to use the mind to acquire knowledge":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They went through the lesson several times."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cram",
"grind",
"swot",
"analyze",
"deduce",
"find out",
"con",
"learn",
"memorize",
"read",
"research",
"restudy",
"apprehend",
"comprehend",
"grasp",
"know",
"understand",
"absorb",
"digest"
],
"synonyms":[
"bone (up)",
"study"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"go under":{
"as in fail , flame out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"crater",
"fail",
"flame out",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"tank",
"wash out",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crumble",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out",
"cook",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go-between":{
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"I won't act as go-between between you and your ex"
],
"synonyms":[
"courier",
"express",
"messenger",
"page",
"runner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative",
"bearer",
"carrier",
"deliveryman",
"letter carrier",
"mail carrier",
"mailman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement":{
"examples":[
"acted as go-between for the two warring nations during the peace process"
],
"synonyms":[
"broker",
"buffer",
"conciliator",
"honest broker",
"interceder",
"intercessor",
"intermediary",
"intermediate",
"interposer",
"mediator",
"middleman",
"peacemaker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"troubleshooter",
"moderator",
"bargainer",
"negotiant",
"negotiator",
"appeaser",
"pacificator",
"pacifier",
"reconciler",
"agent",
"attorney",
"deputy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"liaison",
"medium",
"ambassador",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"legate",
"messenger",
"delegate",
"representative",
"busybody",
"interferer",
"meddler",
"arbiter",
"arbitrator",
"judge",
"referee",
"umpire",
"adviser",
"advisor",
"counselor",
"counsellor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go-betweens":{
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I won't act as go-between between you and your ex"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives",
"bearers",
"carriers",
"deliverymen",
"letter carriers",
"mail carriers",
"mailmen"
],
"synonyms":[
"couriers",
"expresses",
"messengers",
"pages",
"runners"
]
},
"one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"acted as go-between for the two warring nations during the peace process"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"troubleshooters",
"moderators",
"bargainers",
"negotiants",
"negotiators",
"appeasers",
"pacificators",
"pacifiers",
"reconcilers",
"agents",
"attorneys",
"deputies",
"factors",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"liaisons",
"mediums",
"media",
"ambassadors",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"legates",
"messengers",
"delegates",
"representatives",
"busybodies",
"interferers",
"meddlers",
"arbiters",
"arbitrators",
"judges",
"referees",
"umpires",
"advisers",
"advisors",
"counselors",
"counsellors"
],
"synonyms":[
"brokers",
"buffers",
"conciliators",
"honest brokers",
"interceders",
"intercessors",
"intermediaries",
"intermediates",
"interposers",
"mediators",
"middlemen",
"peacemakers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go-getters":{
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"a go-getter with his sights set on the presidency"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"live wires",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beavers",
"achievers",
"comers",
"doers",
"enterprisers",
"he-men",
"individualists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdlers",
"idlers",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"putterers",
"triflers",
"goldbricks",
"malingerers",
"procrastinators",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"drones",
"lazybones",
"sluggards",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"ignorers",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"neglecters",
"daydreamers",
"dreamers",
"dropouts",
"quitters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go-slow":{
"as in sit-in , slowdown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"job action",
"sick-out",
"sit-down",
"sit-in",
"slowdown",
"sympathetic strike",
"sympathy strike",
"lockout",
"strike",
"walkout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goad":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"the threat of skin cancer\u2014not to mention the prospect of wrinkles\u2014should be sufficient goad for using sunscreen"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"encouragement",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducement",
"invitation",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"grounds",
"motive",
"occasion",
"reason",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"fuel",
"spark"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"tried to goad me into auditioning for the play"
],
"synonyms":[
"egg (on)",
"encourage",
"exhort",
"nudge",
"press",
"prod",
"prompt",
"urge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"spur",
"stimulate",
"hurry",
"hustle",
"push",
"rush",
"adjure",
"beseech",
"implore",
"importune",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"soft-soap",
"wheedle",
"high-pressure",
"nag",
"needle",
"pressure",
"foment",
"incite",
"instigate",
"provoke",
"stir (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"dissuade",
"brake",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"hold back",
"inhibit",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"goading the horse forward into the stall"
],
"synonyms":[
"dig",
"prod",
"spur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chuck",
"jab",
"jog",
"knock",
"nudge",
"poke",
"bore",
"drill",
"perforate",
"pierce",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab",
"stick",
"drive",
"hale",
"propel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"goads":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"the threat of skin cancer\u2014not to mention the prospect of wrinkles\u2014should be sufficient goad for using sunscreen"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosts",
"encouragements",
"impetuses",
"impulses",
"incentives",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"momenta",
"momentums",
"motivations",
"provocations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"yeasts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducements",
"invitations",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"grounds",
"motives",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"fuels",
"sparks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives"
]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"tried to goad me into auditioning for the play"
],
"synonyms":[
"eggs (on)",
"encourages",
"exhorts",
"nudges",
"presses",
"prods",
"prompts",
"urges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drives",
"propels",
"spurs",
"stimulates",
"hurries",
"hustles",
"pushes",
"rushes",
"adjures",
"beseeches",
"implores",
"importunes",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"soft-soaps",
"wheedles",
"high-pressures",
"nags",
"needles",
"pressures",
"foments",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"stirs (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"holds back",
"inhibits",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"goading the horse forward into the stall"
],
"synonyms":[
"digs",
"prods",
"spurs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chucks",
"jabs",
"jogs",
"knocks",
"nudges",
"pokes",
"bores",
"drills",
"perforates",
"pierces",
"pricks",
"punches",
"punctures",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"drives",
"hales",
"propels"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"goal":{
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"examples":[
"leaving the world a better place than I found it is one of my main goals"
],
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"aim",
"ambition",
"aspiration",
"bourne",
"bourn",
"design",
"dream",
"end",
"idea",
"ideal",
"intent",
"intention",
"mark",
"meaning",
"object",
"objective",
"plan",
"point",
"pretension",
"purpose",
"target",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grail",
"holy grail",
"plot",
"project",
"scheme",
"desire",
"hope",
"mind",
"wish",
"nirvana",
"destination",
"terminus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"method",
"way"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goatish":{
"having a strong sexual desire":{
"examples":[
"a seedy grind house that was patronized mainly by goatish men wearing raincoats"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"indecent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celibate",
"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gob":{
"a considerable amount":{
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"examples":[
"has gobs of money"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"related":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
]
},
"a small uneven mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"grabbed a gob of clay from the block and threw it on the pottery wheel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bead",
"drop",
"globule",
"block",
"body",
"bulk",
"particle",
"piece",
"portion",
"bit",
"chip",
"crumb",
"granule",
"morsel",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap"
],
"synonyms":[
"blob",
"chunk",
"clod",
"clot",
"clump",
"dollop",
"glob",
"gobbet",
"hunk",
"knob",
"lump",
"nub",
"nubble",
"nugget",
"wad"
]
},
"one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"avast, ye gobs , and haul anchor!"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"shipmate",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"lime-juicer",
"limey"
],
"synonyms":[
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"shipman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar"
]
},
"the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he threatened the yob with a punch in the gob if he didn't stop insulting everyone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"countenance",
"face",
"puss",
"visage",
"muzzle",
"jaws",
"mandible",
"maxilla",
"gullet",
"maw"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"kisser",
"mouth",
"mug",
"piehole",
"trap",
"yap"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gobbet":{
"a small uneven mass":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bead",
"drop",
"globule",
"block",
"body",
"bulk",
"particle",
"piece",
"portion",
"bit",
"chip",
"crumb",
"granule",
"morsel",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap"
],
"synonyms":[
"blob",
"chunk",
"clod",
"clot",
"clump",
"dollop",
"glob",
"gob",
"hunk",
"knob",
"lump",
"nub",
"nubble",
"nugget",
"wad"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gobble":{
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"cram",
"devour",
"glut",
"gorge",
"gormandize",
"gulp",
"ingurgitate",
"inhale",
"raven",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"slop",
"wolf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeat",
"pig out",
"swill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibble",
"peck",
"pick"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"godliness":{
"the quality or state of being spiritually pure or virtuous":{
"antonyms":[
"godlessness",
"impiety",
"ungodliness",
"unholiness"
],
"examples":[
"they say that cleanliness is next to godliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemousness",
"irreverence",
"sacrilegiousness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"hypocrisy",
"sanctimoniousness",
"sanctimony"
],
"related":[
"asceticism",
"devotion",
"morality",
"prayerfulness",
"religiousness",
"spirituality",
"priestliness",
"goodness",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"consecration",
"sacredness"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessedness",
"devoutness",
"holiness",
"piety",
"piousness",
"sainthood",
"saintliness",
"saintship",
"sanctity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes down (with)":{
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week"
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"comes down (with)",
"contracts",
"gets",
"sickens (with)",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks out (with)",
"dies (from)",
"succumbs (to)",
"fails",
"languishes",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers",
"worsens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes back",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers (from)",
"shakes (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes public (with)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"The celeb went public with the news of her pregnancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"lets on (about)",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unbosoms",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confides",
"shares",
"debunks",
"shows up",
"unclothes",
"undrapes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"brings out",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"betrays",
"blabs",
"gives away",
"leaks",
"informs",
"squeals",
"talks",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"relates",
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"avows",
"concedes",
"confesses",
"owns",
"disinters",
"rakes up",
"smokes out",
"unearths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"shrouds",
"veils"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goes to bat for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"an advocate who goes to bat for the poor and marginalized"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"seconds",
"sides (with)",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advances",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"plugs",
"preaches",
"talks up",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going (on)":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathering (on)",
"maundering",
"rambling",
"rattling",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviating",
"digressing",
"straying",
"wandering",
"sidetracking",
"blabbering",
"blabbing",
"blithering",
"bumbling",
"burbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going crook":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
],
"examples":[
"Riley found himself going crook when he discovered that his roommate had eaten all his food."
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"related":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going down":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"when's the drug deal supposed to go down ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going to one's head":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"The drink the host made for him really went to his head ."
],
"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"buffaloing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"flummoxing",
"foxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"puzzling",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticking",
"stumping",
"weirding out",
"abashing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"stunning",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"humbugging",
"misguiding",
"misleading",
"snowing",
"stringing along",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"satisfying",
"enlightening",
"informing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goings":{
"forward movement in time or place":{
"examples":[
"tried to get down the hill quickly, but it was slow going with an injured foot"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancements",
"advances",
"furtherances",
"headways",
"marches",
"onrushes",
"passages",
"processes",
"processions",
"progresses",
"progressions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"currents",
"drifts",
"flows",
"fluxes",
"streams",
"ways",
"advents",
"approaches",
"arrivals",
"comings",
"bounds",
"jumps",
"leaps",
"steps",
"strides",
"impetuses",
"momenta",
"momentums"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwashes",
"ebbs",
"refluxes",
"retractions",
"returns",
"reversals",
"reverses",
"about-faces",
"turnabouts",
"turnarounds"
],
"antonyms":[
"recesses",
"recessions",
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retreats",
"retrogressions"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"was so absorbed in her TV show she didn't notice his comings or goings"
],
"synonyms":[
"decampments",
"departures",
"exits",
"farewells",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goldbricking":{
"as in dallying , loafing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dallying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"apathy",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"supineness",
"idleness",
"indolence",
"inertia",
"laziness",
"shiftlessness",
"sloth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drive",
"industriousness",
"industry",
"ambition",
"enterprise",
"go",
"hustle",
"initiative",
"assiduity",
"assiduousness",
"diligence",
"perseverance",
"animation",
"briskness",
"energy",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"pep",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrancy",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hanging , bumming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bumming",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"hanging around",
"idling",
"loafing",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"kicking back",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"exercising",
"working out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"golden-ager":{
"a person of advanced years":{
"examples":[
"offered discounts and special tours for golden-agers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancient",
"elder",
"geriatric",
"old-timer",
"oldster",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaffer",
"graybeard",
"patriarch",
"whitebeard",
"beldam",
"beldame",
"dowager",
"grandam",
"grandame",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"dotard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adolescent",
"minor",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy"
],
"antonyms":[
"youngster",
"youth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golems":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor was a golem who never had an unprogrammed thought in her life"
],
"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",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"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"
]
},
"gondola":{
"as in ferry , taxi":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"cockleshell",
"tub",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"airboat",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"hovercraft",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"hydrofoil",
"hydroplane",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gone":{
"no longer existing":{
"examples":[
"woolly mammoths have been long gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bygone",
"bypast",
"dead",
"defunct",
"departed",
"done",
"expired",
"extinct",
"nonextant",
"vanished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nonexistent",
"dying",
"faded",
"moribund",
"collapsed",
"fallen",
"overthrown",
"antiquated",
"dated",
"obsolete",
"pass\u00e9",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"terminated",
"lost",
"missing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"active",
"dynamic",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"antonyms":[
"alive",
"existent",
"existing",
"extant",
"living"
]
},
"no longer living":{
"examples":[
"doctors came to the waiting room to give the sad news that the operation hadn't been successful and the heart patient was gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"asleep",
"breathless",
"cold",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"demised",
"departed",
"fallen",
"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"
]
},
"no longer possessed":{
"examples":[
"I put my watch right here on the table, but now it's gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"missing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absent",
"castaway",
"irrecoverable",
"irretrievable",
"forgotten",
"unknown"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherished",
"loved",
"prized",
"protected",
"treasured",
"valued"
],
"antonyms":[
"owned",
"possessed",
"retained"
]
},
"containing unborn young within the body":{
"examples":[
"a woman who's seven months gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"caught",
"enceinte",
"expectant",
"expecting",
"gravid",
"heavy",
"pregnant",
"quick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parturient",
"prenatal",
"childbearing",
"gestational",
"brooding",
"conceiving",
"impregnated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barren",
"infertile",
"aborting",
"miscarrying",
"delivered"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonpregnant"
]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"in jazz circles he was regarded as a real gone trumpeter"
],
"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",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"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"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything is going according to our plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"come",
"come along",
"done",
"fared",
"forged",
"gone along",
"gone off",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"repaired",
"run",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"driven",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"taken 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 leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will go on vacation at the end of the year",
"decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"gone off",
"got",
"gotten",
"got off",
"gotten off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"run along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"taken off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flown",
"got out",
"gotten out",
"mizzled",
"run away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"gone out",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsaken",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"come",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitted",
"beseemed",
"done",
"fitted",
"fit",
"served",
"suited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfied",
"sufficed",
"functioned",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said"
],
"synonyms":[
"accorded",
"agreed",
"answered",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"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 be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the highway goes right along the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"borne",
"born",
"extended",
"headed",
"lain",
"led",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossed",
"cut",
"passed",
"coursed",
"followed",
"spanned",
"traversed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop",
"the room went dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"become",
"come",
"got",
"gotten",
"grown",
"run",
"turned",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"metamorphosed",
"modified",
"mutated",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"been",
"continued",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckled",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"foundered",
"given",
"gone out",
"imploded",
"tumbled",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflated",
"flattened",
"melted",
"melted down",
"broken",
"broken down",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"died",
"failed",
"given out",
"stalled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crumbled",
"popped",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflated",
"risen",
"swelled",
"swollen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"these plates go in this cabinet"
],
"synonyms":[
"belonged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"placed",
"stayed",
"fitted (in)",
"fit (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"when you get old, your eyesight starts to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"decayed",
"drooped",
"emaciated",
"faded",
"failed",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"sagged",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken down",
"worn out",
"yielded",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"rotted",
"run down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesced",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"gained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursed",
"covered",
"crossed",
"cut (across)",
"followed",
"navigated",
"passed (over)",
"perambulated",
"peregrinated",
"proceeded (along)",
"tracked",
"transited",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"traversed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiked",
"traipsed",
"tramped",
"trodden",
"trod",
"walked",
"ridden",
"rid",
"rode",
"run",
"crisscrossed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million"
],
"synonyms":[
"ranged",
"run",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternated",
"fluctuated",
"moved",
"shifted",
"changed",
"mutated",
"extended",
"reached",
"stretched",
"swept"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bet",
"betted",
"gambled",
"laid",
"played",
"put",
"staked",
"wagered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bidden",
"bid",
"bade",
"offered",
"adventured",
"chanced",
"hazarded",
"speculated",
"ventured",
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeopardized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I didn't go to fire the gun\u2014it just went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"allowed",
"aspired",
"calculated",
"contemplated",
"designed",
"intended",
"looked",
"meant",
"meditated",
"planned",
"proposed",
"purported",
"purposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"hoped",
"wished",
"considered",
"debated",
"mulled (over)",
"pondered",
"attempted",
"endeavored",
"striven",
"strived",
"struggled",
"tried",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"effected",
"executed",
"performed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken off",
"broken up",
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"dead-ended",
"determined",
"died",
"discontinued",
"elapsed",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"halted",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"let up",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"winked (out)",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisted (from)",
"laid off (of)",
"refrained (from)",
"given over",
"knocked off",
"packed (up or in)",
"broken down",
"conked (out)",
"cut out",
"stalled",
"paused",
"stayed",
"suspended",
"abated",
"petered (out)",
"wound down",
"winded down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drawn out",
"extended",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
],
"antonyms":[
"continued",
"hung on",
"persisted"
]
},
"to have enough money for":{
"examples":[
"I think I can go for the new car after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covered",
"expended",
"financed",
"outlaid",
"paid (for)",
"ponied up",
"sprung (for)",
"picked up",
"purchased",
"taken",
"acquired",
"got",
"gotten",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured",
"bidden",
"bid",
"bade",
"offered",
"bankrolled",
"endowed",
"subsidized",
"underwritten"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"absorbed",
"accepted",
"bided",
"borne",
"born",
"brooked",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"hacked",
"handled",
"met",
"pocketed",
"stomached",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"supported",
"sustained",
"sweat out",
"sweated out",
"taken",
"tolerated",
"worn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowed",
"permitted",
"suffered",
"swallowed",
"reconciled (to)",
"acquiesced",
"agreed (with or to)",
"assented (to)",
"capitulated",
"consented (to)",
"respected",
"submitted (to)",
"yielded (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declined",
"dismissed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"turned down",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"dodged",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"missed",
"abstained (from)",
"forborne",
"refrained (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"her grandmother went peacefully last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"checked out",
"conked (out)",
"croaked",
"deceased",
"demised",
"departed",
"died",
"dropped",
"ended",
"exited",
"expired",
"fallen",
"flatlined",
"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"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go , but it never really worked out"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicked",
"come off",
"delivered",
"gone over",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"thriven",
"cooked",
"percolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languished",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"sunk",
"waned",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"fallen down",
"gone under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"washed out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"gone to seed":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"That old, rusted car has gone to seed ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"related":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"tumbledown",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
]
},
"to become worse or of less value":{
"antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettered",
"upgraded",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"strengthened",
"advanced",
"developed",
"marched",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"related":[
"abated",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"waned",
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decomposed",
"degraded",
"dilapidated",
"disintegrated",
"moldered",
"putrefied",
"soured",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"debilitated",
"undermined",
"drooped",
"failed",
"fallen",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"run down",
"sagged",
"slipped",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophied",
"crumbled",
"decayed",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"devolved",
"ebbed",
"regressed",
"retrograded",
"rotted",
"sunk",
"worsened"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grown",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"related":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"good and":{
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"Make sure the house is good and clean before the guests arrive."
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goodness":{
"conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong":{
"antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy",
"wickedness"
],
"examples":[
"a person of such unaffected goodness that his friends were inspired to lead better lives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"indecorum",
"indiscretion",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"sinfulness",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"corruption"
],
"related":[
"high-mindedness",
"honor",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"appropriateness",
"correctness",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"etiquette",
"fitness",
"propriety",
"seemliness",
"ethics",
"morals"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"decency",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"rightness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goof (off)":{
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"returned home unannounced and found the au pair goofing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"hang about",
"idle",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"piddle",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"doze",
"estivate",
"aestivate",
"hibernate",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"tarry",
"amble",
"mosey",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"swan",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grind",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
"exert",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in slacker , underachiever":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"slacker",
"underachiever",
"lowbrow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bookworm",
"dink",
"dork",
"geek",
"grind",
"nerd",
"swot",
"weenie",
"wonk",
"double-dome",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"brain",
"genius"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"goose bumps":{
"as in cold sweat , fidgets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerve",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"shivers",
"whim-whams",
"willies",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"goose-step (to)":{
"to act according to the commands of":{
"examples":[
"the new president has everyone goose-stepping to her every whim lest they provoke her wrath"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"comply (with)",
"conform (to)",
"follow",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"goose-stepping (to)":{
"to act according to the commands of":{
"antonyms":[
"defying",
"disobeying",
"rebelling (against)"
],
"examples":[
"the new president has everyone goose-stepping to her every whim lest they provoke her wrath"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"complying (with)",
"conforming (to)",
"following",
"minding",
"obeying",
"observing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gore":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, may sound like fun, but the bulls have been known to gore runners who get too close"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"spindle",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
"synonyms":[
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gorge":{
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"walked the bridge over the gorge , marveling at the spectacular drop"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyon",
"ca\u00f1on",
"col",
"couloir",
"defile",
"flume",
"gap",
"gill",
"gulch",
"gulf",
"kloof",
"linn",
"notch",
"pass",
"ravine",
"saddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abyss",
"chasm",
"cirque",
"cleft",
"crevasse",
"crevice",
"cwm",
"fissure",
"combe",
"coombe",
"coomb",
"dale",
"dell",
"glen",
"hollow",
"shut-in",
"vale",
"valley",
"basin",
"floodplain",
"kettle",
"arroyo",
"barranca",
"barranco",
"coulee",
"draw",
"gully",
"gulley",
"gutter",
"nullah",
"trench",
"trough",
"wadi",
"wash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fill with food to capacity":{
"examples":[
"we gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"cram",
"glut",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobble",
"gormandize",
"pig out",
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"cloy",
"fill",
"banquet",
"feast",
"regale"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diet",
"fast"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"the kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"pig out",
"swill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devour",
"glut",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit",
"wolf",
"banquet",
"feast",
"regale",
"bolt",
"cram",
"gulp",
"guzzle"
],
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"nibble",
"peck",
"pick",
"taste"
],
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},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat"
],
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"bolt",
"cram",
"devour",
"glut",
"gobble",
"gormandize",
"gulp",
"ingurgitate",
"inhale",
"raven",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"slop",
"wolf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeat",
"pig out",
"swill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibble",
"peck",
"pick"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gormandize":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving\u2014it's traditional!"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorge",
"overeat",
"pig out",
"swill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devour",
"glut",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit",
"wolf",
"banquet",
"feast",
"regale",
"bolt",
"cram",
"gulp",
"guzzle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibble",
"peck",
"pick",
"taste"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge"
],
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"bolt",
"cram",
"devour",
"glut",
"gobble",
"gorge",
"gulp",
"ingurgitate",
"inhale",
"raven",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"slop",
"wolf"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeat",
"pig out",
"swill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibble",
"peck",
"pick"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gormless":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"examples":[
"a comedy show that invariably portrays the British aristocracy as a bunch of gormless twits"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gosh":{
"as in gee , gee whiz":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gee",
"gee whiz",
"ooh",
"wow",
"zowie",
"glory",
"glory be",
"ha",
"hah",
"hallelujah",
"hey",
"hooray",
"hurrah",
"hurray",
"hot dog",
"huzzah",
"wahoo",
"whee",
"whoopee",
"yahoo",
"yippee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alack",
"alas",
"aw",
"boo"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"interjection"
]
},
"gossip":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"because her friend was such a compulsive gossip , she couldn't help but wonder if her private life wasn't also being made the talk of the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulator",
"gossiper",
"gossipmonger",
"newsmonger",
"quidnunc",
"talebearer",
"tale-teller",
"telltale",
"yenta"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayer",
"blabbermouth",
"informant",
"informer",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"libeler",
"scandalmonger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"lingered at the water fountain for a little gossip"
],
"synonyms":[
"backchat",
"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"gab",
"gabfest",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"small talk",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquy",
"conference",
"discourse",
"parley",
"symposium",
"debate",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"exchange",
"give-and-take",
"crosstalk",
"happy talk",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"idle gossip can really damage a person's reputation even if it is later proven to be false"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"dish",
"hearsay",
"noise",
"report",
"rumor",
"scuttlebutt",
"talk",
"tattle",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tale",
"whisper",
"whispering",
"hint",
"intimation",
"rumbling",
"disinformation",
"propaganda",
"urban legend",
"urban myth",
"dirt",
"scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature":{
"examples":[
"a neighbor who loves to gossip with others about that couple's loud arguments"
],
"synonyms":[
"blab",
"dish",
"talk",
"tattle",
"wag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandy (about)",
"circulate",
"noise (about or abroad)",
"rumor",
"blabber",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"reveal",
"tell",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"let on",
"suggest",
"inform",
"report",
"snitch",
"squeal",
"tip (off)",
"babble",
"spill",
"confide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clam up",
"shut up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"got after":{
"to criticize (someone) so as to correct a fault":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"My professor got after me about my overdue assignments."
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"sanctioned",
"applauded",
"extolled",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted"
],
"related":[
"berated",
"castigated",
"chewed out",
"dressed down",
"flayed",
"harangued",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lectured",
"railed (at or against)",
"rated",
"scolded",
"scored",
"upbraided",
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bad-mouthed",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"crucified",
"denounced",
"dissed",
"excoriated",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"lashed",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"mocked",
"put down",
"derided",
"ridiculed",
"scoffed",
"scorned"
],
"synonyms":[
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"ticked off"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got around":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"antonyms":[
"lost (to)"
],
"examples":[
"somehow, an inexperienced lawyer managed to get around the media giant's stable of high-priced legal eagles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fell",
"gave up",
"went down",
"went under",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out"
],
"related":[
"swept",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"blew out",
"bombed",
"broke",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"crushed",
"drubbed",
"finished",
"flattened",
"overwhelmed",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"slaughtered",
"smoked",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trounced",
"upset",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"subjugated",
"unseated",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"did down",
"dispatched",
"got",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"skunked",
"stopped",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"took",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"upended",
"won (against)",
"worsted"
]
},
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"antonyms":[
"complied (with)",
"followed",
"kept",
"obeyed",
"observed"
],
"examples":[
"somehow she managed to get around the rules for paying the sales tax on a car bought out of state"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced (to)",
"assented (to)",
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"related":[
"avoided",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"end-ran",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"outflanked",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shunned",
"disobeyed",
"disregarded",
"flouted",
"ignored",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"dodged",
"shortcut",
"sidestepped",
"skirted"
]
},
"to become known":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"word of the discovery of gold quickly got around"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed (up)",
"suppressed",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"hid",
"masked",
"secreted"
],
"related":[
"developed",
"transpired",
"unfolded",
"disclosed",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"came out",
"circulated",
"got about",
"got out",
"got round",
"leaked (out)",
"outed",
"spread"
]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"their lawyer has spent months trying to get around certain restrictions in the contract"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"related":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got round (to)":{
"as in got around (to) , got down (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated",
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got the hang of":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"He's really getting the hang of riding his bike now."
],
"synonyms":[
"got",
"learned",
"mastered",
"picked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"grasped",
"knew",
"understood",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)",
"imbibed",
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discerned",
"discovered",
"dug up",
"examined",
"found out",
"heard",
"hit (on or upon)",
"ran down",
"saw",
"scared up",
"searched (for)",
"tracked (down)",
"tumbled (to)",
"unearthed",
"majored (in)",
"studied",
"memorized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgot",
"misunderstood",
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearned"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got through":{
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"we had trouble getting through because of the heavy snowfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeared",
"arrived",
"came",
"got in",
"landed",
"showed up",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetched",
"hit",
"made",
"reached",
"pulled in",
"touched down",
"debarked",
"disembarked",
"barged (in)",
"blew in",
"breezed (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"bursted (in or into)",
"waltzed (in)",
"checked in",
"clocked (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checked out",
"clocked (out)",
"fled",
"vamoosed"
],
"antonyms":[
"left",
"went"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gouged":{
"to charge (someone) too much for goods or services":{
"antonyms":[
"undercharged"
],
"examples":[
"since I had forgotten the sunscreen, I was forced to buy it from the concession stand at the beach\u2014where they gouged me for it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cheated",
"defrauded",
"stuck",
"clipped",
"fleeced",
"skinned",
"mischarged"
],
"synonyms":[
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"stung",
"surcharged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gouging":{
"the exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or services":{
"examples":[
"a hotline that consumers may use to report gouging at gasoline stations"
],
"synonyms":[
"extortion",
"fleecing",
"highway robbery",
"overcharging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"skinning",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to charge (someone) too much for goods or services":{
"examples":[
"since I had forgotten the sunscreen, I was forced to buy it from the concession stand at the beach\u2014where they gouged me for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"stinging",
"surcharging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheating",
"defrauding",
"sticking",
"clipping",
"fleecing",
"skinning",
"mischarging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"undercharging"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"governed":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"conducted",
"directed",
"headed",
"led",
"administered",
"managed",
"micromanaged",
"oversaw",
"regulated",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"dictated",
"dominated",
"domineered",
"lorded (it over)",
"mastered",
"oppressed",
"reigned (over)",
"tyrannized",
"conquered",
"subdued",
"subjugated"
],
"synonyms":[
"bossed",
"captained",
"commanded",
"controlled",
"presided (over)",
"ruled",
"swayed"
]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"antonyms":[
"lost"
],
"examples":[
"you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unleashed",
"aired",
"expressed",
"took out",
"vented"
],
"related":[
"bottled (up)",
"choked (back)",
"held back",
"minced",
"muffled",
"pocketed",
"repressed",
"sank",
"sunk",
"smothered",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suppressed",
"swallowed",
"arrested",
"interrupted",
"stopped",
"blocked",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"gagged",
"muzzled",
"silenced"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"held",
"inhibited",
"kept",
"measured",
"pulled in",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"ruled",
"tamed"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cared (for)",
"minded",
"watched",
"led",
"piloted",
"steered",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"micromanaged",
"stage-managed",
"codirected",
"co-directed",
"comanaged",
"co-managed"
],
"synonyms":[
"administered",
"administrated",
"carried on",
"conducted",
"controlled",
"directed",
"guided",
"handled",
"kept",
"managed",
"operated",
"overlooked",
"oversaw",
"presided (over)",
"ran",
"run",
"regulated",
"stewarded",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"tended"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"government":{
"lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)":{
"examples":[
"government by the people, for the people"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"authority",
"governance",
"jurisdiction",
"regime",
"r\u00e9gime",
"regimen",
"rule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reign",
"dominion",
"power",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"sway",
"command",
"leadership",
"direction",
"management",
"regulation",
"superintendence",
"supervision",
"autocracy",
"dictatorship",
"domination",
"hegemony",
"mastery",
"oppression",
"subjugation",
"tyranny"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something":{
"examples":[
"a board involved in the government of the distribution of benefits to veterans"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"care",
"charge",
"conduct",
"control",
"direction",
"governance",
"guidance",
"handling",
"intendance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"presidency",
"regulation",
"running",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generalship",
"leadership",
"rulership",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in governmental":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"governmental",
"civic",
"federal",
"municipal",
"domestic",
"internal",
"intestine",
"civil",
"national",
"public",
"democratic",
"republican",
"nationwide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonnational",
"global",
"international",
"alien",
"external",
"foreign"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"goldbrick":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"the goldbricks among the colonists were warned: no work, no food"
],
"synonyms":[
"shirker",
"slacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerer",
"dropout",
"quitter",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hang , bum":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bum",
"hang",
"hang about",
"hang around",
"idle",
"loaf",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"kick back",
"loll",
"lounge",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"exercise",
"work out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"go-carts":{
"as in buggies , phaetons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golden ages":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"a memoir of her days as an actress in the golden age of Hollywood"
],
"synonyms":[
"belle epoques",
"belles \u00e9poques",
"renaissances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver ages",
"millennia",
"millenniums",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flowers",
"flushes",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"salad days",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark ages"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gook":{
"soft wet earth":{
"examples":[
"don't walk on that clean floor with guck on your shoes"
],
"synonyms":[
"mire",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slime",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
"related":[
"gumbo",
"silt",
"clay",
"dirt",
"gravel",
"humus",
"loam",
"sand",
"soil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golem":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"the supervisor was a golem who never had an unprogrammed thought in her life"
],
"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",
"fathead",
"gander",
"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
]
},
"go out":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"there was concern that the dam would go out under the force of the flood waters"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckle",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"crumple",
"founder",
"give",
"go",
"implode",
"tumble",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflate",
"flatten",
"melt",
"melt down",
"break",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"die",
"fail",
"give out",
"stall",
"burst",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crumble",
"pop",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflate",
"rise",
"swell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"she enjoys going out on weekends, but during the week she's a homebody"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"fraternize",
"hobnob",
"mingle",
"mix",
"socialize",
"step out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouse",
"party",
"revel",
"circulate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"eschew",
"shun",
"slight",
"snub"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go to one's head":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"The drink the host made for him really went to his head ."
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"baffle",
"bamboozle",
"beat",
"befog",
"befuddle",
"bemuse",
"bewilder",
"buffalo",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discombobulate",
"disorient",
"flummox",
"fox",
"fuddle",
"get",
"gravel",
"maze",
"muddle",
"muddy",
"mystify",
"perplex",
"pose",
"puzzle",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stick",
"stump",
"weird out",
"abash",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"stun",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"humbug",
"misguide",
"mislead",
"snow",
"string along",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"reassure",
"satisfy",
"enlighten",
"inform"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"go-cart":{
"as in buggy , phaeton":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"droshky",
"drosky",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes one better":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"The two siblings were always trying to go one better than the other."
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outclasses",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outguns",
"outmatches",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"towers (over)",
"transcends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-ups",
"outpaces",
"outraces",
"outruns",
"overpasses",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"outcompetes",
"outperforms",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"shames",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"overbears",
"overshadows",
"trumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"good-naturedly":{
"as in cheerfully , amiably":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"graciously",
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"selflessly",
"ungrudgingly",
"unselfishly",
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well",
"altruistically",
"beneficently",
"benevolently",
"bigheartedly",
"charitably",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"magnanimously",
"philanthropically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously",
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"god":{
"a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world":{
"examples":[
"in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods"
],
"synonyms":[
"deity",
"divinity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"demigod",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"spirit",
"supernatural"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us give thanks to God"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion":{
"examples":[
"in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema"
],
"synonyms":[
"hero",
"icon",
"ikon",
"idol"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beau ideal",
"classic",
"exemplar",
"ideal",
"model",
"nonpareil",
"paragon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gormandized":{
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving\u2014it's traditional!"
],
"synonyms":[
"gorged",
"overate",
"pigged out",
"swilled"
],
"related":[
"devoured",
"glutted",
"sated",
"stuffed",
"surfeited",
"wolfed",
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"bolted",
"crammed",
"gulped",
"guzzled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbled",
"pecked",
"picked",
"tasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"crammed",
"devoured",
"glutted",
"gobbled",
"gorged",
"gulped",
"ingurgitated",
"inhaled",
"ravened",
"scarfed",
"scoffed",
"slopped",
"wolfed"
],
"related":[
"overate",
"pigged out",
"swilled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbled",
"pecked",
"picked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goody-goody":{
"a person (such as a child) whose good behavior and politeness are annoying because they seem to be excessive or not sincere":{
"examples":[
"The other kids don't like her because she's a goody-goody ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddy",
"Goody Two-shoes",
"old maid",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"drag",
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket",
"complainer",
"crab",
"cynic",
"grouch",
"grump",
"sorehead",
"sourpuss",
"whiner",
"bore",
"downer",
"drip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutup",
"jester",
"live wire",
"carouser",
"celebrant",
"celebrator",
"merrymaker",
"rejoicer",
"reveler",
"reveller",
"roisterer",
"libertine",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"rake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in self-righteous , pious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"canting",
"holier-than-thou",
"moralistic",
"pharisaical",
"pious",
"rectitudinous",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous",
"simon-pure",
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"fake",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned",
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in prim , prudish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"governessy",
"overmodest",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"flirtatious",
"flirty",
"girlish",
"coquettish",
"coy",
"demure",
"kittenish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"gouge":{
"to charge (someone) too much for goods or services":{
"examples":[
"since I had forgotten the sunscreen, I was forced to buy it from the concession stand at the beach\u2014where they gouged me for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"overcharge",
"soak",
"sting",
"surcharge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheat",
"defraud",
"stick",
"clip",
"fleece",
"skin",
"mischarge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"undercharge"
]
},
"as in groove , hollow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"hollow",
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"good-for-nothing":{
"having no ambition, success, or value to society":{
"examples":[
"refused to leave anything in his will to his good-for-nothing grandchildren"
],
"synonyms":[
"ne'er-do-well",
"no-account",
"no-good"
],
"related":[
"idle",
"indolent",
"lazy",
"shiftless",
"slothful",
"unambitious",
"useless",
"worthless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambitious",
"diligent",
"enterprising",
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"examples":[
"teacher after teacher had predicted that he would never be more than a good-for-nothing"
],
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"bum",
"derelict",
"do-nothing",
"ne'er-do-well",
"no-account",
"no-good",
"no-goodnik",
"slacker",
"vagrant"
],
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"sundowner",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"drifter",
"roamer",
"transient",
"beggar",
"panhandler",
"dodger",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"gamine",
"ragamuffin",
"urchin",
"waif",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard",
"down-and-out",
"down-and-outer",
"indigent",
"pauper"
],
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"success",
"winner"
],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
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],
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"rational",
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"sensible",
"sober",
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"real",
"true",
"certain",
"sure",
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"validated",
"verified",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"cogent",
"convincing",
"colorable",
"credible",
"plausible"
],
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"unsupported",
"unwarranted",
"flimsy",
"implausible",
"unconvincing",
"weak",
"fallacious",
"false",
"misguided",
"misled"
],
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"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
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"unreasonable",
"unreasoned",
"unsound"
]
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"examples":[
"a good person who seldom did wrong",
"good behavior will earn you the respect of others"
],
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"decent",
"ethical",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
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"nice",
"right",
"righteous",
"right-minded",
"straight",
"true",
"upright",
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"proper",
"seemly",
"high-minded",
"noble",
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"commendable",
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"exemplary",
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"esteemed",
"law-abiding",
"menschy",
"reputable",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy",
"blameless",
"clean",
"guiltless",
"immaculate",
"incorrupt",
"incorrupted",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"unobjectionable",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"lily-white",
"pure",
"scrupulous",
"spotless",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"goody-goody",
"moralistic",
"pharisaical",
"rectitudinous",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous"
],
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"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
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"unscrupulous",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"villainous",
"base",
"low",
"mean",
"vicious",
"vile",
"blameworthy",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen"
],
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"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"evil",
"evil-minded",
"immoral",
"indecent",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unrighteous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
]
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"you don't need a good reason to stop doing that\u2014it's because I said so"
],
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"analytical",
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"consequent",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"sound",
"valid",
"well-founded",
"well-grounded"
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"a priori",
"syllogistic",
"cognitive",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"justifiable",
"maintainable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tenable"
],
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"casuistic",
"casuistical",
"eristic",
"eristical",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious",
"unarticulated",
"unscientific",
"absurd",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"fatuous",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"loony",
"looney",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"senseless",
"thoughtless",
"uncompelling",
"unconvincing"
],
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"illegitimate",
"illogical",
"incoherent",
"inconsequent",
"inconsequential",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unsound",
"weak"
]
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"examples":[
"that band's music is good"
],
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"agreeable",
"all right",
"alright",
"copacetic",
"copasetic",
"copesetic",
"ducky",
"fine",
"hunky-dory",
"jake",
"OK",
"okay",
"palatable",
"satisfactory"
],
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"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"dreamy",
"felicitous",
"gratifying",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"scrumptious",
"welcome",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"decent",
"passable",
"tolerable"
],
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"bad",
"deficient",
"inferior",
"lousy",
"poor",
"punk",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
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"disagreeable",
"unsatisfactory"
]
},
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"examples":[
"gave the restaurant a good review"
],
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"admiring",
"applauding",
"appreciative",
"approbatory",
"approving",
"commendatory",
"complimentary",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"positive"
],
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"accepting",
"warm",
"encomiastic",
"eulogistic",
"flattering",
"hagiographic",
"hagiographical",
"laudative",
"laudatory",
"panegyrical",
"praiseful",
"respectful",
"supportive",
"sympathetic",
"adoring",
"adulatory",
"idolizing",
"worshipful",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"advisory",
"recommendatory"
],
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"captious",
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"censuring",
"critical",
"faultfinding",
"hypercritical",
"overcritical",
"belittling",
"contemptuous",
"disdainful",
"disparaging",
"scornful",
"slighting"
],
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"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derogatory",
"disapproving",
"inappreciative",
"negative",
"unappreciative",
"uncomplimentary",
"unfavorable",
"unflattering",
"unfriendly"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a good Democrat who wouldn't dream of voting for a Republican candidate"
],
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"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"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"
],
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"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"
]
},
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"examples":[
"we had a good time at the movies"
],
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"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
],
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"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
]
},
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"he's good at math"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"expert",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"gifted",
"talented",
"polished",
"refined",
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficient",
"workmanlike",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"employable",
"fit",
"fitted",
"habile",
"qualified",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"well-rounded",
"long-term",
"old",
"multiskilled",
"multitalented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak",
"artless",
"crude",
"rude",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"ignorant",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untrained",
"untutored",
"beginning",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"new",
"raw",
"unseasoned",
"untested",
"untried",
"would-be",
"primitive",
"rough",
"unpolished",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"heavy-handed"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
]
},
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"examples":[
"she is good enough to win a fellowship"
],
"synonyms":[
"deserving",
"meritorious",
"worthy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admirable",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"praiseworthy",
"invaluable",
"priceless",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"choice",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"primary",
"prime",
"special"
],
"near antonyms":[
"base",
"cheap",
"inferior",
"second-rate",
"substandard",
"bad",
"defective",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory"
],
"antonyms":[
"no-good",
"undeserving",
"valueless",
"worthless"
]
},
"having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance":{
"examples":[
"that electrician is good at what he does"
],
"synonyms":[
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"equal",
"fit",
"qualified",
"suitable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"expert",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"proficient",
"seasoned",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"veteran",
"overqualified",
"prepared",
"schooled",
"trained",
"apt",
"ready",
"willing",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"unprepared",
"unschooled",
"untrained",
"beginning",
"green",
"new",
"raw",
"untested",
"untried"
],
"antonyms":[
"incompetent",
"inept",
"poor",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified"
]
},
"meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation":{
"examples":[
"those rotten apples aren't good to eat"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicable",
"appropriate",
"apt",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitted",
"fitting",
"happy",
"meet",
"pretty",
"proper",
"right",
"suitable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condign",
"deserved",
"just",
"justified",
"needed",
"required",
"requisite",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"cut out",
"qualified",
"trained",
"pitch-perfect",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"decent",
"kosher",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable",
"correct",
"decorous",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious",
"rightful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"untrained",
"inadequate",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"graceless",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"incompatible",
"uncongenial"
],
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"indecent",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"misbecoming",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unbeseeming",
"unfit",
"unfitting",
"unhappy",
"unmeet",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"wrong"
]
},
"sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention":{
"examples":[
"had a good number of valuable baseball cards in his collection"
],
"synonyms":[
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"handsome",
"healthy",
"largish",
"major",
"respectable",
"significant",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"substantive",
"tidy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"voluminous",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"gigantic",
"great",
"herculean",
"huge",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"whopping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"measly",
"minute",
"paltry",
"petty",
"picayune",
"picayunish",
"piddling",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"marginal",
"meager",
"meagre",
"slight",
"little",
"small",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"miniature",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"smallish"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"insubstantial",
"negligible",
"nominal"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a car that should be good for another few years"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculable",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"safe",
"secure",
"solid",
"steady",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"true-blue",
"honest",
"sincere",
"single-minded",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"bedrock",
"firm",
"sound",
"strong",
"effective",
"telling",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"proven",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"blameless",
"faultless",
"guiltless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable",
"unquestionable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"uncertain",
"unsound",
"hazardous",
"risky",
"unconfirmed",
"untried"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodgy",
"uncertain",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"unsafe",
"untrustworthy"
]
},
"being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard":{
"examples":[
"if these measurements are good , the venetian blind should fit the window perfectly"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"bang on",
"correct",
"dead-on",
"exact",
"on-target",
"precise",
"proper",
"right",
"so",
"spot-on",
"true",
"veracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"legitimate",
"logical",
"sound",
"valid",
"errorless",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect"
],
"antonyms":[
"false",
"improper",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"off",
"untrue",
"wrong"
]
},
"very pleasing to look at":{
"examples":[
"an actress who always looks good on-screen"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
]
},
"beneficial to the health of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"eating a good breakfast will provide you with more energy during the day",
"didn't like broccoli even though he knew it was good for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"medicinal",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"salutiferous",
"sanative",
"tonic",
"wholesome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleviative",
"corrective",
"curative",
"recuperative",
"refreshing",
"rehabilitative",
"rejuvenating",
"rejuvenescent",
"remedial",
"advantageous",
"useful",
"antiseptic",
"aseptic",
"clean",
"hygienic",
"sanitary",
"nourishing",
"nutritional",
"nutritious",
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"pernicious",
"infectious",
"poisonous",
"sickening",
"toxic",
"insanitary",
"unhygienic",
"unsanitary"
],
"antonyms":[
"insalubrious",
"noxious",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome"
]
},
"having or showing a concern for the welfare of others":{
"examples":[
"if the church is to stay open, it's going to have to receive more than good intentions from its members"
],
"synonyms":[
"altruistic",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"charitable",
"do-good",
"eleemosynary",
"humanitarian",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"selfless",
"self-sacrificing",
"bighearted",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"free",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"handsome",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"social-minded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"self-indulgent",
"self-seeking",
"cheap",
"closefisted",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"stingy",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"self-obsessed"
],
"antonyms":[
"self-centered",
"self-concerned",
"selfish"
]
},
"of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards":{
"examples":[
"the food at that restaurant is good but hardly great"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"fairish",
"fine",
"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"
]
},
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"product packaging that is intended to be good for the environment"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"benefic",
"beneficent",
"beneficial",
"benignant",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"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"
]
},
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"let us praise God, from Whom all goods flow"
],
"synonyms":[
"benediction",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grace",
"mercy",
"favor",
"kindness",
"mitzvah",
"advantage",
"aid",
"assistance",
"gift",
"help",
"relief",
"support",
"anodyne",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace",
"bonus",
"extra",
"lagniappe",
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hex",
"hoodoo",
"jinx",
"bother",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"disadvantage",
"cross",
"misery",
"trial",
"tribulation"
],
"antonyms":[
"affliction",
"bane",
"curse",
"evil",
"plague",
"scourge"
]
},
"the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success":{
"examples":[
"I am doing this for your own good"
],
"synonyms":[
"interest",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"successfulness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill-being"
]
},
"products that are bought and sold in business":{
"examples":[
"had a hard time selling leftover Easter goods that were still on the shelves by Mother's Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"commodities",
"merchandise",
"wares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"line",
"export",
"import",
"inventory",
"staples",
"stock",
"stuff",
"supply",
"job lot",
"domestics",
"durables",
"durable goods",
"hard goods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a skill, an ability, or knowledge that makes a person able to do a particular job":{
"examples":[
"the hiring committee thinks this latest applicant really has the goods"
],
"synonyms":[
"capability",
"credentials",
"qualification",
"stuff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"command",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"mastership",
"mastery",
"proficiency",
"ability",
"capacity",
"competence",
"competency",
"facility",
"faculty",
"aptitude",
"endowment",
"flair",
"genius",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"forte",
"long suit",
"m\u00e9tier",
"metier",
"specialism",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"strong suit",
"fitness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"makings",
"potentiality"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"before moving to Florida, the couple sold their house and auctioned off their household goods"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"in a satisfactory way":{
"examples":[
"things are going good for us"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"alright",
"creditably",
"decently",
"fine",
"middlingly",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"passably",
"respectably",
"satisfactorily",
"serviceably",
"so-so",
"sufficiently",
"tolerably",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"happily",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"seemly",
"suitably",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly",
"effectively",
"effectually",
"efficiently",
"neatly",
"tidily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbearably",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"unsuitably",
"awfully",
"deplorably",
"disastrously",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"miserably",
"terribly"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"ill",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"intolerably",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"goats":{
"a person or thing taking the blame for others":{
"examples":[
"an unhappy childhood was the goat he used to rationalize every failure and shortcoming"
],
"synonyms":[
"fall guys",
"scapegoats",
"whipping boys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"victims",
"butts",
"dupes",
"fools",
"laughingstocks",
"marks",
"mockeries",
"monkeys",
"excuses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gofer":{
"as in dogsbody , drudge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"factotum",
"follower",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"daily",
"domestic",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward"
],
"near antonyms":[
"master",
"mistress",
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Good Book":{
"a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God":{
"examples":[
"what does the Good Book say about temptation?"
],
"synonyms":[
"Bible",
"Book",
"Holy Writ",
"Scripture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Polyglot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go to pieces":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"After the breakup of his marriage he completely went to pieces ."
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"break up",
"crack",
"flip (out)",
"freak (out)",
"melt down",
"wig (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choke"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got on (to)":{
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"by the time the CIA got on to the terrorist plot, it was already in progress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"heard",
"learned",
"realized",
"saw",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"descried",
"detected",
"encountered",
"espied",
"spotted",
"calculated",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"found",
"puzzled (out)",
"discerned",
"minded",
"noted",
"observed",
"perceived",
"divined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"forgot",
"unlearned",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"occulted",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"governors":{
"as in directors , executives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"administrators",
"commanders",
"directors",
"employers",
"executives",
"generals",
"hierarchs",
"higher-ups",
"bosses",
"boss men",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"forewomen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"honchos",
"jefes",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"mistresses",
"taskmasters",
"taskmistresses",
"leadmen",
"managers",
"overseers",
"principals",
"skippers",
"standard-bearers",
"stewards",
"straw bosses",
"superintendents",
"superiors",
"supervisors",
"gaffers",
"gangers",
"overlords",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"figureheads",
"barons",
"czarinas",
"tsarinas",
"tzarinas",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"presidents",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"big cheeses",
"big guns",
"bigwigs",
"top dogs",
"top guns",
"coheads",
"co-heads",
"coleaders",
"co-leaders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gonged":{
"as in dinged , clanged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chinked",
"clanged",
"clanked",
"clashed",
"clinked",
"ding-donged",
"dinged",
"jangled",
"jingled",
"pinged",
"plinked",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"tanged",
"tingled",
"tinkled",
"bonged",
"chimed",
"knelled",
"pealed",
"rang",
"tolled",
"echoed",
"resonated",
"resounded",
"reverberated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go off":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"blow up",
"burst",
"crump",
"detonate",
"explode",
"pop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"discharge",
"fire",
"shoot",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mushroom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fizzle"
],
"antonyms":[
"implode"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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 leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"don't go off without telling us where we can find you"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gonfalon":{
"as in bunting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunting",
"banderole",
"banderol",
"banner",
"colors",
"ensign",
"flag",
"guidon",
"jack",
"pendant",
"pendent",
"pennant",
"pennon",
"standard",
"streamer",
"black flag",
"Jolly Roger",
"tricolor",
"union jack",
"white flag",
"burgee",
"semaphore",
"signaler",
"signaller",
"waft",
"badge",
"coat of arms",
"crest",
"insignia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Goliath":{
"something or someone that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"the family-owned company lost the contract to a multibillion-dollar Goliath"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoth",
"blockbuster",
"colossus",
"dinosaur",
"dreadnought",
"elephant",
"giant",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"mastodon",
"monster",
"titan",
"whale",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazon",
"giantess",
"bulk",
"hulk",
"heavyweight",
"juggernaut",
"steamroller"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"wisp",
"nonentity",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"shrimp"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gouache":{
"as in watercolor , acrylic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acrylic",
"aquarelle",
"watercolor",
"diptych",
"triptych",
"distemper",
"drawing",
"etching",
"finger painting",
"pastel",
"sketch",
"tempera",
"fresco",
"mural",
"panorama",
"masterpiece",
"canvas",
"canvass",
"oil",
"oil painting",
"painting",
"pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpiece"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes (on)":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"does",
"goes down",
"happens",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathers (on)",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles",
"runs on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"sidetracks",
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"burbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Gordian knots":{
"as in cruxes , sticky wickets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"sticky wickets",
"toughies",
"corners",
"fixes",
"holes",
"hot waters",
"jams",
"mires",
"pickles",
"predicaments",
"quagmires",
"spots",
"catch-22's",
"catch-22s",
"dilemmas",
"quandaries",
"issues",
"questions",
"catches",
"glitches",
"hitches",
"pitfalls",
"snags",
"cases",
"challenges",
"knots",
"matters",
"nuts",
"problems",
"troubles",
"conundrums",
"enigmas",
"mysteries",
"puzzlements",
"puzzles",
"riddles",
"brainteasers",
"posers",
"stumpers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answers",
"solutions",
"magic bullets",
"silver bullets",
"cure-alls",
"panaceas"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gold-plated":{
"covered in a thin layer of gold":{
"examples":[
"Gold-plated jewelry is less expensive than solid gold."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gilded",
"gilt",
"gold",
"golden",
"bejeweled",
"bejewelled",
"bossed",
"chased",
"emblazoned",
"embossed",
"embroidered",
"flounced",
"fringed",
"garlanded",
"laced",
"sequined",
"sequinned",
"wreathed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"got to":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"Sorry I've been cranky, but the humidity's been really getting to me."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"I'll get to the laundry when I finish unpacking."
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"examples":[
"I think your criticisms really got to him."
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"impacted",
"impressed",
"influenced",
"moved",
"reached",
"struck",
"swayed",
"told (on)",
"touched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried away",
"dazzled",
"enraptured",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"ravished",
"transported",
"biased",
"biassed",
"colored",
"inspired",
"stirred",
"engaged",
"interested",
"involved",
"penetrated",
"pierced",
"afflicted",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"harassed",
"harried",
"perturbed",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"smote",
"strained",
"stressed",
"tried",
"troubled",
"upset",
"worried",
"wrung",
"allured",
"attracted",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied",
"underwhelmed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gorged":{
"as in overstuffed , glutted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"glutted",
"overfed",
"overfull",
"overstuffed",
"full",
"replete",
"sated",
"satiate",
"satiated",
"stuffed",
"surfeited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"starved",
"starving",
"underfed",
"undernourished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fill with food to capacity":{
"examples":[
"we gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"crammed",
"glutted",
"sated",
"stuffed",
"surfeited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbled",
"gormandized",
"pigged out",
"gulped",
"guzzled",
"cloyed",
"filled",
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"regaled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieted",
"fasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"the kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"gormandized",
"overate",
"pigged out",
"swilled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devoured",
"glutted",
"sated",
"stuffed",
"surfeited",
"wolfed",
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"bolted",
"crammed",
"gulped",
"guzzled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbled",
"pecked",
"picked",
"tasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"crammed",
"devoured",
"glutted",
"gobbled",
"gormandized",
"gulped",
"ingurgitated",
"inhaled",
"ravened",
"scarfed",
"scoffed",
"slopped",
"wolfed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overate",
"pigged out",
"swilled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbled",
"pecked",
"picked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"gown":{
"a garment with a joined blouse and skirt usually worn by a woman or girl":{
"examples":[
"a shopping trip for the express purpose of finding the perfect gown for the wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"dress",
"frock"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chemise",
"coatdress",
"granny dress",
"housedress",
"jumper",
"kimono",
"kirtle",
"minidress",
"Mother Hubbard",
"muumuu",
"overdress",
"sack",
"sheath",
"shift",
"shirtdress",
"shirtwaist",
"sundress",
"sweaterdress",
"tea gown"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a loose pullover garment worn in bed":{
"examples":[
"answered the front door still dressed in the gown that she had been sleeping in"
],
"synonyms":[
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nightclothes",
"pajamas",
"pj's",
"nightcap",
"lingerie",
"negligee",
"neglig\u00e9",
"nightie",
"nighty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"a Renaissance portrait of a queen gowned in exotic silks and satins"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck (out)",
"do up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"enrobe",
"garb",
"garment",
"get up",
"habit",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"robe",
"suit",
"tog (up or out)",
"toilet",
"vesture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloak",
"frock",
"jacket",
"mantle",
"vest",
"drape",
"enswathe",
"hap",
"huddle",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"bedight",
"equip",
"furnish",
"habilitate",
"outfit",
"tailor",
"uniform",
"dress down",
"underdress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denude",
"divest",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarray",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"unclothe",
"undress",
"untruss"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gossiper":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"the exact nature of the relationship between the two coworkers was a topic that kept the office gossipers too busy to do any work"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulator",
"gossip",
"gossipmonger",
"newsmonger",
"quidnunc",
"tale-teller",
"talebearer",
"telltale",
"yenta"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayer",
"blabbermouth",
"informant",
"informer",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"libeler",
"scandalmonger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gorging":{
"as in devouring , gobbling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devouring",
"gobbling",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"hearty",
"wolfish",
"insatiable",
"unquenchable",
"unslakable",
"edacious",
"esurient",
"gluttonous",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"piggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"swinish",
"voracious",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished"
],
"near antonyms":[
"content",
"full",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"stuffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fill with food to capacity":{
"examples":[
"we gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"cramming",
"glutting",
"sating",
"stuffing",
"surfeiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbling",
"gormandizing",
"pigging out",
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"cloying",
"filling",
"banqueting",
"feasting",
"regaling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieting",
"fasting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"the kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"gormandizing",
"overeating",
"pigging out",
"swilling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devouring",
"glutting",
"sating",
"stuffing",
"surfeiting",
"wolfing",
"banqueting",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"bolting",
"cramming",
"gulping",
"guzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbling",
"pecking",
"picking",
"tasting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"cramming",
"devouring",
"glutting",
"gobbling",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"ingurgitating",
"inhaling",
"ravening",
"scarfing",
"scoffing",
"slopping",
"wolfing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeating",
"pigging out",
"swilling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbling",
"pecking",
"picking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"gone to pieces":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"After the breakup of his marriage he completely went to pieces ."
],
"synonyms":[
"broken down",
"broken up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goes up in flames":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"The neighbors called the fire department when they saw the old house go up in flames ."
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes",
"burns",
"combusts",
"flames",
"glows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches",
"enkindles",
"deflagrates",
"fires",
"ignites",
"kindles",
"flares (up)",
"lights (up)",
"flickers",
"gutters",
"wavers",
"bakes",
"broils",
"chars",
"cooks",
"melts",
"roasts",
"scorches",
"swelters",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"sparks",
"sputters",
"beams",
"brightens",
"radiates",
"beats (down)",
"flashes",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glitters",
"scintillates",
"shimmers",
"shines",
"sparkles",
"twinkles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goes along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"does",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go up in flames":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"The neighbors called the fire department when they saw the old house go up in flames ."
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"combust",
"flame",
"glow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"enkindle",
"deflagrate",
"fire",
"ignite",
"kindle",
"flare (up)",
"light (up)",
"flicker",
"gutter",
"waver",
"bake",
"broil",
"char",
"cook",
"melt",
"roast",
"scorch",
"swelter",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"spark",
"sputter",
"beam",
"brighten",
"radiate",
"beat (down)",
"flash",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"shine",
"sparkle",
"twinkle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goodwill":{
"kindly concern, interest, or support":{
"examples":[
"the long tradition of goodwill that exists between the United States and Canada"
],
"synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"brotherhood",
"charity",
"cordiality",
"cordialness",
"fellowship",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"good-fellowship",
"kindliness",
"neighborliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonhomie",
"camaraderie",
"collegiality",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"rapprochement",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"communion",
"empathy",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tolerance",
"altruism",
"philanthropy",
"selflessness",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"intolerance",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hate",
"hatred",
"hostility",
"incivility",
"malice",
"rancor",
"belligerency",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill will",
"malevolence",
"venom"
]
},
"cheerful readiness to do something":{
"examples":[
"took on the task of coaching the soccer team with lots of zeal and goodwill"
],
"synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"amenability",
"gameness",
"obligingness",
"willingness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celerity",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"dispatch",
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"ardor",
"avidity",
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"exuberance",
"fervor",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"relish",
"zeal",
"zest",
"agreeableness",
"geniality",
"good-naturedness",
"heartiness",
"warmth",
"open-mindedness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"responsiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leisureliness",
"pokiness",
"slowness",
"sluggishness",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"halfheartedness",
"indifference",
"lukewarmness",
"perfunctoriness",
"delay",
"dilatoriness",
"doubt",
"equivocation",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"reluctance",
"reservation",
"reticence",
"uncertainty",
"vacillation",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"recalcitrance",
"resistance",
"unwillingness",
"antipathy",
"averseness",
"aversion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes to seed":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophies",
"crumbles",
"decays",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"devolves",
"ebbs",
"regresses",
"retrogrades",
"rots",
"sinks",
"worsens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"wanes",
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decomposes",
"degrades",
"dilapidates",
"disintegrates",
"molders",
"putrefies",
"sours",
"spoils",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"debilitates",
"undermines",
"droops",
"fails",
"falls",
"flags",
"lags",
"languishes",
"runs down",
"sags",
"slips",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"betters",
"upgrades",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"fortifies",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"strengthens",
"advances",
"develops",
"marches",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"improves",
"meliorates"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"golden mean":{
"a middle point between extremes":{
"examples":[
"when it comes to money, the golden mean is saving some income, while giving yourself a modest spending allowance"
],
"synonyms":[
"mean",
"medium",
"middle",
"middle ground",
"midpoint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arithmetic mean",
"average",
"median",
"norm",
"par",
"standard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maximum",
"utmost",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got a kick out of":{
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"It's clear that people get a kick out of silly cat videos."
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"got off (on)",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"ate (up)",
"devoured",
"drank (in)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gongs":{
"as in dings , clangs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chinks",
"clangs",
"clanks",
"clashes",
"clinks",
"ding-dongs",
"dings",
"jangles",
"jingles",
"pings",
"plinks",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"tangs",
"tingles",
"tinkles",
"bongs",
"chimes",
"knells",
"peals",
"rings",
"tolls",
"echoes",
"resonates",
"resounds",
"reverberates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going out":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"there was concern that the dam would go out under the force of the flood waters"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckling",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"foundering",
"giving",
"going",
"imploding",
"tumbling",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflating",
"flattening",
"melting",
"melting down",
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out",
"stalling",
"bursting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crumbling",
"popping",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflating",
"rising",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"she enjoys going out on weekends, but during the week she's a homebody"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"fraternizing",
"hobnobbing",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"socializing",
"stepping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"partying",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"circulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"slighting",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go off the deep end":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"After months of pressure at work, he went off the deep end ."
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"break up",
"crack",
"flip (out)",
"freak (out)",
"melt down",
"wig (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choke"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"Goliaths":{
"something or someone that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"the family-owned company lost the contract to a multibillion-dollar Goliath"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoths",
"blockbusters",
"colossi",
"dinosaurs",
"dreadnoughts",
"elephants",
"elephant",
"giants",
"jumbos",
"leviathans",
"mammoths",
"mastodons",
"monsters",
"titans",
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazons",
"giantesses",
"bulks",
"hulks",
"heavyweights",
"juggernauts",
"steamrollers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"weaklings",
"wimps",
"wisps",
"nonentities",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"runts",
"shrimp",
"shrimps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes for":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"brings",
"costs",
"fetches",
"runs",
"sells (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lists (for)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"totals",
"commands",
"exacts",
"asks",
"demands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"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)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"approves (of)",
"cares (for)",
"countenances",
"favors",
"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)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"goes out (with)":{
"to go on a social engagement with":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to go out with that foxy woman from work next Saturday night"
],
"synonyms":[
"dates",
"takes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"escorts",
"sees",
"courts",
"woos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goose egg":{
"the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it":{
"examples":[
"was such a bad bowler that his final score was a big, fat goose egg"
],
"synonyms":[
"aught",
"cipher",
"naught",
"nought",
"nil",
"nothing",
"o",
"oh",
"zero",
"zilch",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blank",
"void"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go to bat for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"an advocate who goes to bat for the poor and marginalized"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"prop (up)",
"second",
"side (with)",
"backstop",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"advance",
"forward",
"further",
"plug",
"preach",
"talk up",
"bail out",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"interfere",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goddesses":{
"a usually glamorous woman who is preeminent in her field of activity":{
"examples":[
"one of the goddesses of the silver screen during the silent era"
],
"synonyms":[
"divas",
"dive",
"princesses",
"queens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high priestesses",
"priestesses",
"prima donnas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a lovely woman":{
"examples":[
"like any guy in love, he thought his new girlfriend was a goddess"
],
"synonyms":[
"babes",
"beauties",
"beauty queens",
"cookies",
"cuties",
"cuteys",
"dolly birds",
"enchantresses",
"eyefuls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"honeys",
"knockouts",
"queens",
"stunners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belles",
"charmers",
"peaches",
"bathing beauties",
"cover girls",
"pinup girls",
"houris",
"cutie-pies",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"dreamboats",
"hotties",
"lookers",
"pretties",
"coquettes",
"femmes fatales",
"sirens",
"temptresses",
"vamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bags",
"frumps",
"crones",
"hags",
"witches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gold standard":{
"something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared":{
"examples":[
"the gold standard for accurate experimental procedures is the double-blind medication trial"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barometer",
"benchmark",
"criterion",
"grade",
"mark",
"measure",
"metric",
"par",
"standard",
"touchstone",
"yardstick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"case",
"example",
"instance",
"average",
"norm",
"rule",
"acme",
"apex",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberration",
"abnormality",
"deviation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going at":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He went at his opponent with such fervor, the fight was practically over before it began."
],
"synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"bushwhacking",
"charging",
"descending (on or upon)",
"going in (on)",
"jumping (on)",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"setting on",
"siccing",
"sicking",
"storming",
"striking",
"trashing",
"turning (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushing",
"ganging up (on)",
"mobbing",
"swarming",
"mugging",
"robbing",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"blitzing",
"bombarding",
"bombing",
"nuking",
"barraging",
"cannonading",
"cannoning",
"banging away (at)",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"plastering",
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"pressing",
"harrying",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"foraying",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"enveloping",
"flanking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"securing",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"She went at that project with such enthusiasm, you could tell it was a labor of love."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacking",
"diving (into)",
"tackling",
"wading (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressing",
"approaching",
"facing",
"buckling (down to)",
"concentrating (on)",
"focusing (on)",
"focussing (on)",
"knuckling down (to)",
"zeroing (in on)",
"falling (to)",
"pitching in",
"plunging (in)",
"settling (down)",
"pursuing",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"evading",
"shunning",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"idling",
"lagging",
"messing",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"poking",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going public (with)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"The celeb went public with the news of her pregnancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"letting on (about)",
"revealing",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unbosoming",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confiding",
"sharing",
"debunking",
"showing up",
"unclothing",
"undraping",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"bringing out",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"sounding",
"betraying",
"blabbing",
"giving away",
"leaking",
"informing",
"squealing",
"talking",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"relating",
"acknowledging",
"admitting",
"avowing",
"conceding",
"confessing",
"owning",
"disinterring",
"raking up",
"smoking out",
"unearthing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"eclipsing",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"shading"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering (up)",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"told him to get off for home before it got dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"breakfast helps you get off to a good start in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"God":{
"a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world":{
"examples":[
"in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods"
],
"synonyms":[
"deity",
"divinity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"demigod",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"spirit",
"supernatural"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us give thanks to God"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion":{
"examples":[
"in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema"
],
"synonyms":[
"hero",
"icon",
"ikon",
"idol"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beau ideal",
"classic",
"exemplar",
"ideal",
"model",
"nonpareil",
"paragon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got together":{
"to come together into one body or place":{
"examples":[
"We all have busy schedules, but we try to get together at least once a month."
],
"synonyms":[
"assembled",
"clustered",
"collected",
"concentered",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"congregated",
"convened",
"converged",
"forgathered",
"foregathered",
"gathered",
"met",
"rendezvoused"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"caucused",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"consolidated",
"consorted",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"federated",
"ganged up",
"joined",
"merged",
"united",
"reassembled",
"reconvened",
"regathered",
"remet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departed",
"left",
"took off",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited"
],
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)"
]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"They got together enough signatures for the petition."
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"bulked (up)",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"congregated",
"constellated",
"corralled",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"lumped",
"picked up",
"rounded up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balled",
"batched",
"bunched",
"clustered",
"huddled",
"heaped",
"piled",
"stacked",
"banded",
"brigaded",
"mustered",
"raised",
"rallied",
"flocked",
"herded",
"hived",
"packed",
"pressed",
"swarmed",
"thronged",
"combined",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked",
"merged",
"pooled",
"united",
"archived",
"arranged",
"collated",
"compiled",
"organized",
"systematized",
"scraped (up or together)",
"re-collected",
"regathered",
"regrouped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"separated",
"severed",
"split (up)",
"dismissed",
"sent"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelled",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goofs (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"we've been goofing around long enough; it's time to get some real work done"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodles",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"hangs about",
"kicks around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"clowns (around)",
"horses around",
"diddles (with)",
"tinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckles (down)",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goon":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"an unfortunate tendency to call those who disagree with him \"brainless goons \""
],
"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",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"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"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the crime boss threatened to send the goons after him if he squealed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gorgon":{
"as in fishwife":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fishwife",
"battle-ax",
"battle-axe",
"dragon lady",
"fury",
"harpy",
"harridan",
"shrew",
"termagant",
"virago",
"vixen",
"carper",
"castigator",
"caviler",
"caviller",
"censurer",
"critic",
"faultfinder",
"nitpicker",
"railer",
"scold",
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"pettifogger",
"quibbler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"governesses":{
"as in mademoiselles , frauleins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duennas",
"frauleins",
"mademoiselles",
"mesdemoiselles",
"mammies",
"au pairs",
"bonnes",
"amahs",
"ayahs",
"babysitters",
"dry nurses",
"nannies",
"nursemaids",
"nursers",
"nurses",
"sitters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in homeschoolers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"homeschoolers",
"academes",
"academicians",
"academics",
"didacts",
"pedants",
"interns",
"internes",
"practice teachers",
"readers",
"student teachers",
"deans",
"docents",
"doctors",
"dons",
"professors",
"profs",
"regius professors",
"catechists",
"lecturers",
"moralizers",
"preachers",
"drillmasters",
"inculcators",
"mentors",
"tutoresses",
"tutors",
"coaches",
"guides",
"gurus",
"preparers",
"trainers",
"headmistresses",
"instructresses",
"mistresses",
"schoolmarms",
"schoolma'ams",
"schoolmistresses",
"headmasters",
"masters",
"rectors",
"schoolmasters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go to seed":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophy",
"crumble",
"decay",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"devolve",
"ebb",
"regress",
"retrograde",
"rot",
"sink",
"worsen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"recede",
"wane",
"break down",
"corrupt",
"decompose",
"degrade",
"dilapidate",
"disintegrate",
"molder",
"putrefy",
"sour",
"spoil",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"debilitate",
"undermine",
"droop",
"fail",
"fall",
"flag",
"lag",
"languish",
"run down",
"sag",
"slip",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"better",
"upgrade",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"fortify",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"strengthen",
"advance",
"develop",
"march",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"improve",
"meliorate"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"corrupt",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"fester",
"foul",
"mold",
"molder",
"perish",
"putrefy",
"rot",
"spoil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sour",
"turn",
"turn off",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"addle",
"curdle",
"ferment",
"mortify",
"rust",
"crumble",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"dilapidate",
"sink",
"wither"
],
"near antonyms":[
"age",
"develop",
"grow",
"mature",
"ripen",
"refresh",
"renew",
"restore",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"assemble",
"compose",
"integrate",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"meliorate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goldbricked":{
"as in hung , bummed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bummed",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"hung around",
"idled",
"loafed",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"kicked back",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"worked",
"wrought",
"exercised",
"worked out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got on":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"despite his new job's low pay, he was still getting on"
],
"synonyms":[
"coped",
"did",
"fared",
"got along",
"got by",
"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":[
"find out how the marketing department is getting on with the new ad campaign"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"came",
"came along",
"did",
"fared",
"forged",
"got along",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goofing (off)":{
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"returned home unannounced and found the au pair goofing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"droning",
"footling",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging about",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"kicking around",
"kicking back",
"lazing",
"lazying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"vegging out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"messing",
"monkeying",
"mucking",
"piddling",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"dozing",
"estivating",
"aestivating",
"hibernating",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"moseying",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"swanning",
"furloughing",
"goldbricking",
"malingering",
"truanting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grinding",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"applying",
"buckling (down)",
"exerting",
"putting out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gospel":{
"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"her private gospel is to do good cheerfully and without any expectation of reward"
],
"synonyms":[
"credo",
"creed",
"doctrine",
"dogma",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"testament"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifesto",
"metaphysic",
"theory",
"axiom",
"tenet",
"watchword"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes steady":{
"to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage":{
"examples":[
"She asked him if he wanted to go steady ."
],
"synonyms":[
"courts",
"dates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attends",
"gallants",
"romances",
"sparks",
"woos",
"escorts",
"sees",
"takes out",
"goes out",
"steps out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goatherds":{
"as in herders , herdsmen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buckaroos",
"buckeroos",
"cowboys",
"cowgirls",
"cowhands",
"cowherds",
"cowmen",
"cowpokes",
"cowpunchers",
"gauchos",
"rancheros",
"vaqueros",
"sheepherders",
"shepherdesses",
"shepherds",
"herders",
"herdsmen",
"drovers",
"swineherds",
"wranglers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"good deal":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"he knows a good deal about the current situation in Africa"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"good-hearted":{
"having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others":{
"examples":[
"a good-hearted doctor who regularly sees poor patients for free"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"soft",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"unsentimental",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gobbles (up)":{
"as in devours":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devours",
"browses",
"dips (into)",
"leafs (through)",
"scans",
"skims",
"speed-reads",
"thumbs (through)",
"turns over",
"slogs (through)",
"wades (through)",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"reads",
"rereads",
"proofreads",
"deciphers",
"reviews",
"studies",
"apprehends",
"comprehends",
"gets",
"grasps",
"makes",
"makes out",
"perceives",
"sees",
"tumbles (to)",
"understands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"godlessness":{
"as in atheism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"atheism",
"disbelief",
"doubt",
"unbelief",
"unfaith",
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"apostasy",
"lapse",
"tergiversation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"devotion",
"faith",
"piety",
"religion",
"devoutness",
"piousness",
"religiousness",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in impiety , ungodliness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impiety",
"ungodliness",
"unholiness",
"blasphemousness",
"irreverence",
"sacrilegiousness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"hypocrisy",
"sanctimoniousness",
"sanctimony"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessedness",
"devoutness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piety",
"piousness",
"sainthood",
"saintliness",
"saintship",
"sanctity",
"asceticism",
"devotion",
"morality",
"prayerfulness",
"religiousness",
"spirituality",
"priestliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go steady":{
"to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage":{
"examples":[
"She asked him if he wanted to go steady ."
],
"synonyms":[
"court",
"date"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attend",
"gallant",
"romance",
"spark",
"woo",
"escort",
"see",
"take out",
"go out",
"step out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"good-by":{
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"examples":[
"said our good-byes and headed for home"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieu",
"au revoir",
"ave",
"bon voyage",
"cong\u00e9",
"congee",
"farewell",
"Godspeed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leave-taking",
"send-off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greeting(s)",
"salutation",
"salute",
"welcome"
],
"antonyms":[
"hello"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going-over":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"examples":[
"received a thorough going-over before being sent on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"examination",
"inspection",
"look-see",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutiny",
"survey",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analysis",
"assay",
"close-up",
"deconstruction",
"dissection",
"exploration",
"investigation",
"probe",
"research",
"study",
"inquisition",
"interrogation",
"once-over",
"perusal",
"recheck",
"reinspection",
"resurvey",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"checkout",
"test-drive",
"trial run"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"going down (with)":{
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week"
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting",
"getting",
"sickening (with)",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking out (with)",
"dying (from)",
"succumbing (to)",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming back",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering (from)",
"shaking (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got in":{
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"it will be late when you get in , so you may have trouble finding a taxi"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeared",
"arrived",
"came",
"got through",
"landed",
"showed up",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetched",
"hit",
"made",
"reached",
"pulled in",
"touched down",
"debarked",
"disembarked",
"barged (in)",
"blew in",
"breezed (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"bursted (in or into)",
"waltzed (in)",
"checked in",
"clocked (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checked out",
"clocked (out)",
"fled",
"vamoosed"
],
"antonyms":[
"left",
"went"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gory":{
"smeared or stained with blood":{
"examples":[
"doesn't watch too many movies that feature gory violence"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodstained",
"bloody"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloodred",
"carmine",
"crimson",
"incarnadine",
"red",
"reddish",
"ruby",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous",
"sanguinary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"got cracking":{
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"It's time to get cracking on these thank-you cards."
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"applied",
"bent",
"buckled",
"devoted",
"gave"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reapplied",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)",
"busied",
"committed",
"concerned",
"engaged",
"involved",
"exerted",
"exhausted",
"put out",
"spent",
"strained",
"stressed",
"taxed",
"troubled",
"wore out",
"carried on",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"ground",
"humped",
"hustled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged (away)",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"idled",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goes off the deep end":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"breaks up",
"cracks",
"flips (out)",
"freaks (out)",
"melts down",
"wigs (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"gotten off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"told him to get off for home before it got dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"breakfast helps you get off to a good start in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"embark (on or upon)",
"enter (into or upon)",
"fall (to)",
"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"
]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"he really gets off on being the person in charge of everyone else"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes over":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches on",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"cooks",
"percolates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishes",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"craters",
"crumbles",
"flames out",
"chokes",
"cracks up",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"falls down",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gossipy":{
"having the style and content of everyday conversation":{
"examples":[
"this book on the people who have occupied the White House is a little too gossipy to qualify as serious history"
],
"synonyms":[
"chattery",
"chatty",
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"dishy",
"newsy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casual",
"familiar",
"informal",
"intimate",
"tell-all",
"digressive",
"discursive",
"rambling",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"dignified",
"elevated",
"formal",
"solemn",
"stately"
],
"antonyms":[
"bookish",
"literary"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"go (for)":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"bring",
"cost",
"fetch",
"run",
"sell (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"list (for)",
"amount (to)",
"come (to)",
"total",
"command",
"exact",
"ask",
"demand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"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":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accept",
"approve (of)",
"care (for)",
"countenance",
"favor",
"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)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"gofers":{
"as in dogsbodies , drudges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dogsbodies",
"drudges",
"assistants",
"attendants",
"companions",
"factotums",
"followers",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"housekeepers",
"housemaids",
"ladies-in-waiting",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"wenches",
"women",
"butlers",
"footmen",
"grooms",
"houseboys",
"housemen",
"majordomos",
"men",
"menservants",
"servitors",
"valets",
"dailies",
"domestics",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lackeys",
"menials",
"retainers",
"servants",
"stewards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"masters",
"mistresses",
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gotten up":{
"to leave one's bed":{
"examples":[
"you need to get right up when the alarm goes off in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"arise",
"rise",
"roll out",
"turn out",
"uprise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"wake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"drop off",
"lie up",
"nap",
"nod",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"couch",
"doss (down)",
"flop (down)",
"lie (down)",
"recline"
],
"antonyms":[
"bed (down)",
"retire",
"turn in"
]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"all got up in her Sunday best"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck (out)",
"do up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"enrobe",
"garb",
"garment",
"gown",
"habit",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"robe",
"suit",
"tog (up or out)",
"toilet",
"vesture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloak",
"frock",
"jacket",
"mantle",
"vest",
"drape",
"enswathe",
"hap",
"huddle",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"bedight",
"equip",
"furnish",
"habilitate",
"outfit",
"tailor",
"uniform",
"dress down",
"underdress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denude",
"divest",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarray",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"unclothe",
"undress",
"untruss"
]
},
"to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers":{
"examples":[
"I'm still trying to get up the energy to reply"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjure (up)",
"gather",
"summon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"educe",
"elicit",
"evoke",
"raise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation":{
"examples":[
"went to the prom in some elaborately beaded getup"
],
"synonyms":[
"costume",
"drag",
"dress",
"garb",
"guise",
"outfit",
"togs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clothes",
"duds",
"habiliment(s)",
"raiment",
"fashion",
"mode",
"style",
"array",
"caparison",
"vestments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged":{
"examples":[
"the wine book's getup is pretty standard, with wines being arranged according to country of origin"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrangement",
"composition",
"configuration",
"constellation",
"design",
"form",
"format",
"layout",
"makeup",
"ordonnance",
"pattern"
],
"near synonyms":[
"motif",
"theme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gobbledygook":{
"language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions":{
"examples":[
"cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflegab",
"double-talk",
"gibberish",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"song and dance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"legalese",
"Pentagonese",
"psychobabble",
"technobabble",
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"hype",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go in (on)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman"
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gobbled (up)":{
"as in devoured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devoured",
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"leafed (through)",
"scanned",
"skimmed",
"speed-read",
"thumbed (through)",
"turned over",
"slogged (through)",
"waded (through)",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"read",
"reread",
"proofread",
"deciphered",
"reviewed",
"studied",
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"got",
"grasped",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"saw",
"tumbled (to)",
"understood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gospels":{
"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"her private gospel is to do good cheerfully and without any expectation of reward"
],
"synonyms":[
"credos",
"creeds",
"doctrines",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"testaments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"metaphysics",
"theories",
"axioms",
"tenets",
"watchwords"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gophers":{
"as in dogsbodies , drudges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dogsbodies",
"drudges",
"assistants",
"attendants",
"companions",
"factotums",
"followers",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"housekeepers",
"housemaids",
"ladies-in-waiting",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"wenches",
"women",
"butlers",
"footmen",
"grooms",
"houseboys",
"housemen",
"majordomos",
"men",
"menservants",
"servitors",
"valets",
"dailies",
"domestics",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lackeys",
"menials",
"retainers",
"servants",
"stewards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"masters",
"mistresses",
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going (away)":{
"as in disappearing , clearing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clearing",
"disappearing",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"fleeing",
"melting",
"branching (out)",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"diverging",
"dividing",
"forking",
"separating",
"spilling",
"disassembling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"dissolving",
"scattering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"congregating",
"gathering",
"meeting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gossipers":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"the exact nature of the relationship between the two coworkers was a topic that kept the office gossipers too busy to do any work"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulators",
"gossipmongers",
"gossips",
"newsmongers",
"quidnuncs",
"talebearers",
"tale-tellers",
"telltales",
"yentas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayers",
"blabbermouths",
"informants",
"informers",
"snitchers",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"libelers",
"scandalmongers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goofed (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"we've been goofing around long enough; it's time to get some real work done"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodled",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"hung about",
"kicked around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"clowned (around)",
"horsed around",
"diddled (with)",
"tinkered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckled (down)",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"godfathering":{
"as in mentoring , teaching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coaching",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"leading",
"mentoring",
"piloting",
"shepherding",
"showing",
"tutoring",
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"squiring",
"directing",
"engineering",
"steering",
"swaying",
"instructing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"cultivating",
"fostering",
"nurturing",
"briefing",
"enlightening",
"informing",
"overseeing",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"inculcating",
"indoctrinating",
"drilling",
"training"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gone on":{
"filled with an intense or excessive love for":{
"examples":[
"I've never seen her so gone on a man before"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted (by)",
"crazy (about or over)",
"dotty (over)",
"enamored (of)",
"enraptured (by)",
"gaga (over)",
"infatuated (with)",
"mad (about)",
"nuts (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hung up (on)",
"obsessed",
"foolish",
"silly",
"wild",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"entranced",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cool",
"detached",
"unenchanted",
"unimpressed",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"heart-free"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"been",
"befallen",
"betided",
"chanced",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cooked",
"done",
"gone down",
"happed",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"developed",
"risen",
"shaped (up)",
"arisen",
"come up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fallen out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"gone off",
"proceeded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathered (on)",
"maundered",
"rambled",
"rattled",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviated",
"digressed",
"strayed",
"wandered",
"sidetracked",
"blabbed",
"blabbered",
"blithered",
"bumbled",
"burbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"good-humoredly":{
"as in amicably , good-naturedly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"lightheartedly",
"sunnily",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously",
"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"happily",
"heartily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"smilingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily",
"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"godsends":{
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"that holiday bonus has proved to be a godsend for my bills"
],
"synonyms":[
"benedictions",
"benefits",
"blessings",
"boons",
"felicities",
"goods",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"graces",
"mercies",
"favors",
"mitzvoth",
"mitzvahs",
"advantages",
"aids",
"assistances",
"gifts",
"help",
"reliefs",
"supports",
"anodynes",
"comforts",
"consolations",
"solaces",
"bonuses",
"extras",
"lagniappes",
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hexes",
"hoodoos",
"jinxes",
"bothers",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"disadvantages",
"crosses",
"miseries",
"trials",
"tribulations"
],
"antonyms":[
"afflictions",
"banes",
"curses",
"evils",
"plagues",
"scourges"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going to pot":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"The house went to pot quickly after the owners moved out."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"rotting",
"sinking",
"worsening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"waning",
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decomposing",
"degrading",
"dilapidating",
"disintegrating",
"moldering",
"putrefying",
"souring",
"spoiling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"debilitating",
"undermining",
"drooping",
"failing",
"falling",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"running down",
"sagging",
"slipping",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettering",
"upgrading",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"strengthening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"marching",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"improving",
"meliorating"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"godlike":{
"of, relating to, or being God":{
"examples":[
"the godlike splendor of creation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"divine",
"godly",
"heavenly",
"holy",
"sacred",
"supernatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"omniscient",
"supreme"
],
"near antonyms":[
"human",
"mortal",
"natural"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"goody-goodies":{
"a person (such as a child) whose good behavior and politeness are annoying because they seem to be excessive or not sincere":{
"examples":[
"The other kids don't like her because she's a goody-goody ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddies",
"old maids",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"drags",
"grinches",
"killjoys",
"party poopers",
"spoilsports",
"wet blankets",
"complainers",
"crabs",
"cynics",
"grouches",
"grumps",
"soreheads",
"sourpusses",
"whiners",
"bores",
"downers",
"drips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutups",
"jesters",
"live wires",
"carousers",
"celebrants",
"celebrators",
"merrymakers",
"rejoicers",
"revelers",
"revellers",
"roisterers",
"libertines",
"playboys",
"playgirls",
"rakes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goofs (up)":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"we must have goofed up somewhere, because this cake clearly didn't turn out right"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"boobs",
"errs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"louses up",
"messes (up)",
"screws up",
"slips up",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nods",
"bobbles",
"botches",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"foozles",
"mangles",
"mishandles",
"muffs",
"murders",
"miscalculates",
"misconceives",
"miscounts",
"miscues",
"misdeems",
"misgauges",
"misjudges",
"mistakes",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misunderstands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"he goofed up his first sale at the dealership"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go down (with)":{
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week"
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"come down (with)",
"contract",
"get",
"sicken (with)",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break out (with)",
"die (from)",
"succumb (to)",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come back",
"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
"recoup",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"snap back",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover (from)",
"shake (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goodie":{
"something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury":{
"examples":[
"couldn't wait to sample the bonbons, tortes, and other goodies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bit",
"cate",
"dainty",
"delectable",
"delicacy",
"kickshaw",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"treat",
"viand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"morsel",
"candy",
"dessert",
"junket",
"sweet",
"sweetmeat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gooks":{
"soft wet earth":{
"examples":[
"don't walk on that clean floor with guck on your shoes"
],
"synonyms":[
"mire",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slime",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gumbo",
"silt",
"clay",
"dirt",
"gravel",
"humus",
"loam",
"sand",
"soil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"I'm not sure I ever got the new math"
],
"synonyms":[
"learned",
"mastered",
"picked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"grasped",
"knew",
"understood",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)",
"imbibed",
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discerned",
"discovered",
"dug up",
"examined",
"found out",
"heard",
"hit (on or upon)",
"ran down",
"saw",
"scared up",
"searched (for)",
"tracked (down)",
"tumbled (to)",
"unearthed",
"majored (in)",
"studied",
"memorized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgot",
"misunderstood",
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearned"
]
},
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"don't cough on me\u2014I don't want to get your cold"
],
"synonyms":[
"came down (with)",
"caught",
"contracted",
"sickened (with)",
"took",
"went down (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)",
"failed",
"languished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered",
"worsened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shook (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Abraham was quite old when he got Isaac, his only son"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"sired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiplied",
"procreated",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"produced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests":{
"examples":[
"tried to get the mayor to let us stage the concert in the town square, but she refused"
],
"synonyms":[
"argued",
"brought",
"brought around",
"converted",
"convinced",
"gained",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandished",
"blarneyed",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"entreated",
"exhorted",
"fast-talked",
"urged",
"wheedled",
"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":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"redid the math problem until I got the right answer"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"learned",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"rooted (out)",
"routed (out)",
"rummaged",
"scared up",
"scouted (up)",
"tracked (down)",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espied",
"sighted",
"spotted",
"looked for",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"misset",
"mis-set"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"passed over"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"continuously clearing your throat like that is starting to get to me"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"it's going to get colder as winter approaches"
],
"synonyms":[
"became",
"came",
"grew",
"ran",
"run",
"turned",
"waxed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"metamorphosed",
"modified",
"mutated",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"continued",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed",
"was"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"got an A on his final paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquired",
"attained",
"bagged",
"brought in",
"came by",
"captured",
"carried",
"drew",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"knocked down",
"landed",
"made",
"obtained",
"procured",
"pulled down",
"realized",
"reaped",
"secured",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleared",
"grossed",
"netted",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"notched (up)",
"scored",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"racked up",
"caught",
"picked up",
"annexed",
"occupied",
"took over",
"reacquired",
"reattained",
"recaptured",
"regained",
"remade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accorded",
"gave",
"granted",
"paid",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"parted (with)",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeited",
"lost"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"she was speaking so fast\u2014did you get what she said?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
"caught on (to)",
"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"knew",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"saw",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"the defense tackled the running back and got the ball"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"captured",
"caught",
"collared",
"copped",
"corralled",
"glommed",
"grabbed",
"grappled",
"hooked",
"landed",
"nabbed",
"nailed",
"netted",
"nobbled",
"rapped",
"seized",
"snagged",
"snapped (up)",
"snared",
"snatched",
"trapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gloved",
"haltered",
"lassoed",
"roped",
"apprehended",
"arrested",
"detained",
"bayed",
"cornered",
"clasped",
"clutched",
"fastened (on)",
"fisted",
"grasped",
"gripped",
"held",
"latched (on or onto)",
"secured",
"rent",
"rended",
"wrested",
"enmeshed",
"immeshed",
"ensnared",
"entangled",
"entrapped",
"meshed",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"spirited (away or off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharged",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"dropped",
"loosened",
"unhanded"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will get away to the Bahamas for a vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"you may have won this game, but I'll get you next time"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"did down",
"dispatched",
"got around",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"skunked",
"stopped",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"took",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"upended",
"won (against)",
"worsted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"blew out",
"bombed",
"broke",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"crushed",
"drubbed",
"finished",
"flattened",
"overwhelmed",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"slaughtered",
"smoked",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trounced",
"upset",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"subjugated",
"unseated",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fell",
"gave up",
"went down",
"went under",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out"
],
"antonyms":[
"lost (to)"
]
},
"to transmit information or requests to":{
"examples":[
"I've been trying all day, but I can't get either of them in order to ask the question"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"communicated (with)",
"contacted",
"reached"
],
"near synonyms":[
"got through (to)",
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"clued",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"informed",
"instructed",
"notified",
"told",
"wised (up)",
"buzzed",
"called",
"phoned",
"rang (up)",
"telephoned",
"kept up (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"\"I'll get you if you talk to the cops,\" the loan shark warned"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"bumped off",
"croaked",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"liquidated",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"slew",
"snuffed",
"terminated",
"took out",
"whacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew away",
"shot",
"shot down",
"blotted out",
"carried off",
"claimed",
"cut down",
"destroyed",
"felled",
"killed",
"smote",
"zapped",
"butchered",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"slaughtered",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"what gets me is why she would do such a weird thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gospelers":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"Horatio Alger is remembered as the great gospeler of the American success story"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"expounders",
"friends",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gone down":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"when's the drug deal supposed to go down ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"been",
"befallen",
"betided",
"chanced",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cooked",
"done",
"gone on",
"happed",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"developed",
"risen",
"shaped (up)",
"arisen",
"come up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fallen out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"gone off",
"proceeded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gone to one's head":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"The drink the host made for him really went to his head ."
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beaten",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"gotten",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"taken in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"Golcondas":{
"as in bonanzas , honeypots":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bonanzas",
"gravy trains",
"honeypots",
"caches",
"hoards",
"stashes",
"armories",
"repositories",
"stockpots",
"storehouses",
"stores",
"treasure-houses",
"argosies",
"cornucopias",
"gold mines",
"mines",
"mother lodes",
"treasure troves",
"wellsprings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black holes",
"sinkholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gone out":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"there was concern that the dam would go out under the force of the flood waters"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckled",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"foundered",
"given",
"gone",
"imploded",
"tumbled",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflated",
"flattened",
"melted",
"melted down",
"broken",
"broken down",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"died",
"failed",
"given out",
"stalled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crumbled",
"popped",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflated",
"risen",
"swelled",
"swollen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"she enjoys going out on weekends, but during the week she's a homebody"
],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"fraternized",
"hobnobbed",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"socialized",
"stepped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caroused",
"partied",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"circulated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"eschewed",
"shunned",
"slighted",
"snubbed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gone up in flames":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"The neighbors called the fire department when they saw the old house go up in flames ."
],
"synonyms":[
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"combusted",
"flamed",
"glowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught",
"enkindled",
"deflagrated",
"fired",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"flared (up)",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)",
"flickered",
"guttered",
"wavered",
"baked",
"broiled",
"charred",
"cooked",
"melted",
"roasted",
"scorched",
"sweltered",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"sparked",
"sputtered",
"beamed",
"brightened",
"radiated",
"beaten (down)",
"beat (down)",
"flashed",
"glared",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"shone",
"shined",
"sparkled",
"twinkled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"governances":{
"lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)":{
"examples":[
"after World War II, the four Allied nations shared the governance of the territory of postwar Germany under the Allied Control Council"
],
"synonyms":[
"administrations",
"authorities",
"governments",
"jurisdictions",
"regimens",
"regimes",
"r\u00e9gimes",
"rules"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reigns",
"dominions",
"powers",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"sways",
"commands",
"leaderships",
"directions",
"managements",
"regulations",
"superintendences",
"supervisions",
"autocracies",
"dictatorships",
"dominations",
"hegemonies",
"masteries",
"oppressions",
"subjugations",
"tyrannies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something":{
"examples":[
"while a financial advisor can be helpful, the governance of your family finances ultimately rests with you"
],
"synonyms":[
"administrations",
"care",
"charges",
"conducts",
"controls",
"directions",
"governments",
"guidance",
"handlings",
"intendances",
"managements",
"operations",
"oversights",
"presidencies",
"regulations",
"stewardships",
"superintendences",
"superintendencies",
"supervisions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generalships",
"leaderships",
"rulerships",
"agencies",
"aegises",
"egises",
"custodies",
"guardianships",
"laps",
"protections",
"trusts",
"tutelages",
"wards",
"logistics",
"machinations",
"manipulations",
"coadministrations",
"codirections",
"co-directions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gotten around":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"somehow, an inexperienced lawyer managed to get around the media giant's stable of high-priced legal eagles"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"do down",
"get",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweep",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"blow out",
"bomb",
"break",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"crush",
"drub",
"finish",
"flatten",
"overwhelm",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"slaughter",
"smoke",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trounce",
"upset",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"subjugate",
"unseat",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fall",
"give up",
"go down",
"go under",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
]
},
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"examples":[
"somehow she managed to get around the rules for paying the sales tax on a car bought out of state"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"shortcut",
"sidestep",
"skirt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"duck",
"elude",
"end-run",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"outflank",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"disobey",
"disregard",
"flout",
"ignore",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accede (to)",
"acquiesce (to)",
"assent (to)",
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[
"comply (with)",
"follow",
"keep",
"obey",
"observe"
]
},
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"word of the discovery of gold quickly got around"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"circulate",
"come out",
"get about",
"get out",
"get round",
"leak (out)",
"out",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"develop",
"transpire",
"unfold",
"disclose",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hush (up)",
"suppress",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide",
"mask",
"secrete"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"their lawyer has spent months trying to get around certain restrictions in the contract"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goofed on":{
"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"examples":[
"affectionately goofing on her little sister"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaffed",
"jived",
"joked",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"roasted",
"rode",
"rid",
"teased"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantered",
"fooled",
"funned",
"strung along",
"jested",
"quipped",
"wisecracked",
"gagged",
"japed",
"jollied",
"yukked",
"yucked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going off":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"crumping",
"detonating",
"exploding",
"popping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"discharging",
"firing",
"shooting",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mushrooming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"fizzling"
],
"antonyms":[
"imploding"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going along",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"don't go off without telling us where we can find you"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goofs":{
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"examples":[
"that typo is one of the text's rare goofs"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bobbles",
"boo-boos",
"boobs",
"bricks",
"clangers",
"clinkers",
"errors",
"faults",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fumbles",
"gaffes",
"gaffs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"screwups",
"slips",
"slipups",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomers",
"bloopers",
"boners",
"howlers",
"pratfalls",
"foul-ups",
"snafus",
"misapprehensions",
"miscalculations",
"miscomprehensions",
"misconceptions",
"misconstructions",
"misdescriptions",
"misimpressions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misreadings",
"misstatements",
"misunderstandings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracies",
"exactitudes",
"precisions",
"inerrancies",
"infallibilities",
"perfections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"leave it to that goof to forget the bait on a fishing trip"
],
"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",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"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"
]
},
"gores":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, may sound like fun, but the bulls have been known to gore runners who get too close"
],
"synonyms":[
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goose eggs":{
"the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it":{
"examples":[
"was such a bad bowler that his final score was a big, fat goose egg"
],
"synonyms":[
"aughts",
"ciphers",
"naughts",
"nought",
"nils",
"ohs",
"o's",
"os",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches",
"zips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanks",
"voids"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gotten on (to)":{
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"by the time the CIA got on to the terrorist plot, it was already in progress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"hear",
"learn",
"realize",
"see",
"wise (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"descry",
"detect",
"encounter",
"espy",
"spot",
"calculate",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"find",
"puzzle (out)",
"discern",
"mind",
"note",
"observe",
"perceive",
"divine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"forget",
"unlearn",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"occult",
"screen",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got even (for)":{
"to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for":{
"examples":[
"He took measures to get even for the theft of his school lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"avenged",
"redressed",
"requited",
"retaliated",
"revenged",
"venged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"castigated",
"fixed",
"got",
"penalized",
"punished",
"scourged",
"chastened",
"chastised",
"corrected",
"disciplined",
"righted",
"compensated",
"paid (back)",
"recompensed",
"repaid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolved",
"condoned",
"excused",
"forgave",
"pardoned",
"remitted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gossamer":{
"being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance":{
"examples":[
"fairies are usually depicted as wearing gossamer or tattered clothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"filmy",
"flimsy",
"frothy",
"gauzy",
"gossamery",
"insubstantial",
"sleazy",
"unsubstantial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dainty",
"delicate",
"fine",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"diaphanous",
"sheer",
"transparent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"durable",
"knockabout",
"lasting",
"tough",
"coarse",
"heavy",
"rough",
"rude"
],
"antonyms":[
"sturdy",
"substantial"
]
},
"resembling air in lightness":{
"examples":[
"the gossamer veil seemed to float about the bride as she walked down the aisle"
],
"synonyms":[
"airy",
"ethereal",
"fluffy",
"gossamery",
"light"
],
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"cobwebby",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"diaphanous",
"downy",
"feathery",
"flimsy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"insubstantial",
"tender",
"wispy",
"buoyant",
"lighter-than-air",
"lightweight",
"rarefied",
"unsubstantial",
"vaporous",
"weightless",
"cumulous",
"pillowy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"solid",
"substantial",
"bulky",
"burdensome",
"cumbersome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"lumpish",
"ponderous",
"unwieldy",
"weighty"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"leaden"
]
},
"very thin and easy to see through":{
"examples":[
"didn't see the gossamer spider webs until the sun hit them just right"
],
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"cobwebby",
"diaphanous",
"filmy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"gossamery",
"see-through",
"sheer",
"transparent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"peekaboo",
"clear",
"crystal",
"crystalline",
"limpid",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"lucid",
"translucent",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"frail",
"insubstantial",
"unsubstantial",
"colorless",
"uncolored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opaque",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"drab",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"lusterless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fluff , froth":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fluff",
"froth",
"window dressing",
"glitter",
"gloss",
"candyfloss",
"cotton candy",
"eye candy",
"tinsel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"goings-over":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"examples":[
"received a thorough going-over before being sent on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"audits",
"checks",
"checkups",
"examinations",
"inspections",
"look-sees",
"reviews",
"scans",
"scrutinies",
"surveys",
"views"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analyses",
"assays",
"close-ups",
"deconstructions",
"dissections",
"explorations",
"investigations",
"probes",
"researches",
"studies",
"inquisitions",
"interrogations",
"once-overs",
"perusals",
"rechecks",
"reinspections",
"resurveys",
"observations",
"surveillances",
"watches",
"checkouts",
"test-drives",
"trial runs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goo":{
"something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental":{
"examples":[
"the latest goo from a children's author who knows how to lay it on thick"
],
"synonyms":[
"corn",
"mush",
"schmaltz",
"schmalz",
"sludge",
"slush",
"soap opera",
"sorghum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"rubbish",
"tripe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"governs":{
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"commands",
"controls",
"presides (over)",
"rules",
"sways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducts",
"directs",
"heads",
"leads",
"administers",
"manages",
"micromanages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"dictates",
"dominates",
"domineers",
"lords (it over)",
"masters",
"oppresses",
"reigns (over)",
"tyrannizes",
"conquers",
"subdues",
"subjugates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"keeps",
"measures",
"pulls in",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"rules",
"tames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"chokes (back)",
"holds back",
"minces",
"muffles",
"pockets",
"represses",
"sinks",
"smothers",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"arrests",
"interrupts",
"stops",
"blocks",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"gags",
"muzzles",
"silences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"unleashes",
"airs",
"expresses",
"takes out",
"vents"
],
"antonyms":[
"loses"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"administers",
"administrates",
"carries on",
"conducts",
"controls",
"directs",
"guides",
"handles",
"keeps",
"manages",
"operates",
"overlooks",
"oversees",
"presides (over)",
"regulates",
"runs",
"stewards",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"tends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"minds",
"watches",
"leads",
"pilots",
"steers",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"micromanages",
"stage-manages",
"codirects",
"comanages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goof-offs":{
"as in slackers , underachievers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"slackers",
"underachievers",
"lowbrows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bookworms",
"dinks",
"dorks",
"geeks",
"grinds",
"nerds",
"swots",
"weenies",
"wonks",
"double-domes",
"highbrows",
"intellectuals",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goblet":{
"a container used for drinking liquids that has a round bowl on top of a stem attached to a flat base":{
"examples":[
"The water was served in fancy crystal goblets ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chalice",
"cup",
"demitasse",
"glass",
"mug",
"teacup",
"dinnerware",
"tableware",
"china",
"chinaware",
"crockery",
"earthenware",
"porcelain",
"pottery",
"stoneware",
"ware",
"crystal",
"glassware"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goatskin":{
"as in calfskin , deerskin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goatherd":{
"as in herder , herdsman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buckaroo",
"buckeroo",
"cowboy",
"cowgirl",
"cowhand",
"cowherd",
"cowman",
"cowpoke",
"cowpuncher",
"gaucho",
"ranchero",
"vaquero",
"sheepherder",
"shepherd",
"shepherdess",
"herder",
"herdsman",
"drover",
"swineherd",
"wrangler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got through (to)":{
"as in told , got":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"clued",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"informed",
"instructed",
"notified",
"told",
"wised (up)",
"addressed",
"communicated (with)",
"contacted",
"got",
"reached",
"buzzed",
"called",
"phoned",
"rang (up)",
"telephoned",
"kept up (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gotcha":{
"a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized":{
"examples":[
"the gotcha in the low monthly rate quoted by the cable company is that it is a teaser and good for only six months"
],
"synonyms":[
"booby trap",
"catch",
"catch-22",
"gimmick",
"hitch",
"joker",
"land mine",
"pitfall",
"snag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snare",
"trap",
"trip wire",
"web",
"hazard",
"peril",
"risk",
"bomb",
"bombshell",
"kicker",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"bait",
"decoy",
"lure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"godhood":{
"the quality or state of being divine":{
"examples":[
"according to Greek myth, Hercules was granted godhood after his death"
],
"synonyms":[
"deity",
"divinity",
"godhead"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blessedness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piousness",
"saintliness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go-getting":{
"having a strong desire for personal advancement":{
"examples":[
"this job is a great opportunity for some go-getting young person"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambitious",
"aspiring",
"hard-driving",
"pushing",
"self-seeking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"diligent",
"driving",
"dynamic",
"enterprising",
"gung ho",
"hungry",
"hustling",
"industrious",
"motivated",
"scrappy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"animated",
"lively",
"spirited",
"ardent",
"avid",
"eager",
"energetic",
"impassioned",
"keen",
"raring",
"vigorous",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"high-flying",
"opportunistic",
"overambitious",
"pretentious",
"pushy",
"self-assertive",
"competing",
"competitive",
"rival",
"rivalrous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic",
"unexcited",
"uninterested",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"lackadaisical",
"lazyish",
"halfhearted",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"lazy",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"sluggish",
"spiritless",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambitionless",
"unambitious"
]
},
"having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal":{
"examples":[
"a determined newcomer who made a go-getting bid for the governorship"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"ambitious",
"assertive",
"enterprising",
"fierce",
"high-pressure",
"in-your-face",
"militant",
"pushy",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"gladiatorial",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"trigger-happy",
"truculent",
"warlike",
"hyperaggressive",
"overambitious",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"gung ho",
"hustling",
"strenuous",
"vigorous",
"emphatic",
"obtrusive",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"daring",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"gutsy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"bumptious",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"determined",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"overconfident",
"presumptuous",
"unapologetic",
"unsubdued",
"unyielding",
"bare-knuckle",
"bare-knuckled",
"bare-knuckles",
"feisty",
"scrappy",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"overbearing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed",
"acquiescent",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"docile",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"shrinking",
"bashful",
"demure",
"diffident",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"mild",
"modest",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambitionless",
"low-pressure",
"nonassertive",
"unaggressive",
"unambitious",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising"
]
},
"eager desire for personal advancement":{
"examples":[
"with all his go-getting , he should move quickly up the corporate ladder"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambition",
"ambitiousness",
"aspiration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determination",
"diligence",
"drive",
"energy",
"enterprise",
"go",
"hustle",
"industry",
"initiative",
"motivation",
"push",
"aggression",
"competitiveness",
"killer instinct",
"opportunism",
"overambitiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"pushiness",
"assertiveness",
"daring",
"spirit",
"ardor",
"avidity",
"eagerness",
"keenness",
"passion",
"avarice",
"greed",
"hunger"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"halfheartedness",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"idleness",
"indolence",
"inertia",
"laziness",
"lethargy",
"shiftlessness",
"sloth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"go in for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He always goes in for the underdog."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"prop (up)",
"second",
"side (with)",
"backstop",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"advance",
"forward",
"further",
"plug",
"preach",
"talk up",
"bail out",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"interfere",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"I don't usually go in for that type of ideology."
],
"synonyms":[
"care (for)",
"favor",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gourmandism":{
"as in greed , gluttony":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gluttony",
"greed",
"hoggishness",
"famine",
"fast",
"hunger strike",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gone down (with)":{
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week"
],
"synonyms":[
"caught",
"come down (with)",
"contracted",
"got",
"gotten",
"sickened (with)",
"taken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)",
"failed",
"languished",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered",
"worsened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shaken (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes (to)":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager"
],
"synonyms":[
"consults",
"refers (to)",
"resorts (to)",
"turns (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"depends (on)",
"relies (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gobble (up or down)":{
"as in devour , bolt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolt",
"devour",
"gulp",
"ingurgitate",
"drink",
"guzzle",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"sip",
"consume",
"eat",
"mouth (down)",
"put away",
"sup",
"down",
"get down",
"ingest",
"swallow",
"gorge",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"wolf",
"chew",
"gnaw (at or on)",
"lap",
"lick",
"munch",
"nibble (on)",
"peck (at)",
"ruminate",
"dispatch",
"finish",
"polish off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"godly":{
"showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue":{
"examples":[
"a godly and humble man who will be richly rewarded in the next world"
],
"synonyms":[
"devout",
"holy",
"pious",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"prayerful",
"reverent",
"reverential",
"spiritual",
"worshipful",
"pietistic",
"religiose",
"beatified",
"blessed",
"blest",
"canonized",
"venerable",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"cherubic",
"chaste",
"moral",
"pure",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemous",
"desecrating",
"irreverent",
"profanatory",
"profane",
"sacrilegious",
"nonreligious",
"secular",
"unspiritual",
"worldly",
"backsliding",
"unfaithful",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"miscreant",
"sinful",
"sinning",
"unrighteous",
"wicked"
],
"antonyms":[
"antireligious",
"faithless",
"godless",
"impious",
"irreligious",
"ungodly",
"unholy"
]
},
"of, relating to, or being God":{
"examples":[
"a godly voice from the heavens commanded him to build an ark"
],
"synonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"divine",
"godlike",
"heavenly",
"holy",
"sacred",
"supernatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"omniscient",
"supreme"
],
"near antonyms":[
"human",
"mortal",
"natural"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"goes out":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"there was concern that the dam would go out under the force of the flood waters"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckles",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"crumples",
"founders",
"gives",
"goes",
"implodes",
"tumbles",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflates",
"flattens",
"melts",
"melts down",
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"dies",
"fails",
"gives out",
"stalls",
"bursts",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crumbles",
"pops",
"snaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflates",
"rises",
"swells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"she enjoys going out on weekends, but during the week she's a homebody"
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"fraternizes",
"hobnobs",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"socializes",
"steps out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouses",
"parties",
"revels",
"circulates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"eschews",
"shuns",
"slights",
"snubs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goods":{
"products that are bought and sold in business":{
"examples":[
"had a hard time selling leftover Easter goods that were still on the shelves by Mother's Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"commodities",
"merchandise",
"wares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"line",
"export",
"import",
"inventory",
"staples",
"stock",
"stuff",
"supply",
"job lot",
"domestics",
"durables",
"durable goods",
"hard goods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a skill, an ability, or knowledge that makes a person able to do a particular job":{
"examples":[
"the hiring committee thinks this latest applicant really has the goods"
],
"synonyms":[
"capability",
"credentials",
"qualification",
"stuff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"command",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"mastership",
"mastery",
"proficiency",
"ability",
"capacity",
"competence",
"competency",
"facility",
"faculty",
"aptitude",
"endowment",
"flair",
"genius",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"forte",
"long suit",
"m\u00e9tier",
"metier",
"specialism",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"strong suit",
"fitness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"makings",
"potentiality"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"before moving to Florida, the couple sold their house and auctioned off their household goods"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"holdings",
"movables",
"moveables",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything is going according to our plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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 leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will go on vacation at the end of the year",
"decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bugger off",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes"
],
"synonyms":[
"befit",
"beseem",
"do",
"fit",
"serve",
"suit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfy",
"suffice",
"function",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said"
],
"synonyms":[
"accord",
"agree",
"answer",
"check",
"chord",
"cohere",
"coincide",
"comport",
"conform",
"consist",
"correspond",
"dovetail",
"fit",
"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 be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the highway goes right along the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"extend",
"head",
"lead",
"lie",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"cut",
"pass",
"course",
"follow",
"span",
"traverse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop",
"the room went dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"become",
"come",
"get",
"grow",
"run",
"turn",
"wax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alter",
"change",
"metamorphose",
"modify",
"mutate",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"be",
"continue",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckle",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"crumple",
"founder",
"give",
"go out",
"implode",
"tumble",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflate",
"flatten",
"melt",
"melt down",
"break",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"die",
"fail",
"give out",
"stall",
"burst",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crumble",
"pop",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflate",
"rise",
"swell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"these plates go in this cabinet"
],
"synonyms":[
"belong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"place",
"stay",
"fit (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"when you get old, your eyesight starts to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"decay",
"droop",
"emaciate",
"fade",
"fail",
"flag",
"lag",
"languish",
"sag",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break down",
"wear out",
"yield",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"rot",
"run down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesce",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"gain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"cover",
"cross",
"cut (across)",
"follow",
"navigate",
"pass (over)",
"perambulate",
"peregrinate",
"proceed (along)",
"track",
"transit",
"travel",
"traverse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hike",
"traipse",
"tramp",
"tread",
"walk",
"ride",
"run",
"crisscross"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million"
],
"synonyms":[
"range",
"run",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"fluctuate",
"move",
"shift",
"change",
"mutate",
"extend",
"reach",
"stretch",
"sweep"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bet",
"gamble",
"lay",
"play",
"put",
"stake",
"wager"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bid",
"offer",
"adventure",
"chance",
"hazard",
"speculate",
"venture",
"endanger",
"imperil",
"jeopardize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I didn't go to fire the gun\u2014it just went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"allow",
"aspire",
"calculate",
"contemplate",
"design",
"intend",
"look",
"mean",
"meditate",
"plan",
"propose",
"purport",
"purpose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dream",
"hope",
"wish",
"consider",
"debate",
"mull (over)",
"ponder",
"attempt",
"endeavor",
"strive",
"struggle",
"try",
"plot",
"scheme",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"effect",
"execute",
"perform"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"to have enough money for":{
"examples":[
"I think I can go for the new car after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cover",
"expend",
"finance",
"outlay",
"pay (for)",
"pony up",
"spring (for)",
"pick up",
"purchase",
"take",
"acquire",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure",
"bid",
"offer",
"bankroll",
"endow",
"subsidize",
"underwrite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"pocket",
"stand",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate",
"wear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"combat",
"contest",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"miss",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"her grandmother went peacefully last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"check out",
"conk (out)",
"croak",
"decease",
"demise",
"depart",
"die",
"drop",
"end",
"exit",
"expire",
"fall",
"flatline",
"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"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go , but it never really worked out"
],
"synonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go over",
"pan out",
"succeed",
"work out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch on",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"cook",
"percolate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languish",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crater",
"crumble",
"flame out",
"choke",
"crack up",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"fall down",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
]
},
"being in a state of fitness for some experience or action":{
"examples":[
"all systems are go"
],
"synonyms":[
"fit",
"prepared",
"ready",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditioned",
"primed",
"ripe",
"armed",
"braced",
"fortified",
"steeled",
"qualified",
"trained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unqualified",
"untrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"flat-footed",
"half-baked",
"half-cocked",
"underprepared",
"unprepared",
"unready"
]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"snowboarding is all the go"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fad",
"fashion",
"flavor",
"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":[]
},
"active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"a healthy six-year-old full of go"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal spirits",
"animation",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"snappiness",
"spirit",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"spunk",
"spunkiness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"ardor",
"\u00e9lan",
"fervor",
"fire",
"passion",
"zeal",
"main",
"metal",
"mettle",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"stamina",
"strength",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"hardiness",
"huskiness",
"sturdiness",
"virility",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"disablement",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"infirmity",
"powerlessness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"weakness",
"enervation",
"exhaustion",
"inanition",
"prostration"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
]
},
"an effort to do or accomplish something":{
"examples":[
"it took several goes to get the car started"
],
"synonyms":[
"assay",
"attempt",
"bash",
"bid",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"offer",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"whack",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"striving",
"struggle",
"throes",
"undertaking",
"trial and error"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity":{
"examples":[
"a young executive with the go to make this company grow"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"aggressiveness",
"ambition",
"drive",
"enterprise",
"hustle",
"initiative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grit",
"gumption",
"pluck",
"snap",
"spirit",
"spunk",
"starch",
"ambitiousness",
"killer instinct",
"overambitiousness",
"assertiveness",
"self-reliance",
"energy",
"hardihood",
"pep",
"vigor",
"vitality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"passivity",
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"hesitation",
"reluctance",
"indolence",
"laziness",
"lethargy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Gomorrah":{
"a place of great vice and corruption":{
"examples":[
"looks upon Las Vegas as a Gomorrah that undermines traditional values"
],
"synonyms":[
"Augean stable",
"cesspool",
"sink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tenderloin",
"den",
"dump",
"pigpen",
"pigsty",
"hellhole",
"hole"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got out":{
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"news of the rock star's secret wedding got out to the news media"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"came out",
"circulated",
"got about",
"got around",
"got round",
"leaked (out)",
"outed",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"transpired",
"unfolded",
"disclosed",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed (up)",
"suppressed",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"hid",
"masked",
"secreted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"tried but couldn't get out of the old well without assistance"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconded",
"broke out (of)",
"cleared out",
"escaped",
"fled",
"flew",
"lammed",
"ran away",
"ran off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoided",
"eluded",
"evaded",
"lost",
"shunned",
"decamped",
"departed",
"eloped",
"exited",
"left",
"moved",
"pulled out",
"quit",
"quitted",
"sallied (forth)",
"shoved (off)",
"took off",
"walked out",
"went",
"disentangled",
"extricated",
"brought off",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"freed",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"manumitted",
"redeemed",
"released",
"rescued",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"hung around",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"came back",
"returned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"a romance novelist who got a new book out every year"
],
"synonyms":[
"issued",
"printed",
"published",
"put out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublished",
"co-published",
"reissued",
"reprinted",
"republished",
"serialized",
"contributed",
"edited",
"syndicated",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"distributed",
"marketed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censored",
"suppressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gobbets":{
"a small uneven mass":{
"examples":[
"deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk"
],
"synonyms":[
"blobs",
"chunks",
"clods",
"clots",
"clumps",
"dollops",
"globs",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"knobs",
"lumps",
"nubbles",
"nubs",
"nuggets",
"wads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beads",
"drops",
"globules",
"blocks",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"particles",
"pieces",
"portions",
"bits",
"chips",
"crumbs",
"granules",
"morsels",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got a charge out of":{
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"It's clear that people get a kick out of silly cat videos."
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"got off (on)",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"ate (up)",
"devoured",
"drank (in)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goggles":{
"as in sunglasses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sunglasses",
"contact lens",
"lorgnette",
"monocle",
"pince-nez",
"bifocals",
"half-glasses",
"trifocals",
"eyeglasses",
"glass",
"specs",
"spectacle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gawps",
"gazes",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glares",
"gloats",
"glowers",
"considers",
"eyes",
"fixates",
"observes",
"regards",
"watches",
"leers",
"ogles",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"studies",
"outfaces",
"outstares",
"stares down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"browses",
"dips (into)",
"scans",
"winks (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun",
"verb"
]
},
"godhead":{
"the quality or state of being divine":{
"examples":[
"in some cultures, the ruler of the people has godhead and is worshipped accordingly"
],
"synonyms":[
"deity",
"divinity",
"godhood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blessedness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piousness",
"saintliness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"most Christians believe that there are three separate persons\u2014Father, Son, and Holy Spirit\u2014that make up the Godhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goons":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"an unfortunate tendency to call those who disagree with him \"brainless goons \""
],
"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",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"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"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the crime boss threatened to send the goons after him if he squealed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going (by)":{
"as in accepting , complying (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acceding (to)",
"accepting",
"acquiescing",
"assenting (to)",
"complying (with)",
"consenting (to)",
"subscribing",
"agreeing",
"coinciding",
"concurring",
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"uniting",
"collaborating",
"cooperating",
"getting along",
"getting on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differing",
"disagreeing",
"clashing",
"colliding",
"conflicting",
"bickering",
"countering",
"disputing",
"dissenting",
"diverging",
"falling out",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"protesting",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"resisting",
"rivaling",
"rivalling",
"dissociating",
"separating",
"splitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes (for)":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"brings",
"costs",
"fetches",
"runs",
"sells (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lists (for)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"totals",
"commands",
"exacts",
"asks",
"demands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"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)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"approves (of)",
"cares (for)",
"countenances",
"favors",
"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)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"good faith":{
"absence of any intent or attempt to be dishonest in dealing with other people":{
"examples":[
"The two parties demonstrated good faith in negotiating the deal."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"verity",
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad faith",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness",
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gouaches":{
"as in watercolors , acrylics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acrylics",
"aquarelles",
"watercolors",
"diptychs",
"triptychs",
"distempers",
"drawings",
"etchings",
"finger paintings",
"pastels",
"sketches",
"temperas",
"frescoes",
"murals",
"panoramas",
"masterpieces",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"oil paintings",
"oils",
"paintings",
"pi\u00e8ces de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpieces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gotchas":{
"a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized":{
"examples":[
"the gotcha in the low monthly rate quoted by the cable company is that it is a teaser and good for only six months"
],
"synonyms":[
"booby traps",
"catch-22's",
"catch-22s",
"catches",
"gimmicks",
"hitches",
"jokers",
"land mines",
"pitfalls",
"snags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snares",
"traps",
"trip wires",
"webs",
"hazards",
"perils",
"risks",
"bombs",
"bombshells",
"kickers",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"baits",
"decoys",
"lures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes under":{
"as in fails , flames out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"craters",
"fails",
"flames out",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"tanks",
"washes out",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"crumbles",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out",
"cooks",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"governmenteses":{
"as in educationeses , bureaucrateses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles",
"slanguages",
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shops",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"good-for-nothings":{
"an idle worthless person":{
"examples":[
"teacher after teacher had predicted that he would never be more than a good-for-nothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bums",
"derelicts",
"do-nothings",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"no-accounts",
"no-goodniks",
"no-goods",
"slackers",
"vagrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"sundowners",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"drifters",
"roamers",
"transients",
"beggars",
"panhandlers",
"dodgers",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"gamines",
"ragamuffins",
"urchins",
"waifs",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"down-and-outs",
"down-and-outers",
"indigents",
"paupers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"successes",
"winners"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going to pieces":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"After the breakup of his marriage he completely went to pieces ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"breaking up",
"cracking",
"flipping (out)",
"freaking (out)",
"melting down",
"wigging (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gonfalons":{
"as in buntings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buntings",
"banderoles",
"banderols",
"banners",
"colors",
"ensigns",
"flags",
"guidons",
"jacks",
"pendants",
"pendents",
"pennants",
"pennons",
"standards",
"streamers",
"black flags",
"Jolly Rogers",
"tricolors",
"union jacks",
"white flags",
"burgees",
"semaphores",
"signalers",
"signallers",
"wafts",
"badges",
"coats of arms",
"crests",
"insignia",
"insignias"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goof (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"we've been goofing around long enough; it's time to get some real work done"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodle",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"hang about",
"kick around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"clown (around)",
"horse around",
"diddle (with)",
"tinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckle (down)",
"knuckle down",
"set (to)",
"settle (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got down":{
"to come down from something (as a vehicle)":{
"examples":[
"I was getting down from the seaplane when a gust of wind swept away my hat"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"descended",
"disembarked",
"dismounted",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplaned",
"detrained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boarded",
"climbed (aboard)",
"got in",
"mounted",
"enplaned",
"emplaned",
"entrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"embarked"
]
},
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"it's really getting him down that there does not seem to be one woman who will date him"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummed (out)",
"burdened",
"dashed",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"oppressed",
"saddened",
"weighed down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailed",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"afflicted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dismayed",
"dispirited",
"unnerved",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"assured",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"excited",
"inspired",
"stimulated",
"elated",
"exhilarated",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"uplifted"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"buoyed",
"cheered (up)",
"gladdened",
"lightened",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat":{
"examples":[
"with her sore throat, liquids are the only thing she can get down"
],
"synonyms":[
"downed",
"ingested",
"swallowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drank",
"guzzled",
"imbibed",
"knocked back",
"sipped",
"bolted",
"devoured",
"gobbled (up or down)",
"gulped",
"ingurgitated",
"ate",
"consumed",
"mouthed (down)",
"put away",
"supped",
"gorged",
"scarfed",
"scoffed",
"wolfed",
"chewed",
"gnawed (at or on)",
"lapped",
"licked",
"munched",
"nibbled (on)",
"pecked (at)",
"ruminated",
"dispatched",
"finished",
"polished off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes down":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"when's the drug deal supposed to go down ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"does",
"goes on",
"happens",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got one's act together":{
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"applied",
"bent",
"buckled",
"devoted",
"gave"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reapplied",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)",
"busied",
"committed",
"concerned",
"engaged",
"involved",
"exerted",
"exhausted",
"put out",
"spent",
"strained",
"stressed",
"taxed",
"troubled",
"wore out",
"carried on",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"ground",
"humped",
"hustled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged (away)",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"idled",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"goof-off":{
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"returned home unannounced and found the au pair goofing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"hang about",
"idle",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"piddle",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"doze",
"estivate",
"aestivate",
"hibernate",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"tarry",
"amble",
"mosey",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"swan",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grind",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
"exert",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in slacker , underachiever":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"slacker",
"underachiever",
"lowbrow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bookworm",
"dink",
"dork",
"geek",
"grind",
"nerd",
"swot",
"weenie",
"wonk",
"double-dome",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"brain",
"genius"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gourmand":{
"a person with refined tastes in food and wine":{
"examples":[
"a finicky gourmand who vacationed in Europe every year simply for the wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"bon vivant",
"epicure",
"epicurean",
"gastronome",
"gastronomist",
"gourmet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connoisseur",
"dilettante",
"foodie",
"savorer",
"oenophile",
"turophile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glutton",
"gorger",
"guzzler",
"hog",
"overeater",
"stuffer",
"swiller",
"trencherman"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who eats greedily or too much":{
"examples":[
"the kind of gourmand who swallows food without even pausing to taste it"
],
"synonyms":[
"cormorant",
"glutton",
"gorger",
"gormandizer",
"hog",
"overeater",
"pig",
"stuffer",
"swiller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feaster",
"trencherman",
"muncher",
"guzzler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieter",
"nibbler",
"picker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going (to)":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager"
],
"synonyms":[
"consulting",
"referring (to)",
"resorting (to)",
"turning (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"depending (on)",
"relying (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"golden years":{
"as in seniority , elderliness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elderliness",
"oldness",
"seniority",
"anecdotage",
"dotage",
"senility",
"adulthood",
"majority",
"maturity",
"middle",
"middle age",
"midlife",
"ripeness",
"sunset",
"twilight",
"winter",
"afterlife",
"afternoon",
"age",
"autumn",
"evening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"springtime",
"adolescence",
"youth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"gondolas":{
"as in ferries , taxis":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"bankers",
"cobles",
"draggers",
"gillnetters",
"hookers",
"luggers",
"scallopers",
"seiners",
"shrimpers",
"trawlers",
"whaleboats",
"whalers",
"workboats",
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"lighters",
"narrow boats",
"cockleshells",
"tubs",
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"lifeboats",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"airboats",
"air-cushion vehicles",
"hovercrafts",
"houseboats",
"riverboats",
"hydrofoils",
"hydroplanes",
"cruisers",
"inboards",
"motorboats",
"outboards",
"powerboats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goodly":{
"of a size greater than average of its kind":{
"examples":[
"$10,000 is a goodly reward to offer for a missing wedding ring"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"major",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"copious",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"dinky",
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"little",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention":{
"examples":[
"a goodly number of people gathered to watch the spectacle"
],
"synonyms":[
"biggish",
"considerable",
"good",
"handsome",
"healthy",
"largish",
"major",
"respectable",
"significant",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"substantive",
"tidy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"voluminous",
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"gigantic",
"great",
"herculean",
"huge",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"whopping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"measly",
"minute",
"paltry",
"petty",
"picayune",
"picayunish",
"piddling",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"marginal",
"meager",
"meagre",
"slight",
"little",
"small",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"miniature",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"smallish"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"insubstantial",
"negligible",
"nominal"
]
},
"very pleasing to look at":{
"examples":[
"the smartly dressed soldiers marching snappily along made for a goodly sight"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good",
"good-looking",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"goofs (off)":{
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"returned home unannounced and found the au pair goofing off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drones",
"footles",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs about",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"kicks around",
"kicks back",
"lazes",
"lazies",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"vegges out",
"veges out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"messes",
"monkeys",
"mucks",
"piddles",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"dozes",
"estivates",
"aestivates",
"hibernates",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"moseys",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"swans",
"furloughs",
"goldbricks",
"malingers",
"truants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grinds",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"applies",
"buckles (down)",
"exerts",
"puts out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got hold of":{
"to transmit information or requests to":{
"examples":[
"He had no problem getting hold of his lawyer late at night."
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"communicated (with)",
"contacted",
"got",
"reached"
],
"near synonyms":[
"got through (to)",
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"clued",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"informed",
"instructed",
"notified",
"told",
"wised (up)",
"buzzed",
"called",
"phoned",
"rang (up)",
"telephoned",
"kept up (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going one better":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"The two siblings were always trying to go one better than the other."
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outclassing",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outgunning",
"outmatching",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"towering (over)",
"transcending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upping",
"outpacing",
"outracing",
"outrunning",
"overpassing",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"outcompeting",
"outperforming",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"shaming",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"overbearing",
"overshadowing",
"trumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gossiped":{
"to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature":{
"examples":[
"a neighbor who loves to gossip with others about that couple's loud arguments"
],
"synonyms":[
"blabbed",
"dished",
"talked",
"tattled",
"wagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandied (about)",
"circulated",
"noised (about or abroad)",
"rumored",
"blabbered",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"revealed",
"told",
"hinted",
"implied",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"let on",
"suggested",
"informed",
"reported",
"snitched",
"squealed",
"tipped (off)",
"babbled",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"confided"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clammed up",
"shut up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"golden":{
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"examples":[
"this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so don't blow it"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"soothing",
"assured",
"confident",
"decisive",
"doubtless",
"positive",
"sure",
"unhesitating",
"beamish",
"bullish",
"eupeptic",
"favorable",
"good"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
]
},
"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
"examples":[
"sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall"
],
"synonyms":[
"orotund",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"ringing",
"rotund",
"round",
"sonorous",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deep",
"full",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"plummy",
"rich",
"loud",
"powerful",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cavernous",
"hollow",
"faint",
"low",
"murmurous",
"muted",
"smothered",
"soft",
"weak",
"thin",
"tinny"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically":{
"examples":[
"the golden age of industrialization"
],
"synonyms":[
"booming",
"boomy",
"flourishing",
"halcyon",
"healthy",
"lush",
"palmy",
"prospering",
"prosperous",
"roaring",
"successful",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affluent",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"substantial",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"comfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dying",
"failing",
"floundering",
"languishing",
"struggling",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressed",
"unprosperous",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color":{
"examples":[
"a golden Labrador"
],
"synonyms":[
"blond",
"blonde",
"fair",
"flaxen",
"sandy",
"straw",
"tawny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ocherous",
"ochreous",
"ash-blond",
"ash-blonde",
"blondish",
"strawberry blonde",
"strawberry blond",
"towheaded",
"gold",
"light",
"white"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black-a-vised",
"brown",
"brunet",
"brunette",
"dark",
"olive",
"swart",
"swarthy",
"black",
"ebony",
"raven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"pointing toward a happy outcome":{
"examples":[
"that new job is a golden opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"favorable",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gone (on)":{
"filled with an intense or excessive love for":{
"examples":[
"I've never seen her so gone on a man before"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted (by)",
"crazy (about or over)",
"dotty (over)",
"enamored (of)",
"enraptured (by)",
"gaga (over)",
"infatuated (with)",
"mad (about)",
"nuts (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hung up (on)",
"obsessed",
"foolish",
"silly",
"wild",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"entranced",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cool",
"detached",
"unenchanted",
"unimpressed",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"heart-free"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"been",
"befallen",
"betided",
"chanced",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cooked",
"done",
"gone down",
"happed",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"developed",
"risen",
"shaped (up)",
"arisen",
"come up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fallen out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"gone off",
"proceeded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathered (on)",
"maundered",
"rambled",
"rattled",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviated",
"digressed",
"strayed",
"wandered",
"sidetracked",
"blabbed",
"blabbered",
"blithered",
"bumbled",
"burbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"got up":{
"to leave one's bed":{
"examples":[
"you need to get right up when the alarm goes off in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"arose",
"rolled out",
"rose",
"turned out",
"uprose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"bestirred",
"stirred",
"woke",
"waked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catnapped",
"dozed",
"dropped off",
"lay up",
"napped",
"nodded",
"rested",
"slept",
"slumbered",
"snoozed",
"bunked",
"perched",
"roosted",
"settled",
"couched",
"dossed (down)",
"flopped (down)",
"lay (down)",
"reclined"
],
"antonyms":[
"bedded (down)",
"retired",
"turned in"
]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"all got up in her Sunday best"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked (out)",
"did up",
"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"gowned",
"habited",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"robed",
"suited",
"togged (up or out)",
"toileted",
"vestured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaked",
"frocked",
"jacketed",
"mantled",
"vested",
"draped",
"enswathed",
"happed",
"huddled",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"bedighted",
"bedight",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"habilitated",
"outfitted",
"tailored",
"uniformed",
"dressed down",
"underdressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuded",
"divested",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarrayed",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"untrussed"
]
},
"to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers":{
"examples":[
"I'm still trying to get up the energy to reply"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjured (up)",
"gathered",
"summoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"educed",
"elicited",
"evoked",
"raised"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes (with)":{
"as in coordinates (with) , conforms (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blends (with)",
"conforms (to)",
"coordinates (with)",
"harmonizes (with)",
"corresponds (to)",
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels",
"complements",
"supplements",
"counterbalances",
"counterpoises",
"echoes",
"images",
"mirrors",
"repeats",
"adds up (to)",
"amounts (to)",
"approaches",
"comes (to)",
"nears",
"measures (up)",
"partakes (of)",
"rivals",
"suggests"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goodwills":{
"kindly concern, interest, or support":{
"examples":[
"the long tradition of goodwill that exists between the United States and Canada"
],
"synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"brotherhood",
"charity",
"cordiality",
"cordialness",
"fellowship",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"good-fellowship",
"kindliness",
"neighborliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonhomie",
"camaraderie",
"collegiality",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"rapprochement",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"communion",
"empathy",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tolerance",
"altruism",
"philanthropy",
"selflessness",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"intolerance",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hate",
"hatred",
"hostility",
"incivility",
"malice",
"rancor",
"belligerency",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill will",
"malevolence",
"venom"
]
},
"cheerful readiness to do something":{
"examples":[
"took on the task of coaching the soccer team with lots of zeal and goodwill"
],
"synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"amenability",
"gameness",
"obligingness",
"willingness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celerity",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"dispatch",
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"ardor",
"avidity",
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"exuberance",
"fervor",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"relish",
"zeal",
"zest",
"agreeableness",
"geniality",
"good-naturedness",
"heartiness",
"warmth",
"open-mindedness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"responsiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leisureliness",
"pokiness",
"slowness",
"sluggishness",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"halfheartedness",
"indifference",
"lukewarmness",
"perfunctoriness",
"delay",
"dilatoriness",
"doubt",
"equivocation",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"reluctance",
"reservation",
"reticence",
"uncertainty",
"vacillation",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"recalcitrance",
"resistance",
"unwillingness",
"antipathy",
"averseness",
"aversion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gownsmen":{
"as in visitors , guests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aliens",
"foreigners",
"guests",
"nonnatives",
"tourists",
"transients",
"visitors",
"noncitizens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burghers",
"citizens",
"townies",
"townsmen",
"villagers",
"townswomen",
"cliff dwellers",
"denizens",
"dwellers",
"habitants",
"inhabitants",
"nationals",
"natives",
"occupants",
"residents",
"residers",
"subjects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goofing on":{
"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"examples":[
"affectionately goofing on her little sister"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaffing",
"jiving",
"joking",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"riding",
"roasting",
"teasing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantering",
"fooling",
"funning",
"stringing along",
"jesting",
"quipping",
"wisecracking",
"gagging",
"japing",
"jollying",
"yukking",
"yucking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gobbles":{
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"crams",
"devours",
"gluts",
"gorges",
"gormandizes",
"gulps",
"ingurgitates",
"inhales",
"ravens",
"scarfs",
"scoffs",
"slops",
"wolfs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeats",
"pigs out",
"swills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbles",
"pecks",
"picks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes to pot":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"The house went to pot quickly after the owners moved out."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophies",
"crumbles",
"decays",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"devolves",
"ebbs",
"regresses",
"retrogrades",
"rots",
"sinks",
"worsens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"wanes",
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decomposes",
"degrades",
"dilapidates",
"disintegrates",
"molders",
"putrefies",
"sours",
"spoils",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"debilitates",
"undermines",
"droops",
"fails",
"falls",
"flags",
"lags",
"languishes",
"runs down",
"sags",
"slips",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"betters",
"upgrades",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"fortifies",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"strengthens",
"advances",
"develops",
"marches",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"improves",
"meliorates"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goose":{
"a person who lacks good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"don't be such a silly goose \u2014you're dressed just fine for the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"berk",
"booby",
"charlie",
"charley",
"cuckoo",
"ding-a-ling",
"ding-dong",
"dingbat",
"dipstick",
"doofus",
"featherhead",
"fool",
"git",
"half-wit",
"jackass",
"lunatic",
"mooncalf",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"turkey",
"yo-yo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daredevil",
"madman",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"dope",
"dork",
"dumbbell",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"fathead",
"gander",
"goon",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"moron",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"pinhead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schlump",
"schnook",
"stock",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"butt",
"dupe",
"laughingstock",
"mockery",
"monkey",
"chump",
"loser",
"schlemiel",
"shlemiel",
"character",
"codger",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"kook",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sage",
"thinker",
"brain",
"genius"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go back on":{
"to break a promise or agreement":{
"examples":[
"He went back on his decision to move to the west coast."
],
"synonyms":[
"back down",
"back off",
"back out",
"cop out",
"fink out",
"renege"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken (out)",
"wimp out",
"backpedal",
"backtrack",
"abjure",
"abnegate",
"disavow",
"forswear",
"foreswear",
"recall",
"recant",
"repudiate",
"retract",
"take back",
"unsay",
"withdraw",
"beg off",
"cry off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"follow through (with)",
"comply (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"honor",
"keep",
"satisfy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
"examples":[
"She went back on the group and took up with a better-funded one."
],
"synonyms":[
"defect (from)",
"desert",
"rat (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandon",
"abdicate",
"abjure",
"apostatize",
"cut off",
"disown",
"forsake",
"quit",
"reject",
"renounce",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"renege",
"depart",
"go",
"leave",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"cling (to)",
"stick (to or with)",
"cherish",
"cultivate",
"foster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"She suspected that he had gone back on her during her time away."
],
"synonyms":[
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"give away",
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"stand by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goes back on":{
"to break a promise or agreement":{
"examples":[
"He went back on his decision to move to the west coast."
],
"synonyms":[
"backs down",
"backs off",
"backs out",
"cops out",
"finks out",
"reneges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chickens (out)",
"wimps out",
"backpedals",
"backtracks",
"abjures",
"abnegates",
"disavows",
"forswears",
"foreswears",
"recalls",
"recants",
"repudiates",
"retracts",
"takes back",
"unsays",
"withdraws",
"begs off",
"cries off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adheres (to)",
"follows through (with)",
"complies (with)",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"honors",
"keeps",
"satisfies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
"examples":[
"She went back on the group and took up with a better-funded one."
],
"synonyms":[
"defects (from)",
"deserts",
"rats (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandons",
"abdicates",
"abjures",
"apostatizes",
"cuts off",
"disowns",
"forsakes",
"quits",
"rejects",
"renounces",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"reneges",
"departs",
"goes",
"leaves",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adheres (to)",
"clings (to)",
"sticks (to or with)",
"cherishes",
"cultivates",
"fosters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"She suspected that he had gone back on her during her time away."
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabs",
"betrays",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gives away",
"informs (on)",
"peaches",
"rats (on)",
"shops",
"snitches (on)",
"splits (on)",
"tells (on)",
"turns in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"saves",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[
"stands by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got with it":{
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"It's time to get with it and find yourself a better job."
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"applied",
"bent",
"buckled",
"devoted",
"gave"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reapplied",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)",
"busied",
"committed",
"concerned",
"engaged",
"involved",
"exerted",
"exhausted",
"put out",
"spent",
"strained",
"stressed",
"taxed",
"troubled",
"wore out",
"carried on",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"ground",
"humped",
"hustled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged (away)",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"idled",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got ahead":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"a recent college graduate trying to get ahead in the working world"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrived",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"succeeded",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won",
"excelled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"golden means":{
"a middle point between extremes":{
"examples":[
"when it comes to money, the golden mean is saving some income, while giving yourself a modest spending allowance"
],
"synonyms":[
"means",
"mediums",
"media",
"middle grounds",
"middles",
"midpoints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arithmetic means",
"averages",
"medians",
"norms",
"pars",
"standards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"maxima",
"maximums",
"utmosts",
"minima",
"minimums"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got one's goat":{
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"His contrarian demeanor really gets my goat ."
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"madded",
"maddened",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"steamed up",
"ticked off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronted",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"got",
"huffed",
"irritated",
"miffed",
"nettled",
"offended",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"put out",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"antagonized",
"embittered",
"envenomed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"assuaged",
"relieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"soothed",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"calmed",
"lulled",
"quieted",
"settled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"disarmed",
"enchanted"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"It really gets my goat when people invade my personal space."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"go (with)":{
"as in coordinate (with) , conform (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blend (with)",
"conform (to)",
"coordinate (with)",
"harmonize (with)",
"correspond (to)",
"equal",
"match",
"parallel",
"complement",
"supplement",
"counterbalance",
"counterpoise",
"echo",
"image",
"mirror",
"repeat",
"add up (to)",
"amount (to)",
"approach",
"come (to)",
"near",
"measure (up)",
"partake (of)",
"rival",
"suggest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes off":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"crumps",
"detonates",
"explodes",
"pops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"discharges",
"fires",
"shoots",
"balloons",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"mushrooms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fizzles"
],
"antonyms":[
"implodes"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"does",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"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 leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"don't go off without telling us where we can find you"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gooey":{
"appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way":{
"examples":[
"things get especially gooey during the scene in which the lovers are reunited at long last"
],
"synonyms":[
"chocolate-box",
"cloying",
"corny",
"drippy",
"fruity",
"lovey-dovey",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"novelettish",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"slushy",
"soppy",
"soupy",
"spoony",
"spooney",
"sticky",
"sugarcoated",
"sugary",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamy",
"misty-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"nostalgic",
"starry-eyed",
"feel-good",
"fuzzy",
"melodramatic",
"soap-operatic",
"soapy",
"sudsy",
"flat",
"insipid",
"soft-boiled",
"tasteless",
"vapid",
"watery",
"cutesy",
"twee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unadulterated",
"unvarnished",
"antisentimental",
"cynical",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-edged",
"hardheaded"
],
"antonyms":[
"unsentimental"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"got somewhere":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"After an hour of clearing the snow, it seemed like we were finally getting somewhere ."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrived",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"succeeded",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won",
"excelled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goose-stepped (to)":{
"to act according to the commands of":{
"examples":[
"the new president has everyone goose-stepping to her every whim lest they provoke her wrath"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhered (to)",
"complied (with)",
"conformed (to)",
"followed",
"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",
"took",
"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",
"broke",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"good-bys":{
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"examples":[
"said our good-byes and headed for home"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieus",
"adieux",
"au revoirs",
"aves",
"bon voyages",
"cong\u00e9s",
"congees",
"farewells",
"Godspeeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leave-takings",
"send-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greetings",
"salutations",
"salutes",
"welcomes"
],
"antonyms":[
"hellos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going on":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"doing",
"going down",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathering (on)",
"maundering",
"rambling",
"rattling",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviating",
"digressing",
"straying",
"wandering",
"sidetracking",
"blabbering",
"blabbing",
"blithering",
"bumbling",
"burbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got on one's nerves":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"That constant humming is really getting on my nerves ."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"go along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got round":{
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"word got round that a movie star was spending the night at a local motel"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"came out",
"circulated",
"got about",
"got around",
"got out",
"leaked (out)",
"outed",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"transpired",
"unfolded",
"disclosed",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed (up)",
"suppressed",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"hid",
"masked",
"secreted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"golden-agers":{
"a person of advanced years":{
"examples":[
"offered discounts and special tours for golden-agers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancients",
"elders",
"geriatrics",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaffers",
"graybeards",
"patriarchs",
"whitebeards",
"beldams",
"beldames",
"dowagers",
"grandams",
"grandames",
"adults",
"grown-ups",
"dotards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adolescents",
"minors",
"children",
"cubs",
"juveniles",
"kiddies",
"kids"
],
"antonyms":[
"youngsters",
"youths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"God's acre":{
"a piece of land used for burying the dead":{
"examples":[
"was laid in rest in God's acre , with a comforting view of the river he loved so much"
],
"synonyms":[
"boneyard",
"cemetery",
"graveyard",
"memorial park",
"necropolis",
"potter's field"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catacombs",
"churchyard",
"crypt",
"grave",
"mausoleum",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb",
"vault"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"good life":{
"a life marked by material wealth and comfort":{
"examples":[
"vowed to live the good life if he ever won the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"American dream"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dolce vita",
"la dolce vita",
"easy street"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes to one's head":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"The drink the host made for him really went to his head ."
],
"synonyms":[
"addles",
"baffles",
"bamboozles",
"beats",
"befogs",
"befuddles",
"bemuses",
"bewilders",
"buffaloes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discombobulates",
"disorients",
"flummoxes",
"foxes",
"fuddles",
"gets",
"gravels",
"mazes",
"muddies",
"muddles",
"mystifies",
"perplexes",
"poses",
"puzzles",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticks",
"stumps",
"weirds out",
"abashes",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"stuns",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"beguiles",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"humbugs",
"misguides",
"misleads",
"snows",
"strings along",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assures",
"reassures",
"satisfies",
"enlightens",
"informs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"got off (on)":{
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"he really gets off on being the person in charge of everyone else"
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"ate (up)",
"devoured",
"drank (in)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go (on)":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"do",
"go down",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"an unfortunate tendency to call those who disagree with him \"brainless goons \""
],
"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",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"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"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the crime boss threatened to send the goons after him if he squealed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"got down (to)":{
"as in got around (to) , got round (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"got around (to)",
"got round (to)",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated",
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"God-fearing":{
"as in religious , devout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devout",
"godly",
"holy",
"prayerful",
"religious",
"sainted",
"saintly",
"worshipful",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"pious",
"reverent",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemous",
"impious",
"irreverent",
"profane",
"sacrilegious",
"agnostic",
"atheistic",
"atheistical",
"godless",
"heretical",
"heretic",
"irreligious",
"miscreant",
"nonreligious",
"religionless",
"secular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gourmands":{
"a person with refined tastes in food and wine":{
"examples":[
"a finicky gourmand who vacationed in Europe every year simply for the wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"bons vivants",
"bon vivants",
"epicureans",
"epicures",
"gastronomes",
"gastronomists",
"gourmets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"foodies",
"savorers",
"oenophiles",
"turophiles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gluttons",
"gorgers",
"guzzlers",
"hogs",
"hog",
"overeaters",
"stuffers",
"swillers",
"trenchermen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who eats greedily or too much":{
"examples":[
"the kind of gourmand who swallows food without even pausing to taste it"
],
"synonyms":[
"cormorants",
"gluttons",
"gorgers",
"gormandizers",
"hogs",
"hog",
"overeaters",
"pigs",
"stuffers",
"swillers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feasters",
"trenchermen",
"munchers",
"guzzlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieters",
"nibblers",
"pickers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goose-stepped":{
"as in trudged , traipsed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"trudged",
"perambulated",
"stepped",
"traipsed",
"trod",
"treaded",
"filed",
"marched",
"paced",
"paraded",
"strode",
"hiked",
"tramped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambled",
"meandered",
"rambled",
"strolled",
"wandered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gospellers":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"Horatio Alger is remembered as the great gospeler of the American success story"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"expounders",
"friends",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Godspeeds":{
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"examples":[
"a hearty Godspeed was extended to all the departing troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieus",
"adieux",
"au revoirs",
"aves",
"bon voyages",
"cong\u00e9s",
"congees",
"farewells",
"good-byes",
"good-bys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leave-takings",
"send-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greetings",
"salutations",
"salutes",
"welcomes"
],
"antonyms":[
"hellos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gobbled":{
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"crammed",
"devoured",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"gormandized",
"gulped",
"ingurgitated",
"inhaled",
"ravened",
"scarfed",
"scoffed",
"slopped",
"wolfed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overate",
"pigged out",
"swilled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbled",
"pecked",
"picked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gone (by)":{
"as in accepted , complied (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acceded (to)",
"accepted",
"acquiesced",
"assented (to)",
"complied (with)",
"consented (to)",
"subscribed",
"agreed",
"coincided",
"concurred",
"seen eye to eye",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"united",
"collaborated",
"cooperated",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differed",
"disagreed",
"clashed",
"collided",
"conflicted",
"bickered",
"countered",
"disputed",
"dissented",
"diverged",
"fallen out",
"objected",
"opposed",
"protested",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"resisted",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"dissociated",
"separated",
"split"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"good-natured":{
"having an easygoing and pleasing manner especially in social situations":{
"examples":[
"the guests at the party were a good-natured bunch"
],
"synonyms":[
"affable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"genial",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mellow",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"well-disposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amicable",
"clever",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"neighborly",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kind",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"glad",
"sunny",
"companionable",
"conversable",
"sociable",
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"polite",
"thoughtful",
"accommodating",
"amenable",
"obliging",
"attractive",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"likable",
"likeable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boorish",
"discourteous",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"rude",
"surly",
"uncivil",
"unkind",
"unmannerly",
"unsociable",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"choleric",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"ornery",
"querulous",
"unappealing",
"unattractive",
"sour",
"vinegary"
],
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"unamiable",
"ungenial",
"ungracious",
"unpleasant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gone to bat for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"an advocate who goes to bat for the poor and marginalized"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocated",
"backed",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"patronized",
"plumped (for)",
"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
"supported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopted",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"helped",
"propped (up)",
"seconded",
"sided (with)",
"backstopped",
"bolstered",
"boosted",
"buttressed",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"advanced",
"forwarded",
"furthered",
"plugged",
"preached",
"talked up",
"bailed out",
"delivered",
"rescued",
"saved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"interfered",
"opposed",
"sabotaged",
"thwarted",
"deserted",
"disappointed",
"failed",
"let down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"governable":{
"as in manageable , tractable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"controllable",
"disciplinable",
"handleable",
"manageable",
"tame",
"teachable",
"tractable",
"trainable",
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"wild",
"dogged",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"peevish",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"balky",
"defiant",
"perverse",
"resistant",
"bad",
"disorderly",
"errant",
"misbehaving",
"mischievous",
"naughty",
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gotten":{
"to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in":{
"examples":[
"I'm not sure I ever got the new math"
],
"synonyms":[
"learned",
"mastered",
"picked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"grasped",
"knew",
"understood",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)",
"imbibed",
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discerned",
"discovered",
"dug up",
"examined",
"found out",
"heard",
"hit (on or upon)",
"ran down",
"saw",
"scared up",
"searched (for)",
"tracked (down)",
"tumbled (to)",
"unearthed",
"majored (in)",
"studied",
"memorized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgot",
"misunderstood",
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[
"unlearned"
]
},
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"don't cough on me\u2014I don't want to get your cold"
],
"synonyms":[
"came down (with)",
"caught",
"contracted",
"sickened (with)",
"took",
"went down (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)",
"failed",
"languished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered",
"worsened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shook (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Abraham was quite old when he got Isaac, his only son"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"sired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiplied",
"procreated",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"produced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests":{
"examples":[
"tried to get the mayor to let us stage the concert in the town square, but she refused"
],
"synonyms":[
"argued",
"brought",
"brought around",
"converted",
"convinced",
"gained",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandished",
"blarneyed",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"entreated",
"exhorted",
"fast-talked",
"urged",
"wheedled",
"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":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"redid the math problem until I got the right answer"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"learned",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"rooted (out)",
"routed (out)",
"rummaged",
"scared up",
"scouted (up)",
"tracked (down)",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espied",
"sighted",
"spotted",
"looked for",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"misset",
"mis-set"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"passed over"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"continuously clearing your throat like that is starting to get to me"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
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"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
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"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"it's going to get colder as winter approaches"
],
"synonyms":[
"became",
"came",
"grew",
"ran",
"run",
"turned",
"waxed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"metamorphosed",
"modified",
"mutated",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"continued",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed",
"was"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"got an A on his final paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquired",
"attained",
"bagged",
"brought in",
"came by",
"captured",
"carried",
"drew",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"knocked down",
"landed",
"made",
"obtained",
"procured",
"pulled down",
"realized",
"reaped",
"secured",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleared",
"grossed",
"netted",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"notched (up)",
"scored",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"racked up",
"caught",
"picked up",
"annexed",
"occupied",
"took over",
"reacquired",
"reattained",
"recaptured",
"regained",
"remade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accorded",
"gave",
"granted",
"paid",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"parted (with)",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeited",
"lost"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"she was speaking so fast\u2014did you get what she said?"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
"caught on (to)",
"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"knew",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"saw",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"the defense tackled the running back and got the ball"
],
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"bagged",
"captured",
"caught",
"collared",
"copped",
"corralled",
"glommed",
"grabbed",
"grappled",
"hooked",
"landed",
"nabbed",
"nailed",
"netted",
"nobbled",
"rapped",
"seized",
"snagged",
"snapped (up)",
"snared",
"snatched",
"trapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gloved",
"haltered",
"lassoed",
"roped",
"apprehended",
"arrested",
"detained",
"bayed",
"cornered",
"clasped",
"clutched",
"fastened (on)",
"fisted",
"grasped",
"gripped",
"held",
"latched (on or onto)",
"secured",
"rent",
"rended",
"wrested",
"enmeshed",
"immeshed",
"ensnared",
"entangled",
"entrapped",
"meshed",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"spirited (away or off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharged",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"dropped",
"loosened",
"unhanded"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will get away to the Bahamas for a vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"you may have won this game, but I'll get you next time"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"did down",
"dispatched",
"got around",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"skunked",
"stopped",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"took",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"upended",
"won (against)",
"worsted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"blew out",
"bombed",
"broke",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"crushed",
"drubbed",
"finished",
"flattened",
"overwhelmed",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"slaughtered",
"smoked",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trounced",
"upset",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"subjugated",
"unseated",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fell",
"gave up",
"went down",
"went under",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out"
],
"antonyms":[
"lost (to)"
]
},
"to transmit information or requests to":{
"examples":[
"I've been trying all day, but I can't get either of them in order to ask the question"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"communicated (with)",
"contacted",
"reached"
],
"near synonyms":[
"got through (to)",
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"clued",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"informed",
"instructed",
"notified",
"told",
"wised (up)",
"buzzed",
"called",
"phoned",
"rang (up)",
"telephoned",
"kept up (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"\"I'll get you if you talk to the cops,\" the loan shark warned"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"bumped off",
"croaked",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"liquidated",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"slew",
"snuffed",
"terminated",
"took out",
"whacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew away",
"shot",
"shot down",
"blotted out",
"carried off",
"claimed",
"cut down",
"destroyed",
"felled",
"killed",
"smote",
"zapped",
"butchered",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"slaughtered",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"what gets me is why she would do such a weird thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the descendants of a person, animal, or plant":{
"examples":[
"in some animal species, a new mate will refuse to raise another male's get"
],
"synonyms":[
"fruit",
"issue",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"spawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brood",
"hatch",
"litter",
"young",
"child",
"scion",
"family",
"kin",
"lineage",
"stock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancestor",
"antecedent",
"father",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"parent",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gods":{
"a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world":{
"examples":[
"in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods"
],
"synonyms":[
"deities",
"divinities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"demigods",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"spirits",
"supernaturals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion":{
"examples":[
"in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema"
],
"synonyms":[
"heroes",
"icons",
"ikons",
"idols"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beau ideals",
"classics",
"exemplars",
"ideals",
"models",
"nonpareils",
"paragons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gossipmongers":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"the upcoming nuptials between the sixtyish businessman and the twentysomething have sent the gossipmongers into overdrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulators",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"newsmongers",
"quidnuncs",
"talebearers",
"tale-tellers",
"telltales",
"yentas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayers",
"blabbermouths",
"informants",
"informers",
"snitchers",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"libelers",
"scandalmongers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"got (to)":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"Sorry I've been cranky, but the humidity's been really getting to me."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"I'll get to the laundry when I finish unpacking."
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response":{
"examples":[
"I think your criticisms really got to him."
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"impacted",
"impressed",
"influenced",
"moved",
"reached",
"struck",
"swayed",
"told (on)",
"touched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried away",
"dazzled",
"enraptured",
"enthralled",
"entranced",
"ravished",
"transported",
"biased",
"biassed",
"colored",
"inspired",
"stirred",
"engaged",
"interested",
"involved",
"penetrated",
"pierced",
"afflicted",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"harassed",
"harried",
"perturbed",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"smote",
"strained",
"stressed",
"tried",
"troubled",
"upset",
"worried",
"wrung",
"allured",
"attracted",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied",
"underwhelmed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gone off":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"specialists were able to deactivate the bomb before it went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blown",
"blown up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"crumped",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"popped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"discharged",
"fired",
"shot",
"ballooned",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"mushroomed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"fizzled"
],
"antonyms":[
"imploded"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"the wedding went off without so much as a single glitch"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"come",
"come along",
"done",
"fared",
"forged",
"gone",
"gone along",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"repaired",
"run",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"driven",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"taken 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 leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"don't go off without telling us where we can find you"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"gone",
"got",
"gotten",
"got off",
"gotten off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"run along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"taken off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flown",
"got out",
"gotten out",
"mizzled",
"run away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"gone out",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsaken",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrawn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"come",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got about":{
"to become known":{
"examples":[
"it got about that the company was having financial difficulties"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"came out",
"circulated",
"got around",
"got out",
"got round",
"leaked (out)",
"outed",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"transpired",
"unfolded",
"disclosed",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed (up)",
"suppressed",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"hid",
"masked",
"secreted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got going":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"She'd procrastinated long enough and it was time to get going ."
],
"synonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gospeler":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"Horatio Alger is remembered as the great gospeler of the American success story"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go one better":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"The two siblings were always trying to go one better than the other."
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outclass",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outgun",
"outmatch",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"tower (over)",
"transcend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-up",
"outpace",
"outrace",
"outrun",
"overpass",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"outcompete",
"outperform",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"shame",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"outbalance",
"outweigh",
"overbear",
"overshadow",
"trump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gobbling":{
"as in devouring , gulping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devouring",
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"hearty",
"wolfish",
"insatiable",
"unquenchable",
"unslakable",
"edacious",
"esurient",
"gluttonous",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"piggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"swinish",
"voracious",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished"
],
"near antonyms":[
"content",
"full",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"stuffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"cramming",
"devouring",
"glutting",
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"ingurgitating",
"inhaling",
"ravening",
"scarfing",
"scoffing",
"slopping",
"wolfing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeating",
"pigging out",
"swilling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbling",
"pecking",
"picking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"goes at":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He went at his opponent with such fervor, the fight was practically over before it began."
],
"synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"She went at that project with such enthusiasm, you could tell it was a labor of love."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacks",
"dives (into)",
"tackles",
"wades (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addresses",
"approaches",
"faces",
"buckles (down to)",
"concentrates (on)",
"focuses (on)",
"focusses (on)",
"knuckles down (to)",
"zeroes (in on)",
"falls (to)",
"pitches in",
"plunges (in)",
"settles (down)",
"pursues",
"takes up",
"undertakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"evades",
"shuns",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"idles",
"lags",
"messes",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"pokes",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gotten through":{
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"we had trouble getting through because of the heavy snowfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"appear",
"arrive",
"come",
"get in",
"land",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetch",
"hit",
"make",
"reach",
"pull in",
"touch down",
"debark",
"disembark",
"barge (in)",
"blow in",
"breeze (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"waltz (in)",
"check in",
"clock (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"check out",
"clock (out)",
"flee",
"vamoose"
],
"antonyms":[
"go",
"leave"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"govern":{
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls"
],
"synonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"command",
"control",
"preside (over)",
"rule",
"sway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduct",
"direct",
"head",
"lead",
"administer",
"manage",
"micromanage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"dictate",
"dominate",
"domineer",
"lord (it over)",
"master",
"oppress",
"reign (over)",
"tyrannize",
"conquer",
"subdue",
"subjugate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"keep",
"measure",
"pull in",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"rule",
"tame"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"mince",
"muffle",
"pocket",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"arrest",
"interrupt",
"stop",
"block",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unleash",
"air",
"express",
"take out",
"vent"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"administer",
"administrate",
"carry on",
"conduct",
"control",
"direct",
"guide",
"handle",
"keep",
"manage",
"operate",
"overlook",
"oversee",
"preside (over)",
"regulate",
"run",
"steward",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"tend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"care (for)",
"mind",
"watch",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"micromanage",
"stage-manage",
"codirect",
"comanage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go-slows":{
"as in sit-ins , slowdowns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"job actions",
"sick-outs",
"sit-downs",
"sit-ins",
"slowdowns",
"sympathetic strikes",
"sympathy strikes",
"lockouts",
"strikes",
"walkouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes in (on)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman"
],
"synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"governessy":{
"as in prim , prudish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goody-goody",
"overmodest",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"flirtatious",
"flirty",
"girlish",
"coquettish",
"coy",
"demure",
"kittenish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"goofing (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"we've been goofing around long enough; it's time to get some real work done"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodling",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"hanging about",
"kicking around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"clowning (around)",
"horsing around",
"diddling (with)",
"tinkering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckling (down)",
"knuckling down",
"setting (to)",
"settling (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gobs":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"has gobs of money"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gold mine":{
"an abundant source":{
"examples":[
"the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers"
],
"synonyms":[
"argosy",
"cornucopia",
"mine",
"mother lode",
"treasure trove",
"wellspring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armory",
"repository",
"stockpot",
"store",
"storehouse",
"treasure-house",
"cache",
"hoard",
"stash",
"bonanza",
"Golconda",
"gravy train",
"honeypot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black hole",
"sinkhole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes ballistic":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The partners went ballistic when they lost the business deal of a lifetime."
],
"synonyms":[
"blows up",
"flares (up)",
"flips (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angers",
"fulminates",
"rages",
"rants",
"raves",
"snaps",
"snarls",
"sputters",
"storms",
"tees off",
"vents",
"vituperates",
"bristles",
"burns",
"foams",
"fumes",
"glares",
"glowers",
"seethes",
"sizzles",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"steams",
"warms",
"bursts",
"explodes",
"flares (out)",
"flashes",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"maddens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chills out",
"cools (off or down)",
"relaxes",
"hushes",
"quiets (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"simmers down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goofing (up)":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"we must have goofed up somewhere, because this cake clearly didn't turn out right"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"boobing",
"erring",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"lousing up",
"messing (up)",
"screwing up",
"slipping up",
"stumbling",
"tripping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodding",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"foozling",
"mangling",
"mishandling",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"miscalculating",
"misconceiving",
"miscounting",
"miscuing",
"misdeeming",
"misgauging",
"misgaging",
"misjudging",
"mistaking",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"he goofed up his first sale at the dealership"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gotten on":{
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"examples":[
"despite his new job's low pay, he was still getting on"
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"find out how the marketing department is getting on with the new ad campaign"
],
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"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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 come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"by the time the CIA got on to the terrorist plot, it was already in progress"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"hear",
"learn",
"realize",
"see",
"wise (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"descry",
"detect",
"encounter",
"espy",
"spot",
"calculate",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"find",
"puzzle (out)",
"discern",
"mind",
"note",
"observe",
"perceive",
"divine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"forget",
"unlearn",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"occult",
"screen",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"going":{
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"examples":[
"what's the going price for a good used washing machine?"
],
"synonyms":[
"conventional",
"current",
"customary",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"standard",
"stock",
"usual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"everyday",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"regular",
"routine",
"epidemic",
"ubiquitous",
"universal",
"widespread",
"accustomed",
"wonted",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"stylish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"uncommon"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonstandard",
"unconventional",
"unpopular",
"unusual"
]
},
"being in effective operation":{
"examples":[
"he just can't keep his small bookstore going"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"live",
"living",
"on",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"employable",
"operable",
"usable",
"useable",
"viable",
"workable",
"performing",
"producing",
"productive",
"serving",
"useful",
"yielding",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"flourishing",
"humming",
"roaring",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deactivated",
"decommissioned",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"useless",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"arrested",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"idle",
"inert",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"nonproductive",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"stagnating",
"unproductive",
"vegetating"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"dead",
"inactive",
"inoperative",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"nonactivated",
"nonfunctional",
"nonfunctioning",
"nonoperating",
"nonoperational",
"nonoperative"
]
},
"having attained a desired end or state of good fortune":{
"examples":[
"our continued partnership with them is a going concern"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourishing",
"palmy",
"prosperous",
"successful",
"thriving",
"triumphant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coming",
"promising",
"booming",
"growing",
"roaring",
"robust",
"boffo",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"runaway",
"socko"
],
"near antonyms":[
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"no-good",
"unpromising",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing-out",
"declining",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"bankrupt",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"kerflooey",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"forward movement in time or place":{
"examples":[
"tried to get down the hill quickly, but it was slow going with an injured foot"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"advancement",
"furtherance",
"headway",
"march",
"onrush",
"passage",
"process",
"procession",
"progress",
"progression"
],
"near synonyms":[
"current",
"drift",
"flow",
"flux",
"stream",
"way",
"advent",
"approach",
"arrival",
"coming",
"nearing",
"bound",
"jump",
"leap",
"step",
"stride",
"impetus",
"momentum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwash",
"ebb",
"reflux",
"retraction",
"return",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"about-face",
"turnabout",
"turnaround"
],
"antonyms":[
"recess",
"recession",
"regress",
"regression",
"retreat",
"retrogression"
]
},
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"was so absorbed in her TV show she didn't notice his comings or goings"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"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"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything is going according to our plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going along",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will go on vacation at the end of the year",
"decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitting",
"beseeming",
"doing",
"fitting",
"serving",
"suiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfying",
"sufficing",
"functioning",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said"
],
"synonyms":[
"according",
"agreeing",
"answering",
"checking",
"chording",
"cohering",
"coinciding",
"comporting",
"conforming",
"consisting",
"corresponding",
"dovetailing",
"fitting",
"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 be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the highway goes right along the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"extending",
"heading",
"leading",
"lying",
"running"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossing",
"cutting",
"passing",
"coursing",
"following",
"spanning",
"traversing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop",
"the room went dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"becoming",
"coming",
"getting",
"growing",
"running",
"turning",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"metamorphosing",
"modifying",
"mutating",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"being",
"continuing",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckling",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"foundering",
"giving",
"going out",
"imploding",
"tumbling",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflating",
"flattening",
"melting",
"melting down",
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out",
"stalling",
"bursting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crumbling",
"popping",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflating",
"rising",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"these plates go in this cabinet"
],
"synonyms":[
"belonging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"placing",
"staying",
"fitting (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"when you get old, your eyesight starts to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"decaying",
"drooping",
"emaciating",
"fading",
"failing",
"flagging",
"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 make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursing",
"covering",
"crossing",
"cutting (across)",
"following",
"navigating",
"passing (over)",
"perambulating",
"peregrinating",
"proceeding (along)",
"tracking",
"transiting",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"traversing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiking",
"traipsing",
"tramping",
"treading",
"walking",
"riding",
"running",
"crisscrossing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million"
],
"synonyms":[
"ranging",
"running",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternating",
"fluctuating",
"moving",
"shifting",
"changing",
"mutating",
"extending",
"reaching",
"stretching",
"sweeping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round"
],
"synonyms":[
"betting",
"gambling",
"laying",
"playing",
"putting",
"staking",
"wagering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bidding",
"offering",
"adventuring",
"chancing",
"hazarding",
"speculating",
"venturing",
"endangering",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I didn't go to fire the gun\u2014it just went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"allowing",
"aspiring",
"calculating",
"contemplating",
"designing",
"intending",
"looking",
"meaning",
"meditating",
"planning",
"proposing",
"purporting",
"purposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreaming",
"hoping",
"wishing",
"considering",
"debating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"striving",
"struggling",
"trying",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"executing",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"dead-ending",
"determining",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"elapsing",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"halting",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"letting up",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"winking (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisting (from)",
"laying off (of)",
"refraining (from)",
"giving over",
"knocking off",
"packing (up or in)",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"cutting out",
"stalling",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abating",
"petering (out)",
"winding down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drawing out",
"extending",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"hanging on",
"persisting"
]
},
"to have enough money for":{
"examples":[
"I think I can go for the new car after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covering",
"expending",
"financing",
"outlaying",
"paying (for)",
"ponying up",
"springing (for)",
"picking up",
"purchasing",
"taking",
"acquiring",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"bidding",
"offering",
"bankrolling",
"endowing",
"subsidizing",
"underwriting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"absorbing",
"accepting",
"bearing",
"biding",
"brooking",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"hacking",
"handling",
"meeting",
"pocketing",
"standing",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"sweating out",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"wearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowing",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"swallowing",
"reconciling (to)",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing (with or to)",
"assenting (to)",
"capitulating",
"consenting (to)",
"respecting",
"submitting (to)",
"yielding (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"dodging",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"missing",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"her grandmother went peacefully last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"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"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go , but it never really worked out"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going over",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"got back (at)":{
"as in retaliated , avenged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"avenged",
"retaliated",
"revenged",
"gave back",
"refunded",
"reimbursed",
"restituted",
"compensated",
"indemnified",
"paid",
"recouped",
"remunerated",
"satisfied",
"exchanged",
"reciprocated",
"recompensed",
"repaid",
"requited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"owed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"good-heartedness":{
"sympathetic concern for the well-being of others":{
"examples":[
"the woman's inherent good-heartedness impelled her to share the little food she had"
],
"synonyms":[
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"compassionateness",
"humaneness",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"softheartedness",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentiveness",
"considerateness",
"thoughtfulness",
"affability",
"friendliness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"warmth",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"charitableness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"greatheartedness",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"inconsiderateness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"grimness",
"harshness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"toughness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"spitefulness",
"virulence",
"vitriol"
],
"antonyms":[
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"bestiality",
"brutality",
"brutishness",
"callousness",
"cold-bloodedness",
"cruelty",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"unfeelingness",
"unkindliness",
"unkindness"
]
},
"the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"thanks to the good-heartedness of its dedicated volunteers, the soup kitchen has never been understaffed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"charity",
"commiseration",
"compassion",
"feeling",
"heart",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"largeheartedness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"ruth",
"softheartedness",
"sympathy",
"warmheartedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feelings",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitivity",
"affection",
"love",
"regard",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"altruism",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"generosity",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callousness",
"coldness",
"disinterest",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"cruelty",
"harshness",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"dislike",
"hatred",
"hostility"
],
"antonyms":[
"coldheartedness",
"hard-heartedness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"golden age":{
"a period of high artistic or cultural development":{
"examples":[
"a memoir of her days as an actress in the golden age of Hollywood"
],
"synonyms":[
"belle epoque",
"belle \u00e9poque",
"renaissance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"silver age",
"millennium",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flower",
"flush",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"salad days",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dark age"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Goody Two-shoes":{
"as in stick-in-the-mud , old maid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddy",
"goody-goody",
"old maid",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"drag",
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket",
"complainer",
"crab",
"cynic",
"grouch",
"grump",
"sorehead",
"sourpuss",
"whiner",
"bore",
"downer",
"drip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutup",
"jester",
"live wire",
"carouser",
"celebrant",
"celebrator",
"merrymaker",
"rejoicer",
"reveler",
"reveller",
"roisterer",
"libertine",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"rake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gong":{
"as in ding , clang":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chink",
"clang",
"clank",
"clash",
"clink",
"ding",
"ding-dong",
"jangle",
"jingle",
"ping",
"plink",
"plunk",
"plonk",
"tang",
"tingle",
"tinkle",
"bong",
"chime",
"knell",
"peal",
"ring",
"toll",
"echo",
"resonate",
"resound",
"reverberate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gotten in":{
"to get to a destination":{
"examples":[
"it will be late when you get in , so you may have trouble finding a taxi"
],
"synonyms":[
"appear",
"arrive",
"come",
"get through",
"land",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fetch",
"hit",
"make",
"reach",
"pull in",
"touch down",
"debark",
"disembark",
"barge (in)",
"blow in",
"breeze (in)",
"burst (in or into)",
"waltz (in)",
"check in",
"clock (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"check out",
"clock (out)",
"flee",
"vamoose"
],
"antonyms":[
"go",
"leave"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes on":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"does",
"goes down",
"happens",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathers (on)",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles",
"runs on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"sidetracks",
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"burbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got around (to)":{
"as in got down (to) , got round (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"fell (to)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated",
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gone (to)":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager"
],
"synonyms":[
"consulted",
"referred (to)",
"resorted (to)",
"turned (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"depended (on)",
"relied (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goaded":{
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"tried to goad me into auditioning for the play"
],
"synonyms":[
"egged (on)",
"encouraged",
"exhorted",
"nudged",
"pressed",
"prodded",
"prompted",
"urged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drove",
"propelled",
"spurred",
"stimulated",
"hurried",
"hustled",
"pushed",
"rushed",
"adjured",
"beseeched",
"besought",
"implored",
"importuned",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"soft-soaped",
"wheedled",
"high-pressured",
"nagged",
"needled",
"pressured",
"fomented",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"stirred (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"braked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"held back",
"inhibited",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"goading the horse forward into the stall"
],
"synonyms":[
"dug",
"prodded",
"spurred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chucked",
"jabbed",
"jogged",
"knocked",
"nudged",
"poked",
"bored",
"drilled",
"perforated",
"pierced",
"pricked",
"punched",
"punctured",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"drove",
"haled",
"propelled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go at":{
"a person or thing taking the blame for others":{
"examples":[
"an unhappy childhood was the goat he used to rationalize every failure and shortcoming"
],
"synonyms":[
"fall guy",
"scapegoat",
"whipping boy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"victim",
"butt",
"dupe",
"fool",
"laughingstock",
"mark",
"mockery",
"monkey",
"excuse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He went at his opponent with such fervor, the fight was practically over before it began."
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"She went at that project with such enthusiasm, you could tell it was a labor of love."
],
"synonyms":[
"attack",
"dive (into)",
"tackle",
"wade (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"address",
"approach",
"face",
"buckle (down to)",
"concentrate (on)",
"focus (on)",
"knuckle down (to)",
"zero (in on)",
"fall (to)",
"pitch in",
"plunge (in)",
"settle (down)",
"pursue",
"take up",
"undertake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"evade",
"shun",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"idle",
"lag",
"mess",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"poke",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"phrase"
]
},
"goes like clockwork":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"Once we figured out what to do, the job went like clockwork ."
],
"synonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches on",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"cooks",
"percolates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishes",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"craters",
"crumbles",
"flames out",
"chokes",
"cracks up",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"falls down",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"goggled":{
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"goggled at the elaborate costumes and floats in the Mardi Gras parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gawped",
"gazed",
"peered",
"rubbernecked",
"stared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glared",
"gloated",
"glowered",
"considered",
"eyed",
"fixated",
"observed",
"regarded",
"watched",
"leered",
"ogled",
"perused",
"pored (over)",
"studied",
"outfaced",
"outstared",
"stared down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glanced",
"glimpsed",
"peeked",
"peeped",
"browsed",
"dipped (into)",
"scanned",
"winked (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"god-awful":{
"as in horrid , awful":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"beastly",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"ghastly",
"gnarly",
"gross",
"hateful",
"hellish",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"invidious",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"odious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"revulsive",
"scandalous",
"seamy",
"shocking",
"sick",
"sickening",
"ugly",
"unholy",
"vile",
"villainous",
"bad",
"bitter",
"disagreeable",
"displeasing",
"distasteful",
"harsh",
"icky",
"nasty",
"rotten",
"sour",
"uncongenial",
"unlovely",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unpleasing",
"unsavory",
"unwelcome",
"wicked",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"galling",
"irritating",
"vexing",
"crappy",
"cruddy",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"sucky",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"congenial",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"dreamy",
"felicitous",
"amiable",
"charming",
"cheery",
"friendly",
"jolly",
"kindly",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gorger":{
"one who eats greedily or too much":{
"examples":[
"a shark that is such a gorger it can't move after devouring a meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"cormorant",
"glutton",
"gormandizer",
"gourmand",
"hog",
"overeater",
"pig",
"stuffer",
"swiller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feaster",
"trencherman",
"muncher",
"guzzler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieter",
"nibbler",
"picker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes (by)":{
"as in accepts , complies (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accedes (to)",
"accepts",
"acquiesces",
"assents (to)",
"complies (with)",
"consents (to)",
"subscribes",
"agrees",
"coincides",
"concurs",
"affiliates",
"allies",
"associates",
"unites",
"collaborates",
"cooperates",
"gets along",
"gets on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differs",
"disagrees",
"clashes",
"collides",
"conflicts",
"bickers",
"counters",
"disputes",
"dissents",
"diverges",
"falls out",
"objects",
"opposes",
"protests",
"quarrels",
"resists",
"rivals",
"dissociates",
"separates",
"splits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gobbling (up)":{
"as in devouring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devouring",
"browsing",
"dipping (into)",
"leafing (through)",
"scanning",
"skimming",
"speed-reading",
"thumbing (through)",
"turning over",
"slogging (through)",
"wading (through)",
"perusing",
"poring (over)",
"reading",
"rereading",
"proofreading",
"deciphering",
"reviewing",
"studying",
"apprehending",
"comprehending",
"getting",
"grasping",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"seeing",
"tumbling (to)",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"goes in for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He always goes in for the underdog."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"seconds",
"sides (with)",
"backstops",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advances",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"plugs",
"preaches",
"talks up",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"I don't usually go in for that type of ideology."
],
"synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"favors",
"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"
],
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"phrase"
]
},
"governance":{
"lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)":{
"examples":[
"after World War II, the four Allied nations shared the governance of the territory of postwar Germany under the Allied Control Council"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"authority",
"government",
"jurisdiction",
"regime",
"r\u00e9gime",
"regimen",
"rule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reign",
"dominion",
"power",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"sway",
"command",
"leadership",
"direction",
"management",
"regulation",
"superintendence",
"supervision",
"autocracy",
"dictatorship",
"domination",
"hegemony",
"mastery",
"oppression",
"subjugation",
"tyranny"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something":{
"examples":[
"while a financial advisor can be helpful, the governance of your family finances ultimately rests with you"
],
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"administration",
"care",
"charge",
"conduct",
"control",
"direction",
"government",
"guidance",
"handling",
"intendance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"presidency",
"regulation",
"running",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generalship",
"leadership",
"rulership",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Gordian knot":{
"as in crux , sticky wicket":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crux",
"sticky wicket",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"corner",
"fix",
"hole",
"hot water",
"jam",
"mire",
"pickle",
"predicament",
"quagmire",
"spot",
"catch-22",
"dilemma",
"quandary",
"issue",
"question",
"catch",
"glitch",
"hitch",
"pitfall",
"snag",
"case",
"challenge",
"knot",
"matter",
"nut",
"problem",
"trouble",
"conundrum",
"enigma",
"mystery",
"puzzle",
"puzzlement",
"riddle",
"brainteaser",
"poser",
"stumper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answer",
"solution",
"magic bullet",
"silver bullet",
"cure-all",
"panacea"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"good-humoredness":{
"as in humor , good-naturedness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"frivolity",
"levity",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gotten (away)":{
"as in escape , get off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"escape",
"get off",
"holiday",
"vacation",
"break",
"recess",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"bum",
"goldbrick",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"slack (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement":{
"examples":[
"the bank robbers jumped into the waiting car and made their getaway"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"breakout",
"bunk",
"escape",
"flight",
"lam",
"rout",
"slip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jailbreak",
"deliverance",
"liberation",
"redemption",
"release",
"rescue",
"salvation",
"close call",
"close shave",
"near miss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"custody",
"detention",
"hold",
"holding",
"retention",
"endangerment",
"hazard",
"imperilment",
"jeopardy",
"peril",
"risk",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"goes (away)":{
"as in disappears , clears":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clears",
"disappears",
"evanesces",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"flees",
"melts",
"branches (out)",
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"diverges",
"divides",
"forks",
"separates",
"spills",
"disassembles",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"dissolves",
"scatters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"congregates",
"gathers",
"meets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"governing":{
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bossing",
"captaining",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"presiding (over)",
"ruling",
"swaying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducting",
"directing",
"heading",
"leading",
"administering",
"managing",
"micromanaging",
"overseeing",
"regulating",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"dictating",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"lording (it over)",
"mastering",
"oppressing",
"reigning (over)",
"tyrannizing",
"conquering",
"subduing",
"subjugating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
"keeping",
"measuring",
"pulling in",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"ruling",
"taming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottling (up)",
"choking (back)",
"holding back",
"mincing",
"muffling",
"pocketing",
"repressing",
"sinking",
"smothering",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suppressing",
"swallowing",
"arresting",
"interrupting",
"stopping",
"blocking",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unleashing",
"airing",
"expressing",
"taking out",
"venting"
],
"antonyms":[
"losing"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"administering",
"administrating",
"carrying on",
"conducting",
"controlling",
"directing",
"guiding",
"handling",
"keeping",
"managing",
"operating",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"presiding (over)",
"regulating",
"running",
"stewarding",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"minding",
"watching",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"micromanaging",
"stage-managing",
"codirecting",
"co-directing",
"comanaging",
"co-managing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"good-byes":{
"an expression of good wishes at parting":{
"examples":[
"said our good-byes and headed for home"
],
"synonyms":[
"adieus",
"adieux",
"au revoirs",
"aves",
"bon voyages",
"cong\u00e9s",
"congees",
"farewells",
"Godspeeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leave-takings",
"send-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greetings",
"salutations",
"salutes",
"welcomes"
],
"antonyms":[
"hellos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gorgers":{
"one who eats greedily or too much":{
"examples":[
"a shark that is such a gorger it can't move after devouring a meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"cormorants",
"gluttons",
"gormandizers",
"gourmands",
"hogs",
"hog",
"overeaters",
"pigs",
"stuffers",
"swillers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feasters",
"trenchermen",
"munchers",
"guzzlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieters",
"nibblers",
"pickers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gossips":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"because her friend was such a compulsive gossip , she couldn't help but wonder if her private life wasn't also being made the talk of the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulators",
"gossipers",
"gossipmongers",
"newsmongers",
"quidnuncs",
"talebearers",
"tale-tellers",
"telltales",
"yentas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayers",
"blabbermouths",
"informants",
"informers",
"snitchers",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"libelers",
"scandalmongers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature":{
"examples":[
"a neighbor who loves to gossip with others about that couple's loud arguments"
],
"synonyms":[
"blabs",
"dishes",
"talks",
"tattles",
"wags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandies (about)",
"circulates",
"noises (about or abroad)",
"rumors",
"blabbers",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"reveals",
"tells",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"lets on",
"suggests",
"informs",
"reports",
"snitches",
"squeals",
"tips (off)",
"babbles",
"spills",
"confides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clams up",
"shuts up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gowned":{
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"a Renaissance portrait of a queen gowned in exotic silks and satins"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked (out)",
"did up",
"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"got up",
"habited",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"robed",
"suited",
"togged (up or out)",
"toileted",
"vestured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaked",
"frocked",
"jacketed",
"mantled",
"vested",
"draped",
"enswathed",
"happed",
"huddled",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"bedighted",
"bedight",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"habilitated",
"outfitted",
"tailored",
"uniformed",
"dressed down",
"underdressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuded",
"divested",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarrayed",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"untrussed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gorgons":{
"as in fishwifes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fishwifes",
"fishwives",
"battle-axes",
"dragon ladies",
"furies",
"harpies",
"harridans",
"shrews",
"termagants",
"viragoes",
"viragos",
"vixens",
"carpers",
"castigators",
"cavilers",
"cavillers",
"censurers",
"critics",
"faultfinders",
"nitpickers",
"railers",
"scolds",
"belittlers",
"deriders",
"detractors",
"pettifoggers",
"quibblers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gone in (on)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"stricken",
"trashed",
"turned (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overrun",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"good-tempered":{
"having an easygoing and pleasing manner especially in social situations":{
"examples":[
"her children were good-tempered and well-behaved in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"affable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"mellow",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"well-disposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amicable",
"clever",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"neighborly",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kind",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"glad",
"sunny",
"companionable",
"conversable",
"sociable",
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"polite",
"thoughtful",
"accommodating",
"amenable",
"obliging",
"attractive",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"likable",
"likeable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boorish",
"discourteous",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"rude",
"surly",
"uncivil",
"unkind",
"unmannerly",
"unsociable",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"choleric",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"ornery",
"querulous",
"unappealing",
"unattractive",
"sour",
"vinegary"
],
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"unamiable",
"ungenial",
"ungracious",
"unpleasant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"godforsaken":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"grew up in the kind of godforsaken town in which everyone drank in order to forget that they were there"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"governess":{
"as in mademoiselle , fraulein":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duenna",
"fraulein",
"mademoiselle",
"mammy",
"au pair",
"bonne",
"amah",
"ayah",
"babysitter",
"dry nurse",
"nanny",
"nannie",
"nurse",
"nursemaid",
"nurser",
"sitter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in homeschooler":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"homeschooler",
"academe",
"academic",
"academician",
"didact",
"pedant",
"intern",
"interne",
"practice teacher",
"reader",
"student teacher",
"dean",
"docent",
"doctor",
"don",
"prof",
"professor",
"regius professor",
"catechist",
"lecturer",
"moralizer",
"preacher",
"drillmaster",
"inculcator",
"mentor",
"tutor",
"tutoress",
"coach",
"guide",
"guru",
"preparer",
"trainer",
"headmistress",
"instructress",
"mistress",
"schoolmarm",
"schoolma'am",
"schoolmistress",
"headmaster",
"master",
"rector",
"schoolmaster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"goes":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything is going according to our plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"does",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"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 leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will go on vacation at the end of the year",
"decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes"
],
"synonyms":[
"befits",
"beseems",
"does",
"fits",
"serves",
"suits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfies",
"suffices",
"functions",
"works"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said"
],
"synonyms":[
"accords",
"agrees",
"answers",
"checks",
"chords",
"coheres",
"coincides",
"comports",
"conforms",
"consists",
"corresponds",
"dovetails",
"fits",
"harmonizes",
"jibes",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"sorts",
"squares",
"tallies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels",
"aligns",
"alines",
"lines up",
"registers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"clashes",
"conflicts",
"jars"
],
"antonyms":[
"differs (from)",
"disagrees (with)"
]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the highway goes right along the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"extends",
"heads",
"leads",
"lies",
"runs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"cuts",
"passes",
"courses",
"follows",
"spans",
"traverses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop",
"the room went dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"becomes",
"comes",
"gets",
"grows",
"runs",
"turns",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alters",
"changes",
"metamorphoses",
"modifies",
"mutates",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"continues",
"is",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckles",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"crumples",
"founders",
"gives",
"goes out",
"implodes",
"tumbles",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflates",
"flattens",
"melts",
"melts down",
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"dies",
"fails",
"gives out",
"stalls",
"bursts",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crumbles",
"pops",
"snaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflates",
"rises",
"swells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"these plates go in this cabinet"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"places",
"stays",
"fits (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"when you get old, your eyesight starts to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"decays",
"droops",
"emaciates",
"fades",
"fails",
"flags",
"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 make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"covers",
"crosses",
"cuts (across)",
"follows",
"navigates",
"passes (over)",
"perambulates",
"peregrinates",
"proceeds (along)",
"tracks",
"transits",
"travels",
"traverses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hikes",
"traipses",
"tramps",
"treads",
"walks",
"rides",
"runs",
"crisscrosses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million"
],
"synonyms":[
"ranges",
"runs",
"varies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternates",
"fluctuates",
"moves",
"shifts",
"changes",
"mutates",
"extends",
"reaches",
"stretches",
"sweeps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"gambles",
"lays",
"plays",
"puts",
"stakes",
"wagers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bids",
"offers",
"adventures",
"chances",
"hazards",
"speculates",
"ventures",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I didn't go to fire the gun\u2014it just went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"allows",
"aspires",
"calculates",
"contemplates",
"designs",
"intends",
"looks",
"means",
"meditates",
"plans",
"proposes",
"purports",
"purposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreams",
"hopes",
"wishes",
"considers",
"debates",
"mulls (over)",
"ponders",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"strives",
"struggles",
"tries",
"plots",
"schemes",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"effects",
"executes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"dead-ends",
"determines",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"elapses",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"lets up",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"winks (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desists (from)",
"lays off (of)",
"refrains (from)",
"gives over",
"knocks off",
"packs (up or in)",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"cuts out",
"stalls",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abates",
"peters (out)",
"winds down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draws out",
"extends",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
],
"antonyms":[
"continues",
"hangs on",
"persists"
]
},
"to have enough money for":{
"examples":[
"I think I can go for the new car after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covers",
"expends",
"finances",
"outlays",
"pays (for)",
"ponies up",
"springs (for)",
"picks up",
"purchases",
"takes",
"acquires",
"gets",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures",
"bids",
"offers",
"bankrolls",
"endows",
"subsidizes",
"underwrites"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"absorbs",
"accepts",
"bears",
"bides",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"hacks",
"handles",
"meets",
"pockets",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"supports",
"sustains",
"sweats out",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"wears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allows",
"permits",
"suffers",
"swallows",
"reconciles (to)",
"acquiesces",
"agrees (with or to)",
"assents (to)",
"capitulates",
"consents (to)",
"respects",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declines",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"combats",
"contests",
"fights",
"opposes",
"resists",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"dodges",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"misses",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"her grandmother went peacefully last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"conks (out)",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"expires",
"falls",
"flatlines",
"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"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go , but it never really worked out"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"succeeds",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches on",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"cooks",
"percolates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishes",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"craters",
"crumbles",
"flames out",
"chokes",
"cracks up",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"falls down",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
]
},
"an effort to do or accomplish something":{
"examples":[
"it took several goes to get the car started"
],
"synonyms":[
"assays",
"attempts",
"bashes",
"bids",
"cracks",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"flings",
"offers",
"passes",
"shots",
"stabs",
"trials",
"tries",
"whacks",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strivings",
"struggles",
"throes",
"undertakings",
"trial and errors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"go-getter":{
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"a go-getter with his sights set on the presidency"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"live wire",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beaver",
"achiever",
"comer",
"doer",
"enterpriser",
"he-man",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"putterer",
"trifler",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"procrastinator",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"drone",
"lazybones",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"ignorer",
"ne'er-do-well",
"neglecter",
"daydreamer",
"dreamer",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gored":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, may sound like fun, but the bulls have been known to gore runners who get too close"
],
"synonyms":[
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pierced",
"pinked",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindled",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"piked",
"poniarded",
"pronged",
"quilled",
"pinpricked",
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got wind of":{
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"When I got wind of the open position, I did not waste one minute before applying."
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"got on (to)",
"heard",
"learned",
"realized",
"saw",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"descried",
"detected",
"encountered",
"espied",
"saw",
"spotted",
"calculated",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"found",
"puzzled (out)",
"discerned",
"minded",
"noted",
"observed",
"perceived",
"divined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"forgot",
"unlearned",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"occulted",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"going over":{
"a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition":{
"examples":[
"received a thorough going-over before being sent on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"examination",
"inspection",
"look-see",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutiny",
"survey",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analysis",
"assay",
"close-up",
"deconstruction",
"dissection",
"exploration",
"investigation",
"probe",
"research",
"study",
"inquisition",
"interrogation",
"once-over",
"perusal",
"recheck",
"reinspection",
"resurvey",
"observation",
"surveillance",
"watch",
"checkout",
"test-drive",
"trial run"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"panning out",
"succeeding",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"go (to)":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager"
],
"synonyms":[
"consult",
"refer (to)",
"resort (to)",
"turn (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"depend (on)",
"rely (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"got a move on":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"She told her partner to get a move on or they would be late."
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gopher":{
"as in dogsbody , drudge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"factotum",
"follower",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"daily",
"domestic",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward"
],
"near antonyms":[
"master",
"mistress",
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Godhead":{
"the quality or state of being divine":{
"examples":[
"in some cultures, the ruler of the people has godhead and is worshipped accordingly"
],
"synonyms":[
"deity",
"divinity",
"godhood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blessedness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piousness",
"saintliness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"most Christians believe that there are three separate persons\u2014Father, Son, and Holy Spirit\u2014that make up the Godhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gone for":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"brought",
"cost",
"fetched",
"run",
"sold (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listed (for)",
"amounted (to)",
"come (to)",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"commanded",
"exacted",
"asked",
"demanded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"got off (on)",
"gotten off (on)",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"devoured",
"drunk (in)",
"drank (in)",
"eaten (up)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"approved (of)",
"cared (for)",
"countenanced",
"favored",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"subscribed (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"backed (up)",
"concurred (in)",
"stood by",
"supported",
"sustained",
"upheld",
"borne",
"born",
"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)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"goldbricks":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"the goldbricks among the colonists were warned: no work, no food"
],
"synonyms":[
"shirkers",
"slackers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerers",
"dropouts",
"quitters",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wires",
"pistols",
"powerhouses",
"doers",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hangs , bums":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bums",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"hangs around",
"idles",
"loafs",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"kicks back",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"exercises",
"works out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"got back":{
"to get again in one's possession":{
"examples":[
"the distraught owner cried that she would do anything to get back her lost dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"reacquired",
"recaptured",
"reclaimed",
"re-collected",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"regained",
"repossessed",
"retook",
"retrieved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recruited",
"replenished",
"redeemed",
"repurchased",
"rescued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gormandizers":{
"one who eats greedily or too much":{
"examples":[
"an inconsiderate gormandizer who eats his hosts out of house and home"
],
"synonyms":[
"cormorants",
"gluttons",
"gorgers",
"gourmands",
"hogs",
"hog",
"overeaters",
"pigs",
"stuffers",
"swillers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feasters",
"trenchermen",
"munchers",
"guzzlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieters",
"nibblers",
"pickers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going back on":{
"to break a promise or agreement":{
"examples":[
"He went back on his decision to move to the west coast."
],
"synonyms":[
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backing out",
"copping out",
"finking out",
"reneging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chickening (out)",
"wimping out",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"abjuring",
"abnegating",
"disavowing",
"forswearing",
"foreswearing",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"repudiating",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"begging off",
"crying off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"following through (with)",
"complying (with)",
"fulfilling",
"honoring",
"keeping",
"satisfying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
"examples":[
"She went back on the group and took up with a better-funded one."
],
"synonyms":[
"defecting (from)",
"deserting",
"ratting (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"abdicating",
"abjuring",
"apostatizing",
"cutting off",
"disowning",
"forsaking",
"quitting",
"rejecting",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"reneging",
"departing",
"going",
"leaving",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"clinging (to)",
"sticking (to or with)",
"cherishing",
"cultivating",
"fostering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"She suspected that he had gone back on her during her time away."
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betraying",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"giving away",
"informing (on)",
"peaching",
"ratting (on)",
"shopping",
"snitching (on)",
"splitting (on)",
"telling (on)",
"turning in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"saving",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"standing by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gone (for)":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"brought",
"cost",
"fetched",
"run",
"sold (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listed (for)",
"amounted (to)",
"come (to)",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"commanded",
"exacted",
"asked",
"demanded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"got off (on)",
"gotten off (on)",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"devoured",
"drunk (in)",
"drank (in)",
"eaten (up)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"approved (of)",
"cared (for)",
"countenanced",
"favored",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"subscribed (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"backed (up)",
"concurred (in)",
"stood by",
"supported",
"sustained",
"upheld",
"borne",
"born",
"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)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"gossamery":{
"being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance":{
"examples":[
"that gossamery dress should be washed gently by hand so it doesn't disintegrate"
],
"synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"filmy",
"flimsy",
"frothy",
"gauzy",
"gossamer",
"insubstantial",
"sleazy",
"unsubstantial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dainty",
"delicate",
"fine",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"diaphanous",
"sheer",
"transparent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"durable",
"knockabout",
"lasting",
"tough",
"coarse",
"heavy",
"rough",
"rude"
],
"antonyms":[
"sturdy",
"substantial"
]
},
"resembling air in lightness":{
"examples":[
"a gossamery feather floating on the breeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"airy",
"ethereal",
"fluffy",
"gossamer",
"light"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"diaphanous",
"downy",
"feathery",
"flimsy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"insubstantial",
"tender",
"wispy",
"buoyant",
"lighter-than-air",
"lightweight",
"rarefied",
"unsubstantial",
"vaporous",
"weightless",
"cumulous",
"pillowy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"solid",
"substantial",
"bulky",
"burdensome",
"cumbersome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"lumpish",
"ponderous",
"unwieldy",
"weighty"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"leaden"
]
},
"very thin and easy to see through":{
"examples":[
"use this gossamery cheesecloth to strain the liquid out of the cottage cheese"
],
"synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"diaphanous",
"filmy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"gossamer",
"see-through",
"sheer",
"transparent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"peekaboo",
"clear",
"crystal",
"crystalline",
"limpid",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"lucid",
"translucent",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"frail",
"insubstantial",
"unsubstantial",
"colorless",
"uncolored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opaque",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"drab",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"lusterless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"governorship":{
"as in control , management":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"control",
"hand(s)",
"management",
"superintendence",
"supervision",
"care",
"custodianship",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"ward"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in presidency , chairmanship":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"captainship",
"chairmanship",
"deanship",
"dictatorship",
"generalship",
"kingship",
"mastership",
"mastery",
"premiership",
"presidency",
"presidentship",
"superintendency",
"forefront",
"lead",
"vanguard",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"jurisdiction",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"sway",
"upper hand",
"chieftainship",
"commandership",
"directorship",
"eminence",
"height",
"pedestal",
"pinnacle",
"seat",
"throne",
"top",
"chair",
"driver's seat",
"head",
"headship",
"helm",
"rein(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ranks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"going in for":{
"to promote the interests or cause of":{
"examples":[
"He always goes in for the underdog."
],
"synonyms":[
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"propping (up)",
"seconding",
"siding (with)",
"backstopping",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"advancing",
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"plugging",
"preaching",
"talking up",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"I don't usually go in for that type of ideology."
],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"favoring",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"gouges":{
"to charge (someone) too much for goods or services":{
"examples":[
"since I had forgotten the sunscreen, I was forced to buy it from the concession stand at the beach\u2014where they gouged me for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"stings",
"surcharges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheats",
"defrauds",
"sticks",
"clips",
"fleeces",
"skins",
"mischarges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"undercharges"
]
},
"as in grooves , hollows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"grooves",
"hollows",
"perforations",
"pinholes",
"pinpricks",
"pricks",
"punches",
"punctures",
"stabs",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incisions",
"lacerations",
"notches",
"rents",
"rips",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"tears"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gobbledegook":{
"language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions":{
"examples":[
"cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflegab",
"double-talk",
"gibberish",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"song and dance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"legalese",
"Pentagonese",
"psychobabble",
"technobabble",
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"hype",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"go out (with)":{
"to go on a social engagement with":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to go out with that foxy woman from work next Saturday night"
],
"synonyms":[
"date",
"take out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"escort",
"see",
"court",
"woo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gone along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"come",
"come along",
"done",
"fared",
"forged",
"gone",
"gone off",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"repaired",
"run",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"driven",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"taken 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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"go (away)":{
"as in disappear , clear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"disappear",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"flee",
"melt",
"branch (out)",
"break up",
"disband",
"diverge",
"divide",
"fork",
"separate",
"spill",
"disassemble",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"dissolve",
"scatter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"congregate",
"gather",
"meet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"gorges":{
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"walked the bridge over the gorge , marveling at the spectacular drop"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyons",
"ca\u00f1ons",
"cols",
"couloirs",
"defiles",
"flumes",
"gaps",
"gills",
"gulches",
"gulfs",
"kloofs",
"linns",
"notches",
"passes",
"ravines",
"saddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysses",
"chasms",
"cirques",
"clefts",
"crevasses",
"crevices",
"cwms",
"fissures",
"combes",
"coombes",
"coombs",
"dales",
"dells",
"glens",
"hollows",
"shut-ins",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"floodplains",
"kettles",
"arroyos",
"barrancas",
"barrancos",
"coulees",
"draws",
"gullies",
"gulleys",
"gutters",
"nullahs",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"wadis",
"washes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fill with food to capacity":{
"examples":[
"we gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"crams",
"gluts",
"sates",
"stuffs",
"surfeits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbles",
"gormandizes",
"pigs out",
"gulps",
"guzzles",
"cloys",
"fills",
"banquets",
"feasts",
"regales"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diets",
"fasts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eat greedily or to excess":{
"examples":[
"the kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"gormandizes",
"overeats",
"pigs out",
"swills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"devours",
"gluts",
"sates",
"stuffs",
"surfeits",
"wolfs",
"banquets",
"feasts",
"regales",
"bolts",
"crams",
"gulps",
"guzzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbles",
"pecks",
"picks",
"tastes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swallow or eat greedily":{
"examples":[
"the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"crams",
"devours",
"gluts",
"gobbles",
"gormandizes",
"gulps",
"ingurgitates",
"inhales",
"ravens",
"scarfs",
"scoffs",
"slops",
"wolfs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overeats",
"pigs out",
"swills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nibbles",
"pecks",
"picks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}
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