dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/bl_mwt.json
2022-07-08 15:47:41 +00:00

13681 lines
267 KiB
JSON

{
"blab":{
"as in chatter , babble":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the two friends can blab for hours on the phone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
]
},
"to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he blabs a lot, so never share a secret with him"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clam up",
"shut up"
],
"related":[
"bandy (about)",
"circulate",
"noise (about or abroad)",
"rumor",
"blabber",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"reveal",
"tell",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"let on",
"suggest",
"inform",
"report",
"snitch",
"squeal",
"tip (off)",
"babble",
"spill",
"confide"
],
"synonyms":[
"dish",
"gossip",
"talk",
"tattle",
"wag"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blabber":{
"a person who talks constantly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a blabber who always wastes my time with drivel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"blatherer",
"blatherskite",
"converser",
"discourser"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbler",
"blabbermouth",
"blowhard",
"cackler",
"chatterbox",
"chatterer",
"conversationalist",
"gabbler",
"gasbag",
"jabberer",
"jay",
"magpie",
"motormouth",
"prattler",
"talker",
"windbag"
]
},
"as in blather , blither":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"unintelligible or meaningless talk":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the parents were delighted by their toddler's blabber and encouraged her to learn real words"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"hocus-pocus",
"hokeypokey",
"twaddle",
"chatter",
"gab",
"patter",
"prate",
"tattle",
"twitter",
"cackle",
"clack",
"clatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"babble",
"burble",
"double Dutch",
"double-talk",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"jabberwocky",
"mumbo jumbo",
"nonsense",
"prattle",
"slobber"
]
}
},
"blabbering":{
"as in blathering , blithering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blabbermouth":{
"a person who talks constantly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"told the blabbermouth to put a lid on it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"blatherer",
"blatherskite",
"converser",
"discourser"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbler",
"blabber",
"blowhard",
"cackler",
"chatterbox",
"chatterer",
"conversationalist",
"gabbler",
"gasbag",
"jabberer",
"jay",
"magpie",
"motormouth",
"prattler",
"talker",
"windbag"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blabs":{
"as in chatter , babbles":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the two friends can blab for hours on the phone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossips",
"tattles",
"descants",
"discusses",
"expatiates",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"yammers",
"yaps"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbles",
"cackles",
"chaffers",
"chats",
"chatters",
"chins",
"converses",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gases",
"gasses",
"jabbers",
"jaws",
"kibitzes",
"kibbitzes",
"natters",
"palavers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"raps",
"rattles",
"runs on",
"schmoozes",
"shmoozes",
"talks",
"twitters",
"visits"
]
},
"to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he blabs a lot, so never share a secret with him"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clams up",
"shuts up"
],
"related":[
"bandies (about)",
"circulates",
"noises (about or abroad)",
"rumors",
"blabbers",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"reveals",
"tells",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"lets on",
"suggests",
"informs",
"reports",
"snitches",
"squeals",
"tips (off)",
"babbles",
"spills",
"confides"
],
"synonyms":[
"dishes",
"gossips",
"talks",
"tattles",
"wags"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"black-tie":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blackballing":{
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"ratifying"
],
"examples":[
"he was disappointed to learn that he had been blackballed by the fraternity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admitting",
"allowing",
"approving",
"assenting (to)",
"passing",
"sanctioning",
"electing",
"supporting"
],
"related":[
"declining",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"blacklisting"
],
"synonyms":[
"downing",
"killing",
"negativing",
"nixing",
"shooting down",
"vetoing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blackened":{
"not clean":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"ultraclean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"examples":[
"the church's blackened ceiling is the result of centuries of candle smoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"pure",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"bleached",
"purified",
"whitened",
"bright",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"shiny",
"sparkling",
"unspotted",
"untouched",
"taintless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"virgin",
"wholesome"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"germy",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"insanitary",
"uncleaned",
"unsanitary",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"unwashed",
"greasy",
"gunky",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"scruffy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"raunchy",
"scuzzy",
"shabby",
"skanky",
"sleazy",
"squalid",
"collied",
"crocked",
"fuliginous",
"sooty"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"black",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"dusty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"smutty",
"soiled",
"sordid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"examples":[
"the auditorium blackened suddenly, and a spotlighted performer appeared alone on stage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawned",
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined"
],
"related":[
"dimmed",
"faded",
"waned",
"gloomed",
"lowered",
"loured"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacked out",
"closed in",
"darkened",
"dusked"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lightened",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)"
],
"examples":[
"thick smoke from the forest fires blackened the sky for many miles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"revealed",
"uncovered",
"unveiled"
],
"related":[
"adumbrated",
"blotted out",
"concealed",
"eclipsed",
"hid",
"obliterated",
"screened",
"shaded",
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"masked",
"veiled"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"bleared",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dislimned",
"fogged",
"fuzzed (up)",
"hazed",
"misted",
"obscured",
"overcast",
"overclouded",
"overshadowed",
"shadowed",
"shrouded"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"cleaned",
"cleansed"
],
"examples":[
"blackened the towels with their dirty hands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminated",
"purged",
"purified",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"brushed",
"dry-cleaned",
"dusted",
"laundered",
"mopped",
"rinsed",
"scoured",
"scrubbed",
"swept",
"washed",
"wiped",
"brightened",
"deodorized",
"freshened",
"renewed",
"spruced (up)",
"straightened (up)",
"tidied (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"discolored",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"draggled",
"jumbled",
"messed",
"muddled",
"collied",
"crocked"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"daubed",
"dirtied",
"distained",
"fouled",
"gaumed",
"grimed",
"mired",
"mucked",
"muddied",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"stained",
"sullied"
]
},
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the politician maliciously blackened his opponent's reputation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalted",
"glorified",
"honored",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"praised",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"admired",
"regarded",
"adored",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"related":[
"belittled",
"denigrated",
"detracted",
"disparaged",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"shamed",
"abased",
"debased",
"degraded",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"disdained",
"scorned"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"calumniated",
"defamed",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"smeared",
"traduced",
"vilified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blackening":{
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blackening of the senator's good name disgusted voters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship"
],
"related":[
"aspersion",
"innuendo",
"muck",
"mud",
"smear",
"backbiting",
"detraction",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"attack",
"censure",
"criticism",
"denunciation",
"hatchet job",
"contempt",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"belittlement",
"denigration",
"disparagement",
"cattiness",
"despite",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"venom",
"viciousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"calumniation",
"calumny",
"character assassination",
"defamation",
"defaming",
"libel",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slander",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilification",
"vilifying"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"lightening",
"lighting"
],
"examples":[
"the auditorium blackened suddenly, and a spotlighted performer appeared alone on stage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawning",
"beaming",
"glowing",
"radiating",
"shining"
],
"related":[
"dimming",
"fading",
"waning",
"glooming",
"lowering",
"louring"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacking out",
"closing in",
"darkening",
"dusking"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"lightening",
"lighting (up)"
],
"examples":[
"thick smoke from the forest fires blackened the sky for many miles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposing",
"revealing",
"uncovering",
"unveiling"
],
"related":[
"adumbrating",
"blotting out",
"concealing",
"eclipsing",
"hiding",
"obliterating",
"screening",
"shading",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"masking",
"veiling"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blearing",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dislimning",
"fogging",
"fuzzing (up)",
"hazing",
"misting",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overclouding",
"overshadowing",
"shadowing",
"shrouding"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"cleaning",
"cleansing"
],
"examples":[
"blackened the towels with their dirty hands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminating",
"purging",
"purifying",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"brushing",
"dry-cleaning",
"dusting",
"laundering",
"mopping",
"rinsing",
"scouring",
"scrubbing",
"sweeping",
"washing",
"wiping",
"brightening",
"deodorizing",
"freshening",
"renewing",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"discoloring",
"confusing",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disordering",
"draggling",
"jumbling",
"messing",
"muddling",
"collying",
"crocking"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouling",
"begriming",
"bemiring",
"besmirching",
"daubing",
"dirtying",
"distaining",
"fouling",
"gauming",
"griming",
"miring",
"mucking",
"muddying",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"soiling",
"staining",
"sullying"
]
},
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the politician maliciously blackened his opponent's reputation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalting",
"glorifying",
"honoring",
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"commending",
"praising",
"esteeming",
"respecting",
"admiring",
"regarding",
"adoring",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"related":[
"belittling",
"denigrating",
"detracting",
"disparaging",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"shaming",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"disdaining",
"scorning"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"calumniating",
"defaming",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilifying"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blackens":{
"to grow dark":{
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"lightens",
"lights"
],
"examples":[
"the auditorium blackened suddenly, and a spotlighted performer appeared alone on stage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawns",
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"shines"
],
"related":[
"dims",
"fades",
"wanes",
"glooms",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacks out",
"closes in",
"darkens",
"dusks"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"lightens",
"lights (up)"
],
"examples":[
"thick smoke from the forest fires blackened the sky for many miles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes",
"reveals",
"uncovers",
"unveils"
],
"related":[
"adumbrates",
"blots out",
"conceals",
"eclipses",
"hides",
"obliterates",
"screens",
"shades",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"masks",
"veils"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blears",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dislimns",
"fogs",
"fuzzes (up)",
"hazes",
"mists",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overclouds",
"overshadows",
"shadows",
"shrouds"
]
},
"to make dirty":{
"antonyms":[
"cleans",
"cleanses"
],
"examples":[
"blackened the towels with their dirty hands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decontaminates",
"purges",
"purifies",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes",
"brushes",
"dry-cleans",
"dusts",
"launders",
"mops",
"rinses",
"scours",
"scrubs",
"sweeps",
"washes",
"wipes",
"brightens",
"deodorizes",
"freshens",
"renews",
"spruces (up)",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies (up)"
],
"related":[
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"discolors",
"confuses",
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"dishevels",
"disorders",
"draggles",
"jumbles",
"messes",
"muddles",
"collies",
"crocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"bemires",
"besmirches",
"daubs",
"dirties",
"distains",
"fouls",
"gaums",
"grimes",
"mires",
"mucks",
"muddies",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"soils",
"stains",
"sullies"
]
},
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the politician maliciously blackened his opponent's reputation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalts",
"glorifies",
"honors",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"commends",
"praises",
"esteems",
"respects",
"admires",
"regards",
"adores",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships"
],
"related":[
"belittles",
"denigrates",
"detracts",
"disparages",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"shames",
"abases",
"debases",
"degrades",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"disdains",
"scorns"
],
"synonyms":[
"asperses",
"calumniates",
"defames",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"smears",
"traduces",
"vilifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blackguard":{
"as in disparage , belittle":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in scoundrel , miscreant":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blacklisting":{
"as in ostracizing , blackballing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blackmail":{
"to use blackmail against (someone)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The old man was being blackmailed by his nephew."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blacks out":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"related":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"lightens",
"lights"
],
"examples":[
"with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out , and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawns",
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"shines"
],
"related":[
"dims",
"fades",
"wanes",
"glooms",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackens",
"closes in",
"darkens",
"dusks"
]
},
"to lose consciousness":{
"antonyms":[
"comes around",
"comes round",
"comes to",
"revives"
],
"examples":[
"blacked out after hitting her head on the beam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaks down",
"collapses",
"zonks (out)"
],
"synonyms":[
"conks (out)",
"faints",
"keels (over)",
"passes out",
"swoons"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bladelike":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blamable":{
"deserving reproach or blame":{
"antonyms":[
"blameless",
"faultless",
"impeccable",
"irreproachable"
],
"examples":[
"an honest mistake is hardly a blamable offense"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flawless",
"perfect",
"pure",
"guiltless",
"innocent"
],
"related":[
"bad",
"guilty",
"sinful",
"wicked",
"foolish",
"irresponsible",
"reckless",
"amerciable",
"chargeable",
"disciplinable",
"impeachable",
"indictable",
"punishable",
"criminal",
"illegal",
"illicit",
"unlawful",
"illegitimate",
"improper",
"wrongful"
],
"synonyms":[
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"reprehensible",
"reproachable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blameworthy":{
"deserving reproach or blame":{
"antonyms":[
"blameless",
"faultless",
"impeccable",
"irreproachable"
],
"examples":[
"we were all equally blameworthy , whether we had openly approved the free-speech restrictions or simply kept quiet about them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flawless",
"perfect",
"pure",
"guiltless",
"innocent"
],
"related":[
"bad",
"guilty",
"sinful",
"wicked",
"foolish",
"irresponsible",
"reckless",
"amerciable",
"chargeable",
"disciplinable",
"impeachable",
"indictable",
"punishable",
"criminal",
"illegal",
"illicit",
"unlawful",
"illegitimate",
"improper",
"wrongful"
],
"synonyms":[
"blamable",
"censurable",
"culpable",
"reprehensible",
"reproachable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blanch":{
"to make white or whiter by removing color":{
"examples":[
"a good washing with bleach should blanch these yellowed sheets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleach",
"blench",
"decolorize",
"dull",
"fade",
"pale",
"snow",
"wash out",
"whiten"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brighten",
"lighten",
"dim",
"mat",
"matte",
"matt",
"etiolate",
"whitewash",
"frost",
"silver"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacken",
"blotch",
"checker",
"dapple",
"daub",
"discolor",
"fleck",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pattern",
"polychrome",
"shade",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"streak",
"striate",
"stripe",
"tarnish",
"variegate",
"color",
"dye",
"paint",
"pigment",
"stain",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint",
"burnish",
"polish",
"shine"
],
"antonyms":[
"darken",
"deepen",
"embrown"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blandish":{
"to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blandished her into doing their work for them by complimenting her shamelessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bug",
"harass",
"nag",
"pester",
"tease",
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"intimidate",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"demand",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"require"
],
"related":[
"adulate",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"butter up",
"charm",
"massage",
"woo",
"beg",
"beseech",
"importune",
"urge",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"finagle",
"juggle",
"wangle",
"wile",
"entice",
"lure",
"seduce",
"tempt"
],
"synonyms":[
"blarney",
"cajole",
"coax",
"palaver",
"soft-soap",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blandishment":{
"a nice thing that someone says or does to persuade another to do something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He finally succumbed to his children's blandishments and allowed them to stay up past their bedtime."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blared":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"was it really necessary to blare that private quarrel to the whole world?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"related":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blaring":{
"marked by a high volume of sound":{
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
],
"examples":[
"some teens drove by and woke us up with blaring music"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"quiet",
"silent",
"still",
"stilly",
"ultraquiet",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"tranquil",
"hushed",
"muffled",
"muted",
"softened",
"toned (down)"
],
"related":[
"brazen",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"grating",
"harsh",
"overloud",
"sharp",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"roaring",
"slam-bang",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"was it really necessary to blare that private quarrel to the whole world?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"related":[
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"billboarding",
"billing",
"bulletining",
"gazetting",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"blurbing",
"featuring",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"puffing",
"disseminating",
"spreading",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"introducing",
"kithing",
"kything",
"manifesting",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"showing",
"advising",
"apprising",
"handing down",
"informing",
"notifying",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"intimating"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blasphemed":{
"to use offensive or indecent language":{
"examples":[
"shocked that someone would blaspheme in church, of all places"
],
"synonyms":[
"cursed",
"cussed",
"swore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anathematized",
"confounded",
"damned",
"execrated",
"imprecated",
"fulminated",
"railed",
"ranted",
"reviled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blast":{
"a loud explosive sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a sharp blast of the horn startled the other driver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"thunk",
"wham",
"clang",
"clangor",
"clank",
"clash",
"knock",
"rap",
"tap",
"blare",
"clamor",
"howl",
"hubbub",
"hue and cry",
"hullabaloo",
"outcry",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"boom",
"clap",
"crack",
"crash",
"pop",
"report",
"slam",
"smash",
"snap",
"thunderclap",
"thwack",
"whack",
"whomp",
"whump"
]
},
"a social gathering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a wild fraternity blast that lasted a whole weekend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"benefit",
"fund-raiser",
"ball",
"dance",
"formal",
"prom",
"celebration",
"gala",
"occasion",
"bacchanal",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"saturnalia",
"bake",
"clambake",
"cocktail party",
"hen party",
"house party",
"housewarming",
"icebreaker",
"kaffeeklatsch",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"masquerade",
"meet and greet",
"mixer",
"salon",
"shower",
"social",
"soiree",
"soir\u00e9e",
"stag",
"supper",
"symposium",
"tea",
"tea party"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blowout",
"do",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception",
"shindig"
]
},
"a sudden brief rush of wind":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a surprise blast stole the umbrella right out of his hands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breeze",
"zephyr",
"current",
"draft",
"air",
"breath",
"waft",
"puff",
"whiff",
"bluster",
"gale",
"hurricane",
"squall",
"tempest",
"tornado",
"windstorm",
"northeaster",
"norther",
"northerly",
"northwester",
"southeaster",
"southwester",
"westerly"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"flurry",
"gust",
"scud",
"williwaw",
"windblast"
]
},
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the blast destroyed the building completely"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"discharge",
"firing",
"shooting",
"blowout",
"flare-up",
"bang",
"boom",
"pop",
"airburst",
"groundburst"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowup",
"burst",
"bursting",
"detonation",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"outburst"
]
},
"to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"artillery that could blast cannonballs from hundreds of yards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"launch",
"project",
"blaze (at)",
"snipe (at)",
"cast",
"catapult",
"fling",
"heave",
"hurl",
"hurtle",
"lob",
"pelt",
"pitch",
"sling",
"throw",
"toss"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharge",
"fire",
"loose",
"shoot",
"squeeze off"
]
},
"to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the recruits were all blasting away at the target range"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blaze",
"pepper",
"plink",
"potshot",
"snipe"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharge",
"fire",
"shoot"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the highway engineers will have to blast that hill in order to put a road through here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"related":[
"dynamite",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"blow up",
"burst",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"shatter",
"smash"
]
},
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blasted the new governor for every little misstep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"commend",
"compliment",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"related":[
"berate",
"harangue",
"harass",
"harry",
"revile",
"scold",
"whip",
"blaspheme",
"curse",
"execrate",
"imprecate",
"profane",
"affront",
"insult",
"slur",
"asperse",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"blackguard",
"disparage",
"put down",
"libel",
"slander",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"chastise",
"chide",
"criticize",
"lace (into)",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"fulminate",
"lash (out)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bash",
"belabor",
"castigate",
"excoriate",
"jump (on)",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"potshot",
"savage",
"scathe",
"slam",
"trash",
"vituperate"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
],
"examples":[
"rowdy teenagers blasting down the road in a sports car"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blastie":{
"as in vermin , varmint":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blasting":{
"a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the next blasting by the artillery scored a direct hit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"potshot",
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"broadside",
"burst",
"cannonade",
"drumfire",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharge",
"firing",
"shot"
]
},
"marked by a high volume of sound":{
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
],
"examples":[
"carried a blasting radio wherever he went"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"quiet",
"silent",
"still",
"stilly",
"ultraquiet",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"tranquil",
"hushed",
"muffled",
"muted",
"softened",
"toned (down)"
],
"related":[
"brazen",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"grating",
"harsh",
"overloud",
"sharp",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaring",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"roaring",
"slam-bang",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
]
},
"to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"artillery that could blast cannonballs from hundreds of yards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"launching",
"projecting",
"blazing (at)",
"sniping (at)",
"casting",
"catapulting",
"flinging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"hurtling",
"lobbing",
"pelting",
"pitching",
"slinging",
"throwing",
"tossing"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharging",
"firing",
"loosing",
"shooting",
"squeezing off"
]
},
"to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the recruits were all blasting away at the target range"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blazing",
"peppering",
"plinking",
"potshotting",
"sniping"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharging",
"firing",
"shooting"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the highway engineers will have to blast that hill in order to put a road through here"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
"related":[
"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"demolishing",
"exploding",
"popping",
"shattering",
"smashing"
]
},
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blasted the new governor for every little misstep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"related":[
"berating",
"haranguing",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"reviling",
"scolding",
"whipping",
"blaspheming",
"cursing",
"execrating",
"imprecating",
"profaning",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"slurring",
"aspersing",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"blackguarding",
"disparaging",
"putting down",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"slandering",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"chastising",
"chiding",
"criticizing",
"lacing (into)",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"fulminating",
"lashing (out)"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bashing",
"belaboring",
"castigating",
"excoriating",
"jumping (on)",
"lambasting",
"potshotting",
"savaging",
"scathing",
"slamming",
"trashing",
"vituperating"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
],
"examples":[
"rowdy teenagers blasting down the road in a sports car"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blasting off":{
"as in taking off , zooming":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blas\u00e9":{
"as in nonchalant , breezy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in world-weary":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blathering":{
"as in blabbering , blithering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blathers":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"wanted to retire quietly and without all the blather of an office send-off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"related":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
]
},
"as in blabbers , blithers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blaze (up)":{
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after years of decline, street crime blazed up again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"blow up",
"detonate",
"touch off"
],
"synonyms":[
"break out",
"burst (forth)",
"erupt",
"explode",
"flame",
"flare (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blazed (at)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blazonry":{
"as in emblazonry , bells and whistles":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bleakly":{
"as in darkly , morosely":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in somberly , severely":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"blear":{
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"examples":[
"I can't describe him; all I saw was a blear figure for an instant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"shadowy",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"her image was bleared , as if I were staring at it through a watery lens"
],
"synonyms":[
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"blacken",
"blur",
"cloud",
"darken",
"dim",
"dislimn",
"fog",
"fuzz (up)",
"haze",
"mist",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overcloud",
"overshadow",
"shadow",
"shroud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrate",
"blot out",
"conceal",
"eclipse",
"hide",
"obliterate",
"screen",
"shade",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"mask",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expose",
"reveal",
"uncover",
"unveil"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"light (up)",
"lighten"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bleats":{
"an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a very patient, understanding person who accepts life's inconveniences without a bleat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliments",
"plaudits",
"acclaim",
"applauses",
"praises",
"approvals",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"sanctions"
],
"related":[
"challenges",
"demurs",
"expostulations",
"kicks",
"niggles",
"objections",
"protests",
"quibbles",
"remonstrances",
"stinks"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bitches",
"carps",
"complaints",
"fusses",
"grievances",
"gripes",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"grumbles",
"hollers",
"kvetches",
"laments",
"misereres",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"plaints",
"squawks",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers"
]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"antonyms":[
"crows",
"delights",
"rejoices"
],
"examples":[
"as far as the slumlord was concerned, the unhappy tenants were just bleating about nothing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"bears",
"countenances",
"endures",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends"
],
"related":[
"objects (to)",
"protests",
"quarrels (with)",
"cavils",
"quibbles",
"frets",
"stews",
"worries",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"sobs",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"carps",
"caterwauls",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grizzles",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"grumps",
"hollers",
"inveighs",
"keens",
"kicks",
"kvetches",
"maunders",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"nags",
"repines",
"screams",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls"
]
},
"to utter feeble plaintive cries":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the baby bleated softly as he woke up, then smiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squeals",
"howls",
"squalls",
"wails",
"yowls",
"calls",
"caterwauls",
"squawks",
"bellows",
"roars"
],
"related":[
"fusses",
"sniffles",
"snivels",
"snuffles",
"whines",
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"blubs",
"cries",
"sobs",
"weeps",
"peeps",
"squeaks",
"yelps",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"groans",
"moans",
"sighs"
],
"synonyms":[
"mewls",
"pules",
"whimpers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bled":{
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beamed",
"cheered",
"crowed",
"delighted",
"exulted",
"gloried",
"joyed",
"laughed",
"ravished",
"rejoiced",
"triumphed",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"commiserated",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"sympathized"
],
"related":[
"ached",
"longed (for)",
"pined (away)",
"sighed",
"smarted",
"racked",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"lamented",
"rued",
"bawled",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"groaned",
"howled",
"keened",
"moaned",
"sobbed",
"took on",
"wailed",
"wept",
"yammered",
"yowled",
"languished",
"regretted"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonized",
"anguished",
"grieved",
"hurt",
"mourned",
"sorrowed",
"suffered"
]
},
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooded",
"gushed",
"poured",
"streamed",
"surged"
],
"related":[
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"trickled",
"discharged",
"emitted",
"gave off",
"vented",
"emanated",
"flowed",
"sprang",
"sprung"
],
"synonyms":[
"exuded",
"oozed",
"percolated",
"seeped",
"strained",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"transuded",
"wept"
]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"antonyms":[
"filled"
],
"examples":[
"bleed water from the radiators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"soaked",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"wet",
"wetted",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped"
],
"related":[
"milked",
"sucked",
"cleared",
"emptied",
"evacuated",
"exhausted",
"vacated",
"vacuated",
"voided",
"decanted",
"effused",
"depleted",
"cleaned",
"flushed",
"purged"
],
"synonyms":[
"drafted",
"drained",
"drew (off)",
"pumped",
"siphoned",
"syphoned",
"tapped"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilked",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bleeders":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"don't let the insults of those lousy bleeders get you down, old chap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"beasts",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buggers",
"buzzards",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bleeding":{
"as in burning , cramping":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her heart bleeds for the homeless people she sees on her way to work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"cheering",
"crowing",
"delighting",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"joying",
"laughing",
"ravishing",
"rejoicing",
"triumphing",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"commiserating",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"sympathizing"
],
"related":[
"aching",
"longing (for)",
"pining (away)",
"sighing",
"smarting",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting",
"ruing",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"taking on",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"yammering",
"yowling",
"languishing",
"regretting"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizing",
"anguishing",
"grieving",
"hurting",
"mourning",
"sorrowing",
"suffering"
]
},
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooding",
"gushing",
"pouring",
"streaming",
"surging"
],
"related":[
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"trickling",
"discharging",
"emitting",
"giving off",
"venting",
"emanating",
"flowing",
"springing"
],
"synonyms":[
"exuding",
"oozing",
"percolating",
"seeping",
"straining",
"sweating",
"transuding",
"weeping"
]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"antonyms":[
"filling"
],
"examples":[
"bleed water from the radiators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"soaking",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"wetting",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping"
],
"related":[
"milking",
"sucking",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"exhausting",
"vacating",
"vacuating",
"voiding",
"decanting",
"effusing",
"depleting",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging"
],
"synonyms":[
"drafting",
"draining",
"drawing (off)",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the confidence men coldheartedly bled the elderly couple of their life savings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bleeding (for)":{
"to have sympathy for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the young man bleeds for his friend, who just lost his father"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"disliking",
"hating",
"scorning"
],
"related":[
"caring (for)",
"grieving (for)",
"sorrowing (for)",
"loving",
"empathizing (with)",
"identifying (with)",
"tolerating",
"understanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"commiserating (with)",
"compassionating",
"condoling (with)",
"feeling (for)",
"pitying",
"sympathizing (with)",
"yearning (over)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bleeps":{
"as in removes , cuts":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blenched":{
"to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she blenched from the horrible sight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"approached",
"neared",
"bearded",
"challenged",
"confronted",
"defied",
"faced"
],
"related":[
"blanched",
"paled",
"whitened",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"crouched",
"jerked",
"started",
"twitched",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew",
"faltered",
"hesitated",
"reeled",
"wavered"
],
"synonyms":[
"cringed",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"squinched",
"winced"
]
},
"to make white or whiter by removing color":{
"antonyms":[
"darkened",
"deepened",
"embrowned"
],
"examples":[
"we'll have to blench the sheets with bleach to restore that snow-white look"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"blotched",
"checkered",
"dappled",
"daubed",
"discolored",
"flecked",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"patterned",
"polychromed",
"shaded",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotched",
"spotted",
"streaked",
"striated",
"striped",
"tarnished",
"variegated",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"pigmented",
"stained",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shone",
"shined"
],
"related":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"dimmed",
"matted",
"etiolated",
"whitewashed",
"frosted",
"silvered"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanched",
"bleached",
"decolorized",
"dulled",
"faded",
"paled",
"snowed",
"washed out",
"whitened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blend":{
"a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that fabric is a cotton and polyester blend , so it shouldn't shrink as much as pure cotton"
],
"near antonyms":[
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient"
],
"related":[
"half-and-half",
"absorption",
"blending",
"coalescence",
"coalition",
"commingling",
"commixture",
"compost",
"concretion",
"homogenization",
"immingling",
"immixture",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"interfusion",
"intermingling",
"mergence",
"merger",
"merging",
"mingling",
"assortment",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jumble",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"mishmash",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"potpourri",
"variety",
"accumulation",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration"
],
"synonyms":[
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"cocktail",
"combination",
"composite",
"compound",
"conflation",
"emulsion",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"meld",
"mix",
"mixture",
"synthesis"
]
},
"to form a pleasing relationship":{
"antonyms":[
"clash",
"collide",
"conflict"
],
"examples":[
"the colors blend nicely in that rug"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradict",
"contrast",
"counter",
"differ",
"diverge",
"jar",
"cancel (out)",
"counteract",
"negate",
"offset"
],
"related":[
"balance",
"correlate",
"correspond",
"dovetail",
"hang together",
"match",
"meet",
"parallel",
"bond",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"conjoin",
"fuse",
"merge",
"square",
"tally"
],
"synonyms":[
"agree",
"assort",
"chime",
"chime in",
"conform",
"consort",
"coordinate",
"groove",
"harmonize"
]
},
"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
"antonyms":[
"break down",
"break up",
"separate",
"unmix"
],
"examples":[
"she blended the ingredients for the brownies very thoroughly to eliminate lumps in the batter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleave",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"rupture",
"sever",
"sunder",
"disperse",
"dissolve",
"scatter",
"detach",
"disengage",
"split"
],
"related":[
"add",
"admix",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"fold",
"stir",
"toss",
"coalesce",
"compound",
"emulsify",
"conjoin",
"join",
"knit",
"link",
"unite",
"intertwine",
"interweave",
"weave"
],
"synonyms":[
"amalgamate",
"combine",
"comingle",
"commingle",
"commix",
"composite",
"concrete",
"conflate",
"fuse",
"homogenize",
"immingle",
"immix",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"interfuse",
"intermingle",
"intermix",
"meld",
"merge",
"mingle",
"mix"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blended":{
"as in mixed , combined":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to form a pleasing relationship":{
"antonyms":[
"clashed",
"collided",
"conflicted"
],
"examples":[
"the colors blend nicely in that rug"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"contrasted",
"countered",
"differed",
"diverged",
"jarred",
"canceled (out)",
"cancelled (out)",
"counteracted",
"negated",
"offset"
],
"related":[
"balanced",
"correlated",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"hung together",
"matched",
"met",
"paralleled",
"bonded",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"conjoined",
"fused",
"merged",
"squared",
"tallied"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreed",
"assorted",
"chimed",
"chimed in",
"conformed",
"consorted",
"coordinated",
"grooved",
"harmonized"
]
},
"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
"antonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"separated",
"unmixed"
],
"examples":[
"she blended the ingredients for the brownies very thoroughly to eliminate lumps in the batter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ruptured",
"severed",
"sundered",
"dispersed",
"dissolved",
"scattered",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"split"
],
"related":[
"added",
"admixed",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"folded",
"stirred",
"tossed",
"coalesced",
"compounded",
"emulsified",
"conjoined",
"joined",
"knit",
"knitted",
"linked",
"united",
"intertwined",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"wove",
"weaved"
],
"synonyms":[
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"comingled",
"commingled",
"commixed",
"composited",
"concreted",
"conflated",
"fused",
"homogenized",
"immingled",
"immixed",
"incorporated",
"integrated",
"interfused",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"melded",
"merged",
"mingled",
"mixed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blent":{
"as in mixed , combined":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to form a pleasing relationship":{
"antonyms":[
"clashed",
"collided",
"conflicted"
],
"examples":[
"the colors blend nicely in that rug"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"contrasted",
"countered",
"differed",
"diverged",
"jarred",
"canceled (out)",
"cancelled (out)",
"counteracted",
"negated",
"offset"
],
"related":[
"balanced",
"correlated",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"hung together",
"matched",
"met",
"paralleled",
"bonded",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"conjoined",
"fused",
"merged",
"squared",
"tallied"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreed",
"assorted",
"chimed",
"chimed in",
"conformed",
"consorted",
"coordinated",
"grooved",
"harmonized"
]
},
"to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout":{
"antonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"separated",
"unmixed"
],
"examples":[
"she blended the ingredients for the brownies very thoroughly to eliminate lumps in the batter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ruptured",
"severed",
"sundered",
"dispersed",
"dissolved",
"scattered",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"split"
],
"related":[
"added",
"admixed",
"beat (in)",
"cut in",
"folded",
"stirred",
"tossed",
"coalesced",
"compounded",
"emulsified",
"conjoined",
"joined",
"knit",
"knitted",
"linked",
"united",
"intertwined",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"wove",
"weaved"
],
"synonyms":[
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"comingled",
"commingled",
"commixed",
"composited",
"concreted",
"conflated",
"fused",
"homogenized",
"immingled",
"immixed",
"incorporated",
"integrated",
"interfused",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"melded",
"merged",
"mingled",
"mixed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blessed":{
"giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses":{
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
],
"examples":[
"the blessed sight of home after a long journey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"related":[
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeable",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
]
},
"of, relating to, or being God":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a prayer to the blessed Savior"
],
"near antonyms":[
"human",
"mortal",
"natural"
],
"related":[
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"omniscient",
"supreme"
],
"synonyms":[
"divine",
"godlike",
"godly",
"heavenly",
"holy",
"sacred",
"supernatural"
]
},
"set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God":{
"antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed"
],
"examples":[
"statues honoring an array of blessed saints are scattered throughout the cathedral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonreligious",
"unspiritual",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"related":[
"adored",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"ceremonial",
"liturgical",
"priestly",
"religious",
"ritual",
"sacramental",
"spiritual",
"biblical",
"scriptural"
],
"synonyms":[
"consecrate",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"holy",
"sacral",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified"
]
},
"to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blessed with a knack for glib conversation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispossessed",
"divested",
"stripped",
"stript",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"skimped",
"stinted"
],
"related":[
"equipped",
"provided",
"supplied",
"bestowed (on or upon)",
"clothed",
"clad",
"conferred (on)",
"covered",
"accorded",
"awarded",
"granted",
"empowered",
"enabled",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"heightened",
"bequeathed",
"willed"
],
"synonyms":[
"endowed",
"endued",
"indued",
"favored",
"gifted",
"invested"
]
},
"to make holy through prayers or ritual":{
"antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"desanctified"
],
"examples":[
"the priest blessed the water, thus allowing it to be used as holy water for various rites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defiled",
"desecrated",
"profaned",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"tainted",
"violated",
"blasphemed",
"cursed",
"cussed",
"damned",
"execrated",
"cast out",
"condemned",
"damned",
"punished"
],
"related":[
"baptized",
"baptised",
"canonized",
"spiritualized",
"chastened",
"cleansed",
"lustrated",
"purified",
"exorcised",
"exorcized",
"expurgated",
"committed",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"reconsecrated"
],
"synonyms":[
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sacralized",
"sanctified"
]
},
"to proclaim the glory of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bless the name of God"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blamed",
"censured",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"criticized",
"reproved",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"keelhauled",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"castigated",
"lambasted"
],
"related":[
"adored",
"belauded",
"deified",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"complimented",
"hailed",
"renowned",
"saluted",
"chanted",
"cheered",
"eulogized",
"rhapsodized",
"cited",
"flattered",
"cracked up",
"recommended",
"touted"
],
"synonyms":[
"caroled",
"carolled",
"celebrated",
"emblazoned",
"exalted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"hymned",
"lauded",
"magnified",
"praised",
"resounded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blew off":{
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hooked up (with)",
"took",
"befriended",
"latched (on or onto)"
],
"related":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldered",
"cut",
"high-hatted",
"slighted",
"snubbed",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"marooned",
"quit",
"quitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke off (with)",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"jilted",
"kissed off",
"left"
]
},
"to fail to attend":{
"antonyms":[
"attended",
"showed up (for)"
],
"examples":[
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ignored",
"neglected",
"passed over"
],
"synonyms":[
"cut",
"missed",
"skipped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blew one's cool":{
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"simmered down"
],
"examples":[
"He blew his cool when the tailgater rear-ended him."
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilled out",
"cooled (off or down)",
"relaxed",
"hushed",
"quieted (down)"
],
"related":[
"angered",
"fulminated",
"raged",
"ranted",
"raved",
"snapped",
"snarled",
"sputtered",
"stormed",
"teed off",
"vented",
"vituperated",
"bristled",
"burned",
"burnt",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"glared",
"glowered",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"steamed",
"warmed",
"burst",
"bursted",
"exploded",
"flared (out)",
"flashed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"maddened"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew up",
"flared (up)",
"flipped (out)"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The movie star tolerated the constant attention of the paparazzi, but finally blew her cool when one asked about her recent divorce."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choked"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"blew smoke":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She has a habit of blowing smoke when she gets nervous."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossiped",
"tattled",
"descanted",
"discussed",
"expatiated",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"yammered",
"yapped"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"blabbed",
"cackled",
"chaffered",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"chinned",
"conversed",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gassed",
"jabbered",
"jawed",
"kibitzed",
"kibbitzed",
"nattered",
"palavered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"ran on",
"rapped",
"rattled",
"schmoozed",
"shmoozed",
"talked",
"twittered",
"visited"
]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He's been blowing smoke about his accomplishments all afternoon."
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"laughed off",
"minimized",
"played down",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"shrugged off",
"underrated",
"undervalued",
"bemoaned",
"lamented",
"mourned",
"regretted"
],
"related":[
"blustered",
"harangued",
"puffed",
"prided",
"gushed",
"exulted",
"gloried",
"rejoiced",
"brandished",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flaunted",
"glorified",
"paraded",
"showed off",
"magnified",
"maximized"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"boasted",
"bragged",
"bulled",
"crowed",
"gasconaded",
"swaggered",
"vapored",
"vaunted"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"blew up":{
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"simmered down"
],
"examples":[
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilled out",
"cooled (off or down)",
"relaxed",
"hushed",
"quieted (down)"
],
"related":[
"angered",
"fulminated",
"raged",
"ranted",
"raved",
"snapped",
"snarled",
"sputtered",
"stormed",
"teed off",
"vented",
"vituperated",
"bristled",
"burned",
"burnt",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"glared",
"glowered",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"steamed",
"warmed",
"burst",
"bursted",
"exploded",
"flared (out)",
"flashed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"maddened"
],
"synonyms":[
"flared (up)",
"flipped (out)"
]
},
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"antonyms":[
"imploded"
],
"examples":[
"the building blew up because of a gas leak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"fizzled"
],
"related":[
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"discharged",
"fired",
"shot",
"ballooned",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"mushroomed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"burst",
"bursted",
"crumped",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"popped",
"went off"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"imploded"
],
"related":[
"dynamited",
"annihilated",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"detonated",
"discharged",
"fragmented",
"splintered"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blew",
"burst",
"bursted",
"demolished",
"exploded",
"popped",
"shattered",
"smashed"
]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"magnified",
"commended",
"complimented",
"eulogized",
"advanced",
"advertised",
"announced",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"boosted",
"heralded",
"offered",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"asserted",
"averred",
"claimed",
"declared",
"laid down",
"made out",
"proclaimed",
"pronounced"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"cracked up",
"cried up",
"glorified",
"touted",
"trumpeted",
"tub-thumped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blights":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adornments",
"decorations",
"embellishments",
"enhancements",
"ornaments"
],
"related":[
"abnormalities",
"distortions",
"irregularities",
"malformations",
"misshapes",
"bugs",
"glitches",
"kinks",
"blots",
"blurs",
"spots",
"stains",
"taints",
"damages",
"defacements",
"impairments",
"injuries",
"failings",
"weaknesses"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemishes",
"blotches",
"defects",
"deformities",
"disfigurements",
"excrescences",
"excrescencies",
"faults",
"flaws",
"imperfections",
"marks",
"mars",
"pockmarks",
"scars"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blinked (at)":{
"to dismiss as of little importance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the firm conviction that we should never blink at any instances of plagiarism, whether in academia or in commercial publishing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeded",
"marked",
"minded",
"noted",
"objected (to)"
],
"related":[
"explained",
"justified",
"rationalized",
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"cleared",
"exculpated",
"exonerated",
"vindicated",
"waived",
"waved (aside or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"condoned",
"discounted",
"disregarded",
"excused",
"forgave",
"glossed (over)",
"glozed (over)",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"papered over",
"pardoned",
"passed over",
"remitted",
"shrugged off",
"whitewashed",
"winked (at)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blinking (at)":{
"to dismiss as of little importance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the firm conviction that we should never blink at any instances of plagiarism, whether in academia or in commercial publishing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heeding",
"marking",
"minding",
"noting",
"objecting (to)"
],
"related":[
"explaining",
"justifying",
"rationalizing",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating",
"waiving",
"waving (aside or off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"condoning",
"discounting",
"disregarding",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"papering over",
"pardoning",
"passing over",
"remitting",
"shrugging off",
"whitewashing",
"winking (at)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blips":{
"as in cuts , removes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blistering":{
"extreme in degree, power, or effect":{
"antonyms":[
"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
],
"examples":[
"even after a blistering attack from the enemy, the fortress held"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"weak",
"shallow",
"superficial",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"toned (down)",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"subdued"
],
"related":[
"accentuated",
"aggravated",
"concentrated",
"deepened",
"emphasized",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"stressed",
"exhaustive",
"thorough",
"harsh",
"rigorous",
"severe"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"almighty",
"deep",
"dreadful",
"excruciating",
"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"vicious",
"violent"
]
},
"moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed":{
"antonyms":[
"slow"
],
"examples":[
"a major-league pitcher known for his blistering fastballs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"related":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"breathtaking",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"high-speed",
"rush",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"quick",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blithely":{
"as in breezily , laughingly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"blither":{
"as in blabber , blather":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a boss who isn't inclined to accept any blither on why something isn't finished on time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"related":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blitzes":{
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a multimedia blitz of advertisements for the summer blockbuster"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribbles",
"drips",
"trickles"
],
"related":[
"broadsides",
"earfuls",
"avalanches",
"bursts",
"cataclysms",
"cataracts",
"deluges",
"discharges",
"engulfments",
"floods",
"flood tides",
"flushes",
"gushes",
"inundations",
"outbursts",
"outflows",
"outpourings",
"overflows",
"rashes",
"spates",
"surges",
"torrents",
"currents",
"rivers",
"streams",
"tides",
"excesses",
"gluts",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrages",
"blitzkriegs",
"bombardments",
"cannonades",
"drumbeats",
"drumfires",
"flurries",
"fusillades",
"hails",
"salvos",
"salvoes",
"showers",
"storms",
"volleys"
]
},
"a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an all-out advertising blitz to promote the new soft drink"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assaults",
"attacks",
"maneuvers",
"marches",
"offensives",
"actions",
"bids",
"enterprises",
"initiatives",
"missions",
"projects",
"undertakings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandwagons",
"campaigns",
"causes",
"crusades",
"drives",
"juggernauts",
"movements",
"pushes"
]
},
"the act or action of setting upon with force or violence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a massive aerial blitz that was supposed to shock and awe the enemy into immediate surrender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defenses",
"defensives",
"guards",
"shields",
"oppositions",
"resistances",
"protections",
"securities",
"shelters"
],
"related":[
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"counteraggressions",
"counter-aggressions",
"counterassaults",
"counter-assaults",
"counterattacks",
"counter-attacks",
"counteroffensives",
"counterstrikes",
"counter-strikes",
"sallies",
"sorties",
"envelopments",
"breakthroughs",
"forays",
"incursions",
"invasions",
"pillages",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"air raids",
"bombardments",
"bombings",
"sieges",
"storms",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"fusillades",
"hails",
"salvos",
"salvoes",
"volleys",
"whammies"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressions",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"attempts",
"blitzkriegs",
"charges",
"coups de main",
"descents",
"offenses",
"offences",
"offensives",
"onsets",
"onslaughts",
"raids",
"rushes",
"strikes"
]
},
"to use bombs or artillery against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in 1940 and 1941 the German air force blitzed London night after horrible night"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"enfilades",
"rakes",
"strafes",
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"devastates",
"hits",
"pounds",
"ravages",
"strikes"
],
"synonyms":[
"batters",
"blitzkriegs",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"cannonades",
"shells"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blizzard":{
"a severe storm with a large amount of falling snow":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Their trip was delayed by a week because of a blizzard ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"an overwhelming influx or flow of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The star's off-the-cuff comments touched off a blizzard of criticism on social media."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blizzardy":{
"as in windy , blustery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bloat":{
"as in bulk":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"block":{
"a group of people acting together within a larger group":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a more conservative block within the political party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"splinter",
"split",
"crew",
"gang",
"pack",
"team",
"denomination",
"persuasion",
"schism",
"scission",
"caucus",
"movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloc",
"body",
"coalition",
"faction",
"party",
"sect",
"set",
"side",
"wing"
]
},
"a number of things considered as a unit":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bought a block of stocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"entity",
"item",
"single",
"unit"
],
"related":[
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration",
"agglomeration",
"assortment",
"hodgepodge",
"jumble",
"miscellany",
"mixture",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"variety",
"cycle",
"run",
"series",
"suit"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
]
},
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a block of oil-producing nations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"junto",
"cartel",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"faction",
"front",
"fusion",
"side",
"wing",
"association",
"group",
"organization",
"affiliation",
"cooperative",
"partnership",
"circuit",
"conference"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliance",
"axis",
"bloc",
"coalition",
"combination",
"combine",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"federation",
"league",
"union"
]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"constant bickering that is only a block to the completion of the project"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"related":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
]
},
"the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"threatened to knock the block off the jerk next door if he didn't can the noise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cranium",
"crown",
"scalp",
"skull",
"occiput"
],
"synonyms":[
"bean",
"dome",
"head",
"mazard",
"mazzard",
"nob",
"noddle",
"noggin",
"noodle",
"nut",
"pate",
"poll"
]
},
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"block up the opening in the wall where a window once was"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavate",
"hollow (out)",
"scoop (out)",
"shovel"
],
"related":[
"choke",
"clog",
"close (off)",
"clot",
"congest",
"jam",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"caulk",
"chink",
"seal",
"repack",
"restuff"
],
"synonyms":[
"bung",
"dam",
"fill",
"pack",
"plug",
"stop",
"stuff"
]
},
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"free",
"open (up)",
"unblock",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop"
],
"examples":[
"one of the patient's arteries was so blocked with fatty deposits that blood flow had been reduced to a trickle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavate",
"hollow (out)",
"scoop (out)",
"empty",
"lighten"
],
"related":[
"bung",
"cork",
"spile",
"stopper",
"stopple",
"fill",
"gridlock",
"pack",
"fur",
"silt",
"flood",
"glut",
"inundate",
"overwhelm",
"swamp"
],
"synonyms":[
"choke",
"clog",
"clot",
"congest",
"dam",
"gum (up)",
"jam",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"plug (up)",
"stop (up)",
"stuff"
]
},
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a thug suddenly stepped out of a doorway and blocked his escape down the alley"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"capture",
"catch",
"collar",
"corral",
"grab",
"seize",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap"
],
"synonyms":[
"intercept",
"interdict",
"pick off"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blockage":{
"as in barrier , blockade":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blockages":{
"as in barriers , blockades":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blockbuster":{
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"flop",
"misfire",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"examples":[
"the movie is expected to be the biggest blockbuster of the summer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointment",
"fizzle",
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"related":[
"blue chip",
"blue chipper",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"pip",
"prizewinner",
"gem",
"jewel",
"treasure",
"marvel",
"natural",
"phenomenon",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"coup",
"triumph",
"victory"
],
"synonyms":[
"hit",
"megahit",
"smash",
"success",
"supernova",
"winner"
]
},
"something that is unusually large and powerful":{
"antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"shrimp"
],
"examples":[
"a blockbuster of a fighter plane"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"wisp",
"nonentity",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper"
],
"related":[
"amazon",
"giantess",
"bulk",
"hulk",
"heavyweight",
"juggernaut",
"steamroller"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoth",
"colossus",
"dinosaur",
"dreadnought",
"elephant",
"giant",
"Goliath",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"mastodon",
"monster",
"titan",
"whale",
"whopper"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blocking":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"block up the opening in the wall where a window once was"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavating",
"hollowing (out)",
"scooping (out)",
"shoveling",
"shovelling"
],
"related":[
"choking",
"clogging",
"closing (off)",
"clotting",
"congesting",
"jamming",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"caulking",
"calking",
"chinking",
"sealing",
"repacking",
"restuffing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunging",
"damming",
"filling",
"packing",
"plugging",
"stopping",
"stuffing"
]
},
"to prevent passage through by filling with something":{
"antonyms":[
"clearing",
"freeing",
"opening (up)",
"unblocking",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping"
],
"examples":[
"one of the patient's arteries was so blocked with fatty deposits that blood flow had been reduced to a trickle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavating",
"hollowing (out)",
"scooping (out)",
"emptying",
"lightening"
],
"related":[
"bunging",
"corking",
"spiling",
"stoppering",
"stoppling",
"filling",
"gridlocking",
"packing",
"furring",
"silting",
"flooding",
"glutting",
"inundating",
"overwhelming",
"swamping"
],
"synonyms":[
"choking",
"clogging",
"clotting",
"congesting",
"damming",
"gumming (up)",
"jamming",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"plugging (up)",
"stopping (up)",
"stuffing"
]
},
"to stop, seize, or interrupt while in progress or on course":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a thug suddenly stepped out of a doorway and blocked his escape down the alley"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"capturing",
"catching",
"collaring",
"corralling",
"grabbing",
"seizing",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping"
],
"synonyms":[
"intercepting",
"interdicting",
"picking off"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blood":{
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in his mind, blood came before anything else, and he would not betray his criminal brother to the police"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancestry",
"birth",
"descent",
"extraction",
"origin",
"pedigree"
],
"related":[
"blended family",
"nuclear family",
"extended family",
"household",
"kith",
"brood",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"issue",
"offspring",
"progeny",
"scion",
"seed",
"clansman",
"kinsman",
"kinswoman",
"relative",
"dynasty"
],
"synonyms":[
"clan",
"family",
"folks",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"kinfolk",
"kinfolks",
"kinsfolk",
"line",
"lineage",
"people",
"race",
"stock",
"tribe"
]
},
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blood will always have blood , and so the killing never ends"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chance-medley",
"killing",
"manslaughter",
"bloodshed",
"butchery",
"carnage",
"decimation",
"destruction",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"assassination",
"execution",
"hit",
"euthanasia",
"mercy killing",
"filicide",
"fratricide",
"matricide",
"parricide",
"patricide",
"regicide",
"uxoricide"
],
"synonyms":[
"foul play",
"homicide",
"murder",
"rubout",
"slaying"
]
},
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"antonyms":[
"issue",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed"
],
"examples":[
"the language expert was certain that a young woman with such an upper-class accent had to be of royal blood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"child",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"son",
"successor"
],
"related":[
"heredity",
"succession",
"family",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relations",
"relatives",
"race"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestry",
"birth",
"bloodline",
"breeding",
"descent",
"extraction",
"family tree",
"genealogy",
"line",
"lineage",
"origin",
"parentage",
"pedigree",
"stock",
"strain"
]
},
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in your blood you know this business deal just isn't right"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"conscience",
"mind"
],
"synonyms":[
"belly",
"bone(s)",
"bosom",
"breast",
"core",
"gut",
"heart",
"heartstrings",
"inner space",
"inside",
"quick",
"soul"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blood feud":{
"as in score , feud":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blood pudding":{
"as in sausage , Vienna sausage":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloodbaths":{
"the killing of a large number of people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one side was so much better armed that the battle quickly turned into a bloodbath"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bloodlettings",
"bloodsheds",
"foul play",
"homicides",
"killings",
"manslaughters",
"murders",
"slayings",
"mortalities",
"annihilations",
"decimations",
"destructions",
"devastations",
"eradications",
"exterminations",
"genocides",
"pogroms",
"assassinations",
"executions"
],
"synonyms":[
"butcheries",
"carnages",
"deaths",
"holocausts",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloodlines":{
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"antonyms":[
"issues",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds"
],
"examples":[
"came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"children",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"related":[
"heredities",
"successions",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lineages",
"lines",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"stocks",
"strains"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloodstained":{
"smeared or stained with blood":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had to throw away the bloodstained washcloth after a particularly bad nosebleed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bloodred",
"carmine",
"crimson",
"incarnadine",
"red",
"reddish",
"ruby",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous",
"sanguinary"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloody",
"gory"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bloodsucker":{
"a person who habitually preys upon others":{
"antonyms":[
"prey"
],
"examples":[
"a sleazy lawyer who had a reputation for being a shyster, an ambulance chaser, and an all-around bloodsucker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"exploiter",
"user",
"leech",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"destroyer",
"devourer"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzzard",
"harpy",
"kite",
"predator",
"shark",
"vampire",
"vulture",
"wolf"
]
},
"a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the union accused the company executives of being bloodsuckers , since they had given themselves raises at a time when the rank and file were forced to take cuts in their benefits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benefactor",
"philanthropist",
"supporter"
],
"related":[
"dependent",
"deadbeat",
"idler",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"satellite",
"stooge",
"sycophant",
"toady",
"yes-man",
"cheapskate",
"miser",
"niggard",
"piker",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad"
],
"synonyms":[
"free rider",
"freeloader",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"moocher",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bloody-minded":{
"eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"some bloody-minded individuals wanted to castrate the alleged rapists even without so much as a word of sworn testimony"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliatory",
"disarming",
"dovish",
"mollifying",
"pacific",
"pacifying",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"peacemaking",
"placating",
"placative",
"placatory",
"propitiatory",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"benign",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted",
"tender",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"submissive",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"related":[
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"antagonistic",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"gladiatorial",
"hostile",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"violent",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"bloodstained",
"fell",
"gory",
"grim",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodthirsty",
"bloody",
"homicidal",
"murdering",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous"
]
},
"having or showing a habitually bad temper":{
"antonyms":[
"amiable",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered"
],
"examples":[
"according to palace gossip, behind closed doors the prince was a bloody-minded bore"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"amicable",
"congenial",
"friendly",
"pleasant",
"benign",
"gentle",
"kind",
"nice",
"sweet",
"bubbly",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"vivacious",
"content",
"glad",
"happy",
"calm",
"placid",
"serene",
"long-suffering",
"patient",
"tolerant"
],
"related":[
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"crotchety",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"querulous",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"peppery",
"petulant",
"quick-tempered",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snippy",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"angry",
"exasperated",
"indignant",
"irate",
"mad",
"upset",
"uptight",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"sullen",
"anal",
"old-maidish",
"schoolmarmish"
],
"synonyms":[
"acid",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"splenetic",
"surly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blooming":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
"antonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan"
],
"examples":[
"the blooming faces of children at play in the great outdoors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"waxen",
"waxy",
"blanched",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"sick",
"sickly",
"bloodless",
"cadaverous",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"related":[
"bronzed",
"brown",
"suntanned",
"tanned",
"bloomy",
"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"blushing",
"flushed",
"pink",
"pinkish",
"warm",
"cherubic"
],
"synonyms":[
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"thought that the royals were blooming idiots for making such indiscreet statements"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"related":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she arrived at the house, blooming from her vigorous walk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"incarnadining",
"rouging",
"ruddling",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"synonyms":[
"blushing",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"flushing",
"glowing",
"reddening"
]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"forsythias only bloom at the beginning of spring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drying up",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"dropping",
"dying",
"expiring",
"perishing"
],
"related":[
"leafing",
"leaving",
"budding",
"opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"blossoming",
"blowing",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"efflorescing",
"flowering",
"unfolding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bloomy":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blossoming":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drying up",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"dropping",
"dying",
"expiring",
"perishing"
],
"related":[
"leafing",
"leaving",
"budding",
"opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blowing",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"efflorescing",
"flowering",
"unfolding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blot out":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renew",
"renovate",
"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
],
"related":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
"eject",
"excise",
"expel",
"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"display",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
],
"examples":[
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bring out",
"present",
"clarify",
"illuminate",
"advertise",
"air",
"broadcast",
"get out",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"bury",
"camouflage",
"cover (up)",
"smother",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"block",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"belie",
"blanket",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occult",
"paper over",
"screen",
"shroud",
"suppress",
"veil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blotch":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a dog with a single small blotch of black"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"birthmark",
"freckle",
"mole",
"blob",
"blot",
"mark",
"smear",
"smudge",
"smutch",
"stain",
"spatter",
"splash",
"polka dot"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapple",
"dot",
"eyespot",
"fleck",
"mottle",
"patch",
"pip",
"point",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot"
]
},
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that cell tower is another blotch on the landscape"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adornment",
"decoration",
"embellishment",
"enhancement",
"ornament"
],
"related":[
"abnormality",
"distortion",
"irregularity",
"malformation",
"misshape",
"bug",
"glitch",
"kink",
"blot",
"blur",
"spot",
"stain",
"taint",
"damage",
"defacement",
"impairment",
"injury",
"failing",
"weakness"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"blight",
"defect",
"deformity",
"disfigurement",
"excrescence",
"excrescency",
"fault",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"mar",
"mark",
"pockmark",
"scar"
]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blot",
"dye",
"stain",
"band",
"bar",
"streak",
"stripe",
"intersperse",
"set",
"stud",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapple",
"dot",
"fleck",
"freckle",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pepper",
"shoot",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"stipple"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blotches":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a dog with a single small blotch of black"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"birthmarks",
"freckles",
"moles",
"blobs",
"blots",
"marks",
"smears",
"smudges",
"smutches",
"stains",
"spatters",
"splashes",
"polka dots"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapples",
"dots",
"eyespots",
"flecks",
"mottles",
"patches",
"pips",
"points",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots"
]
},
"something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that cell tower is another blotch on the landscape"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adornments",
"decorations",
"embellishments",
"enhancements",
"ornaments"
],
"related":[
"abnormalities",
"distortions",
"irregularities",
"malformations",
"misshapes",
"bugs",
"glitches",
"kinks",
"blots",
"blurs",
"spots",
"stains",
"taints",
"damages",
"defacements",
"impairments",
"injuries",
"failings",
"weaknesses"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemishes",
"blights",
"defects",
"deformities",
"disfigurements",
"excrescences",
"excrescencies",
"faults",
"flaws",
"imperfections",
"marks",
"mars",
"pockmarks",
"scars"
]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blots",
"dyes",
"stains",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes",
"intersperses",
"sets",
"studs",
"bespatters",
"spatters"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapples",
"dots",
"flecks",
"freckles",
"marbles",
"mottles",
"peppers",
"shoots",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"stipples"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blots out":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"related":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blacks out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"bares",
"discloses",
"displays",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"unveils"
],
"examples":[
"bushes blotted out the shed from our view"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brings out",
"presents",
"clarifies",
"illuminates",
"advertises",
"airs",
"broadcasts",
"gets out",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"spreads"
],
"related":[
"buries",
"camouflages",
"covers (up)",
"smothers",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes",
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blocks",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"eclipses",
"obstructs",
"occludes",
"overcasts",
"overshadows",
"shades"
],
"synonyms":[
"belies",
"blankets",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"obscures",
"occults",
"papers over",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"suppresses",
"veils"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bloviate":{
"as in declaim , pontificate":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blow a gasket":{
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"simmer down"
],
"examples":[
"He blew a gasket when he saw that his younger brother had borrowed his car without asking."
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill out",
"cool (off or down)",
"relax",
"hush",
"quiet (down)"
],
"related":[
"anger",
"fulminate",
"rage",
"rant",
"rave",
"snap",
"snarl",
"sputter",
"storm",
"tee off",
"vent",
"vituperate",
"bristle",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"glare",
"glower",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"warm",
"burst",
"explode",
"flare (out)",
"flash",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"madden"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"blow one's cool":{
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"simmer down"
],
"examples":[
"He blew his cool when the tailgater rear-ended him."
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill out",
"cool (off or down)",
"relax",
"hush",
"quiet (down)"
],
"related":[
"anger",
"fulminate",
"rage",
"rant",
"rave",
"snap",
"snarl",
"sputter",
"storm",
"tee off",
"vent",
"vituperate",
"bristle",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"glare",
"glower",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"warm",
"burst",
"explode",
"flare (out)",
"flash",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"madden"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)"
]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The movie star tolerated the constant attention of the paparazzi, but finally blew her cool when one asked about her recent divorce."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choke"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"break up",
"crack",
"flip (out)",
"freak (out)",
"melt down",
"wig (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"blow smoke":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She has a habit of blowing smoke when she gets nervous."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"run on",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He's been blowing smoke about his accomplishments all afternoon."
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittle",
"deprecate",
"diminish",
"discount",
"laugh off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"shrug off",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"bemoan",
"lament",
"mourn",
"regret"
],
"related":[
"bluster",
"harangue",
"puff",
"pride",
"gush",
"exult",
"glory",
"rejoice",
"brandish",
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"flaunt",
"glorify",
"parade",
"show off",
"magnify",
"maximize"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"boast",
"brag",
"bull",
"crow",
"gasconade",
"swagger",
"vapor",
"vaunt"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"blowing":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"antonyms":[
"imploding"
],
"examples":[
"a huge crater was formed when the volcano last blew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"fizzling"
],
"related":[
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"discharging",
"firing",
"shooting",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mushrooming"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"crumping",
"detonating",
"exploding",
"going off",
"popping"
]
},
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that horse was really blowing after the race"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choking",
"gagging",
"gulping",
"huffing",
"asphyxiating",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"snoring",
"snuffling",
"exhaling",
"expiring"
],
"synonyms":[
"gasping",
"heaving",
"hyperventilating",
"panting",
"puffing",
"wheezing"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one false move and we would be blown to bits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
"related":[
"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"demolishing",
"exploding",
"popping",
"shattering",
"smashing"
]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he keeps blowing every job interview that comes his way"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"related":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"another self-made millionaire blowing about how much he'd achieved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"laughing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"bemoaning",
"lamenting",
"mourning",
"regretting"
],
"related":[
"blustering",
"haranguing",
"puffing",
"priding",
"gushing",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"rejoicing",
"brandishing",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flaunting",
"glorifying",
"parading",
"showing off",
"magnifying",
"maximizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"boasting",
"bragging",
"bulling",
"crowing",
"gasconading",
"swaggering",
"vaporing",
"vaunting"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
],
"examples":[
"that car blew past us as if we were standing still"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"longing for a grassy field in some far-off land where the wildflowers blow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drying up",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"dropping",
"dying",
"expiring",
"perishing"
],
"related":[
"leafing",
"leaving",
"budding",
"opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"efflorescing",
"flowering",
"unfolding"
]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"antonyms":[
"conserving"
],
"examples":[
"each year he blows his holiday bonus on a trip to Las Vegas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizing",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"hoarding",
"laying up"
],
"related":[
"splurging",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"overspending",
"shooting",
"indulging",
"overindulging",
"disbursing",
"expending",
"laying out"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissipating",
"fiddling away",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"losing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"trifling (away)",
"wasting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blowing in":{
"as in barging (in) , breezing (in)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blowing off":{
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hooking up (with)",
"taking",
"befriending",
"latching (on or onto)"
],
"related":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldering",
"cutting",
"high-hatting",
"slighting",
"snubbing",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"marooning",
"quitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking off (with)",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"jilting",
"kissing off",
"leaving"
]
},
"to fail to attend":{
"antonyms":[
"attending",
"showing up (for)"
],
"examples":[
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"passing over"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"missing",
"skipping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blown up":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"simmered down"
],
"examples":[
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilled out",
"cooled (off or down)",
"relaxed",
"hushed",
"quieted (down)"
],
"related":[
"angered",
"fulminated",
"raged",
"ranted",
"raved",
"snapped",
"snarled",
"sputtered",
"stormed",
"teed off",
"vented",
"vituperated",
"bristled",
"burned",
"burnt",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"glared",
"glowered",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"steamed",
"warmed",
"burst",
"bursted",
"exploded",
"flared (out)",
"flashed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"maddened"
],
"synonyms":[
"flared (up)",
"flipped (out)"
]
},
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"antonyms":[
"imploded"
],
"examples":[
"the building blew up because of a gas leak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"fizzled"
],
"related":[
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"discharged",
"fired",
"shot",
"ballooned",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"mushroomed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blown",
"burst",
"bursted",
"crumped",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"gone off",
"popped"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"imploded"
],
"related":[
"dynamited",
"annihilated",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"detonated",
"discharged",
"fragmented",
"splintered"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blown",
"burst",
"bursted",
"demolished",
"exploded",
"popped",
"shattered",
"smashed"
]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"magnified",
"commended",
"complimented",
"eulogized",
"advanced",
"advertised",
"announced",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"boosted",
"heralded",
"offered",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"asserted",
"averred",
"claimed",
"declared",
"laid down",
"made out",
"proclaimed",
"pronounced"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"cracked up",
"cried up",
"glorified",
"touted",
"trumpeted",
"tub-thumped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blows":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he was dizzy for the rest of the day after the blow to his head"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"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"
]
},
"a sudden brief rush of wind":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the ocean blows that sweep over the island are so strong that only the hardiest shrubs can grow there"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breezes",
"zephyrs",
"currents",
"drafts",
"airs",
"breaths",
"wafts",
"puffs",
"whiffs",
"bluster",
"gales",
"hurricanes",
"squalls",
"tempests",
"tornadoes",
"tornados",
"windstorms",
"northeasters",
"northerlies",
"northers",
"northwesters",
"southeasters",
"southwesters",
"westerlies"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"flurries",
"gusts",
"scuds",
"williwaws",
"windblasts"
]
},
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"antonyms":[
"implodes"
],
"examples":[
"a huge crater was formed when the volcano last blew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fizzles"
],
"related":[
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"discharges",
"fires",
"shoots",
"balloons",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"mushrooms"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows up",
"bursts",
"crumps",
"detonates",
"explodes",
"goes off",
"pops"
]
},
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that horse was really blowing after the race"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chokes",
"gags",
"gulps",
"huffs",
"asphyxiates",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"snores",
"snuffles",
"exhales",
"expires"
],
"synonyms":[
"gasps",
"heaves",
"hyperventilates",
"pants",
"puffs",
"wheezes"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one false move and we would be blown to bits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"implodes"
],
"related":[
"dynamites",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks",
"detonates",
"discharges",
"fragments",
"splinters"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"demolishes",
"explodes",
"pops",
"shatters",
"smashes"
]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he keeps blowing every job interview that comes his way"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"related":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"another self-made millionaire blowing about how much he'd achieved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittles",
"deprecates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"laughs off",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"shrugs off",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"bemoans",
"laments",
"mourns",
"regrets"
],
"related":[
"blusters",
"harangues",
"puffs",
"prides",
"gushes",
"exults",
"glories",
"rejoices",
"brandishes",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"flaunts",
"glorifies",
"parades",
"shows off",
"magnifies",
"maximizes"
],
"synonyms":[
"boasts",
"brags",
"bulls",
"crows",
"gasconades",
"swaggers",
"vapors",
"vaunts"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
],
"examples":[
"that car blew past us as if we were standing still"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"longing for a grassy field in some far-off land where the wildflowers blow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dries up",
"fades",
"shrivels",
"wilts",
"withers",
"dies",
"drops",
"expires",
"perishes"
],
"related":[
"leafs",
"leaves",
"buds",
"opens"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"effloresces",
"flowers",
"unfolds"
]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"antonyms":[
"conserves"
],
"examples":[
"each year he blows his holiday bonus on a trip to Las Vegas"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizes",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"related":[
"splurges",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"overspends",
"shoots",
"indulges",
"overindulges",
"disburses",
"expends",
"lays out"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissipates",
"fiddles away",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"loses",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"trifles (away)",
"wastes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blows off":{
"to end a usually intimate relationship with":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hooks up (with)",
"takes",
"befriends",
"latches (on or onto)"
],
"related":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulders",
"cuts",
"high-hats",
"slights",
"snubs",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"maroons",
"quits"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks off (with)",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"jilts",
"kisses off",
"leaves"
]
},
"to fail to attend":{
"antonyms":[
"attends",
"shows up (for)"
],
"examples":[
"blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ignores",
"neglects",
"passes over"
],
"synonyms":[
"cuts",
"misses",
"skips"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blowsy":{
"lacking neatness in dress or person":{
"antonyms":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dolled up",
"sharp",
"smart",
"spruce"
],
"examples":[
"a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chic",
"fashionable",
"modish",
"stylish",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied"
],
"related":[
"slatternly",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"shaggy",
"uncombed",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"scroungy",
"scuzzy",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
],
"synonyms":[
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"slobbish",
"slobby",
"sloppy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blowup":{
"an outburst or display of excited anger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the boss had another blowup when someone fouled up the copy machine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"outburst",
"storm",
"uproar",
"agitation",
"delirium",
"distraction",
"frenzy",
"furor",
"furore",
"fury",
"hysteria",
"rage",
"rampage",
"convulsion(s)",
"paroxysm",
"seizure",
"spasm",
"upheaval",
"angriness",
"choler",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness",
"reaction",
"rise",
"dander",
"temper",
"grouch",
"hump",
"pet",
"pouts",
"snit",
"sulk(s)",
"sulkiness",
"sullenness"
],
"synonyms":[
"explosion",
"fireworks",
"fit",
"hissy",
"hissy fit",
"huff",
"scene",
"tantrum"
]
},
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the last blowup of the volcano flattened trees for miles around"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"discharge",
"firing",
"shooting",
"blowout",
"flare-up",
"bang",
"boom",
"pop",
"airburst",
"groundburst"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"burst",
"bursting",
"detonation",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"outburst"
]
},
"to become very angry":{
"antonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"simmer down"
],
"examples":[
"she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill out",
"cool (off or down)",
"relax",
"hush",
"quiet (down)"
],
"related":[
"anger",
"fulminate",
"rage",
"rant",
"rave",
"snap",
"snarl",
"sputter",
"storm",
"tee off",
"vent",
"vituperate",
"bristle",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"glare",
"glower",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"warm",
"burst",
"explode",
"flare (out)",
"flash",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"madden"
],
"synonyms":[
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)"
]
},
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"antonyms":[
"implode"
],
"examples":[
"the building blew up because of a gas leak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fizzle"
],
"related":[
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"discharge",
"fire",
"shoot",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mushroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"burst",
"crump",
"detonate",
"explode",
"go off",
"pop"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"related":[
"dynamite",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"burst",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"shatter",
"smash"
]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"magnify",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize",
"advance",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"boost",
"herald",
"offer",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"assert",
"aver",
"claim",
"declare",
"lay down",
"make out",
"proclaim",
"pronounce"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"crack up",
"cry up",
"glorify",
"tout",
"trumpet",
"tub-thump"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blowzy":{
"lacking neatness in dress or person":{
"antonyms":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dolled up",
"sharp",
"smart",
"spruce"
],
"examples":[
"a large, blowsy woman in frumpy clothes runs the diner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chic",
"fashionable",
"modish",
"stylish",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied"
],
"related":[
"slatternly",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"shaggy",
"uncombed",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"scroungy",
"scuzzy",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
],
"synonyms":[
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"slobbish",
"slobby",
"sloppy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blubber":{
"to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the poor child was blubbering because he had fallen and skinned his knee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"greet",
"grieve",
"keen",
"lament",
"mourn",
"howl",
"scream",
"squall",
"wail",
"yowl",
"bleat",
"mewl",
"pule",
"whimper",
"whine",
"sniffle",
"snivel",
"groan",
"moan",
"sigh"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawl",
"blub",
"cry",
"sob",
"weep"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blubbering":{
"as in crying , sobbing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in crying , weeping":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the poor child was blubbering because he had fallen and skinned his knee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"greeting",
"grieving",
"keening",
"lamenting",
"mourning",
"howling",
"screaming",
"squalling",
"wailing",
"yowling",
"bleating",
"mewling",
"puling",
"whimpering",
"whining",
"sniffling",
"sniveling",
"snivelling",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sighing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawling",
"blubbing",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"weeping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blubbers":{
"to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the poor child was blubbering because he had fallen and skinned his knee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"greets",
"grieves",
"keens",
"laments",
"mourns",
"howls",
"screams",
"squalls",
"wails",
"yowls",
"bleats",
"mewls",
"pules",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"sniffles",
"snivels",
"groans",
"moans",
"sighs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawls",
"blubs",
"cries",
"sobs",
"weeps"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bludgeoned":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"remodelers bludgeoned the wall with a sledgehammer to join the two rooms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"biffed",
"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"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a boxer bludgeoning his opponent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"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",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blue-penciling":{
"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
"examples":[
"military censors blue-penciled any remarks that could possibly be deemed critical"
],
"synonyms":[
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crossing (out)",
"deleing",
"deleting",
"editing (out)",
"eliding",
"killing",
"scratching (out)",
"striking (out)",
"stroking (out)",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"wiping out",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"clipping",
"cutting",
"excising",
"removing",
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering",
"redacting",
"red-penciling",
"abbreviating",
"cropping",
"shortening",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blue-ribbon":{
"of the very best kind":{
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"your work on this project has been of blue-ribbon quality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"related":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
]
},
"something given in recognition of achievement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the Pritzker Prize is widely regarded as the ultimate blue ribbon for architectural achievement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"badge",
"crown",
"cup",
"laurel",
"medal",
"order",
"plaque",
"plate",
"ribbon",
"trophy",
"applause",
"bravo",
"encomium",
"eulogy",
"hallelujah",
"homage",
"paean",
"panegyric",
"plaudit",
"tribute",
"citation",
"commendation",
"compliment",
"honorable mention"
],
"synonyms":[
"accolade",
"award",
"decoration",
"distinction",
"honor",
"kudo",
"plume",
"premium",
"prize"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"blue-water":{
"as in waters , high seas":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"of, relating to, or occurring in the open sea":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an experienced hand at blue-water sailing in the South Pacific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"littoral"
],
"related":[
"deepwater",
"marine",
"maritime",
"nautical"
],
"synonyms":[
"deep-sea",
"oceanic",
"pelagic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"bluffing":{
"as in pretending , hypocritical":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
],
"examples":[
"I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"related":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blunder":{
"an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"fixed a minor blunder in the advertising flyer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracy",
"correctness",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"strictness",
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"perfection"
],
"related":[
"bloomer",
"blooper",
"boner",
"howler",
"pratfall",
"foul-up",
"snafu",
"misapprehension",
"miscalculation",
"miscomprehension",
"misconception",
"misconstruction",
"misdescription",
"misimpression",
"misinterpretation",
"misjudgment",
"misreading",
"misstatement",
"misunderstanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"boob",
"brick",
"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fluff",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"screwup",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"trip"
]
},
"to make a mistake":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"even though the prosecution had blundered several times in presenting its case, it ultimately prevailed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"nod",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"foozle",
"mangle",
"mishandle",
"muff",
"murder",
"miscalculate",
"misconceive",
"miscount",
"miscue",
"misdeem",
"misgauge",
"misjudge",
"mistake",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misunderstand"
],
"synonyms":[
"boob",
"err",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"screw up",
"slip up",
"stumble",
"trip"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blundered his way through an acceptance speech"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coast",
"fly",
"glide",
"kilt",
"sail",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"related":[
"jog",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"wallow",
"welter",
"falter",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"fumble",
"muddle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumble",
"flog",
"flounder",
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"struggle",
"stumble",
"trudge"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blundered":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"even though the prosecution had blundered several times in presenting its case, it ultimately prevailed"
],
"synonyms":[
"boobed",
"erred",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"screwed up",
"slipped up",
"stumbled",
"tripped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodded",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"foozled",
"mangled",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"miscalculated",
"misconceived",
"miscounted",
"miscued",
"misdeemed",
"misgauged",
"misgaged",
"misjudged",
"mistook",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misunderstood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"blundered his way through an acceptance speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbled",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"struggled",
"stumbled",
"trudged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"wallowed",
"weltered",
"faltered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"fumbled",
"muddled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasted",
"flew",
"glided",
"kilted",
"sailed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blundering":{
"to make a mistake":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"even though the prosecution had blundered several times in presenting its case, it ultimately prevailed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"nodding",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"foozling",
"mangling",
"mishandling",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"miscalculating",
"misconceiving",
"miscounting",
"miscuing",
"misdeeming",
"misgauging",
"misgaging",
"misjudging",
"mistaking",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misunderstanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"boobing",
"erring",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"messing (up)",
"screwing up",
"slipping up",
"stumbling",
"tripping"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"blundered his way through an acceptance speech"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasting",
"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"related":[
"jogging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"wallowing",
"weltering",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbling",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"struggling",
"stumbling",
"trudging"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blunt":{
"being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner":{
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"mealymouthed"
],
"examples":[
"he values honesty and is quite blunt about telling people what he doesn't like about them"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"diplomatic",
"gracious",
"polite",
"politic",
"smooth",
"suave",
"tactful",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"voluble",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"verbose",
"courtly",
"cultivated",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"related":[
"gruff",
"rough",
"snappish",
"candid",
"direct",
"forthright",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"outspoken",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"point-blank",
"straightforward",
"straight-out",
"artless",
"discourteous",
"disrespectful",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"rude",
"tactless",
"undiplomatic",
"brief",
"closemouthed",
"laconic",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"terse",
"tight-lipped",
"earnest",
"honest",
"sincere",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"low",
"uncouth",
"vulgar"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"bluff",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"crusty",
"curt",
"downright",
"short",
"short-spoken",
"snippy",
"unceremonious"
]
},
"lacking sharpness of edge or point":{
"antonyms":[
"cutting",
"edged",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"pointed",
"sharp",
"sharpened",
"whetted"
],
"examples":[
"a blunt knife won't open that package"
],
"near antonyms":[
"jagged",
"needlelike",
"prickly",
"spiked",
"spikelike",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"spiny",
"jabbing",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"ultrasharp"
],
"related":[
"dullish",
"rounded",
"smooth",
"even",
"flat",
"flattened",
"level"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
]
},
"to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling":{
"antonyms":[
"sharpen",
"whet"
],
"examples":[
"the mushy music blunted the effect of the movie's final tragic scene"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplify",
"augment",
"beef (up)",
"boost",
"consolidate",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"redouble",
"step up",
"strengthen",
"animate",
"arouse",
"stimulate"
],
"related":[
"muffle",
"mute",
"tone (down)",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"let up (on)",
"lower",
"reduce",
"subdue",
"debilitate",
"enfeeble",
"weaken",
"dwindle",
"recede",
"subside",
"taper (off)",
"wane",
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten",
"abate",
"moderate"
],
"synonyms":[
"benumb",
"cauterize",
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"numb"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blurred":{
"to make (something) unclear to the understanding":{
"antonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleared (up)",
"illuminated"
],
"examples":[
"an article for the layman that blurs the distinction between the two kinds of cholesterol"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"disentangled",
"straightened (out)",
"undid",
"unraveled",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"analyzed",
"broke down"
],
"related":[
"complicated",
"perplexed",
"sophisticated",
"entangled",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"discomposed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disrupted",
"disturbed",
"jumbled",
"messed (up)",
"mixed (up)",
"muddled",
"scrambled",
"shuffled",
"tousled",
"upset"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"confused",
"fogged",
"muddied",
"obfuscated"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lightened",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)"
],
"examples":[
"evening shadows blurred the view of the valley from the overlook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"revealed",
"uncovered",
"unveiled"
],
"related":[
"adumbrated",
"blotted out",
"concealed",
"eclipsed",
"hid",
"obliterated",
"screened",
"shaded",
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"masked",
"veiled"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blackened",
"bleared",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dislimned",
"fogged",
"fuzzed (up)",
"hazed",
"misted",
"obscured",
"overcast",
"overclouded",
"overshadowed",
"shadowed",
"shrouded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blurt (out)":{
"to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"\"I'm very sad!\" the toddler blurted out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blunder",
"leak",
"bellow",
"bleat",
"crow",
"holler",
"hoot",
"howl",
"roar",
"shout",
"whoop",
"yowl",
"aah",
"ah",
"ooh",
"interject"
],
"synonyms":[
"blat",
"bolt",
"cry (out)",
"ejaculate",
"exclaim"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blurted (out)":{
"to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"\"I'm very sad!\" the toddler blurted out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blundered",
"leaked",
"bellowed",
"bleated",
"crowed",
"hollered",
"hooted",
"howled",
"roared",
"shouted",
"whooped",
"yowled",
"aahed",
"ahed",
"oohed",
"interjected"
],
"synonyms":[
"blatted",
"bolted",
"cried (out)",
"ejaculated",
"exclaimed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blush":{
"a rosy appearance (of the cheeks)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a baby with a healthy blush"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paleness",
"pallidness",
"pallor",
"pastiness",
"wanness",
"whiteness",
"greenishness",
"greenness",
"sallowness"
],
"related":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"glow",
"pinkness",
"reddishness",
"redness",
"rosiness",
"ruddiness",
"sanguineness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"color",
"flush"
]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she blushed when she realized she had walked into the boys' bathroom by mistake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"incarnadine",
"rouge",
"ruddle",
"abash",
"chagrin",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"humiliate",
"mortify"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"color",
"crimson",
"flush",
"glow",
"redden"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"blushing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she blushed when she realized she had walked into the boys' bathroom by mistake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"incarnadining",
"rouging",
"ruddling",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"flushing",
"glowing",
"reddening"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blustering":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to talk loudly and wildly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the rude customer blustered and yelled threats about lawsuits, but eventually left"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grunting",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"slurring",
"breathing",
"whispering"
],
"related":[
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"blaring",
"blurting (out)",
"bolting",
"bloviating",
"blowing",
"declaiming",
"haranguing",
"mouthing (off)",
"orating",
"pontificating",
"carrying on",
"raging",
"storming",
"taking on"
],
"synonyms":[
"fulminating",
"huffing",
"ranting",
"raving",
"spouting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"blanking (out)":{
"as in clearing , drying up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"blog":{
"a website on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities, and experiences":{
"examples":[
"She writes a blog about travel.",
"I enjoy reading her blog ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blocky":{
"as in dense , bulky":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blisteringly":{
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"a blisteringly harsh review of the new musical"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"related":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"blatant":{
"engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest":{
"examples":[
"a blatant clamor for the impeachment of the scandal-plagued governor"
],
"synonyms":[
"caterwauling",
"clamant",
"clamorous",
"obstreperous",
"squawking",
"vociferant",
"vociferating",
"vociferous",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling"
],
"related":[
"clangorous",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"loudmouthed",
"outspoken",
"vocal",
"boisterous",
"rackety",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"rowdy",
"uproarious",
"cacophonous",
"dissonant",
"earsplitting",
"grating",
"shrill",
"strident",
"blaring",
"blustering",
"booming",
"brassy",
"brazen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"noiseless",
"quiet",
"silent",
"soundless",
"still",
"calm",
"hushed",
"subdued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad":{
"examples":[
"I take off points for blatant spelling errors"
],
"synonyms":[
"conspicuous",
"egregious",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"gross",
"obvious",
"patent",
"pronounced",
"rank",
"striking"
],
"related":[
"arresting",
"clear",
"distinct",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"marked",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"plain",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"salient",
"showy",
"splashy",
"absolute",
"arrant",
"downright",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"sheer",
"stark",
"utter",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"visible",
"abominable",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"deplorable",
"execrable",
"heinous",
"lousy",
"monstrous",
"outrageous",
"preposterous",
"shameful",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imperceptible",
"inconspicuous",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"invisible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blessedness":{
"a feeling or state of well-being and contentment":{
"examples":[
"the proud parents can scarcely describe the blessedness of having four healthy children"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatitude",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"warm fuzzies"
],
"related":[
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"high",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"glory",
"heaven",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"rapture",
"rapturousness",
"ravishment",
"seventh heaven",
"transport",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasure",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"comfort",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"jubilation",
"lightheartedness",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction",
"triumph"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"sufferance",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blues",
"cheerlessness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"despondency",
"disheartenment",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"melancholy",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"purgatory"
],
"antonyms":[
"calamity",
"ill-being",
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being spiritually pure or virtuous":{
"examples":[
"Mother Teresa's renowned blessedness made her an obvious candidate for sainthood"
],
"synonyms":[
"devoutness",
"godliness",
"holiness",
"piety",
"piousness",
"sainthood",
"saintliness",
"saintship",
"sanctity"
],
"related":[
"asceticism",
"devotion",
"morality",
"prayerfulness",
"religiousness",
"spirituality",
"priestliness",
"goodness",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"consecration",
"sacredness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemousness",
"irreverence",
"sacrilegiousness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"hypocrisy",
"sanctimoniousness",
"sanctimony"
],
"antonyms":[
"godlessness",
"impiety",
"ungodliness",
"unholiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bluffer":{
"as in counterfeiter , pretender":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in speculator , sharper":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blissfulness":{
"a feeling or state of well-being and contentment":{
"examples":[
"the blissfulness that only a full stomach and a warm bed can bring"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatitude",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"warm fuzzies"
],
"related":[
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"high",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"glory",
"heaven",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"rapture",
"rapturousness",
"ravishment",
"seventh heaven",
"transport",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasure",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"comfort",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"jubilation",
"lightheartedness",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction",
"triumph"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"sufferance",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blues",
"cheerlessness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"despondency",
"disheartenment",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"melancholy",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"purgatory"
],
"antonyms":[
"calamity",
"ill-being",
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blazes":{
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"she felt a blaze of resentment upon hearing that she had been passed over for promotion"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonies",
"bursts",
"ebullitions",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"fits",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flushes",
"gales",
"gushes",
"gusts",
"outbursts",
"paroxysms",
"spasms",
"storms"
],
"related":[
"blowups",
"grouches",
"rages",
"tantrums",
"ecstasies",
"raptures",
"transports",
"deliriums",
"firestorms",
"frenzies",
"furors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"temporarily blinded by the blaze of dozens of camera lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"flares",
"fluorescences",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glows",
"illuminations",
"incandescences",
"lights",
"luminescences",
"radiances",
"shines"
],
"related":[
"flashes",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glitters",
"scintillations",
"shimmers",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"daylights",
"moonlights",
"sunlights",
"sunshines",
"afterglows",
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"beams",
"halos",
"haloes",
"rays",
"shafts",
"streaks",
"streams",
"sunbeams",
"glistens",
"glosses",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"polishes",
"reflections",
"sheens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"dusks",
"glooms",
"nights",
"shadows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the White House didn't waste a minute in blazing the lower unemployment figures"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
],
"related":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"the house blazed for over three hours in the late-night fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"burns",
"combusts",
"flames",
"glows"
],
"related":[
"catches",
"enkindles",
"deflagrates",
"fires",
"ignites",
"kindles",
"flares (up)",
"lights (up)",
"flickers",
"gutters",
"wavers",
"bakes",
"broils",
"chars",
"cooks",
"melts",
"roasts",
"scorches",
"swelters",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"sparks",
"sputters",
"beams",
"brightens",
"radiates",
"beats (down)",
"flashes",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glitters",
"scintillates",
"shimmers",
"shines",
"sparkles",
"twinkles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with a bright harsh light":{
"examples":[
"the spotlight blazed through my window"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"burns",
"flames",
"flares",
"glares"
],
"related":[
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"flashes",
"glances",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"scintillates",
"shimmers",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"an extreme skier went blazing down the ski slope at a reckless pace"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"related":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bloopers":{
"as in pratfalls , bloomers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloomers",
"boners",
"howlers",
"pratfalls",
"blunders",
"bobbles",
"boo-boos",
"boobs",
"bricks",
"clangers",
"clinkers",
"errors",
"faults",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fumbles",
"gaffes",
"gaffs",
"goofs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"screwups",
"slips",
"slipups",
"stumbles",
"trips",
"foul-ups",
"snafus",
"misapprehensions",
"miscalculations",
"miscomprehensions",
"misconceptions",
"misconstructions",
"misdescriptions",
"misimpressions",
"misinterpretations",
"misjudgments",
"misreadings",
"misstatements",
"misunderstandings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuracies",
"exactitudes",
"precisions",
"inerrancies",
"infallibilities",
"perfections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bluntly":{
"as in abruptly , brusquely":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abruptly",
"bluffly",
"brusquely",
"exactly",
"precisely",
"monosyllabically",
"aphoristically",
"sententiously",
"briefly",
"compactly",
"concisely",
"crisply",
"curtly",
"elliptically",
"laconically",
"pithily",
"shortly",
"succinctly",
"summarily",
"tersely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffusely",
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily",
"redundantly",
"repetitiously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bloody-mindedness":{
"as in cussedness , contrariness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"bullheadedness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blithe":{
"having or showing a good mood or disposition":{
"examples":[
"a blithe , obedient child"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithesome",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gay",
"gladsome",
"lightsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"animated",
"chirpy",
"jaunty",
"lilting",
"lively",
"perky",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned",
"boon",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"tickled",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unsatisfied",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"down",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"hangdog",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
]
},
"indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor":{
"examples":[
"a blithe remark that good food enjoyed with good company makes good wine seem even better"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithesome",
"festive",
"gay",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amused",
"beaming",
"chuckling",
"giggling",
"smiling",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"carefree",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"upbeat",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"blessed",
"blest",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"gladsome",
"happy",
"high",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"overjoyed",
"radiant",
"rapturous",
"ravished",
"thrilled",
"tickled",
"amusing",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"frolicsome",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"playful",
"sportive",
"witty",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"unconcerned",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"farcical",
"humorous",
"riotous",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"glum",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heavyhearted",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"unhappy",
"crying",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"discontented",
"disgruntled",
"moody",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorry",
"woeful",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"miserable",
"woebegone",
"wretched",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having or showing freedom from worries or troubles":{
"examples":[
"he has a blithe attitude about ever having to earn a living because he knows there's a trust fund in his future"
],
"synonyms":[
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"gay",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"slaphappy",
"unconcerned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"breezy",
"cavalier",
"nonchalant",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"unfussy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"somber",
"sombre",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"wary",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"upset",
"worried",
"long-suffering",
"overburdened",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"blew the whistle on":{
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"nailed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"undressed",
"unmasked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolished",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hid",
"secreted",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"disguised",
"masked"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"black flags":{
"as in white flags , Jolly Rogers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Jolly Rogers",
"tricolors",
"union jacks",
"white flags",
"buntings",
"gonfalons",
"burgees",
"semaphores",
"signalers",
"signallers",
"wafts",
"banderoles",
"banderols",
"banners",
"colors",
"ensigns",
"flags",
"guidons",
"jacks",
"pendants",
"pendents",
"pennants",
"pennons",
"standards",
"streamers",
"badges",
"coats of arms",
"crests",
"insignia",
"insignias"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"blithers":{
"as in blabbers , blathers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbers",
"blathers",
"bleats",
"gabs",
"jangles",
"jaws",
"patters",
"prates",
"rattles",
"runs on",
"smatters",
"tittle-tattles",
"trolls",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"babbles",
"bumbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"prattles",
"sputters",
"chunters",
"maunders",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"stammers",
"stutters",
"screeches",
"shouts",
"shrieks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulates",
"enunciates",
"pronounces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}