dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/rou_MWT.json
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{
"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":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"trashy",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar",
"dowdy",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"styleless",
"tasteless",
"unfashionable",
"unhandsome",
"unstylish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"posh",
"sharp",
"sleek",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"swagger",
"swank",
"swanky",
"chichi",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"deluxe",
"exclusive",
"high-end",
"luxe",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"sumptuous",
"upmarket",
"upscale"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"examples":[
"roughly 80% of the country's population is of that faith"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"approximately",
"around",
"like",
"more or less",
"much",
"near",
"plus or minus",
"say",
"some"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generally",
"kind of",
"loosely",
"nearly",
"nominally",
"practically",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
],
"near antonyms":[
"due",
"even",
"just",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely"
],
"antonyms":[
"exactly",
"precisely"
]
},
"in a manner so as to cause loss or suffering":{
"examples":[
"if you treat the machine roughly , it will of course break"
],
"synonyms":[
"brutally",
"hard",
"hardly",
"harshly",
"ill",
"oppressively",
"severely",
"sternly",
"stiffly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benevolently",
"benignantly",
"considerately",
"cordially",
"graciously",
"kindly",
"lovingly",
"tenderly",
"charitably",
"compassionately",
"humanely",
"mercifully",
"softheartedly",
"sympathetically",
"tolerantly",
"understandingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"clemently",
"gently",
"leniently",
"lightly",
"mildly",
"softly"
]
},
"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":{
"examples":[
"I'll round off the meeting here and let everyone get an early start on the weekend"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"climax",
"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
"halt",
"stop",
"suspend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
"start"
]
},
"to serve as a completing element to":{
"examples":[
"coffee and dessert rounded out the meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"complement",
"complete"
],
"near synonyms":[
"finish (off)",
"flesh (out)",
"adorn",
"beautify",
"decorate",
"embellish",
"better",
"enhance",
"improve",
"constitute",
"form",
"make up",
"enrich",
"perfect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"round on":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"She rounded on him, punching him square in the nose."
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"licking",
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"pearling",
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"circuiting",
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"girdling",
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"hooking",
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"swerving",
"trending",
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"curling",
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"spiralling",
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"perfecting",
"halting",
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"opening",
"starting"
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"beautifying",
"decorating",
"embellishing",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
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"forming",
"making up",
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"eyes",
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"loops",
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"cinctures",
"collars",
"girdles",
"wreaths",
"annulets",
"beckets",
"coils",
"curls",
"furls",
"hanks",
"spirals",
"spires",
"twirls",
"whorls"
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"wheels",
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"courses",
"developments",
"progressions",
"runs",
"beats",
"circuits",
"loops",
"rings",
"revolutions",
"rotations",
"turnovers",
"turns",
"chains",
"sequences",
"series",
"strings",
"successions",
"trains"
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"cirques",
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"roundels"
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"ringlets",
"ellipses",
"loops",
"ovals",
"balls",
"globes",
"orbs",
"spheres"
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"balls",
"rolls",
"wads"
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"clumps",
"lumps",
"beads",
"pearls",
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"pellets",
"spheres"
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"opens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"spreads",
"unfolds"
],
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"unrolls"
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"circuits",
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"girdles",
"orbits",
"rings"
],
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"crosses",
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"traverses"
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"arcs",
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"bows",
"crooks",
"curves",
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"hooks",
"sweeps",
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"trends",
"wheels"
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"coils",
"curlicues",
"curls",
"loops",
"spirals",
"turns",
"twists",
"winds",
"deviates",
"veers"
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"straightens"
]
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"noun",
"verb"
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"rounded everyone up for one final training session"
],
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"amasses",
"assembles",
"bulks (up)",
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"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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"disbands",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits (up)",
"dismisses",
"sends"
],
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"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
]
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"verb"
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],
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"conferences",
"councils",
"forums",
"fora",
"panel discussions",
"panels",
"parleys",
"round-robins",
"seminars",
"symposia",
"symposiums"
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"colloquiums",
"colloquia",
"caucuses",
"town meetings",
"assemblies",
"conclaves",
"congregations",
"congresses",
"consistories",
"conventions",
"convocations",
"synods",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"brainstormings",
"chat rooms",
"newsgroups"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to cause to stop sleeping":{
"examples":[
"the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep"
],
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"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"knock up",
"wake",
"waken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roust",
"rout",
"raise",
"revive",
"reawaken",
"rewake",
"agitate",
"bestir",
"disturb",
"excite",
"provoke",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize"
],
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"lull"
]
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"to cease to be asleep":{
"examples":[
"I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late"
],
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"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"wake",
"waken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"roll out",
"turn out",
"uprise",
"watch",
"revive",
"reawaken",
"rewake",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"verb"
]
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"as in awakened , aroused":{
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"aroused",
"awakened",
"rousted",
"wakened",
"awake",
"insomniac",
"sleepless",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake",
"about",
"astir",
"up",
"aware",
"conscious",
"revived",
"reawakened"
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"near antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"unawakened",
"dozy",
"drowsy",
"nodding",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent",
"dreaming",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"to cause to stop sleeping":{
"examples":[
"the honking horns roused her from a deep sleep"
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"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"knocked up",
"wakened",
"woke",
"waked"
],
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"rousted",
"routed",
"raised",
"revived",
"reawakened",
"rewaked",
"rewoke",
"agitated",
"bestirred",
"disturbed",
"excited",
"provoked",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized"
],
"antonyms":[
"lulled"
]
},
"to cease to be asleep":{
"examples":[
"I finally roused around noon, after going to bed very late"
],
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"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"wakened",
"woke",
"waked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arose",
"got up",
"rolled out",
"rose",
"turned out",
"uprose",
"watched",
"revived",
"reawakened",
"rewaked",
"rewoke",
"shifted",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"routine":{
"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"
],
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"drill",
"grind",
"groove",
"lockstep",
"pattern",
"rote",
"rut",
"treadmill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"something done over and over in order to develop skill":{
"examples":[
"a weapons training routine"
],
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"drill",
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"training",
"workout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assignment",
"homework",
"lesson",
"brushup",
"refresher",
"review"
],
"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":[
"act",
"bit",
"number",
"shtick",
"schtick",
"shtik",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"signature"
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"near antonyms":[],
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},
"being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events":{
"examples":[
"this is just a routine inspection"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regular",
"typical",
"unextraordinary",
"familiar",
"homely",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"popular",
"vulgar",
"natural",
"customary",
"wonted",
"insignificant",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"odd",
"out-of-the-way",
"strange",
"unusual"
]
},
"following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules":{
"examples":[
"the routine procedure for filing a complaint with the board"
],
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"ceremonial",
"ceremonious",
"conventional",
"formal",
"orthodox",
"regular"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authorized",
"certified",
"official",
"sanctioned",
"accepted",
"correct",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"formalistic",
"ritual",
"ritualistic",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"orderly",
"systematic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unauthorized",
"unofficial",
"graceless",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"inept",
"infelicitous",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unfit",
"unhappy",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable"
],
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"freewheeling",
"informal",
"irregular",
"unceremonious",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
]
},
"often observed or encountered":{
"examples":[
"the movie is a routine thriller that has little to recommend it"
],
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"common",
"common or garden",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"frequent",
"garden-variety",
"household",
"ordinary",
"quotidian",
"ubiquitous",
"usual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"normal",
"regular",
"standard",
"de rigueur",
"mandatory",
"obligatory",
"general",
"universal",
"ceaseless",
"constant",
"continual",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unceasing",
"endemic",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"rampant",
"perennial",
"recurrent",
"repeated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"irregular",
"unnatural",
"intermittent",
"occasional",
"sporadic"
],
"antonyms":[
"extraordinary",
"infrequent",
"rare",
"seldom",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unusual"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies"
],
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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",
"rooted (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"
]
},
"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"
],
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"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"wakens",
"wakes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arises",
"gets up",
"rises",
"rolls out",
"turns out",
"uprises",
"watches",
"revives",
"reawakens",
"rewakes",
"shifts",
"stirs"
],
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"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"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"as in irritating , abrading":{
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"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"
],
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"buffing",
"filing",
"grinding",
"honing",
"rasping",
"rubbing",
"sanding",
"planing",
"scraping",
"sandblasting",
"scouring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"round":{
"a circular strip":{
"examples":[
"a round of steel to reinforce the wooden beam"
],
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"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"
],
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"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"
],
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"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"
],
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"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"artless",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"jerry-built",
"jerry-rigged",
"jury-rigged",
"rough",
"rough-and-ready",
"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"
]
},
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"a rough-and-tumble broke out among the fans in the stands"
],
"synonyms":[
"affray",
"brawl",
"broil",
"donnybrook",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"row",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"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"
],
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"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"
],
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"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"
]
},
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"examples":[
"he learned polite words to replace the rough language he had known growing up"
],
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"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"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"
]
},
"roughed it":{
"to live in a camp or the outdoors":{
"examples":[
"They spent a week roughing it in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"bivouacked",
"camped (out)",
"encamped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slept out",
"tented",
"bedded (down)",
"backpacked",
"caravanned",
"caravaned"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"roughens":{
"as in scuffs , roughs (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coarsens",
"roughs (up)",
"scuffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffs",
"files",
"grinds",
"hones",
"rasps",
"rubs",
"sands",
"planes",
"scrapes",
"sandblasts",
"scours"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rout":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"a great rout of rubberneckers had gathered around the scene of the accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"army",
"bike",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mass",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"scrum",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
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"masses",
"millions",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff",
"gaggle",
"heap",
"mountain",
"pile",
"jam",
"logjam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class":{
"examples":[
"at first the protests were dismissed as nothing more than the idle doings of the restless rout"
],
"synonyms":[
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"riffraff",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dregs",
"commoners",
"commons",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class",
"working class"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elect",
"establishment",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"nobility",
"peerage"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"elite",
"gentry",
"quality",
"society",
"upper class",
"upper crust"
]
},
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"the championship game was a humiliating rout for the team that had been favored to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"lump",
"overthrow",
"plastering",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"setback",
"upset",
"lurch",
"shutout",
"washout",
"whitewash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"blowout",
"cakewalk",
"landslide",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover"
],
"antonyms":[
"success",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win"
]
},
"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":[
"break",
"breakout",
"bunk",
"escape",
"flight",
"getaway",
"lam",
"slip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jailbreak",
"deliverance",
"liberation",
"redemption",
"release",
"rescue",
"salvation",
"close call",
"close shave",
"near miss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"custody",
"detention",
"hold",
"holding",
"retention",
"endangerment",
"hazard",
"imperilment",
"jeopardy",
"peril",
"risk",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"as expected, the professional team had no trouble routing the amateurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"bomb",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the nation's ground and air forces quickly routed the would-be invaders"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"drum (out)",
"eject",
"expel",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"run off",
"throw out",
"turf (out)",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforce",
"deport",
"displace",
"dispossess",
"evict",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"ostracize",
"read out",
"shut out",
"ax",
"axe",
"can",
"cashier",
"defenestrate",
"discharge",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take",
"take in",
"welcome",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"roughness":{
"a harsh or sharp quality":{
"examples":[
"a roughness to the wine that should decrease with age"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerbity",
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"poignancy",
"pungency",
"sharpness",
"tartness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"shrillness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"mildness",
"softness"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste":{
"examples":[
"the roughness of pioneer life is not glossed over in the documentary"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarseness",
"commonness",
"crassness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"grossness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"raffishness",
"rawness",
"rudeness",
"tastelessness",
"vulgarity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boorishness",
"brutishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"rowdiness",
"rusticity",
"uncouthness",
"artlessness",
"gracelessness",
"inelegance",
"unsophistication",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"kitsch",
"tackiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"courtliness",
"urbanity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"graciousness",
"consideration",
"sensitivity",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"cultivation",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"polish",
"refinement",
"tastefulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roughhouses":{
"as in wrestles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wrestles",
"abuses",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"mistreats",
"misuses",
"bashes",
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"drubs",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"slaps",
"thrashes",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"mauls",
"mishandles",
"roughs (up)",
"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":[]
},
"as in joyrides , skylarks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"joyrides",
"skylarks",
"clowns",
"cuts up",
"kites",
"carries on",
"fools around",
"horses around",
"carouses",
"revels",
"roisters",
"curvets",
"dances",
"prances",
"bounds",
"hops",
"leaps",
"lopes",
"skips",
"springs",
"trips",
"tumbles",
"capers",
"cavorts",
"disports",
"frisks",
"frolics",
"gambols",
"larks",
"rollicks",
"romps",
"sports"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mopes",
"pouts",
"stews",
"sulks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roundly":{
"in a vigorous and forceful manner":{
"examples":[
"roundly attacked the proposal to raise the state's gas tax"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"robustly",
"roughshod",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"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":[
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"shakily",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
],
"antonyms":[
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"weakly"
]
},
"with attention to all aspects or details":{
"examples":[
"few sitcoms were as roundly disliked as that one"
],
"synonyms":[
"completely",
"comprehensively",
"detailedly",
"exhaustively",
"fully",
"inside out",
"minutely",
"sweepingly",
"systematically",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally"
],
"near synonyms":[
"meticulously",
"microscopically",
"all out",
"full blast",
"intensively",
"broadly",
"encyclopedically",
"extensively",
"generally",
"globally",
"widely",
"conclusively",
"consummately",
"definitely",
"perfectly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"desultorily",
"haphazardly",
"hit or miss",
"randomly",
"cursorily",
"imperfectly",
"inadequately",
"narrowly",
"shallowly",
"sketchily",
"summarily",
"superficially",
"indeterminately",
"nebulously",
"vaguely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"roundups":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"I can't read 500 pages by tomorrow, so just give me the roundup"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"breviaries",
"briefs",
"capsules",
"conspectuses",
"digests",
"encapsulations",
"epitomes",
"inventories",
"outlines",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9s",
"resumes",
"resum\u00e9s",
"rundowns",
"run-throughs",
"summae",
"summaries",
"summarizations",
"summings-up",
"sums",
"sum-ups",
"synopses",
"wrap-ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviations",
"abridgments",
"abridgements",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compends",
"condensations",
"curtailments",
"shortenings",
"simplifications",
"rehashes",
"reprises",
"conclusions",
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifications",
"enlargements",
"expansions",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roustabouts":{
"one who loads and unloads ships at a port":{
"examples":[
"sought work as a roustabout on the city's seedy waterfront"
],
"synonyms":[
"dockers",
"dockhands",
"dockworkers",
"longshoremen",
"rousters",
"stevedores"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rousts":{
"to force (someone or something) to move from a place":{
"examples":[
"The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"routs",
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"knocks up",
"rouses",
"wakens",
"wakes",
"raises",
"revives",
"reawakens",
"rewakes",
"agitates",
"bestirs",
"disturbs",
"excites",
"provokes",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hypnotizes",
"mesmerizes",
"lulls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rounding up":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"rounded everyone up for one final training session"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"bulking (up)",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"picking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rounded":{
"as in bulbous , rotund":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"balled",
"bulbous",
"rotund",
"roundish",
"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":[]
},
"as in smooth":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"smooth",
"dullish",
"even",
"flat",
"flattened",
"level",
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"pointed",
"sharp",
"sharpened",
"whetted",
"jagged",
"needlelike",
"prickly",
"spiked",
"spikelike",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"spiny",
"jabbing",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"ultrasharp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form into a round compact mass":{
"examples":[
"carefully rounded the dough and placed it on a cookie tray"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerated",
"balled",
"rolled",
"wadded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunched",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"beaded",
"pearled",
"pelleted",
"pelletized",
"sphered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattened",
"opened",
"smoothed",
"spread",
"unfolded"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrolled"
]
},
"to travel completely around":{
"examples":[
"a monorail for visitors that rounds the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"circled",
"circuited",
"circumnavigated",
"circumvented",
"compassed",
"encircled",
"girdled",
"orbited",
"ringed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circumambulated",
"crossed",
"perambulated",
"traversed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"rounded on the track and headed for the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"arced",
"arched",
"bent",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"fell off",
"hooked",
"swept",
"swerved",
"trended",
"wheeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circled",
"coiled",
"curled",
"curlicued",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"turned",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"deviated",
"veered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rousters":{
"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":[
"dockers",
"dockhands",
"dockworkers",
"longshoremen",
"roustabouts",
"stevedores"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"routs (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"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",
"roots (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"
]
},
"roughhoused":{
"as in wrestled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wrestled",
"abused",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"mistreated",
"misused",
"bashed",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"drubbed",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"slapped",
"thrashed",
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"mauled",
"mishandled",
"roughed (up)",
"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":[]
},
"as in joyrode , skylarked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"joyrode",
"skylarked",
"clowned",
"cut up",
"kited",
"carried on",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"roistered",
"curvetted",
"curveted",
"danced",
"pranced",
"bounded",
"hopped",
"leaped",
"leapt",
"loped",
"skipped",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"tripped",
"tumbled",
"capered",
"cavorted",
"disported",
"frisked",
"frolicked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"larked",
"rollicked",
"romped",
"sported"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moped",
"pouted",
"stewed",
"sulked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"roundelay":{
"as in croon , serenade":{
"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",
"rocker",
"round",
"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"
]
},
"roundelays":{
"as in croons , serenades":{
"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",
"rockers",
"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"
]
},
"rou\u00e9s":{
"as in rakes , playboys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"libertines",
"playboys",
"rakes",
"bons vivants",
"bon vivants",
"epicures",
"gluttons",
"gourmands",
"playgirls",
"Cyrenaics",
"Epicureans",
"debauchees",
"decadents",
"hedonists",
"sensualists",
"sybarites",
"voluptuaries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ascetics",
"killjoys",
"spoilsports",
"wet blankets",
"fuddy-duddies",
"prudes",
"straight arrows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"roundabout":{
"not straightforward or direct":{
"examples":[
"took a roundabout route to the beach"
],
"synonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circular",
"indirect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crooked",
"curvy",
"serpentine",
"sinuous",
"tortuous",
"twisting",
"winding",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"wandering",
"circumlocutory",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"verbose",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"dishonest",
"duplicitous",
"insidious",
"misleading",
"sneaky",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"calculating",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"subtle",
"tricky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candid",
"forthright",
"frank",
"honest",
"open",
"plain",
"unconcealed",
"undisguised"
],
"antonyms":[
"direct",
"straight",
"straightforward"
]
},
"as in circle , rotary":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"rotary",
"traffic circle",
"cloverleaf",
"interchange",
"overpass",
"underpass",
"carrefour",
"corner",
"crossing",
"crossroad",
"crossway(s)",
"intersection",
"junction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"rouge":{
"a red powder or cream that is used to make your cheeks pinker":{
"examples":[
"She was wearing too much rouge ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blush",
"cold cream",
"cream",
"eye shadow",
"kohl",
"lipstick",
"lotion",
"mascara",
"oil",
"powder",
"vanishing cream",
"cosmetics",
"makeup",
"maquillage",
"paint",
"war paint",
"greasepaint",
"camo",
"camouflage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in incarnadine , ruddle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadine",
"ruddle",
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"crimson",
"flush",
"glow",
"redden",
"abash",
"chagrin",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"humiliate",
"mortify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rout (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"if you give me some time, I can probably rout out more supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"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",
"root (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"
]
}
}