dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/do_mwt.json
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{
"do":{
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"that outfit just won't do for the opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"befit",
"beseem",
"fit",
"go",
"serve",
"suit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfy",
"suffice",
"function",
"work"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be enough":{
"examples":[
"even half of that amount of sugar will do"
],
"synonyms":[
"serve",
"suffice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"answer",
"suit",
"assuage",
"content",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"do as much as you can and leave the rest"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"did the living room in French provincial style"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline",
"bare",
"denude",
"dismantle",
"display",
"divest",
"expose",
"reveal",
"strip",
"uncover",
"uglify"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemish",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"mar",
"scar",
"spoil"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"I'm doing just fine"
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage",
"shift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"mock",
"parody",
"send up",
"spoof",
"travesty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"how are you doing with the house restoration?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"remain",
"stand",
"stay",
"stop"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"interpret",
"perform",
"play",
"portray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"did them out of their savings with surprising ease"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"no one is sure who did them in that alley"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"nothing's ever doing in this boring little town"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"befall",
"betide",
"chance",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cook",
"go down",
"go on",
"hap",
"happen",
"occur",
"pass",
"transpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"develop",
"rise",
"shape (up)",
"arise",
"come up",
"crop (up)",
"materialize",
"spring (up)",
"intervene",
"fall out",
"follow",
"result",
"turn out",
"go off",
"proceed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"it's supposed to be some sort of fancy do"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception",
"shindig"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned":{
"examples":[
"issued a long list of dos and don'ts before we even started the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"behest",
"charge",
"command",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"direction",
"directive",
"edict",
"imperative",
"injunction",
"instruction",
"order",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demand",
"requirement",
"mandate",
"countermand",
"counterorder",
"law",
"precept",
"prescript",
"prescription",
"rule",
"ordinance",
"regulation",
"statute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeal",
"entreaty",
"petition",
"plea",
"urging",
"proposal",
"recommendation",
"suggestion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a style or arrangement of hair":{
"examples":[
"you can tell that the picture was taken in the 1980s from my permed do"
],
"synonyms":[
"coiffure",
"cut",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something one must do because of prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"in this hour of national crisis everyone must do their do"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"charge",
"commitment",
"devoir",
"duty",
"imperative",
"incumbency",
"need",
"obligation",
"office",
"responsibility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grace",
"postponement",
"stay",
"discharge",
"ease",
"exemption",
"release",
"relief",
"waiver",
"loophole",
"alternative",
"choice",
"option",
"pick",
"preference",
"selection"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"in that small town a great deal of do could come from very little indeed"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"do away with":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"They decided to do away with the old dress code."
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"avoid",
"cancel",
"disannul",
"dissolve",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"null",
"nullify",
"quash",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"roll back",
"strike down",
"vacate",
"void"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermand",
"override",
"overrule",
"overturn",
"veto",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"drop",
"recall",
"retract",
"reverse",
"revoke",
"suspend",
"withdraw",
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"outlaw",
"prohibit",
"disallow",
"dismiss",
"reject",
"annihilate",
"break down",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"liquidate",
"remove",
"throw out",
"write off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enact",
"lay down",
"legislate",
"establish",
"found",
"institute",
"formalize",
"legalize",
"legitimate",
"legitimize",
"validate",
"pass",
"ratify",
"allow",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"permit",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"command",
"decree",
"mandate",
"order",
"prescribe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"He resolved to do away with the man who killed his parents."
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"do down":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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",
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"give up",
"go down",
"go under",
"collapse",
"fail",
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"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out"
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"firm",
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"out",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"set",
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"vehement",
"certain",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"earnest",
"serious",
"steady",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unswerving",
"unwavering",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
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"immovable",
"implacable",
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"mulish",
"obdurate",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
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"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
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"doubtful",
"dubious",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"disinclined",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
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],
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"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"weak-kneed"
]
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"adjective"
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"compliant",
"conformable",
"law-abiding",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable"
],
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"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"duteous",
"dutiful",
"obliging",
"placable",
"soft",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"fawning",
"kowtowing",
"obeisant",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subordinate",
"subservient",
"decorous",
"disciplined",
"mannerly",
"orderly",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"controllable",
"disciplinable",
"governable",
"handleable",
"manageable",
"tame",
"teachable",
"trainable",
"gentle",
"meek",
"mild"
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"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"dogged",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"peevish",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"uncontrollable",
"unmanageable",
"wild",
"balky",
"defiant",
"perverse",
"resistant",
"bad",
"disorderly",
"errant",
"misbehaving",
"mischievous",
"naughty",
"ill-bred",
"undisciplined",
"dissident",
"nonconformist",
"disrespectful",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude"
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"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"noncompliant",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"unamenable",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"to make less in extent or duration":{
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"the editorial was docked by about a hundred words to make it fit on the page"
],
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"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut back",
"elided",
"shortened",
"syncopated",
"truncated"
],
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"abstracted",
"digested",
"encapsulated",
"epitomized",
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"summarized",
"summed up",
"abated",
"compressed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut",
"cut down",
"pared",
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"trimmed",
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"de-escalated",
"deflated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"modified",
"reduced",
"retrenched",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"slashed",
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"expanded",
"supplemented",
"added",
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"augmented",
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"extended",
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"prolonged",
"protracted"
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"the boxer's tail was docked soon after birth"
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"clipped",
"cropped",
"cut",
"cut back",
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"pared",
"polled",
"pruned",
"shaved",
"sheared",
"snipped",
"trimmed"
],
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"whittled",
"manicured",
"mowed",
"pinched",
"stumped",
"curtailed",
"shortened"
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"elongated",
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],
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"the cruise ship docked at the first port of call early the next morning"
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"anchored",
"landed"
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"moored",
"tied up",
"beached",
"grounded",
"harbored",
"arrived",
"reached",
"showed up",
"turned up",
"debarked",
"disembarked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarked",
"launched",
"sailed"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"docket":{
"a listing of things to be presented or considered (as at a concert or play)":{
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"examples":[
"on the Broadway docket for the early part of this season"
],
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"dance card",
"exercises",
"plate",
"arrangement",
"order",
"ordering",
"organization",
"sequence",
"setup"
],
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"calendar",
"program",
"schedule",
"timetable"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers":{
"examples":[
"the boat remained tied up at the dock for a week, waiting for the weather to clear"
],
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"floats",
"jetties",
"landings",
"levees",
"piers",
"quais",
"quays",
"wharves",
"wharfs"
],
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"berths",
"moorings",
"slips",
"embarcaderos",
"dockyards",
"marinas",
"quayages",
"shipyards",
"wharfages"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"to make less in extent or duration":{
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"the editorial was docked by about a hundred words to make it fit on the page"
],
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"abridges",
"curtails",
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"elides",
"shortens",
"syncopates",
"truncates"
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"digests",
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"epitomizes",
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"cuts",
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"trims",
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"lessens",
"lowers",
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"modifies",
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"retrenches",
"shrinks",
"slashes",
"subtracts (from)",
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"expands",
"supplements",
"adds",
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"augments",
"balloons",
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"heightens",
"increases",
"maximizes",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"blows up",
"distends",
"inflates",
"swells"
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"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
]
},
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"the boxer's tail was docked soon after birth"
],
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"bobs",
"clips",
"crops",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"lops (off)",
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"pares",
"polls",
"prunes",
"shaves",
"shears",
"snips",
"trims"
],
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"skives",
"whittles",
"manicures",
"mows",
"pinches",
"stumps",
"curtails",
"shortens"
],
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"elongates",
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"lengthens"
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"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
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"the cruise ship docked at the first port of call early the next morning"
],
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"lands"
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"moors",
"ties up",
"beaches",
"grounds",
"harbors",
"arrives",
"reaches",
"shows up",
"turns up",
"debarks",
"disembarks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarks",
"launches",
"sails"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dockyards":{
"as in shipyards , marinas":{
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"marinas",
"quayages",
"shipyards",
"wharfages",
"embarcaderos",
"berths",
"moorings",
"slips",
"docks",
"floats",
"jetties",
"landings",
"levees",
"piers",
"quais",
"quays",
"wharves",
"wharfs"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"doctoring":{
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
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"examples":[
"slightly doctored his standard campaign speech for a collegiate audience"
],
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"misadjusting"
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"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring"
]
},
"to give medical treatment to":{
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"examples":[
"a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again"
],
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"curing",
"healing",
"mending",
"rehabilitating",
"remedying",
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"dosing",
"drugging",
"hospitalizing",
"ministering (to)",
"nursing"
],
"synonyms":[
"treating"
]
},
"to put into good shape or working order again":{
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"examples":[
"spends his spare time doctoring old clocks"
],
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"blemishing",
"breaking",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vandalizing",
"wrecking",
"crippling",
"disabling",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"related":[
"fixing up",
"furbishing",
"overhauling",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"refurbishing",
"aiding",
"curing",
"healing",
"helping",
"conditioning",
"preparing",
"readying",
"caring (for)",
"maintaining",
"servicing",
"freshening",
"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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"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doctors":{
"a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders":{
"examples":[
"we called a doctor as soon as we realized the baby was sick"
],
"synonyms":[
"croakers",
"docs",
"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"
]
},
"to give medical treatment to":{
"examples":[
"a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again"
],
"synonyms":[
"treats"
],
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"cures",
"heals",
"mends",
"rehabilitates",
"remedies",
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"doses",
"drugs",
"hospitalizes",
"ministers (to)",
"nurses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"to put into good shape or working order again":{
"examples":[
"spends his spare time doctoring old clocks"
],
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"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
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"fixes up",
"furbishes",
"overhauls",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"refurbishes",
"aids",
"cures",
"heals",
"helps",
"conditions",
"prepares",
"readies",
"cares (for)",
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"services",
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"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"rejuvenates",
"renews",
"restores",
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"revives",
"adjusts",
"corrects",
"modifies",
"rectifies",
"redresses",
"reforms",
"rights",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates"
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"blemishes",
"breaks",
"damages",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vandalizes",
"wrecks",
"cripples",
"disables",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"slightly doctored his standard campaign speech for a collegiate audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doctrine":{
"a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church":{
"examples":[
"the Catholic Church's doctrine on the Eucharist"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"dogma"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canon law",
"belief",
"conviction",
"tenet",
"credo",
"creed",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"theology",
"axiom",
"precept",
"principle",
"symbol"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"the doctrine of quantum physicists"
],
"synonyms":[
"credo",
"creed",
"dogma",
"gospel",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"testament"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifesto",
"metaphysic",
"theory",
"axiom",
"tenet",
"watchword"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doctrines":{
"a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church":{
"examples":[
"the Catholic Church's doctrine on the Eucharist"
],
"synonyms":[
"canons",
"dogmas",
"dogmata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canon laws",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"tenets",
"credos",
"creeds",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"theologies",
"axioms",
"precepts",
"principles",
"symbols"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"the doctrine of quantum physicists"
],
"synonyms":[
"credos",
"creeds",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"gospels",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"testaments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"metaphysics",
"theories",
"axioms",
"tenets",
"watchwords"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"documents":{
"a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it":{
"examples":[
"filled out the documents for a bank loan"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanks",
"forms",
"papers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"instruments",
"writs",
"filings",
"sheets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a written or printed paper giving information about or proof of something":{
"examples":[
"have your documents ready as you approach the border"
],
"synonyms":[
"certificates",
"certifications",
"instruments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"credentials",
"diplomas",
"parchments",
"records",
"warrants",
"writs",
"warranties",
"coupons",
"vouchers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"examples":[
"he tried in vain to document a link between ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrates",
"establishes",
"proves",
"substantiates",
"validates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenges",
"disputes",
"objects",
"alleges",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"surmises",
"suspects"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dodder":{
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
"antonyms":[],
"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":{
"examples":[
"just another dodge to get out of working in the yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"device",
"fetch",
"flimflam",
"gambit",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"juggle",
"knack",
"play",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"scheme",
"shenanigan",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"examples":[
"dodging through the crowd on his way to the exit"
],
"synonyms":[
"duck",
"jink",
"sidestep",
"slalom",
"weave",
"zigzag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"parry",
"shirk",
"skirt",
"deflect",
"turn",
"slide",
"slip"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"examples":[
"always trying to dodge the landlord's rule prohibiting pets"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"get around",
"shortcut",
"sidestep",
"skirt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"duck",
"elude",
"end-run",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"outflank",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"disobey",
"disregard",
"flout",
"ignore",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accede (to)",
"acquiesce (to)",
"assent (to)",
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[
"comply (with)",
"follow",
"keep",
"obey",
"observe"
]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"dodged the horde of paparazzi by leaving through the service entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"does":{
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"that outfit just won't do for the opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"befits",
"beseems",
"fits",
"goes",
"serves",
"suits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfies",
"suffices",
"functions",
"works"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be enough":{
"examples":[
"even half of that amount of sugar will do"
],
"synonyms":[
"serves",
"suffices"
],
"near synonyms":[
"answers",
"suits",
"assuages",
"contents",
"quenches",
"sates",
"satiates",
"satisfies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"do as much as you can and leave the rest"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brings about",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"implements",
"aces",
"nails",
"engages (in)",
"practices",
"practises",
"works (at)",
"reduplicates",
"reenacts",
"repeats",
"actualizes",
"attains",
"realizes",
"completes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"winds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fails",
"skimps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"did the living room in French provincial style"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"I'm doing just fine"
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"imitates",
"mimics",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"sends up",
"spoofs",
"travesties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"how are you doing with the house restoration?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"goes off",
"marches",
"paces",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"fast-forwards",
"speeds",
"approaches",
"nears",
"journeys",
"passes",
"repairs",
"runs",
"travels",
"wends",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"takes out"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"remains",
"stands",
"stays",
"stops"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"did them out of their savings with surprising ease"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"no one is sure who did them in that alley"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"nothing's ever doing in this boring little town"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalls",
"betides",
"chances",
"comes",
"comes about",
"comes down",
"comes off",
"cooks",
"goes down",
"goes on",
"happens",
"haps",
"is",
"occurs",
"passes",
"transpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks",
"develops",
"rises",
"shapes (up)",
"arises",
"comes up",
"crops (up)",
"materializes",
"springs (up)",
"intervenes",
"falls out",
"follows",
"results",
"turns out",
"goes off",
"proceeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns"
],
"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",
"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":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the long day of hard work really did me in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"related":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"synonyms":[
"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":{
"examples":[
"I doff my hat to you and your band for a great performance tonight."
],
"synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accredit",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"crack up",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"knock",
"pan",
"slam"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"doffed one's cap to":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
"antonyms":[
"knocked",
"panned",
"slammed"
],
"examples":[
"I doff my hat to you and your band for a great performance tonight."
],
"near antonyms":[
"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":{
"examples":[
"a gala at which one can expect to see a number of trophy wives wearing diamond-encrusted dog collars"
],
"synonyms":[
"choker",
"collar",
"lei",
"necklace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"torque",
"torc",
"beads",
"carcanet",
"rivi\u00e8re",
"rope",
"strand",
"bangle",
"lavaliere",
"lavalliere",
"locket",
"pendant",
"pendent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dog days":{
"as in heat , heat wave":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"heat",
"heat wave",
"torridity",
"torridness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold",
"cold wave",
"deep freeze",
"freeze",
"snap",
"cold front",
"frost"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"dog's breakfast":{
"as in mess , chaos":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bollix",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"mess",
"morass",
"shambles",
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"blend",
"combination",
"commixture",
"composite",
"compound",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"mix-up",
"imbroglio",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"catchall",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"litter",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doggedly":{
"with great effort or determination":{
"examples":[
"the detective doggedly pursued the suspect through the city's teeming streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"doggedness":{
"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"antonyms":[],
"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":{
"examples":[
"a critic's dogmatic insistence that abstract expressionism is the only school of 20th century art worthy of serious study"
],
"synonyms":[
"doctrinaire",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"opinioned",
"pontifical",
"self-opinionated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"unyielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadminded",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive"
],
"antonyms":[
"latitudinarian",
"undoctrinaire",
"undogmatic"
]
},
"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 small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"examples":[
"there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figure",
"dolly",
"poppet",
"puppet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rag doll",
"figure",
"figurine",
"handpuppet",
"marionette"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a physically attractive person":{
"examples":[
"her new boyfriend is a real doll"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dish",
"dreamboat",
"fox",
"glamour-puss",
"hottie",
"knockout",
"looker",
"showstopper",
"ten"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beauty",
"eyeful",
"goddess",
"lovely",
"stunner",
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"stud",
"superstud"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dog"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dollop (out)":{
"as in share (out) , measure (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasure",
"allot",
"allow",
"appropriate",
"assign",
"dish out",
"divide",
"divvy (up)",
"lot",
"measure (out)",
"part",
"proportion",
"ration",
"redistribute",
"set",
"share (out)",
"split",
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate",
"bestow",
"disburse",
"furnish",
"issue",
"provide",
"share",
"supply",
"circulate",
"disperse",
"disseminate",
"scatter",
"spread",
"chip in",
"contribute",
"donate",
"pledge",
"reallocate",
"reapportion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misallocate",
"begrudge",
"decline",
"deny",
"deprive (of)",
"disallow",
"refuse",
"reject",
"withhold",
"niggle (out)",
"pinch",
"skimp",
"stint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dolorousness":{
"as in woe , woefulness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolt":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"he's always jokingly calling his best friend a dolt"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doltish":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"foolish and doltish behavior that was really beneath you"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
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"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
"domed":{
"as in spherical , rounded":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"global",
"globular",
"round",
"rounded",
"spherical",
"ballooning",
"bloated",
"blown up",
"bulbous",
"distended",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"inflated",
"jutting",
"projecting",
"puffed",
"puffy",
"risen",
"swollen",
"bulging",
"cambered",
"convex",
"protruding",
"protrusive",
"protuberant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concave",
"dented",
"depressed",
"dished",
"hollow",
"indented",
"recessed",
"sunken",
"alveolar",
"cavernous",
"crescentic",
"cuplike",
"cupped",
"cuppy",
"recurved",
"dimpled",
"pockmarked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ballooned , bulged":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"blew up",
"inflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"domes":{
"the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the fitted cap is too small for my large dome"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"blocks",
"heads",
"mazards",
"mazzards",
"nobs",
"noddles",
"noggins",
"noodles",
"nuts",
"pates",
"polls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craniums",
"crania",
"crowns",
"scalps",
"skulls",
"occiputs",
"occipita"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in balloons , bulges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"projects",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"blows up",
"inflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"domestic partner":{
"as in partner , significant other":{
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"better half",
"consort",
"mate",
"partner",
"significant other",
"spouse",
"soul mate",
"bride",
"helpmate",
"helpmeet",
"lady",
"wife",
"bridegroom",
"groom",
"hubby",
"husband",
"man",
"mister",
"old man"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ex",
"single",
"bachelor",
"bachelorette",
"maid",
"maiden",
"spinster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"domicile":{
"the place where one lives":{
"examples":[
"welcome to my domicile , humble though it may be"
],
"synonyms":[
"abode",
"diggings",
"dwelling",
"fireside",
"habitation",
"hearth",
"hearthstone",
"home",
"house",
"lodging",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"roof"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"bungalow",
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"double-wide",
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"roof",
"room",
"shelter",
"take in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"evict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"domiciled":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"related":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"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":{
"examples":[
"although Napol\u00e9on had achieved dominance over the European continent, Great Britain still ruled the waves"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"domination",
"dominion",
"hegemony",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"predominancy",
"preeminence",
"reign",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance":{
"examples":[
"the university was recognized for its dominance in the field of ancient Greek history"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinction",
"eminence",
"noteworthiness",
"paramountcy",
"preeminence",
"preponderance",
"preponderancy",
"prepotency",
"prestigiousness",
"primacy",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificance",
"inferiority",
"mediocrity",
"obscureness",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominates":{
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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":{
"to place on one's person":{
"examples":[
"she donned her best gown for the ball"
],
"synonyms":[
"put on",
"slip (on or into)",
"throw (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"bundle up",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"doll up",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit",
"trick",
"uniform",
"overdress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"antonyms":[
"doff",
"remove",
"take off"
]
},
"as in doctor , professor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dean",
"docent",
"doctor",
"prof",
"professor",
"regius professor",
"educationist",
"educator",
"instructor",
"pedagogue",
"pedagog",
"preceptor",
"schoolteacher",
"headmaster",
"master",
"rector",
"schoolmaster",
"headmistress",
"instructress",
"mistress",
"schoolmarm",
"schoolma'am",
"schoolmistress",
"coach",
"guide",
"guru",
"preparer",
"trainer",
"mentor",
"tutor",
"tutoress",
"drillmaster",
"inculcator",
"academe",
"academic",
"academician",
"didact",
"pedant",
"governess",
"homeschooler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"donate":{
"to make a present of":{
"examples":[
"we plan to donate all the profits from the rummage sale to charity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestow",
"contribute",
"give",
"give away",
"present",
"volunteer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hold",
"keep",
"pocket",
"retain",
"withhold",
"preserve",
"save",
"advance",
"lend",
"loan",
"sell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"examples":[
"a dozen people were arrested after the donnybrook at the stadium"
],
"synonyms":[
"affray",
"brawl",
"broil",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"rough-and-tumble",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions":{
"examples":[
"the kind of hot-button issue that inevitably creates a donnybrook in the halls of the statehouse"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clash",
"run-in",
"skirmish",
"tangle",
"tussle",
"logomachy",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"attack",
"contention",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"debate",
"difference",
"disputation",
"fuss",
"objection",
"protest",
"protestation",
"affray",
"fisticuffs",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"catfight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"examples":[
"the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"destining",
"fating",
"foredooming",
"foreordaining",
"ordaining",
"predestining",
"predetermining",
"preordaining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinating",
"auguring",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"preconceiving",
"prejudging",
"condemning",
"sentencing",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"portending",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to impose a judicial punishment on":{
"examples":[
"doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
"synonyms":[
"condemning",
"damning",
"sentencing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjudging",
"judging",
"castigating",
"censuring",
"chastening",
"chastising",
"correcting",
"disciplining",
"penalizing",
"punishing",
"concluding",
"deciding",
"decreeing",
"determining",
"finding",
"opining",
"resolving",
"ruling"
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"pardoning",
"reprieving"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
},
"dooms":{
"a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard":{
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"the judge solemnly pronounced his doom before a hushed courtroom"
],
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"findings",
"holdings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"rulings",
"sentences"
],
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"inquests",
"verdicts",
"authorities",
"decrees",
"edicts",
"injunctions",
"orders",
"arbitraments",
"awards",
"declarations",
"deliverances",
"dicta",
"dictums",
"pronouncements",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"determinations",
"opinions",
"resolutions",
"disciplines",
"penalties",
"punishments"
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"a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand":{
"examples":[
"it was her doom to be haunted by the memory of that terrible day"
],
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"circumstances",
"destinies",
"fates",
"fortunes",
"kismets",
"lots",
"portions"
],
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"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck",
"predestinations",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"met his doom at the hands of a rampaging rhinoceros"
],
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"curtains",
"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"ends",
"exits",
"expirations",
"expiries",
"fates",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"sleeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
]
},
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance"
],
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"destines",
"fates",
"foredooms",
"foreordains",
"ordains",
"predestines",
"predetermines",
"preordains"
],
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"predestinates",
"augurs",
"forecasts",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"presages",
"prognosticates",
"prophesies",
"preconceives",
"prejudges",
"condemns",
"sentences",
"bodes",
"forebodes",
"forbodes",
"portends",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"foreknows",
"foresees"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to impose a judicial punishment on":{
"examples":[
"doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
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"condemns",
"damns",
"sentences"
],
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"adjudges",
"judges",
"castigates",
"censures",
"chastens",
"chastises",
"corrects",
"disciplines",
"penalizes",
"punishes",
"concludes",
"decides",
"decrees",
"determines",
"finds",
"opines",
"resolves",
"rules"
],
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"pardons",
"reprieves"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doorway":{
"the means or right of entering or participating in":{
"examples":[
"the doorway to a life of luxury and leisure"
],
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"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"door",
"entrance",
"entr\u00e9e",
"entree",
"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approval",
"authorization",
"certification",
"permission",
"qualification",
"open door",
"welcome mat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"ejection",
"expulsion",
"ouster",
"rejection",
"removal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{
"examples":[
"he stood in the doorway until we finally invited him in"
],
"synonyms":[
"door",
"entrance",
"gate",
"gateway",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hatch",
"hatchway"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dope":{
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"dude, there are some really dope rhymes on that rap album"
],
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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"
],
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"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"information not generally available to the public":{
"examples":[
"the stool pigeon gave us the dope on the deal taking place that night at the warehouse"
],
"synonyms":[
"book",
"411",
"inside",
"lowdown",
"poop",
"scoop",
"skinny",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dirt",
"dish",
"gossip",
"rumor",
"story",
"hint",
"pointer",
"information",
"intelligence",
"news",
"tidings",
"word"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancient history",
"open secret"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"that dope thought he could swim across the Colorado River at night"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"dope (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
"synonyms":[
"answer",
"break",
"crack",
"figure out",
"puzzle (out)",
"resolve",
"riddle (out)",
"solve",
"unravel",
"unriddle",
"work",
"work out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"reason",
"clear (up)",
"iron out",
"straighten (out)",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"untie",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"divine",
"guess",
"presume",
"speculate",
"decipher",
"decode"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doped (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
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"answered",
"broke",
"cracked",
"figured out",
"puzzled (out)",
"resolved",
"riddled (out)",
"solved",
"unraveled",
"unriddled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"reasoned",
"cleared (up)",
"ironed out",
"straightened (out)",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"untied",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"divined",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"deciphered",
"decoded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dopes (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
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"answers",
"breaks",
"cracks",
"figures out",
"puzzles (out)",
"resolves",
"riddles (out)",
"solves",
"unravels",
"unriddles",
"works",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"reasons",
"clears (up)",
"irons out",
"straightens (out)",
"unscrambles",
"untangles",
"unties",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"divines",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"deciphers",
"decodes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doppelgangers":{
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"at the mall today I saw someone who could be your doppelg\u00e4nger"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copies",
"effigies",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"companions",
"fellows",
"mates",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"parallels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antitheses",
"converses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dopy":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"a sweet but dopey little dog who never learned any tricks"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
]
},
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"examples":[
"we were still dopey from having all those facts and figures thrown at us"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dories":{
"as in skiffs , rowboats":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateaux",
"batteaux",
"ca\u00efques",
"canoes",
"catamarans",
"coracles",
"curraghs",
"currachs",
"dhows",
"dinghies",
"dinks",
"dugouts",
"flatboats",
"garveys",
"gigs",
"johnboats",
"kayaks",
"outriggers",
"paddleboats",
"pinnaces",
"piraguas",
"pirogues",
"pontoons",
"prams",
"punts",
"rafts",
"rowboats",
"rowing boats",
"sampans",
"scows",
"sculls",
"shallops",
"shells",
"skiffs",
"surfboats",
"umiaks",
"wherries",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels",
"watercrafts",
"catboats",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"yachts",
"cruisers",
"inboards",
"motorboats",
"outboards",
"powerboats",
"houseboats",
"riverboats",
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"lifeboats",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"lighters",
"narrow boats",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"gondolas",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dory":{
"as in skiff , rowboat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dose":{
"as in dosage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dosage",
"cap",
"capsule",
"lozenge",
"pill",
"tablet",
"cure",
"drug",
"medication",
"medicinal",
"pharmaceutical",
"physic",
"remedy",
"specific",
"miracle drug",
"wonder drug",
"potion",
"preparation",
"drop",
"gelcap",
"bolus",
"pilule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in drug , care (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attend",
"care (for)",
"drug",
"hospitalize",
"minister (to)",
"nurse",
"doctor",
"treat",
"cure",
"heal",
"mend",
"rehabilitate",
"remedy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dosing":{
"as in drugging , caring (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"drugging",
"hospitalizing",
"ministering (to)",
"nursing",
"doctoring",
"treating",
"curing",
"healing",
"mending",
"rehabilitating",
"remedying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doss (down)":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"examples":[
"he frequently plays host at his London flat, and overnight guests pretty much doss down where they please"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"crash",
"retire",
"turn in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"couch",
"lie (down)",
"recline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"rouse",
"wake",
"waken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"uprise"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dot":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"examples":[
"there was just a dot on the tablecloth where the food had spattered"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotch",
"dapple",
"eyespot",
"fleck",
"mottle",
"patch",
"pip",
"point",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"birthmark",
"freckle",
"mole",
"blob",
"blot",
"mark",
"smear",
"smudge",
"smutch",
"stain",
"spatter",
"splash",
"polka dot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on":{
"examples":[
"a hillside dotted with wildflowers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestrew",
"pepper",
"scatter",
"sow",
"spot",
"spray",
"sprinkle",
"strew"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanket",
"drizzle",
"dust",
"stud",
"dapple",
"fleck",
"speckle",
"stipple",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotch",
"dapple",
"fleck",
"freckle",
"marble",
"mottle",
"pepper",
"shoot",
"speck",
"speckle",
"splotch",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"stipple"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot",
"dye",
"stain",
"band",
"bar",
"streak",
"stripe",
"intersperse",
"set",
"stud",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doting (on)":{
"to love or admire too much":{
"examples":[
"doted on her only grandchild"
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"adulating",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"hero-worshipping",
"hero-worshiping",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"esteeming",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"fancying",
"favoring",
"liking",
"preferring",
"regarding",
"hallowing",
"respecting",
"revering",
"venerating",
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"supporting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"disdaining",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"misprizing",
"putting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"give away",
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"stand by"
]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"politics is full of double crosses and backbiting"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"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":{
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstab",
"betray",
"cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"give away",
"inform (on)",
"peach",
"rat (on)",
"shop",
"snitch (on)",
"split (on)",
"tell (on)",
"turn in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"save",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"stand by"
]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"politics is full of double crosses and backbiting"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"business",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"double-crosser":{
"one who betrays a trust or an allegiance":{
"examples":[
"we knew he was a double-crosser so we didn't tell him our real plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"apostate",
"backstabber",
"betrayer",
"double-dealer",
"Judas",
"quisling",
"recreant",
"serpent",
"snake",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double-crossing":{
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"she promised to share the profits but then double-crossed us"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betraying",
"crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"giving away",
"informing (on)",
"peaching",
"ratting (on)",
"shopping",
"snitching (on)",
"splitting (on)",
"telling (on)",
"turning in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"saving",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"standing by"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubled":{
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"we doubled our investment in six months"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicated",
"redoubled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compounded",
"multiplied",
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built (up)",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"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":[
"folded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overlaid",
"overlapped",
"overlay",
"collapsed",
"telescoped",
"closed",
"shut",
"plaited",
"pleated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"extended",
"opened",
"spread",
"unfolded",
"unrolled"
]
},
"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":{
"not feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"he was doubtful about the decision to complete the project despite its mounting problems"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrustful",
"dubious",
"hinky",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"trustless",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambivalent",
"conflicted",
"equivocal",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"halting",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"confident",
"sanguine",
"self-assured",
"decisive",
"determined",
"resolute"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"convinced",
"positive",
"sure"
]
},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"the election results were highly doubtful , so an investigation was begun"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"not likely to be true or to occur":{
"examples":[
"our winning the championship increasingly looks like a doubtful outcome"
],
"synonyms":[
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"questionable",
"unapt",
"unlikely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"implausible",
"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"absurd",
"bizarre",
"crazy",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"foolish",
"insane",
"nonsensical",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"unreal",
"wild",
"outside",
"remote",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"believable",
"conceivable",
"credible",
"earthly",
"imaginable",
"plausible",
"possible",
"potential",
"liable"
],
"antonyms":[
"likely",
"probable"
]
},
"open to question or dispute":{
"examples":[
"a doubtful claim to the property"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguable",
"controvertible",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"issuable",
"moot",
"negotiable",
"questionable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradictable",
"refutable",
"controversial",
"debated",
"disputed",
"dubious",
"iffy",
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"academic",
"academical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irrefutable",
"definite",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"absolute",
"clear",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"uncontested",
"undisputed"
],
"antonyms":[
"accomplished",
"certain",
"hands-down",
"inarguable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefragable",
"positive",
"questionless",
"settled",
"sure",
"unanswerable",
"unarguable",
"unchallengeable",
"undebatable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"douceurs":{
"as in bribes , sops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bribes",
"peace offerings",
"sops",
"advances",
"loans"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bestowals",
"comps",
"donations",
"donatives",
"fairings",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"handsels",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents",
"alms",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"charities",
"contributions",
"doles",
"handouts",
"oblations",
"offerings",
"philanthropies",
"tithes",
"boxes",
"care packages",
"foys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"examples":[
"those soccer hooligans need a sound douse or two from a police officer's club"
],
"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",
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"whop",
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"counterblow",
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"counterstroke",
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"rabbit punch",
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"sucker punch",
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"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
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"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
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"take off"
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"kick (off)",
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"strip",
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"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit"
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"slip (into)",
"throw (on)"
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"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
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"smother",
"suffocate",
"blow out",
"rub out",
"snub (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"stub"
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"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light"
]
},
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"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
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"bedraggle",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"water-soak",
"waterlog",
"wet",
"wet down"
],
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"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
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"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
]
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"duck",
"dunk",
"immerse",
"sop",
"souse",
"submerge",
"submerse"
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"moisten",
"soak",
"steep",
"wet",
"drench",
"drown",
"flood",
"dive",
"plunge",
"thrust"
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"verb"
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"hawk",
"jingo",
"war hawk",
"warmonger"
],
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"the doves were in favor of using the surplus to improve the nation's schools and not its weapons systems"
],
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"chauvinist",
"nationalist"
],
"related":[
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],
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"peacenik"
]
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"wolf"
],
"examples":[
"he's a dove who wouldn't hurt a fly"
],
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"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"
],
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"babe",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"greenhorn",
"ingenue",
"ing\u00e9nue",
"na\u00eff",
"naif",
"newbie",
"tenderfoot",
"virgin",
"cherub",
"saint",
"softy",
"softie",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"dupe",
"pigeon",
"sap",
"sucker"
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"innocent",
"lamb",
"sheep"
]
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]
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"henhouse",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"fold",
"sheepfold",
"kennel",
"run",
"pigpen",
"cage",
"coop",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen",
"pound",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"live-box",
"fence"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
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"He's been down on his luck since his business went under."
],
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"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
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"disadvantaged",
"dispossessed",
"unaffluent",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
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"bust",
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"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
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"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
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"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
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"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
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"phrase"
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"down payments":{
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"examples":[
"She made a 10 percent down payment on the car.",
"We put a down payment on the house."
],
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"earnests",
"handsels",
"gages",
"guarantees",
"guaranties",
"pawns",
"pledges",
"securities",
"bails",
"bonds",
"sureties",
"warranties",
"assurances",
"oaths",
"promises",
"troths",
"words",
"commitments",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"recognizances"
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"noun"
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"as in have-not , pauper":{
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"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
],
"examples":[
"I'm over the flu, but I still feel down-and-out"
],
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"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"
],
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"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"
],
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"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":{
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"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"
],
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"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"
],
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"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":{
"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"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"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":{
"examples":[
"her downcast gaze made us realize that she was shy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"down",
"downward",
"lowered"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upward"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"I'm always a little downcast on rainy days"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"downdraft":{
"as in slowdown , downturn":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downbeat",
"downswing",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"slowdown",
"stagnation",
"bust",
"crash",
"panic",
"depression",
"recession",
"slump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boom",
"development",
"growth",
"advancement",
"progress",
"rally",
"recovery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downfalls":{
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"examples":[
"an insatiable love of money would be their downfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"deaths",
"destructions",
"ruinations",
"ruins",
"undoings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banes",
"curses",
"torments",
"Achilles' heels",
"tragic flaws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a change to a lower state or level":{
"examples":[
"the gradual downfall of the Roman Empire"
],
"synonyms":[
"decadences",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devolutions",
"downgrades",
"ebbs",
"eclipses",
"falls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancements",
"developments",
"evolutions",
"growths",
"flowerings",
"renewals",
"restorations",
"revitalizations",
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"enhancements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascents",
"rises",
"upswings"
]
},
"a loss of status":{
"examples":[
"an ill-advised speech that proved to be the cause of the candidate's downfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedowns",
"declines",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"demises",
"descents",
"downs",
"falls",
"flameouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breakdowns",
"burnouts",
"collapses",
"crashes",
"meltdowns",
"ruins",
"undoings",
"defeats",
"disappointments",
"reversals",
"setbacks",
"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"abasements",
"disgraces",
"humiliations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advances",
"headways",
"progresses",
"flowers",
"heydays",
"primes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizements",
"ascents",
"exaltations",
"rises",
"ups"
]
},
"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"examples":[
"we ducked under an overhang to shelter ourselves from the sudden downfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downpours",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"storms",
"wets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precipitations",
"showers",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downheartedly":{
"as in dejectedly , abjectly":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"downheartedness":{
"a state or spell of low spirits":{
"examples":[
"his downheartedness lasted until another girl came along and won his heart"
],
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"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"
],
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downpours":{
"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"examples":[
"the downpour was so heavy that we were soaked by the time we got to the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downfalls",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"storms",
"wets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precipitations",
"showers",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downs":{
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"examples":[
"hold a festival on the downs"
],
"synonyms":[
"campo",
"champaign",
"grassland",
"heath",
"lea",
"ley",
"llano",
"moor",
"pampa",
"plain",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"tundra",
"veld",
"veldt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"field",
"meadow",
"floodplain",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"flat",
"lowland",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"upland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"downed his opponent with one stunning blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls (down or over)",
"drops",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"knocks over",
"levels",
"mows (down)",
"prostrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat":{
"examples":[
"downing slices of pizza and guzzling bottles of soda"
],
"synonyms":[
"gets down",
"ingests",
"swallows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"all attempts to ban indoor smoking had been downed by the town council"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackballs",
"kills",
"negatives",
"nixes",
"shoots down",
"vetoes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"declines",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"blacklists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admits",
"allows",
"approves",
"assents (to)",
"passes",
"sanctions",
"elects",
"supports"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"ratifies"
]
},
"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."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"condition",
"master",
"train",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor",
"bring up",
"foster",
"nurture",
"raise",
"rear",
"crop",
"cultivate",
"culture",
"dress",
"grow",
"promote",
"breed",
"produce",
"propagate",
"plant",
"sow",
"use",
"utilize",
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subjugate",
"subordinate",
"vanquish",
"appropriate",
"arrogate",
"take over",
"usurp",
"adopt",
"borrow",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"take on",
"take up",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform"
],
"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"
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"firm",
"game",
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"Spartan",
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"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
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"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",
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"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
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"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"
],
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"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"
]
},
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]
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],
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"cottony",
"satin",
"satiny",
"silken",
"silklike",
"silky",
"soft",
"velvetlike",
"velvety"
],
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"creamy",
"chiffon",
"delicate",
"fine",
"slick",
"ultrasoft"
],
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"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"broken",
"jagged",
"ragged",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"grainy",
"granular",
"gritty"
],
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"harsh",
"rough",
"scratchy"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"examples":[
"a madman who spent his life in dogged pursuit of power"
],
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"insistent",
"patient",
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"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"tenacious"
],
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"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",
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"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unregenerate",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"resistant",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"good",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
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"steady",
"true",
"indomitable",
"unconquerable",
"hard",
"inflexible",
"relentless",
"stern",
"unbending",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting"
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"quitting",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"traitorous",
"treacherous"
],
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"your dogged adherence to a really lame argument is embarrassing"
],
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"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"
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"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
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"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
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"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"
],
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"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
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"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a dogged search for the missing piece of the puzzle"
],
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"determined",
"grim",
"implacable",
"relentless",
"unappeasable",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding"
],
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"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"
],
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},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public"
],
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"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)"
],
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"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"
]
},
"donators":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"a frequent donator of funds to research foundations"
],
"synonyms":[
"angels",
"benefactors",
"donors",
"fairy godmothers",
"Maecenases",
"patrons",
"sugar daddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactresses",
"patronesses",
"almoners",
"almsgivers",
"philanthropists",
"altruists",
"bestowers",
"contributors",
"givers",
"helpers",
"subscribers",
"supporters",
"guardian angels",
"protectors",
"saviors",
"saviours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiaries",
"donees",
"giftees",
"recipients"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubled (back)":{
"as in turned back":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"turned back",
"tacked",
"zigzagged",
"detoured",
"deviated",
"diverged",
"sheered",
"swerved",
"swung",
"turned",
"turned off",
"veered",
"wheeled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"down the line":{
"firm in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
"examples":[
"a down-the-line supporter of the Republican Party"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"faithful",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"pious",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"gung ho",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"serious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
]
},
"as in all the way , at length":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"all the way",
"at length",
"down to the ground",
"for fair",
"in whole",
"to bits",
"to pieces",
"to the hilt",
"to the max",
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"door":{
"a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened":{
"examples":[
"we locked the door to the room so that no one could get in"
],
"synonyms":[
"gate",
"hatch",
"portal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double door",
"Dutch door",
"French door",
"lattice",
"portcullis",
"postern",
"revolving door",
"storm door",
"trapdoor",
"wicket"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure":{
"examples":[
"a steady stream of visitors through the front door"
],
"synonyms":[
"doorway",
"entrance",
"gate",
"gateway",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hatch",
"hatchway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the means or right of entering or participating in":{
"examples":[
"education unlocks the door to advancement"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"entr\u00e9e",
"entree",
"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approval",
"authorization",
"certification",
"permission",
"qualification",
"open door",
"welcome mat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"ejection",
"expulsion",
"ouster",
"rejection",
"removal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donors":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"a list of donors in the charitable foundation's annual report"
],
"synonyms":[
"angels",
"benefactors",
"donators",
"fairy godmothers",
"Maecenases",
"patrons",
"sugar daddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactresses",
"patronesses",
"almoners",
"almsgivers",
"philanthropists",
"altruists",
"bestowers",
"contributors",
"givers",
"helpers",
"subscribers",
"supporters",
"guardian angels",
"protectors",
"saviors",
"saviours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiaries",
"donees",
"giftees",
"recipients"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downswing":{
"as in slowdown , downturn":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downbeat",
"downdraft",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"slowdown",
"stagnation",
"bust",
"crash",
"panic",
"depression",
"recession",
"slump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boom",
"development",
"growth",
"advancement",
"progress",
"rally",
"recovery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downhills":{
"a downward slope":{
"examples":[
"most runners will have their best splits on the downhills"
],
"synonyms":[
"declensions",
"declines",
"declivities",
"descents",
"dips",
"downgrades",
"falls",
"hangings",
"hangs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basins",
"depressions",
"hollows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glacis",
"grades",
"gradients",
"hills",
"inclinations",
"inclines",
"leans",
"pitches",
"rakes",
"tilts"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclivities",
"ascents",
"rises",
"upgrades",
"uphills",
"uprises"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downstairs":{
"on or to a lower floor of a building":{
"examples":[
"He ran downstairs to answer the door.",
"He lives downstairs from us."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"below",
"down",
"downward",
"downwards",
"over",
"facedown",
"low"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft",
"up",
"upward",
"upwards",
"upwardly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"doled out":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"handed out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasured",
"allotted",
"allowed",
"appropriated",
"assigned",
"dished out",
"divided",
"divvied (up)",
"dolloped (out)",
"lotted",
"measured (out)",
"parted",
"proportioned",
"rationed",
"redistributed",
"set",
"shared (out)",
"split",
"bestowed",
"disbursed",
"furnished",
"issued",
"provided",
"shared",
"supplied",
"circulated",
"dispersed",
"disseminated",
"scattered",
"spread",
"chipped in",
"contributed",
"donated",
"pledged",
"reallocated",
"reapportioned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudged",
"declined",
"denied",
"deprived (of)",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"withheld",
"niggled (out)",
"pinched",
"skimped",
"stinted"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doctored":{
"as in manipulated , fudged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adulterated",
"designer",
"engineered",
"fudged",
"juggled",
"manipulated",
"tampered (with)",
"unauthentic",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"cultured",
"manufactured",
"process",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"phony",
"phoney",
"artificial",
"bogus",
"dummy",
"ersatz",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"faux",
"imitation",
"imitative",
"man-made",
"mimic",
"mock",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic",
"affected",
"brummagem",
"feigned",
"pinchbeck",
"pseudo",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"genuine",
"natural",
"real",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"premium",
"quality",
"valuable",
"pure",
"unadulterated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give medical treatment to":{
"examples":[
"a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again"
],
"synonyms":[
"treated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cured",
"healed",
"mended",
"rehabilitated",
"remedied",
"attended",
"cared (for)",
"dosed",
"drugged",
"hospitalized",
"ministered (to)",
"nursed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into good shape or working order again":{
"examples":[
"spends his spare time doctoring old clocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fixed up",
"furbished",
"overhauled",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"refurbished",
"aided",
"cured",
"healed",
"helped",
"conditioned",
"prepared",
"readied",
"cared (for)",
"maintained",
"serviced",
"freshened",
"refreshed",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"rejuvenated",
"renewed",
"restored",
"revitalized",
"revived",
"adjusted",
"corrected",
"modified",
"rectified",
"redressed",
"reformed",
"righted",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"broke",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vandalized",
"wrecked",
"crippled",
"disabled",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"slightly doctored his standard campaign speech for a collegiate audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"patterned",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed",
"accustomed",
"habilitated",
"habituated",
"naturalized",
"readied",
"trained",
"bent",
"fiddled (with)",
"fine-tuned",
"phased",
"registered",
"regulated",
"rigged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"doubles (back)":{
"as in turns back":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"turns back",
"tacks",
"zigzags",
"detours",
"deviates",
"diverges",
"sheers",
"swerves",
"swings",
"turns",
"turns off",
"veers",
"wheels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dolls":{
"a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"examples":[
"there was a row of dolls along the shelf in the bedroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figures",
"dollies",
"poppets",
"puppets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rag dolls",
"figures",
"figurines",
"handpuppets",
"marionettes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a physically attractive person":{
"examples":[
"her new boyfriend is a real doll"
],
"synonyms":[
"babes",
"cuties",
"cuteys",
"dishes",
"dreamboats",
"foxes",
"fox",
"glamour-pusses",
"hotties",
"knockouts",
"lookers",
"showstoppers",
"tens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beauties",
"eyefuls",
"goddesses",
"lovelies",
"stunners",
"beefcakes",
"hunks",
"studs",
"superstuds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dogs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doggish":{
"as in flashy , doggy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doggy",
"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"
]
},
"dogs":{
"a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes":{
"examples":[
"a dog who needs a loving home"
],
"synonyms":[
"canines",
"doggies",
"hounds",
"pooches",
"tykes",
"tikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curs",
"mongrels",
"mutts",
"bitches",
"lapdogs",
"puppies",
"puppy dogs",
"pups",
"whelps",
"bandogs",
"bird dogs",
"coonhounds",
"coursers",
"gundogs",
"hunters",
"sheepdogs",
"sled dogs",
"watchdogs",
"wolf dogs",
"wolfhounds",
"guide dogs",
"police dogs",
"working dogs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"she must think that you're a real dog after hearing those tasteless jokes you told last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"beasts",
"bleeders",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buggers",
"buzzards",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogs",
"chases",
"courses",
"follows",
"hounds",
"pursues",
"runs",
"shadows",
"tags",
"tails",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"escorts",
"hunts",
"searches (for)",
"seeks",
"eyes",
"observes",
"watches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heads"
],
"antonyms":[
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots"
]
},
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"tired of constantly having to dog their son about cleaning his room"
],
"synonyms":[
"henpecks",
"hounds",
"nags",
"needles",
"pecks (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carps (at)",
"fusses (about or over)",
"nitpicks",
"annoys",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"harasses",
"harries",
"hassles",
"irks",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"rides",
"vexes",
"yaps (at)",
"eggs",
"goads",
"incites",
"prods",
"prompts",
"spurs",
"urges",
"exhorts",
"insists",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"wheedles",
"begs",
"importunes",
"pleads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compliments",
"commends",
"lauds",
"praises",
"recommends",
"touts",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"builds up",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"downswings":{
"as in slowdowns , downturns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downbeats",
"downdrafts",
"downtrends",
"downturns",
"slowdowns",
"stagnations",
"busts",
"crashes",
"panics",
"depressions",
"recessions",
"slumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"booms",
"developments",
"growths",
"advancements",
"progresses",
"rallies",
"recoveries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doleful":{
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"a doleful expression on their faces as they said good-bye to the friends they had made over the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"the visibly doleful players, heartbroken about their loss"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"down",
"down in the mouth",
"downcast",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dote (on)":{
"to love or admire too much":{
"examples":[
"doted on her only grandchild"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"adulate",
"canonize",
"deify",
"hero-worship",
"idolize",
"worship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"esteem",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"fancy",
"favor",
"like",
"prefer",
"regard",
"hallow",
"respect",
"revere",
"venerate",
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"support"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"disdain",
"dislike",
"hate",
"loathe",
"belittle",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"misprize",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dovetailing":{
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"the Union and the Confederate accounts of the battle don't dovetail at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"according",
"agreeing",
"answering",
"checking",
"chording",
"cohering",
"coinciding",
"comporting",
"conforming",
"consisting",
"corresponding",
"fitting",
"going",
"harmonizing",
"jibing",
"rhyming",
"riming",
"sorting",
"squaring",
"tallying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling",
"aligning",
"alining",
"lining up",
"registering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicting",
"disputing",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"clashing",
"conflicting",
"jarring"
],
"antonyms":[
"differing (from)",
"disagreeing (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doodling":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"I plan to spend the entire vacation just doodling"
],
"synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging about",
"kicking around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"clowning (around)",
"horsing around",
"diddling (with)",
"tinkering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckling (down)",
"knuckling down",
"setting (to)",
"settling (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doing away with":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"They decided to do away with the old dress code."
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"abolishing",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"avoiding",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"disannulling",
"dissolving",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"nulling",
"quashing",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"rolling back",
"striking down",
"vacating",
"voiding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermanding",
"overriding",
"overruling",
"overturning",
"vetoing",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"retracting",
"reversing",
"revoking",
"suspending",
"withdrawing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"disallowing",
"dismissing",
"rejecting",
"annihilating",
"breaking down",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"liquidating",
"removing",
"throwing out",
"writing off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacting",
"laying down",
"legislating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"instituting",
"formalizing",
"legalizing",
"legitimating",
"legitimizing",
"validating",
"passing",
"ratifying",
"allowing",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"permitting",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"commanding",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescribing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"He resolved to do away with the man who killed his parents."
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"bumping off",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"liquidating",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"slaying",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"terminating",
"whacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing away",
"shooting",
"shooting down",
"blotting out",
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"cutting down",
"destroying",
"felling",
"killing",
"smiting",
"zapping",
"butchering",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"slaughtering",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"doles":{
"the giving of necessities and especially money to the needy":{
"examples":[
"a millionaire who was known for his annual Christmas dole to needy-looking strangers he met on the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"almsgivings",
"charities",
"philanthropies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altruisms",
"do-goodings",
"do-goodisms",
"humanisms",
"humanitarianisms",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"goodwills",
"alms",
"benefactions",
"contributions",
"donations",
"reliefs",
"welfares",
"endowments",
"funds",
"grants",
"subsidies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doled (out)":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"handed out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasured",
"allotted",
"allowed",
"appropriated",
"assigned",
"dished out",
"divided",
"divvied (up)",
"dolloped (out)",
"lotted",
"measured (out)",
"parted",
"proportioned",
"rationed",
"redistributed",
"set",
"shared (out)",
"split",
"bestowed",
"disbursed",
"furnished",
"issued",
"provided",
"shared",
"supplied",
"circulated",
"dispersed",
"disseminated",
"scattered",
"spread",
"chipped in",
"contributed",
"donated",
"pledged",
"reallocated",
"reapportioned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudged",
"declined",
"denied",
"deprived (of)",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"withheld",
"niggled (out)",
"pinched",
"skimped",
"stinted"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubter":{
"a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something":{
"examples":[
"there will always be some hard-core doubters of the government's denial of the UFO incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbeliever",
"doubting Thomas",
"questioner",
"skeptic",
"unbeliever"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agnostic",
"cynic",
"misanthrope",
"pessimist",
"derider",
"ridiculer",
"scoffer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"gull",
"pigeon",
"sucker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downsize":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decrease",
"dent",
"deplete",
"diminish",
"downscale",
"drop",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"knock down",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"clip",
"crop",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"dock",
"nick",
"pare",
"prune",
"retrench",
"shorten",
"slash",
"trim",
"truncate",
"whittle",
"deflate",
"shrink",
"minimize",
"moderate",
"modify",
"modulate",
"qualify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"add (to)",
"complement",
"supplement",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"raise"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doofuses":{
"a person who lacks good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"I don't want to be partnered on the project with that doofus"
],
"synonyms":[
"berks",
"boobies",
"charlies",
"charleys",
"cuckoos",
"ding-a-lings",
"dingbats",
"ding-dongs",
"dipsticks",
"featherheads",
"fools",
"geese",
"gits",
"half-wits",
"jackasses",
"lunatics",
"mooncalves",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nutcases",
"nuts",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"turkeys",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daredevils",
"madmen",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"goons",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"morons",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"pinheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schlumps",
"schnooks",
"stocks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"butts",
"dupes",
"laughingstocks",
"mockeries",
"monkeys",
"chumps",
"losers",
"schlemiels",
"shlemiels",
"characters",
"codgers",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cranks",
"kooks",
"oddballs",
"screwballs",
"weirdos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sages",
"thinkers",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"that actor invariably plays a doofus on screen but he's anything but one in real life"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doomsayer":{
"one given to forebodings and predictions of impending calamity":{
"examples":[
"doomsayers had been warning for some time that the housing bubble was going to burst"
],
"synonyms":[
"Cassandra",
"Chicken Little",
"doomsdayer",
"doomster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"fatalist",
"naysayer",
"negativist",
"pessimist",
"handwringer",
"worrier",
"worrywart"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolly birds":{
"a lovely woman":{
"examples":[
"back in the swinging '60s she was one of London's most celebrated dolly birds"
],
"synonyms":[
"babes",
"beauties",
"beauty queens",
"cookies",
"cuties",
"cuteys",
"enchantresses",
"eyefuls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"goddesses",
"honeys",
"knockouts",
"queens",
"stunners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belles",
"charmers",
"peaches",
"bathing beauties",
"cover girls",
"pinup girls",
"houris",
"cutie-pies",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"dreamboats",
"hotties",
"lookers",
"pretties",
"coquettes",
"femmes fatales",
"sirens",
"temptresses",
"vamps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bags",
"frumps",
"crones",
"hags",
"witches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dove (in)":{
"as in plunged (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plunged (in)",
"decided",
"budged",
"stirred",
"advanced",
"continued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"dithered",
"faltered",
"halted",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"scrupled",
"shilly-shallied",
"staggered",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"hawed",
"hemmed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"lingered",
"paused",
"procrastinated",
"waited"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dopehead":{
"a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally":{
"examples":[
"threw his roommate out when he discovered that the guy was a dopehead"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"doper",
"druggie",
"druggy",
"fiend",
"freak",
"head",
"hophead",
"hype",
"junkie",
"junky",
"stoner",
"user"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acidhead",
"cokehead",
"crackhead",
"pothead",
"speed freak",
"burnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonaddict",
"nonuser"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dooryard":{
"as in backyard , churchyard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backyard",
"churchyard",
"campus",
"close",
"enclosure",
"inclosure",
"garden",
"garth",
"plaza",
"acres",
"estate",
"land",
"lot",
"parcel",
"plot",
"property",
"real estate",
"realty",
"demesne",
"ground",
"park",
"premises",
"premisses",
"yard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dosed":{
"as in drugged , cared (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attended",
"cared (for)",
"drugged",
"hospitalized",
"ministered (to)",
"nursed",
"doctored",
"treated",
"cured",
"healed",
"mended",
"rehabilitated",
"remedied"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dominate":{
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
"examples":[
"by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe"
],
"synonyms":[
"conquer",
"overpower",
"pacify",
"subdue",
"subject",
"subjugate",
"subordinate",
"vanquish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"beat",
"clobber",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"mow (down)",
"overcome",
"prevail (over)",
"reduce",
"rout",
"skunk",
"smash",
"thrash",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"enslave",
"break",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"silence",
"smother",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"suppress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharge",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"manumit",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look down on":{
"examples":[
"the ruined fortress dominates the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"command",
"overlook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"face",
"front"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doomed":{
"facing certain defeat, disaster, or death":{
"examples":[
"at that point it was obvious to all that the astronauts were doomed"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"done",
"done for",
"finished",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"ruined",
"sunk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"destined",
"fated",
"foredoomed",
"foreordained",
"ordained",
"predestined",
"predetermined",
"preordained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinated",
"augured",
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prognosticated",
"prophesied",
"preconceived",
"prejudged",
"condemned",
"sentenced",
"boded",
"foreboded",
"forboded",
"portended",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"foreknew",
"foresaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to impose a judicial punishment on":{
"examples":[
"doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
"synonyms":[
"condemned",
"damned",
"sentenced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjudged",
"judged",
"castigated",
"censured",
"chastened",
"chastised",
"corrected",
"disciplined",
"penalized",
"punished",
"concluded",
"decided",
"decreed",
"determined",
"found",
"opined",
"resolved",
"ruled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pardoned",
"reprieved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dotting":{
"to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on":{
"examples":[
"a hillside dotted with wildflowers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestrewing",
"peppering",
"scattering",
"sowing",
"spotting",
"spraying",
"sprinkling",
"strewing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"drizzling",
"dusting",
"studding",
"dappling",
"flecking",
"speckling",
"stippling",
"bespattering",
"spattering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotching",
"dappling",
"flecking",
"freckling",
"marbling",
"mottling",
"peppering",
"shooting",
"specking",
"speckling",
"splotching",
"spotting",
"sprinkling",
"stippling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blotting",
"dyeing",
"staining",
"banding",
"barring",
"streaking",
"striping",
"interspersing",
"setting",
"studding",
"bespattering",
"spattering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"domesticated":{
"changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans":{
"examples":[
"the domesticated horses are kept in a corral"
],
"synonyms":[
"domestic",
"tame",
"tamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"halterbroken",
"housebroken",
"trained",
"docile",
"familiar",
"gentle",
"semidomesticated",
"subdued",
"submissive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbroken",
"untrained",
"wildish"
],
"antonyms":[
"feral",
"savage",
"undomesticated",
"untamed",
"wild"
]
},
"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":[
"conditioned",
"mastered",
"trained",
"accustomed",
"habilitated",
"habituated",
"naturalized",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored",
"brought up",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"raised",
"reared",
"cropped",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"dressed",
"grew",
"promoted",
"bred",
"produced",
"propagated",
"planted",
"sowed",
"used",
"utilized",
"conquered",
"dominated",
"overpowered",
"pacified",
"subdued",
"subjected",
"subjugated",
"subordinated",
"vanquished",
"appropriated",
"arrogated",
"took over",
"usurped",
"adopted",
"borrowed",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"took on",
"took up",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"doctor":{
"a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders":{
"examples":[
"we called a doctor as soon as we realized the baby was sick"
],
"synonyms":[
"croaker",
"doc",
"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"
]
},
"to give medical treatment to":{
"examples":[
"a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again"
],
"synonyms":[
"treat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cure",
"heal",
"mend",
"rehabilitate",
"remedy",
"attend",
"care (for)",
"dose",
"drug",
"hospitalize",
"minister (to)",
"nurse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into good shape or working order again":{
"examples":[
"spends his spare time doctoring old clocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fix up",
"furbish",
"overhaul",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"refurbish",
"aid",
"cure",
"heal",
"help",
"condition",
"prepare",
"ready",
"care (for)",
"maintain",
"service",
"freshen",
"refresh",
"refreshen",
"regenerate",
"rejuvenate",
"renew",
"restore",
"revitalize",
"revive",
"adjust",
"correct",
"modify",
"rectify",
"redress",
"reform",
"right",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"break",
"damage",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vandalize",
"wreck",
"cripple",
"disable",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"slightly doctored his standard campaign speech for a collegiate audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"train",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"downslides":{
"as in downturns , slumps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abatements",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"de-escalations",
"deflations",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"dips",
"downtrends",
"downturns",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"losses",
"reductions",
"sags",
"shrinkages",
"slips",
"slumps",
"decadences",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devolutions",
"downfalls",
"downgrades",
"ebbs",
"eclipses",
"falls",
"dark ages",
"nadirs",
"sunsets",
"decays",
"breakups",
"decompositions",
"disintegrations",
"dissolutions",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"depreciations",
"decimations",
"demolishments",
"demolitions",
"desolations",
"destructions",
"havoc",
"ruinations",
"ruins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancements",
"developments",
"evolutions",
"growths",
"flowerings",
"renewals",
"restorations",
"revitalizations",
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"enhancements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"supplements",
"ascents",
"rises",
"upswings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donkey's years":{
"a long or seemingly long period of time":{
"examples":[
"the greengrocer and the fishmonger haven't spoken in donkey's years"
],
"synonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"blue moon",
"coon's age",
"cycle",
"eternity",
"forever",
"long",
"months",
"moon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infinity",
"lifetime"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flash",
"instant",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink",
"microsecond",
"nanosecond"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"doggone":{
"deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure":{
"examples":[
"yet another doggone problem in the phone lines"
],
"synonyms":[
"accursed",
"accurst",
"blasted",
"confounded",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"damnable",
"dang",
"danged",
"darn",
"durn",
"darned",
"durned",
"deuced",
"freaking",
"infernal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bum",
"detestable",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"punk",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"nasty",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"shameful",
"sorry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"praiseworthy",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doozies":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"you don't make mistakes very often, but when you do, it's a real doozy"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"dreams",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"pips",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donkeywork":{
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"the donkeywork involved in setting up one's own start-up software firm"
],
"synonyms":[
"drudge",
"drudgery",
"fatigue",
"grind",
"labor",
"moil",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dodges":{
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"just another dodge to get out of working in the yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifices",
"devices",
"fetches",
"flimflams",
"gambits",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"juggles",
"knacks",
"plays",
"ploys",
"ruses",
"schemes",
"shenanigans",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluffs",
"end runs",
"feints",
"chicaneries",
"cozenages",
"crafts",
"crookeries",
"cunnings",
"deceptions",
"duperies",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"juggleries",
"legerdemains",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"hoaxes",
"shams",
"swindles",
"blinds",
"fronts",
"smoke screens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"examples":[
"dodging through the crowd on his way to the exit"
],
"synonyms":[
"ducks",
"jinks",
"sidesteps",
"slaloms",
"weaves",
"zigzags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoids",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"parries",
"shirks",
"skirts",
"deflects",
"turns",
"slides",
"slips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"examples":[
"always trying to dodge the landlord's rule prohibiting pets"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"gets around",
"shortcuts",
"sidesteps",
"skirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoids",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"end-runs",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"outflanks",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuns",
"disobeys",
"disregards",
"flouts",
"ignores",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accedes (to)",
"acquiesces (to)",
"assents (to)",
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[
"complies (with)",
"follows",
"keeps",
"obeys",
"observes"
]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"dodged the horde of paparazzi by leaving through the service entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoids",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"finesses",
"gets around",
"scapes",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuffles (out of)",
"shuns",
"weasels (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)",
"bans",
"bars",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"precludes",
"rules out",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"skirts",
"foils",
"foxes",
"frustrates",
"outfoxes",
"outsmarts",
"outwits",
"overreaches",
"thwarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"donor":{
"one that helps another with gifts or money":{
"examples":[
"a list of donors in the charitable foundation's annual report"
],
"synonyms":[
"angel",
"benefactor",
"donator",
"fairy godmother",
"Maecenas",
"patron",
"sugar daddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefactress",
"patroness",
"almoner",
"almsgiver",
"philanthropist",
"altruist",
"bestower",
"contributor",
"giver",
"helper",
"subscriber",
"supporter",
"guardian angel",
"protector",
"savior",
"saviour"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficiary",
"donee",
"giftee",
"recipient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downsides":{
"a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success":{
"examples":[
"the downside of living in the country is, of course, the long commute to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"debits",
"disadvantages",
"disbenefits",
"drawbacks",
"handicaps",
"incommodities",
"liabilities",
"minuses",
"negatives",
"strikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"albatross",
"albatrosses",
"millstones",
"strangleholds",
"disabilities",
"impairments",
"failings",
"shortcomings",
"bars",
"catches",
"checks",
"clogs",
"crimps",
"embarrassments",
"hindrances",
"hitches",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"rubs",
"shackles",
"stops",
"trammels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"vantages",
"head starts",
"jumps",
"leads",
"margins",
"starts",
"ascendancies",
"ascendencies",
"betters",
"commands",
"controls",
"drops",
"masteries",
"predominances",
"superiorities",
"supremacies",
"transcendences",
"upper hands",
"prerogatives",
"privileges",
"breaks",
"opportunities",
"aids",
"assistances",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[
"advantages",
"assets",
"edges",
"pluses",
"plusses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double (in)":{
"as in triple (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"triple (in)",
"build up",
"gain",
"gather",
"grow (in)",
"pick up",
"accrue",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"excite",
"stimulate",
"enhance",
"enlarge",
"enrich",
"expand",
"extend",
"maximize",
"boost",
"elevate",
"jack (up)",
"mount",
"ramp (up)",
"step up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease (in)",
"lose",
"abate",
"decline (in)",
"diminish (in)",
"dip",
"dwindle",
"fall (in)",
"lessen",
"taper",
"taper off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"downslide":{
"as in downturn , slump":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"de-escalation",
"deflation",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"dip",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"falloff",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"sag",
"shrinkage",
"slip",
"slump",
"decadence",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devolution",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebb",
"eclipse",
"fall",
"dark age",
"nadir",
"sunset",
"decay",
"rotting",
"spoiling",
"breakup",
"crumbling",
"decomposition",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"depreciation",
"lessening",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"havoc",
"ruin",
"ruination"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancement",
"development",
"evolution",
"growth",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"renewal",
"restoration",
"revitalization",
"heightening",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"enhancement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"supplement",
"ascent",
"rise",
"upswing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doused":{
"containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water":{
"examples":[
"shook the water out of her thoroughly doused hair"
],
"synonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"water-soaked",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"watery",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless"
]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffed",
"peeled (off)",
"put off",
"removed",
"shrugged off",
"took off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husked",
"shed",
"kicked (off)",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"undressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wore",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"rigged",
"robed",
"suited"
],
"antonyms":[
"donned",
"put on",
"slipped (into)",
"threw (on)"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"blew out",
"rubbed out",
"snubbed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"stubbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"drenched",
"drowned",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"wet",
"wetted",
"wet down",
"wetted down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened",
"drizzled",
"humidified",
"hydrated",
"misted",
"moistened",
"moisturized",
"showered",
"sprinkled",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"hosed (down)",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"splashed",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sloshed",
"sluiced",
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"rehydrated",
"rewashed",
"rewet",
"rewetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatered",
"evaporated",
"freeze-dried",
"drip-dried",
"wrung",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"immersed",
"sopped",
"soused",
"submerged",
"submersed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathed",
"moistened",
"soaked",
"steeped",
"wet",
"wetted",
"drenched",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"dived",
"dove",
"plunged",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"doozie":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"you don't make mistakes very often, but when you do, it's a real doozy"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doffing one's hat to":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"accrediting",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"cracking up",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bravoing",
"clapping",
"rising (to)",
"ballyhooing",
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"rooting (for)",
"supporting",
"celebrating",
"emblazoning",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"singing",
"adulating",
"belauding",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"deifying",
"idolizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"discommending",
"disparaging",
"putting down",
"blaming",
"censuring",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"criticizing",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving",
"castigating",
"excoriating",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"skewering",
"slagging",
"vilifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"knocking",
"panning",
"slamming"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"doeskins":{
"as in capeskins , kids":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"buckskins",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"moroccos",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sharkskins",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes",
"hides",
"leathers",
"skins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dodgers":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"one of the most artful dodgers in the annals of American crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilkers",
"bilks",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"fakirs",
"finaglers",
"fraudsters",
"hoaxers",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers",
"trickers",
"tricksters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"bluffers",
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"mountebanks",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams",
"adventurers",
"foxes",
"fox",
"gamesmen",
"knaves",
"pranksters",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"fast-talkers",
"slickers",
"slicks",
"slicksters",
"slyboots",
"smoothies",
"wheeler-dealers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"sneakers",
"sneaks",
"blacklegs",
"cardsharps",
"cardsharpers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dog collars":{
"an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck":{
"examples":[
"a gala at which one can expect to see a number of trophy wives wearing diamond-encrusted dog collars"
],
"synonyms":[
"chokers",
"collars",
"leis",
"necklaces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"torques",
"torcs",
"beads",
"carcanets",
"rivi\u00e8res",
"ropes",
"strands",
"bangles",
"lavalieres",
"lavallieres",
"lockets",
"pendants",
"pendents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domineer":{
"as in dominate , tyrannize":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dictate",
"dominate",
"lord (it over)",
"master",
"oppress",
"reign (over)",
"tyrannize",
"administer",
"manage",
"micromanage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"conquer",
"subdue",
"subjugate",
"conduct",
"direct",
"head",
"lead",
"boss",
"captain",
"command",
"control",
"govern",
"preside (over)",
"rule",
"sway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doze":{
"a short sleep":{
"examples":[
"a brief doze in the sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnap",
"drowse",
"forty winks",
"kip",
"nap",
"siesta",
"snooze",
"wink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"repose",
"rest",
"slumber",
"bed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in a state of sleep":{
"examples":[
"likes to doze through those lazy summer afternoons"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnap",
"nap",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drop off",
"drowse (off)",
"nod off",
"oversleep",
"sleep in",
"dream",
"hibernate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"arouse",
"awake",
"rise",
"wake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"examples":[
"she dozed fitfully in the car but never fell completely asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnap",
"drowse",
"kip",
"nap",
"slumber",
"snooze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"couch",
"lay",
"lie",
"roost",
"lull"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"get up",
"rise",
"rouse",
"uprise",
"wake (up)",
"waken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"does the trick":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"The suggested revisions did the trick , and the updated article was well-received."
],
"synonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches on",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"cooks",
"percolates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishes",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"craters",
"crumbles",
"flames out",
"chokes",
"cracks up",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"falls down",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dourly":{
"as in glumly , somberly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blackly",
"darkly",
"dismally",
"distressfully",
"distressingly",
"drearily",
"forlornly",
"gloomily",
"glumly",
"joylessly",
"mirthlessly",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"pessimistically",
"somberly",
"sullenly",
"abjectly",
"cheerlessly",
"crestfallenly",
"dejectedly",
"despairingly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"downheartedly",
"low-spiritedly",
"acutely",
"harshly",
"keenly",
"piercingly",
"poignantly",
"severely",
"sharply",
"agonizingly",
"bitterly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"grievously",
"hard",
"hardly",
"inconsolably",
"lugubriously",
"mournfully",
"painfully",
"plaintively",
"regretfully",
"resentfully",
"ruefully",
"sadly",
"sorely",
"sorrowfully",
"unhappily",
"wailfully",
"woefully",
"wretchedly",
"cruelly",
"hurtfully",
"ill",
"rancorously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blissfully",
"gladly",
"happily",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"delightedly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"gleefully",
"good-naturedly",
"lightheartedly",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"rejoicingly",
"sunnily",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"calmly",
"casually",
"dispassionately",
"easily",
"impassively",
"indifferently",
"lightly",
"nonchalantly",
"stoically",
"unconcernedly",
"favorably",
"well"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"dodger":{
"a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value":{
"examples":[
"one of the most artful dodgers in the annals of American crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"bilk",
"bilker",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"chiseler",
"chiseller",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"fakir",
"finagler",
"fraudster",
"hoaxer",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"shark",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler",
"tricker",
"trickster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"bluffer",
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"mountebank",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham",
"adventurer",
"fox",
"gamesman",
"knave",
"prankster",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"fast-talker",
"slick",
"slicker",
"slickster",
"slyboots",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"wheeler-dealer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"blackleg",
"cardsharp",
"cardsharper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dodoes":{
"a person with old-fashioned ideas":{
"examples":[
"youngsters helping old dodos learn to use computers"
],
"synonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"fuds",
"mossbacks",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"Tories",
"mandarins",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"old maids"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberals",
"progressives",
"radicals"
],
"antonyms":[
"hipsters",
"moderns",
"trendies"
]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"she called him a dodo after he lost the concert tickets"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doffs":{
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"the blazing sun soon had the men doffing their jackets"
],
"synonyms":[
"douses",
"peels (off)",
"puts off",
"removes",
"shrugs off",
"takes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husks",
"sheds",
"kicks (off)",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"undresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wears",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"clothes",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"rigs",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dons",
"puts on",
"slips (into)",
"throws (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubts":{
"a feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"from the beginning I had my doubts about the investment scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrust",
"dubieties",
"dubitations",
"incertitudes",
"misdoubts",
"misgivings",
"mistrust",
"queries",
"reservations",
"skepticism",
"suspicions",
"uncertainties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disbeliefs",
"incredulities",
"anxieties",
"concerns",
"paranoias",
"compunctions",
"niggles",
"qualms",
"scruples",
"tremors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"credences",
"faiths"
],
"antonyms":[
"assurances",
"beliefs",
"certainties",
"certitudes",
"confidences",
"convictions",
"sureties",
"trusts"
]
},
"to have no trust or confidence in":{
"examples":[
"I doubt that you can do all that you say"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrusts",
"misdoubts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disbelieves",
"discounts",
"discredits",
"negates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banks (on or upon)",
"counts (on or upon)",
"depends (on or upon)",
"relies (on or upon)"
],
"antonyms":[
"trusts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"double whammy":{
"a situation that is bad in two different ways; a situation in which two bad conditions exist at the same time or two bad things happen one after the other":{
"examples":[
"With the cold weather and the high cost of heating fuel, homeowners were hit with a double whammy this winter."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"one-two",
"one-two punch",
"apocalypse",
"calamity",
"cataclysm",
"catastrophe",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"tragedy",
"bloodbath",
"collapse",
"crash",
"meltdown",
"Armageddon",
"doomsday",
"end-time",
"convulsion",
"paroxysm",
"upheaval",
"accident",
"casualty",
"fatality",
"misadventure",
"mischance",
"misfortune",
"mishap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donning":{
"to place on one's person":{
"examples":[
"she donned her best gown for the ball"
],
"synonyms":[
"putting on",
"slipping (on or into)",
"throwing (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"bundling up",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"dolling up",
"dressing",
"garbing",
"rigging",
"robing",
"suiting",
"tricking",
"uniforming",
"overdressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"undressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"doffing",
"removing",
"taking off"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doppelganger":{
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"at the mall today I saw someone who could be your doppelg\u00e4nger"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"fetch",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogue",
"analog",
"parallel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down-and-outer":{
"lacking bodily strength":{
"examples":[
"I'm over the flu, but I still feel down-and-out"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
]
},
"lacking money or material possessions":{
"examples":[
"a soup kitchen where the down-and-out daily line up for a hot meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous"
],
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
]
},
"as in have-not , pauper":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"have-not",
"indigent",
"pauper",
"ne'er-do-well",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"drifter",
"roamer",
"transient",
"almsman",
"beggar",
"mendicant",
"panhandler",
"gamine",
"ragamuffin",
"urchin",
"waif",
"bankrupt",
"insolvent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep pocket",
"fat cat",
"have",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"billionaire",
"billionairess",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"millionairess",
"magnate",
"moneymaker",
"nabob",
"success",
"tycoon"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"double agent":{
"as in sleeper , counterspy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"counterspy",
"sleeper",
"courier",
"infiltrator",
"informer",
"stool pigeon",
"agent",
"asset",
"emissary",
"intelligencer",
"mole",
"operative",
"spook",
"spy",
"undercover",
"spymaster",
"superspy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downhearted":{
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"downhearted because his best friend was taking a job out of state"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down",
"down in the mouth",
"downcast",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dotard":{
"as in senior citizen , grandam":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ancient",
"elder",
"geriatric",
"golden-ager",
"oldster",
"old-timer",
"senior",
"senior citizen",
"beldam",
"beldame",
"dowager",
"grandam",
"grandame",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"gaffer",
"graybeard",
"patriarch",
"whitebeard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"youngster",
"youth",
"adolescent",
"minor",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domains":{
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"examples":[
"a museum director who is one of the most powerful figures in the art domain"
],
"synonyms":[
"areas",
"arenas",
"bailiwicks",
"baronies",
"businesses",
"circles",
"demesnes",
"departments",
"disciplines",
"elements",
"fiefdoms",
"fiefs",
"fields",
"firmaments",
"fronts",
"games",
"kingdoms",
"lines",
"precincts",
"provinces",
"realms",
"specialties",
"spheres",
"terrains",
"walks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frontiers",
"studies",
"subjects",
"territories",
"turfs",
"turves",
"occupations",
"professions",
"pursuits",
"rackets",
"vocations",
"ambits",
"amplitudes",
"breadths",
"compasses",
"confines",
"dimensions",
"extents",
"kens",
"reaches",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"widths",
"subfields",
"subspecialties",
"sub-specialties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doodly-squats":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"tried to act intelligent but it was painfully obvious that he didn't know doodley-squat about cosmology"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continentals",
"damns",
"darns",
"durns",
"diddlies",
"diddly-squats",
"figs",
"ghosts",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"licks",
"modicums",
"raps",
"squats",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"whits",
"whoops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"pins",
"rays",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"semblances",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doing for":{
"to attend to the needs and comforts of":{
"examples":[
"I trust him to do for my kids while I am at work."
],
"synonyms":[
"administering (to)",
"caring (for)",
"ministering (to)",
"mothering",
"nursing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curing",
"healing",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"treating",
"aiding",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"providing (for)",
"supporting",
"babying",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"The long journey on foot nearly did for her."
],
"synonyms":[
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"felling",
"killing",
"slaying",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumping off",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"finishing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"scragging",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"wasting",
"whacking",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"decimating",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing",
"slaughtering",
"smiting",
"assassinating",
"executing",
"martyring",
"terminating",
"euthanizing",
"euthanatizing",
"putting down",
"suiciding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving",
"nurturing"
],
"antonyms":[
"animating"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"double-dealer":{
"one who betrays a trust or an allegiance":{
"examples":[
"the company seems to have one or two double-dealers who are selling information to competitors"
],
"synonyms":[
"apostate",
"backstabber",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"Judas",
"quisling",
"recreant",
"serpent",
"snake",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down(s)":{
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"examples":[
"hold a festival on the downs"
],
"synonyms":[
"campo",
"champaign",
"grassland",
"heath",
"lea",
"ley",
"llano",
"moor",
"pampa",
"plain",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"tundra",
"veld",
"veldt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"field",
"meadow",
"floodplain",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"flat",
"lowland",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"upland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"downed his opponent with one stunning blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls (down or over)",
"drops",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"knocks over",
"levels",
"mows (down)",
"prostrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat":{
"examples":[
"downing slices of pizza and guzzling bottles of soda"
],
"synonyms":[
"gets down",
"ingests",
"swallows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"all attempts to ban indoor smoking had been downed by the town council"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackballs",
"kills",
"negatives",
"nixes",
"shoots down",
"vetoes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"declines",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"blacklists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admits",
"allows",
"approves",
"assents (to)",
"passes",
"sanctions",
"elects",
"supports"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirms",
"ratifies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"downwind":{
"being in the direction that the wind is blowing":{
"examples":[
"we were downwind of the deer, so it couldn't smell us"
],
"synonyms":[
"leeward"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"upwind",
"windward"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dosses":{
"a place set aside for sleeping":{
"examples":[
"the living room couch was my doss for the weekend I spent at my friend's Lake District cottage"
],
"synonyms":[
"beds",
"bunks",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bunk beds",
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"feather beds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"Murphy beds",
"shakedowns",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double agents":{
"as in sleepers , counterspies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"counterspies",
"sleepers",
"couriers",
"infiltrators",
"informers",
"stool pigeons",
"agents",
"assets",
"emissaries",
"intelligencers",
"moles",
"operatives",
"spies",
"spooks",
"undercovers",
"spymasters",
"superspies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downside":{
"a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success":{
"examples":[
"the downside of living in the country is, of course, the long commute to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"debit",
"disadvantage",
"disbenefit",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"incommodity",
"liability",
"minus",
"negative",
"strike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"albatross",
"millstone",
"stranglehold",
"disability",
"impairment",
"failing",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"vantage",
"head start",
"jump",
"lead",
"margin",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"better",
"command",
"control",
"drop",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"upper hand",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"break",
"opportunity",
"aid",
"assistance",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[
"advantage",
"asset",
"edge",
"plus"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"does away with":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"They decided to do away with the old dress code."
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"abolishes",
"abrogates",
"annuls",
"avoids",
"cancels",
"disannuls",
"dissolves",
"invalidates",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"nulls",
"quashes",
"repeals",
"rescinds",
"rolls back",
"strikes down",
"vacates",
"voids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermands",
"overrides",
"overrules",
"overturns",
"vetoes",
"aborts",
"calls",
"calls off",
"drops",
"recalls",
"retracts",
"reverses",
"revokes",
"suspends",
"withdraws",
"bans",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"outlaws",
"prohibits",
"disallows",
"dismisses",
"rejects",
"annihilates",
"breaks down",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"liquidates",
"removes",
"throws out",
"writes off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacts",
"lays down",
"legislates",
"establishes",
"founds",
"institutes",
"formalizes",
"legalizes",
"legitimates",
"legitimizes",
"validates",
"passes",
"ratifies",
"allows",
"approves",
"authorizes",
"clears",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"permits",
"sanctions",
"warrants",
"commands",
"decrees",
"mandates",
"orders",
"prescribes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"He resolved to do away with the man who killed his parents."
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"bumps off",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"liquidates",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"slays",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"terminates",
"whacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dour":{
"harsh and threatening in manner or appearance":{
"examples":[
"a dour prison guard who didn't look like he'd be very understanding"
],
"synonyms":[
"austere",
"fierce",
"flinty",
"forbidding",
"grim",
"gruff",
"intimidating",
"lowering",
"louring",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stark",
"steely",
"stern",
"ungentle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bleak",
"cold",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"adamant",
"bound",
"determined",
"firm",
"intent",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"fixed",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"ironhanded",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"set",
"stiff",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful",
"immutable",
"unchangeable",
"black",
"cheerless",
"dark",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"joyless",
"melancholic",
"moody",
"morose",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly",
"brooding",
"grave",
"humorless",
"melancholy",
"serious",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bland",
"meek",
"mellow",
"soft",
"soothing",
"easy",
"quiet",
"tranquil",
"agreeable",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"sweet",
"glad",
"happy",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"playful",
"scatterbrained",
"silly"
],
"antonyms":[
"benign",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"mild",
"nonintimidating",
"tender"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"donatives":{
"something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed":{
"examples":[
"the support of the military was bought with a large donative to a couple of well-placed generals"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonuses",
"cumshaws",
"dividends",
"extras",
"gratuities",
"gravies",
"gravy trains",
"lagniappes",
"perks",
"perquisites",
"throw-ins",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pensions",
"bestowals",
"presentations",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"bounties",
"charities",
"generosities",
"largesses",
"philanthropies",
"contributions",
"donations",
"gifts",
"offerings",
"presents",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"boons",
"mannas",
"windfalls",
"favors",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"giveaways",
"premiums",
"awards",
"prizes",
"rewards",
"fringe benefits",
"icings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something given to someone without expectation of a return":{
"examples":[
"regarded her annual bonus as a just recompense for her job performance and not as some corporate donative"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestowals",
"comps",
"donations",
"fairings",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"handsels",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advances",
"loans",
"bribes",
"douceurs",
"peace offerings",
"sops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doodly-squat":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"tried to act intelligent but it was painfully obvious that he didn't know doodley-squat about cosmology"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bubkes",
"bupkes",
"bupkus",
"continental",
"damn",
"darn",
"durn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"modicum",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubtfulness":{
"as in shakiness , uncertainness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness",
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness",
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in disbelief , incredulity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disbelief",
"incredulity",
"suspiciousness",
"deviousness",
"dishonesty",
"insincerity",
"carefulness",
"caution",
"street smarts",
"wariness",
"affectedness",
"artificiality",
"pretentiousness",
"pessimism",
"skepticism",
"artfulness",
"cynicism",
"knowingness",
"sophistication",
"worldliness",
"maturity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"greenness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"innocence",
"naiveness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"naivety",
"na\u00efvety",
"naturalness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"simplicity",
"unsophistication",
"unworldliness",
"viridity",
"candor",
"frankness",
"genuineness",
"honesty",
"openness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"unaffectedness",
"unpretentiousness",
"callowness",
"childishness",
"coltishness",
"inexperience",
"rawness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dormitories":{
"as in dorms , bunkhouses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunkhouses",
"dorms",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"boardinghouses",
"lodging houses",
"rooming houses",
"courts",
"motels",
"motor courts",
"motor inns",
"motor lodges",
"resorts",
"spas",
"tourist courts",
"youth hostels",
"doss-houses",
"fleabags",
"flophouses",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rests",
"apartment hotels",
"B and Bs",
"bed-and-breakfasts",
"guesthouses",
"auberges",
"caravansaries",
"caravanserais",
"caravanserai",
"hospices",
"hostelries",
"hostels",
"hotels",
"inns",
"lodges",
"public houses",
"taverns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downplaying":{
"to reduce in apparent importance":{
"examples":[
"he self-deprecatingly downplays his own contributions to the festival's success"
],
"synonyms":[
"de-emphasizing",
"playing down",
"soft-pedaling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"underplaying",
"understating",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerating",
"overdoing",
"overdrawing",
"overstating",
"elaborating",
"embellishing",
"embroidering",
"magnifying",
"padding",
"stretching",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"melodramatizing",
"overemphasizing",
"overplaying",
"sensationalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doggies":{
"a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes":{
"examples":[
"what a good little doggy !"
],
"synonyms":[
"canines",
"dogs",
"hounds",
"pooches",
"tykes",
"tikes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curs",
"mongrels",
"mutts",
"bitches",
"lapdogs",
"puppies",
"puppy dogs",
"pups",
"whelps",
"bandogs",
"bird dogs",
"coonhounds",
"coursers",
"gundogs",
"hunters",
"sheepdogs",
"sled dogs",
"watchdogs",
"wolf dogs",
"wolfhounds",
"guide dogs",
"police dogs",
"working dogs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubled (in)":{
"as in tripled (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tripled (in)",
"built up",
"gained",
"gathered",
"grew (in)",
"picked up",
"accrued",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"excited",
"stimulated",
"enhanced",
"enlarged",
"enriched",
"expanded",
"extended",
"maximized",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"jacked (up)",
"mounted",
"ramped (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased (in)",
"lost",
"abated",
"declined (in)",
"diminished (in)",
"dipped",
"dwindled",
"fell (in)",
"lessened",
"tapered",
"tapered off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"double whammies":{
"a situation that is bad in two different ways; a situation in which two bad conditions exist at the same time or two bad things happen one after the other":{
"examples":[
"With the cold weather and the high cost of heating fuel, homeowners were hit with a double whammy this winter."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"one-twos",
"one-two punches",
"apocalypses",
"calamities",
"cataclysms",
"catastrophes",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"tragedies",
"bloodbaths",
"collapses",
"crashes",
"meltdowns",
"Armageddons",
"doomsdays",
"end-times",
"convulsions",
"paroxysms",
"upheavals",
"accidents",
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"misadventures",
"mischances",
"misfortunes",
"mishaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"godsends",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dozes":{
"a short sleep":{
"examples":[
"a brief doze in the sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnaps",
"drowses",
"forty winks",
"kips",
"naps",
"siestas",
"snoozes",
"winks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reposes",
"rests",
"slumbers",
"beds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in a state of sleep":{
"examples":[
"likes to doze through those lazy summer afternoons"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnaps",
"naps",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drops off",
"drowses (off)",
"nods off",
"oversleeps",
"sleeps in",
"dreams",
"hibernates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arises",
"arouses",
"awakes",
"rises",
"wakes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"examples":[
"she dozed fitfully in the car but never fell completely asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnaps",
"drowses",
"kips",
"naps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"couches",
"lays",
"lies",
"roosts",
"lulls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arises",
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"gets up",
"rises",
"rouses",
"uprises",
"wakens",
"wakes (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"docudrama":{
"as in documentary , featurette":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoon",
"cartoon",
"documentary",
"feature",
"featurette",
"short",
"short subject",
"film",
"flick",
"flicker",
"motion picture",
"movie",
"moving picture",
"picture",
"silent",
"talkie",
"B movie",
"B picture",
"cofeature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in comedy , dramedy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comedy drama",
"dramedy",
"melodrama",
"monodrama",
"musical",
"musical comedy",
"psychodrama",
"tragedy",
"tragicomedy",
"interlude",
"playlet",
"magnum opus",
"opus",
"work",
"drama",
"dramatization",
"play",
"adaptation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dosages":{
"the amount of a medicine, drug, or vitamin that should be taken at one time or regularly during a period of time":{
"examples":[
"Each tablet has the dosage necessary to reduce pain and swelling.",
"Some patients may benefit from a larger dosage of this medication.",
"Do not exceed the recommended dosage ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doses",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominion":{
"controlling power or influence over others":{
"examples":[
"in the Bible, man is given dominion over all the animals"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"dominance",
"domination",
"hegemony",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"predominancy",
"preeminence",
"reign",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the right or means to command or control others":{
"examples":[
"was granted dominion over the household servants"
],
"synonyms":[
"arm",
"authority",
"clutch",
"command",
"control",
"death grip",
"grip",
"hold",
"mastery",
"power",
"reign",
"rein(s)",
"sway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clout",
"influence",
"leverage",
"pull",
"voice",
"weight",
"jurisdiction",
"direction",
"management",
"dominance",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"right",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doomsayers":{
"one given to forebodings and predictions of impending calamity":{
"examples":[
"doomsayers had been warning for some time that the housing bubble was going to burst"
],
"synonyms":[
"Cassandras",
"Chicken Littles",
"doomsdayers",
"doomsters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatists",
"fatalists",
"naysayers",
"negativists",
"pessimists",
"handwringers",
"worriers",
"worrywarts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dousing":{
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffing",
"peeling (off)",
"putting off",
"removing",
"shrugging off",
"taking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husking",
"shedding",
"kicking (off)",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"undressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wearing",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"clothing",
"dressing",
"garbing",
"rigging",
"robing",
"suiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"donning",
"putting on",
"slipping (into)",
"throwing (on)"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"blowing out",
"rubbing out",
"snubbing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"stubbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"firing",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"lighting"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting",
"wetting down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"steeping",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"laving",
"rinsing",
"sloshing",
"sluicing",
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"rehydrating",
"rewashing",
"rewetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
"dehumidifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"immersing",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"submerging",
"submersing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathing",
"moistening",
"soaking",
"steeping",
"wetting",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"flooding",
"diving",
"plunging",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doomsdays":{
"the day the world ends or is destroyed":{
"examples":[
"a warning that doomsday is near",
"doomsday predictions"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Armageddons",
"end-times",
"apocalypses",
"calamities",
"cataclysms",
"catastrophes",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"tragedies",
"bloodbaths",
"collapses",
"crashes",
"meltdowns",
"convulsions",
"paroxysms",
"upheavals",
"accidents",
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"misadventures",
"mischances",
"misfortunes",
"mishaps",
"blasts",
"blows",
"double whammies",
"one-twos",
"one-two punches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"godsends",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double (as)":{
"as in take over , stand in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cover",
"fill in",
"pinch-hit",
"stand in",
"step in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"take over",
"relieve",
"spell",
"understudy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dogfight":{
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"examples":[
"the playful competition over who would get the new office turned into a real dogfight"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball game",
"battle",
"combat",
"competition",
"conflict",
"confrontation",
"contention",
"contest",
"duel",
"face-off",
"grapple",
"match",
"rivalry",
"strife",
"struggle",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tug-of-war",
"war",
"warfare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"horse race",
"nail-biter",
"showdown",
"clash",
"collision",
"discord",
"friction",
"argument",
"controversy",
"debate",
"disagreement",
"disputation",
"dispute",
"dissension",
"dissention",
"quarrel",
"row",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concord",
"harmony",
"peace"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dork":{
"a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits":{
"examples":[
"we became friends when we discovered we were both dorks who had memorized the periodic table in high school"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookworm",
"dink",
"geek",
"grind",
"nerd",
"swot",
"weenie",
"wonk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-dome",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"brain",
"genius",
"academic",
"bookman",
"scholar",
"gearhead",
"techie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"goof-off",
"slacker",
"underachiever",
"lowbrow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"he tried to be suave, but she still thought he was a dork"
],
"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",
"dope",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dodging":{
"the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable":{
"examples":[
"the governor's repeated dodging of tough questions at the press conference"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoidance",
"cop-out",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"elusion",
"escape",
"eschewal",
"eschewing",
"evasion",
"out",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bypassing",
"circumvention",
"runaround",
"sidestepping",
"skirting",
"averting",
"deflection",
"obviation",
"precluding",
"prevention"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abidance",
"endurance",
"submission",
"toleration"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"examples":[
"dodging through the crowd on his way to the exit"
],
"synonyms":[
"ducking",
"jinking",
"sidestepping",
"slaloming",
"weaving",
"zigzagging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"parrying",
"shirking",
"skirting",
"deflecting",
"turning",
"sliding",
"slipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness":{
"examples":[
"always trying to dodge the landlord's rule prohibiting pets"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"getting around",
"shortcutting",
"sidestepping",
"skirting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"end-running",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"outflanking",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shunning",
"disobeying",
"disregarding",
"flouting",
"ignoring",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceding (to)",
"acquiescing (to)",
"assenting (to)",
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[
"complying (with)",
"following",
"keeping",
"obeying",
"observing"
]
},
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"dodged the horde of paparazzi by leaving through the service entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"shunning",
"weaseling (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dowse":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"those soccer hooligans need a sound douse or two from a police officer's club"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"doff",
"peel (off)",
"put off",
"remove",
"shrug off",
"take off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husk",
"shed",
"kick (off)",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wear",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit"
],
"antonyms":[
"don",
"put on",
"slip (into)",
"throw (on)"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"blow out",
"rub out",
"snub (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"stub"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"water-soak",
"waterlog",
"wet",
"wet down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"immerse",
"sop",
"souse",
"submerge",
"submerse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathe",
"moisten",
"soak",
"steep",
"wet",
"drench",
"drown",
"flood",
"dive",
"plunge",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dogmatist":{
"one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices":{
"examples":[
"a dogmatist as far as economics are concerned, he's an unquestioning supporter of the supply-side theory"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigot",
"dogmatizer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"sectarian"
],
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"doctrinaire",
"fanatic",
"purist",
"jingoist",
"nationalist",
"racialist",
"racist",
"supremacist",
"chauvinist",
"sexist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freethinker",
"latitudinarian",
"liberal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doughboys":{
"as in infantrymen , grunts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"footmen",
"foot soldiers",
"grunts",
"infantrymen",
"carabineers",
"carabiniers",
"cavaliers",
"cavalrymen",
"cuirassiers",
"dragoons",
"commandos",
"commandoes",
"raiders",
"servicewomen",
"jarheads",
"marines",
"rangers",
"dogfaces",
"fighters",
"legionaries",
"legionnaires",
"men-at-arms",
"regulars",
"servicemen",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"warriors",
"artillerymen",
"cannoneers",
"gunners",
"mortarmen",
"musketeers",
"riflemen",
"archers",
"crossbowmen",
"lancers",
"pikemen",
"spearmen",
"Confederates",
"Continentals",
"Federals",
"GIs",
"GI's",
"guardsmen",
"militiamen",
"minutemen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downwards":{
"directed down":{
"examples":[
"fishermen keep watch for the downward plunge of seabirds diving for food"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"down",
"downcast",
"lowered"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upward"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"toward or in a lower position":{
"examples":[
"at this point the river flows gently downward to the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"below",
"down",
"over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facedown",
"low",
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"downstairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft"
],
"antonyms":[
"up",
"upward",
"upwards",
"upwardly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"doomsday":{
"the day the world ends or is destroyed":{
"examples":[
"a warning that doomsday is near",
"doomsday predictions"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"Armageddon",
"end-time",
"apocalypse",
"calamity",
"cataclysm",
"catastrophe",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"tragedy",
"bloodbath",
"collapse",
"crash",
"meltdown",
"convulsion",
"paroxysm",
"upheaval",
"accident",
"casualty",
"fatality",
"misadventure",
"mischance",
"misfortune",
"mishap",
"blast",
"blow",
"double whammy",
"one-two",
"one-two punch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"do in":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a business venture that was done in by poor planning"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"the early frost did in all of our tender plants"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry off",
"claim",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"fell",
"kill",
"slay",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bump off",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"finish",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"scrag",
"snuff",
"take out",
"waste",
"whack",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"decimate",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow",
"slaughter",
"smite",
"assassinate",
"execute",
"martyr",
"terminate",
"euthanize",
"euthanatize",
"put down",
"suicide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"nurture"
],
"antonyms":[
"animate"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"somebody did the old man in late last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the long day of hard work really did me in"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dolly":{
"a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"examples":[
"my kid sister was always playing with her dollies"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figure",
"doll",
"poppet",
"puppet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rag doll",
"figure",
"figurine",
"handpuppet",
"marionette"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dodgy":{
"requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling":{
"examples":[
"getting the trade unions to go along with the agreement will be a rather dodgy piece of work"
],
"synonyms":[
"catchy",
"delicate",
"difficult",
"hairy",
"knotty",
"nasty",
"prickly",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"sensitive",
"spiny",
"sticky",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"touchy",
"tough",
"tricksy",
"tricky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"hard",
"intricate",
"involved",
"recondite",
"serious",
"problem",
"scabrous",
"stubborn",
"troublesome",
"troublous",
"vexatious",
"vexing",
"worrisome",
"burdensome",
"demanding",
"discommoding",
"exacting",
"exhausting",
"importunate",
"inconvenient",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"effortless",
"manageable",
"painless",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"uncomplicated",
"undemanding",
"unproblematic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means":{
"examples":[
"needed a dodgy barrister to get him acquitted of the charge"
],
"synonyms":[
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"cute",
"designing",
"devious",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"scheming",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astute",
"facile",
"glib",
"sharp",
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"fraudulent",
"insinuating",
"knavish",
"Machiavellian",
"oblique",
"serpentine",
"shady",
"shifty",
"slippery",
"sneaky",
"treacherous",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"unscrupulous",
"backhanded",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"smooth-tongued",
"two-faced",
"circuitous",
"circular",
"roundabout",
"clandestine",
"concealed",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hugger-mugger",
"secret",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"calculating",
"plotting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obvious",
"open",
"patent",
"plain",
"public",
"unconcealed",
"aboveboard",
"candid",
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"honest",
"natural",
"outspoken",
"plainspoken",
"real",
"simple",
"sincere",
"straightforward",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"unvarnished",
"childlike",
"impressionable",
"simpleminded",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"unforced",
"unstudied",
"trustful",
"trusting"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
]
},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"the authenticity of the \"lost\" Shakespearean sonnet was more than a little dodgy"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dogmatizers":{
"one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices":{
"examples":[
"in his foreign policy speech the secretary of state showed that he is anything but a dogmatizer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigots",
"dogmatists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"sectarians"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doctrinaires",
"fanatics",
"purists",
"jingoists",
"nationalists",
"racialists",
"racists",
"supremacists",
"chauvinists",
"sexists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freethinkers",
"latitudinarians",
"liberals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doublets":{
"as in matches , twins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"companions",
"complements",
"fellows",
"halves",
"matches",
"mates",
"twins",
"partnerships",
"teams",
"coordinates",
"counterparts",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"likes",
"parallels",
"peers",
"rivals",
"spans",
"yokes",
"braces",
"couples",
"couplets",
"duos",
"dyads",
"pairs",
"pair",
"twosomes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dotty":{
"showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"dotty relatives that we have to endure only on Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"fatuous",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"thoughtless",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"vacuous",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound",
"weak",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"notional",
"buffoonish",
"clownish",
"ill-advised",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainy",
"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"well-advised"
],
"antonyms":[
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dowries":{
"money or property that a wife or wife's family gives to her husband when the wife and husband marry in some cultures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dowers",
"endowments",
"bestowals",
"comps",
"donations",
"donatives",
"fairings",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"handsels",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents",
"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",
"bequests",
"legacies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dove (into)":{
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"the first morning back at work was spent diving into the huge pile of e-mails that had accumulated over the previous two weeks"
],
"synonyms":[
"attacked",
"tackled",
"waded (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressed",
"approached",
"faced",
"buckled (down to)",
"concentrated (on)",
"focused (on)",
"focussed (on)",
"knuckled down (to)",
"zeroed (in on)",
"fell (to)",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"settled (down)",
"pursued",
"took up",
"undertook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"evaded",
"shunned",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled",
"idled",
"lagged",
"messed",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"poked",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"documenter":{
"as in historian , chronicler":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annalist",
"chronicler",
"historian",
"archivist",
"bookkeeper",
"recorder",
"reporter",
"transcriptionist",
"clerk",
"register",
"registrar",
"scribe",
"secretary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double-wides":{
"as in trailers , RVs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"houseboats",
"house trailers",
"mobile homes",
"motor homes",
"recreational vehicles",
"RVs",
"trailers",
"farmhouses",
"granges",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"hermitages",
"manses",
"parsonages",
"rectories",
"vicarages",
"castles",
"ch\u00e2teaus",
"ch\u00e2teaux",
"countryseats",
"estates",
"halls",
"manor houses",
"manors",
"mansions",
"McMansions",
"palaces",
"villas",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties",
"barracks",
"billets",
"boardinghouses",
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"flophouses",
"lodging houses",
"lodgments",
"lodgements",
"rooming houses",
"rooms",
"penthouses",
"salons",
"suites",
"apartment houses",
"apartments",
"condominiums",
"condominia",
"condos",
"flats",
"tenement houses",
"tenements",
"walk-ups",
"duplexes",
"ranches",
"ranch houses",
"saltboxes",
"semis",
"split levels",
"townhomes",
"town houses",
"tract houses",
"triplexes",
"bungalows",
"cabins",
"casitas",
"chalets",
"cottages"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domineering":{
"fond of ordering people around":{
"examples":[
"the younger children in the family were controlled by a domineering older sister"
],
"synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"authoritative",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"bossy",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"imperious",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"peremptory",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"disdainful",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"dictating",
"regimental",
"arbitrary",
"high-handed",
"imperial",
"directorial",
"magisterial",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"self-assertive",
"imperative",
"conceited",
"narcissistic",
"pompous",
"vain",
"all-powerful",
"almighty",
"omnipotent",
"firm",
"stern"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humble",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassuming",
"amenable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"tractable",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"passive",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dominating , tyrannizing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dictating",
"dominating",
"lording (it over)",
"mastering",
"oppressing",
"reigning (over)",
"tyrannizing",
"administering",
"managing",
"micromanaging",
"overseeing",
"regulating",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"conquering",
"subduing",
"subjugating",
"conducting",
"directing",
"heading",
"leading",
"bossing",
"captaining",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"governing",
"presiding (over)",
"ruling",
"swaying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"doozers":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"you don't make mistakes very often, but when you do, it's a real doozy"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"dreams",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"pips",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doodad":{
"a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{
"examples":[
"where does this little doodad go?"
],
"synonyms":[
"dingus",
"doohickey",
"hickey",
"thingamabob",
"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
"whatchamacallit",
"whatnot",
"whatsit",
"whatsis",
"what-is-it"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest":{
"examples":[
"has a habit of buying gadgets and doodads sold on television shopping channels"
],
"synonyms":[
"bauble",
"bibelot",
"curio",
"curiosity",
"gaud",
"gewgaw",
"geegaw",
"gimcrack",
"kickshaw",
"knickknack",
"nicknack",
"novelty",
"ornamental",
"tchotchke",
"trinket"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bijouterie",
"bric-a-brac",
"gimcrackery",
"trinketry",
"trumpery",
"virtu",
"vertu",
"bagatelle",
"trifle",
"figurine",
"objet d'art",
"objet",
"ornament",
"keepsake",
"memento",
"souvenir",
"conversation piece",
"collectible",
"collectable",
"collector's item"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that decorates or beautifies":{
"examples":[
"the array of doodads that some drivers hang from their rearview mirror"
],
"synonyms":[
"adornment",
"beautifier",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"embellisher",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"garnishment",
"garniture",
"ornament",
"ornamentation",
"setoff",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonry",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichi",
"emblazonry",
"filigree",
"finery",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"frosting",
"froufrou",
"fal-lal",
"flounce",
"flourish",
"furbelow",
"ruffle",
"enhancement",
"enrichment",
"improvement",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"embossment",
"embroidery",
"fancywork",
"bedizenment",
"gilt",
"glitter",
"design",
"figure",
"pattern",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"defacement",
"disfigurement",
"scar",
"blot",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doyen":{
"a person with long experience in a specified area":{
"examples":[
"considered the doyen of American art critics"
],
"synonyms":[
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"stager",
"vet",
"veteran",
"warhorse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doyenne",
"adept",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"guru",
"hand",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"past master",
"pro",
"professional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"cub",
"boot",
"novitiate",
"amateur",
"dilettante",
"learner",
"student",
"trainee",
"candidate",
"entrant",
"probationer"
],
"antonyms":[
"beginner",
"colt",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"recruit",
"rookie",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro"
]
},
"the senior member of a group":{
"examples":[
"he's the doyen of American museum directors, and his opinion has considerable weight"
],
"synonyms":[
"dean",
"elder",
"elder statesman",
"\u00e9minence grise",
"nestor",
"senior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better",
"superior",
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"vet",
"veteran"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doyenne",
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"beginner",
"colt",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"recruit",
"rookie",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro"
],
"antonyms":[
"baby",
"junior"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dogma":{
"a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church":{
"examples":[
"the Catholic dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"doctrine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canon law",
"belief",
"conviction",
"tenet",
"credo",
"creed",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"theology",
"axiom",
"precept",
"principle",
"symbol"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"the Golden Rule encompasses a dogma that can serve all mankind"
],
"synonyms":[
"credo",
"creed",
"doctrine",
"gospel",
"ideology",
"idealogy",
"philosophy",
"testament"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifesto",
"metaphysic",
"theory",
"axiom",
"tenet",
"watchword"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doable":{
"capable of being done or carried out":{
"examples":[
"the assignment will be just barely doable in the time allowed"
],
"synonyms":[
"achievable",
"attainable",
"feasible",
"possible",
"practicable",
"realizable",
"viable",
"workable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"practical",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"contingent",
"likely",
"probable",
"acceptable",
"believable",
"conceivable",
"creditable",
"plausible",
"thinkable",
"actionable",
"available",
"usable",
"useable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"futile",
"useless",
"vain",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"unthinkable"
],
"antonyms":[
"hopeless",
"impossible",
"impracticable",
"infeasible",
"nonviable",
"unattainable",
"undoable",
"unfeasible",
"unrealizable",
"unviable",
"unworkable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"do-it-yourselfers":{
"as in handymen , tinkerers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mechanics",
"repairmen",
"servicemen",
"troubleshooters",
"doctors",
"menders",
"renovators",
"repairers",
"handymen",
"handypeople",
"tinkerers",
"jacks-of-all-trades"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"douching":{
"as in hosing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hosing",
"flowing",
"gushing",
"rushing",
"streaming",
"drenching",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"swamping",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"sloshing",
"splashing",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"rinsing",
"sluicing",
"washing",
"washing out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dolling up":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"if you were to doll up those Shaker-style rooms, you'd ruin their simple elegance"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"to put on one's best or formal clothes":{
"examples":[
"got all dolled up for the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"dressing",
"dressing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preening",
"primping",
"prinking",
"smartening (up)",
"accessorizing",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking",
"duding (up)",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"robing",
"suiting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dodos":{
"a person with old-fashioned ideas":{
"examples":[
"youngsters helping old dodos learn to use computers"
],
"synonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"fuds",
"mossbacks",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"Tories",
"mandarins",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"old maids"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberals",
"progressives",
"radicals"
],
"antonyms":[
"hipsters",
"moderns",
"trendies"
]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"she called him a dodo after he lost the concert tickets"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dole out":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasure",
"allot",
"allow",
"appropriate",
"assign",
"dish out",
"divide",
"divvy (up)",
"dollop (out)",
"lot",
"measure (out)",
"part",
"proportion",
"ration",
"redistribute",
"set",
"share (out)",
"split",
"bestow",
"disburse",
"furnish",
"issue",
"provide",
"share",
"supply",
"circulate",
"disperse",
"disseminate",
"scatter",
"spread",
"chip in",
"contribute",
"donate",
"pledge",
"reallocate",
"reapportion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudge",
"decline",
"deny",
"deprive (of)",
"disallow",
"refuse",
"reject",
"withhold",
"niggle (out)",
"pinch",
"skimp",
"stint"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doyennes":{
"as in doyens , veterans":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adepts",
"dab hands",
"experts",
"gurus",
"hands",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"past masters",
"professionals",
"pros",
"doyens",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"stagers",
"veterans",
"vets",
"warhorses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beginners",
"colts",
"fledglings",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"neophytes",
"newbies",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"recruits",
"rookies",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros",
"apprentices",
"cubs",
"boots",
"novitiates",
"amateurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"learners",
"students",
"trainees",
"candidates",
"entrants",
"probationers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dockhands":{
"one who loads and unloads ships at a port":{
"examples":[
"a trade embargo that was especially hard on the nation's dockhands"
],
"synonyms":[
"dockers",
"dockworkers",
"longshoremen",
"roustabouts",
"rousters",
"stevedores"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolce far niente":{
"as in idleness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"idleness",
"calm",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"respite",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"quiet",
"silence",
"stillness",
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"lazing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exertion",
"labor",
"toil",
"work",
"pressure",
"strain",
"stress",
"tenseness",
"tension"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double-faced":{
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"examples":[
"you'll find out how double-faced she is when you're no further help to her career"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"fake",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
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"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
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"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
]
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"adjective"
]
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],
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"domination",
"overpowering",
"subduing",
"subjecting",
"subjection",
"subjugating",
"subjugation",
"vanquishing"
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"triumph",
"victory",
"win",
"winning",
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping",
"enslavement",
"takeover"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipation",
"enfranchisement",
"freeing",
"liberation",
"manumission",
"release"
],
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},
"as in dominant , prominent":{
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"dominant",
"eminent",
"prominent",
"altitudinous",
"high",
"lofty",
"tall",
"towering",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upswept",
"high-rise",
"statuesque"
],
"near antonyms":[
"low",
"low-lying",
"short",
"squat",
"flat",
"stubby",
"stumpy"
],
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},
"as in overbearing , domineering":{
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"domineering",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"overbearing",
"bare-knuckle",
"bare-knuckled",
"bare-knuckles",
"feisty",
"scrappy",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"bumptious",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"determined",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"overconfident",
"presumptuous",
"unapologetic",
"unsubdued",
"unyielding",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"daring",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"gutsy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"emphatic",
"obtrusive",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"gung ho",
"hustling",
"strenuous",
"vigorous",
"hyperaggressive",
"overambitious",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"gladiatorial",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"trigger-happy",
"truculent",
"warlike",
"aggressive",
"ambitious",
"assertive",
"enterprising",
"fierce",
"go-getting",
"high-pressure",
"in-your-face",
"militant",
"pushy",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive"
],
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"ambitionless",
"low-pressure",
"nonassertive",
"unaggressive",
"unambitious",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed",
"acquiescent",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"docile",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"shrinking",
"bashful",
"demure",
"diffident",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"mild",
"modest",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
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},
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
"examples":[
"by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe"
],
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"conquering",
"overpowering",
"pacifying",
"subduing",
"subjecting",
"subjugating",
"subordinating",
"vanquishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"beating",
"clobbering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mowing (down)",
"overcoming",
"prevailing (over)",
"reducing",
"routing",
"skunking",
"smashing",
"thrashing",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"enslaving",
"breaking",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"smothering",
"snuffing (out)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"suppressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharging",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"manumitting",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
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},
"to look down on":{
"examples":[
"the ruined fortress dominates the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"commanding",
"overlooking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facing",
"fronting"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"do-goodings":{
"as in altruisms , humanisms":{
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"altruisms",
"do-goodisms",
"humanisms",
"humanitarianisms",
"almsgivings",
"charities",
"doles",
"philanthropies",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"goodwills",
"alms",
"benefactions",
"contributions",
"donations",
"reliefs",
"welfares",
"endowments",
"funds",
"grants",
"subsidies"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominies":{
"a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church":{
"examples":[
"a small village where the doctor and the dominie were the two pillars of society"
],
"synonyms":[
"clergypersons",
"clericals",
"clerics",
"clerks",
"deacons",
"divines",
"ecclesiastics",
"ministers",
"preachers",
"priests",
"reverends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"churchmen",
"clergymen",
"fathers",
"Holy Joes",
"padres",
"clergywomen",
"deaconesses",
"priestesses",
"abbots",
"archbishops",
"archpriests",
"bishops",
"deans",
"diocesans",
"monsignors",
"monsignori",
"popes",
"prelates",
"presbyters",
"abb\u00e9s",
"curates",
"cur\u00e9s",
"parsons",
"pastors",
"rectors",
"shepherds",
"vicars",
"chaplains",
"confessors",
"sky pilots",
"evangelists",
"missionaries",
"missioners",
"missionizers",
"revivalists",
"friars",
"mendicants",
"monastics",
"monks",
"oblates",
"religious",
"high priestesses",
"high priests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay readers",
"lectors"
],
"antonyms":[
"laymen",
"laypeople",
"seculars",
"secular"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominated":{
"to bring under one's control by force of arms":{
"examples":[
"by 1941 Hitler had dominated much of Europe"
],
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"conquered",
"overpowered",
"pacified",
"subdued",
"subjected",
"subjugated",
"subordinated",
"vanquished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"beat",
"clobbered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mowed (down)",
"overcame",
"prevailed (over)",
"reduced",
"routed",
"skunked",
"smashed",
"thrashed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"enslaved",
"broke",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"suppressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharged",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"freed",
"liberated",
"manumitted",
"released",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look down on":{
"examples":[
"the ruined fortress dominates the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"commanded",
"overlooked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faced",
"fronted"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"documentation":{
"something presented in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim":{
"examples":[
"the archaeologist presented convincing documentation of her theory at the conference"
],
"synonyms":[
"attestation",
"confirmation",
"corroboration",
"evidence",
"proof",
"substantiation",
"testament",
"testimonial",
"testimony",
"validation",
"voucher",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"(the) goods",
"certificate",
"document",
"exhibit",
"demonstration",
"illustration",
"authentication",
"identification",
"manifestation",
"verification"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rebuttal",
"refutation",
"accusation",
"allegation",
"charge",
"assumption",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presumption",
"surmise",
"suspicion"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproof"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doles out":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket"
],
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"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasures",
"allots",
"allows",
"appropriates",
"assigns",
"dishes out",
"divides",
"divvies (up)",
"dollops (out)",
"lots",
"measures (out)",
"parts",
"proportions",
"rations",
"redistributes",
"sets",
"shares (out)",
"splits",
"bestows",
"disburses",
"furnishes",
"issues",
"provides",
"shares",
"supplies",
"circulates",
"disperses",
"disseminates",
"scatters",
"spreads",
"chips in",
"contributes",
"donates",
"pledges",
"reallocates",
"reapportions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudges",
"declines",
"denies",
"deprives (of)",
"disallows",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"withholds",
"niggles (out)",
"pinches",
"skimps",
"stints"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dobbin":{
"as in cob , skate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cob",
"jade",
"plug",
"skate",
"equine",
"nag",
"steed",
"equid",
"colt",
"filly",
"foal",
"gelding",
"mare",
"stallion",
"bronco",
"mustang",
"pony",
"charger",
"courser",
"cow pony",
"cutting horse",
"galloper",
"hack",
"hackney",
"mount",
"packhorse",
"prancer",
"quarter horse",
"racehorse",
"saddle horse",
"trotter",
"warhorse",
"workhorse",
"bay",
"black",
"buckskin",
"chestnut",
"dun",
"palomino",
"pinto",
"roan",
"skewbald",
"sorrel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doozy":{
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"you don't make mistakes very often, but when you do, it's a real doozy"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"dream",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"done the trick":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"The suggested revisions did the trick , and the updated article was well-received."
],
"synonyms":[
"clicked",
"come off",
"delivered",
"gone",
"gone over",
"panned out",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"thriven",
"cooked",
"percolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languished",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"sunk",
"waned",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"fallen down",
"gone under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"stricken out",
"washed out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"donation":{
"a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution":{
"examples":[
"a generous donation to the orphanage from an anonymous benefactor"
],
"synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"charity",
"contribution",
"philanthropy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"offering",
"tithe",
"bequest",
"endowment",
"legacy",
"aid",
"assistance",
"dole",
"handout",
"relief",
"welfare",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"benevolence",
"bestowal",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something given to someone without expectation of a return":{
"examples":[
"a chocolate cake was my donation to the office party"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestowal",
"comp",
"donative",
"fairing",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"gift",
"giveaway",
"handsel",
"lagniappe",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"charity",
"contribution",
"dole",
"handout",
"oblation",
"offering",
"philanthropy",
"tithe",
"box",
"care package",
"foy",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"remembrance",
"tribute",
"valentine",
"bonus",
"boon",
"windfall",
"courtesy",
"favor",
"generosity",
"sacrifice",
"gratuity",
"propine",
"tip",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"dowry",
"bequest",
"legacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"loan",
"bribe",
"douceur",
"peace offering",
"sop"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donative":{
"something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed":{
"examples":[
"the support of the military was bought with a large donative to a couple of well-placed generals"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonus",
"cumshaw",
"dividend",
"extra",
"gratuity",
"gravy",
"gravy train",
"lagniappe",
"perk",
"perquisite",
"throw-in",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pension",
"bestowal",
"presentation",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"bounty",
"charity",
"generosity",
"largesse",
"largess",
"philanthropy",
"contribution",
"donation",
"gift",
"offering",
"present",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"boon",
"manna",
"windfall",
"favor",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"giveaway",
"premium",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"fringe benefit",
"icing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something given to someone without expectation of a return":{
"examples":[
"regarded her annual bonus as a just recompense for her job performance and not as some corporate donative"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestowal",
"comp",
"donation",
"fairing",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"gift",
"giveaway",
"handsel",
"lagniappe",
"largesse",
"largess",
"present",
"presentation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alms",
"benefaction",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"charity",
"contribution",
"dole",
"handout",
"oblation",
"offering",
"philanthropy",
"tithe",
"box",
"care package",
"foy",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"remembrance",
"tribute",
"valentine",
"bonus",
"boon",
"windfall",
"courtesy",
"favor",
"generosity",
"sacrifice",
"gratuity",
"propine",
"tip",
"award",
"prize",
"reward",
"dowry",
"bequest",
"legacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"loan",
"bribe",
"douceur",
"peace offering",
"sop"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dozing":{
"being in a state of suspended consciousness":{
"examples":[
"the dozing dog was running\u2014at least in his dream"
],
"synonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drowsy",
"nodding",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent",
"dreaming",
"reposing",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"comatose",
"semiconscious",
"sleepwalking",
"somnambulant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aware",
"conscious",
"sleepless",
"aroused",
"astir",
"awakened",
"roused",
"up",
"wakened",
"reawakened",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[
"awake",
"sleepless",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
]
},
"a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself":{
"examples":[
"dozing is a natural response to the stifling heat of summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"catnapping",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"resting",
"shut-eye",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"drowse",
"forty winks",
"nap",
"siesta",
"snooze",
"wink",
"oversleeping",
"dreaming",
"rapid eye movement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insomnia",
"sleeplessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"consciousness",
"wake",
"wakefulness"
]
},
"to be in a state of sleep":{
"examples":[
"likes to doze through those lazy summer afternoons"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapping",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dropping off",
"drowsing (off)",
"nodding off",
"oversleeping",
"sleeping in",
"dreaming",
"hibernating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arising",
"arousing",
"awaking",
"rising",
"waking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"examples":[
"she dozed fitfully in the car but never fell completely asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapping",
"drowsing",
"kipping",
"napping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting",
"couching",
"laying",
"lying",
"roosting",
"lulling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arising",
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"getting up",
"rising",
"rousing",
"uprising",
"wakening",
"waking (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"do-gooder":{
"as in reformer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reformer",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"perfectionist",
"daydreamer",
"fantasizer",
"woolgatherer",
"doctrinaire",
"theorist",
"thinker",
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist",
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down-to-earth":{
"not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness":{
"examples":[
"we were all impressed by how down-to-earth the movie star turned out to be"
],
"synonyms":[
"demure",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"modest",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"ingenuous",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"plain",
"simple",
"unaffected",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"aw-shucks",
"self-deprecating",
"self-deprecatory",
"self-effacing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"hubristic",
"overconfident",
"self-confident",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"narcissistic",
"prideful",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-engrossed",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggy",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"overbearing",
"patronizing",
"pontificating",
"flamboyant",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"chesty",
"conceited",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
]
},
"willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly":{
"examples":[
"a down-to-earth guidance counselor who is frank in telling students which colleges they're likely to get into"
],
"synonyms":[
"earthy",
"hardheaded",
"matter-of-fact",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical",
"realistic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"idealless",
"philistine",
"utilitarian",
"commonsensical",
"grounded",
"levelheaded",
"logical",
"no-nonsense",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"sound",
"bottom-line",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-edged",
"tough-minded",
"unromantic",
"unsentimental",
"cynical",
"disillusioned",
"misanthropic",
"pessimistic",
"distrustful",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginative",
"romantic",
"sentimental",
"cheerful",
"optimistic",
"rose-colored",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"unsuspicious",
"half-baked",
"illogical",
"insane",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
],
"antonyms":[
"blue-sky",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"utopian",
"visionary"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dough":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"didn't have to spend a lot of dough for a new stereo"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doodley-squats":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"tried to act intelligent but it was painfully obvious that he didn't know doodley-squat about cosmology"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continentals",
"damns",
"darns",
"durns",
"diddlies",
"diddly-squats",
"figs",
"ghosts",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"licks",
"modicums",
"raps",
"squats",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"whits",
"whoops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"pins",
"rays",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"semblances",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominos":{
"as in masks , veils":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"masks",
"veils",
"visors",
"vizors",
"vizards",
"camouflages",
"costumes",
"disguises",
"guises",
"costumeries",
"dresses",
"getups",
"outfits",
"rigs",
"colorings",
"cosmetics",
"makeups",
"paints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ponchos , pelisses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burnooses",
"burnouses",
"capelets",
"capuchins",
"cowls",
"josephs",
"mantas",
"mantelets",
"mantillas",
"palatines",
"pelerines",
"pelisses",
"ponchos",
"roquelaures",
"tippets",
"capes",
"capotes",
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"manteaus",
"mantles",
"serapes",
"sarapes",
"shawls",
"stoles",
"wraps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doomsdayer":{
"one given to forebodings and predictions of impending calamity":{
"examples":[
"once again doomsdayers were issuing warnings about the dangers of nuclear proliferation"
],
"synonyms":[
"Cassandra",
"Chicken Little",
"doomsayer",
"doomster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"fatalist",
"naysayer",
"negativist",
"pessimist",
"handwringer",
"worrier",
"worrywart"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down on":{
"having a natural dislike for something":{
"examples":[
"I don't understand why Louise is so down on mushrooms. They're delicious!"
],
"synonyms":[
"allergic",
"antipathetic",
"averse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"afraid",
"disinclined",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling",
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"intolerant",
"negative",
"opposed",
"opposing",
"resistant",
"resisting",
"uncongenial",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"revolted",
"shocked",
"squeamish",
"turned off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"friendly",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"admiring",
"appreciative",
"charmed",
"delighted",
"fond",
"pleased",
"tickled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"doddering":{
"as in decrepit , senile":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anile",
"decrepit",
"senile",
"spavined",
"tottery",
"aged",
"aging",
"ageing",
"ancient",
"elderly",
"geriatric",
"long-lived",
"old",
"older",
"over-the-hill",
"senescent",
"senior",
"unyoung",
"centenarian",
"nonagenarian",
"octogenarian",
"septuagenarian",
"sexagenarian",
"oldish",
"adult",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"middle-aged",
"pensioned",
"retired",
"superannuated",
"matriarchal",
"patriarchal",
"venerable",
"overage",
"overaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ageless",
"youngish",
"adolescent",
"immature",
"juvenile",
"preteen",
"puerile",
"minor",
"underage",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"babyish",
"childish",
"childlike",
"infantile",
"infantine",
"kiddish",
"young",
"youthful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
"examples":[
"was doddering down the walk outside the nursing home"
],
"synonyms":[
"careening",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocking",
"rolling",
"seesawing",
"swagging",
"swaying",
"wavering",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"barging",
"blundering",
"clomping",
"clumping",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"tramping",
"tromping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"do it":{
"to engage in sexual intercourse":{
"examples":[
"were both in the mood to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"breed",
"copulate",
"mate",
"sleep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fool around",
"fornicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"double-dealings":{
"marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"double-dealing business practices that are being investigated by the state's attorney general"
],
"synonyms":[
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"defrauding",
"dishonest",
"false",
"fraudulent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiling",
"deceiving",
"deceptive",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"duplicitous",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"specious",
"spurious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"legitimate",
"true",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"truthful"
]
},
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"examples":[
"the double-dealing salesman never told me that the car had been in an accident and repaired"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"the double-dealing team owners were pitting the two cities against one another, both of whom badly wanted the franchise"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery":{
"examples":[
"a go-between suspected of double-dealing"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"cheating",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"foxiness",
"fraud",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"wiliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"fraudulence",
"hanky-panky",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"mountebankery",
"obliquity",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"wile",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"untruth",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"sanctimoniousness",
"two-facedness",
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"deviousness",
"shrewdness",
"treacherousness",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"covertness",
"furtiveness",
"secrecy",
"shadiness",
"sneakiness",
"stealthiness",
"oiliness",
"shiftiness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"frankness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness",
"honesty",
"probity",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"solidity",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"decency",
"goodness",
"incorruptibility",
"integrity",
"righteousness",
"truthfulness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"domination":{
"controlling power or influence over others":{
"examples":[
"auction houses battling for domination in the high-end art market"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascendance",
"ascendence",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"hegemony",
"imperium",
"predominance",
"predominancy",
"preeminence",
"reign",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control":{
"examples":[
"the Spanish domination of the Americas in the 16th century"
],
"synonyms":[
"conquest",
"dominating",
"overpowering",
"subduing",
"subjecting",
"subjection",
"subjugating",
"subjugation",
"vanquishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"triumph",
"victory",
"win",
"winning",
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping",
"enslavement",
"takeover"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipation",
"enfranchisement",
"freeing",
"liberation",
"manumission",
"release"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dovecots":{
"as in henhouses , cotes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cotes",
"henhouses",
"kraals",
"stockades",
"folds",
"sheepfolds",
"kennels",
"runs",
"pigpens",
"cages",
"coops",
"corrals",
"hutches",
"pens",
"pounds",
"aquariums",
"aquaria",
"terraria",
"terrariums",
"live-boxes",
"fences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"donkey":{
"a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things":{
"examples":[
"we put our bags on the donkey and headed down the canyon"
],
"synonyms":[
"ass",
"burro",
"jackass",
"moke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jack",
"jennet",
"jenny",
"hinny",
"mule",
"pack animal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"called him a donkey when he refused to go along with their plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doted (on)":{
"to love or admire too much":{
"examples":[
"doted on her only grandchild"
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"adulated",
"canonized",
"deified",
"hero-worshipped",
"hero-worshiped",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"esteemed",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"fancied",
"favored",
"liked",
"preferred",
"regarded",
"hallowed",
"respected",
"revered",
"venerated",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"supported"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"disdained",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"misprized",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dopey":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"a sweet but dopey little dog who never learned any tricks"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
]
},
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"examples":[
"we were still dopey from having all those facts and figures thrown at us"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"do by":{
"to behave toward in a stated way":{
"examples":[
"The company did well by him after he was injured on the job."
],
"synonyms":[
"act (toward)",
"be (to)",
"deal (with)",
"handle",
"serve",
"treat",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consider",
"esteem",
"rate",
"reckon",
"regard",
"view",
"engage (with)",
"react (to)",
"respond (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"downgrade":{
"a change to a lower state or level":{
"examples":[
"a singing career on the downgrade"
],
"synonyms":[
"decadence",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devolution",
"downfall",
"ebb",
"eclipse",
"fall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark age",
"nadir",
"sunset",
"decay",
"rotting",
"spoiling",
"breakup",
"crumbling",
"decomposition",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"depreciation",
"lessening",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"havoc",
"ruin",
"ruination",
"abatement",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"de-escalation",
"deflation",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"dip",
"downslide",
"downtrend",
"downturn",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"falloff",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"sag",
"shrinkage",
"slip",
"slump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancement",
"development",
"evolution",
"growth",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"renewal",
"restoration",
"revitalization",
"heightening",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"enhancement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascent",
"rise",
"upswing"
]
},
"a downward slope":{
"examples":[
"the gentle downgrade of the parking area is designed for drainage"
],
"synonyms":[
"declension",
"decline",
"declivity",
"descent",
"dip",
"downhill",
"fall",
"hang",
"hanging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basin",
"depression",
"hollow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glacis",
"grade",
"gradient",
"hill",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"tilt"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclivity",
"ascent",
"rise",
"upgrade",
"uphill",
"uprise"
]
},
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"increased automation resulted in many jobs in the factory being downgraded"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"degrade",
"demote",
"disrate",
"reduce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"can",
"cashier",
"dismiss",
"downsize",
"fire",
"lay off",
"sack",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hire"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"elevate",
"promote",
"raise"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"the company's filing for Chapter 11 downgraded the stock to the point where it was selling for pennies a share"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuate",
"break",
"cheapen",
"depreciate",
"depress",
"devaluate",
"devalue",
"lower",
"mark down",
"reduce",
"sink",
"write down",
"write off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debase",
"demonetize",
"underestimate",
"underprice",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"abridge",
"compress",
"contract",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"moderate",
"shrink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloat",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"overestimate",
"overprice",
"overrate",
"overvalue",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"compound",
"dilate",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"multiply",
"raise",
"swell",
"up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciate",
"enhance",
"mark up",
"upgrade"
]
},
"as in downhill , downstairs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downhill",
"downstairs",
"below",
"down",
"downward",
"downwards",
"over",
"facedown",
"low"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft",
"up",
"upward",
"upwards",
"upwardly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dolloped (out)":{
"as in shared (out) , measured (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasured",
"allotted",
"allowed",
"appropriated",
"assigned",
"dished out",
"divided",
"divvied (up)",
"lotted",
"measured (out)",
"parted",
"proportioned",
"rationed",
"redistributed",
"set",
"shared (out)",
"split",
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"doled out",
"handed out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated",
"bestowed",
"disbursed",
"furnished",
"issued",
"provided",
"shared",
"supplied",
"circulated",
"dispersed",
"disseminated",
"scattered",
"spread",
"chipped in",
"contributed",
"donated",
"pledged",
"reallocated",
"reapportioned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misallocated",
"begrudged",
"declined",
"denied",
"deprived (of)",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"withheld",
"niggled (out)",
"pinched",
"skimped",
"stinted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"downtowns":{
"as in midtowns , inner cities":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"core cities",
"inner cities",
"midtowns",
"central cities",
"edge cities",
"garden cities",
"exurbs",
"suburbias",
"suburbs",
"urban sprawls",
"conurbations",
"boroughs",
"asphalt jungles",
"burgs",
"cities",
"cosmopolises",
"megacities",
"megalopolises",
"metropolises",
"municipalities",
"towns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dogmatists":{
"one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices":{
"examples":[
"a dogmatist as far as economics are concerned, he's an unquestioning supporter of the supply-side theory"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigots",
"dogmatizers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"sectarians"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doctrinaires",
"fanatics",
"purists",
"jingoists",
"nationalists",
"racialists",
"racists",
"supremacists",
"chauvinists",
"sexists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freethinkers",
"latitudinarians",
"liberals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doeskin":{
"as in capeskin , kid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dog":{
"a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes":{
"examples":[
"a dog who needs a loving home"
],
"synonyms":[
"canine",
"doggy",
"doggie",
"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":[]
},
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"she must think that you're a real dog after hearing those tasteless jokes you told last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
"boor",
"bounder",
"bugger",
"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"fink",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dog",
"chase",
"course",
"follow",
"hound",
"pursue",
"run",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"escort",
"hunt",
"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"head"
],
"antonyms":[
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot"
]
},
"to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders":{
"examples":[
"tired of constantly having to dog their son about cleaning his room"
],
"synonyms":[
"henpeck",
"hound",
"nag",
"needle",
"peck (at)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carp (at)",
"fuss (about or over)",
"nitpick",
"annoy",
"badger",
"bait",
"bother",
"bug",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"harass",
"harry",
"hassle",
"irk",
"pester",
"plague",
"ride",
"vex",
"yap (at)",
"egg",
"goad",
"incite",
"prod",
"prompt",
"spur",
"urge",
"exhort",
"insist",
"press",
"pressure",
"push",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"wheedle",
"beg",
"importune",
"plead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compliment",
"commend",
"laud",
"praise",
"recommend",
"tout",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"build up",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"double-domes":{
"a person with strong intellectual interests":{
"examples":[
"double-domes in the scientific community probably understand it\u2014but the rest of us don't"
],
"synonyms":[
"geeks",
"highbrows",
"intellectualists",
"intellectuals",
"longhairs",
"nerds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blues",
"bluestockings",
"Brahmins",
"mandarins",
"sages",
"intellectualizers",
"pseuds",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"intellects",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"half-wits",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"nitwits",
"pinheads",
"simpletons"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectuals",
"lowbrows",
"philistines"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doctrinaire":{
"given to or marked by the forceful expression of strongly held opinions":{
"examples":[
"a doctrinaire conservative, the columnist takes special delight in baiting liberals"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"opinioned",
"pontifical",
"self-opinionated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"unyielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadminded",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive"
],
"antonyms":[
"latitudinarian",
"undoctrinaire",
"undogmatic"
]
},
"as in purist , fanatic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fanatic",
"purist",
"stickler",
"bigot",
"dogmatist",
"dogmatizer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"sectarian",
"jingoist",
"nationalist",
"chauvinist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freethinker",
"latitudinarian",
"liberal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in theorist , thinker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"theorist",
"thinker",
"perfectionist",
"do-gooder",
"reformer",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"daydreamer",
"fantasizer",
"woolgatherer",
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"Don Quixote",
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist",
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"dovetailed":{
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"the Union and the Confederate accounts of the battle don't dovetail at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"accorded",
"agreed",
"answered",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"fitted",
"fit",
"harmonized",
"jibed",
"rhymed",
"rimed",
"sorted",
"squared",
"tallied",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled",
"aligned",
"alined",
"lined up",
"registered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"nullified",
"clashed",
"conflicted",
"jarred"
],
"antonyms":[
"differed (from)",
"disagreed (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"domiciling":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"rooming",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doddery":{
"as in doddering , rickety":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doddering",
"jiggling",
"jiggly",
"rickety",
"staggery",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"infirm",
"insecure",
"precarious",
"unsound",
"askew",
"awry",
"cockeyed",
"lopsided",
"off-kilter",
"uneven",
"rocky",
"shaky",
"tippy",
"tipsy",
"wavery",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"wonky",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"equilibrated",
"stabilized",
"stable",
"steady",
"even",
"level",
"straight",
"sound",
"sturdy",
"substantial"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"downsizing":{
"as in firing , sack":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"pink slip",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff",
"redundancy",
"shakeout",
"shake-up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"denting",
"depleting",
"diminishing",
"downscaling",
"dropping",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"docking",
"nicking",
"paring",
"pruning",
"retrenching",
"shortening",
"slashing",
"trimming",
"truncating",
"whittling",
"deflating",
"shrinking",
"minimizing",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"modulating",
"qualifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"does by":{
"to behave toward in a stated way":{
"examples":[
"The company did well by him after he was injured on the job."
],
"synonyms":[
"acts (toward)",
"deals (with)",
"handles",
"is (to)",
"serves",
"treats",
"uses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considers",
"esteems",
"rates",
"reckons",
"regards",
"views",
"engages (with)",
"reacts (to)",
"responds (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dotes (on)":{
"to love or admire too much":{
"examples":[
"doted on her only grandchild"
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"adulates",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"hero-worships",
"idolizes",
"worships"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"esteems",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"fancies",
"favors",
"likes",
"prefers",
"regards",
"hallows",
"respects",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"supports"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"despises",
"detests",
"disdains",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"belittles",
"deprecates",
"disparages",
"misprizes",
"puts down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dogfights":{
"an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another":{
"examples":[
"the playful competition over who would get the new office turned into a real dogfight"
],
"synonyms":[
"ball games",
"battles",
"combats",
"competitions",
"conflicts",
"confrontations",
"contentions",
"contests",
"duels",
"face-offs",
"grapples",
"matches",
"rivalries",
"strifes",
"struggles",
"sweepstakes",
"sweep-stake",
"tugs-of-war",
"warfares",
"wars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"horse races",
"nail-biters",
"showdowns",
"clashes",
"collisions",
"discords",
"frictions",
"arguments",
"controversies",
"debates",
"disagreements",
"disputations",
"disputes",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concords",
"harmonies",
"peaces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downscaling":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"the poor economy forced the plant to downscale production"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"denting",
"depleting",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dropping",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"docking",
"nicking",
"paring",
"pruning",
"retrenching",
"shortening",
"slashing",
"trimming",
"truncating",
"whittling",
"deflating",
"shrinking",
"minimizing",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"modulating",
"qualifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubtless":{
"having or showing a mind free from doubt":{
"examples":[
"another one of his doubtless predictions that will never come true"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"certain",
"clear",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"implicit",
"positive",
"sanguine",
"sure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"self-assured",
"self-conceited",
"self-confident",
"decisive",
"resolute",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unquestioning",
"unwavering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"diffident",
"unassuming"
],
"antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"unsure"
]
},
"without any question":{
"examples":[
"she is doubtless the one and only girl for me"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conceivably",
"likely",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"probably",
"obviously",
"unmistakably"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"by reasonable assumption":{
"examples":[
"doubtless you have heard this story before, but I'll tell it anyway"
],
"synonyms":[
"assumably",
"likely",
"presumably",
"probably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"conceivably",
"imaginably",
"plausibly",
"practically",
"reasonably",
"potentially",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"conclusively",
"decisively",
"definitely",
"definitively",
"indisputably",
"indubitably",
"positively",
"really",
"surely",
"truly",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably",
"presumedly",
"supposably",
"supposedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibly",
"inconceivably",
"incredibly",
"unbelievably",
"unthinkably"
],
"antonyms":[
"improbably"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"done for":{
"facing certain defeat, disaster, or death":{
"examples":[
"with no means of escape, the stranded climbers knew that they were done for"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"done",
"doomed",
"finished",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"ruined",
"sunk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attend to the needs and comforts of":{
"examples":[
"I trust him to do for my kids while I am at work."
],
"synonyms":[
"administered (to)",
"cared (for)",
"ministered (to)",
"mothered",
"nursed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cured",
"healed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"treated",
"aided",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"provided (for)",
"supported",
"babied",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"forgotten",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"slighted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"The long journey on foot nearly did for her."
],
"synonyms":[
"carried off",
"claimed",
"croaked",
"destroyed",
"dispatched",
"done in",
"felled",
"killed",
"slain",
"taken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumped off",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"finished",
"got",
"gotten",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"scragged",
"snuffed",
"taken out",
"wasted",
"whacked",
"annihilated",
"blotted out",
"decimated",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed",
"slaughtered",
"smitten",
"smote",
"assassinated",
"executed",
"martyred",
"terminated",
"euthanized",
"euthanatized",
"put down",
"suicided"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived",
"nurtured"
],
"antonyms":[
"animated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"phrase"
]
},
"dogcart":{
"as in caroche , jaunting car":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"droshky",
"drosky",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downgrading":{
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"increased automation resulted in many jobs in the factory being downgraded"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"busting",
"degrading",
"demoting",
"disrating",
"reducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canning",
"cashiering",
"dismissing",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"laying off",
"sacking",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"advancing",
"elevating",
"promoting",
"raising"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"the company's filing for Chapter 11 downgraded the stock to the point where it was selling for pennies a share"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuating",
"breaking",
"cheapening",
"depreciating",
"depressing",
"devaluating",
"devaluing",
"lowering",
"marking down",
"reducing",
"sinking",
"writing down",
"writing off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debasing",
"demonetizing",
"underestimating",
"underpricing",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"abridging",
"compressing",
"contracting",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"moderating",
"shrinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloating",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"overestimating",
"overpricing",
"overrating",
"overvaluing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"dilating",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"enhancing",
"marking up",
"upgrading"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"document":{
"a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it":{
"examples":[
"filled out the documents for a bank loan"
],
"synonyms":[
"blank",
"form",
"paper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"instrument",
"writ",
"filing",
"sheet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a written or printed paper giving information about or proof of something":{
"examples":[
"have your documents ready as you approach the border"
],
"synonyms":[
"certificate",
"certification",
"instrument"
],
"near synonyms":[
"credentials",
"diploma",
"parchment",
"record",
"warrant",
"writ",
"warranty",
"coupon",
"voucher"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"examples":[
"he tried in vain to document a link between ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrate",
"establish",
"prove",
"substantiate",
"validate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back (up)",
"buttress",
"circumstantiate",
"corroborate",
"evidence",
"evince",
"record",
"support",
"uphold",
"witness",
"adduce",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"certify",
"identify",
"confirm",
"sustain",
"verify",
"vouch",
"clinch",
"nail",
"settle",
"confess",
"depose",
"testify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenge",
"dispute",
"object",
"allege",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presume",
"surmise",
"suspect"
],
"antonyms":[
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"do-rag":{
"a scarf worn on the head":{
"examples":[
"he wore a do-rag while working out at the gym"
],
"synonyms":[
"babushka",
"bandanna",
"bandana",
"handkerchief",
"kerchief",
"madras",
"mantilla"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shawl",
"hankie",
"hanky"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double visions":{
"as in eyes , vision":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aniseikonias",
"astigmatisms",
"diplopias",
"squints",
"strabismuses",
"eyes",
"sight",
"vision",
"hypermetropias",
"hyperopias",
"presbyopias",
"myopias"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downscaled":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"the poor economy forced the plant to downscale production"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"dented",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dropped",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"knocked down",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"added (to)",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"raised"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Don Juan":{
"a man given to seducing women":{
"examples":[
"at the hotel bar she was immediately hit on by the local Don Juan"
],
"synonyms":[
"Casanova",
"lecher",
"lothario",
"lounge lizard",
"masher",
"philanderer",
"satyr",
"wolf",
"womanizer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amorist",
"gallant",
"ladies' man",
"lady's man",
"lady-killer",
"lover",
"paramour",
"Romeo",
"debaucher",
"romancer",
"seducer",
"whoremaster",
"whoremonger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down-and-outers":{
"as in have-nots , paupers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"have-nots",
"indigents",
"paupers",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"drifters",
"roamers",
"transients",
"almsmen",
"beggars",
"mendicants",
"panhandlers",
"gamines",
"ragamuffins",
"urchins",
"waifs",
"bankrupts",
"insolvents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affluents",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"billionaires",
"billionairesses",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"millionairesses",
"magnates",
"moneymakers",
"nabobs",
"successes",
"tycoons"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dots":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"examples":[
"there was just a dot on the tablecloth where the food had spattered"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotches",
"dapples",
"eyespots",
"flecks",
"mottles",
"patches",
"pips",
"points",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"birthmarks",
"freckles",
"moles",
"blobs",
"blots",
"marks",
"smears",
"smudges",
"smutches",
"stains",
"spatters",
"splashes",
"polka dots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on":{
"examples":[
"a hillside dotted with wildflowers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestrews",
"peppers",
"scatters",
"sows",
"spots",
"sprays",
"sprinkles",
"strews"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blankets",
"drizzles",
"dusts",
"studs",
"dapples",
"flecks",
"speckles",
"stipples",
"bespatters",
"spatters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotches",
"dapples",
"flecks",
"freckles",
"marbles",
"mottles",
"peppers",
"shoots",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"stipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blots",
"dyes",
"stains",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes",
"intersperses",
"sets",
"studs",
"bespatters",
"spatters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"do-gooding":{
"as in altruism , humanism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altruism",
"do-goodism",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"almsgiving",
"charity",
"dole",
"philanthropy",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"goodwill",
"alms",
"benefaction",
"contribution",
"donation",
"relief",
"welfare",
"endowment",
"fund",
"grant",
"subsidy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doldrums":{
"a state of temporary inactivity":{
"examples":[
"the theater scene is usually in the doldrums during the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"dormancy",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"moratorium",
"quiescence",
"suspended animation",
"suspense",
"suspension"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inaction",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"motionlessness",
"impasse",
"standstill",
"coma",
"hibernation",
"hypnosis",
"repose",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"torpor",
"recess",
"recession",
"remission",
"downtime",
"idleness",
"layoff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recommencement",
"renewal",
"resumption",
"resuscitation"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
]
},
"a state or spell of low spirits":{
"examples":[
"the team had been in the doldrums ever since losing the championship"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolation",
"despond",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"dolefulness",
"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"
]
},
"the state of being bored":{
"examples":[
"we were in the doldrums while we waited for something to happen"
],
"synonyms":[
"blahs",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"listlessness",
"restlessness",
"tedium",
"weariness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheerlessness",
"dispiritedness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"lifelessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beguilement",
"bewitchment",
"captivation",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"immersion",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation",
"amusement",
"entertainment",
"diversion",
"relief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"Don Quixote":{
"one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world":{
"examples":[
"a latter-day Don Quixote , she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"dreamer",
"fantast",
"idealist",
"idealizer",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"romantic",
"romanticist",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emotionalist",
"sentimentalist",
"daydreamer",
"fantasizer",
"woolgatherer",
"Micawber",
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"do-gooder",
"reformer",
"perfectionist",
"doctrinaire",
"theorist",
"thinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynic",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"empiric",
"empiricist"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardnose",
"pragmatist",
"realist"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doling out":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"administering",
"allocating",
"apportioning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"distributing",
"handing out",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"portioning",
"prorating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasuring",
"allotting",
"allowing",
"appropriating",
"assigning",
"dishing out",
"dividing",
"divvying (up)",
"dolloping (out)",
"lotting",
"measuring (out)",
"parting",
"proportioning",
"rationing",
"redistributing",
"setting",
"sharing (out)",
"splitting",
"bestowing",
"disbursing",
"furnishing",
"issuing",
"providing",
"sharing",
"supplying",
"circulating",
"dispersing",
"disseminating",
"scattering",
"spreading",
"chipping in",
"contributing",
"donating",
"pledging",
"reallocating",
"reapportioning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudging",
"declining",
"denying",
"depriving (of)",
"disallowing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"withholding",
"niggling (out)",
"pinching",
"skimping",
"stinting"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doing":{
"something done by someone":{
"examples":[
"is that mess in the kitchen your doing ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"exploit",
"feat",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"adventure",
"experience",
"emprise",
"enterprise",
"initiative",
"undertaking",
"handiwork",
"performance",
"work",
"stunt",
"trick",
"activity",
"dealing",
"maneuver",
"measure",
"move",
"operation",
"procedure",
"proceeding",
"step",
"tactic",
"coaction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"that outfit just won't do for the opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitting",
"beseeming",
"fitting",
"going",
"serving",
"suiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfying",
"sufficing",
"functioning",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be enough":{
"examples":[
"even half of that amount of sugar will do"
],
"synonyms":[
"serving",
"sufficing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"answering",
"suiting",
"assuaging",
"contenting",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"satisfying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"do as much as you can and leave the rest"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing off",
"carrying off",
"carrying out",
"committing",
"compassing",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"fulfilling",
"making",
"negotiating",
"performing",
"perpetrating",
"prosecuting",
"pulling off",
"putting through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"implementing",
"acing",
"nailing",
"engaging (in)",
"practicing",
"practising",
"working (at)",
"reduplicating",
"reenacting",
"repeating",
"actualizing",
"attaining",
"realizing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"winding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failing",
"skimping",
"slighting",
"slurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"did the living room in French provincial style"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"I'm doing just fine"
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"making out",
"managing",
"shifting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good"
],
"synonyms":[
"begetting",
"breeding",
"bringing",
"bringing about",
"bringing on",
"catalyzing",
"causing",
"creating",
"drawing on",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"engendering",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"making",
"occasioning",
"producing",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"translating (into)",
"working",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"beginning",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"pioneering",
"setting",
"setting up",
"starting",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"developing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"turning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"dampening",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"arresting",
"checking",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"retarding",
"canning",
"killing",
"snuffing (out)",
"stilling",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"extinguishing",
"liquidating",
"quenching"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesquing",
"caricaturing",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"mocking",
"parodying",
"sending up",
"spoofing",
"travestying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampooning",
"pasquinading",
"satirizing",
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"ridiculing",
"aping",
"copycatting",
"monkeying",
"parroting",
"duplicating",
"emulating",
"replicating",
"reproducing",
"acting",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"pretending",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"elaborating",
"embellishing",
"embroidering",
"exaggerating",
"magnifying",
"padding",
"playing up",
"stretching",
"amplifying",
"enhancing",
"enlarging (on or upon)",
"expanding",
"fleshing (out)",
"overdrawing",
"overstating",
"putting on",
"miming",
"pantomiming",
"impersonating",
"performing",
"personating",
"playing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"how are you doing with the house restoration?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going along",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"impersonating",
"interpreting",
"performing",
"playing",
"portraying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depicting",
"dramatizing",
"rendering",
"representing",
"acting out",
"enacting",
"pantomiming",
"playacting",
"role-playing",
"taking on",
"overacting",
"overplaying",
"underplaying",
"aping",
"clowning",
"hamming",
"imitating",
"masquerading",
"mimicking",
"miming",
"posing (as)",
"starring (in)",
"coacting",
"co-acting",
"costarring",
"co-starring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"did them out of their savings with surprising ease"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"no one is sure who did them in that alley"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"nothing's ever doing in this boring little town"
],
"synonyms":[
"befalling",
"being",
"betiding",
"chancing",
"coming",
"coming about",
"coming down",
"coming off",
"cooking",
"going down",
"going on",
"happening",
"happing",
"occurring",
"passing",
"transpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"developing",
"rising",
"shaping (up)",
"arising",
"coming up",
"cropping (up)",
"materializing",
"springing (up)",
"intervening",
"falling out",
"following",
"resulting",
"turning out",
"going off",
"proceeding"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dorks":{
"a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits":{
"examples":[
"we became friends when we discovered we were both dorks who had memorized the periodic table in high school"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookworms",
"dinks",
"geeks",
"grinds",
"nerds",
"swots",
"weenies",
"wonks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-domes",
"highbrows",
"intellectuals",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"academics",
"bookmen",
"scholars",
"gearheads",
"techies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"goof-offs",
"slackers",
"underachievers",
"lowbrows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"he tried to be suave, but she still thought he was a dork"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"do-nothings":{
"a lazy person":{
"examples":[
"the new boss quickly figured out who the do-nothings were and fired them"
],
"synonyms":[
"couch potatoes",
"deadbeats",
"drones",
"idlers",
"layabouts",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"lotus-eaters",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bums",
"good-for-nothings",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"crawlers",
"creepers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes",
"snails",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"stragglers",
"clock-watchers",
"goldbricks",
"malingerers",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"lollers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"delayers",
"procrastinators",
"dropouts",
"quitters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievers",
"comers",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"live wires",
"powerhouses"
],
"antonyms":[
"doers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
]
},
"an idle worthless person":{
"examples":[
"he indiscriminately dismisses the state legislators as a bunch of do-nothings who live at the taxpayers' expense"
],
"synonyms":[
"bums",
"derelicts",
"good-for-nothings",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"no-accounts",
"no-goodniks",
"no-goods",
"slackers",
"vagrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"sundowners",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"drifters",
"roamers",
"transients",
"beggars",
"panhandlers",
"dodgers",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"gamines",
"ragamuffins",
"urchins",
"waifs",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"down-and-outs",
"down-and-outers",
"indigents",
"paupers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"successes",
"winners"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolors":{
"deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved":{
"examples":[
"her sad poems grew out of a deep dolor that lasted for months"
],
"synonyms":[
"affliction",
"anguish",
"dolefulness",
"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"
]
},
"doorman":{
"a person who tends a door":{
"examples":[
"we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab"
],
"synonyms":[
"doorkeeper",
"gatekeeper",
"janitor",
"porter"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dozy":{
"desiring or needing sleep":{
"examples":[
"the big Thanksgiving dinner left us all feeling satisfied and dozy"
],
"synonyms":[
"drowsy",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"nodding",
"yawning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"restive",
"restless",
"sleepless",
"insomniac"
],
"antonyms":[
"alert",
"awake",
"conscious",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"down and dirty":{
"made or done without previous thought or preparation":{
"examples":[
"hoisting aloft the down and dirty sign that we had just made, we joined the protest"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad hoc",
"ad-lib",
"extemporaneous",
"extemporary",
"extempore",
"impromptu",
"improvisational",
"improvised",
"off-the-cuff",
"offhand",
"offhanded",
"snap",
"spur-of-the-moment",
"unconsidered",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"unprepared",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unscripted",
"automatic",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"involuntary",
"spontaneous",
"casual",
"cursive",
"informal",
"unauthorized",
"half-baked",
"half-cocked",
"ill-advised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional"
],
"antonyms":[
"considered",
"planned",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepared",
"rehearsed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"down-at-the-heels":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"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"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doppelg\u00e4nger":{
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"at the mall today I saw someone who could be your doppelg\u00e4nger"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"fetch",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogue",
"analog",
"parallel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doddered":{
"to move forward while swaying from side to side":{
"examples":[
"was doddering down the walk outside the nursing home"
],
"synonyms":[
"careened",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"rolled",
"seesawed",
"swagged",
"swayed",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"barged",
"blundered",
"clomped",
"clumped",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"tramped",
"tromped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dowsed":{
"containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water":{
"examples":[
"shook the water out of her thoroughly doused hair"
],
"synonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"water-soaked",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"watery",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless"
]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffed",
"peeled (off)",
"put off",
"removed",
"shrugged off",
"took off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husked",
"shed",
"kicked (off)",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"undressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wore",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"rigged",
"robed",
"suited"
],
"antonyms":[
"donned",
"put on",
"slipped (into)",
"threw (on)"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"blew out",
"rubbed out",
"snubbed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"stubbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"drenched",
"drowned",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"wet",
"wetted",
"wet down",
"wetted down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened",
"drizzled",
"humidified",
"hydrated",
"misted",
"moistened",
"moisturized",
"showered",
"sprinkled",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"hosed (down)",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"splashed",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sloshed",
"sluiced",
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"rehydrated",
"rewashed",
"rewet",
"rewetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatered",
"evaporated",
"freeze-dried",
"drip-dried",
"wrung",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"immersed",
"sopped",
"soused",
"submerged",
"submersed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathed",
"moistened",
"soaked",
"steeped",
"wet",
"wetted",
"drenched",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"dived",
"dove",
"plunged",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"documenting":{
"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"examples":[
"he tried in vain to document a link between ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrating",
"establishing",
"proving",
"substantiating",
"validating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"circumstantiating",
"corroborating",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"witnessing",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"confirming",
"sustaining",
"verifying",
"vouching",
"clinching",
"nailing",
"settling",
"confessing",
"deposing",
"testifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenging",
"disputing",
"objecting",
"alleging",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"surmising",
"suspecting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doubting Thomas":{
"a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something":{
"examples":[
"an astronomer who enjoys taking the role of the doubting Thomas in debates with UFOlogists"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbeliever",
"doubter",
"questioner",
"skeptic",
"unbeliever"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agnostic",
"cynic",
"misanthrope",
"pessimist",
"derider",
"ridiculer",
"scoffer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"gull",
"pigeon",
"sucker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doglegs":{
"as in hairpins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hairpins",
"corners",
"turnoffs",
"declines",
"inclinations",
"inclines",
"slopes",
"incurvatures",
"reflections",
"buckles",
"convolutions",
"flexures",
"folds",
"loops",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twists",
"windings",
"coils",
"curlicues",
"curlycues",
"curls",
"circles",
"ringlets",
"rings",
"rounds",
"kinks",
"warps",
"angles",
"arches",
"arcs",
"bends",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curvatures",
"curves",
"inflections",
"turns",
"winds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dogcarts":{
"as in caroches , buckboards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doodads":{
"a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{
"examples":[
"where does this little doodad go?"
],
"synonyms":[
"dinguses",
"doohickeys",
"doohickies",
"hickeys",
"thingamabobs",
"thingamajigs",
"thingumajigs",
"thingummies",
"whatchamacallits",
"whatnots",
"whatsits",
"whatses",
"what-is-its"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest":{
"examples":[
"has a habit of buying gadgets and doodads sold on television shopping channels"
],
"synonyms":[
"baubles",
"bibelots",
"curios",
"curiosities",
"gauds",
"gewgaws",
"geegaws",
"gimcracks",
"kickshaws",
"knickknacks",
"nicknacks",
"novelties",
"ornamentals",
"tchotchkes",
"trinkets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bijouteries",
"bric-a-brac",
"gimcrackeries",
"trinketries",
"trumperies",
"virtus",
"vertus",
"bagatelles",
"trifles",
"figurines",
"objets d'art",
"objets",
"ornaments",
"keepsakes",
"mementos",
"mementoes",
"souvenirs",
"conversation pieces",
"collectibles",
"collectables",
"collector's items"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that decorates or beautifies":{
"examples":[
"the array of doodads that some drivers hang from their rearview mirror"
],
"synonyms":[
"adornments",
"beautifiers",
"caparisons",
"decorations",
"embellishers",
"embellishments",
"frills",
"garnishes",
"garnishments",
"garnitures",
"ornamentations",
"ornaments",
"setoffs",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparels",
"bells and whistles",
"blazonries",
"bric-a-brac",
"chichis",
"emblazonries",
"filigrees",
"fineries",
"foofaraws",
"fripperies",
"frostings",
"froufrous",
"frou-frous",
"fal-lals",
"flounces",
"flourishes",
"furbelows",
"ruffles",
"enhancements",
"enrichments",
"improvements",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"embossments",
"embroideries",
"fancyworks",
"bedizenments",
"gilts",
"glitters",
"designs",
"figures",
"patterns",
"furnishings",
"regalia",
"trappings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defacements",
"disfigurements",
"scars",
"blots",
"spots",
"stains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"does down":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"conquers",
"defeats",
"dispatches",
"gets",
"gets around",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"skunks",
"stops",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"upends",
"wins (against)",
"worsts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeps",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"blows out",
"bombs",
"breaks",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"crushes",
"drubs",
"finishes",
"flattens",
"overwhelms",
"routs",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"slaughters",
"smokes",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trounces",
"upsets",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"subjugates",
"unseats",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falls",
"gives up",
"goes down",
"goes under",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"washes out"
],
"antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"do-nothing":{
"a lazy person":{
"examples":[
"the new boss quickly figured out who the do-nothings were and fired them"
],
"synonyms":[
"couch potato",
"deadbeat",
"drone",
"idler",
"layabout",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"lotus-eater",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum",
"good-for-nothing",
"ne'er-do-well",
"crawler",
"creeper",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke",
"snail",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"straggler",
"clock-watcher",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"loller",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"delayer",
"procrastinator",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achiever",
"comer",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"live wire",
"powerhouse"
],
"antonyms":[
"doer",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
]
},
"an idle worthless person":{
"examples":[
"he indiscriminately dismisses the state legislators as a bunch of do-nothings who live at the taxpayers' expense"
],
"synonyms":[
"bum",
"derelict",
"good-for-nothing",
"ne'er-do-well",
"no-account",
"no-good",
"no-goodnik",
"slacker",
"vagrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobo",
"sundowner",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"drifter",
"roamer",
"transient",
"beggar",
"panhandler",
"dodger",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"gamine",
"ragamuffin",
"urchin",
"waif",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard",
"down-and-out",
"down-and-outer",
"indigent",
"pauper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"success",
"winner"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dourness":{
"as in gruffness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gruffness",
"callousness",
"hard-heartedness",
"implacability",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"pitilessness",
"asceticism",
"austereness",
"austerity",
"monasticism",
"exactingness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"inflexibility",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"stringency",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"obstinacy",
"stubbornness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flexibility",
"gentleness",
"laxness",
"mildness",
"forbearance",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"lenience",
"patience",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"tolerance",
"responsiveness",
"willingness",
"compliance",
"pliability",
"pliancy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolled up":{
"as in formal , elegant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dressy",
"elegant",
"formal",
"spiffed-up",
"dapper",
"natty",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"spruce",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"stylish",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"messy",
"mussed",
"rumpled",
"uncombed",
"untidy",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grubby",
"nasty",
"scroungy",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"scuzzy",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"dowdy",
"inelegant",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"if you were to doll up those Shaker-style rooms, you'd ruin their simple elegance"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
]
},
"to put on one's best or formal clothes":{
"examples":[
"got all dolled up for the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"dressed",
"dressed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preened",
"primped",
"prinked",
"smartened (up)",
"accessorized",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"decked",
"duded (up)",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"robed",
"suited"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"downbeats":{
"as in slowdowns , downturns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downdrafts",
"downswings",
"downtrends",
"downturns",
"slowdowns",
"stagnations",
"busts",
"crashes",
"panics",
"depressions",
"recessions",
"slumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"booms",
"developments",
"growths",
"advancements",
"progresses",
"rallies",
"recoveries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doo-doo":{
"solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal":{
"examples":[
"a three-year-old who thought talking about doo-doo was the funniest thing ever"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirt",
"dropping",
"dung",
"excrement",
"excreta",
"feces",
"ordure",
"poop",
"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"night soil",
"stool",
"dunghill",
"guano",
"manure",
"midden",
"muck",
"spoor",
"sewage",
"sewerage",
"coprolite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doings":{
"something done by someone":{
"examples":[
"is that mess in the kitchen your doing ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"actions",
"acts",
"deeds",
"exploits",
"feats",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"attainments",
"adventures",
"experiences",
"emprises",
"enterprises",
"initiatives",
"undertakings",
"handiworks",
"performances",
"works",
"stunts",
"tricks",
"activities",
"dealings",
"maneuvers",
"measures",
"moves",
"operations",
"procedures",
"proceedings",
"steps",
"tactics",
"coactions",
"co-actions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doyens":{
"a person with long experience in a specified area":{
"examples":[
"considered the doyen of American art critics"
],
"synonyms":[
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"stagers",
"veterans",
"vets",
"warhorses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doyennes",
"adepts",
"dab hands",
"experts",
"gurus",
"hands",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"past masters",
"professionals",
"pros"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentices",
"cubs",
"boots",
"novitiates",
"amateurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"learners",
"students",
"trainees",
"candidates",
"entrants",
"probationers"
],
"antonyms":[
"beginners",
"colts",
"fledglings",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"neophytes",
"newbies",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"recruits",
"rookies",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros"
]
},
"the senior member of a group":{
"examples":[
"he's the doyen of American museum directors, and his opinion has considerable weight"
],
"synonyms":[
"deans",
"elders",
"elder statesmen",
"\u00e9minences grises",
"nestors",
"seniors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betters",
"superiors",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"vets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doyennes",
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"beginners",
"colts",
"fledglings",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"neophytes",
"newbies",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"recruits",
"rookies",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros"
],
"antonyms":[
"babies",
"juniors"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"do's":{
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"it's supposed to be some sort of fancy do"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"bashes",
"binges",
"blasts",
"blowouts",
"events",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"functions",
"get-togethers",
"parties",
"receptions",
"shindigs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefits",
"fund-raisers",
"balls",
"dances",
"formals",
"proms",
"celebrations",
"galas",
"occasions",
"bacchanalia",
"bacchanals",
"orgies",
"saturnalias",
"bakes",
"clambakes",
"cocktail parties",
"hen parties",
"house parties",
"housewarmings",
"icebreakers",
"kaffeeklatsches",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"masquerades",
"meet and greets",
"mixers",
"salons",
"showers",
"socials",
"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"stags",
"suppers",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"tea parties",
"teas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned":{
"examples":[
"issued a long list of dos and don'ts before we even started the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"behests",
"charges",
"commandments",
"commands",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directions",
"directives",
"edicts",
"imperatives",
"injunctions",
"instructions",
"orders",
"words"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demands",
"requirements",
"mandates",
"countermands",
"counterorders",
"counter-orders",
"laws",
"precepts",
"prescriptions",
"prescripts",
"rules",
"ordinances",
"regulations",
"statutes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeals",
"entreaties",
"petitions",
"pleas",
"urgings",
"proposals",
"recommendations",
"suggestions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a style or arrangement of hair":{
"examples":[
"you can tell that the picture was taken in the 1980s from my permed do"
],
"synonyms":[
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"shingles",
"trims",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something one must do because of prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"in this hour of national crisis everyone must do their do"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdens",
"charges",
"commitments",
"devoirs",
"duties",
"imperatives",
"incumbencies",
"needs",
"obligations",
"offices",
"responsibilities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oaths",
"pledges",
"promises",
"troths",
"vows",
"words",
"arrangements",
"prearrangements",
"pre-arrangements",
"setups",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"pacts",
"trusts",
"debts",
"payments",
"tributes",
"compulsions",
"constraints",
"restraints",
"musts",
"requirements",
"coercions",
"duresses",
"forces",
"appointments",
"engagements",
"reservations",
"onuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"graces",
"postponements",
"stays",
"discharges",
"eases",
"exemptions",
"releases",
"reliefs",
"waivers",
"loopholes",
"alternatives",
"choices",
"options",
"picks",
"preferences",
"selections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"in that small town a great deal of do could come from very little indeed"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dopers":{
"a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally":{
"examples":[
"the doper had to go straight\u2014there would be some serious jail time if he didn't"
],
"synonyms":[
"addicts",
"dopeheads",
"druggies",
"fiends",
"freaks",
"heads",
"hopheads",
"hypes",
"junkies",
"stoners",
"users"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acidheads",
"cokeheads",
"crackheads",
"potheads",
"speed freaks",
"burnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonaddicts",
"nonusers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"docent":{
"as in professor , doctor":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dean",
"doctor",
"don",
"prof",
"professor",
"regius professor",
"educationist",
"educator",
"instructor",
"pedagogue",
"pedagog",
"preceptor",
"schoolteacher",
"headmaster",
"master",
"rector",
"schoolmaster",
"headmistress",
"instructress",
"mistress",
"schoolmarm",
"schoolma'am",
"schoolmistress",
"coach",
"guide",
"guru",
"preparer",
"trainer",
"mentor",
"tutor",
"tutoress",
"drillmaster",
"inculcator",
"academe",
"academic",
"academician",
"didact",
"pedant",
"governess",
"homeschooler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doing it":{
"to engage in sexual intercourse":{
"examples":[
"were both in the mood to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding",
"copulating",
"mating",
"sleeping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fooling around",
"fornicating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"domineers":{
"as in dominates , tyrannizes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dictates",
"dominates",
"lords (it over)",
"masters",
"oppresses",
"reigns (over)",
"tyrannizes",
"administers",
"manages",
"micromanages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"conquers",
"subdues",
"subjugates",
"conducts",
"directs",
"heads",
"leads",
"bosses",
"captains",
"commands",
"controls",
"governs",
"presides (over)",
"rules",
"sways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dotage":{
"the state or period of mental decline that typically accompanies old age":{
"examples":[
"he's now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things"
],
"synonyms":[
"caducity",
"second childhood",
"senility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"infirmity",
"geezerhood",
"senectitude",
"senescence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"do-gooders":{
"as in reformers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reformers",
"Micawbers",
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"perfectionists",
"daydreamers",
"fantasizers",
"woolgatherers",
"doctrinaires",
"theorists",
"thinkers",
"emotionalists",
"sentimentalists",
"Don Quixotes",
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romanticists",
"romantics",
"utopians",
"visionaries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists",
"cynics",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"empiricists",
"empirics"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double-edged":{
"consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined":{
"examples":[
"the double-edged purpose of the sales promotion is to clear out existing stock and to attract new customers"
],
"synonyms":[
"binary",
"bipartite",
"double",
"double-barreled",
"dual",
"duplex",
"twin",
"twofold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mated",
"paired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unpaired"
],
"antonyms":[
"single"
]
},
"having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning":{
"examples":[
"her double-edged remark that she hoped that I ultimately got what I deserved"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"arcane",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"deep",
"Delphic",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"fuliginous",
"inscrutable",
"murky",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"occult",
"opaque"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstruse",
"esoteric",
"recondite",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"muddy",
"obfuscatory",
"obnubilated",
"obscurant",
"obscurantic",
"shaded",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"sphinxlike",
"indefinite",
"inexact",
"inexplicit",
"noncommittal",
"questionable",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"inexplicable",
"eerie",
"eery",
"uncanny",
"weird",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"unanswerable",
"unknowable",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"unfathomable",
"circuitous",
"indirect",
"roundabout",
"complex",
"complicated",
"difficult",
"obtuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comprehensible",
"fathomable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"legible",
"pellucid",
"understandable",
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure",
"defined",
"determined",
"direct",
"straightforward",
"definite",
"exact",
"explicit",
"appreciable",
"palpable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"blatant",
"patent",
"unmistakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"accessible",
"clear",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"plain",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"downing":{
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"downed his opponent with one stunning blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"dropping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"mowing (down)",
"prostrating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat":{
"examples":[
"downing slices of pizza and guzzling bottles of soda"
],
"synonyms":[
"getting down",
"ingesting",
"swallowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drinking",
"guzzling",
"imbibing",
"knocking back",
"sipping",
"bolting",
"devouring",
"gobbling (up or down)",
"gulping",
"ingurgitating",
"consuming",
"eating",
"mouthing (down)",
"putting away",
"supping",
"gorging",
"scarfing",
"scoffing",
"wolfing",
"chewing",
"gnawing (at or on)",
"lapping",
"licking",
"munching",
"nibbling (on)",
"pecking (at)",
"ruminating",
"dispatching",
"finishing",
"polishing off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"all attempts to ban indoor smoking had been downed by the town council"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackballing",
"killing",
"negativing",
"nixing",
"shooting down",
"vetoing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"declining",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"blacklisting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admitting",
"allowing",
"approving",
"assenting (to)",
"passing",
"sanctioning",
"electing",
"supporting"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirming",
"ratifying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dozers":{
"one who sleeps":{
"examples":[
"the driver had to make an abrupt stop that wakened the dozers on the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"sleepers",
"slumberers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insomniacs",
"risers",
"wakers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominie":{
"a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church":{
"examples":[
"a small village where the doctor and the dominie were the two pillars of society"
],
"synonyms":[
"clergyperson",
"cleric",
"clerical",
"clerk",
"deacon",
"divine",
"ecclesiastic",
"minister",
"preacher",
"priest",
"reverend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"churchman",
"clergyman",
"father",
"Holy Joe",
"padre",
"clergywoman",
"deaconess",
"priestess",
"abbot",
"archbishop",
"archpriest",
"bishop",
"dean",
"diocesan",
"monsignor",
"pope",
"prelate",
"presbyter",
"abb\u00e9",
"curate",
"cur\u00e9",
"parson",
"pastor",
"rector",
"shepherd",
"vicar",
"chaplain",
"confessor",
"sky pilot",
"evangelist",
"missionary",
"missioner",
"missionizer",
"revivalist",
"friar",
"mendicant",
"monastic",
"monk",
"oblate",
"religious",
"high priest",
"high priestess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay reader",
"lector"
],
"antonyms":[
"layman",
"layperson",
"secular"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubling":{
"as in tripling , quadrupling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quadrupling",
"tripling",
"accumulating",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"increase",
"multiplication",
"mushrooming",
"proliferation",
"creep",
"growth",
"rise",
"spread",
"enlargement",
"escalation",
"expansion",
"amplification",
"distension",
"distention",
"inflation",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"augmentation",
"cumulation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"boost",
"gain",
"hike",
"increment",
"rise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"abatement",
"compressing",
"compression",
"condensation",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"constriction",
"contracting",
"contraction",
"diminishing",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"shrinking",
"retrenching",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"we doubled our investment in six months"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicating",
"redoubling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compounding",
"multiplying",
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building (up)",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"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":[
"folding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overlapping",
"overlaying",
"overlying",
"collapsing",
"telescoping",
"closing",
"shutting",
"plaiting",
"pleating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"extending",
"opening",
"spreading",
"unfolding",
"unrolling"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doting":{
"as in caring , compassionate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caring",
"compassionate",
"considerate",
"cordial",
"forgiving",
"friendly",
"humane",
"kind",
"understanding",
"warmhearted",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"fond",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"ardent",
"fervent",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"warm",
"amatory",
"amorous",
"erotic",
"erotical",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"lovesick",
"lovey-dovey",
"mushy",
"romantic",
"sappy",
"sentimental",
"brotherly",
"fatherly",
"motherly",
"sisterly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unloving",
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"hard-hearted",
"indifferent",
"offish",
"pitiless",
"remote",
"reserved",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"uncaring",
"unfeeling",
"disaffected",
"unconcerned",
"uninvolved",
"cold",
"frigid",
"unfriendly",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"hard-boiled",
"heartless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"soulless",
"unromantic",
"unsentimental"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"downgraded":{
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"increased automation resulted in many jobs in the factory being downgraded"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"degraded",
"demoted",
"disrated",
"reduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canned",
"cashiered",
"dismissed",
"downsized",
"fired",
"laid off",
"sacked",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"lowered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hired"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced",
"elevated",
"promoted",
"raised"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"the company's filing for Chapter 11 downgraded the stock to the point where it was selling for pennies a share"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuated",
"broke",
"cheapened",
"depreciated",
"depressed",
"devaluated",
"devalued",
"lowered",
"marked down",
"reduced",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wrote down",
"wrote off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debased",
"demonetized",
"underestimated",
"underpriced",
"underrated",
"undervalued",
"abridged",
"compressed",
"contracted",
"de-escalated",
"deflated",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"moderated",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew up",
"bloated",
"inflated",
"overestimated",
"overpriced",
"overrated",
"overvalued",
"added",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"ballooned",
"boosted",
"compounded",
"dilated",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"heightened",
"increased",
"maximized",
"multiplied",
"raised",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"enhanced",
"marked up",
"upgraded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"documenters":{
"as in historians , chroniclers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annalists",
"chroniclers",
"historians",
"archivists",
"bookkeepers",
"recorders",
"reporters",
"transcriptionists",
"clerks",
"registers",
"registrars",
"scribes",
"secretaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubtingly":{
"with distrust":{
"examples":[
"we looked at her doubtingly as she told the story of her life"
],
"synonyms":[
"askance",
"askant",
"distrustfully",
"doubtfully",
"dubiously",
"mistrustfully",
"sideways",
"skeptically",
"suspiciously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hesitantly",
"hesitatingly",
"incredulously",
"questioningly",
"quizzically",
"unbelievingly",
"charily",
"guardedly",
"warily",
"captiously",
"critically",
"cynically",
"deprecatingly",
"disapprovingly",
"disparagingly",
"negatively",
"reproachfully",
"reproachingly",
"reprovingly",
"unfavorably",
"anxiously",
"apprehensively",
"uncomfortably",
"uneasily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approvingly",
"favorably",
"positively",
"confidently",
"sanguinely",
"credulously",
"uncritically",
"unquestioningly"
],
"antonyms":[
"trustfully",
"trustingly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"dockworker":{
"one who loads and unloads ships at a port":{
"examples":[
"the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"docker",
"dockhand",
"longshoreman",
"roustabout",
"rouster",
"stevedore"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dogmas":{
"a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church":{
"examples":[
"the Catholic dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary"
],
"synonyms":[
"canons",
"doctrines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canon laws",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"tenets",
"credos",
"creeds",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"theologies",
"axioms",
"precepts",
"principles",
"symbols"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the basic beliefs or guiding principles of a person or group":{
"examples":[
"the Golden Rule encompasses a dogma that can serve all mankind"
],
"synonyms":[
"credos",
"creeds",
"doctrines",
"gospels",
"ideologies",
"idealogies",
"philosophies",
"testaments"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"metaphysics",
"theories",
"axioms",
"tenets",
"watchwords"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dollar":{
"a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents":{
"examples":[
"a wad of dollars in his pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bone",
"buck",
"clam",
"one",
"smacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greenback",
"dead presidents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominances":{
"controlling power or influence over others":{
"examples":[
"although Napol\u00e9on had achieved dominance over the European continent, Great Britain still ruled the waves"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascendances",
"ascendences",
"ascendancies",
"ascendencies",
"dominations",
"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"
]
},
"doff one's cap to":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
"examples":[
"I doff my hat to you and your band for a great performance tonight."
],
"synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accredit",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"crack up",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
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"belittle",
"discommend",
"disparage",
"put down",
"blame",
"censure",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"admonish",
"chide",
"criticize",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"castigate",
"excoriate",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"skewer",
"slag",
"vilify"
],
"antonyms":[
"knock",
"pan",
"slam"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dotty (over)":{
"filled with an intense or excessive love for":{
"examples":[
"she's dotty over begonias\u2014as you can see the minute you enter her house"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted (by)",
"crazy (about or over)",
"enamored (of)",
"enraptured (by)",
"gaga (over)",
"gone (on)",
"infatuated (with)",
"mad (about)",
"nuts (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hung up (on)",
"obsessed",
"foolish",
"silly",
"wild",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"entranced",
"fascinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cool",
"detached",
"unenchanted",
"unimpressed",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"heart-free"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"does it":{
"to engage in sexual intercourse":{
"examples":[
"were both in the mood to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeds",
"copulates",
"mates",
"sleeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fools around",
"fornicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"downdrafts":{
"as in slowdowns , downturns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downbeats",
"downswings",
"downtrends",
"downturns",
"slowdowns",
"stagnations",
"busts",
"crashes",
"panics",
"depressions",
"recessions",
"slumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"booms",
"developments",
"growths",
"advancements",
"progresses",
"rallies",
"recoveries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down":{
"toward or in a lower position":{
"examples":[
"the stairs went down to the basement"
],
"synonyms":[
"below",
"downward",
"downwards",
"over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facedown",
"low",
"downgrade",
"downhill",
"downstairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft"
],
"antonyms":[
"up",
"upward",
"upwards",
"upwardly"
]
},
"from this or that place":{
"examples":[
"came down from New York for the weekend"
],
"synonyms":[
"away",
"fro",
"hence",
"off",
"out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apart",
"aside",
"elsewhere",
"abroad",
"afar",
"afield",
"astray"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"brought or having come to an end":{
"examples":[
"eight down and two to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"complete",
"completed",
"concluded",
"done",
"ended",
"finished",
"over",
"over with",
"terminated",
"through",
"up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"attained",
"compassed",
"realized",
"dead",
"defunct",
"extinct",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"expired"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"incomplete",
"ongoing",
"uncompleted",
"undone",
"unfinished"
]
},
"directed down":{
"examples":[
"a down escalator"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"downcast",
"downward",
"lowered"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upward"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"feeling a bit down"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down in the mouth",
"downcast",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body":{
"examples":[
"down with the flu"
],
"synonyms":[
"ailing",
"bad",
"ill",
"indisposed",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"poorly",
"punk",
"run-down",
"sick",
"sickened",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"symptomatic",
"cruddy",
"lousy",
"seedy",
"sickish",
"nauseated",
"nauseous",
"qualmish",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"airsick",
"carsick",
"seasick",
"dizzy",
"light-headed",
"shaky",
"woozy",
"achy",
"feverish",
"diseased",
"disordered",
"decrepit",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"invalid",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakly",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"challenged",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"hypochondriac",
"hypochondriacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"conditioned",
"fit",
"well-conditioned",
"cured",
"better",
"convalescing",
"improved",
"mending",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"rehabilitated",
"hardy",
"hearty",
"lusty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"tough",
"blooming",
"bouncing",
"chipper",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"hale",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"sound",
"well",
"whole",
"wholesome"
]
},
"not being in working order":{
"examples":[
"while my computer was down , I attended to some unfinished odds and ends lying about my cubicle"
],
"synonyms":[
"inoperable",
"inoperative",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"malfunctioning",
"nonfunctional",
"nonfunctioning",
"nonoperating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"off",
"deactivated",
"deadlocked",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"nonproductive",
"unproductive",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"useless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"employable",
"performing",
"producing",
"productive",
"serving",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"viable",
"workable"
],
"antonyms":[
"functional",
"functioning",
"operable",
"operant",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"working"
]
},
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"a small jazz club that showcases some really down musicians"
],
"synonyms":[
"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",
"dope",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"a soft airy substance or covering":{
"examples":[
"a comforter filled with goose down"
],
"synonyms":[
"floss",
"fluff",
"fur",
"fuzz",
"lint",
"nap",
"pile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something (as a situation or event) that is depressing":{
"examples":[
"lately it's been one down after another in my life"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummer",
"downer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bore",
"drag",
"accident",
"fatality",
"mishap",
"woe",
"calamity",
"catastrophe",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"misfortune",
"tragedy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pick-me-up",
"trip"
],
"antonyms":[
"upper"
]
},
"a lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong":{
"examples":[
"I don't understand why she'd have such a down against me; we've never even spoken to each other!"
],
"synonyms":[
"grievance",
"grudge",
"resentment",
"score"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condemnation",
"offense",
"offence",
"umbrage",
"complaint",
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"peeve",
"pique",
"despite",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"venom",
"viciousness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"hostility",
"rancor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a strong feeling of not liking or approving":{
"examples":[
"for years after the war her grandfather had an unshakable down on the Germans"
],
"synonyms":[
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disrelish",
"mislike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disgust",
"distaste",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"antipathy",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"deprecation",
"disapproval",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction",
"jaundice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affection",
"attachment",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"love",
"passion",
"bent",
"leaning",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"propensity",
"tendency"
],
"antonyms":[
"appetite",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use"
]
},
"the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude":{
"examples":[
"suffered with a psychological disorder in which she alternated between emotional ups and downs"
],
"synonyms":[
"descent",
"dip",
"dive",
"drop",
"fall",
"nosedive",
"plunge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedown",
"decline",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"plummeting",
"sinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"progression",
"betterment",
"improvement"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascent",
"climb",
"rise",
"rising",
"soaring",
"upswing",
"upturn"
]
},
"a loss of status":{
"examples":[
"experienced the ups and downs of a career in showbiz"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedown",
"decline",
"d\u00e9gringolade",
"demise",
"descent",
"downfall",
"fall",
"flameout",
"G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breakdown",
"burnout",
"collapse",
"crash",
"meltdown",
"ruin",
"undoing",
"defeat",
"disappointment",
"reversal",
"setback",
"bottom",
"nadir",
"abasement",
"disgrace",
"humiliation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"flower",
"heyday",
"prime"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ascent",
"exaltation",
"rise",
"up"
]
},
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"examples":[
"hold a festival on the downs"
],
"synonyms":[
"campo",
"champaign",
"grassland",
"heath",
"lea",
"ley",
"llano",
"moor",
"pampa",
"plain",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"tundra",
"veld",
"veldt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"field",
"meadow",
"floodplain",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"flat",
"lowland",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"upland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"downed his opponent with one stunning blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl (down or over)",
"drop",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"level",
"mow (down)",
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat":{
"examples":[
"downing slices of pizza and guzzling bottles of soda"
],
"synonyms":[
"get down",
"ingest",
"swallow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drink",
"guzzle",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"sip",
"bolt",
"devour",
"gobble (up or down)",
"gulp",
"ingurgitate",
"consume",
"eat",
"mouth (down)",
"put away",
"sup",
"gorge",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"wolf",
"chew",
"gnaw (at or on)",
"lap",
"lick",
"munch",
"nibble (on)",
"peck (at)",
"ruminate",
"dispatch",
"finish",
"polish off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reject by or as if by a vote":{
"examples":[
"all attempts to ban indoor smoking had been downed by the town council"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackball",
"kill",
"negative",
"nix",
"shoot down",
"veto"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decline",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"blacklist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admit",
"allow",
"approve",
"assent (to)",
"pass",
"sanction",
"elect",
"support"
],
"antonyms":[
"confirm",
"ratify"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dogmatisms":{
"stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices":{
"examples":[
"a man much given to inflexible dogmatism when it came to the role of government in regulating the economy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigotry",
"illiberalism",
"illiberality",
"illiberalness",
"intolerance",
"intolerantness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"opinionatedness",
"partisanship",
"sectarianism",
"small-mindedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservatism",
"reactionaryism",
"insularism",
"insularity",
"parochialism",
"provincialism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"progressiveness",
"progressivism"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"liberalism",
"liberality",
"open-mindedness",
"tolerance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downplayed":{
"to reduce in apparent importance":{
"examples":[
"he self-deprecatingly downplays his own contributions to the festival's success"
],
"synonyms":[
"de-emphasized",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"underplayed",
"understated",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"cried down",
"decried",
"denigrated",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"derogated",
"dismissed",
"disparaged",
"kissed off",
"minimized",
"poor-mouthed",
"put down",
"ran down",
"talked down",
"trashed",
"trash-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerated",
"overdid",
"overdrew",
"overstated",
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"magnified",
"padded",
"stretched",
"fudged",
"hedged",
"melodramatized",
"overemphasized",
"overplayed",
"sensationalized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"down-at-the-heel":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"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"
],
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dosses (down)":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"examples":[
"he frequently plays host at his London flat, and overnight guests pretty much doss down where they please"
],
"synonyms":[
"beds",
"crashes",
"retires",
"turns in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunks",
"perches",
"roosts",
"settles",
"dozes",
"drops off",
"naps",
"nods",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes",
"couches",
"lies (down)",
"reclines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"rouses",
"wakens",
"wakes",
"bestirs",
"stirs",
"reawakens",
"reawakes",
"shifts",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"gets up",
"rises",
"uprises"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dowers":{
"as in endowments , dowries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dowries",
"endowments",
"bestowals",
"comps",
"donations",
"donatives",
"fairings",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"handsels",
"lagniappes",
"largesses",
"presentations",
"presents",
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downplays":{
"to reduce in apparent importance":{
"examples":[
"he self-deprecatingly downplays his own contributions to the festival's success"
],
"synonyms":[
"de-emphasizes",
"plays down",
"soft-pedals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"underplays",
"understates",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"cries down",
"decries",
"denigrates",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"derogates",
"dismisses",
"disparages",
"kisses off",
"minimizes",
"poor-mouths",
"puts down",
"runs down",
"talks down",
"trashes",
"trash-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerates",
"overdoes",
"overdraws",
"overstates",
"elaborates",
"embellishes",
"embroiders",
"magnifies",
"pads",
"stretches",
"fudges",
"hedges",
"melodramatizes",
"overemphasizes",
"overplays",
"sensationalizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dozer":{
"one who sleeps":{
"examples":[
"the driver had to make an abrupt stop that wakened the dozers on the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"sleeper",
"slumberer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodder"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insomniac",
"riser",
"waker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doing in":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a business venture that was done in by poor planning"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"the early frost did in all of our tender plants"
],
"synonyms":[
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"felling",
"killing",
"slaying",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumping off",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"finishing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"scragging",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"wasting",
"whacking",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"decimating",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing",
"slaughtering",
"smiting",
"assassinating",
"executing",
"martyring",
"terminating",
"euthanizing",
"euthanatizing",
"putting down",
"suiciding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving",
"nurturing"
],
"antonyms":[
"animating"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"somebody did the old man in late last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"bumping off",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"liquidating",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"slaying",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"terminating",
"whacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing away",
"shooting",
"shooting down",
"blotting out",
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"cutting down",
"destroying",
"felling",
"killing",
"smiting",
"zapping",
"butchering",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"slaughtering",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the long day of hard work really did me in"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"suckering",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"domiciles":{
"the place where one lives":{
"examples":[
"welcome to my domicile , humble though it may be"
],
"synonyms":[
"abodes",
"diggings",
"dwellings",
"firesides",
"habitations",
"hearths",
"hearthstones",
"homes",
"houses",
"lodgings",
"pads",
"places",
"quarters",
"residences",
"roofs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"housings",
"nests",
"residencies",
"shelters",
"bungalows",
"cabins",
"casitas",
"chalets",
"cottages",
"duplexes",
"ranches",
"ranch houses",
"saltboxes",
"semis",
"split levels",
"townhomes",
"town houses",
"tract houses",
"triplexes",
"apartment houses",
"apartments",
"condominiums",
"condominia",
"condos",
"flats",
"tenement houses",
"tenements",
"walk-ups",
"penthouses",
"salons",
"suites",
"barracks",
"billets",
"boardinghouses",
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"flophouses",
"lodging houses",
"lodgments",
"lodgements",
"rooming houses",
"rooms",
"castles",
"ch\u00e2teaus",
"ch\u00e2teaux",
"countryseats",
"estates",
"halls",
"manor houses",
"manors",
"mansions",
"McMansions",
"palaces",
"villas",
"farmhouses",
"granges",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"double-wides",
"houseboats",
"house trailers",
"mobile homes",
"motor homes",
"recreational vehicles",
"RVs",
"trailers",
"hermitages",
"manses",
"parsonages",
"rectories",
"vicarages",
"hooches",
"hootches",
"hovels",
"hutches",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"the university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"rooms",
"shelters",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doffed":{
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"the blazing sun soon had the men doffing their jackets"
],
"synonyms":[
"doused",
"peeled (off)",
"put off",
"removed",
"shrugged off",
"took off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husked",
"shed",
"kicked (off)",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"undressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wore",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"rigged",
"robed",
"suited"
],
"antonyms":[
"donned",
"put on",
"slipped (into)",
"threw (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"done a number on":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"The scammers really did a number on some unsuspecting homeowners."
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"taken in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dotted":{
"marked with spots":{
"examples":[
"a dotted tie that didn't go with his striped shirt at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"dappled",
"dapple",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"mottled",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotchy",
"spotted",
"spotty",
"stippled",
"variegated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spangled",
"marbled",
"moir\u00e9",
"moire",
"veined",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"piebald",
"pinto",
"roan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[
"unspotted"
]
},
"to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on":{
"examples":[
"a hillside dotted with wildflowers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bestrewed",
"peppered",
"scattered",
"sowed",
"spotted",
"sprayed",
"sprinkled",
"strewed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"drizzled",
"dusted",
"studded",
"dappled",
"flecked",
"speckled",
"stippled",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotched",
"dappled",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"peppered",
"shot",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotched",
"spotted",
"sprinkled",
"stippled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blotted",
"dyed",
"stained",
"banded",
"barred",
"streaked",
"striped",
"interspersed",
"set",
"studded",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"double doors":{
"as in revolving doors , storm doors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Dutch doors",
"French doors",
"lattices",
"portcullises",
"posterns",
"revolving doors",
"storm doors",
"trapdoors",
"wickets",
"doors",
"gates",
"hatches",
"portals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"douses":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"those soccer hooligans need a sound douse or two from a police officer's club"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffs",
"peels (off)",
"puts off",
"removes",
"shrugs off",
"takes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husks",
"sheds",
"kicks (off)",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"undresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wears",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"clothes",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"rigs",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dons",
"puts on",
"slips (into)",
"throws (on)"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes",
"smothers",
"suffocates",
"blows out",
"rubs out",
"snubs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"stubs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fires",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"lights"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"bedraggles",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"washes",
"waterlogs",
"waters",
"water-soaks",
"wets",
"wets down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperses",
"bedews",
"dampens",
"damps",
"drizzles",
"humidifies",
"hydrates",
"mists",
"moistens",
"moisturizes",
"showers",
"sprinkles",
"deluges",
"floods",
"hoses (down)",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"splashes",
"impregnates",
"saturates",
"steeps",
"flushes",
"irrigates",
"laves",
"rinses",
"sloshes",
"sluices",
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"rehydrates",
"rewashes",
"rewets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewaters",
"evaporates",
"freeze-dries",
"drip-dries",
"wrings",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"scorches",
"sears"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"immerses",
"sops",
"souses",
"submerges",
"submerses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathes",
"moistens",
"soaks",
"steeps",
"wets",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"floods",
"dives",
"plunges",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dozed":{
"to be in a state of sleep":{
"examples":[
"likes to doze through those lazy summer afternoons"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapped",
"napped",
"rested",
"slept",
"slumbered",
"snoozed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dropped off",
"drowsed (off)",
"nodded off",
"overslept",
"slept in",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"hibernated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"aroused",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"rose",
"woke",
"waked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"examples":[
"she dozed fitfully in the car but never fell completely asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapped",
"drowsed",
"kipped",
"napped",
"slumbered",
"snoozed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"couched",
"laid",
"lay",
"roosted",
"lulled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"got up",
"rose",
"roused",
"uprose",
"wakened",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dobbins":{
"as in cobs , skates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cobs",
"jades",
"plugs",
"skates",
"equines",
"nags",
"steeds",
"equids",
"colts",
"fillies",
"foals",
"geldings",
"mares",
"stallions",
"broncos",
"bronchos",
"mustangs",
"ponies",
"chargers",
"coursers",
"cow ponies",
"cutting horses",
"gallopers",
"hackneys",
"hacks",
"mounts",
"packhorses",
"prancers",
"quarter horses",
"racehorses",
"saddle horses",
"trotters",
"warhorses",
"workhorses",
"bays",
"blacks",
"buckskins",
"chestnuts",
"duns",
"palominos",
"pintos",
"pintoes",
"roans",
"skewbalds",
"sorrels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doziness":{
"the quality or state of desiring or needing sleep":{
"examples":[
"a heavy lunch usually leaves me fighting off a spell of doziness in the afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"drowsiness",
"sleepiness",
"somnolence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fatigue",
"tiredness",
"weariness",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"dozing",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"oversleeping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awareness",
"consciousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"insomnia",
"sleeplessness",
"wakefulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domestic animal":{
"as in pet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pet",
"carnivore",
"herbivore",
"insectivore",
"feral",
"biped",
"quadruped",
"livestock",
"stock",
"blastie",
"varmint",
"vermin",
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"creature",
"critter",
"vertebrate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invertebrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolce vita":{
"as in good life , easy street":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"American dream",
"good life",
"easy street"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doxie":{
"a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman":{
"examples":[
"an island infamous in the 17th century as a haven for pirates, drunks, doxies , thieves, and other unsavory types"
],
"synonyms":[
"chippie",
"chippy",
"fancy woman",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"hoochie",
"hussy",
"Jezebel",
"minx",
"quean",
"tramp",
"trollop",
"wench"
],
"near synonyms":[
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"grisette",
"prostitute",
"trull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship":{
"examples":[
"had the cheating two-timer served with divorce papers after spotting him with his doxy"
],
"synonyms":[
"concubine",
"mistress",
"other woman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lover",
"paramour",
"courtesan",
"demimondaine",
"demirep",
"odalisque",
"prostitute",
"whore",
"girlfriend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"do-goodism":{
"as in altruism , humanitarianism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altruism",
"do-gooding",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"almsgiving",
"charity",
"dole",
"philanthropy",
"beneficence",
"benevolence",
"goodwill",
"alms",
"benefaction",
"contribution",
"donation",
"relief",
"welfare",
"endowment",
"fund",
"grant",
"subsidy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doughtily":{
"in a fearless manner":{
"examples":[
"doughtily persistent in his opposition to casino gambling in his state"
],
"synonyms":[
"boldly",
"bravely",
"courageously",
"dauntlessly",
"fearlessly",
"gallantly",
"gutsily",
"heroically",
"intrepidly",
"manfully",
"stalwartly",
"stoutheartedly",
"valiantly",
"valorously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determinedly",
"firmly",
"gamely",
"grittily",
"pluckily",
"resolutely",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"stoutly",
"adventurously",
"audaciously",
"daringly",
"hardily",
"venturesomely",
"venturously",
"self-confidently",
"crazily",
"foolishly",
"insanely",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"foolhardily",
"heedlessly",
"hotheadedly",
"impetuously",
"imprudently",
"impulsively",
"incautiously",
"overconfidently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"thoughtlessly",
"wildly",
"hastily",
"precipitately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffidently",
"mousily",
"shyly",
"skittishly",
"timidly",
"anxiously",
"apprehensively",
"nervously",
"carefully",
"cautiously",
"heedfully",
"prudently"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardly",
"cravenly",
"fearfully",
"pusillanimously",
"spinelessly",
"spiritlessly",
"timorously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"down-and-outs":{
"as in have-nots , paupers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"have-nots",
"indigents",
"paupers",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"drifters",
"roamers",
"transients",
"almsmen",
"beggars",
"mendicants",
"panhandlers",
"gamines",
"ragamuffins",
"urchins",
"waifs",
"bankrupts",
"insolvents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affluents",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"billionaires",
"billionairesses",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"millionairesses",
"magnates",
"moneymakers",
"nabobs",
"successes",
"tycoons"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domestic partners":{
"as in partners , significant others":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"better halves",
"consorts",
"mates",
"partners",
"significant others",
"spouses",
"soul mates",
"brides",
"helpmates",
"helpmeets",
"ladies",
"wives",
"bridegrooms",
"grooms",
"hubbies",
"husbands",
"men",
"misters",
"old men"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exes",
"singles",
"bachelors",
"bachelorettes",
"maidens",
"maids",
"spinsters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"done down":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaten",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"dispatched",
"got",
"gotten",
"got around",
"gotten around",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overborne",
"overborn",
"overcome",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"skunked",
"stopped",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"taken",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"upended",
"won (against)",
"worsted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"annihilated",
"blown away",
"blown out",
"bombed",
"broken",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"crushed",
"drubbed",
"finished",
"flattened",
"overwhelmed",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"slaughtered",
"smoked",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trounced",
"upset",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrown",
"subjugated",
"unseated",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outdistanced",
"outdone",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fallen",
"given up",
"gone down",
"gone under",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out"
],
"antonyms":[
"lost (to)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doomster":{
"one given to forebodings and predictions of impending calamity":{
"examples":[
"from time immemorial doomsters have been saying that the world is going to hell in a handbasket"
],
"synonyms":[
"Cassandra",
"Chicken Little",
"doomsayer",
"doomsdayer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"fatalist",
"naysayer",
"negativist",
"pessimist",
"handwringer",
"worrier",
"worrywart"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doormen":{
"a person who tends a door":{
"examples":[
"we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab"
],
"synonyms":[
"doorkeepers",
"gatekeepers",
"janitors",
"porters"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double-jointed":{
"as in loose-jointed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"loose-jointed",
"able",
"adept",
"capable",
"competent",
"expert",
"habile",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"proficient",
"qualified",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"sure-handed",
"coordinated",
"agile",
"flexible",
"graceful",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry",
"clever",
"cunning",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"butterfingered",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"handless",
"heavy-handed",
"unhandy",
"awkward",
"bungling",
"clumsy",
"fumbling",
"gauche",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"rough-hewn",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful",
"wooden",
"uncoordinated",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"double door":{
"as in revolving door , storm door":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Dutch door",
"French door",
"lattice",
"portcullis",
"postern",
"revolving door",
"storm door",
"trapdoor",
"wicket",
"door",
"gate",
"hatch",
"portal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dowses":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"those soccer hooligans need a sound douse or two from a police officer's club"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"in those days a gentleman would douse his hat when going indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffs",
"peels (off)",
"puts off",
"removes",
"shrugs off",
"takes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husks",
"sheds",
"kicks (off)",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"undresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wears",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"clothes",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"rigs",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dons",
"puts on",
"slips (into)",
"throws (on)"
]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"douse the campfire before leaving in the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes",
"smothers",
"suffocates",
"blows out",
"rubs out",
"snubs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"stubs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fires",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"lights"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"the heavy rains thoroughly doused the tourists strolling the town streets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"bedraggles",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"washes",
"waterlogs",
"waters",
"water-soaks",
"wets",
"wets down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperses",
"bedews",
"dampens",
"damps",
"drizzles",
"humidifies",
"hydrates",
"mists",
"moistens",
"moisturizes",
"showers",
"sprinkles",
"deluges",
"floods",
"hoses (down)",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"splashes",
"impregnates",
"saturates",
"steeps",
"flushes",
"irrigates",
"laves",
"rinses",
"sloshes",
"sluices",
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"rehydrates",
"rewashes",
"rewets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewaters",
"evaporates",
"freeze-dries",
"drip-dries",
"wrings",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"scorches",
"sears"
]
},
"to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid":{
"examples":[
"douse the grapes in water to remove any grit"
],
"synonyms":[
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"immerses",
"sops",
"souses",
"submerges",
"submerses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathes",
"moistens",
"soaks",
"steeps",
"wets",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"floods",
"dives",
"plunges",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"donkeys":{
"a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things":{
"examples":[
"we put our bags on the donkey and headed down the canyon"
],
"synonyms":[
"asses",
"burros",
"jackasses",
"mokes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jacks",
"jennets",
"jennies",
"hinnies",
"mules",
"pack animals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"called him a donkey when he refused to go along with their plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"docking":{
"to make less in extent or duration":{
"examples":[
"the editorial was docked by about a hundred words to make it fit on the page"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting back",
"eliding",
"shortening",
"syncopating",
"truncating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstracting",
"digesting",
"encapsulating",
"epitomizing",
"recapitulating",
"summarizing",
"summing up",
"abating",
"compressing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting",
"cutting down",
"paring",
"pruning",
"trimming",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"reducing",
"retrenching",
"shrinking",
"slashing",
"subtracting (from)",
"tapering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"supplementing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"dilating",
"escalating",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
]
},
"to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument":{
"examples":[
"the boxer's tail was docked soon after birth"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbing",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"lopping (off)",
"nipping",
"paring",
"polling",
"pruning",
"shaving",
"shearing",
"snipping",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skiving",
"whittling",
"manicuring",
"mowing",
"pinching",
"stumping",
"curtailing",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop at or near a place along the shore":{
"examples":[
"the cruise ship docked at the first port of call early the next morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchoring",
"landing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berthing",
"mooring",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"beaching",
"grounding",
"harboring",
"arriving",
"reaching",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"debarking",
"disembarking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarking",
"launching",
"sailing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dog-eared":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"examples":[
"an old dog-eared copy of a beloved book"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dollies":{
"a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"examples":[
"my kid sister was always playing with her dollies"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figures",
"dolls",
"poppets",
"puppets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rag dolls",
"figures",
"figurines",
"handpuppets",
"marionettes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dockyard":{
"as in shipyard , marina":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"marina",
"quayage",
"shipyard",
"wharfage",
"embarcadero",
"berth",
"mooring",
"slip",
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"pier",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dolorous":{
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"dolorous ballads of death and regret"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doss-house":{
"as in fleabag , flophouse":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fleabag",
"flophouse",
"boardinghouse",
"lodging house",
"rooming house",
"bunkhouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"camp",
"campground",
"court",
"motel",
"motor court",
"motor inn",
"motor lodge",
"resort",
"spa",
"tourist court",
"youth hostel",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rest",
"apartment hotel",
"B and B",
"bed-and-breakfast",
"guesthouse",
"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hospice",
"hostel",
"hostelry",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dorm":{
"as in room(s) , dormitory":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boardinghouse",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"camp",
"encampment",
"accommodations",
"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"abode",
"diggings",
"domicile",
"dwelling",
"fireside",
"habitation",
"hearth",
"hearthstone",
"home",
"house",
"lodging",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"roof",
"barracks",
"billet",
"cantonment",
"fort",
"garrison",
"installation",
"post"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down-home":{
"having or showing an unpretentious informality":{
"examples":[
"her down-home patter as she prepares comfort foods goes over well with television viewers"
],
"synonyms":[
"cracker-barrel",
"folksy",
"homespun"
],
"near synonyms":[
"modest",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"informal",
"casual",
"familiar",
"fireside",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affected",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pompous",
"pretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doo-doos":{
"solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal":{
"examples":[
"a three-year-old who thought talking about doo-doo was the funniest thing ever"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirt",
"dropping",
"dung",
"excrement",
"excreta",
"feces",
"ordure",
"poop",
"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"night soil",
"stool",
"dunghill",
"guano",
"manure",
"midden",
"muck",
"spoor",
"sewage",
"sewerage",
"coprolite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dossing (down)":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"examples":[
"he frequently plays host at his London flat, and overnight guests pretty much doss down where they please"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedding",
"crashing",
"retiring",
"turning in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunking",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling",
"dozing",
"dropping off",
"napping",
"nodding",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"couching",
"lying (down)",
"reclining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"rousing",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bestirring",
"stirring",
"reawakening",
"reawaking",
"shifting",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"getting up",
"rising",
"uprising"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"docudramas":{
"as in documentaries , featurettes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoons",
"cartoons",
"documentaries",
"features",
"featurettes",
"shorts",
"short subjects",
"films",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"motion pictures",
"movies",
"moving pictures",
"pictures",
"silents",
"talkies",
"B movies",
"B pictures",
"cofeatures",
"co-features"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in comedies , dramedies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comedies",
"comedy dramas",
"dramedies",
"melodramas",
"monodramas",
"musical comedies",
"musicals",
"psychodramas",
"tragedies",
"tragicomedies",
"interludes",
"playlets",
"magnum opuses",
"opera",
"opuses",
"works",
"dramas",
"dramatizations",
"plays",
"adaptations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"downsizes":{
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dents",
"depletes",
"diminishes",
"downscales",
"drops",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"knocks down",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"clips",
"crops",
"curtails",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"cuts down",
"docks",
"nicks",
"pares",
"prunes",
"retrenches",
"shortens",
"slashes",
"trims",
"truncates",
"whittles",
"deflates",
"shrinks",
"minimizes",
"moderates",
"modifies",
"modulates",
"qualifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"swells",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"adds (to)",
"complements",
"supplements",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"raises"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dop":{
"as in bob , bow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beck",
"bob",
"bow",
"curtsy",
"nod",
"salaam",
"salute",
"homage",
"obeisance",
"respect",
"acquiescence",
"capitulation",
"obsequiousness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"surrender",
"yielding",
"compliance",
"conformity",
"obedience",
"subordination",
"deference",
"docility",
"dutifulness",
"humility",
"meekness",
"modesty",
"servility",
"slavishness",
"subordinateness",
"subservience",
"subserviency",
"adoration",
"deification",
"glorification",
"honor",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"abidance",
"agreeability",
"amenability",
"teachableness",
"tractability",
"tractableness",
"trainability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disrespect",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"rudeness",
"noncooperation",
"recusancy",
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"cut",
"dart",
"dig",
"dis",
"diss",
"epithet",
"gird",
"indignity",
"insult",
"name",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"personality",
"poke",
"put-down",
"sarcasm",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur",
"balkiness",
"contrariness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"noncompliance",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelling",
"rebellion",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"refractoriness",
"self-will",
"unruliness",
"waywardness",
"willfulness",
"misbehavior",
"mischievousness",
"naughtiness",
"hardheadedness",
"mulishness",
"mutinousness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"perversity",
"pigheadedness",
"stubbornness",
"dissent",
"dissidence",
"insurgence",
"insurgency",
"insurrection",
"mutiny",
"outbreak",
"revolt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doormats":{
"a person without strength of character":{
"examples":[
"a doormat who always gave in to his father's demands"
],
"synonyms":[
"jellyfish",
"namby-pambies",
"pushovers",
"reeds",
"weaklings",
"wimps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cowards",
"mice",
"milquetoasts",
"nebbishes",
"nervous Nellies",
"pussies",
"wusses",
"wussies",
"sheep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mensches"
],
"antonyms":[
"stalwarts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dovecote":{
"as in henhouse , cote":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cote",
"henhouse",
"kraal",
"stockade",
"fold",
"sheepfold",
"kennel",
"run",
"pigpen",
"cage",
"coop",
"corral",
"hutch",
"pen",
"pound",
"aquarium",
"terrarium",
"live-box",
"fence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"done away with":{
"to put an end to by formal action":{
"examples":[
"They decided to do away with the old dress code."
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"abolished",
"abrogated",
"annulled",
"avoided",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"disannulled",
"dissolved",
"invalidated",
"negated",
"nulled",
"nullified",
"quashed",
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"rolled back",
"struck down",
"stricken down",
"vacated",
"voided"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countermanded",
"overridden",
"overruled",
"overturned",
"vetoed",
"aborted",
"called",
"called off",
"dropped",
"recalled",
"retracted",
"reversed",
"revoked",
"suspended",
"withdrawn",
"banned",
"enjoined",
"forbidden",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"disallowed",
"dismissed",
"rejected",
"annihilated",
"broken down",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"liquidated",
"removed",
"thrown out",
"written off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enacted",
"laid down",
"legislated",
"established",
"founded",
"instituted",
"formalized",
"legalized",
"legitimated",
"legitimized",
"validated",
"passed",
"ratified",
"allowed",
"approved",
"authorized",
"cleared",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"permitted",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"commanded",
"decreed",
"mandated",
"ordered",
"prescribed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"He resolved to do away with the man who killed his parents."
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"bumped off",
"croaked",
"dispatched",
"done in",
"executed",
"got",
"gotten",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"liquidated",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"slain",
"snuffed",
"taken out",
"terminated",
"whacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blown away",
"shot",
"shot down",
"blotted out",
"carried off",
"claimed",
"cut down",
"destroyed",
"felled",
"killed",
"smitten",
"smote",
"zapped",
"butchered",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"mown (down)",
"slaughtered",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"doles (out)":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasures",
"allots",
"allows",
"appropriates",
"assigns",
"dishes out",
"divides",
"divvies (up)",
"dollops (out)",
"lots",
"measures (out)",
"parts",
"proportions",
"rations",
"redistributes",
"sets",
"shares (out)",
"splits",
"bestows",
"disburses",
"furnishes",
"issues",
"provides",
"shares",
"supplies",
"circulates",
"disperses",
"disseminates",
"scatters",
"spreads",
"chips in",
"contributes",
"donates",
"pledges",
"reallocates",
"reapportions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudges",
"declines",
"denies",
"deprives (of)",
"disallows",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"withholds",
"niggles (out)",
"pinches",
"skimps",
"stints"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dogface":{
"a person engaged in military service":{
"examples":[
"during World War II journalist Ernie Pyle gained fame for his sympathetic reports on the wartime experiences of the common dogface"
],
"synonyms":[
"fighter",
"legionary",
"legionnaire",
"man-at-arms",
"regular",
"serviceman",
"soldier",
"trooper",
"warrior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"servicewoman",
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"dragoon",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman",
"commando",
"raider",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"lifer",
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"conscript",
"draftee",
"enrollee",
"recruit",
"reservist",
"champion",
"knight",
"digger",
"gallowglass",
"gendarme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"civilian"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"done by":{
"to behave toward in a stated way":{
"examples":[
"The company did well by him after he was injured on the job."
],
"synonyms":[
"acted (toward)",
"been (to)",
"dealt (with)",
"handled",
"served",
"treated",
"used"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considered",
"esteemed",
"rated",
"reckoned",
"regarded",
"viewed",
"engaged (with)",
"reacted (to)",
"responded (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"double-dome":{
"a person with strong intellectual interests":{
"examples":[
"double-domes in the scientific community probably understand it\u2014but the rest of us don't"
],
"synonyms":[
"geek",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"longhair",
"nerd"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"bluestocking",
"Brahmin",
"mandarin",
"sage",
"intellectualizer",
"pseud",
"brain",
"genius",
"intellect",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blockhead",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dumbbell",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"fathead",
"half-wit",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"nitwit",
"pinhead",
"simpleton"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectual",
"lowbrow",
"philistine"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doffing one's cap to":{
"to declare enthusiastic approval of":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"accrediting",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"cracking up",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bravoing",
"clapping",
"rising (to)",
"ballyhooing",
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"rooting (for)",
"supporting",
"celebrating",
"emblazoning",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"singing",
"adulating",
"belauding",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"deifying",
"idolizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"discommending",
"disparaging",
"putting down",
"blaming",
"censuring",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"criticizing",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving",
"castigating",
"excoriating",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"skewering",
"slagging",
"vilifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"knocking",
"panning",
"slamming"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"downright":{
"being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner":{
"examples":[
"rural folks are often known for their downright speech, as they are generally not ones to beat around the bush"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"bluff",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"crusty",
"curt",
"short",
"short-spoken",
"snippy",
"unceremonious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gruff",
"rough",
"snappish",
"candid",
"direct",
"forthright",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"outspoken",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"point-blank",
"straightforward",
"straight-out",
"artless",
"discourteous",
"disrespectful",
"impertinent",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"rude",
"tactless",
"undiplomatic",
"brief",
"closemouthed",
"laconic",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"terse",
"tight-lipped",
"earnest",
"honest",
"sincere",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"low",
"uncouth",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civil",
"considerate",
"courteous",
"diplomatic",
"gracious",
"polite",
"politic",
"smooth",
"suave",
"tactful",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"voluble",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"verbose",
"courtly",
"cultivated",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"mealymouthed"
]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"examples":[
"that's a downright lie, and you know it"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in absolutely , plain":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"hands down",
"plain",
"stone",
"stone-cold",
"unqualifiedly",
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"doff":{
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"the blazing sun soon had the men doffing their jackets"
],
"synonyms":[
"douse",
"peel (off)",
"put off",
"remove",
"shrug off",
"take off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husk",
"shed",
"kick (off)",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wear",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit"
],
"antonyms":[
"don",
"put on",
"slip (into)",
"throw (on)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dolloping (out)":{
"as in sharing (out) , measuring (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasuring",
"allotting",
"allowing",
"appropriating",
"assigning",
"dishing out",
"dividing",
"divvying (up)",
"lotting",
"measuring (out)",
"parting",
"proportioning",
"rationing",
"redistributing",
"setting",
"sharing (out)",
"splitting",
"administering",
"allocating",
"apportioning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"distributing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"bestowing",
"disbursing",
"furnishing",
"issuing",
"providing",
"sharing",
"supplying",
"circulating",
"dispersing",
"disseminating",
"scattering",
"spreading",
"chipping in",
"contributing",
"donating",
"pledging",
"reallocating",
"reapportioning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misallocating",
"begrudging",
"declining",
"denying",
"depriving (of)",
"disallowing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"withholding",
"niggling (out)",
"pinching",
"skimping",
"stinting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doohickey":{
"a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{
"examples":[
"screw in the doohickey at the top of the lamp shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"dingus",
"doodad",
"hickey",
"thingamabob",
"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
"whatchamacallit",
"whatnot",
"whatsit",
"whatsis",
"what-is-it"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubtable":{
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"her argument rested entirely upon some highly doubtable logic"
],
"synonyms":[
"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"open to question or dispute":{
"examples":[
"that his wartime exploit happened at all is very doubtable"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguable",
"controvertible",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtful",
"issuable",
"moot",
"negotiable",
"questionable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradictable",
"refutable",
"controversial",
"debated",
"disputed",
"dubious",
"iffy",
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"academic",
"academical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irrefutable",
"definite",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"absolute",
"clear",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"uncontested",
"undisputed"
],
"antonyms":[
"accomplished",
"certain",
"hands-down",
"inarguable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefragable",
"positive",
"questionless",
"settled",
"sure",
"unanswerable",
"unarguable",
"unchallengeable",
"undebatable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dosage":{
"the amount of a medicine, drug, or vitamin that should be taken at one time or regularly during a period of time":{
"examples":[
"Each tablet has the dosage necessary to reduce pain and swelling.",
"Some patients may benefit from a larger dosage of this medication.",
"Do not exceed the recommended dosage ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dose",
"cap",
"capsule",
"lozenge",
"pill",
"tablet",
"cure",
"drug",
"medication",
"medicinal",
"pharmaceutical",
"physic",
"remedy",
"specific",
"miracle drug",
"wonder drug",
"potion",
"preparation",
"drop",
"gelcap",
"bolus",
"pilule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dowdily":{
"in a careless or unfashionable manner":{
"examples":[
"dressed hurriedly and dowdily to go do her workout"
],
"synonyms":[
"sloppily",
"slovenly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slatternly",
"chaotically",
"messily",
"untidily",
"shabbily",
"sleazily",
"dingily",
"dirtily",
"filthily",
"foully",
"grubbily",
"nastily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"neatly",
"orderly",
"tidily",
"fashionably",
"modishly",
"carefully",
"fastidiously",
"fussily",
"meticulously",
"cleanly",
"immaculately",
"spotlessly"
],
"antonyms":[
"nattily",
"sharply",
"smart",
"smartly",
"sprucely"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"doing down":{
"to achieve a victory over":{
"examples":[
"you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"defeating",
"dispatching",
"getting",
"getting around",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"skunking",
"stopping",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"upending",
"winning (against)",
"worsting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"blowing out",
"bombing",
"breaking",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"crushing",
"drubbing",
"finishing",
"flattening",
"overwhelming",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"slaughtering",
"smoking",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trouncing",
"upsetting",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"subjugating",
"unseating",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falling",
"giving up",
"going down",
"going under",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing out"
],
"antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"downtown":{
"as in midtown , inner city":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"core city",
"inner city",
"midtown",
"central city",
"edge city",
"garden city",
"exurb",
"suburb",
"suburbia",
"urban sprawl",
"conurbation",
"borough",
"asphalt jungle",
"burg",
"city",
"cosmopolis",
"megacity",
"megalopolis",
"metropolis",
"municipality",
"town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments especially in fashion and entertainment":{
"examples":[
"the downtown clientele of this bistro come to be seen, and the food is only an afterthought"
],
"synonyms":[
"au courant",
"cool",
"def",
"groovy",
"hep",
"hip",
"in",
"mod",
"now",
"trendy",
"turned-on",
"with-it"
],
"near synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"voguish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"geeky",
"nerdish",
"nerdy",
"dowdy",
"styleless",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"uncool",
"unhip",
"untrendy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"donkeyworks":{
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"the donkeywork involved in setting up one's own start-up software firm"
],
"synonyms":[
"drudgeries",
"drudges",
"fatigues",
"grinds",
"labors",
"moils",
"slaveries",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadeworks",
"efforts",
"exertions",
"pains",
"struggles",
"troubles",
"chores",
"duties",
"jobs",
"obligations",
"responsibilities",
"routines",
"tediums",
"treadmills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompressions",
"eases",
"leisures",
"relaxations",
"reposes",
"rests",
"amusements",
"dalliances",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"recreations",
"sports",
"dormancies",
"inactivities",
"inertias"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"plays"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doper":{
"a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally":{
"examples":[
"the doper had to go straight\u2014there would be some serious jail time if he didn't"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"dopehead",
"druggie",
"druggy",
"fiend",
"freak",
"head",
"hophead",
"hype",
"junkie",
"junky",
"stoner",
"user"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acidhead",
"cokehead",
"crackhead",
"pothead",
"speed freak",
"burnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonaddict",
"nonuser"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dome":{
"the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the fitted cap is too small for my large dome"
],
"synonyms":[
"bean",
"block",
"head",
"mazard",
"mazzard",
"nob",
"noddle",
"noggin",
"noodle",
"nut",
"pate",
"poll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cranium",
"crown",
"scalp",
"skull",
"occiput"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in balloon , bulge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"project",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"blow up",
"inflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dockworkers":{
"one who loads and unloads ships at a port":{
"examples":[
"the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"dockers",
"dockhands",
"longshoremen",
"roustabouts",
"rousters",
"stevedores"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doomy":{
"being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come":{
"examples":[
"the surging doomy music in the background was an unmistakable sign that things would not end well for the movie's hero"
],
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"dire",
"direful",
"foreboding",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"inauspicious",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dim",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"hopeless",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"star-crossed",
"troubled",
"unfortunate",
"unlucky",
"evil",
"malign",
"malignant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"auspicious",
"benign",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"favorable",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"prosperous"
],
"antonyms":[
"unthreatening"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"doubt":{
"a feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"from the beginning I had my doubts about the investment scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"dubiety",
"dubitation",
"incertitude",
"misdoubt",
"misgiving",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"query",
"reservation",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disbelief",
"incredulity",
"unbelief",
"anxiety",
"concern",
"paranoia",
"wariness",
"compunction",
"niggle",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"tremor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"credence",
"faith"
],
"antonyms":[
"assurance",
"belief",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"sureness",
"surety",
"trust"
]
},
"to have no trust or confidence in":{
"examples":[
"I doubt that you can do all that you say"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrust",
"misdoubt",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disbelieve",
"discount",
"discredit",
"negate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bank (on or upon)",
"count (on or upon)",
"depend (on or upon)",
"rely (on or upon)"
],
"antonyms":[
"trust"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"doorkeeper":{
"a person who tends a door":{
"examples":[
"the doorkeeper held the door open for us so we didn't have to put down our packages"
],
"synonyms":[
"doorman",
"gatekeeper",
"janitor",
"porter"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dormancy":{
"a state of temporary inactivity":{
"examples":[
"some volcanoes have eruptive cycles marked by long stretches of dormancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"moratorium",
"quiescence",
"suspended animation",
"suspense",
"suspension"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inaction",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"motionlessness",
"impasse",
"standstill",
"coma",
"hibernation",
"hypnosis",
"repose",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"torpor",
"recess",
"recession",
"remission",
"downtime",
"idleness",
"layoff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recommencement",
"renewal",
"resumption",
"resuscitation"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
]
},
"lack of action or activity":{
"examples":[
"a fighting force that could be roused instantly from dormancy to action"
],
"synonyms":[
"idleness",
"inaction",
"inactivity",
"inertness",
"nonaction",
"quiescence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indolence",
"inertia",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"laziness",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"shiftlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sloth",
"sluggishness",
"dallying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animateness",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrancy",
"vivacity",
"assiduity",
"assiduousness",
"business",
"diligence",
"employment",
"industriousness",
"industry",
"occupation"
],
"antonyms":[
"action",
"activeness",
"activity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"down-to-the-wire":{
"showing little difference in the standing of the competitors":{
"examples":[
"a down-to-the-wire contest for the pennant"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"hairbreadth",
"narrow",
"neck and neck",
"nip and tuck",
"tight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crowded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dons":{
"to place on one's person":{
"examples":[
"she donned her best gown for the ball"
],
"synonyms":[
"puts on",
"slips (on or into)",
"throws (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"bundles up",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"dolls up",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"rigs",
"robes",
"suits",
"tricks",
"uniforms",
"overdresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disrobes",
"strips",
"undresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"doffs",
"removes",
"takes off"
]
},
"as in doctors , professors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deans",
"docents",
"doctors",
"professors",
"profs",
"regius professors",
"educationists",
"educators",
"instructors",
"pedagogues",
"pedagogs",
"preceptors",
"schoolteachers",
"headmasters",
"masters",
"rectors",
"schoolmasters",
"headmistresses",
"instructresses",
"mistresses",
"schoolmarms",
"schoolma'ams",
"schoolmistresses",
"coaches",
"guides",
"gurus",
"preparers",
"trainers",
"mentors",
"tutoresses",
"tutors",
"drillmasters",
"inculcators",
"academes",
"academicians",
"academics",
"didacts",
"pedants",
"governesses",
"homeschoolers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dolly bird":{
"a lovely woman":{
"examples":[
"back in the swinging '60s she was one of London's most celebrated dolly birds"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"beauty",
"beauty queen",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"enchantress",
"eyeful",
"fox",
"goddess",
"honey",
"knockout",
"queen",
"stunner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belle",
"charmer",
"peach",
"bathing beauty",
"cover girl",
"pinup girl",
"houri",
"cutie-pie",
"dish",
"doll",
"dreamboat",
"hottie",
"looker",
"pretty",
"coquette",
"femme fatale",
"siren",
"temptress",
"vamp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bag",
"frump",
"crone",
"hag",
"witch"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doggie":{
"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"
]
},
"downturns":{
"a situation in which something (such as business or economic activity) decreases or becomes worse \u2014 usually singular":{
"examples":[
"an economic downturn",
"There's been a downturn in the housing market."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abatements",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"de-escalations",
"deflations",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"dips",
"downslides",
"downtrends",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"losses",
"reductions",
"sags",
"shrinkages",
"slips",
"slumps",
"decadences",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devolutions",
"downfalls",
"downgrades",
"ebbs",
"eclipses",
"falls",
"dark ages",
"nadirs",
"sunsets",
"decays",
"breakups",
"decompositions",
"disintegrations",
"dissolutions",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"depreciations",
"decimations",
"demolishments",
"demolitions",
"desolations",
"destructions",
"havoc",
"ruinations",
"ruins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advancements",
"developments",
"evolutions",
"growths",
"flowerings",
"renewals",
"restorations",
"revitalizations",
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"enhancements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"supplements",
"ascents",
"rises",
"upswings"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domineered":{
"as in dominated , tyrannized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dictated",
"dominated",
"lorded (it over)",
"mastered",
"oppressed",
"reigned (over)",
"tyrannized",
"administered",
"managed",
"micromanaged",
"oversaw",
"regulated",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"conquered",
"subdued",
"subjugated",
"conducted",
"directed",
"headed",
"led",
"bossed",
"captained",
"commanded",
"controlled",
"governed",
"presided (over)",
"ruled",
"swayed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"domestics":{
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"working as a team, the couple hired themselves out as domestics for wealthy homeowners"
],
"synonyms":[
"dailies",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lackeys",
"menials",
"retainers",
"servants",
"stewards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butlers",
"footmen",
"grooms",
"houseboys",
"housemen",
"majordomos",
"men",
"menservants",
"servitors",
"valets",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"housekeepers",
"housemaids",
"ladies-in-waiting",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"wenches",
"women",
"assistants",
"attendants",
"companions",
"factotums",
"followers",
"dogsbodies",
"drudges",
"gofers",
"gophers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[
"masters",
"mistresses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Don Quixotes":{
"one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world":{
"examples":[
"a latter-day Don Quixote , she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"dreamers",
"fantasts",
"idealists",
"idealizers",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"romanticists",
"romantics",
"utopians",
"visionaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emotionalists",
"sentimentalists",
"daydreamers",
"fantasizers",
"woolgatherers",
"Micawbers",
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"do-gooders",
"reformers",
"perfectionists",
"doctrinaires",
"theorists",
"thinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cynics",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"empiricists",
"empirics"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardnoses",
"pragmatists",
"realists"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubters":{
"a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something":{
"examples":[
"there will always be some hard-core doubters of the government's denial of the UFO incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbelievers",
"doubting Thomases",
"questioners",
"skeptics",
"unbelievers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agnostics",
"cynics",
"misanthropes",
"pessimists",
"deriders",
"ridiculers",
"scoffers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"gulls",
"pigeons",
"suckers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubting Thomases":{
"a person who is always ready to doubt or question the truth or existence of something":{
"examples":[
"an astronomer who enjoys taking the role of the doubting Thomas in debates with UFOlogists"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbelievers",
"doubters",
"questioners",
"skeptics",
"unbelievers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agnostics",
"cynics",
"misanthropes",
"pessimists",
"deriders",
"ridiculers",
"scoffers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"gulls",
"pigeons",
"suckers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dogfaces":{
"a person engaged in military service":{
"examples":[
"during World War II journalist Ernie Pyle gained fame for his sympathetic reports on the wartime experiences of the common dogface"
],
"synonyms":[
"fighters",
"legionaries",
"legionnaires",
"men-at-arms",
"regulars",
"servicemen",
"soldiers",
"troopers",
"warriors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"servicewomen",
"carabineers",
"carabiniers",
"cavaliers",
"cavalrymen",
"cuirassiers",
"dragoons",
"doughboys",
"footmen",
"foot soldiers",
"grunts",
"infantrymen",
"commandos",
"commandoes",
"raiders",
"jarheads",
"marines",
"rangers",
"artillerymen",
"cannoneers",
"gunners",
"mortarmen",
"musketeers",
"riflemen",
"archers",
"crossbowmen",
"lancers",
"pikemen",
"spearmen",
"Confederates",
"Continentals",
"Federals",
"GIs",
"GI's",
"guardsmen",
"militiamen",
"minutemen",
"counterguerrillas",
"counterguerillas",
"guerrillas",
"guerillas",
"irregulars",
"paramilitaries",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"combatants",
"noncombatants",
"lifers",
"veterans",
"warhorses",
"conscripts",
"draftees",
"enrollees",
"recruits",
"reservists",
"champions",
"knights",
"diggers",
"gallowglasses",
"gendarmes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"civilians"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"done":{
"brought or having come to an end":{
"examples":[
"the demanding job was finally done"
],
"synonyms":[
"complete",
"completed",
"concluded",
"down",
"ended",
"finished",
"over",
"over with",
"terminated",
"through",
"up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"attained",
"compassed",
"realized",
"dead",
"defunct",
"extinct",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"expired"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"incomplete",
"ongoing",
"uncompleted",
"undone",
"unfinished"
]
},
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"after bicycling 30 miles we were completely done"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"dead",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"facing certain defeat, disaster, or death":{
"examples":[
"at this point retailing in the city's downtown is done"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"done for",
"doomed",
"finished",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"ruined",
"sunk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"no longer existing":{
"examples":[
"the day of the small independent grocer is done"
],
"synonyms":[
"bygone",
"bypast",
"dead",
"defunct",
"departed",
"expired",
"extinct",
"gone",
"nonextant",
"vanished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nonexistent",
"dying",
"faded",
"moribund",
"collapsed",
"fallen",
"overthrown",
"antiquated",
"dated",
"obsolete",
"pass\u00e9",
"finished",
"lapsed",
"terminated",
"lost",
"missing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"active",
"dynamic",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"antonyms":[
"alive",
"existent",
"existing",
"extant",
"living"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"that outfit just won't do for the opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitted",
"beseemed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"gone",
"served",
"suited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfied",
"sufficed",
"functioned",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be enough":{
"examples":[
"even half of that amount of sugar will do"
],
"synonyms":[
"served",
"sufficed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"answered",
"suited",
"assuaged",
"contented",
"quenched",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"do as much as you can and leave the rest"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"committed",
"compassed",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"fulfilled",
"made",
"negotiated",
"performed",
"perpetrated",
"prosecuted",
"pulled off",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brought about",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"implemented",
"aced",
"nailed",
"engaged (in)",
"practiced",
"practised",
"worked (at)",
"reduplicated",
"reenacted",
"repeated",
"actualized",
"attained",
"realized",
"completed",
"ended",
"finished",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failed",
"skimped",
"slighted",
"slurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"did the living room in French provincial style"
],
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"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"dolled up",
"done up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"I'm doing just fine"
],
"synonyms":[
"coped",
"fared",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got by",
"gotten by",
"got on",
"gotten on",
"made out",
"managed",
"shifted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried on",
"contrived",
"scraped (by or through)",
"scrounged",
"lasted",
"survived",
"eked out",
"scraped (out)",
"squeezed",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"failed",
"fallen short",
"fizzled",
"floundered",
"declined",
"petered (out)",
"slumped",
"waned",
"given up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good"
],
"synonyms":[
"begotten",
"begot",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"drawn on",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"produced",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"begun",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesqued",
"caricatured",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"mocked",
"parodied",
"sent up",
"spoofed",
"travestied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampooned",
"pasquinaded",
"satirized",
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"ridiculed",
"aped",
"copycatted",
"monkeyed",
"parroted",
"duplicated",
"emulated",
"replicated",
"reproduced",
"acted",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"feigned",
"pretended",
"shammed",
"simulated",
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"magnified",
"padded",
"played up",
"stretched",
"amplified",
"enhanced",
"enlarged (on or upon)",
"expanded",
"fleshed (out)",
"overdrawn",
"overstated",
"put on",
"mimed",
"pantomimed",
"impersonated",
"performed",
"personated",
"played"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"how are you doing with the house restoration?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"come",
"come along",
"fared",
"forged",
"gone",
"gone along",
"gone off",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"repaired",
"run",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"driven",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"taken out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"balked",
"blocked",
"checked",
"detained",
"halted",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"nipped",
"obstructed",
"slowed (down or up)",
"stemmed",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"delayed",
"interrupted",
"stalled",
"cramped",
"hampered",
"inhibited",
"ceased",
"let up",
"paused",
"regressed",
"waited"
],
"antonyms":[
"remained",
"stayed",
"stood",
"stopped"
]
},
"to present a portrayal or performance of":{
"examples":[
"she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"impersonated",
"interpreted",
"performed",
"played",
"portrayed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"rendered",
"represented",
"acted out",
"enacted",
"pantomimed",
"playacted",
"role-played",
"taken on",
"overacted",
"overplayed",
"underplayed",
"aped",
"clowned",
"hammed",
"imitated",
"masqueraded",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"posed (as)",
"starred (in)",
"coacted",
"co-acted",
"costarred",
"co-starred"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"did them out of their savings with surprising ease"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaten",
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"done in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shaken down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"suckered",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"no one is sure who did them in that alley"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beaten",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"nothing's ever doing in this boring little town"
],
"synonyms":[
"been",
"befallen",
"betided",
"chanced",
"come",
"come about",
"come down",
"come off",
"cooked",
"gone down",
"gone on",
"happed",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"developed",
"risen",
"shaped (up)",
"arisen",
"come up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fallen out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"gone off",
"proceeded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"double-wide":{
"as in trailer , RV":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"bungalow",
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doubtlessness":{
"a state of mind in which one is free from doubt":{
"examples":[
"with the doubtlessness of a man who never spent a moment in self-reflection, the president barreled down the road to disaster"
],
"synonyms":[
"assurance",
"assuredness",
"certainty",
"certitude",
"cocksureness",
"confidence",
"conviction",
"face",
"positiveness",
"satisfaction",
"sureness",
"surety"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarianism",
"dogmatism",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"purposefulness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"resolve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution",
"disbelief",
"incredulity",
"unbelief",
"anxiety",
"concern",
"misgiving",
"distrust",
"mistrust",
"suspicion"
],
"antonyms":[
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"nonconfidence",
"uncertainty"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dopiness":{
"the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"amused by the sheer dopiness of the movie's plot"
],
"synonyms":[
"boneheadedness",
"brainlessness",
"denseness",
"density",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dorkiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"foolishness",
"gormlessness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"thickness",
"vacuity",
"weak-mindedness",
"witlessness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feeblemindedness",
"simplemindedness",
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"idiocy",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nincompoopery",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"wackiness",
"zaniness",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"mental deficiency",
"mental retardation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acumen",
"alertness",
"astuteness",
"discernment",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perception",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonableness",
"soundness",
"validity"
],
"antonyms":[
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"cleverness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"quickness",
"quick-wittedness",
"sharpness",
"smartness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"double time":{
"as in overtime , time and a half":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overtime",
"time and a half",
"living wage",
"minimum wage",
"nominal wages",
"take-home pay",
"compensation",
"recompense",
"remittance",
"remuneration",
"requital",
"return",
"emolument",
"hire",
"packet",
"pay",
"paycheck",
"pay envelope",
"payment",
"salary",
"stipend",
"wage",
"recoupment",
"redress",
"reparation",
"restitution",
"reimbursement",
"repayment",
"earnings",
"profit",
"takings",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dockets":{
"a listing of things to be presented or considered (as at a concert or play)":{
"examples":[
"on the Broadway docket for the early part of this season"
],
"synonyms":[
"agendas",
"calendars",
"programs",
"schedules",
"timetables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cards",
"dance cards",
"exercises",
"plates",
"arrangements",
"orderings",
"orders",
"organizations",
"sequences",
"setups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dominoes":{
"as in masks , veils":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"masks",
"veils",
"visors",
"vizors",
"vizards",
"camouflages",
"costumes",
"disguises",
"guises",
"costumeries",
"dresses",
"getups",
"outfits",
"rigs",
"colorings",
"cosmetics",
"makeups",
"paints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ponchos , pelisses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burnooses",
"burnouses",
"capelets",
"capuchins",
"cowls",
"josephs",
"mantas",
"mantelets",
"mantillas",
"palatines",
"pelerines",
"pelisses",
"ponchos",
"roquelaures",
"tippets",
"capes",
"capotes",
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"manteaus",
"mantles",
"serapes",
"sarapes",
"shawls",
"stoles",
"wraps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dovecotes":{
"as in henhouses , cotes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cotes",
"henhouses",
"kraals",
"stockades",
"folds",
"sheepfolds",
"kennels",
"runs",
"pigpens",
"cages",
"coops",
"corrals",
"hutches",
"pens",
"pounds",
"aquariums",
"aquaria",
"terraria",
"terrariums",
"live-boxes",
"fences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"domestic":{
"of or relating to a household or family":{
"examples":[
"the surest way to maintain domestic peace and harmony is to have everyone pitch in on chores"
],
"synonyms":[
"familial",
"household"
],
"near synonyms":[
"homelike",
"homely",
"homey",
"homy",
"residential"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nondomestic",
"nonfamilial"
]
},
"changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans":{
"examples":[
"domestic animals in a barnyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"domesticated",
"tame",
"tamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broken",
"halterbroken",
"housebroken",
"trained",
"docile",
"familiar",
"gentle",
"semidomesticated",
"subdued",
"submissive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbroken",
"untrained",
"wildish"
],
"antonyms":[
"feral",
"savage",
"undomesticated",
"untamed",
"wild"
]
},
"belonging to a particular place by birth or origin":{
"examples":[
"the domestic bird population has been virtually wiped out by the brown tree snake"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboriginal",
"autochthonous",
"born",
"endemic",
"indigenous",
"native"
],
"near synonyms":[
"local",
"regional",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imported",
"introduced",
"transplanted",
"alien",
"exotic",
"foreign",
"strange",
"expatriate",
"immigrant"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonindigenous",
"nonnative"
]
},
"a person hired to perform household or personal services":{
"examples":[
"working as a team, the couple hired themselves out as domestics for wealthy homeowners"
],
"synonyms":[
"daily",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lackey",
"menial",
"retainer",
"servant",
"steward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"butler",
"footman",
"groom",
"houseboy",
"houseman",
"majordomo",
"man",
"manservant",
"servitor",
"valet",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"housekeeper",
"housemaid",
"lady-in-waiting",
"maid",
"maidservant",
"wench",
"woman",
"assistant",
"attendant",
"companion",
"factotum",
"follower",
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"gofer",
"gopher"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"taskmaster"
],
"antonyms":[
"master",
"mistress"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"dollars":{
"a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents":{
"examples":[
"a wad of dollars in his pocket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bones",
"bucks",
"clams",
"ones",
"smackers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greenbacks",
"dead presidents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"doping (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"tried to dope out the answer from the little information we had been given"
],
"synonyms":[
"answering",
"breaking",
"cracking",
"figuring out",
"puzzling (out)",
"resolving",
"riddling (out)",
"solving",
"unraveling",
"unriddling",
"working",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"reasoning",
"clearing (up)",
"ironing out",
"straightening (out)",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"divining",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"deciphering",
"decoding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"documented":{
"as in established":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"established",
"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"confirmable",
"reliable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable",
"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"historical",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective",
"true",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"plain",
"simple",
"certain",
"undoubted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"apocryphal",
"unauthentic",
"undocumented",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"legendary",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"pretend",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"insupportable",
"unsupportable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"examples":[
"he tried in vain to document a link between ancient civilizations and extraterrestrials"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proved",
"substantiated",
"validated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"circumstantiated",
"corroborated",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"supported",
"upheld",
"witnessed",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"confirmed",
"sustained",
"verified",
"vouched",
"clinched",
"nailed",
"settled",
"confessed",
"deposed",
"testified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"disputed",
"objected",
"alleged",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"doubling (back)":{
"as in turning back":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"turning back",
"tacking",
"zigzagging",
"detouring",
"deviating",
"diverging",
"sheering",
"swerving",
"swinging",
"turning",
"turning off",
"veering",
"wheeling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"downplay":{
"to reduce in apparent importance":{
"examples":[
"he self-deprecatingly downplays his own contributions to the festival's success"
],
"synonyms":[
"de-emphasize",
"play down",
"soft-pedal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"underplay",
"understate",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"poor-mouth",
"put down",
"run down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerate",
"overdo",
"overdraw",
"overstate",
"elaborate",
"embellish",
"embroider",
"magnify",
"pad",
"stretch",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"melodramatize",
"overemphasize",
"overplay",
"sensationalize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"doers":{
"a person who actively does things instead of just thinking or talking about them":{
"examples":[
"I'm more of a thinker than a doer ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"achievers",
"comers",
"enterprisers",
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"live wires",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters",
"eager beavers",
"he-men",
"individualists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdlers",
"idlers",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"putterers",
"triflers",
"goldbricks",
"malingerers",
"procrastinators",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"drones",
"lazybones",
"sluggards",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"ignorers",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"neglecters",
"daydreamers",
"dreamers",
"dropouts",
"quitters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dollops (out)":{
"as in shares (out) , measures (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasures",
"allots",
"allows",
"appropriates",
"assigns",
"dishes out",
"divides",
"divvies (up)",
"lots",
"measures (out)",
"parts",
"proportions",
"rations",
"redistributes",
"sets",
"shares (out)",
"splits",
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates",
"bestows",
"disburses",
"furnishes",
"issues",
"provides",
"shares",
"supplies",
"circulates",
"disperses",
"disseminates",
"scatters",
"spreads",
"chips in",
"contributes",
"donates",
"pledges",
"reallocates",
"reapportions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misallocates",
"begrudges",
"declines",
"denies",
"deprives (of)",
"disallows",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"withholds",
"niggles (out)",
"pinches",
"skimps",
"stints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}