dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/ro_mwt.json
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{
"roadblocked":{
"as in blocked , barricaded":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roads":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"I think we should take one of the less congested roads"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel":{
"examples":[
"the railway companies are continually repairing their roads"
],
"synonyms":[
"railroads",
"rails",
"railways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated railroads",
"elevateds",
"els",
"monorails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roadster":{
"as in cabriolet , coup\u00e9":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"droshky",
"drosky",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roadway":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"a cow wandered into the roadway"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roared":{
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the car's engine roared as it sped away"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellowed",
"boomed",
"growled",
"thundered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumbled",
"rolled",
"rumbled",
"banged",
"blared",
"blasted",
"pealed",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrieked",
"squalled",
"bawled",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"hooted",
"shouted",
"whooped",
"yelled",
"belled",
"caterwauled",
"howled",
"wailed",
"yowled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunted",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered",
"mewled",
"puled",
"squeaked",
"whimpered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"when we arrived at the house we could hear our friend roaring at someone inside, so we discreetly left"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawled",
"bayed",
"bellowed",
"called",
"cried",
"hollered",
"holloed",
"hallooed",
"shouted",
"sounded off",
"thundered",
"vociferated",
"yelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crowed",
"whooped",
"screamed",
"screeched",
"shrieked",
"shrilled",
"squeaked",
"squealed",
"caterwauled",
"howled",
"ululated",
"wailed",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled",
"hailed",
"spoke out",
"spoke up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"examples":[
"a madcap comedy that had movie audiences roaring all summer long"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke up",
"cackled",
"chortled",
"chuckled",
"cracked up",
"giggled",
"hee-hawed",
"laughed",
"screamed",
"snickered",
"tittered",
"twittered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grinned",
"smiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawled",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed",
"wept",
"howled",
"squalled",
"wailed",
"yowled",
"bleated",
"puled",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"sniffled",
"sniveled",
"snivelled",
"groaned",
"moaned",
"sighed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roaring":{
"marked by a high volume of sound":{
"examples":[
"a roaring party that annoyed the neighbors mightily"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"slam-bang",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brazen",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"grating",
"harsh",
"overloud",
"sharp",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"quiet",
"silent",
"still",
"stilly",
"ultraquiet",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"tranquil",
"hushed",
"muffled",
"muted",
"softened",
"toned (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
]
},
"marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically":{
"examples":[
"the roaring mining town attracted job seekers eager to share in the boom"
],
"synonyms":[
"booming",
"boomy",
"flourishing",
"golden",
"halcyon",
"healthy",
"lush",
"palmy",
"prospering",
"prosperous",
"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"
]
},
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"we had a roaring good time at the party"
],
"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",
"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"
]
},
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the car's engine roared as it sped away"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellowing",
"booming",
"growling",
"thundering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumbling",
"rolling",
"rumbling",
"banging",
"blaring",
"blasting",
"pealing",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"squalling",
"bawling",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"hooting",
"shouting",
"whooping",
"yelling",
"belling",
"caterwauling",
"howling",
"wailing",
"yowling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunting",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering",
"mewling",
"puling",
"squeaking",
"whimpering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"when we arrived at the house we could hear our friend roaring at someone inside, so we discreetly left"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawling",
"baying",
"bellowing",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"holloing",
"hallooing",
"shouting",
"sounding off",
"thundering",
"vociferating",
"yelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crowing",
"whooping",
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"shrilling",
"squeaking",
"squealing",
"caterwauling",
"howling",
"ululating",
"wailing",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"hailing",
"speaking out",
"speaking up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"whispering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"examples":[
"a madcap comedy that had movie audiences roaring all summer long"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking up",
"cackling",
"chortling",
"chuckling",
"cracking up",
"giggling",
"hee-hawing",
"laughing",
"screaming",
"snickering",
"tittering",
"twittering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grinning",
"smiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"weeping",
"howling",
"squalling",
"wailing",
"yowling",
"bleating",
"puling",
"whimpering",
"whining",
"sniffling",
"sniveling",
"snivelling",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sighing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"verb"
]
},
"robber":{
"one who steals":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the robber wore a ski mask while holding up the bank"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"burglar",
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"picklock",
"safecracker",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"sneak thief",
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"shoplifter",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"poacher",
"rustler",
"smuggler",
"bandit",
"footpad",
"highwayman",
"pirate",
"mugger"
],
"synonyms":[
"larcenist",
"pincher",
"purloiner",
"stealer",
"thief"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"robe":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"examples":[
"with the coming of spring the hills will once again don their robes of green"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"cloak",
"cope",
"cover",
"cover-up",
"covering",
"coverture",
"curtain",
"hood",
"mantle",
"mask",
"pall",
"penumbra",
"shroud",
"veil",
"wraps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blind",
"concealer",
"screen",
"shield",
"fig leaf",
"Potemkin village",
"Trojan horse",
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"face",
"veneer",
"gloss",
"varnish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"robed the queen in her ceremonial garments"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck (out)",
"do up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"enrobe",
"garb",
"garment",
"get up",
"gown",
"habit",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"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"
]
},
"robotic":{
"designed to replace or decrease human labor and especially physical labor":{
"examples":[
"the dishwasher is one of the greatest robotic devices ever invented"
],
"synonyms":[
"automated",
"automatic",
"laborsaving",
"self-acting",
"self-operating",
"self-regulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mechanical",
"motorized",
"nonmanual",
"computerized",
"aiding",
"helping",
"easing",
"relieving",
"time-saving",
"semiautomatic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonautomated",
"nonautomatic"
]
},
"done instantly and without conscious thought or decision":{
"examples":[
"with a single robotic motion, she reached for a cigarette and a lighter the instant she sat down"
],
"synonyms":[
"automatic",
"instinctive",
"instinctual",
"involuntary",
"knee-jerk",
"mechanic",
"mechanical",
"spontaneous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditioned",
"natural",
"Pavlovian",
"reactive",
"reflex",
"simple",
"subliminal",
"unconscious",
"unforced",
"visceral",
"blind",
"inadvertent",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unwilling",
"unwitting",
"abrupt",
"quick",
"ready",
"sudden",
"ad-lib",
"extemporaneous",
"extempore",
"impromptu",
"improvised",
"offhand",
"offhanded",
"off-the-cuff",
"snap",
"spur-of-the-moment",
"unconsidered",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"unprepared",
"unprompted",
"unreasoned",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied",
"casual",
"chance",
"chancy",
"haphazard",
"hasty",
"hit-or-miss",
"impetuous",
"impulsive",
"mindless",
"random",
"rash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"designed",
"intended",
"intentional",
"predetermined",
"prepared",
"projected",
"refined",
"rehearsed",
"volitional",
"voluntary",
"willed",
"willful",
"wilful",
"advised",
"aforethought",
"careful",
"considered",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"measured",
"meticulous",
"reasoned",
"studied",
"thoughtful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rocket":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the startled cat rocketed out of the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"the child actor rocketed to stardom at the age of eight"
],
"synonyms":[
"shoot (up)",
"skyrocket",
"soar",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"crest",
"peak",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fall",
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"drop",
"lessen",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"slump",
"tumble"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rocket plane":{
"as in aerospace plane":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aerospace plane",
"jet",
"jetliner",
"superjet",
"supersonic",
"supersonic transport",
"trijet",
"turbojet",
"turboprop",
"bomber",
"fighter",
"jump jet",
"torpedo bomber",
"warplane",
"freighter",
"tanker",
"amphibian",
"seaplane",
"aerodyne",
"aircraft",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"airframe",
"airship",
"ship",
"tractor",
"biplane",
"lightplane",
"tilt-rotor",
"towplane",
"trimotor",
"triplane",
"airliner",
"air taxi",
"liner",
"glider",
"sailplane",
"aeroplane",
"airplane",
"plane"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rods":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"arrested for using a rod on his dogs in violation of the state's animal cruelty laws"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rungs",
"saps",
"shillelaghs",
"shillalahs",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide":{
"examples":[
"a curtain rod"
],
"synonyms":[
"bars",
"billets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbors",
"beams",
"boards",
"crossbars",
"crossbeams",
"girders",
"bands",
"strips",
"blooms",
"ingots",
"slabs",
"sticks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roguish":{
"tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness":{
"examples":[
"a roguish grin was the only sign that she had something up her sleeve for the office party"
],
"synonyms":[
"arch",
"devilish",
"elvish",
"espi\u00e8gle",
"impish",
"knavish",
"leprechaunish",
"mischievous",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"pixieish",
"prankish",
"puckish",
"rascally",
"scampish",
"sly",
"tricksy",
"waggish",
"wicked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antic",
"coltish",
"coy",
"frisky",
"frolicsome",
"kittenish",
"playful",
"sportful",
"sportive",
"gay",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"whimsical",
"energetic",
"lively",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"wily",
"misbehaving",
"naughty",
"troublemaking",
"pestering",
"riling",
"teasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"grim",
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"staid",
"stern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"roguishness":{
"playful, reckless behavior that is not intended to cause serious harm":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a bit of childish roguishness that ended up with a window being broken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gravitas",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"related":[
"diabolicalness",
"misbehavior",
"misconduct",
"naughtiness",
"troublemaking",
"buffoonery",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"chicanery",
"trickery",
"goings-on",
"hanky-panky",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"skylarking",
"tomfoolery",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"antic",
"caper",
"dido",
"practical joke",
"trick",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"hob",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"shenanigan(s)",
"waggery",
"waggishness",
"wickedness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roistering":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to take part in drunken revelry":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"boozing",
"drinking",
"guzzling",
"liquoring (up)",
"soaking",
"tippling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bingeing",
"binging",
"birling",
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"wassailing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roisterous":{
"being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way":{
"antonyms":[
"orderly"
],
"examples":[
"students were told that it was possible to have a roisterous victory celebration without resorting to violence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"related":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"ruffianly",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"rumbustious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"roll":{
"a rapid turning about on an axis or central point":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the squirrel did a quick roll and vanished up a tree"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circuit",
"circulation",
"ring",
"round",
"coil",
"curl",
"curve",
"spiral",
"twist",
"whorl",
"circle",
"orbit",
"eddy",
"swirl"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyration",
"pirouette",
"reel",
"revolution",
"rotation",
"spin",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
]
},
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"called the roll of people supposed to be in the class"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"agenda",
"bibliography",
"catalogue raisonn\u00e9",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"directory",
"docket",
"enumeration",
"glossary",
"index",
"inventory",
"manifest",
"payroll",
"calendar",
"chronology",
"timetable"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"checklist",
"list",
"listing",
"menu",
"register",
"registry",
"roll call",
"roster",
"schedule",
"table"
]
},
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"antonyms":[
"unroll"
],
"examples":[
"rolled up the wrapper from the straw and threw it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flatten",
"open",
"smooth",
"spread",
"unfold"
],
"related":[
"bunch",
"clump",
"lump",
"bead",
"pearl",
"pellet",
"pelletize",
"sphere"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"ball",
"round",
"wad"
]
},
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"thunder rolling in the distance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"boom",
"drum",
"thunder",
"bellow"
],
"synonyms":[
"growl",
"grumble",
"lumber",
"rumble"
]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the car suddenly was rolling as high winds swept across the bridge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blunder",
"buck",
"dodder",
"falter",
"flounder",
"halt",
"hitch",
"hobble",
"jerk",
"jolt",
"reel",
"shake",
"stagger",
"stumble",
"teeter",
"toddle",
"totter",
"tumble",
"vacillate",
"vibrate",
"waddle",
"waver",
"weave",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wag",
"waggle"
],
"synonyms":[
"careen",
"lurch",
"pitch",
"rock",
"seesaw",
"sway",
"toss",
"wobble",
"wabble"
]
},
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in order to knock your opponent off balance, you have to roll the log when he least expects it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"screw",
"unscrew",
"twiddle",
"coil",
"crank",
"reel",
"wind",
"circulate"
],
"synonyms":[
"pivot",
"revolve",
"rotate",
"spin",
"swing",
"swirl",
"swivel",
"turn",
"twirl",
"twist",
"wheel",
"whirl"
]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"antonyms":[
"back up"
],
"examples":[
"just lying on the beach, watching the clouds roll by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clot",
"coagulate",
"congeal",
"gel",
"harden",
"set"
],
"related":[
"arise",
"disembogue",
"effuse",
"emanate",
"issue",
"spring",
"course",
"race",
"rush",
"fountain",
"gush",
"spout",
"spurt",
"deluge",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overrun",
"swamp",
"cascade",
"dribble",
"drip",
"gutter",
"riffle",
"ripple",
"sheet",
"trickle",
"flush",
"wash out"
],
"synonyms":[
"flow",
"pour",
"run",
"stream"
]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"rolled her head around her shoulders to loosen herself up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"coil",
"curl",
"curve",
"round",
"spiral",
"swirl",
"twine",
"twist",
"wind",
"circle",
"circulate",
"encircle",
"orbit",
"ring",
"pivot",
"swivel"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrate",
"pinwheel",
"pirouette",
"revolve",
"rotate",
"spin",
"turn",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"examples":[
"once we started rolling , everything went perfectly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"stumble",
"trudge",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stump",
"tramp",
"labor",
"toil"
],
"related":[
"fly",
"race",
"rush",
"speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"brush",
"coast",
"cruise",
"drift",
"flow",
"glide",
"sail",
"skim",
"slide",
"slip",
"stream",
"sweep",
"whisk"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roll call":{
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"examples":[
"the roll call of the fallen was read aloud at the memorial service"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"checklist",
"list",
"listing",
"menu",
"register",
"registry",
"roll",
"roster",
"schedule",
"table"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agenda",
"bibliography",
"catalogue raisonn\u00e9",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"directory",
"docket",
"enumeration",
"glossary",
"index",
"inventory",
"manifest",
"payroll",
"calendar",
"chronology",
"timetable"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roll out":{
"to leave one's bed":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to roll out by at least 8:00 a.m. in order to get there on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rollicked":{
"to engage in activity for amusement":{
"examples":[
"an educator who realized that children need to rollick as well as to study and learn"
],
"synonyms":[
"dallied",
"disported",
"frolicked",
"played",
"recreated",
"skylarked",
"sported",
"toyed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cavorted",
"frisked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"dabbled",
"trifled",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"dabbled",
"fiddled (around)",
"messed around",
"puttered (around)",
"bummed (around)",
"dawdled",
"goldbricked",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lounged (around or about)",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"screwed around",
"slacked (off)",
"jested",
"joked",
"teased"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"labored",
"plodded",
"plugged (away)",
"slaved",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to play and run about happily":{
"examples":[
"children rollicking during recess"
],
"synonyms":[
"capered",
"cavorted",
"disported",
"frisked",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"larked",
"romped",
"sported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounded",
"hopped",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"loped",
"skipped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"tripped",
"tumbled",
"curvetted",
"curveted",
"danced",
"pranced",
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"roistered",
"carried on",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"clowned",
"cut up",
"joyrode",
"roughhoused",
"skylarked",
"kited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moped",
"pouted",
"stewed",
"sulked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rollicking":{
"being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way":{
"examples":[
"reunions with his friends from college were usually rollicking affairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"roisterous",
"rowdy",
"rumbustious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"ruffianly",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"antonyms":[
"orderly"
]
},
"given to good-natured joking or teasing":{
"examples":[
"a rollicking boy who quickly charms everyone he meets"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"coltish",
"elfish",
"fay",
"frisky",
"frolicsome",
"larky",
"playful",
"sportful",
"sportive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coy",
"kittenish",
"gay",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"whimsical",
"energetic",
"frolic",
"jocund",
"lively",
"merry",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"spunky",
"vivacious",
"devilish",
"impish",
"knavish",
"mischievous",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"enjoyable",
"entertaining",
"fun",
"pleasurable",
"dabbling",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"silly",
"trifling",
"delightful",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"jesting",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"joking",
"prankish",
"teasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dutiful",
"responsible",
"grave",
"grim",
"serious",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stern",
"stolid",
"no-nonsense",
"priggish",
"starchy",
"stuffy",
"decorous",
"formal",
"proper",
"sedate",
"staid",
"guarded",
"inhibited",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"sobersided"
]
},
"activity engaged in to amuse oneself":{
"examples":[
"likes to indulge in mindless rollicking after a day at work in order to relax"
],
"synonyms":[
"dalliance",
"frolic",
"frolicking",
"fun",
"fun and games",
"play",
"recreation",
"relaxation",
"sport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"hobby",
"hobbyhorse",
"pastime",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasance",
"pleasure",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"wantonness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"hanky-panky",
"hob",
"impishness",
"jinks",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"waggery",
"binge",
"fling",
"kick",
"lark",
"revel",
"rollick",
"spree",
"hilarity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"revelry",
"whoopee",
"buffoonery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudgery",
"labor",
"work",
"duty",
"obligation",
"responsibility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in activity for amusement":{
"examples":[
"an educator who realized that children need to rollick as well as to study and learn"
],
"synonyms":[
"dallying",
"disporting",
"frolicking",
"playing",
"recreating",
"skylarking",
"sporting",
"toying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cavorting",
"frisking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"dabbling",
"trifling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"delighting",
"pleasing",
"dabbling",
"fiddling (around)",
"messing around",
"puttering (around)",
"bumming (around)",
"dawdling",
"goldbricking",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lounging (around or about)",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"screwing around",
"slacking (off)",
"jesting",
"joking",
"teasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"laboring",
"plodding",
"plugging (away)",
"slaving",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"working"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to play and run about happily":{
"examples":[
"children rollicking during recess"
],
"synonyms":[
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"larking",
"romping",
"sporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"hopping",
"leaping",
"loping",
"skipping",
"springing",
"tripping",
"tumbling",
"curvetting",
"curveting",
"dancing",
"prancing",
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roistering",
"carrying on",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"clowning",
"cutting up",
"joyriding",
"roughhousing",
"skylarking",
"kiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moping",
"pouting",
"stewing",
"sulking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rolling back":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"avoiding",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"disannulling",
"dissolving",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"nulling",
"quashing",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"striking down",
"vacating",
"voiding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermanding",
"overriding",
"overruling",
"overturning",
"vetoing",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"retracting",
"reversing",
"revoking",
"suspending",
"withdrawing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"disallowing",
"dismissing",
"rejecting",
"annihilating",
"breaking down",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"throwing out",
"writing off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"instituting",
"formalizing",
"legalizing",
"legitimating",
"legitimizing",
"validating",
"passing",
"ratifying",
"allowing",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"commanding",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescribing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rolling out":{
"to leave one's bed":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to roll out by at least 8:00 a.m. in order to get there on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"arising",
"getting up",
"rising",
"turning out",
"uprising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"bestirring",
"stirring",
"waking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"dropping off",
"lying up",
"napping",
"nodding",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"bunking",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling",
"couching",
"dossing (down)",
"flopping (down)",
"lying (down)",
"reclining"
],
"antonyms":[
"bedding (down)",
"retiring",
"turning in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rolls":{
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"rolled up the wrapper from the straw and threw it"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"balls",
"rounds",
"wads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunches",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"beads",
"pearls",
"pelletizes",
"pellets",
"spheres"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattens",
"opens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"spreads",
"unfolds"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrolls"
]
},
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"examples":[
"thunder rolling in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"growls",
"grumbles",
"lumbers",
"rumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"drums",
"thunders",
"bellows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the car suddenly was rolling as high winds swept across the bridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"careens",
"lurches",
"pitches",
"rocks",
"seesaws",
"sways",
"tosses",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"bucks",
"dodders",
"falters",
"flounders",
"halts",
"hitches",
"hobbles",
"jerks",
"jolts",
"reels",
"shakes",
"staggers",
"stumbles",
"teeters",
"toddles",
"totters",
"tumbles",
"vacillates",
"vibrates",
"waddles",
"wavers",
"weaves",
"oscillates",
"undulates",
"waggles",
"wags"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"in order to knock your opponent off balance, you have to roll the log when he least expects it"
],
"synonyms":[
"pivots",
"revolves",
"rotates",
"spins",
"swings",
"swirls",
"swivels",
"turns",
"twirls",
"twists",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screws",
"unscrews",
"twiddles",
"coils",
"cranks",
"reels",
"winds",
"circulates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"just lying on the beach, watching the clouds roll by"
],
"synonyms":[
"flows",
"pours",
"runs",
"streams"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arises",
"disembogues",
"effuses",
"emanates",
"issues",
"springs",
"courses",
"races",
"rushes",
"fountains",
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"deluges",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overruns",
"swamps",
"cascades",
"dribbles",
"drips",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"sheets",
"trickles",
"flushes",
"washes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"hardens",
"sets"
],
"antonyms":[
"backs up"
]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"rolled her head around her shoulders to loosen herself up"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrates",
"pinwheels",
"pirouettes",
"revolves",
"rotates",
"spins",
"turns",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"rounds",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twines",
"twists",
"winds",
"circles",
"circulates",
"encircles",
"orbits",
"rings",
"pivots",
"swivels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"examples":[
"once we started rolling , everything went perfectly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"brushes",
"coasts",
"cruises",
"drifts",
"flows",
"glides",
"sails",
"skims",
"slides",
"slips",
"streams",
"sweeps",
"whisks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flies",
"races",
"rushes",
"speeds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limps",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"stumbles",
"trudges",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"stamps",
"stomps",
"stumps",
"tramps",
"labors",
"toils"
],
"antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
]
},
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"examples":[
"called the roll of people supposed to be in the class"
],
"synonyms":[
"canons",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"checklists",
"listings",
"lists",
"menus",
"registers",
"registries",
"roll calls",
"rosters",
"schedules",
"tables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agendas",
"bibliographies",
"catalogues raisonn\u00e9s",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compilations",
"directories",
"dockets",
"enumerations",
"glossaries",
"indexes",
"indices",
"inventories",
"manifests",
"payrolls",
"calendars",
"chronologies",
"timetables"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rapid turning about on an axis or central point":{
"examples":[
"the squirrel did a quick roll and vanished up a tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrations",
"pirouettes",
"reels",
"revolutions",
"rotations",
"spins",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuits",
"circulations",
"rings",
"rounds",
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"spirals",
"twists",
"whorls",
"circles",
"orbits",
"eddies",
"swirls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rolls up":{
"to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"ticket sales are expected to roll up as the date of the concert nears"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roly-poly":{
"having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"a roly-poly baby who grew into a slender child"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"romanticizing":{
"to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant":{
"examples":[
"he romanticized what life in a small town would be like, only to be later disappointed when reality intruded"
],
"synonyms":[
"glamorizing",
"glamourizing",
"glamouring (up)",
"glorifying",
"idealizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heroicizing",
"heroizing",
"euphemizing",
"poeticizing",
"softening",
"sweetening",
"adulating",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"idolizing",
"aggrandizing",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enthroning",
"magnifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down"
],
"antonyms":[
"deglamorizing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roofed":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"related":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"bestowed",
"billeted",
"bivouacked",
"boarded",
"bunked",
"camped",
"chambered",
"domiciled",
"encamped",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"put up",
"quartered",
"roomed",
"sheltered",
"took in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roofing":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"related":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"rooming",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rook":{
"a person who is just starting out in a field of activity":{
"examples":[
"every year the coaches have to deal with rooks who don't know the rules yet"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarian",
"apprentice",
"babe",
"beginner",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"novitiate",
"punk",
"recruit",
"rookie",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro",
"virgin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boot",
"amateur",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"learner",
"student",
"trainee",
"candidate",
"entrant",
"probationer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expert",
"master",
"pro",
"professional"
],
"antonyms":[
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"vet",
"veteran"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"once you learn to recognize these swindler's tricks, no one will be able to use them to rook you"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rooks":{
"a person who is just starting out in a field of activity":{
"examples":[
"every year the coaches have to deal with rooks who don't know the rules yet"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarians",
"apprentices",
"babes",
"beginners",
"colts",
"cubs",
"fledglings",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"neophytes",
"newbies",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"novitiates",
"punks",
"recruits",
"rookies",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros",
"virgins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boots",
"amateurs",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"learners",
"students",
"trainees",
"candidates",
"entrants",
"probationers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"experts",
"masters",
"professionals",
"pros"
],
"antonyms":[
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"vets"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"once you learn to recognize these swindler's tricks, no one will be able to use them to rook you"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"room":{
"a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there's still room for improvement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"play",
"way",
"juncture",
"pass"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"chance",
"occasion",
"opening",
"opportunity",
"shot"
]
},
"an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"finally had a room to himself when his older brother went off to college"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accommodation",
"bay",
"berth",
"booth",
"cabin",
"compartment",
"cubicle",
"alcove",
"niche",
"nook",
"recess",
"snuggery"
],
"synonyms":[
"apartment",
"cell",
"chamber",
"closet"
]
},
"an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I need more room to do a cartwheel",
"they made room for him on the bench"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"capacity",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"berth",
"clearance",
"freedom",
"latitude",
"leeway",
"play"
],
"synonyms":[
"elbow room",
"place",
"space",
"way"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we can room up to four visitors in our two guest bedrooms"
],
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"eject",
"evict"
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"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
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"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"domicile",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"roof",
"shelter",
"take in"
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},
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"noun",
"verb"
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"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
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"we can room up to four visitors in our two guest bedrooms"
],
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"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
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"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roost":{
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"antonyms":[
"blast off",
"take off"
],
"examples":[
"pigeons flying home to roost on the roof"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"climb",
"rise",
"float",
"fly",
"glide",
"plane",
"soar",
"wing",
"hang",
"hover"
],
"related":[
"belly-land",
"crash-land"
],
"synonyms":[
"alight",
"land",
"light",
"perch",
"settle",
"touch down"
]
},
"to establish or place comfortably or snugly":{
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"examples":[
"a gang of friends had roosted themselves around the ski lodge's massive fireplace"
],
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"related":[
"deploy",
"emplace",
"fix",
"locate",
"park",
"plant",
"position",
"set",
"situate",
"station",
"anchor",
"bivouac",
"camp",
"camp (out)",
"burrow",
"curl up",
"dig in",
"harbor",
"house"
],
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"ensconce",
"install",
"lodge",
"nestle",
"perch",
"settle"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
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"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"pigeons flying home to roost on the roof"
],
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"alighting",
"landing",
"lighting",
"perching",
"settling",
"touching down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-landing",
"crash-landing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"rising",
"floating",
"flying",
"gliding",
"planing",
"soaring",
"winging",
"hanging",
"hovering"
],
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"blasting off",
"taking off"
]
},
"to establish or place comfortably or snugly":{
"examples":[
"a gang of friends had roosted themselves around the ski lodge's massive fireplace"
],
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"ensconcing",
"installing",
"lodging",
"nestling",
"perching",
"settling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deploying",
"emplacing",
"fixing",
"locating",
"parking",
"planting",
"positioning",
"setting",
"situating",
"stationing",
"anchoring",
"bivouacking",
"camping",
"camping (out)",
"burrowing",
"curling up",
"digging in",
"harboring",
"housing"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"root (for)":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"root (out)":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a concerted effort to root out prejudice of any kind in the armed services"
],
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"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
"eject",
"excise",
"expel",
"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renew",
"renovate",
"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"a dog rooting out a buried toy"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrew",
"extract",
"prize",
"pry",
"pull",
"tear (out)",
"uproot",
"wrest",
"wring",
"yank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mine",
"pluck",
"remove",
"take (out)",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implant",
"insert",
"install",
"instill",
"cram",
"jam",
"ram",
"stuff",
"wedge"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"a journalist seeking to root out and expose corruption in the gaming industry"
],
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"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunt (down or up)",
"learn",
"locate",
"nose out",
"rout (out)",
"rummage",
"run down",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rooter":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roots":{
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"he insists that insecurity is the root of all jealousy"
],
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"cradles",
"fonts",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"origins",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginnings",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"baselines",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the source from which something grows or develops":{
"examples":[
"one would need to go back at least several hundred years to find the root of the entrenched hostility between the neighboring nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"fountainheads",
"germs",
"origins",
"seed",
"seeds",
"seedbeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fonts",
"fountains",
"springs",
"wellheads",
"wells",
"wellsprings",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"geneses",
"inceptions",
"incipiencies",
"launches",
"mornings",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"creations",
"inaugurations",
"originations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an immaterial thing upon which something else rests":{
"examples":[
"an implicit trust in the wisdom of the people is the root of democracy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bases",
"bases",
"bedrocks",
"bottoms",
"cornerstones",
"footings",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"keystones",
"underpinnings",
"warp and woofs",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorages",
"beds",
"braces",
"bulwarks",
"buttresses",
"frameworks",
"infrastructures",
"mounts",
"props",
"shores",
"stays",
"substrata",
"substructures",
"supports",
"assumptions",
"justifications",
"premises",
"premisses",
"presumptions",
"presuppositions",
"rationales",
"suppositions",
"theories",
"theses",
"warrants",
"backbones",
"centers",
"cores",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"kernels",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"seats",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"touchstones"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"at root , it's a question of the proper limits, if any, of free speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"bull's-eyes",
"bullseyes",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"points",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter":{
"examples":[
"rooted the post securely in the dirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"beds",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"enroots",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"fixes",
"impacts",
"implants",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"lodges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imbues",
"infuses",
"instills",
"beats (into)",
"drives (into)",
"establishes",
"places",
"puts",
"settles",
"sticks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"ejects",
"expels",
"detaches",
"disconnects",
"disengages",
"removes"
],
"antonyms":[
"dislodges",
"roots (out)",
"uproots"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rooves":{
"a raised covering over something for decoration or protection":{
"examples":[
"the roof of the pavilion leaks when it rains"
],
"synonyms":[
"awning",
"canopy",
"ceiling",
"cover",
"tent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"marquee",
"pavilion",
"arbor",
"bower",
"pergola",
"screen",
"shade",
"shelter",
"shield",
"sunshade",
"umbrella",
"canvas",
"canvass",
"fly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the place where one lives":{
"examples":[
"as long as you're living under my roof , you'll obey my rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"abode",
"diggings",
"domicile",
"dwelling",
"fireside",
"habitation",
"hearth",
"hearthstone",
"home",
"house",
"lodging",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"bungalow",
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"double-wide",
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"domicile",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"room",
"shelter",
"take in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"evict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ropes (in)":{
"as in draws in , persuades":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roquelaure":{
"as in pelisse , pelerine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burnoose",
"burnous",
"capelet",
"capuchin",
"cowl",
"domino",
"joseph",
"manta",
"mantelet",
"mantilla",
"palatine",
"pelerine",
"pelisse",
"poncho",
"tippet",
"cape",
"capote",
"cloak",
"frock",
"manteau",
"mantle",
"serape",
"sarape",
"shawl",
"stole",
"wrap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rose (to)":{
"as in clapped , bravoed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bravoed",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"acclaimed",
"accredited",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"cracked up",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"ballyhooed",
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"favored",
"recommended",
"rooted (for)",
"supported",
"celebrated",
"emblazoned",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"sang",
"sung",
"adulated",
"belauded",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"deified",
"idolized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"discommended",
"disparaged",
"put down",
"blamed",
"censured",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"criticized",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"castigated",
"excoriated",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"skewered",
"slagged",
"vilified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rotary":{
"as in circle , roundabout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"roundabout",
"traffic circle",
"cloverleaf",
"interchange",
"overpass",
"underpass",
"carrefour",
"corner",
"crossing",
"crossroad",
"crossway(s)",
"intersection",
"junction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotary-wing aircraft":{
"as in rotorcraft":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rotorcraft",
"chopper",
"copter",
"eggbeater",
"helicopter",
"helo",
"whirlybird",
"autogiro",
"autogyro",
"convertiplane",
"convertaplane",
"gyroplane",
"tilt-rotor",
"slick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"rotate":{
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"rotate the mirror 180 degrees"
],
"synonyms":[
"pivot",
"revolve",
"roll",
"spin",
"swing",
"swirl",
"swivel",
"turn",
"twirl",
"twist",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screw",
"unscrew",
"twiddle",
"coil",
"crank",
"reel",
"wind",
"circulate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"with mirrors on three sides, she rotated all around to see how the dress looked on her"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrate",
"pinwheel",
"pirouette",
"revolve",
"roll",
"spin",
"turn",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coil",
"curl",
"curve",
"round",
"spiral",
"swirl",
"twine",
"twist",
"wind",
"circle",
"circulate",
"encircle",
"orbit",
"ring",
"pivot",
"swivel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rotation":{
"a rapid turning about on an axis or central point":{
"examples":[
"the Earth completes a single rotation around its axis in approximately 24 hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyration",
"pirouette",
"reel",
"revolution",
"roll",
"spin",
"twirl",
"wheel",
"whirl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuit",
"circulation",
"ring",
"round",
"coil",
"curl",
"curve",
"spiral",
"twist",
"whorl",
"circle",
"orbit",
"eddy",
"swirl"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotters":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the dirty rotter dumped his wife to marry his secretary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
],
"related":[
"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"beasts",
"bleeders",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buggers",
"buzzards",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotund":{
"having an excess of body fat":{
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"examples":[
"a rotund little man who, predictably, was asked to play Santa every year"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"related":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"round",
"tubby"
]
},
"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actor's distinct baritone and his clear and rotund elocution are especially effective in dramatic readings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cavernous",
"hollow",
"faint",
"low",
"murmurous",
"muted",
"smothered",
"soft",
"weak",
"thin",
"tinny"
],
"related":[
"deep",
"full",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"plummy",
"rich",
"loud",
"powerful",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden",
"orotund",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"ringing",
"round",
"sonorous",
"vibrant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rough-and-ready":{
"hastily or roughly constructed":{
"examples":[
"a rough-and-ready shack that the explorers threw together as winter approached"
],
"synonyms":[
"artless",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"jerry-built",
"jerry-rigged",
"jury-rigged",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"unrefined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"imprecise",
"inexact",
"inartistic",
"undressed",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"unworked",
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"unprofessional",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"primitive",
"rudimentary",
"unshaped",
"unshapen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faultless",
"finished",
"flawless",
"meticulous",
"perfect",
"perfected",
"polished",
"well-done",
"adept",
"adroit",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"expert",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"neat",
"practiced",
"practised",
"skillful",
"workmanlike",
"artful",
"artistic",
"sophisticated",
"exact",
"precise"
],
"antonyms":[
"refined"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rough-edged":{
"as in vulgar , uncouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"roughed":{
"as in beat , chopped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"biffed",
"bludgeoned",
"bobbed",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clipped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"hammered",
"hit",
"knocked",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"tagged",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"zapped",
"scuffed",
"bunted",
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"bumped",
"butted",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"rabbit-punched",
"sucker punched",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"lashed",
"sapped",
"slashed",
"sledged",
"sledgehammered",
"speared",
"stabbed",
"switched",
"thrashed",
"whipped",
"beaned",
"brained",
"conked",
"skulled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roughhousing":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"roughhousing was simply part of growing up in a family with four boys"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in wrestling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wrestling",
"abusing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"mistreating",
"misusing",
"bashing",
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"drubbing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"slapping",
"thrashing",
"maltreating",
"manhandling",
"mauling",
"mishandling",
"roughing (up)",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring",
"wounding",
"oppressing",
"persecuting",
"wronging",
"ambushing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"clobbering",
"fighting",
"ganging up (on)",
"hitting",
"jumping",
"knocking",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caressing",
"fondling",
"petting",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"caring (for)",
"fostering",
"nurturing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in joyriding , skylarking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"joyriding",
"skylarking",
"clowning",
"cutting up",
"kiting",
"carrying on",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roistering",
"curvetting",
"curveting",
"dancing",
"prancing",
"bounding",
"hopping",
"leaping",
"loping",
"skipping",
"springing",
"tripping",
"tumbling",
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"larking",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"sporting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moping",
"pouting",
"stewing",
"sulking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roughing":{
"as in beating , chopping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roughing (up)":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to abuse physically":{
"examples":[
"the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club"
],
"synonyms":[
"maltreating",
"manhandling",
"mauling",
"mishandling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abusing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"mistreating",
"misusing",
"roughhousing",
"wrestling",
"bashing",
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"drubbing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"slapping",
"thrashing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring",
"wounding",
"oppressing",
"persecuting",
"wronging",
"ambushing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"clobbering",
"fighting",
"ganging up (on)",
"hitting",
"jumping",
"knocking",
"tormenting",
"torturing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caressing",
"fondling",
"petting",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"caring (for)",
"fostering",
"nurturing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roughly":{
"close to but not exactly":{
"antonyms":[
"exactly",
"precisely"
],
"examples":[
"roughly 80% of the country's population is of that faith"
],
"near antonyms":[
"due",
"even",
"just",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely"
],
"related":[
"generally",
"kind of",
"loosely",
"nearly",
"nominally",
"practically",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"approximately",
"around",
"like",
"more or less",
"much",
"near",
"plus or minus",
"say",
"some"
]
},
"in a manner so as to cause loss or suffering":{
"antonyms":[
"clemently",
"gently",
"leniently",
"lightly",
"mildly",
"softly"
],
"examples":[
"if you treat the machine roughly , it will of course break"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benevolently",
"benignantly",
"considerately",
"cordially",
"graciously",
"kindly",
"lovingly",
"tenderly",
"charitably",
"compassionately",
"humanely",
"mercifully",
"softheartedly",
"sympathetically",
"tolerantly",
"understandingly"
],
"related":[
"callously",
"cold-bloodedly",
"hard-heartedly",
"heartlessly",
"inhumanely",
"inhumanly",
"insensately",
"insensitively",
"mercilessly",
"obdurately",
"pitilessly",
"ruthlessly",
"tyrannically",
"uncharitably",
"unfeelingly",
"unmercifully",
"unsparingly",
"abusively",
"brutishly",
"savagely",
"viciously",
"aggressively",
"assertively",
"decidedly",
"determinedly",
"firmly",
"grimly",
"gruffly",
"resolutely",
"strongly",
"toughly"
],
"synonyms":[
"brutally",
"hard",
"hardly",
"harshly",
"ill",
"oppressively",
"severely",
"sternly",
"stiffly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"roughneck":{
"lacking in refinement or good taste":{
"examples":[
"their roughneck antics were amusing only if you were as drunk as they were"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"illiberal",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"animallike",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
"antonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"a group of roughnecks like to hang out at the roadhouse and harass people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"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":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"roughshod":{
"without thinking or caring about the opinions, rights, or feelings of others":{
"examples":[
"The demanding boss ran roughshod over her demoralized employees."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"robustly",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"eagerly",
"gamely",
"heartily",
"lustily",
"snappily",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"vivaciously",
"decidedly",
"determinedly",
"directly",
"emphatically",
"fast",
"fixedly",
"intensively",
"intently",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"rigidly",
"smartly",
"solidly",
"soundly",
"squarely",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"sturdily",
"surely",
"aggressively",
"assertively",
"manfully",
"potently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"shakily",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly",
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"round (off or out)":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"antonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
"start"
],
"examples":[
"I'll round off the meeting here and let everyone get an early start on the weekend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"climax",
"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
"halt",
"stop",
"suspend"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
]
},
"to serve as a completing element to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"coffee and dessert rounded out the meal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"finish (off)",
"flesh (out)",
"adorn",
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"form",
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"bushwhack",
"charge",
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"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
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"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"
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"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
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"conferences",
"councils",
"forums",
"fora",
"panel discussions",
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"parleys",
"roundtables",
"round tables",
"seminars",
"symposia",
"symposiums"
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"colloquia",
"caucuses",
"town meetings",
"assemblies",
"conclaves",
"congregations",
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"consistories",
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"convocations",
"synods",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"brainstormings",
"chat rooms",
"newsgroups"
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"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
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"noun"
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"rounding":{
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],
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"balling",
"rolling",
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"clumping",
"lumping",
"beading",
"pearling",
"pelleting",
"pelletizing",
"sphering"
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"opening",
"smoothing",
"spreading",
"unfolding"
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"to travel completely around":{
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"a monorail for visitors that rounds the park"
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"circuiting",
"circumnavigating",
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"compassing",
"encircling",
"girdling",
"orbiting",
"ringing"
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"crossing",
"perambulating",
"traversing"
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"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
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"rounded on the track and headed for the finish line"
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"arcing",
"bending",
"bowing",
"crooking",
"curving",
"falling off",
"hooking",
"sweeping",
"swerving",
"trending",
"wheeling"
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"coiling",
"curlicuing",
"curling",
"looping",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"turning",
"twisting",
"winding",
"deviating",
"veering"
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"closing out",
"completing",
"concluding",
"ending",
"finishing",
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"winding up",
"wrapping up"
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"crowning",
"consummating",
"perfecting",
"halting",
"stopping",
"suspending"
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"antonyms":[
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"commencing",
"inaugurating",
"opening",
"starting"
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"beautifying",
"decorating",
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"bettering",
"enhancing",
"improving",
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"forming",
"making up",
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"circles",
"eyes",
"hoops",
"loops",
"rings"
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"cinctures",
"collars",
"girdles",
"wreaths",
"annulets",
"beckets",
"coils",
"curls",
"furls",
"hanks",
"spirals",
"spires",
"twirls",
"whorls"
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"a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order":{
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"cycles",
"merry-go-rounds",
"wheels",
"zodiacs"
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"patterns",
"syndromes",
"courses",
"developments",
"progressions",
"runs",
"beats",
"circuits",
"loops",
"rings",
"revolutions",
"rotations",
"turnovers",
"turns",
"chains",
"sequences",
"series",
"strings",
"successions",
"trains"
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"something with a perfectly round circumference":{
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"use a cookie cutter to make the rounds of dough"
],
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"cirques",
"rings",
"roundels"
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"ringlets",
"ellipses",
"loops",
"ovals",
"balls",
"globes",
"orbs",
"spheres"
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},
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"carefully rounded the dough and placed it on a cookie tray"
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"agglomerates",
"balls",
"rolls",
"wads"
],
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"clumps",
"lumps",
"beads",
"pearls",
"pelletizes",
"pellets",
"spheres"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattens",
"opens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"spreads",
"unfolds"
],
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"unrolls"
]
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"to travel completely around":{
"examples":[
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"circuits",
"circumnavigates",
"circumvents",
"compasses",
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"girdles",
"orbits",
"rings"
],
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"crosses",
"perambulates",
"traverses"
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"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
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"rounded on the track and headed for the finish line"
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"arcs",
"bends",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curves",
"falls off",
"hooks",
"sweeps",
"swerves",
"trends",
"wheels"
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"coils",
"curlicues",
"curls",
"loops",
"spirals",
"turns",
"twists",
"winds",
"deviates",
"veers"
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"antonyms":[
"straightens"
]
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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"to bring together in one body or place":{
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"rounded everyone up for one final training session"
],
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"amasses",
"assembles",
"bulks (up)",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"congregates",
"constellates",
"corrals",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"lumps",
"picks up"
],
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"balls",
"batches",
"bunches",
"clusters",
"huddles",
"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks",
"bands",
"brigades",
"musters",
"raises",
"rallies",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hives",
"packs",
"presses",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"combines",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"merges",
"pools",
"unites",
"archives",
"arranges",
"collates",
"compiles",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"re-collects",
"regathers",
"regroups"
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"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits (up)",
"dismisses",
"sends"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"roundtables":{
"a meeting featuring a group discussion":{
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"examples":[
"an international roundtable of medical experts on the disease"
],
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"related":[
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"colloquia",
"caucuses",
"town meetings",
"assemblies",
"conclaves",
"congregations",
"congresses",
"consistories",
"conventions",
"convocations",
"synods",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"brainstormings",
"chat rooms",
"newsgroups"
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"conferences",
"councils",
"forums",
"fora",
"panel discussions",
"panels",
"parleys",
"round-robins",
"seminars",
"symposia",
"symposiums"
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"noun"
]
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"rouse":{
"to cause to stop sleeping":{
"antonyms":[
"lull"
],
"examples":[
"the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize"
],
"related":[
"roust",
"rout",
"raise",
"revive",
"reawaken",
"rewake",
"agitate",
"bestir",
"disturb",
"excite",
"provoke",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"knock up",
"wake",
"waken"
]
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"to cease to be asleep":{
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"examples":[
"I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catnap",
"conk (off or out)",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"bed (down)",
"couch",
"doss (down)",
"flop",
"kip (down)",
"retire",
"sack out",
"turn in",
"lie up",
"sleep in",
"oversleep"
],
"related":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"roll out",
"turn out",
"uprise",
"watch",
"revive",
"reawaken",
"rewake",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"wake",
"waken"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
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"roused":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
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"to cause to stop sleeping":{
"antonyms":[
"lulled"
],
"examples":[
"the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep"
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"near antonyms":[
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized"
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"related":[
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"routed",
"raised",
"revived",
"reawakened",
"rewaked",
"rewoke",
"agitated",
"bestirred",
"disturbed",
"excited",
"provoked",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
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"synonyms":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"knocked up",
"wakened",
"woke",
"waked"
]
},
"to cease to be asleep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late"
],
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"catnapped",
"conked (off or out)",
"dozed",
"dropped off",
"napped",
"nodded",
"rested",
"slept",
"slumbered",
"snoozed",
"bedded (down)",
"couched",
"dossed (down)",
"flopped",
"kipped (down)",
"retired",
"sacked out",
"turned in",
"lay up",
"slept in",
"overslept"
],
"related":[
"arose",
"got up",
"rolled out",
"rose",
"turned out",
"uprose",
"watched",
"revived",
"reawakened",
"rewaked",
"rewoke",
"shifted",
"stirred"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"wakened",
"woke",
"waked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"routine":{
"a performance regularly presented by an individual or group":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"did a tired routine that's been around since the days of vaudeville"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"signature"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"bit",
"number",
"shtick",
"schtick",
"shtik",
"turn"
]
},
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"part of my morning routine is drinking a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"daily dozen",
"regimen",
"housekeeping",
"custom",
"fashion",
"habit",
"practice",
"practise",
"trick",
"wont",
"approach",
"manner",
"method",
"procedure",
"strategy",
"style",
"tack",
"technique",
"way",
"design",
"plan",
"program",
"scheme",
"convention",
"policy",
"tradition"
],
"synonyms":[
"drill",
"grind",
"groove",
"lockstep",
"pattern",
"rote",
"rut",
"treadmill"
]
},
"being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events":{
"antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"odd",
"out-of-the-way",
"strange",
"unusual"
],
"examples":[
"this is just a routine inspection"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curious",
"funny",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"aberrant",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"irregular",
"untypical",
"rare",
"recherch\u00e9",
"scarce",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"phenomenal",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"Kafkaesque",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"eccentric",
"idiosyncratic",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"nonconformist",
"oddball",
"offbeat",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"freak",
"freakish",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"novel",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"signal",
"striking",
"unexampled",
"unprecedented",
"singular",
"unique",
"unparalleled"
],
"related":[
"regular",
"typical",
"unextraordinary",
"familiar",
"homely",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"popular",
"vulgar",
"natural",
"customary",
"wonted",
"insignificant",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"cut-and-dried",
"cut-and-dry",
"everyday",
"garden-variety",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"standard-issue",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
]
},
"following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules":{
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"freewheeling",
"informal",
"irregular",
"unceremonious",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"examples":[
"the routine procedure for filing a complaint with the board"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unauthorized",
"unofficial",
"graceless",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"inept",
"infelicitous",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unfit",
"unhappy",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable"
],
"related":[
"authorized",
"certified",
"official",
"sanctioned",
"accepted",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"formalistic",
"ritual",
"ritualistic",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"orderly",
"systematic"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceremonial",
"ceremonious",
"conventional",
"formal",
"orthodox",
"regular"
]
},
"often observed or encountered":{
"antonyms":[
"extraordinary",
"infrequent",
"rare",
"seldom",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unusual"
],
"examples":[
"the movie is a routine thriller that has little to recommend it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"irregular",
"unnatural",
"intermittent",
"occasional",
"sporadic"
],
"related":[
"normal",
"regular",
"standard",
"de rigueur",
"mandatory",
"obligatory",
"general",
"universal",
"ceaseless",
"constant",
"continual",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unceasing",
"endemic",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"rampant",
"perennial",
"recurrent",
"repeated"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"common or garden",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"frequent",
"garden-variety",
"household",
"ordinary",
"quotidian",
"ubiquitous",
"usual"
]
},
"something done over and over in order to develop skill":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a weapons training routine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assignment",
"homework",
"lesson",
"brushup",
"refresher",
"review"
],
"synonyms":[
"drill",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"training",
"workout"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"row":{
"a series of people or things arranged side by side":{
"examples":[
"stood in a row to have their picture taken",
"three rows of eight jelly beans equals 24 jelly beans"
],
"synonyms":[
"bank",
"rank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chain",
"column",
"cue",
"file",
"line",
"procession",
"queue",
"range",
"string",
"train",
"echelon",
"tier",
"array",
"concatenation",
"sequence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"drive up Market Row and turn left"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"a county fair that had a long history of bloody rows"
],
"synonyms":[
"affray",
"brawl",
"broil",
"donnybrook",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"rough-and-tumble",
"ruckus",
"ruction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the combination of drums and shouting contributed to the awful row"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions":{
"examples":[
"he had a row with his girlfriend yesterday, and now they aren't speaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercation",
"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"battle royal",
"bicker",
"brawl",
"contretemps",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"donnybrook",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"imbroglio",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"rhubarb",
"scrap",
"set-to",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clash",
"run-in",
"skirmish",
"tangle",
"tussle",
"logomachy",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"attack",
"contention",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"debate",
"difference",
"disputation",
"fuss",
"objection",
"protest",
"protestation",
"affray",
"fisticuffs",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"catfight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move a boat by means of oars":{
"examples":[
"rowed around the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"oar",
"paddle",
"scull"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoe",
"kayak",
"pole",
"punt",
"feather",
"pull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"the couple rows all the time, and yet they seem happy together"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercate",
"argue",
"argufy",
"bicker",
"brabble",
"brawl",
"controvert",
"dispute",
"fall out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"jar",
"quarrel",
"quibble",
"scrap",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"clash",
"contend",
"contest",
"tangle",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"nitpick",
"consider",
"debate",
"discuss",
"kick",
"object",
"protest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexist",
"get along",
"accept",
"agree",
"assent",
"concur",
"consent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"royal":{
"fit for or worthy of a royal ruler":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the school superintendent received a royal welcome"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"aristocratic",
"baronial",
"imperial",
"lordly",
"noble",
"patrician",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imposing",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"monumental",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"synonyms":[
"kingly",
"monarchal",
"monarchial",
"monarchical",
"monarchic",
"princely",
"queenly",
"regal"
]
},
"involving minimal difficulty or effort":{
"antonyms":[
"arduous",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"herculean",
"killer",
"labored",
"laborious",
"murderous",
"rough",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"toilful",
"toilsome",
"tough"
],
"examples":[
"unfortunately, there is no royal way for a person to achieve maturity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"troublesome",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite"
],
"related":[
"idiotproof",
"mindless",
"quick",
"straightforward",
"unchallenging",
"uncomplicated",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"distinct",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"downhill",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"fluent",
"fluid",
"hands-down",
"light",
"painless",
"ready",
"simple",
"smooth",
"snap",
"soft"
]
},
"large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
],
"examples":[
"had a royal argument over family finances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lowly",
"modest",
"unprepossessing",
"average",
"common",
"mediocre",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-rate",
"abject",
"mean",
"meretricious",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"paltry",
"petty",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"related":[
"colossal",
"monstrous",
"prodigious",
"stupendous",
"tremendous",
"kingly",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"awesome",
"awful",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"formidable",
"impressive",
"prepossessing",
"redoubtable",
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"inflated",
"operatic",
"overblown",
"pompous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"superb",
"terrific",
"wonderful",
"extravagant",
"lavish",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"palatine",
"sumptuous",
"gorgeous",
"resplendent",
"splendiferous",
"extraordinary",
"killer",
"remarkable",
"sensational",
"striking",
"celestial",
"divine",
"heavenly"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"splendid",
"stately"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rookie":{
"a person who is just starting out in a field of activity":{
"examples":[
"although a star in his old sport of basketball, he was still just a rookie as far as baseball was concerned"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarian",
"apprentice",
"babe",
"beginner",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"novitiate",
"punk",
"recruit",
"rook",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro",
"virgin"
],
"related":[
"boot",
"amateur",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"learner",
"student",
"trainee",
"candidate",
"entrant",
"probationer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expert",
"master",
"pro",
"professional"
],
"antonyms":[
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"vet",
"veteran"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roistered":{
"to take part in drunken revelry":{
"examples":[
"the earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling"
],
"synonyms":[
"binged",
"birled",
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"wassailed"
],
"related":[
"boozed",
"drank",
"guzzled",
"liquored (up)",
"soaked",
"tippled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"routed (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"got",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"learned",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"rooted (out)",
"rummaged",
"scared up",
"scouted (up)",
"tracked (down)",
"turned up"
],
"related":[
"espied",
"sighted",
"spotted",
"looked for",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"misset",
"mis-set"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"passed over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roomed":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"we can room up to four visitors in our two guest bedrooms"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"bestowed",
"billeted",
"bivouacked",
"boarded",
"bunked",
"camped",
"chambered",
"domiciled",
"encamped",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"put up",
"quartered",
"roofed",
"sheltered",
"took in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roach":{
"as in ducktail , comb-over":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle",
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"pompadour",
"quiff",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roguery":{
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"those adolescent rogueries that seemed funny at the time\u2014but only stupid when considered in hindsight"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"playful, reckless behavior that is not intended to cause serious harm":{
"examples":[
"the old fraternity brothers fondly recounted how their roguery used to rile the dean"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"diablerie",
"espi\u00e8glerie",
"hob",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"shenanigan(s)",
"waggery",
"waggishness",
"wickedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diabolicalness",
"misbehavior",
"misconduct",
"naughtiness",
"troublemaking",
"buffoonery",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"chicanery",
"trickery",
"goings-on",
"hanky-panky",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"skylarking",
"tomfoolery",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"antic",
"caper",
"dido",
"practical joke",
"trick",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gravitas",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"role-plays":{
"as in enacts , takes on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acts out",
"enacts",
"pantomimes",
"playacts",
"takes on",
"depicts",
"dramatizes",
"renders",
"represents",
"overacts",
"overplays",
"underplays",
"acts",
"does",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays",
"apes",
"clowns",
"hams",
"imitates",
"masquerades",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"poses (as)",
"stars (in)",
"coacts",
"costars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rover":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"ever since he developed a strong case of wanderlust in college, he's been a rover"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifter",
"gadabout",
"gypsy",
"knockabout",
"maunderer",
"nomad",
"rambler",
"roamer",
"stroller",
"vagabond",
"wanderer",
"wayfarer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggard",
"straggler",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"sojourner",
"bum",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"passenger",
"sightseer",
"traveler",
"traveller",
"migrant",
"transient",
"vagrant",
"ambler",
"saunterer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebody",
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"resident",
"settler"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"someone who engages in robbery of ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"a story of the days when sea rovers plied the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"buccaneer",
"corsair",
"freebooter",
"pirate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoiler",
"looter",
"marauder",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"raider",
"robber",
"privateer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rouses":{
"to cause to stop sleeping":{
"examples":[
"the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"knocks up",
"wakens",
"wakes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rousts",
"routs",
"raises",
"revives",
"reawakens",
"rewakes",
"agitates",
"bestirs",
"disturbs",
"excites",
"provokes",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotizes",
"mesmerizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"lulls"
]
},
"to cease to be asleep":{
"examples":[
"I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"wakens",
"wakes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arises",
"gets up",
"rises",
"rolls out",
"turns out",
"uprises",
"watches",
"revives",
"reawakens",
"rewakes",
"shifts",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catnaps",
"conks (off or out)",
"dozes",
"drops off",
"naps",
"nods",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes",
"beds (down)",
"couches",
"dosses (down)",
"flops",
"kips (down)",
"retires",
"sacks out",
"turns in",
"lies up",
"sleeps in",
"oversleeps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roar":{
"a violent shouting":{
"examples":[
"a roar went up from the crowd when the verdict was read"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamor",
"howl",
"hubbub",
"hue and cry",
"hullabaloo",
"noise",
"outcry",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"vociferation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clangor",
"din",
"jangle",
"racket",
"cri de coeur",
"outburst",
"protest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mumble",
"mumbling",
"murmur",
"murmuring",
"rumble",
"rumbling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound":{
"examples":[
"the roar of the machinery in the factory"
],
"synonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"bowwow",
"brawl",
"bruit",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"decibel(s)",
"din",
"discordance",
"katzenjammer",
"noise",
"racket",
"rattle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discord",
"dissonance",
"commotion",
"furor",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly-burly",
"rumpus",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"clatter",
"jangle",
"bang",
"blast",
"boom",
"clap",
"crack",
"crash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"lull",
"quietude",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[
"quiet",
"silence",
"silentness",
"still",
"stillness"
]
},
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the car's engine roared as it sped away"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellow",
"boom",
"growl",
"thunder"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumble",
"roll",
"rumble",
"bang",
"blare",
"blast",
"peal",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"bawl",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"hoot",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yell",
"bell",
"caterwaul",
"howl",
"wail",
"yowl"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunt",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper",
"mewl",
"pule",
"squeak",
"whimper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"when we arrived at the house we could hear our friend roaring at someone inside, so we discreetly left"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawl",
"bay",
"bellow",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"hollo",
"halloo",
"hallo",
"shout",
"sound off",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crow",
"whoop",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"shrill",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"caterwaul",
"howl",
"ululate",
"wail",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"hail",
"speak out",
"speak up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathe",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"examples":[
"a madcap comedy that had movie audiences roaring all summer long"
],
"synonyms":[
"break up",
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"crack up",
"giggle",
"hee-haw",
"laugh",
"scream",
"snicker",
"titter",
"twitter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grin",
"smile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"weep",
"howl",
"squall",
"wail",
"yowl",
"bleat",
"pule",
"whimper",
"whine",
"sniffle",
"snivel",
"groan",
"moan",
"sigh"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roughening":{
"as in irritating , abrading":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abrading",
"irritating",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"strong",
"grim",
"gruff",
"rude",
"stiff",
"forceful",
"forcible",
"savage",
"violent",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive",
"pitiless",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"exquisite",
"fierce",
"intense",
"powerful",
"severe",
"abrasive",
"caustic",
"coarse",
"hard",
"harsh",
"rough",
"scathing",
"stern",
"ungentle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balmy",
"benign",
"bland",
"delicate",
"gentle",
"light",
"mellow",
"mild",
"nonabrasive",
"soft",
"soothing",
"tender",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"clement",
"compassionate",
"easy",
"lenient",
"merciful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in scuffing , roughing (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coarsening",
"roughing (up)",
"scuffing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffing",
"filing",
"grinding",
"honing",
"rasping",
"rubbing",
"sanding",
"planing",
"scraping",
"sandblasting",
"scouring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rock-ribbed":{
"as in unyielding , unbending":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"callous",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"hard-line",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"merciless",
"ossified",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"stiff",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving",
"dour",
"gruff",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"austere",
"authoritarian",
"flinty",
"hard",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ramrod",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"determined",
"firm",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"dogged",
"intractable",
"obstinate",
"relentless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clement",
"forbearing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"lax",
"lenient",
"tolerant",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undemanding",
"charitable",
"kind",
"merciful",
"mild",
"patient",
"soft",
"softhearted",
"accepting",
"compromising",
"yielding",
"responsive",
"willing",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"compliant",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rose":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the snow accumulation is rising at an alarming rate"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"to leave one's bed":{
"examples":[
"I generally rise around six and leave for work by seven"
],
"synonyms":[
"arose",
"got up",
"rolled out",
"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 move or extend upward":{
"examples":[
"mountains majestically rising towards the sky"
],
"synonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"aspired",
"climbed",
"lifted",
"mounted",
"soared",
"thrust",
"upped",
"upreared",
"uprose",
"upthrusted",
"upturned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surged",
"towered",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upheaved",
"uplifted",
"upraised",
"ballooned",
"blasted off",
"took off",
"zoomed",
"crested",
"scaled",
"surmounted",
"topped",
"canted",
"inclined",
"leaned",
"listed",
"reclined",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dived",
"dove",
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slid"
],
"antonyms":[
"declined",
"descended",
"dipped",
"dropped",
"fell (off)",
"plunged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rolls back":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"abolishes",
"abrogates",
"annuls",
"avoids",
"cancels",
"disannuls",
"dissolves",
"invalidates",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"nulls",
"quashes",
"repeals",
"rescinds",
"strikes down",
"vacates",
"voids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overrules",
"overturns",
"vetoes",
"aborts",
"calls",
"calls off",
"drops",
"recalls",
"retracts",
"reverses",
"revokes",
"suspends",
"withdraws",
"bans",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"outlaws",
"prohibits",
"disallows",
"dismisses",
"rejects",
"annihilates",
"breaks down",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"liquidates",
"removes",
"throws out",
"writes off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacts",
"lays down",
"legislates",
"establishes",
"founds",
"institutes",
"formalizes",
"legalizes",
"legitimates",
"legitimizes",
"validates",
"passes",
"ratifies",
"allows",
"approves",
"authorizes",
"clears",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"permits",
"sanctions",
"warrants",
"commands",
"decrees",
"mandates",
"orders",
"prescribes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roamer":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"the couple retired, sold their house, and became carefree roamers in an RV"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifter",
"gadabout",
"gypsy",
"knockabout",
"maunderer",
"nomad",
"rambler",
"rover",
"stroller",
"vagabond",
"wanderer",
"wayfarer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggard",
"straggler",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"sojourner",
"bum",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"passenger",
"sightseer",
"traveler",
"traveller",
"migrant",
"transient",
"vagrant",
"ambler",
"saunterer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebody",
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"resident",
"settler"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"round":{
"a circular strip":{
"examples":[
"a round of steel to reinforce the wooden beam"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"circle",
"eye",
"hoop",
"loop",
"ring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belt",
"cincture",
"collar",
"girdle",
"wreath",
"annulet",
"becket",
"coil",
"curl",
"furl",
"hank",
"spiral",
"spire",
"twirl",
"whorl"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order":{
"examples":[
"a busy round of parties during the holiday season"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"cycle",
"merry-go-round",
"wheel",
"zodiac"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pattern",
"syndrome",
"course",
"development",
"progression",
"run",
"beat",
"circuit",
"loop",
"ring",
"revolution",
"rotation",
"turn",
"turnover",
"chain",
"sequence",
"series",
"string",
"succession",
"train"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something with a perfectly round circumference":{
"examples":[
"use a cookie cutter to make the rounds of dough"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"cirque",
"ring",
"roundel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circlet",
"ringlet",
"ellipse",
"loop",
"oval",
"ball",
"globe",
"orb",
"sphere"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having every part of the surface the same distance from the center":{
"examples":[
"round billiard balls",
"the earth is not perfectly round"
],
"synonyms":[
"global",
"globular",
"spherical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annular",
"circular",
"disciform",
"discoid",
"discoidal",
"disklike",
"hooplike",
"ringlike",
"curved",
"looped",
"spiral",
"balled",
"bulbous",
"rotund",
"rounded",
"roundish",
"cylindrical",
"cylindric",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"oblong",
"oval",
"ovate",
"ovoid",
"ovoidal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"a round little grandmother who was a natural to play Mrs. Claus"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
]
},
"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
"examples":[
"an organ with a beautifully round sound"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden",
"orotund",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"ringing",
"rotund",
"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":[]
},
"being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent":{
"examples":[
"a round dozen eggs"
],
"synonyms":[
"even",
"exact",
"flat",
"precise"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"approximate",
"comparative",
"near",
"relative",
"imprecise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"from beginning to end":{
"examples":[
"people working there all year round"
],
"synonyms":[
"around",
"over",
"through",
"throughout"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"on all sides or in every direction":{
"examples":[
"gather round and listen to my story"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"around"
],
"near synonyms":[
"all over",
"everyplace",
"everywhere",
"abroad",
"afloat",
"hereabouts",
"hereabout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"toward the opposite direction":{
"examples":[
"turned round to see who was calling out"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"around",
"back",
"backward",
"backwards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behind",
"down",
"downward",
"downwards",
"rearward",
"rearwards",
"obversely",
"reversely",
"across",
"athwart",
"counter",
"counterclockwise",
"widdershins",
"withershins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clockwise",
"deasil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"in random positions within the boundaries of":{
"examples":[
"talked to voters round the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"across",
"around",
"over",
"through",
"throughout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"on"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"carefully rounded the dough and placed it on a cookie tray"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"ball",
"roll",
"wad"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunch",
"clump",
"lump",
"bead",
"pearl",
"pellet",
"pelletize",
"sphere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flatten",
"open",
"smooth",
"spread",
"unfold"
],
"antonyms":[
"unroll"
]
},
"to travel completely around":{
"examples":[
"a monorail for visitors that rounds the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"circuit",
"circumnavigate",
"circumvent",
"compass",
"encircle",
"girdle",
"orbit",
"ring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circumambulate",
"cross",
"perambulate",
"traverse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"rounded on the track and headed for the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"arc",
"arch",
"bend",
"bow",
"crook",
"curve",
"fall off",
"hook",
"sweep",
"swerve",
"trend",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"coil",
"curlicue",
"curl",
"loop",
"spiral",
"turn",
"twist",
"wind",
"deviate",
"veer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straighten"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"preposition",
"verb"
]
},
"romanced":{
"as in sparked , attended":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attended",
"gallanted",
"sparked",
"wooed",
"courted",
"dated",
"escorted",
"saw",
"took out",
"stepped out",
"went out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roots (for)":{
"as in supports , approves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"favors",
"recommends",
"supports",
"ballyhoos",
"celebrates",
"emblazons",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"sings",
"bravoes",
"claps",
"rises (to)",
"adulates",
"belauds",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"acclaims",
"accredits",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"cracks up",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts",
"deifies",
"idolizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocks",
"pans",
"slams",
"belittles",
"discommends",
"disparages",
"puts down",
"blames",
"censures",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"admonishes",
"chides",
"criticizes",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"reproves",
"castigates",
"excoriates",
"keelhauls",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"skewers",
"slags",
"vilifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rotten":{
"having undergone organic breakdown":{
"examples":[
"rotten , smelly meat that should have been thrown out"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"putrid",
"spoiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"mildewy",
"moldering",
"moldy",
"putrefying",
"putrescent",
"rotting",
"gangrenous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[
"undecomposed"
]
},
"not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable":{
"examples":[
"played a rotten trick and then lied about it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"disreputable",
"evil-minded",
"ignoble",
"ill",
"infernal",
"low",
"mean",
"snide",
"sordid",
"atrocious",
"cruel",
"infamous",
"nasty",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"objectionable",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"low-minded",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"scrofulous",
"sick",
"unhealthy",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"defiling",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"pestilential",
"ugly",
"ungodly",
"unwholesome",
"banned",
"barred",
"condemned",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"illegal",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"unauthorized",
"unclean",
"disallowed",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"vulgar",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"high",
"high-minded",
"law-abiding",
"legitimate",
"lofty",
"noble",
"principled",
"reputable",
"scrupulous",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"clean",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless",
"legitimate",
"chaste",
"immaculate",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"lily-white",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"unfallen",
"unobjectionable",
"venerable",
"white",
"wholesome",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy"
],
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"sublime",
"upright",
"virtuous"
]
},
"not giving pleasure to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"had a rotten time while on vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bitter",
"disagreeable",
"displeasing",
"distasteful",
"harsh",
"icky",
"nasty",
"sour",
"uncongenial",
"unlovely",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unpleasing",
"unsavory",
"unwelcome",
"wicked",
"yucky",
"yukky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"beastly",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"ghastly",
"gnarly",
"god-awful",
"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",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"galling",
"irritating",
"vexing",
"crappy",
"cruddy",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"sucky",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"dreamy",
"felicitous",
"amiable",
"charming",
"cheery",
"friendly",
"jolly",
"kindly",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"congenial",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome"
]
},
"extremely unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"rotten housing conditions that no one should be forced to tolerate"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"dismal",
"execrable",
"horrible",
"lousy",
"punk",
"sucky",
"terrible",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"deficient",
"inferior",
"off",
"poor",
"substandard",
"wanting",
"contemptible",
"miserable",
"shameful",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"low-grade",
"mediocre",
"reprehensible",
"second-rate",
"bum",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"abominable",
"damnable",
"fiendish",
"odious",
"vile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choice",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"premium",
"prime",
"superior",
"adequate",
"sufficient",
"acceptable",
"satisfactory"
],
"antonyms":[
"bitchin'",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
]
},
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"I can't do anything with these rotten tools"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rockaways":{
"as in hackneys , surreys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rode":{
"to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults":{
"examples":[
"that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"baited",
"hassled",
"hazed",
"heckled",
"needled",
"taunted",
"teased"
],
"near synonyms":[
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"mocked",
"ridiculed",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"fretted",
"frosted",
"galled",
"gnawed (at)",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"hagrode",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"nagged",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"troubled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"aggravated",
"exasperated",
"goaded",
"tested",
"tried",
"aggrieved",
"agitated",
"bedeviled",
"beleaguered",
"discomforted",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"badgered",
"dogged",
"hounded",
"browbeat",
"bullied",
"hectored",
"harassed",
"harried",
"persecuted",
"plagued",
"terrorized",
"tormented",
"tortured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"examples":[
"his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaffed",
"jived",
"joked",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"roasted",
"teased"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantered",
"fooled",
"funned",
"strung along",
"jested",
"quipped",
"wisecracked",
"gagged",
"japed",
"jollied",
"yukked",
"yucked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"examples":[
"a condor riding high in the sky"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"glided",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"sailed",
"swam",
"wafted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"dangled",
"suspended",
"buoyed",
"ballooned",
"rafted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dived",
"dove",
"lunged",
"plunged",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"submerged",
"submersed"
],
"antonyms":[
"sank",
"sunk",
"settled"
]
},
"to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)":{
"examples":[
"our plan for the party rides on whether he can come"
],
"synonyms":[
"depended",
"hinged",
"hung",
"hanged",
"turned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"based",
"established",
"founded",
"rested",
"stayed",
"grounded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rodomontade":{
"boastful speech or writing":{
"examples":[
"for all of its jingoistic rodomontade , the government had no thought-out plan for the war and its aftermath"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"bull",
"cockalorum",
"fanfaronade",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oratory",
"rhapsody",
"rhetoric",
"pomposity",
"turgidity",
"wind",
"bloviation",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"jawing",
"patter",
"prating",
"yammering",
"egotism",
"self-conceit",
"self-importance",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rounded (off or out)":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"closed",
"closed out",
"completed",
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"climaxed",
"crowned",
"consummated",
"perfected",
"halted",
"stopped",
"suspended"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"began",
"commenced",
"inaugurated",
"opened",
"started"
]
},
"to serve as a completing element to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"complemented",
"completed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"finished (off)",
"fleshed (out)",
"adorned",
"beautified",
"decorated",
"embellished",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"improved",
"constituted",
"formed",
"made up",
"enriched",
"perfected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"roustabout":{
"one who loads and unloads ships at a port":{
"examples":[
"sought work as a roustabout on the city's seedy waterfront"
],
"synonyms":[
"docker",
"dockhand",
"dockworker",
"longshoreman",
"rouster",
"stevedore"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"robing":{
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"robed the queen in her ceremonial garments"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking (out)",
"doing up",
"dressing",
"dressing up",
"enrobing",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"getting up",
"gowning",
"habiting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"suiting",
"togging (up or out)",
"toileting",
"vesturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaking",
"frocking",
"jacketing",
"mantling",
"vesting",
"draping",
"enswathing",
"happing",
"huddling",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"wrapping",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"bedighting",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"habilitating",
"outfitting",
"tailoring",
"uniforming",
"dressing down",
"underdressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuding",
"divesting",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarraying",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"unclothing",
"undressing",
"untrussing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roundness":{
"as in approximation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"approximation",
"coarseness",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"roughness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"incorrectness",
"wrongness",
"carelessness",
"guesswork",
"looseness",
"indefiniteness",
"vagueness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"closeness",
"delicacy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness",
"nicety",
"perfection",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"ultraprecision",
"veracity",
"correctness",
"fidelity",
"rightness",
"strictness",
"truth",
"definiteness",
"definitiveness",
"definitude",
"determinacy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rookies":{
"a person who is just starting out in a field of activity":{
"examples":[
"although a star in his old sport of basketball, he was still just a rookie as far as baseball was concerned"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarians",
"apprentices",
"babes",
"beginners",
"colts",
"cubs",
"fledglings",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"neophytes",
"newbies",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"novitiates",
"punks",
"recruits",
"rooks",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros",
"virgins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boots",
"amateurs",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"learners",
"students",
"trainees",
"candidates",
"entrants",
"probationers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"experts",
"masters",
"professionals",
"pros"
],
"antonyms":[
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"vets"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"romanticize":{
"to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant":{
"examples":[
"he romanticized what life in a small town would be like, only to be later disappointed when reality intruded"
],
"synonyms":[
"glamorize",
"glamourize",
"glamour (up)",
"glorify",
"idealize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heroicize",
"heroize",
"euphemize",
"poeticize",
"soften",
"sweeten",
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"idolize",
"aggrandize",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"enthrone",
"magnify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittle",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[
"deglamorize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"romanticist":{
"one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world":{
"examples":[
"those romanticists who seem to be perpetually surprised by mean or criminal behavior"
],
"synonyms":[
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"daydreamer",
"fantasizer",
"woolgatherer",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"do-gooder",
"reformer",
"perfectionist",
"doctrinaire",
"theorist",
"thinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rococo":{
"as in baroque , arabesque":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arabesque",
"baroque",
"bedizened",
"florid",
"fussy",
"gingerbread",
"gingerbreaded",
"gingerbready",
"ornate",
"overdecorated",
"overwrought",
"extravagant",
"flamboyant",
"spectacular",
"splashy",
"bedaubed",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"loud",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"showy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"elaborate",
"extreme",
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"decked",
"decorated",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"enriched",
"garnished",
"ornamented",
"trimmed",
"flowery",
"frilly",
"lacy",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"bejeweled",
"bejewelled",
"bossed",
"chased",
"emblazoned",
"embossed",
"embroidered",
"flounced",
"fringed",
"garlanded",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"laced",
"sequined",
"sequinned",
"wreathed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"austere",
"plain",
"severe",
"stark",
"unadorned",
"bare",
"denuded",
"exposed",
"naked",
"stripped",
"uncovered",
"modest",
"simple",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"conservative",
"muted",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"tasteful",
"toned-down",
"understated",
"unobtrusive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"roots (out)":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a concerted effort to root out prejudice of any kind in the armed services"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blacks out",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"a dog rooting out a buried toy"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrews",
"extracts",
"pries",
"prizes",
"pulls",
"tears (out)",
"uproots",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"yanks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mines",
"plucks",
"removes",
"takes (out)",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implants",
"inserts",
"installs",
"instills",
"crams",
"jams",
"rams",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"a journalist seeking to root out and expose corruption in the gaming industry"
],
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"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs out",
"digs up",
"discovers",
"dredges (up)",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"hunts (down or up)",
"learns",
"locates",
"noses out",
"routs (out)",
"rummages",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"scouts (up)",
"tracks (down)",
"turns up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espies",
"sights",
"spots",
"looks for",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses",
"mislays",
"misplaces",
"missets"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"passes over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rouged":{
"as in incarnadined , ruddled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadined",
"ruddled",
"bloomed",
"blushed",
"colored",
"crimsoned",
"flushed",
"glowed",
"reddened",
"abashed",
"chagrined",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"humiliated",
"mortified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roasts":{
"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"examples":[
"playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaffs",
"jives",
"jokes",
"joshes",
"kids",
"rallies",
"razzes",
"ribs",
"rides",
"teases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banters",
"fools",
"funs",
"strings along",
"jests",
"quips",
"wisecracks",
"gags",
"japes",
"jollies",
"yuks",
"yucks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in barbecues , fries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barbecues",
"barbeques",
"clambakes",
"cookouts",
"fries",
"luaus",
"festivities",
"buffets",
"luncheons",
"smorgasbords",
"blowouts",
"carnivals",
"festivals",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"galas",
"parties",
"shindigs",
"chow",
"messes",
"repasts",
"tables",
"banquets",
"dinners",
"feasts",
"feeds",
"regales",
"spreads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rotations":{
"a rapid turning about on an axis or central point":{
"examples":[
"the Earth completes a single rotation around its axis in approximately 24 hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrations",
"pirouettes",
"reels",
"revolutions",
"rolls",
"spins",
"twirls",
"wheels",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuits",
"circulations",
"rings",
"rounds",
"coils",
"curls",
"curves",
"spirals",
"twists",
"whorls",
"circles",
"orbits",
"eddies",
"swirls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rouging":{
"as in incarnadining , ruddling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadining",
"ruddling",
"blooming",
"blushing",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"flushing",
"glowing",
"reddening",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roundabouts":{
"as in circles , rotaries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"rotaries",
"traffic circles",
"cloverleafs",
"cloverleaves",
"interchanges",
"overpasses",
"underpasses",
"carrefours",
"corners",
"crossings",
"crossroads",
"crossways",
"intersections",
"junctions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rowing boats":{
"as in canoes , kayaks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateaux",
"batteaux",
"ca\u00efques",
"canoes",
"catamarans",
"coracles",
"curraghs",
"currachs",
"dhows",
"dinghies",
"dinks",
"dories",
"dugouts",
"flatboats",
"garveys",
"gigs",
"johnboats",
"kayaks",
"outriggers",
"paddleboats",
"pinnaces",
"piraguas",
"pirogues",
"pontoons",
"prams",
"punts",
"rafts",
"rowboats",
"sampans",
"scows",
"sculls",
"shallops",
"shells",
"skiffs",
"surfboats",
"umiaks",
"wherries",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels",
"watercrafts",
"catboats",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"yachts",
"cruisers",
"inboards",
"motorboats",
"outboards",
"powerboats",
"houseboats",
"riverboats",
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"lifeboats",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"lighters",
"narrow boats",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"gondolas",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rowdies":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"rowdies had overtaken the neighborhood and were threatening people on the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"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"
]
},
"routing":{
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"as expected, the professional team had no trouble routing the amateurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the nation's ground and air forces quickly routed the would-be invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishing",
"booting (out)",
"bouncing",
"casting out",
"chasing",
"dismissing",
"drumming (out)",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"extruding",
"kicking out",
"ousting",
"outing",
"running off",
"throwing out",
"turfing (out)",
"turning out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforcing",
"deporting",
"displacing",
"dispossessing",
"evicting",
"exiling",
"expatriating",
"ostracizing",
"reading out",
"shutting out",
"axing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"defenestrating",
"discharging",
"firing",
"mustering out",
"pink-slipping",
"releasing",
"removing",
"retiring",
"sacking",
"terminating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"admitting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"taking in",
"welcoming",
"entertaining",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"sheltering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducting",
"directing",
"guiding",
"leading",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"piloting",
"showing",
"steering",
"ushering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceding",
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"controlling",
"managing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogging",
"hounding",
"shadowing",
"tailgating",
"tailing"
],
"antonyms":[
"following",
"trailing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roundish":{
"as in rounded , bulbous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"balled",
"bulbous",
"rotund",
"rounded",
"global",
"globular",
"round",
"spherical",
"annular",
"circular",
"disciform",
"discoid",
"discoidal",
"disklike",
"hooplike",
"ringlike",
"curved",
"looped",
"spiral",
"cylindrical",
"cylindric",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"oblong",
"oval",
"ovate",
"ovoid",
"ovoidal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"roamed":{
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"he took a year off and roamed over Europe before going on to college"
],
"synonyms":[
"batted",
"cruised",
"drifted",
"floated",
"gadded (about)",
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"kicked around",
"knocked (about)",
"maundered",
"meandered",
"mooched",
"rambled",
"ranged",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"dawdled",
"moped",
"gypsied",
"hoboed",
"tramped",
"vagabonded",
"milled (about or around)",
"straggled",
"strayed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roast":{
"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"examples":[
"playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"jive",
"joke",
"josh",
"kid",
"rally",
"razz",
"rib",
"ride",
"tease"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banter",
"fool",
"fun",
"string along",
"jest",
"quip",
"wisecrack",
"gag",
"jape",
"jolly",
"yuk",
"yuck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in barbecue , fry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barbecue",
"barbeque",
"clambake",
"cookout",
"fry",
"luau",
"festivity",
"buffet",
"luncheon",
"smorgasbord",
"blowout",
"carnival",
"festival",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"gala",
"party",
"shindig",
"chow",
"mess",
"repast",
"table",
"banquet",
"dinner",
"feast",
"feed",
"regale",
"spread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ropey":{
"being of a consistency that resists flow":{
"examples":[
"because the paint was so old, it was ropy and couldn't be smoothly applied to the wood"
],
"synonyms":[
"syrupy",
"thick",
"viscid",
"viscous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creamy",
"heavy",
"slushy",
"thickened",
"thickish",
"turbid",
"undiluted",
"semifluid",
"semiliquid",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"sticky",
"gelatinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"jellylike",
"concentrated",
"condensed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluid",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"liquid",
"watered-down",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"runny",
"soupy",
"thin",
"watery"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"robotizations":{
"the process of putting an apparatus, operation, or system under the control or regulation of mechanical or electronic devices":{
"examples":[
"on account of robotization , no human need come into direct contact with the hazardous material"
],
"synonyms":[
"automations",
"mechanizations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"computerizations",
"cybernations",
"electrifications",
"motorizations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"route":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"take Route 190 for six miles, then get off"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an established course for traveling from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we're going to get stuck in traffic if we take the usual route"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"avenue",
"passage",
"path",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypath",
"byway",
"lane",
"laneway",
"artery",
"boulevard",
"bypass",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"passageway",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"routeway",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"turnpike",
"walk",
"walkway",
"trace",
"track",
"trail",
"airway",
"bikeway",
"cycleway",
"channel",
"gat",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"door",
"doorway",
"gate",
"gateway",
"hatch",
"portal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"hurricanes generally take a northerly route up the Atlantic seaboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"line",
"path",
"pathway",
"routeway",
"steps",
"track",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"circuit",
"loop",
"orbit",
"arc",
"flight path",
"trajectory",
"ascent",
"descent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle"
],
"synonyms":[
"conduct",
"direct",
"guide",
"lead",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"pilot",
"show",
"steer",
"usher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precede",
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"convoy",
"escort",
"see",
"control",
"manage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dog",
"hound",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tailgate"
],
"antonyms":[
"follow",
"trail"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rowing boat":{
"as in canoe , kayak":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roadblocking":{
"as in blocking , barricading":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barricading",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"arresting",
"braking",
"delaying",
"retaining",
"retarding",
"bogging (down)",
"miring",
"binding",
"chaining",
"haltering",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"tying",
"tieing",
"choking",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suffocating",
"balking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"reining",
"restraining",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"stumping",
"thwarting",
"clogging",
"cramping",
"embarrassing",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"handicapping",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"shackling",
"short-circuiting",
"stymieing",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"derailing",
"disrupting",
"sabotaging",
"muzzling",
"repressing",
"suppressing"
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"aiding",
"assisting",
"facilitating",
"helping",
"clearing",
"making way",
"opening",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"loosening",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"furthering",
"promoting"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roasted":{
"as in sweltering , overheated":{
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"overheated",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"steamy",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"white-hot",
"blazing",
"glowing",
"molten",
"sizzling",
"thawed",
"reheated",
"rewarmed",
"warmed-over",
"heated",
"hottish",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmed",
"warmish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilled",
"coldish",
"cool",
"cooled",
"coolish",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bleak",
"chill",
"chilly",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy",
"nippy",
"polar",
"raw",
"sharp",
"snappy",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"ultracold",
"winterly",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"frosted",
"benumbed",
"nipped",
"numb"
],
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"to make fun of in a good-natured way":{
"examples":[
"playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat"
],
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"chaffed",
"jived",
"joked",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"rode",
"rid",
"teased"
],
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"bantered",
"fooled",
"funned",
"strung along",
"jested",
"quipped",
"wisecracked",
"gagged",
"japed",
"jollied",
"yukked",
"yucked"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world":{
"examples":[
"those romanticists who seem to be perpetually surprised by mean or criminal behavior"
],
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"Don Quixotes",
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romantics",
"utopians",
"visionaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emotionalists",
"sentimentalists",
"daydreamers",
"fantasizers",
"woolgatherers",
"Micawbers",
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"do-gooders",
"reformers",
"perfectionists",
"doctrinaires",
"theorists",
"thinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynics",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"empiricists",
"empirics"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rosiness":{
"as in hopefulness , hope":{
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"hope",
"hopefulness",
"brightness",
"cheerfulness",
"perkiness",
"sunniness",
"idealism",
"meliorism",
"bullishness",
"optimism",
"sanguinity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearishness",
"pessimism",
"skepticism",
"apprehension",
"caution",
"concern",
"cynicism",
"despair",
"desperation",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"hopelessness",
"bleakness",
"cheerlessness",
"dreariness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"pragmatism",
"realism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roadsters":{
"as in coup\u00e9s , cabriolets":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"romances":{
"a brief romantic relationship":{
"examples":[
"an office romance that ended with hurt feelings on both sides"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"affaires",
"amours",
"flings",
"love affairs",
"loves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intrigues",
"liaisons",
"dalliances",
"hanky-pankies",
"attachments",
"infatuations",
"entanglements",
"flirtations",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"passions",
"calf-loves",
"puppy loves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sparks , attends":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attends",
"gallants",
"sparks",
"woos",
"courts",
"dates",
"escorts",
"sees",
"takes out",
"goes out",
"steps out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rotisserie":{
"as in oven , stove":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broiler",
"fryer",
"frier",
"microwave",
"microwave oven",
"oven",
"roaster",
"stove",
"toaster",
"toaster oven",
"cooker",
"cookstove",
"range"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rockers":{
"as in pops , choruses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arias",
"arie",
"art songs",
"barcaroles",
"barcarolles",
"blues",
"chansons",
"chanteys",
"chanties",
"shanties",
"chants",
"choruses",
"croons",
"descants",
"discants",
"folk songs",
"glees",
"lullabies",
"madrigals",
"motets",
"part-songs",
"pops",
"roundelays",
"rounds",
"serenades",
"standards",
"ballads",
"ditties",
"jingles",
"lays",
"lyrics",
"solos",
"songs",
"vocals",
"anthems",
"cantatas",
"canticles",
"carols",
"chorales",
"hymns",
"noels",
"psalms",
"spirituals",
"dirges",
"laments",
"requiems",
"threnodies",
"hallelujahs",
"paeans",
"drinking songs",
"fight songs",
"torch songs",
"covers",
"medleys",
"remixes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rockaway":{
"as in hackney , stanhope":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"droshky",
"drosky",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughened":{
"not having a level or smooth surface":{
"examples":[
"roughened hands from hard work"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth"
]
},
"as in scuffed , roughed (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coarsened",
"roughed (up)",
"scuffed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffed",
"filed",
"ground",
"honed",
"rasped",
"rubbed",
"sanded",
"planed",
"scraped",
"sandblasted",
"scoured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rope (in)":{
"as in draw in , persuade":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"draw in",
"inveigle",
"persuade",
"snow",
"allure",
"bait",
"beguile",
"betray",
"decoy",
"entice",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"solicit",
"tempt",
"catch",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"entrap",
"mesh",
"snare",
"tangle",
"trap",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"fascinate",
"magnetize",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarn",
"ward (off)",
"warn",
"drive (away or off)",
"repulse",
"turn away"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rowed":{
"to move a boat by means of oars":{
"examples":[
"rowed around the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"oared",
"paddled",
"sculled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoed",
"kayaked",
"poled",
"punted",
"feathered",
"pulled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"the couple rows all the time, and yet they seem happy together"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercated",
"argued",
"argufied",
"bickered",
"brabbled",
"brawled",
"controverted",
"disputed",
"fell out",
"fought",
"hassled",
"jarred",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"quibbled",
"scrapped",
"spatted",
"squabbled",
"tiffed",
"wrangled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"dared",
"defied",
"clashed",
"contended",
"contested",
"tangled",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"fussed",
"nitpicked",
"considered",
"debated",
"discussed",
"kicked",
"objected",
"protested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisted",
"got along",
"accepted",
"agreed",
"assented",
"concurred",
"consented"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rock-bottom":{
"of, relating to, or located at the bottom":{
"examples":[
"rock-bottom prices on home electronics"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom",
"bottommost",
"low",
"lowermost",
"nethermost",
"undermost"
],
"near synonyms":[
"below",
"lower",
"low-grade",
"lowly",
"nether",
"under",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[
"highest",
"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost"
]
},
"the lowest part, place, or point":{
"examples":[
"when the stock market was at its rock bottom was the time to buy in"
],
"synonyms":[
"base",
"basement",
"bottom",
"foot",
"nadir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basis",
"bed",
"bedrock",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"seat",
"underpinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"culmination",
"height",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"head",
"top",
"vertex"
]
},
"the lowest point or level":{
"examples":[
"our finances must be at rock bottom if we can't even afford a fast-food joint"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"depth",
"nadir",
"zero"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abyss",
"armpit",
"pit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"crescendo",
"high",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"crest",
"roof"
],
"antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"roles":{
"the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists":{
"examples":[
"studying the role of sunlight in the body's production of vitamin D"
],
"synonyms":[
"businesses",
"capacities",
"functions",
"jobs",
"parts",
"places",
"positions",
"purposes",
"tasks",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affairs",
"concerns",
"hands",
"involvements",
"participations",
"niches",
"offices",
"posts",
"situations",
"callings",
"occupations",
"pursuits",
"vocations",
"activities",
"assignments",
"charges",
"commissions",
"duties",
"employs",
"missions",
"responsibilities",
"services",
"uses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roust":{
"to force (someone or something) to move from a place":{
"examples":[
"The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rout",
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"knock up",
"rouse",
"wake",
"waken",
"raise",
"revive",
"reawaken",
"rewake",
"agitate",
"bestir",
"disturb",
"excite",
"provoke",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"lull"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rooting":{
"to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter":{
"examples":[
"rooted the post securely in the dirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedding",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"enrooting",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"fixing",
"impacting",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"instilling",
"beating (into)",
"driving (into)",
"establishing",
"placing",
"putting",
"settling",
"sticking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"detaching",
"disconnecting",
"disengaging",
"removing"
],
"antonyms":[
"dislodging",
"rooting (out)",
"uprooting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"robotization":{
"the process of putting an apparatus, operation, or system under the control or regulation of mechanical or electronic devices":{
"examples":[
"on account of robotization , no human need come into direct contact with the hazardous material"
],
"synonyms":[
"automation",
"mechanization"
],
"near synonyms":[
"computerization",
"cybernation",
"electrification",
"motorization"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"routines":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"examples":[
"part of my morning routine is drinking a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"grinds",
"grooves",
"locksteps",
"patterns",
"rotes",
"ruts",
"treadmills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daily dozens",
"regimens",
"housekeepings",
"customs",
"fashions",
"habits",
"practices",
"practises",
"tricks",
"wonts",
"approaches",
"manners",
"methods",
"procedures",
"strategies",
"styles",
"tacks",
"techniques",
"ways",
"designs",
"plans",
"programs",
"schemes",
"conventions",
"policies",
"traditions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something done over and over in order to develop skill":{
"examples":[
"a weapons training routine"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"trainings",
"workouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assignments",
"homeworks",
"lessons",
"brushups",
"refreshers",
"reviews"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a performance regularly presented by an individual or group":{
"examples":[
"did a tired routine that's been around since the days of vaudeville"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"bits",
"numbers",
"shticks",
"schticks",
"shtiks",
"turns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"signatures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rondelles":{
"as in rondeaux , epigrams":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anacreontics",
"clerihews",
"dithyrambs",
"eclogues",
"elegies",
"English sonnets",
"epics",
"epigrams",
"epodes",
"epopees",
"eposes",
"georgics",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"jingles",
"laments",
"limericks",
"madrigals",
"odes",
"pastorales",
"pastorals",
"psalms",
"rondeaux",
"rondelets",
"sonnets",
"triolets",
"villanelles",
"lyrics",
"poems",
"runes",
"songs",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"ballads",
"lays",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tankas",
"blank verses",
"free verses",
"minstrelsies",
"poesies",
"poetries",
"versifications",
"vers libres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roosted":{
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"pigeons flying home to roost on the roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"landed",
"lit",
"lighted",
"perched",
"settled",
"touched down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-landed",
"crash-landed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"climbed",
"rose",
"flew",
"floated",
"glided",
"planed",
"soared",
"winged",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
"antonyms":[
"blasted off",
"took off"
]
},
"to establish or place comfortably or snugly":{
"examples":[
"a gang of friends had roosted themselves around the ski lodge's massive fireplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"ensconced",
"installed",
"lodged",
"nestled",
"perched",
"settled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deployed",
"emplaced",
"fixed",
"located",
"parked",
"planted",
"positioned",
"set",
"situated",
"stationed",
"anchored",
"bivouacked",
"camped",
"camped (out)",
"burrowed",
"curled up",
"dug in",
"harbored",
"housed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rouges":{
"a red powder or cream that is used to make your cheeks pinker":{
"examples":[
"She was wearing too much rouge ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blushes",
"cold creams",
"creams",
"eye shadows",
"kohls",
"lipsticks",
"lotions",
"mascaras",
"oils",
"powders",
"vanishing creams",
"cosmetics",
"makeups",
"maquillages",
"paints",
"war paints",
"greasepaints",
"camos",
"camouflages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in incarnadines , ruddles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadines",
"ruddles",
"blooms",
"blushes",
"colors",
"crimsons",
"flushes",
"glows",
"reddens",
"abashes",
"chagrins",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"humiliates",
"mortifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rolled":{
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"rolled up the wrapper from the straw and threw it"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerated",
"balled",
"rounded",
"wadded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"beaded",
"pearled",
"pelleted",
"pelletized",
"sphered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattened",
"opened",
"smoothed",
"spread",
"unfolded"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrolled"
]
},
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"examples":[
"thunder rolling in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"growled",
"grumbled",
"lumbered",
"rumbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boomed",
"drummed",
"thundered",
"bellowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the car suddenly was rolling as high winds swept across the bridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"careened",
"lurched",
"pitched",
"rocked",
"seesawed",
"swayed",
"tossed",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bucked",
"doddered",
"faltered",
"floundered",
"halted",
"hitched",
"hobbled",
"jerked",
"jolted",
"reeled",
"shook",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"teetered",
"toddled",
"tottered",
"tumbled",
"vacillated",
"vibrated",
"waddled",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"wagged",
"waggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"in order to knock your opponent off balance, you have to roll the log when he least expects it"
],
"synonyms":[
"pivoted",
"revolved",
"rotated",
"spun",
"swirled",
"swiveled",
"swivelled",
"swung",
"turned",
"twirled",
"twisted",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screwed",
"unscrewed",
"twiddled",
"coiled",
"cranked",
"reeled",
"wound",
"winded",
"circulated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"just lying on the beach, watching the clouds roll by"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowed",
"poured",
"ran",
"run",
"streamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arose",
"disembogued",
"effused",
"emanated",
"issued",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"coursed",
"raced",
"rushed",
"fountained",
"gushed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"deluged",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overran",
"swamped",
"cascaded",
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"guttered",
"riffled",
"rippled",
"sheeted",
"trickled",
"flushed",
"washed out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotted",
"coagulated",
"congealed",
"gelled",
"hardened",
"set"
],
"antonyms":[
"backed up"
]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"rolled her head around her shoulders to loosen herself up"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrated",
"pinwheeled",
"pirouetted",
"revolved",
"rotated",
"spun",
"turned",
"twirled",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coiled",
"curled",
"curved",
"rounded",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"swirled",
"twined",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"circled",
"circulated",
"encircled",
"orbited",
"ringed",
"pivoted",
"swiveled",
"swivelled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"examples":[
"once we started rolling , everything went perfectly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"brushed",
"coasted",
"cruised",
"drifted",
"flowed",
"glided",
"sailed",
"skimmed",
"slid",
"slipped",
"streamed",
"swept",
"whisked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flew",
"raced",
"rushed",
"sped",
"speeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"stumbled",
"trudged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"labored",
"toiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rondure":{
"as in round , ring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"ring",
"round",
"egg",
"ellipse",
"loop",
"oval",
"spheroid",
"chunk",
"clump",
"gob",
"hunk",
"lump",
"nugget",
"wad",
"bead",
"globule",
"ball",
"globe",
"orb",
"sphere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"block",
"cube",
"rectangle",
"square"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotundity":{
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"finally a diet that really worked, allowing her to forget about her rotundity and focus on her health"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"romancing":{
"as in seduction , wooing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charming",
"courting",
"massaging",
"seduction",
"tempting",
"wooing",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"swaying",
"ingratiation",
"smarm",
"lobbying",
"pressuring",
"buttering up",
"fawning",
"sycophancy",
"toadying",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuasion",
"allurement",
"beguilement",
"endearment",
"enticement",
"conversion",
"convincing",
"inducement",
"inducing",
"persuading",
"persuasion",
"suasion",
"adulation",
"blarney",
"butter",
"charm",
"flannel",
"flattery",
"incense",
"overpraise",
"soft soap",
"sweet talk",
"taffy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittlement",
"depreciation",
"detraction",
"disparagement",
"put-down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sparking , attending":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attending",
"gallanting",
"sparking",
"wooing",
"courting",
"dating",
"escorting",
"seeing",
"taking out",
"going out",
"stepping out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rooms":{
"an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall":{
"examples":[
"finally had a room to himself when his older brother went off to college"
],
"synonyms":[
"apartments",
"cells",
"chambers",
"closets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"bays",
"berths",
"booths",
"cabins",
"compartments",
"cubicles",
"alcoves",
"niches",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"snuggeries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"we can room up to four visitors in our two guest bedrooms"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"shelters",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roam":{
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"he took a year off and roamed over Europe before going on to college"
],
"synonyms":[
"bat",
"cruise",
"drift",
"float",
"gad (about)",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"meander",
"mooch",
"ramble",
"range",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"dawdle",
"mope",
"gypsy",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"mill (about or around)",
"straggle",
"stray"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rou\u00e9":{
"as in rake , playboy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"libertine",
"playboy",
"rake",
"bon vivant",
"epicure",
"glutton",
"gourmand",
"playgirl",
"Cyrenaic",
"Epicurean",
"debauchee",
"decadent",
"hedonist",
"sensualist",
"sybarite",
"voluptuary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ascetic",
"killjoy",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket",
"fuddy-duddy",
"prude",
"straight arrow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"romantics":{
"one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world":{
"examples":[
"she's a hopeless romantic who believes that her one true love is somewhere waiting to be found"
],
"synonyms":[
"Don Quixotes",
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romanticists",
"utopians",
"visionaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emotionalists",
"sentimentalists",
"daydreamers",
"fantasizers",
"woolgatherers",
"Micawbers",
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"do-gooders",
"reformers",
"perfectionists",
"doctrinaires",
"theorists",
"thinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynics",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"empiricists",
"empirics"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rooking":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"once you learn to recognize these swindler's tricks, no one will be able to use them to rook you"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"robustly":{
"as in sharply , fiercely":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"roughshod",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"eagerly",
"gamely",
"heartily",
"lustily",
"snappily",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"vivaciously",
"decidedly",
"determinedly",
"directly",
"emphatically",
"fast",
"fixedly",
"intensively",
"intently",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"rigidly",
"smartly",
"solidly",
"soundly",
"squarely",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"surely",
"aggressively",
"assertively",
"manfully",
"potently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly",
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"shakily",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"rough (up)":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to abuse physically":{
"examples":[
"the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club"
],
"synonyms":[
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"maul",
"mishandle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abuse",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"mistreat",
"misuse",
"roughhouse",
"wrestle",
"bash",
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"drub",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"slap",
"thrash",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"wound",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"wrong",
"ambush",
"assail",
"attack",
"clobber",
"fight",
"gang up (on)",
"hit",
"jump",
"knock",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caress",
"fondle",
"pet",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"care (for)",
"foster",
"nurture"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roams":{
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"he took a year off and roamed over Europe before going on to college"
],
"synonyms":[
"bats",
"cruises",
"drifts",
"floats",
"gads (about)",
"gallivants",
"galavants",
"kicks around",
"knocks (about)",
"maunders",
"meanders",
"mooches",
"rambles",
"ranges",
"roves",
"traipses",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambles",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"dawdles",
"mopes",
"gypsies",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"mills (about or around)",
"straggles",
"strays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rows":{
"a series of people or things arranged side by side":{
"examples":[
"stood in a row to have their picture taken",
"three rows of eight jelly beans equals 24 jelly beans"
],
"synonyms":[
"banks",
"ranks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chains",
"columns",
"cues",
"files",
"lines",
"processions",
"queues",
"ranges",
"strings",
"trains",
"echelons",
"tiers",
"arrays",
"concatenations",
"sequences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"drive up Market Row and turn left"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"a county fair that had a long history of bloody rows"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrays",
"brawls",
"broils",
"donnybrooks",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"rough-and-tumbles",
"ruckuses",
"ructions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battles",
"clashes",
"combats",
"conflicts",
"contests",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassles",
"scraps",
"scrimmages",
"scuffles",
"skirmishes",
"struggles",
"tussles",
"horseplays",
"altercations",
"arguments",
"disputes",
"kickups",
"quarrels",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the combination of drums and shouting contributed to the awful row"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions":{
"examples":[
"he had a row with his girlfriend yesterday, and now they aren't speaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercations",
"argle-bargles",
"arguments",
"argy-bargies",
"battles royal",
"battle royals",
"battles royale",
"battle royales",
"bickers",
"brawls",
"contretemps",
"controversies",
"cross fires",
"disagreements",
"disputes",
"donnybrooks",
"fallings-out",
"falling-outs",
"fights",
"hassles",
"imbroglios",
"kickups",
"misunderstandings",
"quarrels",
"rhubarbs",
"scraps",
"set-tos",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clashes",
"run-ins",
"skirmishes",
"tangles",
"tussles",
"logomachies",
"feuds",
"vendettas",
"attacks",
"contentions",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"debates",
"differences",
"disputations",
"fusses",
"objections",
"protestations",
"protests",
"affrays",
"fisticuffs",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"catfights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move a boat by means of oars":{
"examples":[
"rowed around the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"oars",
"paddles",
"sculls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoes",
"kayaks",
"poles",
"punts",
"feathers",
"pulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"the couple rows all the time, and yet they seem happy together"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercates",
"argues",
"argufies",
"bickers",
"brabbles",
"brawls",
"controverts",
"disputes",
"falls out",
"fights",
"hassles",
"jars",
"quarrels",
"quibbles",
"scraps",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenges",
"dares",
"defies",
"clashes",
"contends",
"contests",
"tangles",
"cavils",
"fusses",
"nitpicks",
"considers",
"debates",
"discusses",
"kicks",
"objects",
"protests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexists",
"gets along",
"accepts",
"agrees",
"assents",
"concurs",
"consents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roughs (up)":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to abuse physically":{
"examples":[
"the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club"
],
"synonyms":[
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"mauls",
"mishandles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abuses",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"mistreats",
"misuses",
"roughhouses",
"wrestles",
"bashes",
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"drubs",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"slaps",
"thrashes",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"wounds",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"wrongs",
"ambushes",
"assails",
"attacks",
"clobbers",
"fights",
"gangs up (on)",
"hits",
"jumps",
"knocks",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caresses",
"fondles",
"pets",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"cares (for)",
"fosters",
"nurtures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rovers":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"ever since he developed a strong case of wanderlust in college, he's been a rover"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifters",
"gadabouts",
"gypsies",
"knockabouts",
"maunderers",
"nomads",
"ramblers",
"roamers",
"strollers",
"vagabonds",
"wanderers",
"wayfarers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggards",
"stragglers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"sojourners",
"bums",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"passengers",
"sightseers",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"migrants",
"transients",
"vagrants",
"amblers",
"saunterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebodies",
"denizens",
"dwellers",
"habitants",
"inhabitants",
"residents",
"settlers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"someone who engages in robbery of ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"a story of the days when sea rovers plied the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"buccaneers",
"corsairs",
"freebooters",
"pirates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoilers",
"looters",
"marauders",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"raiders",
"robbers",
"privateers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rots":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"the house slowly fell into disrepair and rotted"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophies",
"crumbles",
"decays",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"devolves",
"ebbs",
"regresses",
"retrogrades",
"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":[
"rotting vegetation on the bank of the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates",
"festers",
"fouls",
"molders",
"molds",
"perishes",
"putrefies",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"rottenly":{
"as in terribly , horribly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abysmally",
"atrociously",
"awfully",
"damnably",
"deplorably",
"detestably",
"disastrously",
"dreadfully",
"execrably",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horrifically",
"terribly",
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"lousily",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"wretchedly",
"intolerably",
"unbearably",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"reprehensibly",
"unsuitably",
"vulgarly",
"naughtily",
"egregiously",
"flagrantly",
"grossly",
"miserably",
"shoddily",
"sleazily",
"trashily",
"unspeakably",
"abominably",
"odiously",
"vilely",
"inferiorly",
"insufficiently",
"meagerly",
"meanly",
"niggardly",
"scantily",
"scantly",
"shabbily",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"stingily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"fine",
"good",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"palatably",
"passably",
"satisfactorily",
"so-so",
"tolerably",
"well",
"appropriately",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decently",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"seemly",
"suitably",
"exactly",
"faithfully",
"ideally",
"precisely",
"respectably",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"road-tripped":{
"as in migrated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"migrated",
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"hopped",
"jaunted",
"knocked (about)",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"roamed",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered",
"bused",
"bussed",
"cabbed",
"coached",
"cruised",
"drove",
"flew",
"gigged",
"jetted",
"motored",
"navigated",
"rode",
"rid",
"rolled",
"sailed",
"trundled",
"journeyed",
"peregrinated",
"pilgrimaged",
"toured",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trekked",
"tripped",
"voyaged",
"barnstormed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"root":{
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"he insists that insecurity is the root of all jealousy"
],
"synonyms":[
"cradle",
"font",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"origin",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold",
"baseline",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the source from which something grows or develops":{
"examples":[
"one would need to go back at least several hundred years to find the root of the entrenched hostility between the neighboring nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"fountainhead",
"germ",
"origin",
"seed",
"seedbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"font",
"fountain",
"spring",
"well",
"wellhead",
"wellspring",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"genesis",
"inception",
"incipiency",
"launch",
"morning",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold",
"creation",
"inauguration",
"origination"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an immaterial thing upon which something else rests":{
"examples":[
"an implicit trust in the wisdom of the people is the root of democracy"
],
"synonyms":[
"base",
"basis",
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"cornerstone",
"footing",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"underpinning",
"warp",
"warp and woof"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorage",
"bed",
"brace",
"bulwark",
"buttress",
"framework",
"infrastructure",
"mount",
"prop",
"shore",
"stay",
"substratum",
"substructure",
"support",
"assumption",
"justification",
"premise",
"premiss",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"rationale",
"supposition",
"theory",
"thesis",
"warrant",
"backbone",
"center",
"core",
"eye",
"focus",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"nucleus",
"seat",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"touchstone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"at root , it's a question of the proper limits, if any, of free speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"bull's-eye",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"point",
"sum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"course",
"direction",
"drift",
"tenor",
"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter":{
"examples":[
"rooted the post securely in the dirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"embed",
"imbed",
"enroot",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"fix",
"impact",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imbue",
"infuse",
"instill",
"beat (into)",
"drive (into)",
"establish",
"place",
"put",
"settle",
"stick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"eject",
"expel",
"detach",
"disconnect",
"disengage",
"remove"
],
"antonyms":[
"dislodge",
"root (out)",
"uproot"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rosters":{
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"examples":[
"the roster of subscribers to the journal"
],
"synonyms":[
"canons",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"checklists",
"listings",
"lists",
"menus",
"registers",
"registries",
"roll calls",
"rolls",
"schedules",
"tables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agendas",
"bibliographies",
"catalogues raisonn\u00e9s",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compilations",
"directories",
"dockets",
"enumerations",
"glossaries",
"indexes",
"indices",
"inventories",
"manifests",
"payrolls",
"calendars",
"chronologies",
"timetables"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughs":{
"as in punks , thugs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goons",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mugs",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"abusers",
"baiters",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"harassers",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"oppressors",
"persecutors",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"torturers",
"cutthroats",
"felons",
"gangsters",
"gunmen",
"mobsters",
"racketeers",
"antagonists",
"enemies",
"bullies",
"bullyboys",
"hectors",
"intimidators"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in beats , chops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps",
"scuffs",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roadblocks":{
"as in obstacles , hurdles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blocks",
"chains",
"clogs",
"crimps",
"deterrents",
"drags",
"embarrassments",
"encumbrances",
"handicaps",
"hindrances",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"lets",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"stops",
"stumbling blocks",
"trammels",
"bars",
"pales",
"palings",
"fetters",
"hobbles",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"barricades",
"barriers",
"fences",
"hedges",
"walls",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"restraints",
"snags",
"buffers",
"bulwarks",
"bumpers",
"cushions",
"dams",
"fenders",
"pads",
"ramparts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doors",
"doorways",
"entrances",
"entranceways",
"entries",
"entryways",
"gates",
"portals",
"breaks",
"gaps",
"passes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in blocks , barricades":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps",
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rocked":{
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"the boat was rocking so much that several passengers felt seasick"
],
"synonyms":[
"careened",
"lurched",
"pitched",
"rolled",
"seesawed",
"swayed",
"tossed",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bucked",
"doddered",
"faltered",
"floundered",
"halted",
"hitched",
"hobbled",
"jerked",
"jolted",
"reeled",
"shook",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"teetered",
"toddled",
"tottered",
"tumbled",
"vacillated",
"vibrated",
"waddled",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"wagged",
"waggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the drunk rocked on his heels for a moment and then fell flat on his back"
],
"synonyms":[
"faltered",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundered",
"lurched",
"stumbled",
"toddled",
"quaked",
"quavered",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"vibrated",
"careened",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"weaved"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make senseless or dizzy by a blow":{
"examples":[
"she rocked the mugger with a single punch and then ran"
],
"synonyms":[
"dazed",
"stunned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deadened",
"knocked out",
"paralyzed",
"benumbed",
"numbed",
"stupefied",
"bowled over",
"knocked down",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"hammered",
"hit",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"pummeled",
"pummelled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected":{
"examples":[
"the news of the mayor's sudden death rocked the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"bowled over",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"floored",
"shocked",
"startled",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"thunderstruck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befuddled",
"bewildered",
"blew away",
"blindsided",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"dismayed",
"jarred",
"muddled",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perplexed",
"shook up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rough-and-tumbles":{
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"a rough-and-tumble broke out among the fans in the stands"
],
"synonyms":[
"affrays",
"brawls",
"broils",
"donnybrooks",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battles",
"clashes",
"combats",
"conflicts",
"contests",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassles",
"scraps",
"scrimmages",
"scuffles",
"skirmishes",
"struggles",
"tussles",
"horseplays",
"altercations",
"arguments",
"disputes",
"kickups",
"quarrels",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rounds on":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"She rounded on him, punching him square in the nose."
],
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rough it":{
"to live in a camp or the outdoors":{
"examples":[
"They spent a week roughing it in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"bivouac",
"camp (out)",
"encamp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleep out",
"tent",
"bed (down)",
"backpack",
"caravan"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"round-the-clock":{
"as in hourly , around-the-clock":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"24-7",
"24/7",
"around-the-clock",
"hourly",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"chronic",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"continual",
"intermittent",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"expected",
"usual",
"constant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"regular",
"repeated",
"steady"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconstant",
"infrequent",
"irregular",
"episodic",
"episodical",
"occasional",
"unexpected",
"unusual"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rounding on":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"She rounded on him, punching him square in the nose."
],
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rolled back":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"abolished",
"abrogated",
"annulled",
"avoided",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"disannulled",
"dissolved",
"invalidated",
"negated",
"nulled",
"nullified",
"quashed",
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"struck down",
"vacated",
"voided"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermanded",
"overrode",
"overruled",
"overturned",
"vetoed",
"aborted",
"called",
"called off",
"dropped",
"recalled",
"retracted",
"reversed",
"revoked",
"suspended",
"withdrew",
"banned",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"disallowed",
"dismissed",
"rejected",
"annihilated",
"broke down",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"liquidated",
"removed",
"threw out",
"wrote off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacted",
"laid down",
"legislated",
"established",
"founded",
"instituted",
"formalized",
"legalized",
"legitimated",
"legitimized",
"validated",
"passed",
"ratified",
"allowed",
"approved",
"authorized",
"cleared",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"permitted",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"commanded",
"decreed",
"mandated",
"ordered",
"prescribed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roiling":{
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the waters of the gulf tossed and roiled as the hurricane surged toward the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"churning",
"moiling",
"seething"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeling",
"spinning",
"swirling",
"whirling",
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"calming",
"subsiding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the clerk's brusque refusal of her request roiled her enough to prompt a complaint to his supervisor"
],
"synonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"madding",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"steaming up",
"ticking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"burning (up)",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"getting",
"huffing",
"irritating",
"miffing",
"nettling",
"offending",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"antagonizing",
"embittering",
"envenoming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"assuaging",
"relieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"soothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"calming",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"disarming",
"enchanting"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rotes":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"examples":[
"learned the rote for the exercise warm-up but not the reasoning behind it"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"grinds",
"grooves",
"locksteps",
"patterns",
"routines",
"ruts",
"treadmills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daily dozens",
"regimens",
"housekeepings",
"customs",
"fashions",
"habits",
"practices",
"practises",
"tricks",
"wonts",
"approaches",
"manners",
"methods",
"procedures",
"strategies",
"styles",
"tacks",
"techniques",
"ways",
"designs",
"plans",
"programs",
"schemes",
"conventions",
"policies",
"traditions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roundel":{
"something with a perfectly round circumference":{
"examples":[
"the windows in the colonial-era statehouse are roundels"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"cirque",
"ring",
"round"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circlet",
"ringlet",
"ellipse",
"loop",
"oval",
"ball",
"globe",
"orb",
"sphere"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughhouse":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"their parents simply wouldn't tolerate any roughhouse in the living room"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in wrestle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wrestle",
"abuse",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"mistreat",
"misuse",
"bash",
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"drub",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"slap",
"thrash",
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"maul",
"mishandle",
"rough (up)",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"wound",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"wrong",
"ambush",
"assail",
"attack",
"clobber",
"fight",
"gang up (on)",
"hit",
"jump",
"knock",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caress",
"fondle",
"pet",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"care (for)",
"foster",
"nurture"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in joyride , skylark":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"joyride",
"skylark",
"clown",
"cut up",
"kite",
"carry on",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"carouse",
"revel",
"roister",
"curvet",
"dance",
"prance",
"bound",
"hop",
"leap",
"lope",
"skip",
"spring",
"trip",
"tumble",
"caper",
"cavort",
"disport",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"sport"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mope",
"pout",
"stew",
"sulk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roughnecks":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"a group of roughnecks like to hang out at the roadhouse and harass people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"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"
]
},
"rogueries":{
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"those adolescent rogueries that seemed funny at the time\u2014but only stupid when considered in hindsight"
],
"synonyms":[
"antics",
"capers",
"capriccios",
"didoes",
"didos",
"escapades",
"frolics",
"gags",
"jests",
"knaveries",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"rags",
"shavies",
"shines",
"tricks",
"waggeries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adventures",
"experiences",
"games",
"larks",
"times",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplays",
"plays",
"rowdyisms",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"gambits",
"hoaxes",
"maneuvers",
"ploys",
"deeds",
"feats",
"missions",
"performances",
"stunts",
"caprices",
"conceits",
"fancies",
"vagaries",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"delusions",
"frauds",
"hanky-pankies",
"ruses",
"shams",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"wiles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roil":{
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the waters of the gulf tossed and roiled as the hurricane surged toward the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"churn",
"moil",
"seethe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reel",
"spin",
"swirl",
"whirl",
"agitate",
"stir"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"calm",
"subside"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the clerk's brusque refusal of her request roiled her enough to prompt a complaint to his supervisor"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affront",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"burn (up)",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"get",
"huff",
"irritate",
"miff",
"nettle",
"offend",
"peeve",
"pique",
"provoke",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"antagonize",
"embitter",
"envenom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"assuage",
"relieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"soothe",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"calm",
"lull",
"quiet",
"settle",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"disarm",
"enchant"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"gratify",
"please"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rotaries":{
"as in circles , roundabouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"roundabouts",
"traffic circles",
"cloverleafs",
"cloverleaves",
"interchanges",
"overpasses",
"underpasses",
"carrefours",
"corners",
"crossings",
"crossroads",
"crossways",
"intersections",
"junctions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughing it":{
"to live in a camp or the outdoors":{
"examples":[
"They spent a week roughing it in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"bivouacking",
"camping (out)",
"encamping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeping out",
"tenting",
"bedding (down)",
"backpacking",
"caravanning",
"caravaning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rockets":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the startled cat rocketed out of the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"the child actor rocketed to stardom at the age of eight"
],
"synonyms":[
"shoots (up)",
"skyrockets",
"soars",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes",
"crests",
"peaks",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"falls",
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"drops",
"lessens",
"wanes"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"slumps",
"tumbles"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roars":{
"a violent shouting":{
"examples":[
"a roar went up from the crowd when the verdict was read"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamors",
"howls",
"hubbubs",
"hue and cries",
"hullabaloos",
"noises",
"outcries",
"tumults",
"uproars",
"vociferations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clangors",
"dins",
"jangle",
"rackets",
"cris de coeur",
"outbursts",
"protests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"rumbles",
"rumblings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound":{
"examples":[
"the roar of the machinery in the factory"
],
"synonyms":[
"babels",
"blares",
"bluster",
"bowwows",
"brawls",
"bruits",
"cacophonies",
"chatters",
"clamors",
"clangors",
"decibels",
"dins",
"discordances",
"katzenjammers",
"noises",
"rackets",
"rattles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discords",
"dissonances",
"commotions",
"furors",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurly-burlies",
"rumpuses",
"tumults",
"uproars",
"clatters",
"jangles",
"bangs",
"blasts",
"booms",
"claps",
"cracks",
"crashes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"lulls",
"quietudes",
"serenities",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities"
],
"antonyms":[
"quiets",
"silences",
"stills"
]
},
"to make a long loud deep noise or cry":{
"examples":[
"the car's engine roared as it sped away"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellows",
"booms",
"growls",
"thunders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grumbles",
"rolls",
"rumbles",
"bangs",
"blares",
"blasts",
"peals",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"bawls",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"hoots",
"shouts",
"whoops",
"yells",
"bells",
"caterwauls",
"howls",
"wails",
"yowls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunts",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers",
"mewls",
"pules",
"squeaks",
"whimpers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak so as to be heard at a distance":{
"examples":[
"when we arrived at the house we could hear our friend roaring at someone inside, so we discreetly left"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawls",
"bays",
"bellows",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"hollos",
"halloos",
"shouts",
"sounds off",
"thunders",
"vociferates",
"yells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crows",
"whoops",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"shrills",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"caterwauls",
"howls",
"ululates",
"wails",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"hails",
"speaks out",
"speaks up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathes",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"whispers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound":{
"examples":[
"a madcap comedy that had movie audiences roaring all summer long"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks up",
"cackles",
"chortles",
"chuckles",
"cracks up",
"giggles",
"hee-haws",
"laughs",
"screams",
"snickers",
"titters",
"twitters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grins",
"smiles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"sobs",
"weeps",
"howls",
"squalls",
"wails",
"yowls",
"bleats",
"pules",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"sniffles",
"snivels",
"groans",
"moans",
"sighs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roundtable":{
"a meeting featuring a group discussion":{
"examples":[
"an international roundtable of medical experts on the disease"
],
"synonyms":[
"colloquy",
"conference",
"council",
"forum",
"panel",
"panel discussion",
"parley",
"round-robin",
"seminar",
"symposium"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquium",
"caucus",
"town meeting",
"assembly",
"conclave",
"congregation",
"congress",
"consistory",
"convention",
"convocation",
"synod",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"brainstorming",
"chat room",
"newsgroup"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rolling up":{
"to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"ticket sales are expected to roll up as the date of the concert nears"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rondelle":{
"as in rondeau , epigram":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"lyric",
"poem",
"rune",
"song",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"vers libre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rocker":{
"as in pop , blues":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aria",
"art song",
"barcarole",
"barcarolle",
"blues",
"chanson",
"chant",
"chantey",
"chanty",
"shanty",
"chorus",
"croon",
"descant",
"discant",
"folk song",
"glee",
"lullaby",
"madrigal",
"motet",
"part-song",
"pop",
"round",
"roundelay",
"serenade",
"standard",
"ballad",
"ditty",
"jingle",
"lay",
"lyric",
"solo",
"song",
"vocal",
"anthem",
"cantata",
"canticle",
"carol",
"chorale",
"hymn",
"noel",
"psalm",
"spiritual",
"dirge",
"lament",
"requiem",
"threnody",
"hallelujah",
"paean",
"drinking song",
"fight song",
"torch song",
"cover",
"medley",
"remix"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roaster":{
"as in oven , stove":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broiler",
"fryer",
"frier",
"microwave",
"microwave oven",
"oven",
"rotisserie",
"stove",
"toaster",
"toaster oven",
"cooker",
"cookstove",
"range"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughen":{
"as in scuff , rough (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coarsen",
"rough (up)",
"scuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buff",
"file",
"grind",
"hone",
"rasp",
"rub",
"sand",
"plane",
"scrape",
"sandblast",
"scour"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rollback":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"lobbyists for the industry pressured the legislators to roll back the new automotive safety standards"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"avoid",
"cancel",
"disannul",
"dissolve",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"null",
"nullify",
"quash",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"strike down",
"vacate",
"void"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermand",
"override",
"overrule",
"overturn",
"veto",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"drop",
"recall",
"retract",
"reverse",
"revoke",
"suspend",
"withdraw",
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"outlaw",
"prohibit",
"disallow",
"dismiss",
"reject",
"annihilate",
"break down",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"liquidate",
"remove",
"throw out",
"write off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enact",
"lay down",
"legislate",
"establish",
"found",
"institute",
"formalize",
"legalize",
"legitimate",
"legitimize",
"validate",
"pass",
"ratify",
"allow",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"permit",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"command",
"decree",
"mandate",
"order",
"prescribe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reversal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reversal",
"giving up",
"relinquishment",
"surrender",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
"termination",
"annulment",
"invalidation",
"neutralization",
"nullification",
"voidance",
"abandonment",
"abortion",
"calling",
"calling off",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"dropping",
"recall",
"recision",
"repeal",
"rescission",
"revocation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuation",
"beginning",
"commencement",
"initiation",
"engagement",
"undertaking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rondures":{
"as in rounds , rings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"rings",
"rounds",
"eggs",
"ellipses",
"loops",
"ovals",
"spheroids",
"chunks",
"clumps",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"nuggets",
"wads",
"beads",
"globules",
"balls",
"globes",
"orbs",
"spheres"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocks",
"cubes",
"rectangles",
"squares"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roundup":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"I can't read 500 pages by tomorrow, so just give me the roundup"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"breviary",
"brief",
"capsule",
"conspectus",
"digest",
"encapsulation",
"epitome",
"inventory",
"outline",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recap",
"recapitulation",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
"resume",
"resum\u00e9",
"run-through",
"rundown",
"sum",
"sum-up",
"summa",
"summarization",
"summary",
"summing-up",
"synopsis",
"wrap-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compend",
"compendium",
"condensation",
"curtailment",
"shortening",
"simplification",
"streamlining",
"rehash",
"reprise",
"conclusion",
"epilogue",
"epilog"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplification",
"enlargement",
"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"rounded everyone up for one final training session"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"pick up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roan":{
"as in blotchy , piebald":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"piebald",
"pinto",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"marbled",
"moir\u00e9",
"moire",
"veined",
"spangled",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"dotted",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"mottled",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotchy",
"spotted",
"spotty",
"stippled",
"variegated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unspotted",
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in palomino , chestnut":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bay",
"black",
"buckskin",
"chestnut",
"dun",
"palomino",
"pinto",
"skewbald",
"sorrel",
"charger",
"courser",
"cow pony",
"cutting horse",
"galloper",
"hack",
"hackney",
"mount",
"packhorse",
"prancer",
"quarter horse",
"racehorse",
"saddle horse",
"trotter",
"warhorse",
"workhorse",
"cob",
"dobbin",
"jade",
"plug",
"skate",
"bronco",
"mustang",
"pony",
"colt",
"filly",
"foal",
"gelding",
"mare",
"stallion",
"equid",
"equine",
"horse",
"nag",
"steed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"roturiers":{
"as in commoners , plebeians":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"canailles",
"commoners",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"proletarians",
"boors",
"fellahin",
"fellaheen",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocrats",
"blue bloods",
"gentlepeople",
"gentles",
"nobles",
"patricians",
"socialites",
"swells",
"magnates",
"magnificoes",
"magnificos",
"moguls",
"nabobs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roasters":{
"as in ovens , stoves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broilers",
"fryers",
"friers",
"microwave ovens",
"microwaves",
"ovens",
"rotisseries",
"stoves",
"toaster ovens",
"toasters",
"cookers",
"cookstoves",
"ranges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
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"as in canoe , skiff":{
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"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roquelaures":{
"as in pelisses , pelerines":{
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"burnooses",
"burnouses",
"capelets",
"capuchins",
"cowls",
"dominoes",
"dominos",
"josephs",
"mantas",
"mantelets",
"mantillas",
"palatines",
"pelerines",
"pelisses",
"ponchos",
"tippets",
"capes",
"capotes",
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"manteaus",
"mantles",
"serapes",
"sarapes",
"shawls",
"stoles",
"wraps"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rough-and-tumble":{
"hastily or roughly constructed":{
"examples":[
"the announcement of his candidacy was made from a rough-and-tumble stage put together just that morning"
],
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"artless",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"jerry-built",
"jerry-rigged",
"jury-rigged",
"rough",
"rough-and-ready",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"unrefined"
],
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"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"imprecise",
"inexact",
"inartistic",
"undressed",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"unworked",
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"unprofessional",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"primitive",
"rudimentary",
"unshaped",
"unshapen"
],
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"faultless",
"finished",
"flawless",
"meticulous",
"perfect",
"perfected",
"polished",
"well-done",
"adept",
"adroit",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"expert",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"neat",
"practiced",
"practised",
"skillful",
"workmanlike",
"artful",
"artistic",
"sophisticated",
"exact",
"precise"
],
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"refined"
]
},
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"a rough-and-tumble broke out among the fans in the stands"
],
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"affray",
"brawl",
"broil",
"donnybrook",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction"
],
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"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"rose-colored":{
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"examples":[
"an incurable optimist sees the world through a rose-colored perspective"
],
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"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
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"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"routeways":{
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"the courier's preferred routeway between the two offices takes him right past Trafalgar Square"
],
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"courses",
"lines",
"paths",
"pathways",
"routes",
"steps",
"tracks",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"circuits",
"loops",
"orbits",
"arcs",
"flight paths",
"trajectories",
"ascents",
"descents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roisterers":{
"one who engages in merrymaking especially in honor of a special occasion":{
"examples":[
"the rowdy roisterers who fill the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras"
],
"synonyms":[
"celebrants",
"celebrators",
"merrymakers",
"partyers",
"partiers",
"partygoers",
"revelers",
"revellers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bacchanals",
"bingers",
"carousers",
"party animals",
"wassailers",
"cutups",
"skylarkers",
"noisemakers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"killjoys",
"party poopers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rouster":{
"one who loads and unloads ships at a port":{
"examples":[
"a hard-muscled man who certainly looked like he had worked all his life as a rouster"
],
"synonyms":[
"docker",
"dockhand",
"dockworker",
"longshoreman",
"roustabout",
"stevedore"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rollers":{
"as in ground swells":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ground swells",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"wavelets",
"tidal waves",
"tsunamis",
"tsunami",
"combers",
"curls",
"breakers",
"whitecaps",
"surfs",
"seas",
"billows",
"surges",
"swells",
"waves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"robed":{
"as in dressed , garbed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"attired",
"clad",
"clothed",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"invested",
"suited",
"covered",
"veiled",
"arrayed",
"caparisoned",
"decked (out)",
"rigged (out)",
"tricked (out)",
"vested",
"decent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"au naturel",
"bare",
"bottomless",
"disrobed",
"mother-naked",
"naked",
"nude",
"raw",
"starkers",
"stripped",
"unclad",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"seminude",
"topless",
"denuded",
"peeled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"robed the queen in her ceremonial garments"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked (out)",
"did up",
"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"got up",
"gowned",
"habited",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"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":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"roturier":{
"as in commoner , plebeian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"canaille",
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"proletarian",
"boor",
"fellah",
"peasant",
"peon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocrat",
"blue blood",
"gentle",
"gentleperson",
"noble",
"patrician",
"socialite",
"swell",
"magnate",
"magnifico",
"mogul",
"nabob"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotter":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"the dirty rotter dumped his wife to marry his secretary"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
"boor",
"bounder",
"bugger",
"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"dog",
"fink",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rounds (off or out)":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"examples":[
"I'll round off the meeting here and let everyone get an early start on the weekend"
],
"synonyms":[
"closes",
"closes out",
"completes",
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"wraps up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"climaxes",
"crowns",
"consummates",
"perfects",
"halts",
"stops",
"suspends"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"begins",
"commences",
"inaugurates",
"opens",
"starts"
]
},
"to serve as a completing element to":{
"examples":[
"coffee and dessert rounded out the meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"complements",
"completes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"finishes (off)",
"fleshes (out)",
"adorns",
"beautifies",
"decorates",
"embellishes",
"betters",
"enhances",
"improves",
"constitutes",
"forms",
"makes up",
"enriches",
"perfects"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roisterer":{
"one who engages in merrymaking especially in honor of a special occasion":{
"examples":[
"the rowdy roisterers who fill the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras"
],
"synonyms":[
"celebrant",
"celebrator",
"merrymaker",
"partyer",
"partier",
"partygoer",
"reveler",
"reveller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bacchanal",
"binger",
"carouser",
"party animal",
"wassailer",
"cutup",
"skylarker",
"noisemaker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"killjoy",
"party pooper"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roundhouses":{
"as in uppercuts , kicks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"romanticizations":{
"as in idealizations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"idealizations",
"adorations",
"deferences",
"glorifications",
"reverences",
"venerations",
"affections",
"fancies",
"favors",
"likes",
"likings",
"loves",
"adulations",
"deifications",
"hero worships",
"idolatries",
"idolizations",
"worships",
"appreciations",
"esteems",
"regards",
"respects",
"approvals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condemnations",
"disapprovals",
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"dismissals",
"disregards",
"hatreds",
"loathings",
"scorns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"romp":{
"a time or instance of carefree fun":{
"examples":[
"one last romp before starting their new life as parents"
],
"synonyms":[
"binge",
"fling",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"lark",
"ploy",
"revel",
"rollick",
"spree"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caper",
"escapade",
"prank",
"bender",
"brannigan",
"bum",
"bust",
"carouse",
"souse",
"splore",
"toot",
"antic",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"field day",
"festivity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"enjoyment",
"indulgence",
"pleasure",
"self-indulgence",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to play and run about happily":{
"examples":[
"the kids romped on the lawn until dinner was ready"
],
"synonyms":[
"caper",
"cavort",
"disport",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"sport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bound",
"hop",
"leap",
"lope",
"skip",
"spring",
"trip",
"tumble",
"curvet",
"dance",
"prance",
"carouse",
"revel",
"roister",
"carry on",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"clown",
"cut up",
"joyride",
"roughhouse",
"skylark",
"kite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mope",
"pout",
"stew",
"sulk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"round tables":{
"a meeting featuring a group discussion":{
"examples":[
"an international roundtable of medical experts on the disease"
],
"synonyms":[
"colloquies",
"conferences",
"councils",
"forums",
"fora",
"panel discussions",
"panels",
"parleys",
"round-robins",
"seminars",
"symposia",
"symposiums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquiums",
"colloquia",
"caucuses",
"town meetings",
"assemblies",
"conclaves",
"congregations",
"congresses",
"consistories",
"conventions",
"convocations",
"synods",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"brainstormings",
"chat rooms",
"newsgroups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roller":{
"as in ground swell":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ground swell",
"riffle",
"ripple",
"wavelet",
"tidal wave",
"tsunami",
"comber",
"curl",
"breaker",
"whitecap",
"surf",
"sea(s)",
"billow",
"surge",
"swell",
"wave"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"robes":{
"something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth":{
"examples":[
"with the coming of spring the hills will once again don their robes of green"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"cloaks",
"copes",
"coverings",
"covers",
"covertures",
"cover-ups",
"curtains",
"hoods",
"mantles",
"masks",
"palls",
"penumbrae",
"penumbras",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"wraps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blinds",
"concealers",
"screens",
"shields",
"fig leafs",
"fig leaves",
"Potemkin villages",
"Trojan horses",
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"facades",
"fa\u00e7ades",
"faces",
"veneers",
"glosses",
"varnishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"robed the queen in her ceremonial garments"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks (out)",
"does up",
"dresses",
"dresses up",
"enrobes",
"garbs",
"garments",
"gets up",
"gowns",
"habits",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"suits",
"togs (up or out)",
"toilets",
"vestures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"jackets",
"mantles",
"vests",
"drapes",
"enswathes",
"haps",
"huddles",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"bedights",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"habilitates",
"outfits",
"tailors",
"uniforms",
"dresses down",
"underdresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denudes",
"divests",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarrays",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes",
"undresses",
"untrusses"
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"type":[
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"verb"
]
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"as in migrate":{
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"migrate",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"knock (about)",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander",
"bus",
"cab",
"coach",
"cruise",
"drive",
"fly",
"gig",
"jet",
"motor",
"navigate",
"ride",
"roll",
"sail",
"trundle",
"journey",
"peregrinate",
"pilgrimage",
"tour",
"travel",
"trek",
"trip",
"voyage",
"barnstorm"
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},
"type":[
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},
"rocklike":{
"as in adamantine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"adamantine",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"sturdy",
"substantial",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"ramrod",
"unbending",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"nonporous",
"close",
"dense",
"heavy",
"thick",
"thickset",
"case-hardened",
"compacted",
"compressed",
"hardened",
"indurated",
"stiffened",
"tempered",
"compact",
"firm",
"hard",
"rigid",
"solid",
"stiff",
"unyielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flabby",
"soft",
"spongy",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"loose",
"scattered",
"thin",
"bendable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"malleable",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"limp",
"slack",
"airy",
"light",
"permeable",
"porous",
"ultrasoft"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"role":{
"the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists":{
"examples":[
"studying the role of sunlight in the body's production of vitamin D"
],
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"business",
"capacity",
"function",
"job",
"part",
"place",
"position",
"purpose",
"task",
"work"
],
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"affair",
"concern",
"hand",
"involvement",
"participation",
"niche",
"office",
"post",
"situation",
"calling",
"occupation",
"pursuit",
"vocation",
"activity",
"assignment",
"charge",
"commission",
"duty",
"employ",
"mission",
"responsibility",
"service",
"use"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roscoes":{
"as in handguns , pistols":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"derringers",
"forty-fives",
".45s",
"gats",
"handguns",
"pistols",
"revolvers",
"rods",
"sidearms",
"six-guns",
"six-shooters",
"zip guns",
"arms",
"firearms",
"guns",
"heat",
"pieces",
"small arms",
"self-loaders",
"semiautomatics",
"blunderbusses",
"breechloaders",
"culverins",
"fieldpieces",
"firelocks",
"flintlocks",
"harquebuses",
"arquebuses",
"matchlocks",
"muskets",
"rifles",
"shotguns",
"smoothbores",
"twenty-twos",
".22s",
"AK-47s",
"assault rifles",
"assault weapons",
"automatics",
"carbines",
"machine guns",
"machine pistols",
"repeaters",
"submachine guns",
"tommy guns",
"spearguns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ropewalker":{
"as in trapeze artist , ropedancer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aerialist",
"ropedancer",
"trampoliner",
"trampolinist",
"trapeze artist",
"trapezist",
"contortionist",
"equilibrist",
"exerciser",
"tumbler",
"acrobat",
"gymnast",
"turner"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughs it":{
"to live in a camp or the outdoors":{
"examples":[
"They spent a week roughing it in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"bivouacs",
"camps (out)",
"encamps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeps out",
"tents",
"beds (down)",
"backpacks",
"caravans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"roamers":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"the couple retired, sold their house, and became carefree roamers in an RV"
],
"synonyms":[
"drifters",
"gadabouts",
"gypsies",
"knockabouts",
"maunderers",
"nomads",
"ramblers",
"rovers",
"strollers",
"vagabonds",
"wanderers",
"wayfarers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggards",
"stragglers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"sojourners",
"bums",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"passengers",
"sightseers",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"migrants",
"transients",
"vagrants",
"amblers",
"saunterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebodies",
"denizens",
"dwellers",
"habitants",
"inhabitants",
"residents",
"settlers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rowdy":{
"being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way":{
"examples":[
"a rowdy but good-natured group of teenagers"
],
"synonyms":[
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"roisterous",
"rollicking",
"rumbustious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"ruffianly",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"antonyms":[
"orderly"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"rowdies had overtaken the neighborhood and were threatening people on the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"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":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"roans":{
"as in chestnuts , palominos":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bays",
"blacks",
"buckskins",
"chestnuts",
"duns",
"palominos",
"pintos",
"pintoes",
"skewbalds",
"sorrels",
"chargers",
"coursers",
"cow ponies",
"cutting horses",
"gallopers",
"hackneys",
"hacks",
"mounts",
"packhorses",
"prancers",
"quarter horses",
"racehorses",
"saddle horses",
"trotters",
"warhorses",
"workhorses",
"cobs",
"dobbins",
"jades",
"plugs",
"skates",
"broncos",
"bronchos",
"mustangs",
"ponies",
"colts",
"fillies",
"foals",
"geldings",
"mares",
"stallions",
"equids",
"equines",
"horses",
"horse",
"nags",
"steeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roisters":{
"to take part in drunken revelry":{
"examples":[
"the earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling"
],
"synonyms":[
"binges",
"birls",
"carouses",
"revels",
"wassails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boozes",
"drinks",
"guzzles",
"liquors (up)",
"soaks",
"tipples"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roadstead":{
"as in port , road(s)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"harbor",
"port",
"road(s)",
"arm",
"bay",
"bight",
"cove",
"creek",
"embayment",
"estuary",
"firth",
"fjord",
"fiord",
"gulf",
"inlet",
"loch",
"narrow",
"sound",
"strait",
"bayou",
"backwater",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"road map":{
"a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective":{
"examples":[
"a road map for peace in the troubled region"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrangement",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"master plan",
"plan",
"program",
"project",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"system"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collusion",
"conspiracy",
"plot",
"contrivance",
"device",
"gambit",
"maneuver",
"ruse",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trick",
"counterplan",
"counterstrategy",
"means",
"tactic",
"technique",
"way",
"procedure",
"protocol",
"conception",
"idea",
"projet",
"proposal",
"specific(s)",
"specification(s)",
"aim",
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"diagram",
"formula",
"layout",
"map",
"pattern",
"platform",
"policy",
"recipe",
"setup"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement that makes something clear":{
"examples":[
"an article that is a good road map for any consumer attempting to negotiate his way through the maze of offerings in digital photography"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarification",
"construction",
"elucidation",
"exegesis",
"explanation",
"explication",
"exposition",
"illumination",
"illustration",
"interpretation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paraphrase",
"restatement",
"translation",
"annotation",
"comment",
"commentary",
"epexegesis",
"gloss",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"disentanglement",
"unscrambling",
"analysis",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"definition",
"meaning",
"demonstration",
"enactment",
"justification",
"rationale",
"rationalization",
"reasoning",
"caution",
"caveat",
"warning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"routing (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"hunting (down or up)",
"learning",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"rooting (out)",
"rummaging",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"road rage":{
"as in air rage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"air rage",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"pet",
"rise",
"ruffle",
"temper",
"delirium",
"heat",
"passion",
"warmth",
"blowup",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"outburst",
"belligerence",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"crankiness",
"disputatiousness",
"hot-headedness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"orneriness",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"spite",
"vengefulness",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"envy",
"jaundice",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bile",
"biliousness",
"bitterness",
"contempt",
"embitterment",
"empoisonment",
"enmity",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"rancor",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"vexation",
"anger",
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure",
"calmness",
"forbearance",
"patience"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rough":{
"covered with or as if with hair":{
"examples":[
"a face rough with a couple days' worth of beard"
],
"synonyms":[
"bristly",
"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"hirsute",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"stubbled",
"stubbly",
"downy",
"fluffy",
"fuzzy",
"linty",
"nappy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beardless",
"shaved",
"shaven"
],
"antonyms":[
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth"
]
},
"marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity":{
"examples":[
"rough waters that made sailing our sloop a little risky"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang-bang",
"blood-and-guts",
"convulsive",
"cyclonic",
"explosive",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"furious",
"hammer-and-tongs",
"hot",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"paroxysmal",
"rabid",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"tumultuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"volcanic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"savage",
"vicious",
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"gladiatorial",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"truculent",
"combustible",
"volatile",
"agitated",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"mad",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"destructive",
"ruinous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"halcyon",
"pacific",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"nonbelligerent",
"unaggressive"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonviolent",
"peaceable",
"peaceful"
]
},
"marked by wet and windy conditions":{
"examples":[
"at least wear a raincoat if you're going out into that rough weather"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleak",
"dirty",
"foul",
"inclement",
"nasty",
"raw",
"squally",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowy",
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"windblown",
"windswept",
"cloudy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"rainy",
"snowy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"murky",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rainless",
"balmy",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"pleasant",
"serene"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"clear",
"clement",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"unclouded"
]
},
"not having a level or smooth surface":{
"examples":[
"a rough board can give you splinters"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth"
]
},
"requiring considerable physical or mental effort":{
"examples":[
"a forensics expert who willingly takes on rough assignments"
],
"synonyms":[
"arduous",
"Augean",
"backbreaking",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"effortful",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"moiling",
"murderous",
"pick-and-shovel",
"rigorous",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"sweaty",
"tall",
"testing",
"toilsome",
"tough",
"uphill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"elusive",
"hairy",
"insoluble",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"opaque",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite",
"serious",
"spiny",
"stubborn",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"tricky",
"bruising",
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"labored",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"tight",
"trying",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"distressing",
"irksome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"grievous",
"grim",
"strict",
"stringent",
"brutal",
"cruel",
"inhuman",
"painful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievable",
"clear",
"doable",
"elementary",
"manageable",
"uncomplicated",
"comforting",
"gentle",
"painless",
"relaxed",
"smooth",
"soothing",
"accessible",
"friendly",
"idiotproof",
"user-friendly"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"light",
"mindless",
"simple",
"soft",
"undemanding"
]
},
"difficult to endure":{
"examples":[
"I've had a rough time of it since I lost my job"
],
"synonyms":[
"bitter",
"brutal",
"burdensome",
"cruel",
"excruciating",
"grievous",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy",
"inhuman",
"murderous",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rugged",
"searing",
"severe",
"stiff",
"tough",
"trying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"austere",
"bleak",
"comfortless",
"discomforting",
"forbidding",
"inhospitable",
"spartan",
"uncomfortable",
"biting",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"wild",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"agonizing",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"painful",
"wretched",
"crushing",
"grinding",
"overwhelming",
"wearing",
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"harrowing",
"tortuous",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"hostile",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"luxurious",
"snug",
"agreeable",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"peaceful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"painless",
"tolerable",
"balmy",
"calm",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate"
],
"antonyms":[
"easy",
"light",
"soft"
]
},
"harsh and threatening in manner or appearance":{
"examples":[
"the rough faces of hardened criminals who had spent most of their lives behind bars"
],
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"austere",
"dour",
"fierce",
"flinty",
"forbidding",
"grim",
"gruff",
"intimidating",
"lowering",
"louring",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stark",
"steely",
"stern",
"ungentle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bleak",
"cold",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"adamant",
"bound",
"determined",
"firm",
"intent",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"fixed",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"ironhanded",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"set",
"stiff",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"immutable",
"unchangeable",
"black",
"cheerless",
"dark",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"joyless",
"melancholic",
"moody",
"morose",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly",
"brooding",
"grave",
"humorless",
"melancholy",
"serious",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bland",
"meek",
"mellow",
"soft",
"soothing",
"easy",
"quiet",
"tranquil",
"agreeable",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"sweet",
"glad",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"playful",
"scatterbrained",
"silly"
],
"antonyms":[
"benign",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"mild",
"nonintimidating",
"tender"
]
},
"hastily or roughly constructed":{
"examples":[
"made a rough camp as darkness fell over the forest"
],
"synonyms":[
"artless",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"jerry-built",
"jerry-rigged",
"jury-rigged",
"rough-and-ready",
"rough-and-tumble",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"unrefined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"imprecise",
"inexact",
"inartistic",
"undressed",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"unworked",
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"unprofessional",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"primitive",
"rudimentary",
"unshaped",
"unshapen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faultless",
"finished",
"flawless",
"meticulous",
"perfect",
"perfected",
"polished",
"well-done",
"adept",
"adroit",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"expert",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"neat",
"practiced",
"practised",
"skillful",
"workmanlike",
"artful",
"artistic",
"sophisticated",
"exact",
"precise"
],
"antonyms":[
"refined"
]
},
"lacking in refinement or good taste":{
"examples":[
"he learned polite words to replace the rough language he had known growing up"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"illiberal",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough-hewn",
"roughneck",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"animallike",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
"antonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred"
]
},
"made of or resembling hair":{
"examples":[
"a rough -coated dog who was always shedding his fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"furry",
"fuzzy",
"hairy",
"shaggy",
"woolly",
"wooly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downy",
"fluffy",
"nappy",
"puffy",
"hairlike"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by a series of sharp quick motions":{
"examples":[
"a rough flight that left some passengers nauseated"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpy",
"choppy",
"herky-jerky",
"jerky",
"jouncy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"spasmodic",
"spastic",
"unsteady",
"jagged",
"ragged",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"placid",
"smooth",
"steady",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements":{
"examples":[
"after a rough week on the high seas, we were happy to sail through the gulf's more tranquil waters"
],
"synonyms":[
"rugged",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"tumultuous",
"turbulent",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"blustery",
"raging",
"violent",
"brutal",
"harsh",
"severe",
"roily",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"bleak",
"inclement",
"nasty",
"raw",
"squally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"bright",
"clear",
"clement",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"unclouded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in punk , thug":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goon",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mug",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"abuser",
"baiter",
"giber",
"jiber",
"harasser",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"oppressor",
"persecutor",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"torturer",
"cutthroat",
"felon",
"gangster",
"gunman",
"mobster",
"racketeer",
"antagonist",
"enemy",
"bully",
"bullyboy",
"hector",
"intimidator"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in beat , chop":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rotting":{
"as in rotten , decaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decayed",
"decaying",
"decomposed",
"decomposing",
"rotted",
"rotten",
"spoiled",
"spoiling",
"bad",
"disgusting",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"vile",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"nasty",
"noxious",
"putrid",
"rancid",
"skunky",
"stale",
"odiferous",
"odoriferous",
"odorous",
"fetid",
"foul",
"frowsty",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"funky",
"fusty",
"malodorous",
"musty",
"noisome",
"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"ripe",
"smelly",
"stenchy",
"stinking",
"stinky",
"strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"aromatic",
"fragrant",
"perfumed",
"redolent",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scented",
"sweet",
"flowery",
"fruity",
"spicy",
"woodsy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in decay , spoiling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decay",
"spoiling",
"dark age",
"nadir",
"sunset",
"breakup",
"crumbling",
"decomposition",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"decadence",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devolution",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebb",
"eclipse",
"fall",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"depreciation",
"lessening",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"havoc",
"ruin",
"ruination",
"abatement",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"de-escalation",
"deflation",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"dip",
"downslide",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"falloff",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"sag",
"shrinkage",
"slip",
"slump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ascent",
"rise",
"upswing",
"advancement",
"development",
"evolution",
"growth",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"renewal",
"restoration",
"revitalization",
"heightening",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"enhancement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"the house slowly fell into disrepair and rotted"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"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"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"rotting vegetation on the bank of the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"routs":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"a great rout of rubberneckers had gathered around the scene of the accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"armies",
"bikes",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"masses",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scrums",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs",
"gaggles",
"heaps",
"mountains",
"piles",
"jams",
"logjams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"the championship game was a humiliating rout for the team that had been favored to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatings",
"defeats",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"losses",
"lumps",
"overthrows",
"plasterings",
"shellackings",
"trimmings",
"whippings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapses",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"nonsuccesses",
"setbacks",
"upsets",
"lurches",
"shutouts",
"washouts",
"whitewashes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"blowouts",
"cakewalks",
"landslides",
"romps",
"runaways",
"sweeps",
"walkaways",
"walkovers"
],
"antonyms":[
"successes",
"triumphs",
"victories",
"wins"
]
},
"the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement":{
"examples":[
"in the mad rout from the school shooter, it was every person for himself"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakouts",
"breaks",
"bunks",
"escapes",
"flights",
"getaways",
"lams",
"slips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jailbreaks",
"deliverances",
"liberations",
"redemptions",
"releases",
"rescues",
"salvations",
"close calls",
"close shaves",
"near misses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivities",
"confinements",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"internments",
"custodies",
"detentions",
"holdings",
"holds",
"retentions",
"endangerments",
"hazards",
"imperilments",
"jeopardies",
"perils",
"risks",
"troubles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"as expected, the professional team had no trouble routing the amateurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"drubs",
"dusts",
"flattens",
"pastes",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"skunks",
"smokes",
"smothers",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"tromps",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"whomps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeps",
"upsets",
"beats",
"bests",
"conquers",
"dispatches",
"hurdles",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"throws",
"triumphs (over)",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"crushes",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"overwhelms",
"subjugates",
"upends",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"breaks",
"destroys",
"does in",
"finishes",
"sinks",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the nation's ground and air forces quickly routed the would-be invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishes",
"boots (out)",
"bounces",
"casts out",
"chases",
"dismisses",
"drums (out)",
"ejects",
"expels",
"extrudes",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"outs",
"runs off",
"throws out",
"turfs (out)",
"turns out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforces",
"deports",
"displaces",
"dispossesses",
"evicts",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"ostracizes",
"reads out",
"shuts out",
"axes",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"defenestrates",
"discharges",
"fires",
"musters out",
"pink-slips",
"releases",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes",
"takes in",
"welcomes",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rooked":{
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"once you learn to recognize these swindler's tricks, no one will be able to use them to rook you"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
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"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rooted":{
"firmly established over time":{
"examples":[
"a popular, rooted misconception that has proved very resistant to correction"
],
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"bred-in-the-bone",
"confirmed",
"deep",
"deep-rooted",
"deep-seated",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"hard-core",
"inveterate",
"settled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"firm",
"fixed",
"frozen",
"hard",
"hard-and-fast",
"immutable",
"irradicable",
"set",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"instilled",
"inborn",
"inbred",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"inherent",
"innate",
"integral",
"intrinsic",
"natural",
"accustomed",
"chronic",
"customary",
"habitual",
"regular",
"typical",
"usual",
"abiding",
"enduring",
"lifelong",
"persistent",
"persisting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brief",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"impermanent",
"interim",
"momentary",
"provisional",
"short-lived",
"short-term",
"temporary",
"transient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter":{
"examples":[
"rooted the post securely in the dirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedded",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"enrooted",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"fixed",
"impacted",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imbued",
"infused",
"instilled",
"beat (into)",
"drove (into)",
"established",
"placed",
"put",
"settled",
"stuck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"ejected",
"expelled",
"detached",
"disconnected",
"disengaged",
"removed"
],
"antonyms":[
"dislodged",
"rooted (out)",
"uprooted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"robust":{
"enjoying health and vigor":{
"examples":[
"a robust and sturdy toddler"
],
"synonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"bouncing",
"fit",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound",
"well",
"well-conditioned",
"whole",
"wholesome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hard",
"hardy",
"iron",
"lusty",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"ambulatory",
"nondisabled",
"uncrippled",
"active",
"agile",
"chipper",
"lively",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"spry",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"blooming",
"clean-cut",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"all right",
"good",
"right"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrepit",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"infirm",
"run-down",
"sickened",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakened",
"weakly",
"worn-out",
"challenged",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"differently abled",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"malnourished",
"undernourished",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"bad",
"poorly"
],
"antonyms":[
"ailing",
"diseased",
"ill",
"sick",
"unfit",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
]
},
"having active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"a robust older man who still bicycles 10 miles a day"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"red-blooded",
"vigorous",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"brisk",
"dashing",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"punchy",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"vitalized",
"firm",
"fortified",
"mettlesome",
"mighty",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"strong",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"revitalized",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"burly",
"fit",
"hardy",
"husky",
"muscular",
"robustious",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"virile",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicate",
"effete",
"enervated",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"wan",
"weak",
"weakened",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"tired",
"indolent",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"lazy",
"invertebrate",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"wimpy",
"ill",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell",
"broken-down",
"debilitated",
"decrepit",
"disabled",
"wasted",
"worn-out"
],
"antonyms":[
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
]
},
"having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor)":{
"examples":[
"beef and other red meats should be accompanied by robust wines"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"concentrated",
"full",
"full-bodied",
"heady",
"lusty",
"muscular",
"plush",
"potent",
"rich",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heavy",
"straight",
"undiluted",
"unmixed",
"high-octane",
"high-test",
"enriched",
"fortified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilute",
"diluted",
"watered-down",
"watery"
],
"antonyms":[
"delicate",
"light",
"mild",
"thin",
"thinned",
"weak",
"weakened"
]
},
"not showing weakness or uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"a robust slap on the back welcoming me to the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"firm",
"forceful",
"hearty",
"iron",
"lusty",
"solid",
"stout",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"vigorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hard",
"ironclad",
"mighty",
"powerful",
"tough",
"unyielding",
"animated",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"assured",
"certain",
"confident",
"sanguine",
"secure",
"sure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"self-doubting",
"characterless",
"effete",
"frail",
"spineless",
"weakened",
"weak-kneed",
"wimpy",
"wishy-washy"
],
"antonyms":[
"uncertain",
"weak"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rondelets":{
"as in triolets , English sonnets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anacreontics",
"clerihews",
"dithyrambs",
"eclogues",
"elegies",
"English sonnets",
"epics",
"epigrams",
"epodes",
"epopees",
"eposes",
"georgics",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"jingles",
"laments",
"limericks",
"madrigals",
"odes",
"pastorales",
"pastorals",
"psalms",
"rondeaux",
"rondelles",
"rondels",
"sonnets",
"triolets",
"villanelles",
"lyrics",
"poems",
"runes",
"songs",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"ballads",
"lays",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tankas",
"blank verses",
"free verses",
"minstrelsies",
"poesies",
"poetries",
"versifications",
"vers libres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rock bottom":{
"of, relating to, or located at the bottom":{
"examples":[
"rock-bottom prices on home electronics"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom",
"bottommost",
"low",
"lowermost",
"nethermost",
"undermost"
],
"near synonyms":[
"below",
"lower",
"low-grade",
"lowly",
"nether",
"under",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[
"highest",
"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost"
]
},
"the lowest part, place, or point":{
"examples":[
"when the stock market was at its rock bottom was the time to buy in"
],
"synonyms":[
"base",
"basement",
"bottom",
"foot",
"nadir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basis",
"bed",
"bedrock",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"seat",
"underpinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"culmination",
"height",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"head",
"top",
"vertex"
]
},
"the lowest point or level":{
"examples":[
"our finances must be at rock bottom if we can't even afford a fast-food joint"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"depth",
"nadir",
"zero"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abyss",
"armpit",
"pit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"crescendo",
"high",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"crest",
"roof"
],
"antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"rob":{
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"in jail for robbing a bank"
],
"synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"burgle",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"rip off",
"steal (from)",
"take off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravish",
"sack",
"spoil",
"strip",
"bleed",
"break in",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"exploit",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"pluck",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle",
"hold up",
"mug",
"roll",
"stick up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"role models":{
"someone who another person admires and tries to be like":{
"examples":[
"Parents need to be good role models for their children.",
"Athletes should remember that they are role models ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embodiments",
"epitomes",
"incarnations",
"manifestations",
"personifications",
"phantoms",
"pinks",
"beau ideals",
"classics",
"eidolons",
"eidola",
"exemplars",
"ideals",
"ideas",
"models",
"nonesuches",
"nonpareils",
"paragons",
"patron saints",
"archetypes",
"examples",
"mirrors",
"paradigms",
"patterns",
"guidelines",
"principles",
"rules",
"gauges",
"gages",
"standards",
"touchstones",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"apotheoses",
"culminations",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rogues":{
"a mean, evil, or unprincipled person":{
"examples":[
"a rogue who had nothing but contempt for people who made their living honestly"
],
"synonyms":[
"baddies",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"caitiffs",
"devils",
"evildoers",
"fiends",
"heavies",
"hounds",
"knaves",
"meanies",
"miscreants",
"monsters",
"nazis",
"no-goods",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"savages",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scamps",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains",
"wretches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"villainesses",
"blackguards",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"culprits",
"felons",
"lawbreakers",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"transgressors",
"sinners",
"trespassers",
"wrongdoers",
"cads",
"heels",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"outlaws",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gunmen",
"hoodlums",
"hooligans",
"racketeers",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"toughs",
"losers",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"stinkers",
"trash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels",
"innocents",
"saints",
"heroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an appealingly mischievous person":{
"examples":[
"the little rogue always seems to end up being forgiven for his pranks"
],
"synonyms":[
"devils",
"hellions",
"imps",
"mischiefs",
"monkeys",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"scamps",
"urchins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutups",
"larkers",
"madcaps",
"skylarkers",
"ragamuffins",
"brats",
"disrupters",
"misbehavers",
"nuisances",
"juvenile delinquents",
"gamines",
"gamins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"curs",
"heels",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"knaves",
"miscreants",
"reprobates",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rollick":{
"a time or instance of carefree fun":{
"examples":[
"enjoying a summer rollick before knuckling down in medical school"
],
"synonyms":[
"binge",
"fling",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"lark",
"ploy",
"revel",
"romp",
"spree"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caper",
"escapade",
"prank",
"bender",
"brannigan",
"bum",
"bust",
"carouse",
"souse",
"splore",
"toot",
"antic",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"field day",
"festivity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"enjoyment",
"indulgence",
"pleasure",
"self-indulgence",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in activity for amusement":{
"examples":[
"an educator who realized that children need to rollick as well as to study and learn"
],
"synonyms":[
"dally",
"disport",
"frolic",
"play",
"recreate",
"skylark",
"sport",
"toy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cavort",
"frisk",
"gambol",
"romp",
"dabble",
"trifle",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain",
"delight",
"please",
"dabble",
"fiddle (around)",
"mess around",
"putter (around)",
"bum (around)",
"dawdle",
"goldbrick",
"hang",
"hang about",
"idle",
"loaf",
"lounge (around or about)",
"relax",
"rest",
"screw around",
"slack (off)",
"jest",
"joke",
"tease"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"labor",
"plod",
"plug (away)",
"slave",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"work"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to play and run about happily":{
"examples":[
"children rollicking during recess"
],
"synonyms":[
"caper",
"cavort",
"disport",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"romp",
"sport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bound",
"hop",
"leap",
"lope",
"skip",
"spring",
"trip",
"tumble",
"curvet",
"dance",
"prance",
"carouse",
"revel",
"roister",
"carry on",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"clown",
"cut up",
"joyride",
"roughhouse",
"skylark",
"kite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mope",
"pout",
"stew",
"sulk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"round up":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"I can't read 500 pages by tomorrow, so just give me the roundup"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"breviary",
"brief",
"capsule",
"conspectus",
"digest",
"encapsulation",
"epitome",
"inventory",
"outline",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recap",
"recapitulation",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
"resume",
"resum\u00e9",
"run-through",
"rundown",
"sum",
"sum-up",
"summa",
"summarization",
"summary",
"summing-up",
"synopsis",
"wrap-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compend",
"compendium",
"condensation",
"curtailment",
"shortening",
"simplification",
"streamlining",
"rehash",
"reprise",
"conclusion",
"epilogue",
"epilog"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplification",
"enlargement",
"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"rounded everyone up for one final training session"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"bulk (up)",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"pick up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roommates":{
"as in classmates , teammates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"classmates",
"housemates",
"messmates",
"playfellows",
"playmates",
"schoolmates",
"shipmates",
"teammates",
"associates",
"cohorts",
"companions",
"compatriots",
"compeers",
"comrades",
"cronies",
"fellows",
"hobnobbers",
"mates",
"running mates",
"colleagues",
"coworkers",
"co-workers",
"equals",
"peers",
"workmates",
"accomplices",
"affiliates",
"allies",
"collaborators",
"confederates",
"halves",
"partners",
"buddies",
"chums",
"confidants",
"familiars",
"friends",
"hearties",
"intimates",
"pals",
"countrymen",
"attendants",
"escorts",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"as in flatmates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flatmates",
"cotenants",
"co-tenants",
"subtenants",
"guests",
"visitors",
"boarders",
"lessees",
"lodgers",
"renters",
"roomers",
"tenants",
"occupants",
"occupiers",
"residents",
"residers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"landlords",
"lessors",
"letters",
"lairds",
"landholders",
"landowners",
"proprietors",
"landladies",
"slumlords",
"hosts",
"innkeepers",
"proprietors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ropes":{
"the characteristic peculiarities and technicalities of something":{
"examples":[
"needs a mentor who will show her the ropes of running a catering business"
],
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"ins and outs",
"mechanics",
"workings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"details",
"incidentals",
"minutiae",
"particulars",
"oddities",
"quirks",
"brass tacks",
"nuts and bolts"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the specific practical details of something":{
"examples":[
"still learning the ropes of her new job"
],
"synonyms":[
"brass tacks",
"nitty-gritty",
"nuts and bolts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incidentals",
"ins and outs",
"minutiae",
"particulars",
"specifics",
"technicalities",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quirks",
"ramifications"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in straps , wires":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cinches",
"cords",
"straps",
"threads",
"wires",
"bands",
"binds",
"ties",
"trusses",
"girds",
"girts",
"lashes",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"interlaces",
"intertwines",
"interweaves",
"laces",
"entangles",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles",
"twists",
"coils",
"winds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unties",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unlaces",
"unlashes",
"unloosens",
"unlooses",
"unstraps",
"unstrings",
"unthreads",
"unleashes",
"untethers",
"disentangles",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"untangles",
"untwines",
"untwists",
"uncoils",
"unspools",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ropy":{
"being of a consistency that resists flow":{
"examples":[
"because the paint was so old, it was ropy and couldn't be smoothly applied to the wood"
],
"synonyms":[
"syrupy",
"thick",
"viscid",
"viscous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creamy",
"heavy",
"slushy",
"thickened",
"thickish",
"turbid",
"undiluted",
"semifluid",
"semiliquid",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"sticky",
"gelatinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"jellylike",
"concentrated",
"condensed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluid",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"liquid",
"watered-down",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"runny",
"soupy",
"thin",
"watery"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rototilled":{
"as in hoed , listed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"harrowed",
"hoed",
"listed",
"raked",
"fallowed",
"cultivated",
"tilled",
"broke",
"furrowed",
"plowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rowers":{
"a person who drives a boat forward by means of oars":{
"examples":[
"the racing shell carries four rowers and a coxswain"
],
"synonyms":[
"oars",
"oarsmen",
"scullers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowmen",
"oarswomen",
"coxswains",
"crewmen",
"pullers",
"gobs",
"hearties",
"jacks",
"jack-tars",
"mariners",
"navigators",
"sailors",
"salts",
"sea dogs",
"seafarers",
"seamen",
"shipmen",
"swabs",
"tars",
"kayakers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Romeo":{
"as in lover , amorist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amorist",
"gallant",
"ladies' man",
"lady's man",
"lady-killer",
"lover",
"paramour",
"Casanova",
"Don Juan",
"lecher",
"lothario",
"lounge lizard",
"masher",
"philanderer",
"satyr",
"wolf",
"womanizer",
"debaucher",
"romancer",
"seducer",
"whoremaster",
"whoremonger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rock bottoms":{
"the lowest part, place, or point":{
"examples":[
"when the stock market was at its rock bottom was the time to buy in"
],
"synonyms":[
"basements",
"bases",
"bottoms",
"feet",
"foot",
"nadirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bases",
"bedrocks",
"beds",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"keystones",
"seats",
"underpinnings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"culminations",
"heights",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"heads",
"tops",
"vertices",
"vertexes"
]
},
"the lowest point or level":{
"examples":[
"our finances must be at rock bottom if we can't even afford a fast-food joint"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedrocks",
"bottoms",
"depths",
"nadirs",
"zeros",
"zeroes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysses",
"armpits",
"pits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blooms",
"flood tides",
"flowers",
"glories",
"heydays",
"crescendos",
"crescendoes",
"crescendi",
"highs",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"crests",
"roofs"
],
"antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heads",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roadways":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"a cow wandered into the roadway"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ropewalkers":{
"as in trapeze artists , ropedancers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aerialists",
"ropedancers",
"trampoliners",
"trampolinists",
"trapeze artists",
"trapezists",
"contortionists",
"equilibrists",
"exercisers",
"tumblers",
"acrobats",
"gymnasts",
"turners"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rounded on":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"She rounded on him, punching him square in the nose."
],
"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",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (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",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"room(s)":{
"an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall":{
"examples":[
"finally had a room to himself when his older brother went off to college"
],
"synonyms":[
"apartments",
"cells",
"chambers",
"closets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"bays",
"berths",
"booths",
"cabins",
"compartments",
"cubicles",
"alcoves",
"niches",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"snuggeries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"we can room up to four visitors in our two guest bedrooms"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"shelters",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rowdyism":{
"as in rowdiness , boisterousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rumbustiousness",
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rowing":{
"to move a boat by means of oars":{
"examples":[
"rowed around the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"oaring",
"paddling",
"sculling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoeing",
"kayaking",
"poling",
"punting",
"feathering",
"pulling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"the couple rows all the time, and yet they seem happy together"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercating",
"argufying",
"arguing",
"bickering",
"brabbling",
"brawling",
"controverting",
"disputing",
"falling out",
"fighting",
"hassling",
"jarring",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"quibbling",
"scrapping",
"spatting",
"squabbling",
"tiffing",
"wrangling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenging",
"daring",
"defying",
"clashing",
"contending",
"contesting",
"tangling",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"fussing",
"nitpicking",
"considering",
"debating",
"discussing",
"kicking",
"objecting",
"protesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisting",
"getting along",
"accepting",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"concurring",
"consenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roomers":{
"one who rents a room or apartment in another's house":{
"examples":[
"the new owners took in roomers to help pay for the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"boarders",
"lessees",
"lodgers",
"renters",
"tenants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cotenants",
"co-tenants",
"subtenants",
"flatmates",
"roommates",
"roomies",
"guests",
"visitors",
"occupants",
"occupiers",
"residents",
"residers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lairds",
"landholders",
"landowners",
"proprietors",
"landladies",
"slumlords",
"hosts",
"innkeepers",
"proprietors"
],
"antonyms":[
"landlords",
"lessors",
"letters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rooting (for)":{
"as in supporting , approving":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"supporting",
"ballyhooing",
"celebrating",
"emblazoning",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"singing",
"bravoing",
"clapping",
"rising (to)",
"adulating",
"belauding",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"acclaiming",
"accrediting",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"cracking up",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"deifying",
"idolizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocking",
"panning",
"slamming",
"belittling",
"discommending",
"disparaging",
"putting down",
"blaming",
"censuring",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"criticizing",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving",
"castigating",
"excoriating",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"skewering",
"slagging",
"vilifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rousted":{
"as in awakened , roused":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"roused",
"wakened",
"awake",
"insomniac",
"sleepless",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake",
"about",
"astir",
"up",
"aware",
"conscious",
"revived",
"reawakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"unawakened",
"dozy",
"drowsy",
"nodding",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent",
"dreaming",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force (someone or something) to move from a place":{
"examples":[
"The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"routed",
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"knocked up",
"roused",
"wakened",
"woke",
"waked",
"raised",
"revived",
"reawakened",
"rewaked",
"rewoke",
"agitated",
"bestirred",
"disturbed",
"excited",
"provoked",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"lulled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rototills":{
"as in hoes , lists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"harrows",
"hoes",
"lists",
"rakes",
"fallows",
"cultivates",
"tills",
"breaks",
"furrows",
"plows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rolled up":{
"to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"ticket sales are expected to roll up as the date of the concert nears"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rooters":{
"as in boosters , well-wishers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boosters",
"well-wishers",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanatics",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers",
"groupies",
"admirers",
"amateurs",
"collectors",
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"authorities",
"experts",
"adherents",
"converts",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"votaries",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"exponents",
"friends",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirers",
"belittlers",
"carpers",
"critics",
"detractors",
"nonfans"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roves":{
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"buffalo roving over the vast plains"
],
"synonyms":[
"bats",
"cruises",
"drifts",
"floats",
"gads (about)",
"gallivants",
"galavants",
"kicks around",
"knocks (about)",
"maunders",
"meanders",
"mooches",
"rambles",
"ranges",
"roams",
"traipses",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambles",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"dawdles",
"mopes",
"gypsies",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"mills (about or around)",
"straggles",
"strays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"robustious":{
"being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way":{
"examples":[
"his buddies sent him off to the navy with many robustious and hearty toasts"
],
"synonyms":[
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"roisterous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"rumbustious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"ruffianly",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
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"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"antonyms":[
"orderly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rooted (out)":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a concerted effort to root out prejudice of any kind in the armed services"
],
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"abolished",
"annihilated",
"blacked out",
"blotted out",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"cleaned (up)",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"rubbed out",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"swept (away)",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ravaged",
"dismantled",
"flattened",
"mowed (down)",
"razed",
"tore down",
"ruined",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"wasted",
"wrecked",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"dashed",
"dynamited",
"smashed",
"atomized",
"consumed",
"devoured",
"dissolved",
"fragmented",
"powdered",
"pulverized",
"shattered",
"splintered",
"doomed",
"finished",
"killed",
"killed off",
"terminated",
"zapped",
"cut",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"ejected",
"excised",
"expelled",
"jettisoned",
"ousted",
"threw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"built",
"constructed",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"a dog rooting out a buried toy"
],
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"corkscrewed",
"extracted",
"pried",
"prized",
"pulled",
"tore (out)",
"uprooted",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"yanked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mined",
"plucked",
"removed",
"took (out)",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implanted",
"inserted",
"installed",
"instilled",
"crammed",
"jammed",
"rammed",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"a journalist seeking to root out and expose corruption in the gaming industry"
],
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"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"got",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"learned",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"road-trips":{
"as in migrates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"migrates",
"gallivants",
"galavants",
"hops",
"jaunts",
"knocks (about)",
"perambulates",
"rambles",
"roams",
"roves",
"traipses",
"wanders",
"buses",
"busses",
"cabs",
"coaches",
"cruises",
"drives",
"flies",
"gigs",
"jets",
"motors",
"navigates",
"rides",
"rolls",
"sails",
"trundles",
"journeys",
"peregrinates",
"pilgrimages",
"tours",
"travels",
"treks",
"trips",
"voyages",
"barnstorms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rostrum":{
"a level usually raised surface":{
"examples":[
"stood on a rostrum to address the huge crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"dais",
"platform",
"podium",
"stage",
"stand",
"tribune"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altar",
"bimah",
"bima",
"footpace",
"pulpit",
"riser",
"scaffold",
"balcony",
"gallery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rousting":{
"to force (someone or something) to move from a place":{
"examples":[
"The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"routing",
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"knocking up",
"rousing",
"wakening",
"waking",
"raising",
"reviving",
"reawakening",
"rewaking",
"agitating",
"bestirring",
"disturbing",
"exciting",
"provoking",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"lulling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roped":{
"as in strapped , wired":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cinched",
"corded",
"strapped",
"threaded",
"wired",
"banded",
"bound",
"tied",
"trussed",
"girded",
"girt",
"girted",
"lashed",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"interlaced",
"intertwined",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"laced",
"entangled",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"twisted",
"coiled",
"wound",
"winded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbound",
"untied",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unlaced",
"unlashed",
"unloosed",
"unloosened",
"unstrapped",
"unstrung",
"unthreaded",
"unleashed",
"untethered",
"disentangled",
"unraveled",
"unsnarled",
"untangled",
"untwined",
"untwisted",
"uncoiled",
"unspooled",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"routeway":{
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"the courier's preferred routeway between the two offices takes him right past Trafalgar Square"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"line",
"path",
"pathway",
"route",
"steps",
"track",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"circuit",
"loop",
"orbit",
"arc",
"flight path",
"trajectory",
"ascent",
"descent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rowdyish":{
"as in riotous , ruffianly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"ruffianly",
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"roisterous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"rumbustious",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"orderly",
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rowboats":{
"as in canoes , skiffs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateaux",
"batteaux",
"ca\u00efques",
"canoes",
"catamarans",
"coracles",
"curraghs",
"currachs",
"dhows",
"dinghies",
"dinks",
"dories",
"dugouts",
"flatboats",
"garveys",
"gigs",
"johnboats",
"kayaks",
"outriggers",
"paddleboats",
"pinnaces",
"piraguas",
"pirogues",
"pontoons",
"prams",
"punts",
"rafts",
"rowing boats",
"sampans",
"scows",
"sculls",
"shallops",
"shells",
"skiffs",
"surfboats",
"umiaks",
"wherries",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels",
"watercrafts",
"catboats",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"yachts",
"cruisers",
"inboards",
"motorboats",
"outboards",
"powerboats",
"houseboats",
"riverboats",
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"lifeboats",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"lighters",
"narrow boats",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"gondolas",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotgut":{
"as in red-eye , bathtub gin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gin",
"red-eye",
"bootleg",
"moonshine",
"mountain dew",
"white lightning",
"alcohol",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"potable",
"rum",
"spirits",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rooting (out)":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a concerted effort to root out prejudice of any kind in the armed services"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"blacking out",
"blotting out",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"cleaning (up)",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"rubbing out",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"sweeping (away)",
"wiping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"ravaging",
"dismantling",
"flattening",
"mowing (down)",
"razing",
"tearing down",
"ruining",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"dashing",
"dynamiting",
"smashing",
"atomizing",
"consuming",
"devouring",
"dissolving",
"fragmenting",
"powdering",
"pulverizing",
"shattering",
"splintering",
"dooming",
"finishing",
"killing",
"killing off",
"terminating",
"zapping",
"cutting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"ejecting",
"excising",
"expelling",
"jettisoning",
"ousting",
"throwing out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"building",
"constructing",
"creating",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"shaping",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstructing",
"renewing",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"a dog rooting out a buried toy"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrewing",
"extracting",
"prizing",
"prying",
"pulling",
"tearing (out)",
"uprooting",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"yanking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mining",
"plucking",
"removing",
"taking (out)",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implanting",
"inserting",
"installing",
"instilling",
"cramming",
"jamming",
"ramming",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"a journalist seeking to root out and expose corruption in the gaming industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"hunting (down or up)",
"learning",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"routing (out)",
"rummaging",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roomies":{
"as in classmates , teammates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"classmates",
"housemates",
"messmates",
"playfellows",
"playmates",
"schoolmates",
"shipmates",
"teammates",
"associates",
"cohorts",
"companions",
"compatriots",
"compeers",
"comrades",
"cronies",
"fellows",
"hobnobbers",
"mates",
"running mates",
"colleagues",
"coworkers",
"co-workers",
"equals",
"peers",
"workmates",
"accomplices",
"affiliates",
"allies",
"collaborators",
"confederates",
"halves",
"partners",
"buddies",
"chums",
"confidants",
"familiars",
"friends",
"hearties",
"intimates",
"pals",
"countrymen",
"attendants",
"escorts",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in flatmates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flatmates",
"cotenants",
"co-tenants",
"subtenants",
"guests",
"visitors",
"boarders",
"lessees",
"lodgers",
"renters",
"roomers",
"tenants",
"occupants",
"occupiers",
"residents",
"residers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"landlords",
"lessors",
"letters",
"lairds",
"landholders",
"landowners",
"proprietors",
"landladies",
"slumlords",
"hosts",
"innkeepers",
"proprietors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rounded up":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"rounded everyone up for one final training session"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"bulked (up)",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"congregated",
"constellated",
"corralled",
"garnered",
"gathered",
"grouped",
"lumped",
"picked 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":[
"verb"
]
},
"romping":{
"as in raucous , boisterous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blustery",
"boisterous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roaring",
"roistering",
"rowdy",
"buzzing",
"humming",
"murmuring",
"tumultuous",
"woolly",
"wooly",
"resonant",
"sonorous",
"obstreperous",
"vociferous",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"clattering",
"clattery",
"noisy",
"rackety",
"resounding",
"uproarious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"quiet",
"silent",
"soundless",
"stilled",
"stilly",
"calm",
"peaceful",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in gamboling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"dalliance",
"frolic",
"frolicking",
"fun",
"fun and games",
"play",
"recreation",
"relaxation",
"rollicking",
"sport",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"hobby",
"hobbyhorse",
"pastime",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasance",
"pleasure",
"friskiness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"wantonness",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"hanky-panky",
"hob",
"impishness",
"jinks",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"waggery",
"binge",
"fling",
"kick",
"lark",
"revel",
"rollick",
"spree",
"hilarity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"revelry",
"whoopee",
"buffoonery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudgery",
"labor",
"work",
"duty",
"obligation",
"responsibility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to play and run about happily":{
"examples":[
"the kids romped on the lawn until dinner was ready"
],
"synonyms":[
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"larking",
"rollicking",
"sporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"hopping",
"leaping",
"loping",
"skipping",
"springing",
"tripping",
"tumbling",
"curvetting",
"curveting",
"dancing",
"prancing",
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roistering",
"carrying on",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"clowning",
"cutting up",
"joyriding",
"roughhousing",
"skylarking",
"kiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moping",
"pouting",
"stewing",
"sulking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rousing":{
"causing great emotional or mental stimulation":{
"examples":[
"a rousing rendition of our national anthem"
],
"synonyms":[
"breathtaking",
"charged",
"electric",
"electrifying",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"exhilarative",
"galvanic",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"heart-stopping",
"inspiring",
"intoxicating",
"kicky",
"mind-bending",
"mind-blowing",
"mind-boggling",
"rip-roaring",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arresting",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"provocative",
"tantalizing",
"titillating",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"riveting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"spellbinding",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"high-voltage",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"lusty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"mind-numbing",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"dreary",
"dull",
"humdrum",
"monotonous",
"uninteresting"
],
"antonyms":[
"unexciting"
]
},
"marked by much life, movement, or activity":{
"examples":[
"during the heat wave stores were doing a rousing business in air conditioners"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"brisk",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"humming",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
]
},
"to cause to stop sleeping":{
"examples":[
"the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"knocking up",
"wakening",
"waking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rousting",
"routing",
"raising",
"reviving",
"reawakening",
"rewaking",
"agitating",
"bestirring",
"disturbing",
"exciting",
"provoking",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"lulling"
]
},
"to cease to be asleep":{
"examples":[
"I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late"
],
"synonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"wakening",
"waking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arising",
"getting up",
"rising",
"rolling out",
"turning out",
"uprising",
"watching",
"reviving",
"reawakening",
"rewaking",
"shifting",
"stirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catnapping",
"conking (off or out)",
"dozing",
"dropping off",
"napping",
"nodding",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"bedding (down)",
"couching",
"dossing (down)",
"flopping",
"kipping (down)",
"retiring",
"sacking out",
"turning in",
"lying up",
"sleeping in",
"oversleeping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rough-hewn":{
"hastily or roughly constructed":{
"examples":[
"a survivalist living in a rough-hewn shelter in the wilderness"
],
"synonyms":[
"artless",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"jerry-built",
"jerry-rigged",
"jury-rigged",
"rough",
"rough-and-ready",
"rough-and-tumble",
"rude",
"unrefined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"imprecise",
"inexact",
"inartistic",
"undressed",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"unworked",
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"unprofessional",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"primitive",
"rudimentary",
"unshaped",
"unshapen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faultless",
"finished",
"flawless",
"meticulous",
"perfect",
"perfected",
"polished",
"well-done",
"adept",
"adroit",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"expert",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"neat",
"practiced",
"practised",
"skillful",
"workmanlike",
"artful",
"artistic",
"sophisticated",
"exact",
"precise"
],
"antonyms":[
"refined"
]
},
"lacking in refinement or good taste":{
"examples":[
"a rough-hewn kid who had to learn how to behave properly in polite company"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"illiberal",
"incult",
"insensible",
"low",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"raffish",
"rough",
"roughneck",
"rude",
"rugged",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"ungentlemanly",
"clumsy",
"lubberly",
"lumpish",
"oafish",
"inconsiderate",
"indelicate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"unsophisticated",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"animallike",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized",
"mannerless",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"courtly",
"patrician",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"restrained",
"considerate",
"gracious",
"sensitive",
"thoughtful",
"citified",
"sophisticated",
"urbane"
],
"antonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"smooth",
"tasteful",
"ultrarefined",
"well-bred"
]
},
"lacking social grace and assurance":{
"examples":[
"rough-hewn military cadets feeling a little self-conscious at their first formal dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angular",
"gawky",
"lubberly",
"ungainly",
"boorish",
"clownish",
"uncouth",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"meek",
"modest",
"self-doubting",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
],
"antonyms":[
"graceful",
"suave",
"urbane"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rotated":{
"to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis":{
"examples":[
"rotate the mirror 180 degrees"
],
"synonyms":[
"pivoted",
"revolved",
"rolled",
"spun",
"swirled",
"swiveled",
"swivelled",
"swung",
"turned",
"twirled",
"twisted",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"screwed",
"unscrewed",
"twiddled",
"coiled",
"cranked",
"reeled",
"wound",
"winded",
"circulated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in circles around an axis or center":{
"examples":[
"with mirrors on three sides, she rotated all around to see how the dress looked on her"
],
"synonyms":[
"gyrated",
"pinwheeled",
"pirouetted",
"revolved",
"rolled",
"spun",
"turned",
"twirled",
"wheeled",
"whirled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coiled",
"curled",
"curved",
"rounded",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"swirled",
"twined",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"circled",
"circulated",
"encircled",
"orbited",
"ringed",
"pivoted",
"swiveled",
"swivelled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rode (out)":{
"to come safely through":{
"examples":[
"just as we always have in the past, we'll ride out this latest crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"survived",
"weathered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlasted",
"outlived",
"wore out",
"pulled through",
"abided",
"abode",
"continued",
"endured",
"held on",
"held out",
"held up",
"hung on",
"lasted",
"led",
"persisted",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"withstood",
"breathed",
"existed",
"lived",
"subsisted",
"was",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croaked",
"deceased",
"departed",
"died",
"expired",
"passed away",
"passed (on)",
"perished",
"succumbed",
"disappeared",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"vanished",
"ceased",
"ended",
"stopped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roughed (up)":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to abuse physically":{
"examples":[
"the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club"
],
"synonyms":[
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"mauled",
"mishandled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abused",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"mistreated",
"misused",
"roughhoused",
"wrestled",
"bashed",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"drubbed",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"slapped",
"thrashed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured",
"wounded",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"wronged",
"ambushed",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"clobbered",
"fought",
"ganged up (on)",
"hit",
"jumped",
"knocked",
"tormented",
"tortured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caressed",
"fondled",
"petted",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"cared (for)",
"fostered",
"nurtured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roofs":{
"a raised covering over something for decoration or protection":{
"examples":[
"the roof of the pavilion leaks when it rains"
],
"synonyms":[
"awnings",
"canopies",
"ceilings",
"covers",
"tents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"marquees",
"pavilions",
"arbors",
"bowers",
"pergolas",
"screens",
"shades",
"shelters",
"shields",
"sunshades",
"umbrellas",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"flies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the place where one lives":{
"examples":[
"as long as you're living under my roof , you'll obey my rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"abodes",
"diggings",
"domiciles",
"dwellings",
"firesides",
"habitations",
"hearths",
"hearthstones",
"homes",
"houses",
"lodgings",
"pads",
"places",
"quarters",
"residences"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"housings",
"nests",
"residencies",
"shelters",
"bungalows",
"cabins",
"casitas",
"chalets",
"cottages",
"duplexes",
"ranches",
"ranch houses",
"saltboxes",
"semis",
"split levels",
"townhomes",
"town houses",
"tract houses",
"triplexes",
"apartment houses",
"apartments",
"condominiums",
"condominia",
"condos",
"flats",
"tenement houses",
"tenements",
"walk-ups",
"penthouses",
"salons",
"suites",
"barracks",
"billets",
"boardinghouses",
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"flophouses",
"lodging houses",
"lodgments",
"lodgements",
"rooming houses",
"rooms",
"castles",
"ch\u00e2teaus",
"ch\u00e2teaux",
"countryseats",
"estates",
"halls",
"manor houses",
"manors",
"mansions",
"McMansions",
"palaces",
"villas",
"farmhouses",
"granges",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"double-wides",
"houseboats",
"house trailers",
"mobile homes",
"motor homes",
"recreational vehicles",
"RVs",
"trailers",
"hermitages",
"manses",
"parsonages",
"rectories",
"vicarages",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"rooms",
"shelters",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roving":{
"traveling from place to place":{
"examples":[
"a roving substitute teacher who works in a different district every day"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambulant",
"ambulatory",
"errant",
"fugitive",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"itinerant",
"nomad",
"nomadic",
"perambulatory",
"peregrine",
"peripatetic",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"vagabond",
"vagrant",
"wandering",
"wayfaring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifting",
"footloose",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"traipsing",
"walking",
"migrant",
"migratory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobile",
"nonmoving",
"settled",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"motionless",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"buffalo roving over the vast plains"
],
"synonyms":[
"batting",
"cruising",
"drifting",
"floating",
"gadding (about)",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"kicking around",
"knocking (about)",
"maundering",
"meandering",
"mooching",
"rambling",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"traipsing",
"wandering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"dawdling",
"moping",
"gypsying",
"hoboing",
"tramping",
"vagabonding",
"milling (about or around)",
"straggling",
"straying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"role-play":{
"as in enact , take on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"act out",
"enact",
"pantomime",
"playact",
"take on",
"depict",
"dramatize",
"render",
"represent",
"overact",
"overplay",
"underplay",
"act",
"do",
"impersonate",
"interpret",
"perform",
"play",
"portray",
"ape",
"clown",
"ham",
"imitate",
"masquerade",
"mime",
"mimic",
"pose (as)",
"star (in)",
"coact",
"costar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rondelet":{
"as in triolet , English sonnet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"lyric",
"poem",
"rune",
"song",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"vers libre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"robbed":{
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"in jail for robbing a bank"
],
"synonyms":[
"burglarized",
"burgled",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"ripped off",
"stole (from)",
"took off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravished",
"sacked",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stripped",
"stript",
"bled",
"broke in",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"exploited",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"plucked",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled",
"held up",
"mugged",
"rolled",
"stuck up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rooming house":{
"as in boardinghouse , lodging house":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boardinghouse",
"lodging house",
"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hospice",
"hostel",
"hostelry",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern",
"B and B",
"bed-and-breakfast",
"guesthouse",
"apartment hotel",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rest",
"court",
"motel",
"motor court",
"motor inn",
"motor lodge",
"resort",
"spa",
"tourist court",
"youth hostel",
"camp",
"campground",
"bunkhouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"doss-house",
"fleabag",
"flophouse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rower":{
"a person who drives a boat forward by means of oars":{
"examples":[
"the racing shell carries four rowers and a coxswain"
],
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"oar",
"oarsman",
"sculler"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowman",
"oarswoman",
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"puller",
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"shipman",
"swab",
"tar",
"kayaker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rocky":{
"as in shaky , wobbly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shaky",
"tippy",
"tipsy",
"wavery",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"wonky",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"infirm",
"insecure",
"precarious",
"unsound",
"doddering",
"doddery",
"jiggling",
"jiggly",
"rickety",
"staggery",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"askew",
"awry",
"cockeyed",
"lopsided",
"off-kilter",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"equilibrated",
"stabilized",
"stable",
"steady",
"even",
"level",
"straight",
"sound",
"sturdy",
"substantial"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in stony , pebbly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pebbly",
"stony",
"stoney",
"earthy",
"gravelly",
"gritty",
"sandy",
"coarse-grained",
"cracked",
"kibbled",
"lumpy",
"mealy",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"coarse",
"grained",
"grainy",
"granular",
"granulated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dusty",
"fine",
"floury",
"powdery",
"superfine",
"ultrafine",
"buttery",
"smooth",
"velvety",
"filtered",
"levigated",
"refined",
"close-grained",
"comminuted",
"ground",
"micronized",
"milled",
"mulled",
"pestled",
"pulverized",
"reduced",
"triturated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rowdiness":{
"as in boorishness , brutishness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boorishness",
"brutishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"rusticity",
"uncouthness",
"coarseness",
"commonness",
"crassness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"grossness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"raffishness",
"rawness",
"roughness",
"rudeness",
"tastelessness",
"vulgarity",
"artlessness",
"gracelessness",
"inelegance",
"unsophistication",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"kitsch",
"tackiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cultivation",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"polish",
"refinement",
"tastefulness",
"courtliness",
"urbanity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"graciousness",
"consideration",
"sensitivity",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotorcraft":{
"as in rotary-wing aircraft":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rotary-wing aircraft",
"chopper",
"copter",
"eggbeater",
"helicopter",
"helo",
"whirlybird",
"autogiro",
"autogyro",
"convertiplane",
"convertaplane",
"gyroplane",
"tilt-rotor",
"slick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"routed":{
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"as expected, the professional team had no trouble routing the amateurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"bombed",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"drubbed",
"dusted",
"flattened",
"pasted",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"smoked",
"smothered",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"tromped",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"whomped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"upset",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"dispatched",
"hurdled",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"threw",
"took",
"triumphed (over)",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"crushed",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed",
"subjugated",
"upended",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"broke",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"finished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slaughtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the nation's ground and air forces quickly routed the would-be invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"banished",
"booted (out)",
"bounced",
"cast out",
"chased",
"dismissed",
"drummed (out)",
"ejected",
"expelled",
"extruded",
"kicked out",
"ousted",
"outed",
"ran off",
"threw out",
"turfed (out)",
"turned out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforced",
"deported",
"displaced",
"dispossessed",
"evicted",
"exiled",
"expatriated",
"ostracized",
"read out",
"shut out",
"axed",
"canned",
"cashiered",
"defenestrated",
"discharged",
"fired",
"mustered out",
"pink-slipped",
"released",
"removed",
"retired",
"sacked",
"terminated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"admitted",
"received",
"took",
"took in",
"welcomed",
"entertained",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"sheltered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducted",
"directed",
"guided",
"led",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"piloted",
"showed",
"steered",
"ushered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preceded",
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"controlled",
"managed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogged",
"hounded",
"shadowed",
"tailed",
"tailgated"
],
"antonyms":[
"followed",
"trailed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roseate":{
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"examples":[
"one analyst who envisions a qualifiedly roseate future for the nation's automotive industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"road":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"I think we should take one of the less congested roads"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel":{
"examples":[
"the railway companies are continually repairing their roads"
],
"synonyms":[
"rail",
"railroad",
"railway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"el",
"elevated",
"elevated railroad",
"monorail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"road-tripping":{
"as in migrating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"migrating",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"hopping",
"jaunting",
"knocking (about)",
"perambulating",
"rambling",
"roaming",
"roving",
"traipsing",
"wandering",
"busing",
"bussing",
"cabbing",
"coaching",
"cruising",
"driving",
"flying",
"gigging",
"jetting",
"motoring",
"navigating",
"riding",
"rolling",
"sailing",
"trundling",
"journeying",
"peregrinating",
"pilgrimaging",
"touring",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trekking",
"tripping",
"voyaging",
"barnstorming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rocket planes":{
"as in aerospace planes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aerospace planes",
"jetliners",
"jets",
"superjets",
"supersonics",
"supersonic transports",
"trijets",
"turbojets",
"turboprops",
"bombers",
"fighters",
"jump jets",
"torpedo bombers",
"warplanes",
"freighters",
"tankers",
"amphibians",
"seaplanes",
"aerodynes",
"aircraft",
"air-cushion vehicles",
"airframes",
"airships",
"ships",
"tractors",
"biplanes",
"lightplanes",
"tilt-rotors",
"towplanes",
"trimotors",
"triplanes",
"airliners",
"air taxis",
"liners",
"gliders",
"sailplanes",
"aeroplanes",
"airplanes",
"planes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rocketing":{
"as in breakneck , careering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"hurried",
"rushed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"snaillike",
"snail-paced",
"tardy",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"loafing",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the startled cat rocketed out of the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"to rise abruptly and rapidly":{
"examples":[
"the child actor rocketed to stardom at the age of eight"
],
"synonyms":[
"shooting (up)",
"skyrocketing",
"soaring",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"cresting",
"peaking",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"falling",
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dropping",
"lessening",
"waning"
],
"antonyms":[
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"slumping",
"tumbling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"roils":{
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the waters of the gulf tossed and roiled as the hurricane surged toward the shore"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"churns",
"moils",
"seethes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reels",
"spins",
"swirls",
"whirls",
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"calms",
"subsides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"the clerk's brusque refusal of her request roiled her enough to prompt a complaint to his supervisor"
],
"synonyms":[
"angers",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"ires",
"maddens",
"mads",
"outrages",
"rankles",
"riles",
"steams up",
"ticks off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronts",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"burns (up)",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"gets",
"huffs",
"irritates",
"miffs",
"nettles",
"offends",
"peeves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"puts out",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"antagonizes",
"embitters",
"envenoms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"assuages",
"relieves",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"soothes",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"calms",
"lulls",
"quiets",
"settles",
"beguiles",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"disarms",
"enchants"
],
"antonyms":[
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rooted (for)":{
"as in supported , approved":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"favored",
"recommended",
"supported",
"ballyhooed",
"celebrated",
"emblazoned",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"sang",
"sung",
"bravoed",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"rose (to)",
"adulated",
"belauded",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"acclaimed",
"accredited",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"cracked up",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"deified",
"idolized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"discommended",
"disparaged",
"put down",
"blamed",
"censured",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"criticized",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"castigated",
"excoriated",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"skewered",
"slagged",
"vilified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roundels":{
"something with a perfectly round circumference":{
"examples":[
"the windows in the colonial-era statehouse are roundels"
],
"synonyms":[
"circles",
"cirques",
"rings",
"rounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circlets",
"ringlets",
"ellipses",
"loops",
"ovals",
"balls",
"globes",
"orbs",
"spheres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rowdyisms":{
"as in horseplays , plays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplays",
"plays",
"adventures",
"experiences",
"games",
"larks",
"times",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"antics",
"capers",
"capriccios",
"didoes",
"didos",
"escapades",
"frolics",
"gags",
"jests",
"knaveries",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"rags",
"rogueries",
"shavies",
"shines",
"tricks",
"waggeries",
"gambits",
"hoaxes",
"maneuvers",
"ploys",
"deeds",
"feats",
"missions",
"performances",
"stunts",
"caprices",
"conceits",
"fancies",
"vagaries",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"delusions",
"frauds",
"hanky-pankies",
"ruses",
"shams",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"wiles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"routes":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"take Route 190 for six miles, then get off"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an established course for traveling from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we're going to get stuck in traffic if we take the usual route"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaches",
"avenues",
"passages",
"paths",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypaths",
"byways",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"arteries",
"boulevards",
"bypasses",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passageways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routeways",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"turnpikes",
"walks",
"walkways",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails",
"airways",
"bikeways",
"cycleways",
"channels",
"gats",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"doors",
"doorways",
"gates",
"gateways",
"hatches",
"portals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"hurricanes generally take a northerly route up the Atlantic seaboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"lines",
"paths",
"pathways",
"routeways",
"steps",
"tracks",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circles",
"circuits",
"loops",
"orbits",
"arcs",
"flight paths",
"trajectories",
"ascents",
"descents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to point out the way for (someone) especially from a position in front":{
"examples":[
"the guide routed us smoothly through the jungle"
],
"synonyms":[
"conducts",
"directs",
"guides",
"leads",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"pilots",
"shows",
"steers",
"ushers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precedes",
"accompanies",
"attends",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"convoys",
"escorts",
"sees",
"controls",
"manages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dogs",
"hounds",
"shadows",
"tailgates",
"tails"
],
"antonyms":[
"follows",
"trails"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rod":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"arrested for using a rod on his dogs in violation of the state's animal cruelty laws"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rung",
"sap",
"shillelagh",
"shillalah",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide":{
"examples":[
"a curtain rod"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"billet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbor",
"beam",
"board",
"crossbar",
"crossbeam",
"girder",
"band",
"strip",
"bloom",
"ingot",
"slab",
"stick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rotary-wing aircrafts":{
"as in rotorcraft":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rotorcraft",
"choppers",
"copters",
"eggbeaters",
"helicopters",
"helos",
"whirlybirds",
"autogiros",
"autogyros",
"convertiplanes",
"convertaplanes",
"gyroplanes",
"tilt-rotors",
"slicks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"routinely":{
"in a frequent or repeated manner":{
"examples":[
"She is often late leaving for work and routinely skips breakfast.",
"An annual concert that routinely draws 20,000 attendees."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commonly",
"habitually",
"ordinarily",
"regularly",
"always",
"consistently",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"night and day",
"perpetually",
"steadily",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"unremittingly",
"again and again",
"constantly",
"continually",
"frequently",
"hourly",
"much",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes",
"over and over",
"repeatedly",
"intermittently",
"periodically",
"recurrently",
"dependably",
"generally",
"normally",
"typically",
"usually",
"aye",
"ay",
"ever",
"forever",
"incessantly",
"invariably",
"unfailingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"episodically",
"erratically",
"intermittently",
"irregularly",
"occasionally",
"sporadically",
"now and then",
"sometimes",
"inconsistently",
"variably",
"infrequently",
"little",
"rarely",
"seldom",
"ne'er",
"never",
"once"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"round-robin":{
"a meeting featuring a group discussion":{
"examples":[
"a round-robin to discuss the epidemic of performance-enhancing drugs plaguing professional sports"
],
"synonyms":[
"colloquy",
"conference",
"council",
"forum",
"panel",
"panel discussion",
"parley",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"symposium"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquium",
"caucus",
"town meeting",
"assembly",
"conclave",
"congregation",
"congress",
"consistory",
"convention",
"convocation",
"synod",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"brainstorming",
"chat room",
"newsgroup"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rogue":{
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"a rogue administrator who took bribes to falsify paperwork"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"shady",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"a mean, evil, or unprincipled person":{
"examples":[
"a rogue who had nothing but contempt for people who made their living honestly"
],
"synonyms":[
"baddie",
"baddy",
"beast",
"brute",
"caitiff",
"devil",
"evildoer",
"fiend",
"heavy",
"hound",
"knave",
"meanie",
"meany",
"miscreant",
"monster",
"nazi",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"savage",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain",
"wretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"villainess",
"blackguard",
"criminal",
"crook",
"culprit",
"felon",
"lawbreaker",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"transgressor",
"sinner",
"trespasser",
"wrongdoer",
"cad",
"heel",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"desperado",
"outlaw",
"con",
"convict",
"jailbird",
"assassin",
"cutthroat",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gunman",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"racketeer",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"rough",
"rowdy",
"tough",
"loser",
"lowlife",
"ne'er-do-well",
"stinker",
"trash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel",
"innocent",
"saint",
"hero"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an appealingly mischievous person":{
"examples":[
"the little rogue always seems to end up being forgiven for his pranks"
],
"synonyms":[
"devil",
"hellion",
"imp",
"mischief",
"monkey",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"scamp",
"urchin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutup",
"larker",
"madcap",
"skylarker",
"ragamuffin",
"brat",
"disrupter",
"misbehaver",
"nuisance",
"juvenile delinquent",
"gamin",
"gamine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"reprobate",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
}
}