dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/ard_MWT.json
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{
"ardor":{
"depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"candidates for citizenship reciting the oath of allegiance to the United States with all the ardor that they could muster"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardency",
"emotion",
"enthusiasm",
"fervency",
"fervidness",
"fervor",
"fire",
"heat",
"intenseness",
"intensity",
"passion",
"passionateness",
"vehemence",
"violence",
"warmth",
"white heat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cathexis",
"emotionalism",
"emotionality",
"histrionics",
"mawkishness",
"melodrama",
"sappiness",
"sentimentality",
"eagerness",
"earnestness",
"excitement",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"zest",
"fanaticism",
"fever",
"hot-bloodedness",
"infatuation",
"mania",
"obsession",
"zeal",
"compassion",
"responsiveness",
"sentiment",
"sympathy",
"tenderness",
"torridity",
"torridness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composure",
"detachedness",
"dryness",
"phlegm",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"reticence",
"taciturnity",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"stoicism",
"stoniness",
"unconcern",
"stiffness",
"woodenness",
"chilliness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassiveness",
"impassivity",
"insensibility",
"insensibleness",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity"
]
},
"urgent desire or interest":{
"examples":[
"his ardor for combat cooled once he began experiencing the horrors of war"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"avidity",
"avidness",
"desirousness",
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"excitement",
"hunger",
"impatience",
"keenness",
"lust",
"thirst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"quickness",
"ambition",
"gusto",
"zest",
"appetence",
"appetency",
"fervency",
"passion",
"warmth",
"zeal",
"amenability",
"readiness",
"willingness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casualness",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern",
"aloofness",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"halfheartedness",
"lukewarmness"
],
"antonyms":[
"apathy",
"indifference"
]
},
"intense sexual desire":{
"examples":[
"her revealing outfit only inflamed his ardor all the more"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscence",
"eros",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"itch",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"passion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"erotomania",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"libidinousness",
"licentiousness",
"lickerishness",
"randiness",
"salaciousness",
"wantonness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frigidity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"arduously":{
"with great effort or determination":{
"examples":[
"arduously made their way through the dense jungle"
],
"synonyms":[
"amain",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"arduous":{
"requiring considerable physical or mental effort":{
"examples":[
"climbing Mount Everest is an arduous , exhausting challenge"
],
"synonyms":[
"Augean",
"backbreaking",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"effortful",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"moiling",
"murderous",
"pick-and-shovel",
"rigorous",
"rough",
"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"
]
},
"requiring much time, effort, or careful attention":{
"examples":[
"the arduous task of doing the research for my term paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdensome",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"killing",
"laborious",
"onerous",
"persnickety",
"taxing",
"toilsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"difficult",
"formidable",
"hard",
"herculean",
"rough",
"rugged",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"testing",
"tough",
"oppressive",
"trying",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"stringent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"simple",
"smooth"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"nondemanding",
"unchallenging",
"undemanding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ardency":{
"depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"the ardency in the social worker's voice surprised me"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardor",
"emotion",
"enthusiasm",
"fervency",
"fervidness",
"fervor",
"fire",
"heat",
"intenseness",
"intensity",
"passion",
"passionateness",
"vehemence",
"violence",
"warmth",
"white heat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cathexis",
"emotionalism",
"emotionality",
"histrionics",
"mawkishness",
"melodrama",
"sappiness",
"sentimentality",
"eagerness",
"earnestness",
"excitement",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"zest",
"fanaticism",
"fever",
"hot-bloodedness",
"infatuation",
"mania",
"obsession",
"zeal",
"compassion",
"responsiveness",
"sentiment",
"sympathy",
"tenderness",
"torridity",
"torridness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composure",
"detachedness",
"dryness",
"phlegm",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"reticence",
"taciturnity",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"stoicism",
"stoniness",
"unconcern",
"stiffness",
"woodenness",
"chilliness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassiveness",
"impassivity",
"insensibility",
"insensibleness",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ardent":{
"having or expressing great depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"made ardent declarations of love to the woman he someday hoped to marry"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"charged",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"feverish",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"incandescent",
"intense",
"passional",
"passionate",
"perfervid",
"red-hot",
"religious",
"superheated",
"torrid",
"vehement",
"warm",
"warm-blooded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"gushy",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"sugary",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"keen",
"zealous",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"obsessed",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"frenzied",
"orgiastic",
"overemotional",
"overexcited",
"overheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dry",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"reserved",
"undemonstrative"
],
"antonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional"
]
},
"showing urgent desire or interest":{
"examples":[
"an ardent science-fiction fan who has read virtually all of his favorite author's many works"
],
"synonyms":[
"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engaged",
"interested",
"happy",
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"ambitious",
"appetent",
"covetous",
"craving",
"hankering",
"longing",
"pining",
"breathless",
"restive",
"restless",
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"ready",
"unreluctant",
"willing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"incurious",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"impassive",
"stolid",
"halfhearted",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"lukewarm",
"spiritless",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"hesitant",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling"
],
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"under an ardent sun the band of bedouins made their way across the sandy wastes"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ardent spirits":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"a pro-temperance political cartoon from the 1920s that depicted the evils of ardent spirits"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"booze",
"bottle",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"liquor",
"lush",
"moonshine",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aperitif",
"bracer",
"chaser",
"digestif",
"nightcap",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"liqueur",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"Dutch courage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"ardently":{
"as in earnestly , conscientiously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully",
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"ardors":{
"depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"candidates for citizenship reciting the oath of allegiance to the United States with all the ardor that they could muster"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardency",
"emotion",
"enthusiasm",
"fervency",
"fervidness",
"fervor",
"fire",
"heat",
"intenseness",
"intensity",
"passion",
"passionateness",
"vehemence",
"violence",
"warmth",
"white heat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cathexis",
"emotionalism",
"emotionality",
"histrionics",
"mawkishness",
"melodrama",
"sappiness",
"sentimentality",
"eagerness",
"earnestness",
"excitement",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"zest",
"fanaticism",
"fever",
"hot-bloodedness",
"infatuation",
"mania",
"obsession",
"zeal",
"compassion",
"responsiveness",
"sentiment",
"sympathy",
"tenderness",
"torridity",
"torridness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composure",
"detachedness",
"dryness",
"phlegm",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"reticence",
"taciturnity",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"stoicism",
"stoniness",
"unconcern",
"stiffness",
"woodenness",
"chilliness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassiveness",
"impassivity",
"insensibility",
"insensibleness",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity"
]
},
"urgent desire or interest":{
"examples":[
"his ardor for combat cooled once he began experiencing the horrors of war"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"avidity",
"avidness",
"desirousness",
"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"excitement",
"hunger",
"impatience",
"keenness",
"lust",
"thirst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"quickness",
"ambition",
"gusto",
"zest",
"appetence",
"appetency",
"fervency",
"passion",
"warmth",
"zeal",
"amenability",
"readiness",
"willingness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casualness",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern",
"aloofness",
"detachment",
"impassivity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"halfheartedness",
"lukewarmness"
],
"antonyms":[
"apathy",
"indifference"
]
},
"intense sexual desire":{
"examples":[
"her revealing outfit only inflamed his ardor all the more"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscence",
"eros",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"itch",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"passion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"erotomania",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"libidinousness",
"licentiousness",
"lickerishness",
"randiness",
"salaciousness",
"wantonness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frigidity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}