dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/do_mwt.json
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{
"do":{
"a social gathering":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it's supposed to be some sort of fancy do"
],
"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"
],
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"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception",
"shindig"
]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
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"examples":[
"in that small town a great deal of do could come from very little indeed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"related":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
]
},
"a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"issued a long list of dos and don'ts before we even started the project"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeal",
"entreaty",
"petition",
"plea",
"urging",
"proposal",
"recommendation",
"suggestion"
],
"related":[
"demand",
"requirement",
"mandate",
"countermand",
"counterorder",
"law",
"precept",
"prescript",
"prescription",
"rule",
"ordinance",
"regulation",
"statute"
],
"synonyms":[
"behest",
"charge",
"command",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"direction",
"directive",
"edict",
"imperative",
"injunction",
"instruction",
"order",
"word"
]
},
"a style or arrangement of hair":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you can tell that the picture was taken in the 1980s from my permed do"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach"
],
"synonyms":[
"coiffure",
"cut",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle"
]
},
"something one must do because of prior agreement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in this hour of national crisis everyone must do their do"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grace",
"postponement",
"stay",
"discharge",
"ease",
"exemption",
"release",
"relief",
"waiver",
"loophole",
"alternative",
"choice",
"option",
"pick",
"preference",
"selection"
],
"related":[
"oath",
"pledge",
"promise",
"troth",
"vow",
"word",
"arrangement",
"prearrangement",
"setup",
"compact",
"contract",
"covenant",
"pact",
"trust",
"debt",
"payment",
"tribute",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"restraint",
"must",
"requirement",
"coercion",
"duress",
"force",
"appointment",
"engagement",
"reservation",
"onus"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"charge",
"commitment",
"devoir",
"duty",
"imperative",
"incumbency",
"need",
"obligation",
"office",
"responsibility"
]
},
"to be enough":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"even half of that amount of sugar will do"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"answer",
"suit",
"assuage",
"content",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy"
],
"synonyms":[
"serve",
"suffice"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that outfit just won't do for the opera"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"satisfy",
"suffice",
"function",
"work"
],
"synonyms":[
"befit",
"beseem",
"fit",
"go",
"serve",
"suit"
]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"related":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"do as much as you can and leave the rest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"related":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"make",
"negotiate",
"perform",
"perpetrate",
"prosecute",
"pull off",
"put through"
]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lampoon",
"pasquinade",
"satirize",
"deride",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"ridicule",
"ape",
"copycat",
"monkey",
"parrot",
"duplicate",
"emulate",
"replicate",
"reproduce",
"act",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulate",
"elaborate",
"embellish",
"embroider",
"exaggerate",
"magnify",
"pad",
"play up",
"stretch",
"amplify",
"enhance",
"enlarge (on or upon)",
"expand",
"flesh (out)",
"overdraw",
"overstate",
"put on",
"mime",
"pantomime",
"impersonate",
"perform",
"personate",
"play"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"mock",
"parody",
"send up",
"spoof",
"travesty"
]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"antonyms":[
"blemish",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"mar",
"scar",
"spoil"
],
"examples":[
"did the living room in French provincial style"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline",
"bare",
"denude",
"dismantle",
"display",
"divest",
"expose",
"reveal",
"strip",
"uncover",
"uglify"
],
"related":[
"accessorize",
"dress up",
"trap",
"trick (out)",
"brighten",
"freshen",
"smarten",
"spruce (up)",
"boss",
"chase",
"braid",
"embroider",
"feather",
"figure",
"filigree",
"fillet",
"flounce",
"frill",
"fringe",
"furbelow",
"garland",
"hang",
"lace",
"ribbon",
"swag",
"wreathe",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"gild",
"paint",
"diamond",
"gem",
"impearl",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"redecorate",
"redo"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do up",
"doll up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancify",
"fancy up",
"festoon",
"garnish",
"glitz (up)",
"grace",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm doing just fine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"related":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"antonyms":[
"remain",
"stand",
"stay",
"stop"
],
"examples":[
"how are you doing with the house restoration?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"balk",
"block",
"check",
"detain",
"halt",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"nip",
"obstruct",
"slow (down or up)",
"stem",
"repress",
"retard",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"delay",
"interrupt",
"stall",
"cramp",
"hamper",
"inhibit",
"cease",
"let up",
"pause",
"regress",
"wait"
],
"related":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"depict",
"dramatize",
"render",
"represent",
"act out",
"enact",
"pantomime",
"playact",
"role-play",
"take on",
"overact",
"overplay",
"underplay",
"ape",
"clown",
"ham",
"imitate",
"masquerade",
"mime",
"mimic",
"pose (as)",
"star (in)",
"coact",
"costar"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"interpret",
"perform",
"play",
"portray"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"did them out of their savings with surprising ease"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"sucker",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no one is sure who did them in that alley"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
]
},
"to take place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"nothing's ever doing in this boring little town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"go down",
"go on",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"do away with":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They decided to do away with the old dress code."
],
"near antonyms":[
"enact",
"lay down",
"legislate",
"establish",
"found",
"institute",
"formalize",
"legalize",
"legitimate",
"legitimize",
"validate",
"pass",
"ratify",
"allow",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"permit",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"command",
"decree",
"mandate",
"order",
"prescribe"
],
"related":[
"countermand",
"override",
"overrule",
"overturn",
"veto",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"drop",
"recall",
"retract",
"reverse",
"revoke",
"suspend",
"withdraw",
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"outlaw",
"prohibit",
"disallow",
"dismiss",
"reject",
"annihilate",
"break down",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"liquidate",
"remove",
"throw out",
"write off"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"avoid",
"cancel",
"disannul",
"dissolve",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"null",
"nullify",
"quash",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"roll back",
"strike down",
"vacate",
"void"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He resolved to do away with the man who killed his parents."
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"related":[
"blow away",
"shoot",
"shoot down",
"blot out",
"carry off",
"claim",
"cut down",
"destroy",
"fell",
"kill",
"smite",
"zap",
"butcher",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"slaughter",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"wipe out"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"do down":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"examples":[
"you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fall",
"give up",
"go down",
"go under",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out"
],
"related":[
"sweep",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"blow out",
"bomb",
"break",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"crush",
"drub",
"finish",
"flatten",
"overwhelm",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"slaughter",
"smoke",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trounce",
"upset",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"subjugate",
"unseat",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
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"errant",
"misbehaving",
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"naughty",
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"exercises",
"plate",
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"order",
"ordering",
"organization",
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"setup"
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"calendar",
"program",
"schedule",
"timetable"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"slips",
"embarcaderos",
"dockyards",
"marinas",
"quayages",
"shipyards",
"wharfages"
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"jetties",
"landings",
"levees",
"piers",
"quais",
"quays",
"wharves",
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"sails"
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"grounds",
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"verb"
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"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
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"familiarizing",
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"seasoning",
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"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
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"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming",
"accustoming",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"readying",
"training",
"bending",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"regulating",
"rigging"
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"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring"
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"healing",
"mending",
"rehabilitating",
"remedying",
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"dosing",
"drugging",
"hospitalizing",
"ministering (to)",
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"spends his spare time doctoring old clocks"
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"breaking",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vandalizing",
"wrecking",
"crippling",
"disabling",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
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"overhauling",
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"servicing",
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"refreshening",
"refreshing",
"regenerating",
"rejuvenating",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"revitalizing",
"reviving",
"adjusting",
"correcting",
"modifying",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"reforming",
"righting",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating"
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"patching",
"reconditioning",
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"repairing",
"revamping"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders":{
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"nonphysicians"
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"we called a doctor as soon as we realized the baby was sick"
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"family physicians",
"family practitioners",
"general practitioners",
"anesthesiologists",
"dermatologists",
"gynecologists",
"internists",
"neurologists",
"ob-gyns",
"obstetricians",
"ophthalmologists",
"orthopedists",
"pathologists",
"pediatricians",
"pediatrists",
"physiatrists",
"podiatrists",
"radiologists",
"urologists",
"attendings",
"clinicians",
"hospitalists",
"specialists",
"plastic surgeons",
"surgeons",
"interns",
"internes",
"residents",
"aidmen",
"nurse-practitioners",
"nurses",
"EMTs",
"paramedics",
"paramedicals",
"physical therapists",
"physiotherapists"
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"docs",
"medicos",
"medics",
"physicians",
"sawbones",
"sawboneses"
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"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
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"slightly doctored his standard campaign speech for a collegiate audience"
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"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
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"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
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"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
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"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
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"to give medical treatment to":{
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"heals",
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"rehabilitates",
"remedies",
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"doses",
"drugs",
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"spends his spare time doctoring old clocks"
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"breaks",
"damages",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vandalizes",
"wrecks",
"cripples",
"disables",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
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"renews",
"restores",
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"rectifies",
"redresses",
"reforms",
"rights",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
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"improves",
"meliorates"
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"patches",
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"renovates",
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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"a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church":{
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"examples":[
"the Catholic Church's doctrine on the Eucharist"
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"related":[
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"belief",
"conviction",
"tenet",
"credo",
"creed",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"theology",
"axiom",
"precept",
"principle",
"symbol"
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"canon",
"dogma"
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"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
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"the doctrine of quantum physicists"
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"related":[
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"metaphysic",
"theory",
"axiom",
"tenet",
"watchword"
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"synonyms":[
"credo",
"creed",
"dogma",
"gospel",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"testament"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"doctrines":{
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"examples":[
"the Catholic Church's doctrine on the Eucharist"
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"beliefs",
"convictions",
"tenets",
"credos",
"creeds",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"theologies",
"axioms",
"precepts",
"principles",
"symbols"
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"canons",
"dogmas",
"dogmata"
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"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
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"examples":[
"the doctrine of quantum physicists"
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"related":[
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"metaphysics",
"theories",
"axioms",
"tenets",
"watchwords"
],
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"credos",
"creeds",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"gospels",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"testaments"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"documents":{
"a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it":{
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"examples":[
"filled out the documents for a bank loan"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"writs",
"filings",
"sheets"
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"synonyms":[
"blanks",
"forms",
"papers"
]
},
"a written or printed paper giving information about or proof of something":{
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"examples":[
"have your documents ready as you approach the border"
],
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"related":[
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"diplomas",
"parchments",
"records",
"warrants",
"writs",
"warranties",
"coupons",
"vouchers"
],
"synonyms":[
"certificates",
"certifications",
"instruments"
]
},
"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"antonyms":[
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
],
"examples":[
"he tried in vain to document a link between ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenges",
"disputes",
"objects",
"alleges",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"surmises",
"suspects"
],
"related":[
"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"circumstantiates",
"corroborates",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"supports",
"upholds",
"witnesses",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
"certifies",
"identifies",
"confirms",
"sustains",
"verifies",
"vouches",
"clinches",
"nails",
"settles",
"confesses",
"deposes",
"testifies"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrates",
"establishes",
"proves",
"substantiates",
"validates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dodder":{
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
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"examples":[
"was doddering down the walk outside the nursing home"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rock",
"roll",
"seesaw",
"swag",
"sway",
"waver",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"barge",
"blunder",
"clomp",
"clump",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"tramp",
"tromp"
],
"synonyms":[
"careen",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dodge":{
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
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"examples":[
"just another dodge to get out of working in the yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bluff",
"end run",
"feint",
"cheating",
"chicanery",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deception",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"hoax",
"sham",
"swindle",
"blind",
"front",
"smoke screen"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"device",
"fetch",
"flimflam",
"gambit",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"juggle",
"knack",
"play",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"scheme",
"shenanigan",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile"
]
},
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"antonyms":[
"comply (with)",
"follow",
"keep",
"obey",
"observe"
],
"examples":[
"always trying to dodge the landlord's rule prohibiting pets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accede (to)",
"acquiesce (to)",
"assent (to)",
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"related":[
"avoid",
"duck",
"elude",
"end-run",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"outflank",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"disobey",
"disregard",
"flout",
"ignore",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"get around",
"shortcut",
"sidestep",
"skirt"
]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dodged the horde of paparazzi by leaving through the service entrance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"related":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"dodging through the crowd on his way to the exit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"parry",
"shirk",
"skirt",
"deflect",
"turn",
"slide",
"slip"
],
"synonyms":[
"duck",
"jink",
"sidestep",
"slalom",
"weave",
"zigzag"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"does":{
"to be enough":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"even half of that amount of sugar will do"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"answers",
"suits",
"assuages",
"contents",
"quenches",
"sates",
"satiates",
"satisfies"
],
"synonyms":[
"serves",
"suffices"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that outfit just won't do for the opera"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"satisfies",
"suffices",
"functions",
"works"
],
"synonyms":[
"befits",
"beseems",
"fits",
"goes",
"serves",
"suits"
]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"dampens",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"smothers",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"arrests",
"checks",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"retards",
"cans",
"kills",
"snuffs (out)",
"stills",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"extinguishes",
"liquidates",
"quenches"
],
"related":[
"conduces (to)",
"contributes (to)",
"decides",
"determines",
"begins",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"sets",
"sets up",
"starts",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"develops",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"enacts",
"renders",
"turns out"
],
"synonyms":[
"begets",
"breeds",
"brings",
"brings about",
"brings on",
"catalyzes",
"causes",
"creates",
"draws on",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"engenders",
"generates",
"induces",
"invokes",
"makes",
"occasions",
"produces",
"prompts",
"results (in)",
"spawns",
"translates (into)",
"works",
"yields"
]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"do as much as you can and leave the rest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fails",
"skimps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"related":[
"brings about",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"implements",
"aces",
"nails",
"engages (in)",
"practices",
"practises",
"works (at)",
"reduplicates",
"reenacts",
"repeats",
"actualizes",
"attains",
"realizes",
"completes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"winds up"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings off",
"carries off",
"carries out",
"commits",
"compasses",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"makes",
"negotiates",
"performs",
"perpetrates",
"prosecutes",
"pulls off",
"puts through"
]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lampoons",
"pasquinades",
"satirizes",
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"ridicules",
"apes",
"copycats",
"monkeys",
"parrots",
"duplicates",
"emulates",
"replicates",
"reproduces",
"acts",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"pretends",
"shams",
"simulates",
"elaborates",
"embellishes",
"embroiders",
"exaggerates",
"magnifies",
"pads",
"plays up",
"stretches",
"amplifies",
"enhances",
"enlarges (on or upon)",
"expands",
"fleshes (out)",
"overdraws",
"overstates",
"puts on",
"mimes",
"pantomimes",
"impersonates",
"performs",
"personates",
"plays"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"imitates",
"mimics",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"sends up",
"spoofs",
"travesties"
]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils"
],
"examples":[
"did the living room in French provincial style"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"related":[
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"bosses",
"chases",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"redecorates",
"redoes"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"fancifies",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'm doing just fine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"related":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"antonyms":[
"remains",
"stands",
"stays",
"stops"
],
"examples":[
"how are you doing with the house restoration?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"balks",
"blocks",
"checks",
"detains",
"halts",
"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"nips",
"obstructs",
"slows (down or up)",
"stems",
"represses",
"retards",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"delays",
"interrupts",
"stalls",
"cramps",
"hampers",
"inhibits",
"ceases",
"lets up",
"pauses",
"regresses",
"waits"
],
"related":[
"accelerates",
"fast-forwards",
"speeds",
"approaches",
"nears",
"journeys",
"passes",
"repairs",
"runs",
"travels",
"wends",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"takes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"goes off",
"marches",
"paces",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"depicts",
"dramatizes",
"renders",
"represents",
"acts out",
"enacts",
"pantomimes",
"playacts",
"role-plays",
"takes on",
"overacts",
"overplays",
"underplays",
"apes",
"clowns",
"hams",
"imitates",
"masquerades",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"poses (as)",
"stars (in)",
"coacts",
"costars"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"did them out of their savings with surprising ease"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no one is sure who did them in that alley"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
]
},
"to take place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"nothing's ever doing in this boring little town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"goes down",
"goes on",
"happens",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"does in":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"examples":[
"a business venture that was done in by poor planning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"related":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"antonyms":[
"animates"
],
"examples":[
"the early frost did in all of our tender plants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives",
"nurtures"
],
"related":[
"bumps off",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"finishes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"scrags",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"wastes",
"whacks",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"decimates",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows",
"slaughters",
"smites",
"assassinates",
"executes",
"martyrs",
"terminates",
"euthanizes",
"euthanatizes",
"puts down",
"suicides"
],
"synonyms":[
"carries off",
"claims",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"fells",
"kills",
"slays",
"takes"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"somebody did the old man in late last night"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives"
],
"related":[
"blows away",
"shoots",
"shoots down",
"blots out",
"carries off",
"claims",
"cuts down",
"destroys",
"fells",
"kills",
"smites",
"zaps",
"butchers",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"slaughters",
"annihilates",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"wipes out"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"bumps off",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"liquidates",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"slays",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"terminates",
"whacks"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
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"examples":[
"too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns"
],
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"related":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"suckers",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
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"examples":[
"the long day of hard work really did me in"
],
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"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"related":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
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"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doff one's hat to":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
"antonyms":[
"knock",
"pan",
"slam"
],
"examples":[
"I doff my hat to you and your band for a great performance tonight."
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittle",
"discommend",
"disparage",
"put down",
"blame",
"censure",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"admonish",
"chide",
"criticize",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"castigate",
"excoriate",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"skewer",
"slag",
"vilify"
],
"related":[
"bravo",
"clap",
"rise (to)",
"ballyhoo",
"approve",
"commend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"root (for)",
"support",
"celebrate",
"emblazon",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"sing",
"adulate",
"belaud",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"deify",
"idolize"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accredit",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"crack up",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
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"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
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"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed"
],
"examples":[
"I doff my hat to you and your band for a great performance tonight."
],
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"belittled",
"discommended",
"disparaged",
"put down",
"blamed",
"censured",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"criticized",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"castigated",
"excoriated",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"skewered",
"slagged",
"vilified"
],
"related":[
"bravoed",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"rose (to)",
"ballyhooed",
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"favored",
"recommended",
"rooted (for)",
"supported",
"celebrated",
"emblazoned",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"sang",
"sung",
"adulated",
"belauded",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"deified",
"idolized"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"accredited",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"cracked up",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dog collar":{
"an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a gala at which one can expect to see a number of trophy wives wearing diamond-encrusted dog collars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"torque",
"torc",
"beads",
"carcanet",
"rivi\u00e8re",
"rope",
"strand",
"bangle",
"lavaliere",
"lavalliere",
"locket",
"pendant",
"pendent"
],
"synonyms":[
"choker",
"collar",
"lei",
"necklace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dog days":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"dog's breakfast":{
"as in mess , chaos":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doggedly":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"with great effort or determination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the detective doggedly pursued the suspect through the city's teeming streets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"related":[
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully"
],
"synonyms":[
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously"
]
}
},
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"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
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"examples":[
"being an effective detective requires doggedness as well as cleverness"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullheadedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dogmatic":{
"given to or marked by the forceful expression of strongly held opinions":{
"antonyms":[
"latitudinarian",
"undoctrinaire",
"undogmatic"
],
"examples":[
"a critic's dogmatic insistence that abstract expressionism is the only school of 20th century art worthy of serious study"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadminded",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive"
],
"related":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"unyielding"
],
"synonyms":[
"doctrinaire",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"opinioned",
"pontifical",
"self-opinionated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doing a number on":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
],
"examples":[
"The scammers really did a number on some unsuspecting homeowners."
],
"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",
"bluffing",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dole":{
"the giving of necessities and especially money to the needy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a millionaire who was known for his annual Christmas dole to needy-looking strangers he met on the street"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"altruism",
"do-gooding",
"do-goodism",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"goodwill",
"alms",
"benefaction",
"contribution",
"donation",
"relief",
"welfare",
"endowment",
"fund",
"grant",
"subsidy"
],
"synonyms":[
"almsgiving",
"charity",
"philanthropy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doll":{
"a physically attractive person":{
"antonyms":[
"dog"
],
"examples":[
"her new boyfriend is a real doll"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beauty",
"eyeful",
"goddess",
"lovely",
"stunner",
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"stud",
"superstud"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dish",
"dreamboat",
"fox",
"glamour-puss",
"hottie",
"knockout",
"looker",
"showstopper",
"ten"
]
},
"a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rag doll",
"figure",
"figurine",
"handpuppet",
"marionette"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figure",
"dolly",
"poppet",
"puppet"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dollop (out)":{
"as in share (out) , measure (out)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dolorousness":{
"as in woe , woefulness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolt":{
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
],
"examples":[
"he's always jokingly calling his best friend a dolt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"related":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doltish":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"examples":[
"foolish and doltish behavior that was really beneath you"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"thinking",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"related":[
"cretinous",
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"silly",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thick-witted",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"domed":{
"as in ballooned , bulged":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in spherical , rounded":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"domes":{
"as in balloons , bulges":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the fitted cap is too small for my large dome"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"craniums",
"crania",
"crowns",
"scalps",
"skulls",
"occiputs",
"occipita"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"blocks",
"heads",
"mazards",
"mazzards",
"nobs",
"noddles",
"noggins",
"noodles",
"nuts",
"pates",
"polls"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"domestic partner":{
"as in partner , significant other":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domesticating":{
"to change (a wild animal or plant) over time to make it more suited to life with or use by humans":{
"examples":[
"Humans domesticated wolves to produce man's best friend."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conditioning",
"mastering",
"training",
"accustoming",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring",
"bringing up",
"fostering",
"nurturing",
"raising",
"rearing",
"cropping",
"cultivating",
"culturing",
"dressing",
"growing",
"promoting",
"breeding",
"producing",
"propagating",
"planting",
"sowing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"conquering",
"dominating",
"overpowering",
"pacifying",
"subduing",
"subjecting",
"subjugating",
"subordinating",
"vanquishing",
"appropriating",
"arrogating",
"taking over",
"usurping",
"adopting",
"borrowing",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"taking on",
"taking up",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming"
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},
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"verb"
]
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"welcome to my domicile , humble though it may be"
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"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"bungalow",
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"double-wide",
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty"
],
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"abode",
"diggings",
"dwelling",
"fireside",
"habitation",
"hearth",
"hearthstone",
"home",
"house",
"lodging",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"roof"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus"
],
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"eject",
"evict"
],
"related":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
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"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"roof",
"room",
"shelter",
"take in"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"domiciled":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
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"examples":[
"the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus"
],
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"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"related":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
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"accommodated",
"bestowed",
"billeted",
"bivouacked",
"boarded",
"bunked",
"camped",
"chambered",
"encamped",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"put up",
"quartered",
"roofed",
"roomed",
"sheltered",
"took in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dominance":{
"controlling power or influence over others":{
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"examples":[
"although Napol\u00e9on had achieved dominance over the European continent, Great Britain still ruled the waves"
],
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"helplessness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
],
"related":[
"primacy",
"superiority",
"lordship",
"scepter",
"arm",
"authority",
"choke hold",
"clutch",
"command",
"control",
"grip",
"hold",
"mastery",
"sway",
"takeover",
"direction",
"jurisdiction",
"management",
"clout",
"might",
"pull",
"weight",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"right"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"domination",
"dominion",
"hegemony",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"predominancy",
"preeminence",
"reign",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy"
]
},
"the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance":{
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"examples":[
"the university was recognized for its dominance in the field of ancient Greek history"
],
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"insignificance",
"inferiority",
"mediocrity",
"obscureness",
"obscurity"
],
"related":[
"celebrity",
"fame",
"famousness",
"glory",
"honor",
"kudos",
"renown",
"reputation",
"repute",
"megastardom",
"stardom",
"superstardom",
"greatness",
"illustriousness",
"nobleness",
"notableness",
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"authority",
"domination",
"dominion",
"influence",
"power",
"prestige",
"weight",
"infamy",
"notoriety"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinction",
"eminence",
"noteworthiness",
"paramountcy",
"preeminence",
"preponderance",
"preponderancy",
"prepotency",
"prestigiousness",
"primacy",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominates":{
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
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"examples":[
"by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe"
],
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"discharges",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"manumits",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
],
"related":[
"annihilates",
"beats",
"clobbers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"mows (down)",
"overcomes",
"prevails (over)",
"reduces",
"routs",
"skunks",
"smashes",
"thrashes",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"enslaves",
"breaks",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"silences",
"smothers",
"snuffs (out)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"suppresses"
],
"synonyms":[
"conquers",
"overpowers",
"pacifies",
"subdues",
"subjects",
"subjugates",
"subordinates",
"vanquishes"
]
},
"to look down on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the ruined fortress dominates the town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"faces",
"fronts"
],
"synonyms":[
"commands",
"overlooks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"don":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to place on one's person":{
"antonyms":[
"doff",
"remove",
"take off"
],
"examples":[
"she donned her best gown for the ball"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"related":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"bundle up",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"doll up",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit",
"trick",
"uniform",
"overdress"
],
"synonyms":[
"put on",
"slip (on or into)",
"throw (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"donate":{
"to make a present of":{
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"examples":[
"we plan to donate all the profits from the rummage sale to charity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hold",
"keep",
"pocket",
"retain",
"withhold",
"preserve",
"save",
"advance",
"lend",
"loan",
"sell"
],
"related":[
"chip in",
"kick in",
"pitch in",
"throw in",
"award",
"confer",
"endow",
"endue",
"indue",
"render",
"afford",
"comp",
"furnish",
"provide",
"lavish",
"regale",
"aid",
"assist",
"benefit",
"help",
"administer",
"dish out",
"dispense",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"impart",
"issue",
"mete (out)",
"extend",
"fork (over, out, or up)",
"offer",
"pay",
"proffer",
"pungle (up)",
"put up",
"tender",
"sacrifice"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestow",
"contribute",
"give",
"give away",
"present",
"volunteer"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"donations":{
"a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a generous donation to the orphanage from an anonymous benefactor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"offerings",
"tithes",
"bequests",
"endowments",
"legacies",
"aids",
"assistances",
"doles",
"handouts",
"reliefs",
"welfares",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"benevolences",
"bestowals",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents"
],
"synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"charities",
"contributions",
"philanthropies"
]
},
"something given to someone without expectation of a return":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a chocolate cake was my donation to the office party"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advances",
"loans",
"bribes",
"douceurs",
"peace offerings",
"sops"
],
"related":[
"alms",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"charities",
"contributions",
"doles",
"handouts",
"oblations",
"offerings",
"philanthropies",
"tithes",
"boxes",
"care packages",
"foys",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"remembrances",
"tributes",
"valentines",
"bonuses",
"boons",
"windfalls",
"courtesies",
"favors",
"generosities",
"sacrifices",
"gratuities",
"propines",
"tips",
"awards",
"prizes",
"rewards",
"dowries",
"bequests",
"legacies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestowals",
"comps",
"donatives",
"fairings",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"handsels",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donnybrook":{
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a dozen people were arrested after the donnybrook at the stadium"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"synonyms":[
"affray",
"brawl",
"broil",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"rough-and-tumble",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction"
]
},
"an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the kind of hot-button issue that inevitably creates a donnybrook in the halls of the statehouse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"clash",
"run-in",
"skirmish",
"tangle",
"tussle",
"logomachy",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"attack",
"contention",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"debate",
"difference",
"disputation",
"fuss",
"objection",
"protest",
"protestation",
"affray",
"fisticuffs",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"catfight"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercation",
"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"battle royal",
"bicker",
"brawl",
"contretemps",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"imbroglio",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"rhubarb",
"row",
"scrap",
"set-to",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doohickies":{
"a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"screw in the doohickey at the top of the lamp shade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"dinguses",
"doodads",
"hickeys",
"thingamabobs",
"thingamajigs",
"thingumajigs",
"thingummies",
"whatchamacallits",
"whatnots",
"whatsits",
"whatses",
"what-is-its"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dooming":{
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"predestinating",
"auguring",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"preconceiving",
"prejudging",
"condemning",
"sentencing",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"portending",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing"
],
"synonyms":[
"destining",
"fating",
"foredooming",
"foreordaining",
"ordaining",
"predestining",
"predetermining",
"preordaining"
]
},
"to impose a judicial punishment on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pardoning",
"reprieving"
],
"related":[
"adjudging",
"judging",
"castigating",
"censuring",
"chastening",
"chastising",
"correcting",
"disciplining",
"penalizing",
"punishing",
"concluding",
"deciding",
"decreeing",
"determining",
"finding",
"opining",
"resolving",
"ruling"
],
"synonyms":[
"condemning",
"damning",
"sentencing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dooms":{
"a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the judge solemnly pronounced his doom before a hushed courtroom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"inquests",
"verdicts",
"authorities",
"decrees",
"edicts",
"injunctions",
"orders",
"arbitraments",
"awards",
"declarations",
"deliverances",
"dicta",
"dictums",
"pronouncements",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"determinations",
"opinions",
"resolutions",
"disciplines",
"penalties",
"punishments"
],
"synonyms":[
"findings",
"holdings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"rulings",
"sentences"
]
},
"a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it was her doom to be haunted by the memory of that terrible day"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck",
"predestinations",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumstances",
"destinies",
"fates",
"fortunes",
"kismets",
"lots",
"portions"
]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
],
"examples":[
"met his doom at the hands of a rampaging rhinoceros"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"related":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"ends",
"exits",
"expirations",
"expiries",
"fates",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"sleeps"
]
},
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"predestinates",
"augurs",
"forecasts",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"presages",
"prognosticates",
"prophesies",
"preconceives",
"prejudges",
"condemns",
"sentences",
"bodes",
"forebodes",
"forbodes",
"portends",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"foreknows",
"foresees"
],
"synonyms":[
"destines",
"fates",
"foredooms",
"foreordains",
"ordains",
"predestines",
"predetermines",
"preordains"
]
},
"to impose a judicial punishment on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pardons",
"reprieves"
],
"related":[
"adjudges",
"judges",
"castigates",
"censures",
"chastens",
"chastises",
"corrects",
"disciplines",
"penalizes",
"punishes",
"concludes",
"decides",
"decrees",
"determines",
"finds",
"opines",
"resolves",
"rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"condemns",
"damns",
"sentences"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doorway":{
"the means or right of entering or participating in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the doorway to a life of luxury and leisure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"ejection",
"expulsion",
"ouster",
"rejection",
"removal"
],
"related":[
"approval",
"authorization",
"certification",
"permission",
"qualification",
"open door",
"welcome mat"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"door",
"entrance",
"entr\u00e9e",
"entree",
"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
]
},
"the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he stood in the doorway until we finally invited him in"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hatch",
"hatchway"
],
"synonyms":[
"door",
"entrance",
"gate",
"gateway",
"way"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dope":{
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
],
"examples":[
"that dope thought he could swim across the Colorado River at night"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"related":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the stool pigeon gave us the dope on the deal taking place that night at the warehouse"
],
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"ancient history",
"open secret"
],
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"dirt",
"dish",
"gossip",
"rumor",
"story",
"hint",
"pointer",
"information",
"intelligence",
"news",
"tidings",
"word"
],
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"book",
"411",
"inside",
"lowdown",
"poop",
"scoop",
"skinny",
"tip"
]
},
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"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
],
"examples":[
"dude, there are some really dope rhymes on that rap album"
],
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"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"
],
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"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
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"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"reason",
"clear (up)",
"iron out",
"straighten (out)",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"untie",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"divine",
"guess",
"presume",
"speculate",
"decipher",
"decode"
],
"synonyms":[
"answer",
"break",
"crack",
"figure out",
"puzzle (out)",
"resolve",
"riddle (out)",
"solve",
"unravel",
"unriddle",
"work",
"work out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doped (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
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"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
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"related":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"reasoned",
"cleared (up)",
"ironed out",
"straightened (out)",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"untied",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"divined",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"deciphered",
"decoded"
],
"synonyms":[
"answered",
"broke",
"cracked",
"figured out",
"puzzled (out)",
"resolved",
"riddled (out)",
"solved",
"unraveled",
"unriddled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"worked out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
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"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
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"related":[
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"decides",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"clears (up)",
"irons out",
"straightens (out)",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"unties",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"divines",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"deciphers",
"decodes"
],
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"answers",
"breaks",
"cracks",
"figures out",
"puzzles (out)",
"resolves",
"riddles (out)",
"solves",
"unravels",
"unriddles",
"works",
"works out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
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"examples":[
"at the mall today I saw someone who could be your doppelg\u00e4nger"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antitheses",
"converses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
"related":[
"Chinese copies",
"effigies",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"companions",
"fellows",
"mates",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"parallels"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter egos",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"counterparts",
"doubles",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"fetches",
"images",
"likenesses",
"look-alikes",
"matches",
"mirror images",
"pictures",
"replicas",
"ringers",
"spits",
"spitting images",
"twins"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dopy":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"examples":[
"a sweet but dopey little dog who never learned any tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"thinking",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"related":[
"cretinous",
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"silly",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thick-witted",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
],
"examples":[
"we were still dopey from having all those facts and figures thrown at us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"related":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dories":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dory":{
"as in skiff , rowboat":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dose":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dosing":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doss (down)":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"uprise"
],
"examples":[
"he frequently plays host at his London flat, and overnight guests pretty much doss down where they please"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"rouse",
"wake",
"waken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"related":[
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"couch",
"lie (down)",
"recline"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"crash",
"retire",
"turn in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dot":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there was just a dot on the tablecloth where the food had spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"birthmark",
"freckle",
"mole",
"blob",
"blot",
"mark",
"smear",
"smudge",
"smutch",
"stain",
"spatter",
"splash",
"polka dot"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotch",
"dapple",
"eyespot",
"fleck",
"mottle",
"patch",
"pip",
"point",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot"
]
},
"to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a hillside dotted with wildflowers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blanket",
"drizzle",
"dust",
"stud",
"dapple",
"fleck",
"speckle",
"stipple",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestrew",
"pepper",
"scatter",
"sow",
"spot",
"spray",
"sprinkle",
"strew"
]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the practice of some chefs of positioning a small portion of food in the center and dotting the rest of the plate with sauce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blot",
"dye",
"stain",
"band",
"bar",
"streak",
"stripe",
"intersperse",
"set",
"stud",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotch",
"dapple",
"fleck",
"freckle",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pepper",
"shoot",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"stipple"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doting (on)":{
"to love or admire too much":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"doted on her only grandchild"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"disdaining",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"misprizing",
"putting down"
],
"related":[
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"esteeming",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"fancying",
"favoring",
"liking",
"preferring",
"regarding",
"hallowing",
"respecting",
"revering",
"venerating",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"supporting"
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"adulating",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"hero-worshipping",
"hero-worshiping",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"double Dutch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"unintelligible or meaningless talk":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the fast-talking con man spouts some double Dutch , and it is only afterwards that the victim realizes that he's given two twenties for a ten"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"hocus-pocus",
"hokeypokey",
"twaddle",
"chatter",
"gab",
"patter",
"prate",
"tattle",
"twitter",
"cackle",
"clack",
"clatter"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"babble",
"blabber",
"burble",
"double-talk",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"jabberwocky",
"mumbo jumbo",
"nonsense",
"prattle",
"slobber"
]
}
},
"double cross":{
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
],
"examples":[
"politics is full of double crosses and backbiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"related":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"antonyms":[
"stand by"
],
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"related":[
"give away",
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"double crosses":{
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"antonyms":[
"allegiances",
"devotions",
"fealties",
"fidelities",
"loyalties"
],
"examples":[
"politics is full of double crosses and backbiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependabilities",
"reliabilities",
"defenses",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"shields"
],
"related":[
"abandonments",
"desertions",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"guiles",
"frauds",
"talebearings",
"trickeries"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbings",
"betrayals",
"businesses",
"disloyalties",
"falsities",
"infidelities",
"perfidies",
"sellouts",
"treacheries",
"treasons"
]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"antonyms":[
"stands by"
],
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"saves",
"shields"
],
"related":[
"gives away",
"informs (on)",
"peaches",
"rats (on)",
"shops",
"snitches (on)",
"splits (on)",
"tells (on)",
"turns in"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabs",
"betrays",
"crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"double-cross":{
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
],
"examples":[
"politics is full of double crosses and backbiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"related":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"antonyms":[
"stand by"
],
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"related":[
"give away",
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"double-crosser":{
"one who betrays a trust or an allegiance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we knew he was a double-crosser so we didn't tell him our real plans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accommodationist",
"collaborationist",
"collaborator",
"sellout",
"subversive",
"subverter",
"coconspirator",
"conspirator",
"intriguer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"defector",
"deserter",
"renegade",
"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"gossipmonger",
"informant",
"informer",
"rat",
"rumormonger",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"talebearer",
"talker",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale"
],
"synonyms":[
"apostate",
"backstabber",
"betrayer",
"double-dealer",
"Judas",
"quisling",
"recreant",
"serpent",
"snake",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double-crossing":{
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"antonyms":[
"standing by"
],
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"saving",
"shielding"
],
"related":[
"giving away",
"informing (on)",
"peaching",
"ratting (on)",
"shopping",
"snitching (on)",
"splitting (on)",
"telling (on)",
"turning in"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betraying",
"crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubled":{
"to lay one part over or against another part of":{
"antonyms":[
"extended",
"opened",
"spread",
"unfolded",
"unrolled"
],
"examples":[
"double the wet cloth and place it on the victim's forehead"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"overlaid",
"overlapped",
"overlay",
"collapsed",
"telescoped",
"closed",
"shut",
"plaited",
"pleated"
],
"synonyms":[
"folded"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we doubled our investment in six months"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"compounded",
"multiplied",
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built (up)",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicated",
"redoubled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubles":{
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he looks so much like you that he could be your double"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antitheses",
"converses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
"related":[
"Chinese copies",
"effigies",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"companions",
"fellows",
"mates",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"parallels"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter egos",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"counterparts",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"fetches",
"images",
"likenesses",
"look-alikes",
"matches",
"mirror images",
"pictures",
"replicas",
"ringers",
"spits",
"spitting images",
"twins"
]
},
"to lay one part over or against another part of":{
"antonyms":[
"extends",
"opens",
"spreads",
"unfolds",
"unrolls"
],
"examples":[
"double the wet cloth and place it on the victim's forehead"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"overlaps",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"collapses",
"telescopes",
"closes",
"shuts",
"plaits",
"pleats"
],
"synonyms":[
"folds"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we doubled our investment in six months"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"compounds",
"multiplies",
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds (up)",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicates",
"redoubles"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doubted":{
"to have no trust or confidence in":{
"antonyms":[
"trusted"
],
"examples":[
"I doubt that you can do all that you say"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banked (on or upon)",
"counted (on or upon)",
"depended (on or upon)",
"relied (on or upon)"
],
"related":[
"disbelieved",
"discounted",
"discredited",
"negated"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrusted",
"misdoubted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubtful":{
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
],
"examples":[
"the election results were highly doubtful , so an investigation was begun"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"related":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
]
},
"not feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"convinced",
"positive",
"sure"
],
"examples":[
"he was doubtful about the decision to complete the project despite its mounting problems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"confident",
"sanguine",
"self-assured",
"decisive",
"determined",
"resolute"
],
"related":[
"ambivalent",
"conflicted",
"equivocal",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"halting",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrustful",
"dubious",
"hinky",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"trustless",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure"
]
},
"not likely to be true or to occur":{
"antonyms":[
"likely",
"probable"
],
"examples":[
"our winning the championship increasingly looks like a doubtful outcome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"believable",
"conceivable",
"credible",
"earthly",
"imaginable",
"plausible",
"possible",
"potential",
"liable"
],
"related":[
"implausible",
"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"unreal",
"wild",
"outside",
"remote",
"slight"
],
"synonyms":[
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"questionable",
"unapt",
"unlikely"
]
},
"open to question or dispute":{
"antonyms":[
"accomplished",
"certain",
"hands-down",
"inarguable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefragable",
"positive",
"questionless",
"settled",
"sure",
"unanswerable",
"unarguable",
"unchallengeable",
"undebatable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable"
],
"examples":[
"a doubtful claim to the property"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irrefutable",
"definite",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"absolute",
"clear",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"uncontested",
"undisputed"
],
"related":[
"contradictable",
"refutable",
"controversial",
"debated",
"disputed",
"dubious",
"iffy",
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"academic",
"academical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguable",
"controvertible",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"issuable",
"moot",
"negotiable",
"questionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"douceurs":{
"as in bribes , sops":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doughy":{
"lacking a healthy skin color":{
"antonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
],
"examples":[
"she worried that her husband was very ill when she saw his doughy complexion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blushing",
"flushed",
"pink"
],
"related":[
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"sick",
"sickly",
"waxen",
"waxy",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"bloodless",
"untanned",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"blanched",
"cadaverous",
"livid",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"wan"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"douse":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"those soccer hooligans need a sound douse or two from a police officer's club"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"antonyms":[
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light"
],
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"blow out",
"rub out",
"snub (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"stub"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
],
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"related":[
"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"humidify",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"moisturize",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"deluge",
"flood",
"hose (down)",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"splash",
"impregnate",
"saturate",
"steep",
"flush",
"irrigate",
"lave",
"rinse",
"slosh",
"sluice",
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"rehydrate",
"rewash",
"rewet"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"water-soak",
"waterlog",
"wet",
"wet down"
]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"antonyms":[
"don",
"put on",
"slip (into)",
"throw (on)"
],
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wear",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit"
],
"related":[
"husk",
"shed",
"kick (off)",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"synonyms":[
"doff",
"peel (off)",
"put off",
"remove",
"shrug off",
"take off"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bathe",
"moisten",
"soak",
"steep",
"wet",
"drench",
"drown",
"flood",
"dive",
"plunge",
"thrust"
],
"synonyms":[
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"immerse",
"sop",
"souse",
"submerge",
"submerse"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dove":{
"a person who opposes war or warlike policies":{
"antonyms":[
"hawk",
"jingo",
"war hawk",
"warmonger"
],
"examples":[
"the doves were in favor of using the surplus to improve the nation's schools and not its weapons systems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"militarist",
"chauvinist",
"nationalist"
],
"related":[
"peacemaker"
],
"synonyms":[
"pacifist",
"peacenik"
]
},
"an innocent or gentle person":{
"antonyms":[
"wolf"
],
"examples":[
"he's a dove who wouldn't hurt a fly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bully",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"tough",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"slob",
"shark",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"devil",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain"
],
"related":[
"babe",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"greenhorn",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"na\u00eff",
"naif",
"newbie",
"tenderfoot",
"virgin",
"cherub",
"saint",
"softy",
"softie",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"dupe",
"pigeon",
"sap",
"sucker"
],
"synonyms":[
"angel",
"innocent",
"lamb",
"sheep"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dovecot":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down on one's luck":{
"lacking money or material possessions":{
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"examples":[
"He's been down on his luck since his business went under."
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
"related":[
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"dispossessed",
"unaffluent",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"bust",
"busted",
"insolvent",
"possessionless",
"ruined",
"depressed",
"distressed",
"hand-to-mouth",
"hardscrabble",
"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"down payments":{
"a first payment that you make when you buy something with an agreement to pay the rest later":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She made a 10 percent down payment on the car.",
"We put a down payment on the house."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down-and-out":{
"as in have-not , pauper":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"lacking bodily strength":{
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
],
"examples":[
"I'm over the flu, but I still feel down-and-out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"fit",
"husky",
"muscular",
"sinewy",
"strapping",
"virile",
"hard",
"hardy",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"fortified",
"hardened",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent",
"convalescing",
"recovering",
"recuperating"
],
"related":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"invalid",
"paralyzed",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"breakable",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"dizzy",
"groggy",
"rocky",
"unsteady",
"woozy",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"flagging",
"tired",
"weary",
"worn-out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"lame",
"unsound",
"resistless",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"slight",
"soft",
"softened",
"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weak",
"weakened",
"wimpish",
"wimpy"
]
},
"lacking money or material possessions":{
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"examples":[
"a soup kitchen where the down-and-out daily line up for a hot meal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
"related":[
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"dispossessed",
"unaffluent",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"bust",
"busted",
"insolvent",
"possessionless",
"ruined",
"depressed",
"distressed",
"hand-to-mouth",
"hardscrabble",
"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"down-at-heel":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the stately mansion where he lives now is a far cry from the down-at-the-heels triple-decker in which he grew up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"related":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"down-to-earthness":{
"the absence of any feelings of being better than others":{
"antonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"examples":[
"we were pleasantly surprised by the quiet down-to-earthness and self-deprecating humor of the billionaire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness"
],
"related":[
"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"ingenuousness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"directness",
"plainness",
"simpleness",
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"mousiness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"sheepishness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"synonyms":[
"demureness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"modesty"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downbeat":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"emphasizing or expecting the worst":{
"antonyms":[
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"Panglossian",
"Pollyanna",
"Pollyannaish",
"Pollyannish",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"examples":[
"a downbeat prediction for the company's sales performance in the upcoming year"
],
"near antonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"likely",
"promising",
"propitious",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"favorable",
"good",
"positive",
"idealist",
"romantic",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"sunny"
],
"related":[
"cynical",
"fatalistic",
"nihilist",
"nihilistic",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"inauspicious",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"grim",
"contrary",
"hostile",
"negative"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearish",
"defeatist",
"despairing",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"downcast":{
"directed down":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her downcast gaze made us realize that she was shy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upward"
],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"down",
"downward",
"lowered"
]
},
"feeling unhappiness":{
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
],
"examples":[
"I'm always a little downcast on rainy days"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"lightsome",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"excited",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"content",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"boon",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned"
],
"related":[
"aggrieved",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"worried",
"despairing",
"hopeless",
"sunk",
"disappointed",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"suicidal",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"plaintive",
"tearful",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"grieving",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"funereal",
"gray",
"grey",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down",
"down in the mouth",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"hangdog",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"joyless",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"miserable",
"mournful",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"wretched"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"downdraft":{
"as in slowdown , downturn":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downfalls":{
"a change to a lower state or level":{
"antonyms":[
"ascents",
"rises",
"upswings"
],
"examples":[
"the gradual downfall of the Roman Empire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancements",
"developments",
"evolutions",
"growths",
"flowerings",
"renewals",
"restorations",
"revitalizations",
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"enhancements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"supplements"
],
"related":[
"dark ages",
"nadirs",
"sunsets",
"decays",
"breakups",
"decompositions",
"disintegrations",
"dissolutions",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"depreciations",
"decimations",
"demolishments",
"demolitions",
"desolations",
"destructions",
"havoc",
"ruinations",
"ruins",
"abatements",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"de-escalations",
"deflations",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"dips",
"downslides",
"downtrends",
"downturns",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"losses",
"reductions",
"sags",
"shrinkages",
"slips",
"slumps"
],
"synonyms":[
"decadences",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devolutions",
"downgrades",
"ebbs",
"eclipses",
"falls"
]
},
"a loss of status":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizements",
"ascents",
"exaltations",
"rises",
"ups"
],
"examples":[
"an ill-advised speech that proved to be the cause of the candidate's downfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advances",
"headways",
"progresses",
"flowers",
"heydays",
"primes"
],
"related":[
"breakdowns",
"burnouts",
"collapses",
"crashes",
"meltdowns",
"ruins",
"undoings",
"defeats",
"disappointments",
"reversals",
"setbacks",
"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"abasements",
"disgraces",
"humiliations"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedowns",
"declines",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"demises",
"descents",
"downs",
"falls",
"flameouts"
]
},
"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we ducked under an overhang to shelter ourselves from the sudden downfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"related":[
"precipitations",
"showers",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downpours",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"storms",
"wets"
]
},
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an insatiable love of money would be their downfall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"banes",
"curses",
"torments",
"Achilles' heels",
"tragic flaws"
],
"synonyms":[
"deaths",
"destructions",
"ruinations",
"ruins",
"undoings"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downheartedly":{
"as in dejectedly , abjectly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"downheartedness":{
"a state or spell of low spirits":{
"antonyms":[
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"happiness",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
],
"examples":[
"his downheartedness lasted until another girl came along and won his heart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"satisfaction",
"delight",
"gratification"
],
"related":[
"melancholia",
"self-pity",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"mourning",
"somberness",
"sorrow",
"woefulness",
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"moodiness",
"despair",
"desperation",
"hopelessness",
"self-despair",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"tedium",
"dismalness",
"drear",
"morbidness",
"moroseness",
"morosity",
"regret",
"rue"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolation",
"despond",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"dolefulness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"miserableness",
"mopes",
"mournfulness",
"oppression",
"sadness",
"sorrowfulness",
"unhappiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downpours":{
"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the downpour was so heavy that we were soaked by the time we got to the car"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"related":[
"precipitations",
"showers",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downfalls",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"storms",
"wets"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downs":{
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"hold a festival on the downs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"field",
"meadow",
"floodplain",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"flat",
"lowland",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"upland"
],
"synonyms":[
"campo",
"champaign",
"grassland",
"heath",
"lea",
"ley",
"llano",
"moor",
"pampa",
"plain",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"tundra",
"veld",
"veldt"
]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"ratifies"
],
"examples":[
"all attempts to ban indoor smoking had been downed by the town council"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admits",
"allows",
"approves",
"assents (to)",
"passes",
"sanctions",
"elects",
"supports"
],
"related":[
"declines",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"blacklists"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackballs",
"kills",
"negatives",
"nixes",
"shoots down",
"vetoes"
]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"downed his opponent with one stunning blow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"KOs",
"overthrows",
"throws down",
"topples",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"belts",
"bludgeons",
"clobbers",
"hammers",
"hits",
"jabs",
"pastes",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls (down or over)",
"drops",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"knocks over",
"levels",
"mows (down)",
"prostrates"
]
},
"to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"downing slices of pizza and guzzling bottles of soda"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"drinks",
"guzzles",
"imbibes",
"knocks back",
"sips",
"bolts",
"devours",
"gobbles (up or down)",
"gulps",
"ingurgitates",
"consumes",
"eats",
"mouths (down)",
"puts away",
"sups",
"gorges",
"scarfs",
"scoffs",
"wolfs",
"chews",
"gnaws (at or on)",
"laps",
"licks",
"munches",
"nibbles (on)",
"pecks (at)",
"ruminates",
"dispatches",
"finishes",
"polishes off"
],
"synonyms":[
"gets down",
"ingests",
"swallows"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"downsized":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"raised"
],
"examples":[
"the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"added (to)",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled"
],
"related":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"docked",
"nicked",
"pared",
"pruned",
"retrenched",
"shortened",
"slashed",
"trimmed",
"truncated",
"whittled",
"deflated",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"minimized",
"moderated",
"modified",
"modulated",
"qualified"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"dented",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"downscaled",
"dropped",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"knocked down",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"downtime":{
"a period of often involuntary inactivity or idleness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a knee operation that could result in months of downtime for the ski racer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"break",
"breath",
"breather",
"interruption",
"lull",
"pause",
"recess",
"abeyance",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
"latency",
"quiescence",
"suspense",
"suspension"
],
"synonyms":[
"layoff",
"time-out",
"winter"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downtrend":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downtrodden":{
"suffering grave abuse or injustice at the hands of one in authority":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a war that was supposed to liberate the downtrodden citizens of that nation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"browbeaten",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"abused",
"maltreated",
"mistreated",
"abject",
"despairing",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"hopeless"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushed",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tyrannized"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doxy":{
"a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an island infamous in the 17th century as a haven for pirates, drunks, doxies , thieves, and other unsavory types"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"grisette",
"prostitute",
"trull"
],
"synonyms":[
"chippie",
"chippy",
"fancy woman",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"hoochie",
"hussy",
"Jezebel",
"minx",
"quean",
"tramp",
"trollop",
"wench"
]
},
"a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"had the cheating two-timer served with divorce papers after spotting him with his doxy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"lover",
"paramour",
"courtesan",
"demimondaine",
"demirep",
"odalisque",
"prostitute",
"whore",
"girlfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"concubine",
"mistress",
"other woman"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domesticate":{
"to change (a wild animal or plant) over time to make it more suited to life with or use by humans":{
"examples":[
"Humans domesticated wolves to produce man's best friend."
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"downer":{
"something (as a situation or event) that is depressing":{
"examples":[
"that story of drug addiction was a real downer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummer",
"down"
],
"related":[
"bore",
"drag",
"accident",
"fatality",
"mishap",
"woe",
"calamity",
"catastrophe",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"misfortune",
"tragedy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pick-me-up",
"trip"
],
"antonyms":[
"upper"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double":{
"consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined":{
"examples":[
"an egg with a double yolk"
],
"synonyms":[
"binary",
"bipartite",
"double-barreled",
"double-edged",
"dual",
"duplex",
"twin",
"twofold"
],
"related":[
"mated",
"paired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unpaired"
],
"antonyms":[
"single"
]
},
"being twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"after it was ranked the best in the country, the college had double the usual number of applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"twofold"
],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"examples":[
"she's known for speaking with a double tongue, so I doubt that her concern is very heartfelt"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"fake",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"related":[
"affected",
"assumed",
"claptrap",
"contrived",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"put-on",
"simulated",
"strained",
"unnatural",
"empty",
"hollow",
"meaningless",
"deceitful",
"devious",
"dishonest",
"false",
"untruthful",
"facile",
"glib",
"superficial",
"bogus",
"sham",
"campy",
"facetious",
"jocular",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"canting",
"pharisaical",
"pious",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous",
"simon-pure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"we doubled our investment in six months"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicate",
"redouble"
],
"related":[
"compound",
"multiply",
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build (up)",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay one part over or against another part of":{
"examples":[
"double the wet cloth and place it on the victim's forehead"
],
"synonyms":[
"fold"
],
"related":[
"overlap",
"overlay",
"overlie",
"collapse",
"telescope",
"close",
"shut",
"plait",
"pleat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"extend",
"open",
"spread",
"unfold",
"unroll"
]
},
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"he looks so much like you that he could be your double"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"fetch",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin"
],
"related":[
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogue",
"analog",
"parallel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to two times the amount or degree":{
"examples":[
"raced to his side double quick"
],
"synonyms":[
"doubly",
"twice",
"twofold"
],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doc":{
"a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders":{
"examples":[
"currently completing a residency as an emergency room doc"
],
"synonyms":[
"croaker",
"doctor",
"medic",
"medico",
"physician",
"sawbones"
],
"near synonyms":[
"family doctor",
"family physician",
"family practitioner",
"general practitioner",
"anesthesiologist",
"dermatologist",
"gynecologist",
"internist",
"neurologist",
"ob-gyn",
"obstetrician",
"ophthalmologist",
"orthopedist",
"pathologist",
"pediatrician",
"pediatrist",
"physiatrist",
"podiatrist",
"radiologist",
"urologist",
"attending",
"clinician",
"hospitalist",
"specialist",
"plastic surgeon",
"surgeon",
"intern",
"interne",
"resident",
"aidman",
"nurse",
"nurse-practitioner",
"EMT",
"paramedic",
"paramedical",
"physical therapist",
"physiotherapist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nondoctor",
"nonphysician"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doffs one's hat to":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
"examples":[
"I doff my hat to you and your band for a great performance tonight."
],
"synonyms":[
"acclaims",
"accredits",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"cracks up",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bravoes",
"claps",
"rises (to)",
"ballyhoos",
"approves",
"commends",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"favors",
"recommends",
"roots (for)",
"supports",
"celebrates",
"emblazons",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"sings",
"adulates",
"belauds",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"deifies",
"idolizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittles",
"discommends",
"disparages",
"puts down",
"blames",
"censures",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"admonishes",
"chides",
"criticizes",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"reproves",
"castigates",
"excoriates",
"keelhauls",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"skewers",
"slags",
"vilifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"knocks",
"pans",
"slams"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"doughty":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"the doughty heroes of old"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"downy":{
"smooth or delicate in appearance or feel":{
"examples":[
"the downy surface of a ripe peach"
],
"synonyms":[
"cottony",
"satin",
"satiny",
"silken",
"silklike",
"silky",
"soft",
"velvetlike",
"velvety"
],
"near synonyms":[
"creamy",
"chiffon",
"delicate",
"fine",
"slick",
"ultrasoft"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bumpy",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"broken",
"jagged",
"ragged",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"grainy",
"granular",
"gritty"
],
"antonyms":[
"coarse",
"harsh",
"rough",
"scratchy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dogged":{
"continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement":{
"examples":[
"a madman who spent his life in dogged pursuit of power"
],
"synonyms":[
"insistent",
"patient",
"persevering",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"tenacious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assured",
"certain",
"dedicated",
"determined",
"firm",
"hell-bent",
"intent",
"positive",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"sure",
"adamant",
"bullheaded",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"indurate",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unregenerate",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"resistant",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"good",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"indomitable",
"unconquerable",
"hard",
"inflexible",
"relentless",
"stern",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"quitting",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"traitorous",
"treacherous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"your dogged adherence to a really lame argument is embarrassing"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"bullheaded",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose":{
"examples":[
"a dogged search for the missing piece of the puzzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"determined",
"grim",
"implacable",
"relentless",
"unappeasable",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"persevering",
"persistent",
"tenacious",
"hard",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"opinionated",
"peevish",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"uncooperative",
"willful",
"wilful",
"merciless",
"ruthless",
"unforgiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slackening",
"softening",
"yielding",
"impotent",
"invertebrate",
"slack",
"spineless",
"weak",
"complaisant",
"obliging",
"pliable",
"pliant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogged",
"chased",
"coursed",
"followed",
"hounded",
"pursued",
"ran",
"run",
"shadowed",
"tagged",
"tailed",
"traced",
"tracked",
"trailed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanied",
"chaperoned",
"escorted",
"hunted",
"searched (for)",
"sought",
"eyed",
"observed",
"watched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"headed"
],
"antonyms":[
"guided",
"led",
"piloted"
]
},
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"tired of constantly having to dog their son about cleaning his room"
],
"synonyms":[
"henpecked",
"hounded",
"nagged",
"needled",
"pecked (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carped (at)",
"fussed (about or over)",
"nitpicked",
"annoyed",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chivied",
"chivvied",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"irked",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"rode",
"rid",
"vexed",
"vext",
"yapped (at)",
"egged",
"goaded",
"incited",
"prodded",
"prompted",
"spurred",
"urged",
"exhorted",
"insisted",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"wheedled",
"begged",
"importuned",
"pleaded",
"pled",
"plead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complimented",
"commended",
"lauded",
"praised",
"recommended",
"touted",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"built up",
"eulogized",
"extolled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"doggy":{
"a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes":{
"examples":[
"what a good little doggy !"
],
"synonyms":[
"canine",
"dog",
"hound",
"pooch",
"tyke",
"tike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cur",
"mongrel",
"mutt",
"bitch",
"lapdog",
"pup",
"puppy",
"puppy dog",
"whelp",
"bandog",
"bird dog",
"coonhound",
"courser",
"gundog",
"hunter",
"sheepdog",
"sled dog",
"watchdog",
"wolf dog",
"wolfhound",
"guide dog",
"police dog",
"working dog"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in flashy , doggish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doggish",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish",
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"doctrinal":{
"as in philosophical":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"philosophical",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"opinioned",
"pontifical",
"self-opinionated",
"abstract",
"conceptual",
"ideal",
"ideational",
"metaphysical",
"notional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"doctrinaire",
"ideological",
"ideologic",
"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotic",
"quixotical",
"romantic",
"starry",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"impractical",
"nonrealistic",
"unrealistic",
"crusading",
"messianic",
"zealous",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"unyielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"latitudinarian",
"undoctrinaire",
"undogmatic",
"concrete",
"nonabstract",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical",
"realistic",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"hard-nosed",
"tough-minded",
"unsentimental",
"broadminded",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doses":{
"as in dosages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dosages",
"caps",
"capsules",
"lozenges",
"pills",
"tablets",
"cures",
"drugs",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"potions",
"preparations",
"drops",
"gelcaps",
"boluses",
"pilules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in drugs , cares (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"drugs",
"hospitalizes",
"ministers (to)",
"nurses",
"doctors",
"treats",
"cures",
"heals",
"mends",
"rehabilitates",
"remedies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dolefulness":{
"a state or spell of low spirits":{
"examples":[
"with the resigned dolefulness of an athlete who knows his playing days are over, he cleared out his locker for the last time"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolation",
"despond",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"miserableness",
"mopes",
"mournfulness",
"oppression",
"sadness",
"sorrowfulness",
"unhappiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"melancholia",
"self-pity",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"mourning",
"somberness",
"sorrow",
"woefulness",
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"moodiness",
"despair",
"desperation",
"hopelessness",
"self-despair",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"tedium",
"dismalness",
"drear",
"morbidness",
"moroseness",
"morosity",
"regret",
"rue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"satisfaction",
"delight",
"gratification"
],
"antonyms":[
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"happiness",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
]
},
"deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved":{
"examples":[
"a period of dolefulness that seemed to last forever for the widower"
],
"synonyms":[
"affliction",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"sorriness",
"sorrow",
"woe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"suffering",
"torment",
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"despair",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"distress",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mopes",
"oppression",
"sorrowfulness",
"unhappiness",
"woefulness",
"wretchedness",
"contrition",
"guilt",
"regret",
"remorse",
"rue",
"self-reproach",
"shame",
"melancholia",
"self-pity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"enjoyment",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment"
],
"antonyms":[
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"delight",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"pleasure",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominations":{
"controlling power or influence over others":{
"examples":[
"auction houses battling for domination in the high-end art market"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascendances",
"ascendences",
"ascendancies",
"ascendencies",
"dominances",
"dominions",
"hegemonies",
"imperiums",
"predominances",
"predominancies",
"preeminences",
"reigns",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"primacies",
"superiorities",
"lordships",
"scepters",
"arms",
"authorities",
"choke holds",
"clutches",
"commands",
"controls",
"grips",
"holds",
"masteries",
"sways",
"takeovers",
"directions",
"jurisdictions",
"managements",
"clouts",
"mights",
"pulls",
"weights",
"eminences",
"importances",
"moments",
"prerogatives",
"privileges",
"rights"
],
"near antonyms":[
"weaknesses",
"impotences",
"impotencies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dollops":{
"a small uneven mass":{
"examples":[
"served crackers topped with dollops of caviar as an appetizer"
],
"synonyms":[
"blobs",
"chunks",
"clods",
"clots",
"clumps",
"globs",
"gobbets",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"knobs",
"lumps",
"nubbles",
"nubs",
"nuggets",
"wads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beads",
"drops",
"globules",
"blocks",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"particles",
"pieces",
"portions",
"bits",
"chips",
"crumbs",
"granules",
"morsels",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"docs":{
"a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders":{
"examples":[
"currently completing a residency as an emergency room doc"
],
"synonyms":[
"croakers",
"doctors",
"medicos",
"medics",
"physicians",
"sawbones",
"sawboneses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"family doctors",
"family physicians",
"family practitioners",
"general practitioners",
"anesthesiologists",
"dermatologists",
"gynecologists",
"internists",
"neurologists",
"ob-gyns",
"obstetricians",
"ophthalmologists",
"orthopedists",
"pathologists",
"pediatricians",
"pediatrists",
"physiatrists",
"podiatrists",
"radiologists",
"urologists",
"attendings",
"clinicians",
"hospitalists",
"specialists",
"plastic surgeons",
"surgeons",
"interns",
"internes",
"residents",
"aidmen",
"nurse-practitioners",
"nurses",
"EMTs",
"paramedics",
"paramedicals",
"physical therapists",
"physiotherapists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nondoctors",
"nonphysicians"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}