dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/li_mwt.json
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{
"liaison":{
"the fact or state of having something in common":{
"examples":[
"a variety of political factions are attracted to that presidential contender, but there doesn't appear to be much of a liaison between them and the candidate"
],
"synonyms":[
"affinity",
"association",
"bearing",
"connection",
"kinship",
"linkage",
"relation",
"relationship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"correlation",
"interrelation",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"bond",
"link",
"tie",
"affiliation",
"alliance",
"union",
"identicalness",
"sameness",
"alikeness",
"community",
"likeness",
"resemblance",
"similarity",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"conformity",
"congruity",
"correspondence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"variability",
"variance",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)":{
"examples":[
"the strong liaison between the parents and teachers is based on the fact that both have the students' best interests at heart"
],
"synonyms":[
"affiliation",
"alliance",
"association",
"collaboration",
"confederation",
"connection",
"cooperation",
"hookup",
"linkup",
"partnership",
"relation",
"relationship",
"tie-up",
"union"
],
"near synonyms":[
"business",
"dealings",
"interaction",
"exchange",
"interconnection",
"interrelation",
"mutualism",
"reciprocity",
"symbiosis",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"merger",
"unification",
"affinity",
"attachment",
"closeness",
"intimacy",
"rapport",
"sympathy",
"kinship",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"togetherness",
"unity",
"colleagueship",
"companionship",
"company",
"fellowship",
"bed",
"cahoots",
"league"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breakup",
"dissolution",
"disunion",
"division",
"parting",
"separation",
"severance",
"split",
"alienation",
"divorce",
"estrangement"
],
"antonyms":[
"disaffiliation",
"dissociation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libel":{
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the governor's office issued a statement accusing the state's largest newspaper of libel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship"
],
"related":[
"aspersion",
"innuendo",
"muck",
"mud",
"smear",
"backbiting",
"detraction",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"attack",
"censure",
"criticism",
"denunciation",
"hatchet job",
"contempt",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"belittlement",
"denigration",
"disparagement",
"cattiness",
"despite",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"venom",
"viciousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"blackening",
"calumniation",
"calumny",
"character assassination",
"defamation",
"defaming",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slander",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilification",
"vilifying"
]
},
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the court decided that the newspaper's reportage of the former mayor, while irresponsible, did not constitute an effort to libel him"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalt",
"glorify",
"honor",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"commend",
"praise",
"esteem",
"respect",
"admire",
"regard",
"adore",
"revere",
"venerate",
"worship"
],
"related":[
"belittle",
"denigrate",
"detract",
"disparage",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"shame",
"abase",
"debase",
"degrade",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"disdain",
"scorn"
],
"synonyms":[
"asperse",
"blacken",
"calumniate",
"defame",
"malign",
"slander",
"smear",
"traduce",
"vilify"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"libelist":{
"as in defamer , libeler":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libelled":{
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"examples":[
"the court decided that the newspaper's reportage of the former mayor, while irresponsible, did not constitute an effort to libel him"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"blackened",
"calumniated",
"defamed",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"smeared",
"traduced",
"vilified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittled",
"denigrated",
"detracted",
"disparaged",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"shamed",
"abased",
"debased",
"degraded",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"disdained",
"scorned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalted",
"glorified",
"honored",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"praised",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"admired",
"regarded",
"adored",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liberality":{
"the quality or state of being generous":{
"examples":[
"already known for his liberality , the billionaire continued to give away record amounts of money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"bountifulness",
"bounty",
"generosity",
"generousness",
"largesse",
"largess",
"munificence",
"openhandedness",
"openheartedness",
"philanthropy",
"unselfishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beneficence",
"charity",
"kindliness",
"selflessness",
"kindness",
"gift",
"gratuity",
"lagniappe",
"tribute",
"extravagance",
"improvidence",
"lavishness",
"prodigality",
"wastefulness",
"spendthrift",
"dissipating",
"squandering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"economizing",
"economy",
"frugality",
"husbandry",
"providence",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift",
"conservation",
"saving",
"husbanding",
"managing",
"scraping",
"cutting back"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheapness",
"closeness",
"meanness",
"miserliness",
"parsimony",
"penuriousness",
"pinching",
"selfishness",
"stinginess",
"tightness",
"ungenerosity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liberation":{
"the act of setting free from slavery":{
"examples":[
"the liberation of the slaves was one of the key results of the Civil War"
],
"synonyms":[
"emancipation",
"enfranchisement",
"freeing",
"manumission"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deliverance",
"redemption",
"salvation",
"autonomy",
"freedom",
"independence",
"independency",
"liberty",
"self-government",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bondage",
"serfdom",
"servitude",
"thralldom",
"thraldom",
"yoke",
"captivity",
"enchainment",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"conquest",
"subjugation"
],
"antonyms":[
"enslavement"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liberations":{
"the act of setting free from slavery":{
"antonyms":[
"enslavements"
],
"examples":[
"the liberation of the slaves was one of the key results of the Civil War"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bondages",
"serfdoms",
"servitudes",
"thralldoms",
"thraldoms",
"yokes",
"captivities",
"enchainments",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"internments",
"conquests",
"subjugations"
],
"related":[
"deliverances",
"redemptions",
"salvations",
"autonomies",
"freedoms",
"independences",
"independencies",
"liberties",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties"
],
"synonyms":[
"emancipations",
"enfranchisements",
"manumissions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libidinous":{
"having a strong sexual desire":{
"examples":[
"a novel about a libidinous lawyer who becomes an abject slave to his sexual addiction"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"indecent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celibate",
"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"licence":{
"the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something":{
"antonyms":[
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
],
"examples":[
"the company is seeking license to operate several more power plants in the state"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denial",
"refusal",
"rejection",
"revocation",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"injunction",
"veto",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"repression",
"suppression",
"ban",
"embargo",
"exclusion"
],
"related":[
"imprimatur",
"seal",
"signature",
"stamp",
"accreditation",
"certification",
"liberty",
"pass",
"concession",
"patent",
"permit",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"OK",
"okay",
"accord",
"grant"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowance",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"granting",
"green light",
"leave",
"permission",
"sanction",
"sufferance",
"warrant"
]
},
"the granting of power to perform various acts or duties":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a restaurant owner has to get a license to serve food and drink"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"commendation",
"consignment",
"entrustment",
"facilitation",
"fostering",
"promotion",
"commanding",
"directing",
"ordering"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreditation",
"authorization",
"commission",
"delegation",
"empowerment",
"mandate"
]
},
"the right to act or move freely":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"military commanders on the ground must be granted considerable license , as wars cannot be micromanaged by people back in Washington"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"authority",
"clutch",
"command",
"control",
"dominion",
"grip",
"hold",
"mandate",
"mastery",
"power",
"sway",
"range",
"room",
"space",
"blank check",
"carte blanche"
],
"synonyms":[
"authorization",
"free hand",
"freedom",
"latitude",
"run"
]
},
"to give official or legal power to":{
"antonyms":[
"disqualify"
],
"examples":[
"a state statute licenses county sheriffs to choose their own deputies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disbar",
"discourage",
"disenfranchise",
"disfranchise",
"exclude",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"prevent",
"shut out",
"stop",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"interdict",
"outlaw",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"veto"
],
"related":[
"approve",
"clear",
"credential",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"OK",
"okay",
"sanction",
"affirm",
"confirm",
"validate",
"inaugurate",
"induct",
"initiate",
"install",
"instate",
"swear in",
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"enfranchise",
"entitle",
"privilege"
],
"synonyms":[
"accredit",
"authorize",
"certify",
"charter",
"commission",
"empower",
"enable",
"invest",
"qualify",
"vest",
"warrant"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"licensing":{
"as in license , consent":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to give official or legal power to":{
"antonyms":[
"disqualifying"
],
"examples":[
"a state statute licenses county sheriffs to choose their own deputies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banning",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disbarring",
"discouraging",
"disenfranchising",
"disfranchising",
"excluding",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"preventing",
"shutting out",
"stopping",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"interdicting",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"vetoing"
],
"related":[
"approving",
"clearing",
"credentialing",
"credentialling",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"affirming",
"confirming",
"validating",
"inaugurating",
"inducting",
"initiating",
"installing",
"instating",
"swearing in",
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"enfranchising",
"entitling",
"privileging"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrediting",
"authorizing",
"certifying",
"chartering",
"commissioning",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"investing",
"qualifying",
"vesting",
"warranting"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"licit":{
"permitted by law":{
"examples":[
"law enforcement agencies are demanding stricter regulation of the sale of licit medications that can later be used in the home manufacture of illicit drugs"
],
"synonyms":[
"lawful",
"legal",
"legit",
"legitimate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowable",
"authorized",
"noncriminal",
"permissible",
"justifiable",
"warrantable",
"constitutional",
"de jure",
"regulation",
"statutory",
"good",
"innocent",
"just",
"proper",
"right"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"corrupt",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"reprobate",
"sinful",
"wicked",
"wrong",
"banned",
"criminal",
"forbidden",
"guilty",
"impermissible",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"unauthorized",
"unjust",
"under-the-counter",
"under-the-table",
"nonconstitutional",
"unconstitutional"
],
"antonyms":[
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lie":{
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"examples":[
"would I lie to you about that?"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricate",
"fib",
"prevaricate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forswear",
"foreswear",
"perjure",
"equivocate",
"fudge",
"palter",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick",
"defame",
"libel",
"slander",
"traduce",
"falsify",
"misreport",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"distort",
"garble",
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assert",
"swear",
"testify",
"authenticate",
"confirm",
"substantiate",
"validate",
"verify"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the train tracks lie just over that hill"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"extend",
"go",
"head",
"lead",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"cut",
"pass",
"course",
"follow",
"span",
"traverse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occupy a place or location":{
"examples":[
"I left the book lying on the counter"
],
"synonyms":[
"be",
"bear",
"sit",
"stand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"command",
"overlook",
"hang around",
"remain",
"rest",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"await",
"wait",
"post",
"station",
"dwell",
"reside"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain out of sight":{
"examples":[
"paparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout"
],
"synonyms":[
"hide",
"hole up",
"lurk",
"repose",
"skulk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slink",
"sneak",
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come out",
"materialize",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appear"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"he wanted to deny the accusation, but he couldn't tell a lie"
],
"synonyms":[
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fairy tale",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"story",
"tale",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"untruth",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"half-truth",
"ambiguity",
"equivocation",
"obliquity",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"perjury",
"bluff",
"fiction",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"humbug",
"jive",
"nonsense",
"canard",
"fallacy",
"misconception",
"myth",
"falsification",
"misinformation",
"misreport",
"misrepresentation",
"misstatement",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"duplicity",
"fraudulence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truism",
"verity",
"honesty",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"authentication",
"confirmation",
"substantiation",
"validation",
"verification"
],
"antonyms":[
"truth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lieutenants":{
"a person who helps a more skilled person":{
"examples":[
"the drug lord has a pair of brutal lieutenants who do most of his dirty work for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjuncts",
"adjutants",
"aides",
"aids",
"apprentices",
"assistants",
"coadjutors",
"deputies",
"helpers",
"helpmates",
"helpmeets",
"mates",
"sidekicks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attendants",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"maids",
"maidservants",
"scullions",
"servants",
"auxiliaries",
"legmen",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"employees",
"employes",
"hands",
"help",
"hirelings",
"laborers",
"swampers",
"workers",
"gal Fridays",
"girl Fridays",
"man Fridays",
"right hands",
"aides-de-camp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lifelike":{
"closely resembling the object imitated":{
"antonyms":[
"nonnatural",
"nonrealistic",
"unnatural",
"unrealistic"
],
"examples":[
"the eyes of the lifelike portrait seem to follow visitors around the room"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dissimilar",
"off",
"unalike",
"unlike",
"incomparable",
"unmatched",
"contrasted",
"contrasting",
"different",
"disparate",
"fake",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"related":[
"alike",
"like",
"matching",
"similar",
"verisimilar",
"akin",
"analogous",
"approximate",
"comparable",
"resembling",
"accurate",
"close",
"faithful",
"true",
"compelling",
"convincing",
"expressive",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"gritty",
"vivid"
],
"synonyms":[
"living",
"natural",
"naturalistic",
"naturalist",
"near",
"photo-realistic",
"realistic",
"three-dimensional"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lifestyles":{
"the way people live at a particular time and place":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"retirees enjoying a more casual, stress-free lifestyle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"customs",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"folklores",
"heritages",
"legacies",
"traditions",
"subcultures",
"subsocieties",
"sub-societies"
],
"synonyms":[
"civilizations",
"cultures",
"lives",
"societies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lift":{
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"I needed help lifting the heavy globe back up to the top shelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"perk (up)",
"pick up",
"raise",
"take up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift",
"upraise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascend",
"mount",
"rise",
"rear",
"upend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"slip",
"bear",
"depress",
"press",
"push",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"antonyms":[
"drop",
"lower"
]
},
"to move or extend upward":{
"examples":[
"once the sun started to cut through the morning fog, the colorful hot-air balloons began to lift off from the field"
],
"synonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"aspire",
"climb",
"mount",
"rise",
"soar",
"thrust",
"up",
"uprear",
"uprise",
"upthrust",
"upturn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surge",
"tower",
"boost",
"elevate",
"raise",
"upheave",
"uplift",
"upraise",
"balloon",
"blast off",
"take off",
"zoom",
"crest",
"scale",
"surmount",
"top",
"cant",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"recline",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dive",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"sink",
"slide"
],
"antonyms":[
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"drop",
"fall (off)",
"plunge"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"she turned her back for just a moment, and somebody lifted her purse"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an act or instance of helping":{
"examples":[
"the company's senior vice president gave his son a much-needed lift up the corporate ladder"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetment",
"aid",
"assist",
"assistance",
"backing",
"boost",
"hand",
"help",
"helping hand",
"leg up",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancement",
"encouragement",
"facilitation",
"forwarding",
"furtherance",
"furthering",
"nurturance",
"benefaction",
"patronage",
"promotion",
"sponsorship",
"advice",
"care",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"mentoring",
"attendance",
"attention",
"hand-holding",
"service",
"beneficence",
"charity",
"favor",
"kindness",
"philanthropy",
"assuagement",
"palliation",
"relief",
"succor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraint",
"frustration",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"obstruction",
"repression",
"restraint",
"deterrence",
"discouragement"
],
"antonyms":[
"hindrance"
]
},
"a means of getting to a destination in a vehicle driven by another":{
"examples":[
"I'll need a lift to work while my car is in the shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"ride",
"transportation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"spin",
"turn",
"joyride",
"conveyance",
"passage",
"transit",
"transport"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lifting":{
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"antonyms":[
"dropping",
"lowering"
],
"examples":[
"I needed help lifting the heavy globe back up to the top shelf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descending",
"dipping",
"falling",
"pitching",
"plunging",
"slipping",
"bearing",
"depressing",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"sinking",
"submerging"
],
"related":[
"ascending",
"mounting",
"rising",
"rearing",
"upending"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosting",
"craning",
"elevating",
"heaving",
"hefting",
"heightening",
"hiking",
"hoisting",
"jacking (up)",
"perking (up)",
"picking up",
"raising",
"taking up",
"upholding",
"uplifting",
"upping",
"upraising"
]
},
"to move or extend upward":{
"antonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"dropping",
"falling (off)",
"plunging"
],
"examples":[
"once the sun started to cut through the morning fog, the colorful hot-air balloons began to lift off from the field"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"sinking",
"sliding"
],
"related":[
"surging",
"towering",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"raising",
"upheaving",
"uplifting",
"upraising",
"ballooning",
"blasting off",
"taking off",
"zooming",
"cresting",
"scaling",
"surmounting",
"topping",
"canting",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"aspiring",
"climbing",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"thrusting",
"upping",
"uprearing",
"uprising",
"upthrusting",
"upturning"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she turned her back for just a moment, and somebody lifted her purse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"related":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ligature":{
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"examples":[
"the surgeon tied a ligature around the tube to keep it in place"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"bind",
"bond",
"bracelet",
"chain",
"cuff(s)",
"fetter",
"handcuff(s)",
"irons",
"manacle(s)",
"shackle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"constraint",
"curb",
"enchainment",
"enslavement",
"hindrance",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"restriction",
"entanglement",
"net",
"trammel",
"trap",
"collar",
"straitjacket",
"straightjacket",
"fastener",
"hobble",
"hold",
"hold-down",
"holding",
"tie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a uniting or binding force or influence":{
"examples":[
"a common language is often the ligature that unites the people of a nation"
],
"synonyms":[
"bond",
"cement",
"cord",
"knot",
"link",
"tie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attachment",
"connection",
"fastening",
"hookup",
"joint",
"linkage",
"linkup",
"nexus",
"tie-up",
"union",
"yoke",
"affection",
"fondness",
"sympathy",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hampering",
"limit",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"parting",
"separation",
"unbinding",
"unfastening",
"unfettering",
"untying",
"untieing",
"emancipation",
"freedom",
"liberation",
"release"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ligatures":{
"a uniting or binding force or influence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a common language is often the ligature that unites the people of a nation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"partings",
"separations",
"emancipations",
"freedoms",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"related":[
"attachments",
"connections",
"fastenings",
"hookups",
"joints",
"linkages",
"linkups",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"tie-ups",
"unions",
"yokes",
"affections",
"sympathies",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"limitations",
"limits",
"restraints",
"restrictions"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonds",
"cements",
"cords",
"knots",
"links",
"ties"
]
},
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the surgeon tied a ligature around the tube to keep it in place"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"captivities",
"confinements",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"enchainments",
"enslavements",
"hindrances",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"entanglements",
"nets",
"trammels",
"traps",
"collars",
"straitjackets",
"straightjackets",
"fasteners",
"hobbles",
"hold-downs",
"holdings",
"holds",
"ties"
],
"synonyms":[
"bands",
"binds",
"bonds",
"bracelets",
"chains",
"cuffs",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"irons",
"manacles",
"shackles"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light bulb":{
"a glass bulb or tube that produces light when it is supplied with electricity":{
"examples":[
"change a light bulb that has burned out"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamp",
"arc light",
"candelabra",
"candelabrum",
"candle",
"chandelier",
"dark lantern",
"electric",
"flare",
"flash",
"flashbulb",
"flashcube",
"flashlight",
"floodlight",
"fluorescent lamp",
"gaslight",
"gasolier",
"girandole",
"headlight",
"incandescent lamp",
"klieg light",
"kleig light",
"lantern",
"lighthouse",
"lighting",
"sconce",
"spotlight",
"streetlight",
"sun lamp",
"beacon",
"illuminant",
"lamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light into":{
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"She lit into the intern for deleting an important file."
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bash",
"belabor",
"blast",
"castigate",
"excoriate",
"jump (on)",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"potshot",
"savage",
"scathe",
"slam",
"trash",
"vituperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berate",
"harangue",
"harass",
"harry",
"revile",
"scold",
"whip",
"blaspheme",
"curse",
"execrate",
"imprecate",
"profane",
"affront",
"insult",
"slur",
"asperse",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"blackguard",
"disparage",
"put down",
"libel",
"slander",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"chastise",
"chide",
"criticize",
"lace (into)",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"fulminate",
"lash (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"commend",
"compliment",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We lit into the new project right away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attack",
"dive (into)",
"tackle",
"wade (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"address",
"approach",
"face",
"buckle (down to)",
"concentrate (on)",
"focus (on)",
"knuckle down (to)",
"zero (in on)",
"fall (to)",
"pitch in",
"plunge (in)",
"settle (down)",
"pursue",
"take up",
"undertake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"evade",
"shun",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"idle",
"lag",
"mess",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"poke",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He lit into the punching bag as though it were his worst enemy."
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"light-foot":{
"moving easily":{
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
],
"examples":[
"the light-footed cat crept silently through the house"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"related":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lightens":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"the patient lightened when he heard the disease responds well to treatment"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightens",
"bucks up",
"cheers (up)",
"looks up",
"perks (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoices",
"livens (up)",
"revives",
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"sparkles",
"encourages",
"gladdens",
"heartens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despairs",
"desponds",
"broods",
"frets",
"mopes"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkens",
"saddens"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the room was gradually lightened by the rising sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"beacons",
"emblazes",
"illumes",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightens",
"beams",
"beats (down)",
"radiates",
"shines",
"enhaloes",
"haloes",
"floodlights",
"highlights",
"spotlights",
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"glares",
"glows",
"ignites",
"incinerates",
"kindles",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles",
"gleams",
"glistens",
"glitters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dims",
"dulls",
"obscures",
"covers",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"obfuscates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lightheartedness":{
"carefree freedom from constraint":{
"antonyms":[
"constraint",
"restraint"
],
"examples":[
"he approaches his medical duties with a lightheartedness that some patients find disturbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embarrassment",
"reserve",
"reticence",
"self-consciousness",
"uneasiness",
"inhibition",
"repression",
"self-restraint",
"suppression",
"carefulness",
"discreetness",
"discretion",
"heedfulness",
"discipline",
"self-command",
"self-control",
"self-denial",
"self-discipline",
"self-mastery",
"willpower"
],
"related":[
"ardor",
"enthusiasm",
"exuberance",
"fervor",
"spirit",
"warmth",
"zeal",
"zealotry",
"zealousness",
"carelessness",
"heedlessness",
"impulsiveness",
"impulsivity",
"indiscretion",
"insouciance",
"recklessness",
"thoughtlessness",
"unself-consciousness",
"casualness",
"offhandedness",
"excess",
"excessiveness",
"immoderacy",
"incontinence",
"indulgence",
"intemperance",
"licentiousness",
"permissiveness",
"wantonness",
"wildness",
"blank check",
"carte blanche",
"free hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"abandonment",
"ease",
"naturalness",
"spontaneity",
"spontaneousness",
"unconstraint",
"uninhibitedness",
"unrestraint"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lighthouse":{
"a tower that is built on or near the shore and that has a powerful illuminated signal to guide ships away from danger":{
"examples":[
"The sailor spotted the lighthouse in the distance."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamp",
"arc light",
"candelabra",
"candelabrum",
"candle",
"chandelier",
"dark lantern",
"electric",
"flare",
"flash",
"flashbulb",
"flashcube",
"flashlight",
"floodlight",
"fluorescent lamp",
"gaslight",
"gasolier",
"girandole",
"headlight",
"incandescent lamp",
"klieg light",
"kleig light",
"lantern",
"light bulb",
"lighting",
"sconce",
"spotlight",
"streetlight",
"sun lamp",
"beacon",
"illuminant",
"lamp",
"light"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lighting (up)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lightly":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"without difficulty":{
"antonyms":[
"arduously",
"hardly",
"laboriously",
"strenuously"
],
"examples":[
"you're not going to get off lightly if they catch you!"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"gracelessly",
"ham-handedly",
"ineptly",
"maladroitly",
"unskillfully",
"meticulously",
"painfully",
"painstakingly",
"thoroughly",
"assiduously",
"diligently",
"indefatigably",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intently",
"mightily",
"sedulously",
"tirelessly"
],
"related":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"competently",
"deftly",
"dexterously",
"efficiently",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"proficiently",
"skillfully",
"instinctively",
"intuitively",
"naturally",
"spontaneously"
],
"synonyms":[
"easily",
"easy",
"effortlessly",
"facilely",
"fluently",
"freely",
"handily",
"hands down",
"painlessly",
"readily",
"smoothly",
"well"
]
}
},
"lightness":{
"a lack of seriousness often at an improper time":{
"antonyms":[
"earnestness",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness"
],
"examples":[
"the inappropriate lightness of the anchorman's tone while he was reading the story of the freak accident in which people had died"
],
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"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"mopes",
"moroseness",
"sadness",
"sullenness",
"unhappiness"
],
"related":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"high-spiritedness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"childishness",
"goofiness",
"puerility"
],
"synonyms":[
"facetiousness",
"flightiness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"frivolousness",
"frothiness",
"levity",
"light-headedness",
"light-mindedness",
"silliness"
]
},
"the quality or state of having or giving off light":{
"antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"duskiness"
],
"examples":[
"the photographer was concerned that the lightness of the background would cast the main subject into shadow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"gloominess",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"haziness",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"colorlessness",
"grayness",
"lackluster",
"paleness",
"shadiness",
"shadowiness"
],
"related":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"light",
"fluorescence",
"incandescence",
"luminescence",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"sheen",
"shine",
"shininess",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"flash",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"brilliancy",
"candor",
"dazzle",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"lambency",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"luster",
"lustre",
"lustrousness",
"radiance",
"refulgence",
"splendor"
]
},
"the state or quality of having little weight":{
"antonyms":[
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"massiveness",
"ponderousness",
"weightiness"
],
"examples":[
"the first thing I noticed about the little bird was its lightness ; I could hardly tell I was holding it in my hand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"solidity",
"solidness",
"substantiality"
],
"related":[
"airiness",
"delicacy",
"ethereality",
"etherealness",
"flimsiness",
"fluffiness",
"insubstantiality"
],
"synonyms":[
"slightness",
"weightlessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightproof":{
"as in waterproof , soundproof":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"soundproof",
"waterproof",
"airtight",
"hermetic",
"hermetical",
"leakproof",
"watertight",
"close",
"compact",
"dense",
"snug",
"thick",
"impenetrable",
"impermeable",
"impervious",
"tight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"penetrable",
"permeable",
"pervious",
"absorbent",
"leaky",
"porous",
"unsealed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lightship":{
"as in warship , steamship":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carrier",
"argosy",
"barge",
"coaster",
"collier",
"containership",
"corvette",
"cruiser",
"cutter",
"destroyer",
"ferryboat",
"flagship",
"freighter",
"icebreaker",
"ironclad",
"liner",
"man-of-war",
"man-o'-war",
"merchantman",
"merchant ship",
"motor ship",
"packet",
"steamer",
"steamship",
"superliner",
"supertanker",
"tanker",
"trader",
"tramp",
"transport",
"warship",
"watercraft",
"boat",
"keel",
"ship",
"vessel",
"bark",
"barque",
"brig",
"brigantine",
"caravel",
"clipper",
"junk",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"square-rigger",
"tall ship",
"windjammer",
"xebec",
"yacht"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightsome":{
"filled with much light":{
"examples":[
"a lovely and lightsome room with huge windows"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"alight",
"bright",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"moonlit",
"shiny",
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gloomy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"murky",
"obscured",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"lightproof"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"lightless",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"having or showing a good mood or disposition":{
"examples":[
"lighthearted lovers skipping along the beach with a lightsome gait"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gay",
"gladsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"animated",
"chirpy",
"jaunty",
"lilting",
"lively",
"perky",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned",
"boon",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"tickled",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unsatisfied",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"down",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"hangdog",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
]
},
"having or showing freedom from worries or troubles":{
"examples":[
"set off on his grand tour of Europe with a lightsome heart"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"gay",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"slaphappy",
"unconcerned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"breezy",
"cavalier",
"nonchalant",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"unfussy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"somber",
"sombre",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"wary",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"upset",
"worried",
"long-suffering",
"overburdened",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
]
},
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"still lightsome despite her advancing years, the cat continued to ignore orders not to leap onto the kitchen table"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"likability":{
"as in attractiveness , likableness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attractiveness",
"delightfulness",
"enjoyableness",
"likableness",
"pleasingness",
"civility",
"comity",
"considerateness",
"consideration",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"politeness",
"thoughtfulness",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"sunniness",
"benignity",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"amicability",
"amicableness",
"amity",
"cordiality",
"empressement",
"friendliness",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"mellowness",
"sweetness and light",
"affability",
"agreeability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"geniality",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"graciousness",
"niceness",
"personableness",
"pleasantness",
"sweetness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"unpleasantness",
"boorishness",
"discourtesy",
"impoliteness",
"incivility",
"rudeness",
"ungraciousness",
"biliousness",
"cantankerousness",
"churlishness",
"crankiness",
"fussiness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"peevishness",
"petulance",
"testiness",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"orneriness",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"hostility",
"unfriendliness",
"sourness",
"vinegar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"likable":{
"easy to like; having pleasant or appealing qualities":{
"examples":[
"Detective Grant is the most likeable character in the novel.",
"She seems like a friendly, likable young woman."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admirable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"adorable",
"darling",
"dear",
"disarming",
"endearing",
"lovable",
"lovesome",
"precious",
"sweet",
"winning",
"winsome",
"embraceable",
"kissable",
"beloved",
"cherished",
"favored",
"favorite",
"loved",
"treasured",
"attractive",
"beautiful",
"desirable",
"lovely",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"fetching",
"affable",
"agreeable",
"cheerful",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"kind",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"delightful",
"pleasing",
"well-disposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemptible",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"heinous",
"horrible",
"lousy",
"nasty",
"offensive",
"unlikable",
"unpleasant",
"wretched",
"unloved",
"frightful",
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"ill-favored",
"monstrous",
"ogreish",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"ugly",
"unattractive",
"unsightly",
"vile",
"appalling",
"awful",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"horrendous",
"horrid",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"revolting",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"loathsome",
"odious",
"unlovable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"likableness":{
"as in enjoyableness , pleasingness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"likeable":{
"easy to like; having pleasant or appealing qualities":{
"examples":[
"Detective Grant is the most likeable character in the novel.",
"She seems like a friendly, likable young woman."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admirable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"adorable",
"darling",
"dear",
"disarming",
"endearing",
"lovable",
"lovesome",
"precious",
"sweet",
"winning",
"winsome",
"embraceable",
"kissable",
"beloved",
"cherished",
"favored",
"favorite",
"loved",
"treasured",
"attractive",
"beautiful",
"desirable",
"lovely",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"fetching",
"affable",
"agreeable",
"cheerful",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"kind",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"delightful",
"pleasing",
"well-disposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemptible",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"heinous",
"horrible",
"lousy",
"nasty",
"offensive",
"unlikable",
"unpleasant",
"wretched",
"unloved",
"frightful",
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"ill-favored",
"monstrous",
"ogreish",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"ugly",
"unattractive",
"unsightly",
"vile",
"appalling",
"awful",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"horrendous",
"horrid",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"revolting",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"loathsome",
"odious",
"unlovable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liked":{
"as in wanted , desirable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to see fit":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"feel free to order whatever you like from the menu"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ached (for)",
"coveted",
"craved",
"desired",
"died (for)",
"fancied",
"hankered (for)",
"hungered (for)",
"itched (for)",
"longed (for)",
"lusted (for or after)",
"panted (after)",
"pined (for)",
"repined (for)",
"sighed (for)",
"thirsted (for)",
"yearned (for)",
"decided",
"determined",
"resolved"
],
"synonyms":[
"chose",
"pleased",
"wanted",
"willed",
"wished"
]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I like romantic comedies more than action movies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"misliked",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"turned down",
"discarded",
"jettisoned",
"threw away",
"threw out"
],
"related":[
"adored",
"cottoned (to)",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"chose",
"culled",
"handpicked",
"named",
"picked",
"selected",
"singled (out)",
"took",
"coveted",
"craved",
"desired",
"hankered (for or after)",
"wanted",
"wished (for)",
"biased",
"biassed",
"prejudiced",
"inclined (toward)",
"tended (to)",
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued"
],
"synonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"favored",
"leaned (toward or towards)",
"preferred"
]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an adventuresome young woman who likes skydiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"related":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"ate (up)",
"devoured",
"drank (in)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"got off (on)",
"grooved (on)",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
]
},
"to wish to have":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I'd like another slice of pizza, but I've already eaten more than I should have"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"loved",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"welcomed",
"coveted",
"craved",
"desired",
"died (for)",
"hankered (for or after)",
"wished (for)",
"yearned (for)"
],
"synonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"wanted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"likened":{
"to describe as similar":{
"examples":[
"he generally likened a root canal to some horrible form of torture"
],
"synonyms":[
"analogized",
"assimilated",
"bracketed",
"compared",
"equated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"linked",
"alluded",
"referred",
"related",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contrasted"
]
},
"to regard or represent as equal or comparable":{
"examples":[
"I think that we can liken the two pianists, at least in terms of natural talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"compared",
"equated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"connected",
"correlated",
"identified",
"joined",
"linked",
"matched",
"related",
"grouped",
"lumped (together)",
"assorted",
"categorized",
"classed",
"classified",
"graded",
"grouped",
"sorted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differentiated",
"discerned",
"discriminated",
"distinguished",
"separated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"likeness":{
"a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness"
],
"synonyms":[
"icon",
"ikon",
"illustration",
"image",
"picture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delineation",
"depiction",
"representation",
"resemblance",
"view",
"portrait",
"daub",
"drawing",
"finger painting",
"etching",
"silhouette",
"sketch",
"watercolor",
"caricature",
"cartoon",
"doodle",
"collage",
"montage",
"photograph",
"hieroglyph",
"hieroglyphic",
"ideogram",
"ideograph",
"pictograph",
"diagram"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"why, you're the very likeness of your mother!"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"fetch",
"image",
"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":[]
},
"the quality or state of having many qualities in common":{
"examples":[
"the forgery was difficult to detect due to the pinpoint likeness it bore to the original"
],
"synonyms":[
"alikeness",
"community",
"comparability",
"correspondence",
"parallelism",
"resemblance",
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"identity",
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"verges",
"outsides",
"barriers",
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"provisoes",
"qualifications",
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"strings",
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"proscriptions"
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"latitudes"
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"reins",
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"stints"
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"unreserved",
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"escalated",
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"plentiful",
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"bulky",
"bumper",
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"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
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"largish",
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"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"respectable",
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"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"vast",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"epic",
"grandiose",
"major",
"ample",
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"cosmopolitan",
"expansive",
"global",
"inclusive",
"sweeping",
"universal",
"whole"
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"dimensionless",
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"undefined",
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"unmeasured"
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"decided",
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"specific",
"fathomable",
"measurable",
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"unrestricted",
"immeasurable",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"measureless",
"undefinable",
"undefined",
"unfathomable"
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"unlimited"
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"blocked",
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"hindered",
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"contracted",
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"narrowed",
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"suppressed",
"numbered",
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"qualified"
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"expanded",
"widened",
"overextended",
"overreached"
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"circumscribed",
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"determined",
"governed",
"delineated",
"described"
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"adjective",
"verb"
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"confining",
"holding down",
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"blocking",
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"hindering",
"impeding",
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"contracting",
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"narrowing",
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"quelling",
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"suppressing",
"numbering",
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"widening",
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"overreaching"
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"terminating"
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"governing",
"delineating",
"describing"
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"verb"
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"coupe",
"coup\u00e9",
"intermediate",
"mini",
"minicar",
"sedan",
"subcompact",
"V-8",
"auto",
"automobile",
"bus",
"car",
"horseless carriage",
"machine",
"motor",
"motorcar",
"motor vehicle",
"wheels",
"coach",
"jitney",
"microbus",
"minibus",
"minivan",
"omnibus",
"van",
"convertible",
"fastback",
"hardtop",
"hatchback",
"notchback",
"ragtop",
"sports car",
"sport-utility vehicle",
"station wagon",
"SUV",
"town car",
"wagon",
"woody",
"woodie",
"gas-guzzler",
"land yacht",
"muscle car",
"stock car",
"turbocar",
"beater",
"clunker",
"crate",
"flivver",
"jalopy",
"junker",
"cream puff",
"phaeton",
"roadster",
"tin lizzie",
"touring car"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"automobiles",
"autos",
"buses",
"busses",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motorcars",
"motors",
"motor vehicles",
"wheels",
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"convertibles",
"fastbacks",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"station wagons",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars"
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"noun"
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"clearness",
"limpidity",
"lucency",
"translucence",
"translucency",
"transparency"
],
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"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"definition",
"resolution",
"sharpness",
"apparentness",
"observability",
"visibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"milkiness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness"
],
"antonyms":[
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"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"turbidity",
"turbidness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to move slowly":{
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"flies",
"races",
"speeds",
"whizzes",
"zips"
],
"examples":[
"we'll have to stop limping if we are ever going to make our destination in time"
],
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"floats",
"glides",
"sails",
"hurries",
"tears"
],
"related":[
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"shambles",
"shuffles",
"tramps",
"trudges"
],
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"crawls",
"creaks (along)",
"creeps",
"drags",
"inches",
"noses",
"oozes",
"plods",
"pokes",
"slouches",
"snails"
]
},
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"the damaged boat limped back into port"
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"coasts",
"flies",
"glides",
"kilts",
"sails",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"related":[
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"shambles",
"shuffles",
"wallows",
"welters",
"falters",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"fumbles",
"muddles"
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"bumbles",
"flogs",
"flounders",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"struggles",
"stumbles",
"trudges"
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"to walk while favoring one leg":{
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"strides"
],
"examples":[
"she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler"
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"breezes",
"glides",
"sails"
],
"related":[
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"blunders",
"falters",
"flounders",
"lurches",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"stumbles",
"teeters",
"totters",
"wavers",
"wobbles",
"wabbles",
"dodders"
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"halts",
"hobbles"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"liners":{
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"airliners",
"air taxis",
"aeroplanes",
"airplanes",
"planes",
"aerodynes",
"aircraft",
"air-cushion vehicles",
"airframes",
"airships",
"ships",
"tractors",
"freighters",
"tankers",
"jetliners",
"jets",
"superjets",
"supersonics",
"supersonic transports",
"trijets",
"turbojets",
"turboprops",
"aerospace planes",
"rocket planes",
"bombers",
"fighters",
"jump jets",
"torpedo bombers",
"warplanes",
"amphibians",
"seaplanes",
"biplanes",
"lightplanes",
"tilt-rotors",
"towplanes",
"trimotors",
"triplanes",
"gliders",
"sailplanes"
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"near antonyms":[],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"lines":{
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
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"examples":[
"a 10th of all island residents are members of the line of this early settler"
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"ancestries",
"births",
"descents",
"extractions",
"origins",
"pedigrees"
],
"related":[
"blended families",
"nuclear families",
"extended families",
"households",
"kiths",
"broods",
"descendants",
"descendents",
"issues",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"progenies",
"scions",
"seed",
"seeds",
"clansmen",
"kinsmen",
"kinswomen",
"relatives",
"dynasties"
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"blood",
"clans",
"families",
"folks",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kinfolks",
"kins",
"kinsfolk",
"lineages",
"people",
"races",
"stocks",
"tribes"
]
},
"a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management":{
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"examples":[
"she owns a line of limousines"
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"related":[
"argosies",
"convoys",
"flotillas",
"navies",
"columns",
"corteges",
"cort\u00e8ges",
"parades",
"processions"
],
"synonyms":[
"armadas",
"caravans",
"cavalcades",
"fleets",
"motorcades",
"trains"
]
},
"a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things":{
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"examples":[
"he made sure to bring extra fishing line in case a fish broke free"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"halyards",
"lanyards",
"stays",
"bungee cords",
"bungees",
"whipcords"
],
"synonyms":[
"cables",
"cords",
"laces",
"lacings",
"ropes",
"strings",
"wires"
]
},
"a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the workers rushed to fix the leak in the gas line"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"drainpipes",
"drains",
"funnels",
"hydrants",
"mains",
"smokestacks",
"spouts",
"standpipes",
"stovepipes",
"tiles",
"waste pipes",
"waterspouts",
"pipages",
"pipeages",
"pipelines",
"pipings"
],
"synonyms":[
"channels",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"leaders",
"penstocks",
"pipes",
"troughs",
"tubes"
]
},
"a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you really crossed the line with that outrageous display of bad behavior"
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"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"fag ends",
"termini",
"terminuses",
"borders",
"brims",
"edges",
"margins",
"rims",
"verges",
"outsides",
"barriers",
"bars",
"fences",
"hedges",
"restraints",
"stops",
"walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"confines",
"ends",
"extents",
"limitations",
"limits",
"terminations"
]
},
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"advanced mathematics is a little outside of my line , but I'll see what I can do to help"
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"related":[
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"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"areas",
"arenas",
"bailiwicks",
"baronies",
"businesses",
"circles",
"demesnes",
"departments",
"disciplines",
"domains",
"elements",
"fiefdoms",
"fiefs",
"fields",
"firmaments",
"fronts",
"games",
"kingdoms",
"precincts",
"provinces",
"realms",
"specialties",
"spheres",
"terrains",
"walks"
]
},
"a series of persons or things arranged one behind another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the line for tickets stretched around the block"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
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"ranks",
"rows",
"tiers",
"chains",
"progressions",
"sequences",
"successions",
"arrays"
],
"synonyms":[
"columns",
"cues",
"files",
"queues",
"ranges",
"strings",
"trains"
]
},
"a way of acting or proceeding":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"since the election, the president has taken a very conservative line"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blueprints",
"designs",
"plans",
"schemes",
"strategies",
"intentions",
"intents",
"purposes",
"approaches",
"directions",
"methods",
"paths",
"pathways",
"tacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"methodologies",
"policies",
"procedures",
"programs"
]
},
"as in lines up , aligns":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in surrounds , embraces":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"the activity by which one regularly makes a living":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my line of business is \"pre-owned\" vehicles, and have I got a deal for you!"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocations",
"hobbies",
"pursuits"
],
"related":[
"calls",
"lifeworks",
"businesses",
"enterprises",
"fields",
"livelihoods",
"livings",
"m\u00e9tiers",
"metiers",
"rackets",
"assignments",
"engagements",
"gigs",
"missions",
"arts",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"handicrafts",
"appointments",
"berths",
"billets",
"offices",
"places",
"positions",
"posts",
"situations",
"duties",
"functions",
"jobs",
"loads",
"tasks",
"workloads"
],
"synonyms":[
"callings",
"employments",
"games",
"lays",
"occupations",
"professions",
"trades",
"vocations",
"works"
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},
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the airplane took a southerly line toward the capital"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"circles",
"circuits",
"loops",
"orbits",
"arcs",
"flight paths",
"trajectories",
"ascents",
"descents"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"paths",
"pathways",
"routes",
"routeways",
"steps",
"tracks",
"ways"
]
},
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"antonyms":[
"issues",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds"
],
"examples":[
"he comes from a noble line that goes back several centuries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"children",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"related":[
"heredities",
"successions",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lineages",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"stocks",
"strains"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"linguist":{
"as in novelist , essayist":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lining":{
"as in quilting , interlining":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"interlining",
"quilting",
"packing",
"buffer",
"bumper",
"cushion",
"fender",
"pad",
"fill",
"filler",
"filling",
"padding",
"stuffing",
"wadding"
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"aligning",
"alining",
"cuing",
"cueing",
"lining up",
"queuing",
"queueing",
"emplacing",
"placing",
"setting",
"unscrambling",
"alphabetizing",
"filing",
"hierarchizing",
"prioritizing",
"sequencing",
"displaying",
"mapping (out)",
"setting out",
"arranging",
"arraying",
"balancing",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"equalizing",
"evening",
"laying out",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"proportioning",
"ranging",
"regularizing",
"standardizing",
"systematizing",
"grooming",
"making up",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying (up)"
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"deranging",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"disordering",
"messing (up)",
"mussing (up)",
"rumpling",
"upsetting",
"misaligning"
],
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},
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"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"fencing",
"margining",
"rimming",
"surrounding",
"attaching (to)",
"communicating (with)",
"connecting (with)",
"linking (with)",
"contacting",
"converging",
"meeting",
"abutting",
"adjoining",
"bordering (on)",
"butting (on or against)",
"flanking",
"fringing",
"joining",
"marching (with)",
"neighboring",
"skirting",
"touching",
"verging (on)"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"linings":{
"as in quiltings , interlinings":{
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"interlinings",
"quiltings",
"packings",
"buffers",
"bumpers",
"cushions",
"fenders",
"pads",
"fillers",
"fillings",
"fills",
"paddings",
"stuffings",
"waddings"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"link (up)":{
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"examples":[
"carbon atoms link up to form a diamond crystal"
],
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"associate",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"fuse",
"interfuse",
"join",
"marry",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mate",
"yoke",
"ally",
"confederate",
"league",
"chain",
"compound",
"hitch",
"hook",
"splice",
"assemble",
"cluster",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"convene",
"gather",
"meet",
"recombine",
"reconnect",
"rejoin",
"reunify",
"reunite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disaffiliate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"fractionate",
"isolate",
"resolve",
"uncouple",
"unyoke",
"disband",
"disperse",
"scatter"
],
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"dissever",
"part",
"section",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"unlink"
]
},
"the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)":{
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"the linkup of the two art museums has proved beneficial to both institutions"
],
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"affiliation",
"alliance",
"association",
"collaboration",
"confederation",
"connection",
"cooperation",
"hookup",
"liaison",
"partnership",
"relation",
"relationship",
"tie-up",
"union"
],
"near synonyms":[
"business",
"dealings",
"interaction",
"exchange",
"interconnection",
"interrelation",
"mutualism",
"reciprocity",
"symbiosis",
"incorporation",
"integration",
"merger",
"unification",
"affinity",
"attachment",
"closeness",
"intimacy",
"rapport",
"sympathy",
"kinship",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"togetherness",
"unity",
"colleagueship",
"companionship",
"company",
"fellowship",
"bed",
"cahoots",
"league"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breakup",
"dissolution",
"disunion",
"division",
"parting",
"separation",
"severance",
"split",
"alienation",
"divorce",
"estrangement"
],
"antonyms":[
"disaffiliation",
"dissociation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"linking (with)":{
"as in connecting (with) , attaching (to)":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"links":{
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
"examples":[
"she linked the flowers together to form a long chain"
],
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"catenates",
"chains",
"compounds",
"concatenates",
"conjugates",
"connects",
"couples",
"hitches",
"hooks",
"interconnects",
"interlinks",
"joins",
"yokes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"articulates",
"dovetails",
"integrates",
"interlocks",
"intermeshes",
"cords",
"strings",
"wires",
"cements",
"coalesces",
"combines",
"fuses",
"unites",
"welds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaches",
"disengages",
"divides",
"parts",
"splits",
"cleaves",
"ruptures",
"severs",
"sunders"
],
"antonyms":[
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disjoints",
"dissevers",
"disunites",
"separates",
"unchains",
"uncouples",
"unhitches",
"unlinks",
"unyokes"
]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"examples":[
"since childhood I have always linked trips to the beach with the discomforts of sunburn and sand in my clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"connects",
"correlates",
"identifies",
"relates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compares",
"equates",
"likens",
"groups",
"joins",
"lumps (together)",
"ties (together)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrasts",
"differentiates",
"discriminates",
"distinguishes",
"separates",
"sets off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rod-shaped portion of seasoned ground meat in a casing":{
"examples":[
"I like to put maple syrup on my breakfast links"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangers",
"sausages",
"wursts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bolognas",
"frankfurters",
"franks",
"hot dogs",
"kielbasas",
"kielbasy",
"knockwursts",
"knackwursts",
"liver sausages",
"liver puddings",
"liverwursts",
"pepperonis",
"salamis",
"Vienna sausages",
"weenies",
"wieners",
"weiners",
"wienerwursts",
"blood sausages",
"blood puddings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a uniting or binding force or influence":{
"examples":[
"those old love letters were her only remaining link with her late grandparents"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonds",
"cements",
"cords",
"knots",
"ligatures",
"ties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attachments",
"connections",
"fastenings",
"hookups",
"joints",
"linkages",
"linkups",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"tie-ups",
"unions",
"yokes",
"affections",
"sympathies",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"limitations",
"limits",
"restraints",
"restrictions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"partings",
"separations",
"emancipations",
"freedoms",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"linty":{
"as in fluffy , fuzzy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downy",
"fluffy",
"fuzzy",
"nappy",
"stubbled",
"stubbly",
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"bristly",
"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"hirsute",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth",
"beardless",
"shaved",
"shaven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lionization":{
"as in adoration , adulation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acclamation",
"adoration",
"adulation",
"approbation",
"deference",
"hero worship",
"homage",
"honor",
"idolatry",
"infatuation",
"praise",
"props",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship",
"account",
"admiration",
"appreciation",
"esteem",
"estimation",
"favor",
"regard",
"respect",
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"love",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"amazement",
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment",
"enthusiasm",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"affection",
"attachment",
"devotion",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"condemnation",
"disapproval",
"disdain",
"opprobrium",
"scorn",
"disappointment",
"discontent",
"disenchantment",
"disgruntlement",
"disillusionment",
"displeasure",
"indignation",
"unhappiness",
"aversion",
"contempt",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disregard",
"distaste",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"abomination",
"antipathy",
"detestation",
"deprecation",
"displeasure",
"dissatisfaction",
"disfavor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lionize":{
"to treat (someone) as a very important and famous person":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lionized":{
"to treat (someone) as a very important and famous person":{
"examples":[
"She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apotheosized",
"canonized",
"dignified",
"exalted",
"magnified",
"adored",
"deified",
"glorified",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"admired",
"honored",
"loved",
"regarded",
"respected",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemed",
"desecrated",
"profaned",
"violated",
"affronted",
"dishonored",
"disrespected",
"insulted",
"offended",
"outraged",
"piqued",
"ridiculed",
"scorned",
"slighted",
"defamed",
"disparaged",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"slurred",
"smeared"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lip":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
],
"examples":[
"part of the ritual of the awards ceremony is the nominee's lip praise for the performances of his or her competitors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"fake",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
]
},
"to flow along or against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the waves, reflecting the red glow of the sunset, gently lipped the prow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bubble",
"gurgle",
"plash",
"ripple",
"slosh"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"lap",
"lave",
"splash",
"wash"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lips":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to flow along or against":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the waves, reflecting the red glow of the sunset, gently lipped the prow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bubbles",
"gurgles",
"plashes",
"ripples",
"sloshes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"laps",
"laves",
"splashes",
"washes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liqueur":{
"as in whiskey , vodka":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"Dutch courage",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"aperitif",
"bracer",
"chaser",
"digestif",
"nightcap",
"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"bottle",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"liquor",
"lush",
"moonshine",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liquify":{
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"the steel liquefied in the intense heat of the forge"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquesce",
"flux",
"fuse",
"melt",
"run",
"thaw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"found",
"gutter",
"smelt",
"try",
"dissolve",
"render",
"soften",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clot",
"coagulate",
"congeal",
"gel",
"jell",
"jelly",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"harden",
"set",
"solidify"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liquor":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"you can't order liquor in a bar until you're 21 years old"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"bottle",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"lush",
"moonshine",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aperitif",
"bracer",
"chaser",
"digestif",
"nightcap",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"liqueur",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"Dutch courage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liquored up":{
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"the men liquored up at the roadhouse and then thought it would be a good idea to go hunting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibbed",
"boozed",
"drank",
"guzzled",
"lushed (up)",
"soaked",
"tippled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"imbibed",
"nipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liquors (up)":{
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"the men liquored up at the roadhouse and then thought it would be a good idea to go hunting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibs",
"boozes",
"drinks",
"guzzles",
"lushes (up)",
"soaks",
"tipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouses",
"revels",
"imbibes",
"nips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"list":{
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"examples":[
"we put eggs, sour cream, tomatoes, roast beef, and cheddar cheese on the shopping list"
],
"synonyms":[
"canon",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"checklist",
"listing",
"menu",
"register",
"registry",
"roll",
"roll call",
"roster",
"schedule",
"table"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agenda",
"bibliography",
"catalogue raisonn\u00e9",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"directory",
"docket",
"enumeration",
"glossary",
"index",
"inventory",
"manifest",
"payroll",
"calendar",
"chronology",
"timetable"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the extreme list of the racing yacht made it hard for the untried crew to keep their balance"
],
"synonyms":[
"angling",
"bend",
"cock",
"inclination",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"turn",
"twist",
"veer",
"bow",
"dip",
"nod"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a long narrow piece of material":{
"examples":[
"shave a thin list from the side of the board"
],
"synonyms":[
"ribbon",
"slip",
"strip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slat",
"band",
"bandage",
"belt",
"binding",
"girth",
"strap",
"swatch",
"swath",
"swathe",
"tape"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a list of":{
"examples":[
"the coach listed the people on the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"enumerate",
"inventory",
"itemize",
"numerate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"count",
"mark",
"number",
"check (off)",
"tick (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"examples":[
"her number isn't listed in the phone book"
],
"synonyms":[
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"enter",
"index",
"inscribe",
"put down",
"record",
"register",
"schedule",
"slate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"book",
"card",
"file",
"note",
"classify",
"compile",
"tabulate",
"tally",
"reschedule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delete"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member":{
"examples":[
"our grandfather is listed among the war dead honored by the memorial"
],
"synonyms":[
"enroll",
"enrol",
"inscribe",
"matriculate",
"register"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enlist",
"impanel",
"induct",
"conscript",
"draft",
"muster",
"wait-list",
"book",
"schedule",
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"do I need to list all of the reasons why your idea won't work?"
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"reel off",
"rehearse",
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"tabulate",
"tally",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"inventory",
"chart",
"diagram",
"graph",
"calculate",
"compute",
"estimate",
"figure",
"reckon",
"cite",
"mention",
"name"
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"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
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"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"bend",
"deviate",
"swerve",
"veer",
"decline",
"descend",
"recline",
"retreat"
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"near antonyms":[
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"flatten",
"level",
"straighten"
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"verb"
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],
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"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"stupor",
"torpor"
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"indifference",
"malaise",
"laziness",
"fatigue",
"sleepiness",
"narcosis",
"idleness",
"inaction"
],
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"eagerness",
"enthusiasm",
"keenness",
"spiritedness",
"ambition",
"enterprise"
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"vim",
"vitality",
"vivacity"
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],
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"doldrums",
"ennui",
"restlessness",
"tedium",
"weariness"
],
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"cheerlessness",
"dispiritedness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"lifelessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
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"beguilement",
"bewitchment",
"captivation",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"immersion",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation",
"amusement",
"entertainment",
"diversion",
"relief"
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"general listlessness is often a side effect of chemotherapy"
],
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"asthenia",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"fragility",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"infirmity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lowness",
"weakness",
"wimpiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decay",
"decrepitude",
"breakdown",
"collapse",
"prostration",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"lassitude",
"weariness",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impuissance",
"powerlessness",
"effeteness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"disablement",
"incapacitation",
"invalidism",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energy",
"vitality",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"heftiness",
"huskiness",
"lustiness",
"muscularity",
"virility",
"hardness",
"ruggedness",
"stoutness",
"sturdiness",
"toughness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"wellness"
],
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"hardihood",
"hardiness",
"robustness",
"strength",
"vigor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literality":{
"as in literalness":{
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"literalness"
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"contrivance",
"creativity",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"ideation",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"brainstorm",
"brainstorming",
"inspiration",
"fecundity",
"fertility"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lithesome":{
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"stretching exercises designed to make the athlete's limbs more lithesome"
],
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"bendy",
"flexible",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
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"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the lithesome panther moved effortlessly and noiselessly through the rain forest"
],
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"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
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"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litigant":{
"someone who brings a legal action against another person or against whom a legal action is brought":{
"examples":[
"Both litigants chose to represent themselves in court."
],
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"party",
"suitor",
"complainant",
"plaintiff",
"suer",
"accused",
"defendant",
"appellee",
"accuser",
"appellant",
"petitioner",
"pleader"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"litter":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
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"examples":[
"a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor"
],
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"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"catchall",
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"blend",
"combination",
"commixture",
"composite",
"compound",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"mix-up",
"bollix",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"dog's breakfast",
"mess",
"morass",
"shambles",
"imbroglio",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
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"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"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"
]
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"as in":{
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"discarded or useless material":{
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"examples":[
"if you get caught throwing your litter on the sidewalk, you'll get slapped with a fine"
],
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"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"related":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"litterateurs":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
],
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
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"related":[
"auteurs",
"belletrists",
"belle-lettrists",
"stylists",
"wordsmiths",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"prosers",
"bards",
"poets",
"rhymers",
"versifiers",
"bloggers",
"columnists",
"journalists",
"newspapermen",
"paragraphers",
"reporters",
"sportswriters"
],
"synonyms":[
"authors",
"penmen",
"pens",
"scribes",
"scriveners",
"writers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littered":{
"lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness":{
"examples":[
"is there any wonder that you can never find anything in your littered desk?"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"hugger-mugger",
"jumbled",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"pell-mell",
"rumpled",
"sloppy",
"topsy-turvy",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"upside-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"shaggy",
"slatternly",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"uncombed",
"wrinkled",
"adulterated",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"sordid",
"neglected",
"neglectful",
"negligent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"hygienic",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"manicured",
"well-groomed",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"kempt",
"neat",
"neatened",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"shipshape",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-ordered"
]
},
"as in kidded , pupped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calved",
"kidded",
"kindled",
"kittened",
"pupped",
"whelped",
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"generated",
"got",
"sired",
"bred",
"multiplied",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"labored",
"birthed",
"bore",
"delivered",
"dropped",
"had",
"mothered",
"produced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborted",
"lost",
"miscarried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"litters":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a litter of magazines covered the bedroom floor"
],
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"agglomerates",
"agglomerations",
"alphabet soups",
"assortments",
"botches",
"clutters",
"collages",
"crazy quilts",
"farragoes",
"gallimaufries",
"grab bags",
"gumbos",
"hashes",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jambalayas",
"jumbles",
"jungles",
"mac\u00e9doines",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"menageries",
"miscellanea",
"miscellanies",
"mishmashes",
"mixed bags",
"montages",
"motleys",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"rummages",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties",
"welters"
],
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"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"catchalls",
"admixtures",
"alloys",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"commixtures",
"composites",
"compounds",
"fusions",
"intermixtures",
"mix-ups",
"bollixes",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"dog's breakfasts",
"messes",
"morasses",
"shambles",
"imbroglios",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in kids , pups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calves",
"kids",
"kindles",
"kittens",
"pups",
"whelps",
"begets",
"fathers",
"generates",
"gets",
"sires",
"breeds",
"multiplies",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"labors",
"bears",
"births",
"delivers",
"drops",
"has",
"mothers",
"produces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborts",
"loses",
"miscarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"littlest":{
"being the least in amount, number, or size possible":{
"examples":[
"the littlest kitten in the litter was also the cutest"
],
"synonyms":[
"fewest",
"lowest",
"minimal",
"minimum",
"minutest",
"slightest",
"smallest",
"tiniest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fewer",
"lesser",
"low",
"minor",
"modest",
"slight",
"small",
"smaller",
"infinitesimal",
"micro",
"subminimal",
"ultramicro",
"irreducible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest"
],
"antonyms":[
"biggest",
"full",
"greatest",
"hugest",
"largest",
"maximum",
"most",
"top",
"topmost",
"utmost"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liturgical":{
"as in religious , spiritual":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ceremonial",
"priestly",
"religious",
"ritual",
"sacramental",
"spiritual",
"adored",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"biblical",
"scriptural",
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrate",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"holy",
"sacral",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed",
"nonreligious",
"unspiritual",
"earthly",
"mundane",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"livable":{
"suitable for living in":{
"examples":[
"after we added some furniture and painted the walls, the apartment was livable"
],
"synonyms":[
"habitable",
"inhabitable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"homelike",
"homey",
"homy",
"intimate",
"snug",
"deluxe",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"luxurious",
"plush",
"sumptuous",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"rich",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"sufferable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tolerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncomfortable",
"humble",
"spartan",
"economical",
"frugal",
"spare",
"thrifty",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable"
],
"antonyms":[
"uninhabitable",
"unlivable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"live-box":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liveable":{
"suitable for living in":{
"antonyms":[
"uninhabitable",
"unlivable"
],
"examples":[
"after we added some furniture and painted the walls, the apartment was livable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncomfortable",
"humble",
"spartan",
"economical",
"frugal",
"spare",
"thrifty",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable"
],
"related":[
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"homelike",
"homey",
"homy",
"intimate",
"snug",
"deluxe",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"luxurious",
"plush",
"sumptuous",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"rich",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"sufferable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tolerable"
],
"synonyms":[
"habitable",
"inhabitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liveliness":{
"the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity":{
"examples":[
"we were surprised by the liveliness of the crowd at the nightclub despite the early hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"animation",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"lustiness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vigorousness",
"vitality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buoyancy",
"jauntiness",
"springiness",
"brightness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"chirpiness",
"effervescence",
"friskiness",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"sparkle",
"spirit",
"verve",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"eagerness",
"ebullience",
"ebulliency",
"enthusiasm",
"keenness",
"spiritedness",
"impishness",
"pertness",
"playfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"anemia",
"bloodlessness",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"limpness",
"listlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sluggishness",
"spiritlessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"weariness",
"apathy",
"impassivity",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"pallidness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"vapidity",
"vapidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"lifelessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liven (up)":{
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the bandleader tried to liven up the party by playing more energetic music so people would dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"raise",
"rouse",
"stir",
"wake (up)",
"activate",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"motivate",
"motive",
"move",
"propel",
"charge",
"electrify",
"galvanize",
"enkindle",
"excite",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"instigate",
"kindle",
"provoke",
"set off",
"spark",
"trigger",
"turn on",
"whip (up)",
"abet",
"boost",
"buoy",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"fortify",
"hearten",
"infuse",
"inspire",
"lift",
"rally",
"steel",
"strengthen",
"reactivate",
"reanimate",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"recharge",
"recreate",
"reenergize",
"refresh",
"refreshen",
"regenerate",
"reinvigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"rekindle",
"renew",
"restimulate",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revitalize",
"revive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burn out",
"debilitate",
"do in",
"drain",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"harass",
"kayo",
"knock out",
"sap",
"tucker (out)",
"undermine",
"wash out",
"weaken",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary",
"check",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"jade",
"quell",
"quench",
"repress",
"restrain",
"slow",
"still",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
],
"antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"livened (up)":{
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"antonyms":[
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"killed"
],
"examples":[
"the bandleader tried to liven up the party by playing more energetic music so people would dance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"debilitated",
"did in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"harassed",
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"sapped",
"tuckered (out)",
"undermined",
"washed out",
"weakened",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out",
"checked",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"jaded",
"quelled",
"quenched",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"slowed",
"stilled",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"related":[
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"raised",
"roused",
"stirred",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)",
"activated",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"motivated",
"motived",
"moved",
"propelled",
"charged",
"electrified",
"galvanized",
"enkindled",
"excited",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"instigated",
"kindled",
"provoked",
"set off",
"sparked",
"triggered",
"turned on",
"whipped (up)",
"abetted",
"boosted",
"buoyed",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"fortified",
"heartened",
"infused",
"inspired",
"lifted",
"rallied",
"steeled",
"strengthened",
"reactivated",
"reanimated",
"reawakened",
"reawoke",
"reawaked",
"recharged",
"recreated",
"reenergized",
"re-energized",
"refreshed",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"reinvigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"rekindled",
"renewed",
"restimulated",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived"
],
"synonyms":[
"amped (up)",
"animated",
"braced",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"filliped",
"fired",
"gingered (up)",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"juiced up",
"jump-started",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"spiked",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"vivified",
"zipped (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liverwursts":{
"as in salamis , bolognas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolognas",
"frankfurters",
"franks",
"hot dogs",
"kielbasas",
"kielbasy",
"knockwursts",
"knackwursts",
"liver sausages",
"liver puddings",
"pepperonis",
"salamis",
"Vienna sausages",
"weenies",
"wieners",
"weiners",
"wienerwursts",
"bangers",
"links",
"sausages",
"wursts",
"blood sausages",
"blood puddings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"livery":{
"the distinctive clothing worn by members of a particular group":{
"examples":[
"the limousine chauffeur was easily distinguished from the cab drivers by his livery"
],
"synonyms":[
"outfit",
"uniform"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fatigues",
"full dress",
"regimentals",
"costume",
"finery",
"regalia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lives with":{
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"She was forced to live with the mistakes she had made."
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"absorbs",
"accepts",
"bears",
"bides",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"goes",
"hacks",
"handles",
"meets",
"pockets",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"supports",
"sustains",
"sweats out",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"wears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allows",
"permits",
"suffers",
"swallows",
"reconciles (to)",
"acquiesces",
"agrees (with or to)",
"assents (to)",
"capitulates",
"consents (to)",
"respects",
"submits (to)",
"yields (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declines",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"combats",
"contests",
"fights",
"opposes",
"resists",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"dodges",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"misses",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lividness":{
"an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something":{
"examples":[
"their employer's titanic lividness over the situation had them all wondering if they'd all get fired"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"vexation",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bile",
"biliousness",
"bitterness",
"contempt",
"embitterment",
"empoisonment",
"enmity",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"rancor",
"envy",
"jaundice",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"spite",
"vengefulness",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"belligerence",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"crankiness",
"disputatiousness",
"hot-headedness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"orneriness",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"blowup",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"outburst",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"pet",
"rise",
"ruffle",
"temper",
"air rage",
"road rage",
"delirium",
"heat",
"passion",
"warmth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmness",
"forbearance",
"patience"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"living":{
"being in effective operation":{
"examples":[
"a living tradition of the holiday season",
"a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"going",
"live",
"on",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"employable",
"operable",
"usable",
"useable",
"viable",
"workable",
"performing",
"producing",
"productive",
"serving",
"useful",
"yielding",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"flourishing",
"humming",
"roaring",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deactivated",
"decommissioned",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"useless",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"arrested",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"idle",
"inert",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"nonproductive",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"stagnating",
"unproductive",
"vegetating"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"dead",
"inactive",
"inoperative",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"nonactivated",
"nonfunctional",
"nonfunctioning",
"nonoperating",
"nonoperational",
"nonoperative"
]
},
"having being at the present time":{
"examples":[
"there are fewer than a dozen living former presidents"
],
"synonyms":[
"alive",
"around",
"existent",
"existing",
"extant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"active",
"busy",
"flourishing",
"functioning",
"operating",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defunct",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"departed",
"gone",
"lost",
"nonexistent",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert"
],
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"extinct",
"nonextant"
]
},
"having or showing life":{
"examples":[
"is your hamster still living ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"breathing",
"live",
"quick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"active",
"animated",
"dynamic",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"current",
"existent",
"existing",
"extant",
"going",
"prevailing",
"surviving",
"resurrected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dying",
"fading",
"moribund",
"stillborn",
"reposing",
"resting",
"ghostlike",
"ghostly",
"ghosty",
"zombielike",
"absent",
"extinct",
"fallen",
"finished",
"gone",
"lapsed",
"lost",
"nonexistent",
"perished",
"terminated",
"vanished",
"wiped out",
"barren",
"desert"
],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"breathless",
"cold",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"departed",
"expired",
"inanimate",
"lifeless",
"nonliving"
]
},
"closely resembling the object imitated":{
"examples":[
"an outdoor museum that is a living re-creation of a typical New England village circa 1840"
],
"synonyms":[
"lifelike",
"natural",
"naturalistic",
"naturalist",
"near",
"photo-realistic",
"realistic",
"three-dimensional"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alike",
"like",
"matching",
"similar",
"verisimilar",
"akin",
"analogous",
"approximate",
"comparable",
"resembling",
"accurate",
"close",
"faithful",
"true",
"compelling",
"convincing",
"expressive",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"gritty",
"vivid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dissimilar",
"off",
"unalike",
"unlike",
"incomparable",
"unmatched",
"contrasted",
"contrasting",
"different",
"disparate",
"fake",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonnatural",
"nonrealistic",
"unnatural",
"unrealistic"
]
},
"as in business , field":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"business",
"enterprise",
"field",
"livelihood",
"m\u00e9tier",
"metier",
"racket",
"calling",
"employment",
"game",
"lay",
"line",
"occupation",
"profession",
"trade",
"vocation",
"work",
"call",
"lifework",
"assignment",
"engagement",
"gig",
"mission",
"art",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"handicraft",
"appointment",
"berth",
"billet",
"office",
"place",
"position",
"post",
"situation",
"duty",
"function",
"job",
"load",
"task",
"workload"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocation",
"hobby",
"pursuit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a home":{
"examples":[
"he lives next door to the hospital"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"residing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lodging",
"settling",
"staying",
"frequenting",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"visiting",
"cohabiting",
"inhabiting",
"occupying",
"peopling",
"populating",
"leasing",
"renting",
"subletting",
"tenanting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have life":{
"examples":[
"Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece"
],
"synonyms":[
"being",
"breathing",
"existing",
"subsisting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abiding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping (on)",
"kicking",
"lasting",
"leading",
"persisting",
"ruling",
"running on",
"surviving",
"moving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappearing",
"evaporating",
"vanishing",
"ceasing",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning"
],
"antonyms":[
"departing",
"dying",
"expiring",
"passing away",
"perishing",
"succumbing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"livings":{
"as in businesses , fields":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liabilities":{
"something (as money) which is owed":{
"examples":[
"your liabilities total about $200,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrearage",
"arrears",
"debt",
"indebtedness",
"obligation",
"score"
],
"related":[
"bond",
"debit",
"delinquency",
"bankruptcy",
"default",
"embarrassment",
"insolvency"
],
"near antonyms":[
"quietus",
"quittance",
"repayment",
"asset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light heavyweight":{
"as in heavyweight , featherweight":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bantamweight",
"cruiserweight",
"featherweight",
"flyweight",
"heavyweight",
"lightweight",
"middleweight",
"superheavyweight",
"welterweight",
"palooka",
"slugger",
"stumblebum",
"boxer",
"fighter",
"gladiator",
"prizefighter",
"pug",
"pugilist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litt\u00e9rateurs":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
"synonyms":[
"authors",
"penmen",
"pens",
"scribes",
"scriveners",
"writers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteurs",
"belletrists",
"belle-lettrists",
"stylists",
"wordsmiths",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"prosers",
"bards",
"poets",
"rhymers",
"versifiers",
"bloggers",
"columnists",
"journalists",
"newspapermen",
"paragraphers",
"reporters",
"sportswriters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lifestyle":{
"the way people live at a particular time and place":{
"examples":[
"retirees enjoying a more casual, stress-free lifestyle"
],
"synonyms":[
"civilization",
"culture",
"life",
"society"
],
"related":[
"customs",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"folklore",
"heritage",
"legacy",
"tradition",
"subculture",
"subsociety"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit up":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"related":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lily-livered":{
"having or showing a shameful lack of courage":{
"examples":[
"the pacifist was mistakenly accused of being a lily-livered coward"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chicken-livered",
"chickenhearted",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"milk-livered",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"recreant",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow"
],
"related":[
"diffident",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"timid",
"timorous",
"afraid",
"frightened",
"scared",
"careful",
"cautious",
"wary",
"bashful",
"coy",
"shy",
"feeble",
"soft",
"unmanly",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"audacious",
"bold",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"nervy",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"determined",
"resolute"
],
"antonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"daring",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"limey":{
"as in lime-juicer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lime-juicer",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"shipmate",
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"shipman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightened":{
"as in brightened , brilliant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"dazzling",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lit",
"lighted",
"radiant",
"shiny",
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"clear",
"cloudless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beclouded",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"hazed",
"hazy",
"heavy",
"lowering",
"louring",
"overcast",
"overclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"dusky",
"misty",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"overshadowed",
"sunless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in eased , alleviated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alleviated",
"eased",
"toned (down)",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"shallow",
"superficial",
"feeble",
"weak",
"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acute",
"almighty",
"blistering",
"deep",
"dreadful",
"excruciating",
"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"vicious",
"violent",
"accentuated",
"aggravated",
"concentrated",
"deepened",
"emphasized",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"the patient lightened when he heard the disease responds well to treatment"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightened",
"bucked up",
"cheered (up)",
"looked up",
"perked (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoiced",
"livened (up)",
"revived",
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"sparkled",
"encouraged",
"gladdened",
"heartened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despaired",
"desponded",
"brooded",
"fretted",
"moped"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkened",
"saddened"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the room was gradually lightened by the rising sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"beaconed",
"emblazed",
"illumed",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightened",
"beamed",
"beat (down)",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined",
"enhaloed",
"haloed",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"fired",
"flamed",
"glared",
"glowed",
"ignited",
"incinerated",
"kindled",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled",
"gleamed",
"glistened",
"glittered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured",
"covered",
"shrouded",
"veiled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"darkened",
"obfuscated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lights":{
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"he read poetry to her by the light of the moon"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes",
"flares",
"fluorescences",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glows",
"illuminations",
"incandescences",
"luminescences",
"radiances",
"shines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flashes",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glitters",
"scintillations",
"shimmers",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"daylights",
"moonlights",
"sunlights",
"sunshines",
"afterglows",
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"beams",
"halos",
"haloes",
"rays",
"shafts",
"streaks",
"streams",
"sunbeams",
"glistens",
"glosses",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"polishes",
"reflections",
"sheens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"dusks",
"glooms",
"nights",
"shadows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that provides illumination":{
"examples":[
"turn off the light when you go to bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"beacons",
"illuminants",
"lamps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamps",
"arc lights",
"candelabra",
"candelabrums",
"candelabras",
"candles",
"chandeliers",
"dark lanterns",
"electrics",
"flares",
"flashbulbs",
"flashcubes",
"flashes",
"flashlights",
"floodlights",
"fluorescent lamps",
"gaslights",
"gasoliers",
"girandoles",
"headlights",
"incandescent lamps",
"klieg lights",
"kleig lights",
"lanterns",
"light bulbs",
"lighthouses",
"lightings",
"sconces",
"spotlights",
"streetlights",
"sun lamps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"a leading light in the acting profession"
],
"synonyms":[
"causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres",
"causes celebres",
"celebrities",
"celebs",
"figures",
"icons",
"ikons",
"luminaries",
"megastars",
"names",
"notabilities",
"notables",
"notorieties",
"personages",
"personalities",
"somebodies",
"standouts",
"stars",
"superstars",
"VIPs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorites",
"heartthrobs",
"heroes",
"idols",
"demigods",
"dignitaries",
"eminences",
"immortals",
"monuments",
"pillars",
"worthies",
"barons",
"big shots",
"bigwigs",
"kahunas",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"nabobs",
"panjandrums",
"panjandra"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"mediocrities",
"has-beens"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobodies",
"noncelebrities"
]
},
"the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance":{
"examples":[
"with the coming of light we could see all the damage that the storm had caused"
],
"synonyms":[
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"cockcrows",
"dawns",
"daybreaks",
"daylights",
"days",
"mornings",
"morns",
"sunrises",
"suns",
"sunups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daytimes",
"forenoons"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"midnights",
"nights",
"nighttimes",
"afternoons",
"middays",
"dusks",
"evenings",
"eventides",
"gloamings",
"twilights"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfalls",
"sundowns",
"sunsets"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs"
],
"synonyms":[
"burns",
"enkindles",
"fires",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"torches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolates",
"deflagrates",
"chars",
"frizzles",
"scorches",
"bakes",
"broils",
"cooks",
"ashes",
"cremates",
"incinerates",
"kilns",
"sets off",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"radiates",
"scalds",
"scathes",
"sears",
"reignites",
"rekindles",
"relights",
"banks",
"stokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chokes",
"smothers",
"suffocates",
"stamps (out)",
"blackens",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"obscures"
],
"antonyms":[
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the lights from the TV cameras will light this room as though it were high noon"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"beacons",
"emblazes",
"illumes",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightens",
"beams",
"beats (down)",
"radiates",
"shines",
"enhaloes",
"haloes",
"floodlights",
"highlights",
"spotlights",
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"glares",
"glows",
"ignites",
"incinerates",
"kindles",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles",
"gleams",
"glistens",
"glitters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dims",
"dulls",
"obscures",
"covers",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"obfuscates"
]
},
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"the bird lit on the branch and began to sing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alights",
"lands",
"perches",
"roosts",
"settles",
"touches down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-lands",
"crash-lands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"climbs",
"rises",
"flies",
"floats",
"glides",
"planes",
"soars",
"wings",
"hangs",
"hovers"
],
"antonyms":[
"blasts off",
"takes off"
]
},
"to come down from something (as a vehicle)":{
"examples":[
"he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"alights",
"descends",
"disembarks",
"dismounts",
"gets down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplanes",
"detrains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boards",
"climbs (aboard)",
"gets in",
"mounts",
"enplanes",
"emplanes",
"entrains"
],
"antonyms":[
"embarks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liquidates":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a decisive act that liquidated all doubts and fears about his governing abilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blacks out",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"his first act as absolute ruler was to liquidate his opponents"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"bumps off",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"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":[]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"used our lottery winnings to liquidate our debts"
],
"synonyms":[
"antes (up)",
"balances",
"clears",
"discharges",
"foots",
"meets",
"pays",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"ponies up",
"quits",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)",
"stands"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"limbers (up)":{
"as in trains , breaks in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks in",
"trains",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"enforces",
"forearms",
"props (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"supports",
"accustoms",
"conditions",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"immunizes",
"invigorates",
"vitalizes",
"anneals",
"tempers",
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"fortifies",
"hardens",
"indurates",
"inures",
"seasons",
"steels",
"strengthens",
"toughens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"softens",
"emasculates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"exhausts",
"saps",
"weakens",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"hamstrings",
"incapacitates",
"sensitizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lifeboat":{
"as in yawl , launch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"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",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"boat",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literal":{
"restricted to or based on fact":{
"examples":[
"a literal account of the explorer's adventures is actually a lot less interesting than his own exaggerated stories"
],
"synonyms":[
"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"historical",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective",
"true"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"documented",
"established",
"confirmable",
"reliable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"plain",
"simple",
"certain",
"undoubted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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":[
"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"light-minded":{
"lacking in seriousness or maturity":{
"examples":[
"the movie was a light-minded take on the biblical story of Noah and the Flood"
],
"synonyms":[
"birdbrained",
"ditzy",
"ditsy",
"dizzy",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"frothy",
"futile",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"yeasty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"inane",
"nonsensical",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"daft",
"fruity",
"exuberant",
"flippant",
"fluttery",
"giggly",
"happy",
"light",
"lighthearted",
"playful",
"sappy",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"melancholy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"thoughtful",
"dignified",
"heavy",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"severe",
"solemn",
"staid"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"unfrivolous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lionhearted":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"traditionally young Masai men are consigned to a period of isolation in the bush in order to turn them into strong, lionhearted warriors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lingos":{
"the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication":{
"examples":[
"medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"languages",
"mother tongues",
"speeches",
"tongues",
"vocabularies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrolects",
"argots",
"cants",
"colloquials",
"dialects",
"idiolects",
"idioms",
"jargons",
"parlances",
"patois",
"patter",
"pidgins",
"slangs",
"slanguages",
"vernaculars",
"colloquialisms",
"localisms",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"shibboleths",
"vernacularisms",
"terminologies",
"coinages",
"modernisms",
"neologisms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"patois",
"patter",
"shops",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"slanguages",
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lingers":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"since they were charging by the hour, the house painters lingered in finishing up their work"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lints":{
"a soft airy substance or covering":{
"examples":[
"it's important to clean the lint out of the dryer every time you use it"
],
"synonyms":[
"downs",
"flosses",
"fluffs",
"furs",
"fuzzes",
"naps",
"piles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libeled":{
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"examples":[
"the court decided that the newspaper's reportage of the former mayor, while irresponsible, did not constitute an effort to libel him"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"blackened",
"calumniated",
"defamed",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"smeared",
"traduced",
"vilified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittled",
"denigrated",
"detracted",
"disparaged",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"shamed",
"abased",
"debased",
"degraded",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"disdained",
"scorned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalted",
"glorified",
"honored",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"commended",
"praised",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"admired",
"regarded",
"adored",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lions":{
"a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"the book festival brought together two lions of contemporary poetry for a joint reading"
],
"synonyms":[
"barons",
"captains",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lords",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"monarchs",
"Napoleons",
"princes",
"tycoons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"figures",
"heavies",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"main men",
"movers and shakers",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"notables",
"personages",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"supremos",
"VIPs",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"stars",
"superstars",
"deities",
"demigods",
"gods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pints",
"lightweights",
"small-timers",
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"nobodies",
"zeros",
"zeroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine"
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"limber":{
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"he shaped the basket out of limber branches that could bend easily around a frame"
],
"synonyms":[
"bendy",
"flexible",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"live up to":{
"to give steadfast support to":{
"examples":[
"Once elected, she lived up to her campaign promise to balance the state's budget."
],
"synonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"hew (to)",
"keep (to)",
"stand by",
"stick (to or with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleave (to)",
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"confirm",
"defend",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"espouse",
"support",
"uphold",
"accept",
"adopt",
"cherish",
"cultivate",
"embrace",
"follow",
"foster",
"heed",
"backstop",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"enforce",
"reinforce",
"reenforce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"abnegate",
"desert",
"forsake",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"spurn",
"surrender",
"abjure",
"recall",
"recant",
"reconsider",
"renege",
"renounce",
"retract",
"revoke",
"take back",
"unsay",
"withdraw",
"controvert",
"disagree (with)",
"disprove",
"dispute",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"deny",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"repudiate",
"back down",
"back off",
"backtrack"
],
"antonyms":[
"defect (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lighting (upon)":{
"as in tumbling (to) , hitting (upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hitting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"accosting",
"confronting",
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"little guy":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"for a politician who likes to portray himself as a friend of the little guy , he sure is fond of rubbing elbows with the fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"everyman",
"Joe Blow",
"Joe Six-Pack",
"John Doe",
"little man",
"lug",
"slob"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"everywoman",
"plain Jane",
"laborer",
"peon",
"worker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheese",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"mover and shaker",
"VIP"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liftoff":{
"a rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket)":{
"examples":[
"everyone was quiet in the control room as they waited for lift-off"
],
"synonyms":[
"blastoff",
"launch",
"takeoff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crash",
"splashdown"
],
"antonyms":[
"landing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limning":{
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"he limned the scene in the courtroom so perfectly I could practically see it"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineating",
"depicting",
"describing",
"drawing",
"imaging",
"painting",
"picturing",
"portraying",
"rendering",
"setting out",
"sketching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterizing",
"defining",
"labeling",
"labelling",
"qualifying",
"representing",
"demonstrating",
"illustrating",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting",
"telling",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"showing",
"hinting",
"suggesting",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"silhouetting",
"tracing",
"vignetting",
"summarizing",
"summing up",
"touching off",
"redescribing",
"reimaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coloring",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"misdescribing",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"twisting",
"warping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lidos":{
"as in plages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plages",
"littorals",
"esplanades",
"banks",
"riverbanks",
"riverfronts",
"riversides",
"oceanfronts",
"shorefronts",
"waterfronts",
"coastlands",
"coastlines",
"coasts",
"shorelines",
"shores",
"seaboards",
"seacoasts",
"seashores",
"seasides",
"beaches",
"beachfronts",
"sands",
"strands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littleness":{
"the quality or state of being little in size":{
"examples":[
"the littleness of the painting hardly gives any indication of its price\u2014which is a fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"fineness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"smallness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"petiteness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"grossness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"mountainousness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"extensiveness",
"vastness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"healthiness",
"liberality",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"weightiness",
"bulkiness",
"massiveness",
"voluminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"largeness",
"magnitude"
]
},
"the quality or state of being unimportant":{
"examples":[
"you can hardly imagine the appalling littleness of the stuff that she obsesses over"
],
"synonyms":[
"immateriality",
"inconsequence",
"inconsequentiality",
"inconsiderableness",
"insignificance",
"insignificancy",
"negligibility",
"nullity",
"pettiness",
"slightness",
"smallness",
"triviality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emptiness",
"valuelessness",
"worthlessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"substance",
"value",
"worth"
],
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"moment",
"significance",
"weight",
"weightiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lipping":{
"to flow along or against":{
"examples":[
"the waves, reflecting the red glow of the sunset, gently lipped the prow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathing",
"lapping",
"laving",
"splashing",
"washing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bubbling",
"gurgling",
"plashing",
"rippling",
"sloshing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"libido":{
"a person's desire to have sex":{
"examples":[
"They have healthy libidos ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"lech",
"letch",
"libidinousness",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness",
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lecherousness",
"lechery",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"venery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lighting out":{
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"your lighting out of church before the end of services did not go unnoticed"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"going",
"leave",
"leave-taking",
"outgo",
"parting",
"quitting",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flight",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"running away",
"withdrawal",
"diaspora",
"emigration",
"evacuation",
"exodus",
"embarkation",
"embarkment",
"disembarkation",
"egress",
"abandonment",
"forsaking",
"relinquishment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming",
"approach",
"entrance",
"ingress"
],
"antonyms":[
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival"
]
},
"as in getting out , getting (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring",
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in taking off , putting out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beelining",
"putting",
"putting out",
"setting off",
"setting out",
"striking",
"taking off",
"aiming",
"bending",
"directing",
"pointing",
"turning",
"facing",
"orienting",
"steering",
"bearing",
"heading",
"making",
"about-facing",
"backing",
"coming about",
"coming round",
"cutting",
"inclining",
"putting about",
"reversing",
"swerving",
"tacking",
"turning back",
"veering",
"wheeling",
"yawing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"livening (up)":{
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the bandleader tried to liven up the party by playing more energetic music so people would dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"amping (up)",
"animating",
"bracing",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"filliping",
"firing",
"gingering (up)",
"invigorating",
"jazzing (up)",
"juicing up",
"jump-starting",
"pepping (up)",
"quickening",
"spiking",
"stimulating",
"vitalizing",
"vivifying",
"zipping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"raising",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"waking (up)",
"activating",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"motivating",
"motiving",
"moving",
"propelling",
"charging",
"electrifying",
"galvanizing",
"enkindling",
"exciting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"instigating",
"kindling",
"provoking",
"setting off",
"sparking",
"triggering",
"turning on",
"whipping (up)",
"abetting",
"boosting",
"buoying",
"cheering",
"emboldening",
"fortifying",
"heartening",
"infusing",
"inspiring",
"lifting",
"rallying",
"steeling",
"strengthening",
"reactivating",
"reanimating",
"reawakening",
"reawaking",
"recharging",
"recreating",
"reenergizing",
"re-energizing",
"refreshening",
"refreshing",
"regenerating",
"reinvigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"rekindling",
"renewing",
"restimulating",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"revitalizing",
"reviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burning out",
"debilitating",
"doing in",
"draining",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"harassing",
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"sapping",
"tuckering (out)",
"undermining",
"washing out",
"weakening",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying",
"checking",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"jading",
"quelling",
"quenching",
"repressing",
"restraining",
"slowing",
"stilling",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[
"dampening",
"damping",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"killing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liquifying":{
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"the steel liquefied in the intense heat of the forge"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquescing",
"fluxing",
"fusing",
"melting",
"running",
"thawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founding",
"guttering",
"trying",
"dissolving",
"rendering",
"softening",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"jelling",
"jellying",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardening",
"setting",
"solidifying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"light":{
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"he read poetry to her by the light of the moon"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
"shine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flash",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"daylight",
"moonlight",
"sunlight",
"sunshine",
"afterglow",
"aureole",
"aureola",
"aurora",
"beam",
"halo",
"ray",
"shaft",
"streak",
"stream",
"sunbeam",
"glisten",
"gloss",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"reflection",
"sheen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dimness",
"dusk",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"night",
"shadow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that provides illumination":{
"examples":[
"turn off the light when you go to bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"beacon",
"illuminant",
"lamp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamp",
"arc light",
"candelabra",
"candelabrum",
"candle",
"chandelier",
"dark lantern",
"electric",
"flare",
"flash",
"flashbulb",
"flashcube",
"flashlight",
"floodlight",
"fluorescent lamp",
"gaslight",
"gasolier",
"girandole",
"headlight",
"incandescent lamp",
"klieg light",
"kleig light",
"lantern",
"light bulb",
"lighthouse",
"lighting",
"sconce",
"spotlight",
"streetlight",
"sun lamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is widely known and usually much talked about":{
"examples":[
"a leading light in the acting profession"
],
"synonyms":[
"cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre",
"cause celebre",
"celeb",
"celebrity",
"figure",
"icon",
"ikon",
"luminary",
"megastar",
"name",
"notability",
"notable",
"notoriety",
"personage",
"personality",
"somebody",
"standout",
"star",
"superstar",
"VIP"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favorite",
"heartthrob",
"hero",
"idol",
"demigod",
"dignitary",
"eminence",
"immortal",
"monument",
"pillar",
"worthy",
"baron",
"big shot",
"bigwig",
"kahuna",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"nabob",
"panjandrum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"mediocrity",
"has-been"
],
"antonyms":[
"nobody",
"noncelebrity"
]
},
"the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance":{
"examples":[
"with the coming of light we could see all the damage that the storm had caused"
],
"synonyms":[
"aurora",
"cockcrow",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"day",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"morn",
"morning",
"sun",
"sunrise",
"sunup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daytime",
"forenoon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark",
"darkness",
"midnight",
"night",
"nighttime",
"afternoon",
"midday",
"dusk",
"evening",
"eventide",
"gloaming",
"twilight"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset"
]
},
"having little weight":{
"examples":[
"the suitcase was as light as a feather after all the clothes were removed"
],
"synonyms":[
"featherlight",
"feathery",
"lightweight",
"underweight",
"weightless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"little",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"insubstantial",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"huge",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"massive",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"bulky",
"cumbersome",
"unwieldy"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"leaden",
"overweight",
"ponderous",
"weighty"
]
},
"involving minimal difficulty or effort":{
"examples":[
"a little light work was all it took to straighten up the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheap",
"downhill",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"fluent",
"fluid",
"hands-down",
"painless",
"ready",
"royal",
"simple",
"smooth",
"snap",
"soft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"idiotproof",
"mindless",
"quick",
"straightforward",
"unchallenging",
"uncomplicated",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"distinct",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"troublesome",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduous",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"herculean",
"killer",
"labored",
"laborious",
"murderous",
"rough",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"toilful",
"toilsome",
"tough"
]
},
"less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable":{
"examples":[
"traffic on the highway seems to be very light today"
],
"synonyms":[
"exiguous",
"hand-to-mouth",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparing",
"sparse",
"stingy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"short",
"wanting",
"bare",
"bare-bones",
"least",
"littlest",
"lowest",
"mere",
"minimal",
"slightest",
"slight",
"small",
"thin",
"barren",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adequate",
"enough",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"tolerable",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"prolific",
"rich",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"proliferative",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"excess",
"extra",
"surplus"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful"
]
},
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"the dancer was exceptionally light on her feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect":{
"examples":[
"light punishment to fit a minor offense"
],
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"benign",
"bland",
"delicate",
"gentle",
"mellow",
"mild",
"nonabrasive",
"soft",
"soothing",
"tender"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"clement",
"compassionate",
"easy",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"buffering",
"cushioning",
"emollient",
"softening",
"sleek",
"slick",
"smooth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exquisite",
"fierce",
"intense",
"powerful",
"severe",
"forceful",
"forcible",
"savage",
"violent",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"strong",
"abrading",
"irritating",
"roughening",
"grim",
"gruff",
"rude",
"stiff",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive",
"pitiless",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic"
],
"antonyms":[
"abrasive",
"caustic",
"coarse",
"hard",
"harsh",
"rough",
"scathing",
"stern",
"ungentle"
]
},
"resembling air in lightness":{
"examples":[
"the waves had an especially light foam at their crests because of the strong breeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"airy",
"ethereal",
"fluffy",
"gossamer",
"gossamery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cobwebby",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"diaphanous",
"downy",
"feathery",
"flimsy",
"gauzelike",
"gauzy",
"insubstantial",
"tender",
"wispy",
"buoyant",
"lighter-than-air",
"lightweight",
"rarefied",
"unsubstantial",
"vaporous",
"weightless",
"cumulous",
"pillowy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"solid",
"substantial",
"bulky",
"burdensome",
"cumbersome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"lumpish",
"ponderous",
"unwieldy",
"weighty"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"leaden"
]
},
"filled with much light":{
"examples":[
"the light , airy room is exceptionally cheerful"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"alight",
"bright",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lightsome",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"moonlit",
"shiny",
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gloomy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"murky",
"obscured",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"lightproof"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"lightless",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"lacking intensity of color":{
"examples":[
"we painted the walls a light blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"dull",
"dulled",
"faded",
"pale",
"pastel",
"washed-out",
"washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flat",
"lackluster",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt",
"dim",
"faint",
"dirty",
"muddy",
"achromatic",
"colorless",
"uncolored",
"undyed",
"unpainted",
"unstained",
"blanched",
"bleached",
"washed",
"white",
"whitened",
"gray",
"grey",
"indistinct",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brilliant",
"vibrant",
"vivid",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"dyed",
"painted",
"stained",
"tinged",
"tinted",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"variegated",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"loud",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dark",
"deep",
"gay",
"rich"
]
},
"of light complexion":{
"examples":[
"her light skin tends to freckle easily in the sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"fair"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan",
"white"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"black",
"brunet",
"brunette",
"dark",
"swart",
"swarthy"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs"
],
"synonyms":[
"burn",
"enkindle",
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"torch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolate",
"deflagrate",
"char",
"frizzle",
"scorch",
"bake",
"broil",
"cook",
"ash",
"cremate",
"incinerate",
"kiln",
"set off",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"lighten",
"radiate",
"scald",
"scathe",
"sear",
"reignite",
"rekindle",
"relight",
"bank",
"stoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"stamp (out)",
"blacken",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the lights from the TV cameras will light this room as though it were high noon"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"beacon",
"emblaze",
"illume",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"lighten"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brighten",
"beam",
"beat (down)",
"radiate",
"shine",
"enhalo",
"halo",
"floodlight",
"highlight",
"spotlight",
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"ignite",
"incinerate",
"kindle",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle",
"gleam",
"glisten",
"glitter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure",
"cover",
"shroud",
"veil",
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"obfuscate"
]
},
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"the bird lit on the branch and began to sing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alight",
"land",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"touch down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-land",
"crash-land"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"climb",
"rise",
"float",
"fly",
"glide",
"plane",
"soar",
"wing",
"hang",
"hover"
],
"antonyms":[
"blast off",
"take off"
]
},
"to come down from something (as a vehicle)":{
"examples":[
"he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"alight",
"descend",
"disembark",
"dismount",
"get down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplane",
"detrain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"board",
"climb (aboard)",
"get in",
"mount",
"enplane",
"emplane",
"entrain"
],
"antonyms":[
"embark"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"living wage":{
"as in minimum wage , nominal wages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"minimum wage",
"nominal wages",
"take-home pay",
"emolument",
"hire",
"packet",
"pay",
"paycheck",
"pay envelope",
"payment",
"salary",
"stipend",
"wage",
"double time",
"overtime",
"time and a half",
"compensation",
"recompense",
"remittance",
"remuneration",
"requital",
"return",
"recoupment",
"redress",
"reparation",
"restitution",
"reimbursement",
"repayment",
"earnings",
"profit",
"takings",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little by little":{
"by small steps or amounts":{
"examples":[
"little by little , we pieced together the jigsaw puzzle"
],
"synonyms":[
"gradationally",
"gradually",
"inchmeal",
"piece by piece",
"piecemeal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hierarchically",
"crescively",
"increasingly",
"progressively",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"slowly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acutely",
"sharply",
"steeply",
"hastily",
"precipitously"
],
"antonyms":[
"abruptly",
"suddenly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"liver puddings":{
"as in hot dogs , Vienna sausages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolognas",
"frankfurters",
"franks",
"hot dogs",
"kielbasas",
"kielbasy",
"knockwursts",
"knackwursts",
"liverwursts",
"pepperonis",
"salamis",
"Vienna sausages",
"weenies",
"wieners",
"weiners",
"wienerwursts",
"bangers",
"links",
"sausages",
"wursts",
"blood sausages",
"blood puddings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"listless":{
"lacking bodily energy or motivation":{
"examples":[
"when I had the flu, I felt listless and worn-out"
],
"synonyms":[
"enervated",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"limp",
"spiritless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"slothful",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"logy",
"loggy",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"exhausted",
"knackered",
"tired",
"weary",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"indifferent",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"careless",
"heedless",
"thoughtless",
"unwary",
"inactive",
"inert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"active",
"dynamic",
"industrious",
"kinetic",
"avid",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"lively",
"pumped",
"vivacious",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"perky",
"up",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"dapper",
"open-eyed",
"sleepless",
"vigilant",
"watchful",
"wide-awake"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambitious",
"animated",
"energetic",
"enterprising",
"motivated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"libations":{
"a liquid suitable for drinking":{
"examples":[
"a variety of libations will be available at the wedding reception"
],
"synonyms":[
"beverages",
"drinkables",
"drinks",
"potables",
"quenchers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potions",
"pops",
"soda pops",
"sodas",
"soft drinks",
"nectars",
"alcohols",
"brews",
"intoxicants",
"liquors",
"spirits",
"mixers",
"mixes"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit (on or upon)":{
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"the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine"
],
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"encountered",
"found",
"happened (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"met",
"pitched (upon)",
"stumbled (on or onto)",
"tumbled (upon)"
],
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"confronted",
"faced",
"discovered",
"struck",
"turned up"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"linkmen":{
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"announcers",
"broadcasters",
"commentators",
"telecasters",
"anchormen",
"anchorwomen",
"coanchors",
"co-anchors",
"correspondents",
"foreign correspondents",
"interviewers",
"journalists",
"newshounds",
"newsies",
"newsmen",
"newspeople",
"newswomen",
"reporters",
"stringers",
"anchorpeople",
"anchors",
"newscasters",
"newsreaders"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lint":{
"a soft airy substance or covering":{
"examples":[
"it's important to clean the lint out of the dryer every time you use it"
],
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"down",
"floss",
"fluff",
"fur",
"fuzz",
"nap",
"pile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batting"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"linkups":{
"the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)":{
"examples":[
"the linkup of the two art museums has proved beneficial to both institutions"
],
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"affiliations",
"alliances",
"associations",
"collaborations",
"confederations",
"connections",
"cooperations",
"hookups",
"liaisons",
"partnerships",
"relations",
"relationships",
"tie-ups",
"unions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"businesses",
"dealings",
"interactions",
"exchanges",
"interconnections",
"interrelations",
"mutualisms",
"reciprocities",
"symbioses",
"incorporations",
"integrations",
"mergers",
"unifications",
"affinities",
"attachments",
"intimacies",
"rapports",
"sympathies",
"kinships",
"solidarities",
"unities",
"colleagueships",
"companies",
"companionships",
"fellowships",
"beds",
"cahoots",
"leagues"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breakups",
"dissolutions",
"disunions",
"divisions",
"partings",
"separations",
"severances",
"splits",
"alienations",
"divorces",
"estrangements"
],
"antonyms":[
"disaffiliations",
"dissociations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightning rod":{
"as in fall guy , whipping boy":{
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"butt",
"mark",
"prey",
"sitting duck",
"target",
"victim",
"fall guy",
"goat",
"scapegoat",
"whipping boy",
"laughingstock",
"mockery",
"pilgarlic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"troublemaker",
"defamer",
"libeler",
"libelist",
"traducer",
"baiter",
"heckler",
"needler",
"ribber",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer",
"derider",
"insulter",
"mocker",
"ridiculer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libertinage":{
"a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior":{
"examples":[
"his frat-boy libertinage was abruptly halted when his fed-up father cut him off financially"
],
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"abjection",
"corruption",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"debauchery",
"decadence",
"decadency",
"degeneracy",
"degenerateness",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"demoralization",
"depravity",
"dissipatedness",
"dissipation",
"dissoluteness",
"libertinism",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"rakishness",
"turpitude"
],
"near synonyms":[
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"filth",
"gangrene",
"rot",
"squalor"
],
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"goodness",
"morality",
"righteousness",
"virtue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society":{
"examples":[
"a young prince more interested in libertinage than leadership"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinism",
"licentiousness",
"profligacy",
"sin",
"vice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"depravedness",
"dissoluteness",
"dissolution",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lechery",
"lewdness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"wantonness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"criminality",
"reprehensibleness",
"baseness",
"despicableness",
"dirtiness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"lousiness",
"miserableness",
"wretchedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"pureness",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literacies":{
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
"examples":[
"he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence"
],
"synonyms":[
"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"likes":{
"to wish to have":{
"examples":[
"I'd like another slice of pizza, but I've already eaten more than I should have"
],
"synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"wants"
],
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"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"loves",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"welcomes",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"dies (for)",
"hankers (for or after)",
"wishes (for)",
"yearns (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"I like romantic comedies more than action movies"
],
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"cares (for)",
"favors",
"leans (toward or towards)",
"prefers"
],
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"adores",
"cottons (to)",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"chooses",
"culls",
"handpicks",
"names",
"picks",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"takes",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"hankers (for or after)",
"wants",
"wishes (for)",
"biases",
"biasses",
"prejudices",
"inclines (toward)",
"tends (to)",
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"mislikes",
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"hates",
"loathes",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"turns down",
"discards",
"jettisons",
"throws away",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"an adventuresome young woman who likes skydiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"gets off (on)",
"grooves (on)",
"loves",
"rejoices (in)",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"savors",
"savours"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"devours",
"drinks (in)",
"eats (up)",
"feasts (on)",
"dotes (on)",
"idolizes",
"cottons (to)",
"favors",
"prefers",
"indulges (in)",
"luxuriates (in)",
"wallows (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to see fit":{
"examples":[
"feel free to order whatever you like from the menu"
],
"synonyms":[
"chooses",
"pleases",
"wants",
"wills",
"wishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aches (for)",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"dies (for)",
"fancies",
"hankers (for)",
"hungers (for)",
"itches (for)",
"longs (for)",
"lusts (for or after)",
"pants (after)",
"pines (for)",
"repines (for)",
"sighs (for)",
"thirsts (for)",
"yearns (for)",
"decides",
"determines",
"resolves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common":{
"examples":[
"you can never trust his like , because they'll always let you down"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeds",
"classes",
"descriptions",
"feathers",
"genres",
"ilks",
"kidneys",
"kinds",
"manners",
"natures",
"orders",
"sorts",
"species",
"strains",
"stripes",
"types",
"varieties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"models",
"samples",
"specimens",
"brackets",
"bunches",
"categories",
"divisions",
"families",
"grades",
"groupings",
"groups",
"lots",
"persuasions",
"ranks",
"sets",
"suites"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value":{
"examples":[
"we'd never seen its like in any other shop in town"
],
"synonyms":[
"coequals",
"compeers",
"coordinates",
"counterparts",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"fellows",
"matches",
"parallels",
"peers",
"rivals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analogues",
"analogs",
"doubles",
"halves",
"mates",
"twins",
"associates",
"colleagues",
"companions",
"copartners",
"co-partners",
"partners",
"competitors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"she thought her new boyfriend was unusually interested in her likes and dislikes"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetites",
"fancies",
"favors",
"likings",
"love affairs",
"loves",
"partialities",
"preferences",
"relishes",
"shines",
"tastes",
"uses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cravings",
"desires",
"longings",
"thirsts",
"yens",
"enthusiasms",
"gustoes",
"interests",
"passions",
"biases",
"prejudices",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"teeth",
"palates",
"weaknesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disinclinations",
"indifferences"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversions",
"disfavors",
"disgusts",
"dislikes",
"distastes",
"hatreds",
"loathings",
"mislikes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lineages":{
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"examples":[
"his Italian lineage was very important to him"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lines",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"stocks",
"strains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heredities",
"successions",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"children",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"antonyms":[
"issues",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds"
]
},
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
"examples":[
"it is now generally accepted that the lineage of Thomas Jefferson includes black as well as white members"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"clans",
"families",
"folks",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kinfolks",
"kins",
"kinsfolk",
"lines",
"people",
"races",
"stocks",
"tribes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blended families",
"nuclear families",
"extended families",
"households",
"kiths",
"broods",
"descendants",
"descendents",
"issues",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"progenies",
"scions",
"seed",
"seeds",
"clansmen",
"kinsmen",
"kinswomen",
"relatives",
"dynasties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancestries",
"births",
"descents",
"extractions",
"origins",
"pedigrees"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limits":{
"to set bounds or an upper limit for":{
"examples":[
"limit the note to a few words"
],
"synonyms":[
"caps",
"circumscribes",
"confines",
"holds down",
"restricts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bars",
"blocks",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"lessens",
"narrows",
"pinches",
"squeezes",
"tightens",
"quells",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"numbers",
"modifies",
"qualifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadens",
"expands",
"widens",
"overextends",
"overreaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"exceeds"
]
},
"to mark the limits of":{
"examples":[
"adjectives limit the meanings of nouns"
],
"synonyms":[
"bounds",
"circumscribes",
"defines",
"delimits",
"demarcates",
"demarks",
"marks (off)",
"terminates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controls",
"determines",
"governs",
"delineates",
"describes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go":{
"examples":[
"there was no limit to the number of challenges they faced"
],
"synonyms":[
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"confines",
"ends",
"extents",
"limitations",
"lines",
"terminations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extremities",
"fag ends",
"termini",
"terminuses",
"borders",
"brims",
"edges",
"margins",
"rims",
"verges",
"outsides",
"barriers",
"bars",
"fences",
"hedges",
"restraints",
"stops",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the most extreme or advanced point":{
"examples":[
"those bratty kids have pushed my patience to the limit"
],
"synonyms":[
"depths",
"extremities",
"heights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummations",
"epitomes",
"quintessences",
"ultimates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"libeling":{
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
"examples":[
"the underhanded politician resorted to libeling when it became clear that that was the only way he was going to win the election"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"blackening",
"calumniation",
"calumny",
"character assassination",
"defamation",
"defaming",
"libel",
"maligning",
"slander",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilification",
"vilifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersion",
"innuendo",
"muck",
"mud",
"smear",
"backbiting",
"detraction",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"attack",
"censure",
"criticism",
"denunciation",
"hatchet job",
"contempt",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"belittlement",
"denigration",
"disparagement",
"cattiness",
"despite",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"venom",
"viciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"examples":[
"the court decided that the newspaper's reportage of the former mayor, while irresponsible, did not constitute an effort to libel him"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"blackening",
"calumniating",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittling",
"denigrating",
"detracting",
"disparaging",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"shaming",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"disdaining",
"scorning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalting",
"glorifying",
"honoring",
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"commending",
"praising",
"esteeming",
"respecting",
"admiring",
"regarding",
"adoring",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"little people":{
"as in troll , elf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre",
"imp",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"livestocks":{
"farm animals (such as cows, horses, and pigs) that are kept, raised, and used by people":{
"examples":[
"a market where livestock are bought and sold"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stocks",
"animals",
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"creatures",
"critters",
"blasties",
"varmints",
"vermin",
"bipeds",
"quadrupeds",
"carnivores",
"herbivores",
"insectivores",
"invertebrates",
"vertebrates",
"domestic animals",
"pets",
"ferals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litt\u00e9rateur":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
"synonyms":[
"author",
"pen",
"penman",
"scribe",
"scrivener",
"writer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"belletrist",
"belle-lettrist",
"stylist",
"wordsmith",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"prosaist",
"prosateur",
"proser",
"bard",
"poet",
"rhymer",
"versifier",
"blogger",
"columnist",
"journalist",
"newspaperman",
"paragrapher",
"reporter",
"sportswriter"
],
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"antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lingerie":{
"as in negligee , nightie":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"negligee",
"neglig\u00e9",
"nightie",
"nighty",
"nightcap",
"pajamas",
"pj's",
"nightclothes",
"gown",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littoral":{
"of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore":{
"examples":[
"littoral warfare includes amphibious landings"
],
"synonyms":[
"alongshore",
"coastal",
"inshore",
"nearshore",
"offshore",
"shoreside"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beachside",
"seaside",
"waterside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blue-water",
"deepwater",
"oceanic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in coast , shoreline":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coast",
"coastland",
"coastline",
"shore",
"shoreline",
"seaboard",
"seacoast",
"seashore",
"seaside",
"beach",
"beachfront",
"sand(s)",
"strand",
"bank",
"riverbank",
"riverfront",
"riverside",
"oceanfront",
"shorefront",
"waterfront",
"lido",
"plage",
"esplanade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"lies":{
"to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{
"examples":[
"would I lie to you about that?"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"fibs",
"prevaricates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forswears",
"foreswears",
"perjures",
"equivocates",
"fudges",
"palters",
"beguiles",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"kids",
"snows",
"takes in",
"tricks",
"defames",
"libels",
"slanders",
"traduces",
"falsifies",
"misreports",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"distorts",
"garbles",
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserts",
"swears",
"testifies",
"authenticates",
"confirms",
"substantiates",
"validates",
"verifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the train tracks lie just over that hill"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"extends",
"goes",
"heads",
"leads",
"runs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"cuts",
"passes",
"courses",
"follows",
"spans",
"traverses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occupy a place or location":{
"examples":[
"I left the book lying on the counter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"is",
"sits",
"stands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commands",
"overlooks",
"hangs around",
"remains",
"rests",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"awaits",
"waits",
"posts",
"stations",
"dwells",
"resides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain out of sight":{
"examples":[
"paparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout"
],
"synonyms":[
"hides",
"holes up",
"lurks",
"reposes",
"skulks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slinks",
"sneaks",
"avoids",
"eludes",
"evades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes out",
"materializes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appears"
]
},
"a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive":{
"examples":[
"he wanted to deny the accusation, but he couldn't tell a lie"
],
"synonyms":[
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fairy tales",
"falsehoods",
"falsities",
"fibs",
"mendacities",
"prevarications",
"stories",
"tales",
"taradiddles",
"tarradiddles",
"untruths",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"half-truths",
"ambiguities",
"equivocations",
"obliquities",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"perjuries",
"bluffs",
"fictions",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"humbug",
"jives",
"nonsense",
"canards",
"fallacies",
"misconceptions",
"myths",
"falsifications",
"misinformation",
"misreports",
"misrepresentations",
"misstatements",
"deceits",
"dishonesties",
"duplicities",
"fraudulences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truisms",
"verities",
"honesties",
"veracities",
"authentications",
"confirmations",
"substantiations",
"validations",
"verifications"
],
"antonyms":[
"truths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liverwurst":{
"as in salami , bologna":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bologna",
"frank",
"frankfurter",
"hot dog",
"kielbasa",
"knockwurst",
"knackwurst",
"liver sausage",
"liver pudding",
"pepperoni",
"salami",
"Vienna sausage",
"weenie",
"wiener",
"weiner",
"wienerwurst",
"banger",
"link",
"sausage",
"wurst",
"blood sausage",
"blood pudding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"listed (for)":{
"as in came (to) , asked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brought",
"cost",
"fetched",
"ran",
"run",
"sold (for)",
"went (for)",
"amounted (to)",
"came (to)",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"asked",
"demanded",
"commanded",
"exacted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"light-years":{
"a huge physical or conceptual distance":{
"examples":[
"my sister and I are close in age, but personality-wise, there are light-years between us"
],
"synonyms":[
"galaxies",
"worlds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"country miles",
"long hauls",
"ways",
"infinities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stone's throws",
"striking distances",
"hairbreadths",
"hairsbreadths",
"hairs",
"inches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"licenced":{
"as in allowed , certified":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accredited",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"OK",
"okay",
"permitted",
"sanctioned",
"warranted",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"lawful",
"legal",
"licit",
"admissible",
"allowable",
"permissible",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"forbidden",
"impermissible",
"inadmissible",
"interdicted",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"verboten",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"objectionable",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"vetoed",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"outlawed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give official or legal power to":{
"examples":[
"a state statute licenses county sheriffs to choose their own deputies"
],
"synonyms":[
"accredited",
"authorized",
"certified",
"chartered",
"commissioned",
"empowered",
"enabled",
"invested",
"qualified",
"vested",
"warranted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approved",
"cleared",
"credentialed",
"credentialled",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"sanctioned",
"affirmed",
"confirmed",
"validated",
"inaugurated",
"inducted",
"initiated",
"installed",
"instated",
"swore in",
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"enfranchised",
"entitled",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"blocked",
"constrained",
"denied",
"disallowed",
"disbarred",
"discouraged",
"disenfranchised",
"disfranchised",
"excluded",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"obstructed",
"prevented",
"shut out",
"stopped",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"vetoed"
],
"antonyms":[
"disqualified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lighters":{
"as in barges , keels":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"narrow boats",
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"lifeboats",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"houseboats",
"riverboats",
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"gondolas",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis",
"cruisers",
"inboards",
"motorboats",
"outboards",
"powerboats",
"bankers",
"cobles",
"draggers",
"gillnetters",
"hookers",
"luggers",
"scallopers",
"seiners",
"shrimpers",
"trawlers",
"whaleboats",
"whalers",
"workboats",
"bateaux",
"batteaux",
"ca\u00efques",
"canoes",
"catamarans",
"coracles",
"curraghs",
"currachs",
"dhows",
"dinghies",
"dinks",
"dories",
"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",
"cockleshells",
"tubs",
"catboats",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"yachts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lilted":{
"as in crooned , warbled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belted",
"crooned",
"harmonized",
"hummed",
"quavered",
"scatted",
"sharped",
"slurred",
"trilled",
"trolled",
"warbled",
"yodeled",
"yodelled",
"caroled",
"carolled",
"chanted",
"descanted",
"sang",
"sung",
"vocalized",
"serenaded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lionizes":{
"to treat (someone) as a very important and famous person":{
"examples":[
"She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apotheosizes",
"canonizes",
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"magnifies",
"adores",
"deifies",
"glorifies",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"admires",
"honors",
"loves",
"regards",
"respects",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemes",
"desecrates",
"profanes",
"violates",
"affronts",
"dishonors",
"disrespects",
"insults",
"offends",
"outrages",
"piques",
"ridicules",
"scorns",
"slights",
"defames",
"disparages",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"slurs",
"smears"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liking":{
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"I have a liking for dark chocolate"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"fancy",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"love",
"love affair",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"shine",
"taste",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"longing",
"thirst",
"yen",
"enthusiasm",
"gusto",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"tooth",
"palate",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinclination",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"mislike"
]
},
"to wish to have":{
"examples":[
"I'd like another slice of pizza, but I've already eaten more than I should have"
],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"wanting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"welcoming",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"hankering (for or after)",
"wishing (for)",
"yearning (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show partiality toward":{
"examples":[
"I like romantic comedies more than action movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"favoring",
"leaning (toward or towards)",
"preferring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adoring",
"cottoning (to)",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"choosing",
"culling",
"handpicking",
"naming",
"picking",
"selecting",
"singling (out)",
"taking",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiring",
"hankering (for or after)",
"wanting",
"wishing (for)",
"biasing",
"biassing",
"prejudicing",
"inclining (toward)",
"tending (to)",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavoring",
"disliking",
"misliking",
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"hating",
"loathing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"discarding",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"an adventuresome young woman who likes skydiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"getting off (on)",
"grooving (on)",
"loving",
"rejoicing (in)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"devouring",
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"feasting (on)",
"doting (on)",
"idolizing",
"cottoning (to)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"indulging (in)",
"luxuriating (in)",
"wallowing (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"condemning",
"despising",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to see fit":{
"examples":[
"feel free to order whatever you like from the menu"
],
"synonyms":[
"choosing",
"pleasing",
"wanting",
"willing",
"wishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"fancying",
"hankering (for)",
"hungering (for)",
"itching (for)",
"longing (for)",
"lusting (for or after)",
"panting (after)",
"pining (for)",
"repining (for)",
"sighing (for)",
"thirsting (for)",
"yearning (for)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"resolving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liberally":{
"in a generous manner":{
"examples":[
"she spread frosting liberally over the cake until it oozed over the edges"
],
"synonyms":[
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"selflessly",
"ungrudgingly",
"unselfishly",
"altruistically",
"beneficently",
"benevolently",
"bigheartedly",
"charitably",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"magnanimously",
"philanthropically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"little":{
"having relatively little height":{
"examples":[
"there was a little hedge separating the two lawns"
],
"synonyms":[
"low",
"low-lying",
"low-slung",
"sawed-off",
"short"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"compact",
"petite",
"slight",
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"bantam",
"bitty",
"dinky",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minimized",
"minute",
"puny",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"dumpy",
"flat",
"scrubby",
"squat",
"squatty",
"stubby",
"stumpy",
"stunted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upswept",
"high-rise",
"statuesque",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"big",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"altitudinous",
"high",
"lofty",
"tall",
"towering"
]
},
"lacking importance":{
"examples":[
"there were just a few little details left to take care of"
],
"synonyms":[
"fiddling",
"foolish",
"frivolous",
"incidental",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minor",
"minute",
"negligible",
"nugatory",
"slight",
"small",
"small-fry",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"nickel-and-dime",
"paltry",
"petty",
"small-time",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"chief",
"dominant",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"principal",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"basic",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"key"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"significant",
"substantial",
"unfrivolous",
"weighty"
]
},
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"examples":[
"little -minded people who dislike the fact that human society is always progressing"
],
"synonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
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"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
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"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
]
},
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"examples":[
"let's take a little pause to relax"
],
"synonyms":[
"brief",
"fast",
"short"
],
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"shortish",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut-back",
"shortened",
"syncopated",
"compact",
"condensed",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"short-lived",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"summary",
"terse",
"short-range",
"short-term"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"unending",
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"permanent",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"long-range",
"long-term"
],
"antonyms":[
"extended",
"far",
"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived"
]
},
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"the petting zoo has a little horse in addition to all of the goats and sheep"
],
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"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
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"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"in a very small quantity or degree":{
"examples":[
"we had little more than we needed to survive in the wilderness"
],
"synonyms":[
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completely",
"entirely",
"purely",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"eminently",
"exceptionally",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"noticeably",
"palpably",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"liberally",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"hugely",
"monstrously",
"monumentally"
],
"antonyms":[
"awful",
"awfully",
"beastly",
"considerably",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extensively",
"extra",
"extremely",
"far",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"jolly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"rattling",
"real",
"right",
"significantly",
"so",
"something",
"substantially",
"super",
"terribly",
"too",
"very",
"whacking"
]
},
"not often":{
"examples":[
"he's been studying very little for the bar exam"
],
"synonyms":[
"infrequently",
"rarely",
"seldom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ne'er",
"never",
"episodically",
"irregularly",
"now and then",
"occasionally",
"sometimes",
"sporadically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"customarily",
"generally",
"habitually",
"ordinarily",
"routinely",
"usually",
"always",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuously",
"endlessly",
"eternally",
"ever",
"everlastingly",
"evermore",
"forever",
"invariably",
"perennially",
"perpetually",
"unceasingly",
"chronically",
"recurrently",
"repeatedly"
],
"antonyms":[
"frequently",
"oft",
"often",
"oftentimes",
"ofttimes"
]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"there's just a little of the pie left"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"lights out":{
"as in gets out , gets (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"makes off",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs",
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs",
"runs away",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in takes off , puts out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beelines",
"puts",
"puts out",
"sets off",
"sets out",
"strikes",
"takes off",
"aims",
"bends",
"directs",
"points",
"turns",
"faces",
"orients",
"steers",
"bears",
"heads",
"makes",
"about-faces",
"backs",
"comes about",
"comes round",
"cuts",
"inclines",
"puts about",
"reverses",
"swerves",
"tacks",
"turns back",
"veers",
"wheels",
"yaws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liable":{
"being in a situation where one is likely to meet with harm":{
"examples":[
"because of his frail constitution, he's liable to diseases"
],
"synonyms":[
"endangered",
"exposed",
"open",
"sensitive",
"subject (to)",
"susceptible",
"vulnerable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"likely",
"prone",
"uncovered",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unscreened",
"unsecured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"warded"
],
"antonyms":[
"insusceptible",
"invulnerable",
"unexposed",
"unsusceptible"
]
},
"being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so":{
"examples":[
"the owner of a pet is liable for any damage that that pet might do"
],
"synonyms":[
"accountable",
"amenable",
"answerable",
"responsible"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beholden",
"indebted",
"obligated",
"obliged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exempt",
"immune"
],
"antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"nonaccountable",
"unaccountable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litmus test":{
"something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable":{
"examples":[
"The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid test",
"litmus",
"cross",
"crucible",
"fire",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"ordeal",
"trial",
"baptism",
"initiation",
"challenge",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"grief",
"grievance",
"hardship",
"rigor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lissom":{
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"the lissome actress's dance training is apparent in the way she moves on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"rattan is such a lissome material that it can be used for all manner of furniture and baskets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bendy",
"flexible",
"limber",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lion":{
"a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"the book festival brought together two lions of contemporary poetry for a joint reading"
],
"synonyms":[
"baron",
"captain",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lord",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"monarch",
"Napoleon",
"prince",
"tycoon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"big gun",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"figure",
"heavy",
"heavyweight",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"main man",
"mover and shaker",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"notable",
"personage",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"supremo",
"VIP",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"star",
"superstar",
"deity",
"demigod",
"god"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pint",
"lightweight",
"small-timer",
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"nobody",
"nothing",
"zero"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lilts":{
"the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern":{
"examples":[
"There was a charming lilt to her voice.",
"a tune with a lilt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"movements",
"sways",
"swings",
"beats",
"cadences",
"measures",
"meters",
"rhythms",
"accents",
"accentuations",
"emphases",
"stresses",
"inflections",
"intonations",
"backbeats",
"drums",
"throbs",
"hexameters",
"pentameters",
"tetrameters",
"trimeters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in croons , warbles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belts",
"croons",
"harmonizes",
"hums",
"quavers",
"scats",
"sharps",
"slurs",
"trills",
"trolls",
"warbles",
"yodels",
"carols",
"chants",
"descants",
"sings",
"vocalizes",
"serenades"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"limbos":{
"as in purgatories":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"purgatories",
"infernos",
"netherworlds",
"underworlds",
"Gehennas",
"hells",
"Pandemoniums",
"perditions",
"abysses",
"pits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"above",
"blisses",
"elysian fields",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"heavens",
"kingdom comes",
"New Jerusalems",
"paradises",
"skies",
"Zions",
"Sions",
"glories",
"happy hunting grounds",
"nirvanas",
"promised lands",
"Valhallas",
"afterlives",
"afterworlds",
"hereafters",
"otherworlds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lie (down)":{
"as in couch , recline":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"couch",
"recline",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"bed",
"crash",
"doss (down)",
"retire",
"turn in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"uprise",
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"rouse",
"wake",
"waken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"live wire":{
"a very energetic person":{
"examples":[
"the babysitter will have her hands full with those two little live wires"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamo",
"fireball",
"pistol"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter",
"achiever",
"comer",
"dasher",
"doer",
"enterpriser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"trifler",
"clock-watcher",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"couch potato",
"deadbeat",
"do-nothing",
"drone",
"layabout",
"lazybones",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"that new reporter on the police beat is a real live wire"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beaver",
"achiever",
"comer",
"doer",
"enterpriser",
"he-man",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"putterer",
"trifler",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"procrastinator",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"drone",
"lazybones",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"ignorer",
"ne'er-do-well",
"neglecter",
"daydreamer",
"dreamer",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"linebred":{
"as in inbred , straightbred":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inbred",
"straightbred",
"pedigreed",
"pedigree",
"blooded",
"full-blood",
"full-blooded",
"purebred",
"thoroughbred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold-blooded",
"cross",
"crossbred",
"hybrid",
"mixed",
"mongrel",
"grade",
"half-bred",
"dihybrid",
"trihybrid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lived with":{
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"She was forced to live with the mistakes she had made."
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"absorbed",
"accepted",
"bode",
"bided",
"bore",
"brooked",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"hacked",
"handled",
"met",
"pocketed",
"stomached",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"supported",
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"Shaktis",
"Saktis",
"world souls",
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"lights",
"natures",
"orgones",
"souls",
"spirits",
"karmas",
"manas",
"auras",
"chis",
"ch'is",
"qis",
"energies",
"kis",
"vibes",
"vibrations"
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"noun"
]
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"insular",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
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"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
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"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
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"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
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"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
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"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
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"liberal",
"open",
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"receptive",
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"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"little",
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"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
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"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
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"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
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"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
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"miniature",
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"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
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"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
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"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
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"cosmical",
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"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
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"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
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"clearances",
"concurrences",
"consents",
"green lights",
"leaves",
"permissions",
"sanctions",
"sufferances",
"warrants"
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"seals",
"signatures",
"stamps",
"accreditations",
"certifications",
"liberties",
"passes",
"concessions",
"patents",
"permits",
"tolerances",
"tolerations",
"acceptances",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents",
"OKs",
"okays",
"accords",
"grants"
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"denials",
"refusals",
"rejections",
"revocations",
"taboos",
"tabus",
"injunctions",
"vetoes",
"deterrences",
"discouragements",
"repressions",
"suppressions",
"bans",
"embargoes",
"exclusions"
],
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"prohibitions",
"proscriptions"
]
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],
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"commissions",
"delegations",
"empowerments",
"mandates"
],
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"consignments",
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"facilitations",
"promotions",
"orderings"
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"military commanders on the ground must be granted considerable license , as wars cannot be micromanaged by people back in Washington"
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"freedoms",
"free hands",
"latitudes",
"runs"
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"commands",
"controls",
"dominions",
"grips",
"holds",
"mandates",
"masteries",
"powers",
"sways",
"ranges",
"room",
"spaces",
"blank checks",
"cartes blanches"
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"vests",
"warrants"
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"clears",
"credentials",
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"indorses",
"OKs",
"okays",
"sanctions",
"affirms",
"confirms",
"validates",
"inaugurates",
"inducts",
"initiates",
"installs",
"instates",
"swears in",
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"enfranchises",
"entitles",
"privileges"
],
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"bans",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"denies",
"disallows",
"disbars",
"discourages",
"disenfranchises",
"disfranchises",
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"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"prevents",
"shuts out",
"stops",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"interdicts",
"outlaws",
"prohibits",
"proscribes",
"vetoes"
],
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"disqualifies"
]
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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],
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"icons",
"ikons",
"illustrations",
"images",
"pictures"
],
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"delineations",
"depictions",
"representations",
"resemblances",
"views",
"portraits",
"daubs",
"drawings",
"finger paintings",
"etchings",
"silhouettes",
"sketches",
"watercolors",
"caricatures",
"cartoons",
"doodles",
"collages",
"montages",
"photographs",
"hieroglyphics",
"hieroglyphs",
"ideograms",
"ideographs",
"pictographs",
"diagrams"
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"antonyms":[]
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"why, you're the very likeness of your mother!"
],
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"alter egos",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"counterparts",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"fetches",
"images",
"look-alikes",
"matches",
"mirror images",
"pictures",
"replicas",
"ringers",
"spits",
"spitting images",
"twins"
],
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"Chinese copies",
"effigies",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"companions",
"fellows",
"mates",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"parallels"
],
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"antitheses",
"converses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"libidinousness":{
"sexual appetite":{
"examples":[
"an expression of raging libidinousness that would have been worthy of a whole company of soldiers"
],
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"concupiscence",
"desire",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"hots",
"itch",
"lech",
"letch",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"lustihood",
"passion",
"salaciousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"libido",
"ardor",
"heat",
"rut",
"erotomania",
"hypersexuality",
"lecherousness",
"lechery",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"venery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chastity",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liqueurs":{
"as in whiskeys , vodkas":{
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"barley-brees",
"barley-broos",
"brandies",
"gins",
"mao-tais",
"mescals",
"schnapps",
"tequilas",
"vodkas",
"whiskeys",
"whiskies",
"meads",
"sakes",
"sakis",
"wines",
"Dutch courages",
"ales",
"beers",
"brewages",
"brews",
"brewskis",
"home brews",
"malt liquors",
"microbrews",
"mums",
"nappies",
"cocktails",
"mixed drinks",
"belts",
"loads",
"nips",
"pegs",
"pops",
"shooters",
"shots",
"slugs",
"snifters",
"snorts",
"tots",
"whets",
"aperitifs",
"bracers",
"chasers",
"digestifs",
"nightcaps",
"alcohols",
"aqua vitaes",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"bottles",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"inebriants",
"intoxicants",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"liquors",
"lushes",
"moonshines",
"potables",
"rums",
"sauces",
"spirits",
"stimulants",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limit":{
"to set bounds or an upper limit for":{
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"limit the note to a few words"
],
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"cap",
"circumscribe",
"confine",
"hold down",
"restrict"
],
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"bar",
"block",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"constrict",
"contract",
"lessen",
"narrow",
"pinch",
"squeeze",
"tighten",
"quell",
"repress",
"suppress",
"number",
"modify",
"qualify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broaden",
"expand",
"widen",
"overextend",
"overreach"
],
"antonyms":[
"exceed"
]
},
"to mark the limits of":{
"examples":[
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],
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"circumscribe",
"define",
"delimit",
"demarcate",
"demark",
"mark (off)",
"terminate"
],
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"control",
"determine",
"govern",
"delineate",
"describe"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go":{
"examples":[
"there was no limit to the number of challenges they faced"
],
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"bound",
"boundary",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"confines",
"end",
"extent",
"limitation",
"line",
"termination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extremity",
"fag end",
"terminus",
"border",
"brim",
"edge",
"margin",
"rim",
"verge",
"outside",
"bar",
"barrier",
"fence",
"hedge",
"restraint",
"stop",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the most extreme or advanced point":{
"examples":[
"those bratty kids have pushed my patience to the limit"
],
"synonyms":[
"depth",
"extremity",
"height"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consummation",
"epitome",
"quintessence",
"ultimate"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"license":{
"the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something":{
"examples":[
"the company is seeking license to operate several more power plants in the state"
],
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"allowance",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"granting",
"green light",
"leave",
"permission",
"sanction",
"sufferance",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imprimatur",
"seal",
"signature",
"stamp",
"accreditation",
"certification",
"liberty",
"pass",
"concession",
"patent",
"permit",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"OK",
"okay",
"accord",
"grant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denial",
"refusal",
"rejection",
"revocation",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"injunction",
"veto",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"repression",
"suppression",
"ban",
"embargo",
"exclusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
]
},
"the granting of power to perform various acts or duties":{
"examples":[
"a restaurant owner has to get a license to serve food and drink"
],
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"accreditation",
"authorization",
"commission",
"delegation",
"empowerment",
"mandate"
],
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"commendation",
"consignment",
"entrustment",
"facilitation",
"fostering",
"promotion",
"commanding",
"directing",
"ordering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the right to act or move freely":{
"examples":[
"military commanders on the ground must be granted considerable license , as wars cannot be micromanaged by people back in Washington"
],
"synonyms":[
"authorization",
"free hand",
"freedom",
"latitude",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authority",
"clutch",
"command",
"control",
"dominion",
"grip",
"hold",
"mandate",
"mastery",
"power",
"sway",
"range",
"room",
"space",
"blank check",
"carte blanche"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give official or legal power to":{
"examples":[
"a state statute licenses county sheriffs to choose their own deputies"
],
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"accredit",
"authorize",
"certify",
"charter",
"commission",
"empower",
"enable",
"invest",
"qualify",
"vest",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approve",
"clear",
"credential",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"OK",
"okay",
"sanction",
"affirm",
"confirm",
"validate",
"inaugurate",
"induct",
"initiate",
"install",
"instate",
"swear in",
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"enfranchise",
"entitle",
"privilege"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disbar",
"discourage",
"disenfranchise",
"disfranchise",
"exclude",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"prevent",
"shut out",
"stop",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"interdict",
"outlaw",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"veto"
],
"antonyms":[
"disqualify"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liberalisms":{
"a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom":{
"examples":[
"liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good"
],
"synonyms":[
"left",
"leftism",
"left wing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neoliberalism",
"radicalism",
"socialism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"neoconservatism"
],
"antonyms":[
"conservatism",
"illiberalism",
"immobilism",
"right"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libelling":{
"the making of false statements that damage another's reputation":{
"examples":[
"the underhanded politician resorted to libeling when it became clear that that was the only way he was going to win the election"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"blackening",
"calumniation",
"calumny",
"character assassination",
"defamation",
"defaming",
"libel",
"maligning",
"slander",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilification",
"vilifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersion",
"innuendo",
"muck",
"mud",
"smear",
"backbiting",
"detraction",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"attack",
"censure",
"criticism",
"denunciation",
"hatchet job",
"contempt",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"belittlement",
"denigration",
"disparagement",
"cattiness",
"despite",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"venom",
"viciousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"esteem",
"honor",
"respect",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"adoration",
"reverence",
"veneration",
"worship"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"examples":[
"the court decided that the newspaper's reportage of the former mayor, while irresponsible, did not constitute an effort to libel him"
],
"synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"blackening",
"calumniating",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittling",
"denigrating",
"detracting",
"disparaging",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"shaming",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"disdaining",
"scorning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalting",
"glorifying",
"honoring",
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"commending",
"praising",
"esteeming",
"respecting",
"admiring",
"regarding",
"adoring",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liquid":{
"capable of moving like a liquid":{
"examples":[
"always have in the kitchen a dispenser of liquid soap available for hand washing"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluent",
"fluid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circumfluent",
"circumfluous",
"diluted",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak",
"semiliquid",
"semisolid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotted",
"coagulated",
"gelatinous",
"gelled",
"jelled",
"jellied",
"thick",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"viscous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hard",
"nonliquid",
"solid"
]
},
"easily seen through":{
"examples":[
"the liquid air of the remote mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear",
"crystal",
"crystal clear",
"crystalline",
"limpid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"see-through",
"transparent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colorless",
"uncolored",
"diaphanous",
"lucid",
"semitranslucent",
"semitransparent",
"sheer",
"translucent",
"transparentized",
"glassy",
"vitreous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colored",
"dark",
"glazed",
"tinted",
"filmy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"nebulous",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"dense",
"muddy",
"murky",
"turbid"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloudy",
"opaque"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"limbs":{
"a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plant":{
"examples":[
"we hung the swing from the highest limb of the tree that we could reach"
],
"synonyms":[
"boughs",
"branches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"branchlets",
"offshoots",
"outgrowths",
"shoots",
"spurs",
"sprays",
"sprigs",
"twigs"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libertine":{
"having or showing lowered moral character or standards":{
"examples":[
"his libertine sister had got caught up in the urban drug scene and had died of an overdose"
],
"synonyms":[
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"jackleg",
"loose",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"rakehell",
"rakehelly",
"rakish",
"reprobate",
"sick",
"unclean",
"unwholesome",
"warped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"cutthroat",
"dishonest",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"contaminated",
"spoiled",
"tainted",
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"miscreant",
"nefarious",
"sinful",
"vicious",
"wicked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incorruptible",
"ethical",
"honest",
"principled",
"good",
"moral",
"righteous",
"virtuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"pure",
"uncorrupt",
"uncorrupted"
]
},
"a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard":{
"examples":[
"the legend of Don Juan depicts him as a playboy and libertine"
],
"synonyms":[
"backslider",
"debauchee",
"debaucher",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"deviate",
"perv",
"pervert",
"profligate",
"rake",
"rakehell",
"rip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"delinquent",
"derelict",
"incorrigible",
"blackguard",
"cad",
"heel",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"lecher",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"satyr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"listening (to)":{
"to take notice of and be guided by":{
"examples":[
"you'd better listen to my advice!"
],
"synonyms":[
"following",
"heeding",
"minding",
"noting",
"observing",
"regarding",
"watching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considering",
"contemplating",
"mulling",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"complying (with)",
"conforming (to)",
"keeping",
"obeying",
"respecting",
"attending (to)",
"harking (to)",
"hearing",
"hearkening (to)",
"harkening (to)",
"marking",
"noticing",
"seeing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"neglecting",
"passing over",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"scorning",
"shrugging off",
"defying",
"flouting",
"slighting",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"tuning out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"linn":{
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"climb to the cairn above the loch, and from there you'll get a broad view of the linn"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyon",
"ca\u00f1on",
"col",
"couloir",
"defile",
"flume",
"gap",
"gill",
"gorge",
"gulch",
"gulf",
"kloof",
"notch",
"pass",
"ravine",
"saddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abyss",
"chasm",
"cirque",
"cleft",
"crevasse",
"crevice",
"cwm",
"fissure",
"combe",
"coombe",
"coomb",
"dale",
"dell",
"glen",
"hollow",
"shut-in",
"vale",
"valley",
"basin",
"floodplain",
"kettle",
"arroyo",
"barranca",
"barranco",
"coulee",
"draw",
"gully",
"gulley",
"gutter",
"nullah",
"trench",
"trough",
"wadi",
"wash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"linkages":{
"the fact or state of having something in common":{
"examples":[
"the accountants noticed a linkage between the two supposedly independent companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"affinity",
"association",
"bearing",
"connection",
"kinship",
"liaison",
"relation",
"relationship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"correlation",
"interrelation",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"bond",
"link",
"tie",
"affiliation",
"alliance",
"union",
"identicalness",
"sameness",
"alikeness",
"community",
"likeness",
"resemblance",
"similarity",
"accordance",
"agreement",
"conformity",
"congruity",
"correspondence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"variability",
"variance",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lime-juicers":{
"as in limeys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"limeys",
"powerboaters",
"sailboaters",
"able-bodied seamen",
"able seamen",
"lubbers",
"coxswains",
"crewmen",
"deckhands",
"shipmates",
"gobs",
"hearties",
"jacks",
"jack-tars",
"mariners",
"navigators",
"sailors",
"salts",
"sea dogs",
"seafarers",
"seamen",
"shipmen",
"swabbies",
"swabs",
"tars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lionizing":{
"to treat (someone) as a very important and famous person":{
"examples":[
"She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"apotheosizing",
"canonizing",
"dignifying",
"exalting",
"magnifying",
"adoring",
"deifying",
"glorifying",
"reverencing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"admiring",
"honoring",
"loving",
"regarding",
"respecting",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blaspheming",
"desecrating",
"profaning",
"violating",
"affronting",
"dishonoring",
"disrespecting",
"insulting",
"offending",
"outraging",
"piquing",
"ridiculing",
"scorning",
"slighting",
"defaming",
"disparaging",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"smearing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liniments":{
"a liquid that is rubbed on your skin to relieve pain or stiffness in your muscles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embrocations",
"lotions",
"ointments",
"potions",
"poultices",
"salves",
"cures",
"drugs",
"medicaments",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"medicines",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"cure-alls",
"nostrums",
"panaceas",
"botanicals",
"patent medicines",
"prescription drugs",
"prescriptions",
"cordials",
"potions",
"tonics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"caps",
"capsules",
"pills",
"tablets",
"injections",
"shots",
"syrups",
"sirups",
"tinctures",
"antibiotics",
"antiseptics",
"sera",
"serums",
"cathartics",
"purgatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litmus tests":{
"something (such as an opinion about a political or moral issue) that is used to make a judgment about whether someone or something is acceptable":{
"examples":[
"The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid tests",
"litmuses",
"crosses",
"crucibles",
"fires",
"gauntlets",
"gantlets",
"ordeals",
"trials",
"baptisms",
"initiations",
"challenges",
"complications",
"difficulties",
"griefs",
"grievances",
"hardships",
"rigors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightweight":{
"having little weight":{
"examples":[
"it's going to be hot, so wear mostly lightweight clothing"
],
"synonyms":[
"featherlight",
"feathery",
"light",
"underweight",
"weightless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"little",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"insubstantial",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"huge",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"massive",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"bulky",
"cumbersome",
"unwieldy"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"leaden",
"overweight",
"ponderous",
"weighty"
]
},
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"among astronomers she's considered a lightweight"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"morsel",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pip-squeak",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-name",
"noncelebrity",
"least",
"inferior",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity",
"figurehead",
"puppet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chief",
"head",
"lead",
"leader",
"celebrity",
"luminary",
"notable",
"personality",
"planet",
"star",
"superstar",
"authority",
"superior",
"great power",
"party",
"power"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"lights (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine"
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lividity":{
"an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something":{
"examples":[
"the level of the boss's lividity was something I'd never seen outside of cartoons\u2014I almost expected steam to rise out of his head"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"vexation",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bile",
"biliousness",
"bitterness",
"contempt",
"embitterment",
"empoisonment",
"enmity",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"rancor",
"envy",
"jaundice",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"spite",
"vengefulness",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"belligerence",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"crankiness",
"disputatiousness",
"hot-headedness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"orneriness",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"blowup",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"outburst",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"pet",
"rise",
"ruffle",
"temper",
"air rage",
"road rage",
"delirium",
"heat",
"passion",
"warmth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmness",
"forbearance",
"patience"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light (up)":{
"as in burn , glow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"combust",
"flame",
"flare (up)",
"glow",
"radiate",
"flash",
"shine",
"twinkle",
"scintillate",
"spark",
"sparkle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lively":{
"in a quick and spirited manner":{
"examples":[
"now then, step lively there"
],
"synonyms":[
"airily",
"animatedly",
"animately",
"bouncily",
"buoyantly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"high-spiritedly",
"livelily",
"perkily",
"pertly",
"snappily",
"sparkily",
"spiritedly",
"sprightly",
"trippingly",
"vivaciously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"friskily",
"gamesomely",
"playfully",
"skittishly",
"sportively",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"effervescently",
"energetically",
"jazzily",
"racily",
"springily",
"breezily",
"cockily",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"jauntily",
"agilely",
"nimbly",
"spryly",
"allegro"
],
"near antonyms":[
"halfheartedly",
"idly",
"indolently",
"lazily",
"lethargically",
"slothfully",
"heavily",
"inactively",
"listlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[
"dully",
"inanimately",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
]
},
"having much high-spirited energy and movement":{
"examples":[
"the lively puppy was racing around the dining room floor chasing after people's shoelaces"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"spiffy",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"open-eyed",
"up",
"wide-awake",
"agile",
"nimble",
"spry",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"chirpy",
"chirrupy",
"effervescent",
"sparkly",
"upbeat",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"frolicsome",
"impish",
"pixieish",
"playful",
"boisterous",
"bubbly",
"ebullient",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"high-strung",
"nervous",
"skittish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"unambitious",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"tired",
"torpid",
"weary",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"boring",
"dull",
"irksome",
"tedious"
],
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
]
},
"marked by much life, movement, or activity":{
"examples":[
"the party was a lively affair that lasted into the small hours of the morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"brisk",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"humming",
"kinetic",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"lifelessly":{
"as in sleepily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sleepily",
"idly",
"inactively"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actively",
"assiduously",
"busily",
"diligently",
"industriously",
"laboriously",
"energetically",
"vigorously",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"liberals":{
"as in progressives , leftists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lefties",
"leftists",
"progressives",
"neophiliacs",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"modernists",
"moderns",
"ultramodernists",
"bohemians"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"right-wingers",
"standpatters",
"Tories",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"conformists",
"traditionalists",
"archconservatives",
"diehards",
"neocons",
"neoconservatives",
"paleoconservatives",
"squares",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libellous":{
"causing or intended to cause unjust injury to a person's good name":{
"examples":[
"libelous statements about a celebrity for which the tabloid was sued"
],
"synonyms":[
"calumnious",
"defamatory",
"scandalous",
"slanderous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"erroneous",
"false",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"wrong",
"denigrative",
"denigratory",
"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derogatory",
"detractive",
"disparaging",
"uncomplimentary",
"unfavorable",
"unflattering",
"invidious",
"objectionable",
"maligning",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"spiteful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciative",
"complimentary",
"favorable",
"adulatory",
"commendatory",
"eulogistic",
"hagiographic",
"hagiographical",
"laudatory",
"accurate",
"correct",
"errorless",
"factual",
"right",
"sound",
"true",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"linking (up)":{
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"examples":[
"carbon atoms link up to form a diamond crystal"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"conjoining",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"fusing",
"interfusing",
"joining",
"marrying",
"unifying",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mating",
"yoking",
"allying",
"confederating",
"leaguing",
"chaining",
"compounding",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"splicing",
"assembling",
"clustering",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"convening",
"gathering",
"meeting",
"recombining",
"reconnecting",
"rejoining",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disaffiliating",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"fractionating",
"isolating",
"resolving",
"uncoupling",
"unyoking",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"scattering"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"dissevering",
"parting",
"sectioning",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"unlinking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liminal":{
"barely perceptible by a sense or by the mind":{
"examples":[
"They studied how the subjects were affected by different sounds played at liminal intensity."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"faint",
"insignificant",
"slender",
"slight",
"subtle",
"trivial",
"inaudible",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"inconspicuous",
"indistinct",
"unnoticeable",
"unseeable",
"unseen",
"buried",
"concealed",
"covert",
"disguised",
"hidden",
"obscure",
"shrouded",
"unapparent",
"vague",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indistinguishable",
"insensible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"audible",
"observable",
"recognizable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"clear",
"conspicuous",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"manifest",
"noticeable",
"obvious",
"plain",
"prominent",
"striking",
"apparent",
"distinct",
"significant",
"straightforward",
"appreciable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"palpable",
"perceptible",
"ponderable",
"sensible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"light out":{
"as in get out , get (away)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr",
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in take off , put out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beeline",
"put",
"put out",
"set off",
"set out",
"strike",
"take off",
"aim",
"bend",
"direct",
"point",
"turn",
"face",
"orient",
"steer",
"bear",
"head",
"make",
"about-face",
"back",
"come about",
"come round",
"cut",
"incline",
"put about",
"reverse",
"swerve",
"tack",
"turn back",
"veer",
"wheel",
"yaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lifts":{
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"I needed help lifting the heavy globe back up to the top shelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosts",
"cranes",
"elevates",
"heaves",
"hefts",
"heightens",
"hikes",
"hoists",
"jacks (up)",
"perks (up)",
"picks up",
"raises",
"takes up",
"upholds",
"uplifts",
"upraises",
"ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascends",
"mounts",
"rises",
"rears",
"upends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descends",
"dips",
"falls",
"pitches",
"plunges",
"slips",
"bears",
"depresses",
"presses",
"pushes",
"sinks",
"submerges"
],
"antonyms":[
"drops",
"lowers"
]
},
"to move or extend upward":{
"examples":[
"once the sun started to cut through the morning fog, the colorful hot-air balloons began to lift off from the field"
],
"synonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"aspires",
"climbs",
"mounts",
"rises",
"soars",
"thrusts",
"uprears",
"uprises",
"ups",
"upthrusts",
"upturns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surges",
"towers",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"raises",
"upheaves",
"uplifts",
"upraises",
"balloons",
"blasts off",
"takes off",
"zooms",
"crests",
"scales",
"surmounts",
"tops",
"cants",
"inclines",
"leans",
"lists",
"reclines",
"slants",
"slopes",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dives",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"sinks",
"slides"
],
"antonyms":[
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"drops",
"falls (off)",
"plunges"
]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"she turned her back for just a moment, and somebody lifted her purse"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an act or instance of helping":{
"examples":[
"the company's senior vice president gave his son a much-needed lift up the corporate ladder"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetments",
"aids",
"assistances",
"assists",
"backings",
"boosts",
"hands",
"help",
"helping hands",
"legs up",
"supports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancements",
"encouragements",
"facilitations",
"furtherances",
"nurturances",
"benefactions",
"patronages",
"promotions",
"sponsorships",
"advice",
"care",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"attendances",
"attentions",
"hand-holdings",
"services",
"beneficences",
"charities",
"favors",
"philanthropies",
"assuagements",
"palliations",
"reliefs",
"succors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraints",
"frustrations",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"obstructions",
"repressions",
"restraints",
"deterrences",
"discouragements"
],
"antonyms":[
"hindrances"
]
},
"a means of getting to a destination in a vehicle driven by another":{
"examples":[
"I'll need a lift to work while my car is in the shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"rides",
"transportations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drives",
"spins",
"turns",
"joyrides",
"conveyances",
"passages",
"transits",
"transports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lights into":{
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"She lit into the intern for deleting an important file."
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"assails",
"attacks",
"bashes",
"belabors",
"blasts",
"castigates",
"excoriates",
"jumps (on)",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"potshots",
"savages",
"scathes",
"slams",
"trashes",
"vituperates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berates",
"harangues",
"harasses",
"harries",
"reviles",
"scolds",
"whips",
"blasphemes",
"curses",
"execrates",
"imprecates",
"profanes",
"affronts",
"insults",
"slurs",
"asperses",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"blackguards",
"disparages",
"puts down",
"libels",
"slanders",
"traduces",
"vilifies",
"chastises",
"chides",
"criticizes",
"laces (into)",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"fulminates",
"lashes (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"commends",
"compliments",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We lit into the new project right away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacks",
"dives (into)",
"tackles",
"wades (in or into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addresses",
"approaches",
"faces",
"buckles (down to)",
"concentrates (on)",
"focuses (on)",
"focusses (on)",
"knuckles down (to)",
"zeroes (in on)",
"falls (to)",
"pitches in",
"plunges (in)",
"settles (down)",
"pursues",
"takes up",
"undertakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"evades",
"shuns",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"idles",
"lags",
"messes",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"pokes",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He lit into the punching bag as though it were his worst enemy."
],
"synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"livelihood":{
"a way of earning money in order to live":{
"examples":[
"Many fishermen believe that the new regulations threaten their livelihoods ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"business",
"enterprise",
"field",
"living",
"m\u00e9tier",
"metier",
"racket",
"calling",
"employment",
"game",
"lay",
"line",
"occupation",
"profession",
"trade",
"vocation",
"work",
"call",
"lifework",
"assignment",
"engagement",
"gig",
"mission",
"art",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"handicraft",
"appointment",
"berth",
"billet",
"office",
"place",
"position",
"post",
"situation",
"duty",
"function",
"job",
"load",
"task",
"workload"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocation",
"hobby",
"pursuit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libertarianism":{
"as in libertinism , prurience":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lechery",
"prurience",
"pruriency",
"libertinage",
"libertinism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moralism",
"nice-nellyism",
"prudery",
"prudishness",
"puritanism",
"Comstockery",
"old-maidishness",
"priggery",
"priggishness",
"primness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"little guys":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"for a politician who likes to portray himself as a friend of the little guy , he sure is fond of rubbing elbows with the fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"everymen",
"Joe Blows",
"Joe Six-Packs",
"John Does",
"little men",
"lugs",
"slobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoners",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"proles",
"proletarians",
"everywomen",
"plain Janes",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"workers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheeses",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"movers and shakers",
"VIPs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libidos":{
"a person's desire to have sex":{
"examples":[
"They have healthy libidos ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ardors",
"heat",
"ruts",
"concupiscences",
"desires",
"eroticisms",
"hots",
"itches",
"leches",
"letches",
"lustihoods",
"lusts",
"passions",
"erotomanias",
"hypersexualities",
"lecheries",
"nymphomanias",
"satyriases",
"veneries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinences",
"celibacies",
"chastities",
"frigidities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"living up to":{
"to give steadfast support to":{
"examples":[
"Once elected, she lived up to her campaign promise to balance the state's budget."
],
"synonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"hewing (to)",
"keeping (to)",
"standing by",
"sticking (to or with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaving (to)",
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"confirming",
"defending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"espousing",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"accepting",
"adopting",
"cherishing",
"cultivating",
"embracing",
"following",
"fostering",
"heeding",
"backstopping",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"enforcing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"abnegating",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"spurning",
"surrendering",
"abjuring",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"reconsidering",
"reneging",
"renouncing",
"retracting",
"revoking",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"controverting",
"disagreeing (with)",
"disproving",
"disputing",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"contradicting",
"denying",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"negativing",
"repudiating",
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backtracking"
],
"antonyms":[
"defecting (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lickerish":{
"as in eager , itchy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"desirous",
"eager",
"itchy",
"miserly",
"commercialistic",
"materialistic",
"philistine",
"hoggish",
"piggish",
"piggy",
"swinish",
"acquisitive",
"avaricious",
"avid",
"coveting",
"covetous",
"grabby",
"grasping",
"greedy",
"mercenary",
"moneygrubbing",
"rapacious",
"devouring",
"gluttonous",
"gobbling",
"insatiable",
"ravenous",
"unquenchable",
"voracious",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"self-centered",
"self-seeking",
"discontent",
"discontented",
"malcontent",
"unsatisfied",
"begrudging",
"grudging",
"resentful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonmaterialistic",
"altruistic",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"handsome",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"controlled",
"moderate",
"restrained",
"temperate",
"content",
"sated",
"satisfied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"linked (with)":{
"as in connected (with) , attached (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attached (to)",
"communicated (with)",
"connected (with)",
"abutted",
"adjoined",
"bordered (on)",
"butted (on or against)",
"flanked",
"fringed",
"joined",
"marched (with)",
"neighbored",
"skirted",
"touched",
"verged (on)",
"bounded",
"embraced",
"encircled",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"fenced",
"lined",
"margined",
"rimmed",
"surrounded",
"contacted",
"converged",
"met"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lingo":{
"the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication":{
"examples":[
"medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"language",
"mother tongue",
"speech",
"tongue",
"vocabulary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrolect",
"argot",
"cant",
"colloquial",
"dialect",
"idiolect",
"idiom",
"jargon",
"parlance",
"patois",
"patter",
"pidgin",
"slang",
"slanguage",
"vernacular",
"colloquialism",
"localism",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"shibboleth",
"vernacularism",
"terminology",
"coinage",
"modernism",
"neologism"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field":{
"examples":[
"the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"patois",
"patter",
"shop",
"shoptalk",
"slang",
"terminology",
"vocabulary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"pidgin",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacular",
"vernacularism",
"slanguage",
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"cyberspeak",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"journalese",
"technobabble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lined":{
"as in lined up , aligned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aligned",
"alined",
"cued",
"lined up",
"queued",
"emplaced",
"placed",
"set",
"unscrambled",
"alphabetized",
"filed",
"hierarchized",
"prioritized",
"sequenced",
"displayed",
"mapped (out)",
"set out",
"arranged",
"arrayed",
"balanced",
"classified",
"codified",
"disposed",
"drew up",
"equalized",
"evened",
"laid out",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"ordered",
"organized",
"proportioned",
"ranged",
"regularized",
"standardized",
"systematized",
"groomed",
"made up",
"spruced (up)",
"straightened (up)",
"tidied (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deranged",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disordered",
"messed (up)",
"mussed (up)",
"rumpled",
"upset",
"misaligned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in surrounded , embraced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bounded",
"embraced",
"encircled",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"fenced",
"margined",
"rimmed",
"surrounded",
"attached (to)",
"communicated (with)",
"connected (with)",
"linked (with)",
"contacted",
"converged",
"met",
"abutted",
"adjoined",
"bordered (on)",
"butted (on or against)",
"flanked",
"fringed",
"joined",
"marched (with)",
"neighbored",
"skirted",
"touched",
"verged (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liberating":{
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"examples":[
"the animal rightists snuck into the laboratory in the middle of the night to liberate all of the monkeys"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharging",
"disenthralling",
"disenthraling",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"enlarging",
"freeing",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailing (out)",
"delivering",
"paroling",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"disembarrassing",
"disencumbering",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"unshackling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"committing",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"locking (up)",
"conquering",
"enslaving",
"subduing",
"subjugating"
],
"antonyms":[
"binding",
"confining",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"restraining"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"we were liberated from our financial woes when we hit the grand prize in the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearing",
"disembarrassing",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"freeing",
"releasing",
"untangling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivering",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"disburdening",
"disencumbering",
"unburdening",
"unraveling",
"unsnarling",
"untwining",
"untying",
"untieing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocking",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"loading",
"weighing"
],
"antonyms":[
"embroiling",
"entangling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"linguistical":{
"of or relating to words or language":{
"examples":[
"the age at which children begin to acquire linguistic skills"
],
"synonyms":[
"lexical",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"verbal",
"vocabular",
"wordy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communicative",
"conversational"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonlexical",
"nonlinguistic",
"nonverbal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"listen in (on)":{
"to listen to (another in private conversation)":{
"examples":[
"it's not polite to listen in on other people's private conversations"
],
"synonyms":[
"eavesdrop (on)",
"overhear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bug",
"tap",
"wiretap",
"monitor",
"snoop",
"spy",
"surveil",
"attend",
"hear",
"hearken",
"heed",
"mind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lingering":{
"still existing or happening after something is completed or removed":{
"examples":[
"The area is still feeling the lingering effects of the hurricane.",
"There are lingering questions about the extent of his involvement in the crime."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"residual",
"leftover",
"remaining",
"abiding",
"biding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping up",
"lasting",
"perduring",
"persisting",
"running on",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"carrying through",
"prevailing",
"surviving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"desisting",
"dying",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"since they were charging by the hour, the house painters lingered in finishing up their work"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lighted (up)":{
"as in burn , glow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"combust",
"flame",
"flare (up)",
"glow",
"radiate",
"flash",
"shine",
"twinkle",
"scintillate",
"spark",
"sparkle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lies back":{
"as in reclines":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reclines",
"lounges",
"slouches",
"squats",
"straddles",
"flops",
"flumps",
"planks",
"plops",
"plumps",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"sprawls",
"spreads (out)",
"stretches (out)",
"basks",
"kicks back",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"perches",
"sets",
"sits",
"splays",
"expands",
"extends",
"fans (out)",
"flares (out)",
"opens",
"outspreads",
"outstretches",
"unfolds",
"unfurls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arises",
"gets up",
"rises",
"stands"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"licensee":{
"as in permittee , assignee":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assignee",
"licentiate",
"permittee",
"candidate",
"inductee",
"appointee",
"designee",
"nominee",
"selectee",
"agent",
"delegate",
"delegatee",
"deputy",
"choice",
"draftee",
"endorsee",
"pick",
"selection"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit into":{
"to criticize harshly and usually publicly":{
"examples":[
"She lit into the intern for deleting an important file."
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bashed",
"belabored",
"blasted",
"castigated",
"excoriated",
"jumped (on)",
"lambasted",
"potshot",
"savaged",
"scathed",
"slammed",
"trashed",
"vituperated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berated",
"harangued",
"harassed",
"harried",
"reviled",
"scolded",
"whipped",
"blasphemed",
"cursed",
"execrated",
"imprecated",
"profaned",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"slurred",
"aspersed",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"blackguarded",
"disparaged",
"put down",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"slandered",
"traduced",
"vilified",
"chastised",
"chid",
"chided",
"criticized",
"laced (into)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"fulminated",
"lashed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"commended",
"complimented",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to start work on energetically":{
"examples":[
"We lit into the new project right away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attacked",
"dived (into)",
"dove (into)",
"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":[]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"He lit into the punching bag as though it were his worst enemy."
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"lie detectors":{
"an instrument for detecting physical signs of the tension that goes with lying":{
"examples":[
"hooked the suspect up to a lie detector before interrogating him about the robbery"
],
"synonyms":[
"polygraphs"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lipsticks":{
"as in mascaras , creams":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blushes",
"cold creams",
"creams",
"eye shadows",
"kohls",
"lotions",
"mascaras",
"oils",
"powders",
"rouges",
"vanishing creams",
"cosmetics",
"makeups",
"maquillages",
"paints",
"war paints",
"greasepaints",
"camos",
"camouflages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit":{
"filled with much light":{
"examples":[
"the coat room was just lit well enough for us to identify our jackets"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"alight",
"bright",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lightsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"moonlit",
"shiny",
"sunlit",
"sunny",
"sunshiny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gloomy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"murky",
"obscured",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"lightproof"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"lightless",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"being on fire":{
"examples":[
"some lighted torches lined the path to the shrine"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"singed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"Raucous singing could be heard coming from tents full of lit Oktoberfest revelers."
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs"
],
"synonyms":[
"burned",
"burnt",
"enkindled",
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"torched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolated",
"deflagrated",
"charred",
"frizzled",
"scorched",
"baked",
"broiled",
"cooked",
"ashed",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"kilned",
"set off",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"radiated",
"scalded",
"scathed",
"seared",
"reignited",
"rekindled",
"relit",
"relighted",
"banked",
"stoked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"stamped (out)",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured"
],
"antonyms":[
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the lights from the TV cameras will light this room as though it were high noon"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"beaconed",
"emblazed",
"illumed",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightened",
"beamed",
"beat (down)",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined",
"enhaloed",
"haloed",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"fired",
"flamed",
"glared",
"glowed",
"ignited",
"incinerated",
"kindled",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled",
"gleamed",
"glistened",
"glittered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured",
"covered",
"shrouded",
"veiled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackened",
"darkened",
"obfuscated"
]
},
"to come to rest after descending from the air":{
"examples":[
"the bird lit on the branch and began to sing"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"landed",
"perched",
"roosted",
"settled",
"touched down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly-landed",
"crash-landed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"climbed",
"rose",
"flew",
"floated",
"glided",
"planed",
"soared",
"winged",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
"antonyms":[
"blasted off",
"took off"
]
},
"to come down from something (as a vehicle)":{
"examples":[
"he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"alighted",
"alit",
"descended",
"disembarked",
"dismounted",
"got down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplaned",
"detrained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boarded",
"climbed (aboard)",
"got in",
"mounted",
"enplaned",
"emplaned",
"entrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"embarked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"liquidate":{
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a decisive act that liquidated all doubts and fears about his governing abilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
"eject",
"excise",
"expel",
"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renew",
"renovate",
"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"his first act as absolute ruler was to liquidate his opponents"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"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 give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"used our lottery winnings to liquidate our debts"
],
"synonyms":[
"ante (up)",
"balance",
"clear",
"discharge",
"foot",
"meet",
"pay",
"pay off",
"pay up",
"pony up",
"quit",
"recompense",
"settle",
"spring (for)",
"stand"
],
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"antonyms":[
"repudiate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"light heavyweights":{
"as in heavyweights , featherweights":{
"examples":[],
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"bantamweights",
"cruiserweights",
"featherweights",
"flyweights",
"heavyweights",
"lightweights",
"middleweights",
"superheavyweights",
"welterweights",
"palookas",
"sluggers",
"stumblebums",
"boxers",
"fighters",
"gladiators",
"prizefighters",
"pugilists",
"pugs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"likening":{
"as in comparison , analogy":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"analogy",
"comparison",
"equation",
"equivalence",
"equivalency",
"par",
"parity",
"affinity",
"association",
"connection",
"linkage",
"relation",
"relationship",
"correlation",
"interrelation",
"semblance",
"identicalness",
"identity",
"sameness",
"alikeness",
"community",
"comparability",
"correspondence",
"likeness",
"parallelism",
"resemblance",
"similarity",
"similitude"
],
"near antonyms":[
"difference",
"disagreement",
"discrepancy",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"dissimilitude",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"unlikeness",
"inequality",
"conflict",
"polarity",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"nonconformity",
"differentiability",
"discriminability",
"distinguishability",
"anomalousness",
"dichotomy",
"disproportion",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"nonequivalence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to describe as similar":{
"examples":[
"he generally likened a root canal to some horrible form of torture"
],
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"analogizing",
"assimilating",
"bracketing",
"comparing",
"equating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"linking",
"alluding",
"referring",
"relating",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling"
],
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"antonyms":[
"contrasting"
]
},
"to regard or represent as equal or comparable":{
"examples":[
"I think that we can liken the two pianists, at least in terms of natural talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"comparing",
"equating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associating",
"connecting",
"correlating",
"identifying",
"joining",
"linking",
"matching",
"relating",
"grouping",
"lumping (together)",
"assorting",
"categorizing",
"classifying",
"classing",
"grading",
"grouping",
"sorting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differentiating",
"discerning",
"discriminating",
"distinguishing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"little man":{
"an average or ordinary man":{
"examples":[
"claims that the wind farm would benefit only its developers and that the little man would get nothing out of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"everyman",
"Joe Blow",
"Joe Six-Pack",
"John Doe",
"little guy",
"lug",
"slob"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"proletarian",
"everywoman",
"plain Jane",
"laborer",
"peon",
"worker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big cheese",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"mover and shaker",
"VIP"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literacy":{
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
"examples":[
"he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence"
],
"synonyms":[
"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limp":{
"not stiff in structure":{
"examples":[
"his broken arm was limp as he held it against his side"
],
"synonyms":[
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"mushy",
"semisoft",
"soft",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"insubstantial",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"pliant",
"relaxed",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"supple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"hard",
"indurated",
"solid",
"sound",
"strong",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"compact",
"dense",
"substantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"resilient",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"sturdy",
"tense"
]
},
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"the limp runners just dropped to the ground after crossing the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"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"
]
},
"lacking bodily energy or motivation":{
"examples":[
"the team's limp performance has many calling for the head coach's resignation"
],
"synonyms":[
"enervated",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"listless",
"spiritless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"slothful",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"logy",
"loggy",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"exhausted",
"knackered",
"tired",
"weary",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"indifferent",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"careless",
"heedless",
"thoughtless",
"unwary",
"inactive",
"inert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"active",
"dynamic",
"industrious",
"kinetic",
"avid",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"lively",
"pumped",
"vivacious",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"perky",
"up",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"dapper",
"open-eyed",
"sleepless",
"vigilant",
"watchful",
"wide-awake"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambitious",
"animated",
"energetic",
"enterprising",
"motivated"
]
},
"to walk while favoring one leg":{
"examples":[
"she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler"
],
"synonyms":[
"halt",
"hobble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hitch",
"blunder",
"falter",
"flounder",
"lurch",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stumble",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"dodder"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breeze",
"glide",
"sail"
],
"antonyms":[
"stride"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"the damaged boat limped back into port"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bumble",
"flog",
"flounder",
"lumber",
"plod",
"struggle",
"stumble",
"trudge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jog",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"wallow",
"welter",
"falter",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"fumble",
"muddle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coast",
"fly",
"glide",
"kilt",
"sail",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to stop limping if we are ever going to make our destination in time"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creak (along)",
"creep",
"drag",
"inch",
"nose",
"ooze",
"plod",
"poke",
"slouch",
"snail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lumber",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"tramp",
"trudge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"float",
"glide",
"sail",
"hurry",
"tear"
],
"antonyms":[
"fly",
"race",
"speed",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lifers":{
"as in trusties":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trusties",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"parolees",
"probationers",
"captives",
"captures",
"inmates",
"internees",
"prisoners"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in veterans , warhorses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"veterans",
"warhorses",
"combatants",
"noncombatants",
"conscripts",
"draftees",
"enrollees",
"recruits",
"counterguerrillas",
"counterguerillas",
"guerrillas",
"guerillas",
"irregulars",
"paramilitaries",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"reservists",
"Confederates",
"Continentals",
"Federals",
"GIs",
"GI's",
"guardsmen",
"militiamen",
"minutemen",
"champions",
"knights",
"lancers",
"pikemen",
"spearmen",
"diggers",
"gallowglasses",
"gendarmes",
"archers",
"crossbowmen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lime-juicer":{
"as in limey":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"limey",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"shipmate",
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"shipman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literati":{
"intellectuals considered as a social class":{
"examples":[
"Boston's 19th-century literati often referred to their city as \"the Athens of America\""
],
"synonyms":[
"clerisy",
"intelligentsia"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avant-garde",
"culturati",
"chosen",
"illuminati",
"best",
"choice",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"prime",
"upper crust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"litheness":{
"as in flexibility , loose-jointedness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flexibility",
"gracefulness",
"limberness",
"loose-jointedness",
"suppleness",
"coordination",
"handiness",
"sure-handedness",
"agility",
"deftness",
"dexterity",
"nimbleness",
"sleight",
"spryness",
"sure-footedness",
"adeptness",
"adroitness",
"finesse",
"prowess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkwardness",
"clumsiness",
"gaucheness",
"gawkiness",
"gawkishness",
"gracelessness",
"ham-handedness",
"heavy-handedness",
"klutziness",
"ungainliness",
"disability",
"inability",
"incapability",
"incapacity",
"debilitation",
"disablement",
"impairment",
"incapacitation",
"unhandiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limpid":{
"easily seen through":{
"examples":[
"her eyes are the blue of a limpid stream of water"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear",
"crystal",
"crystal clear",
"crystalline",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"see-through",
"transparent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colorless",
"uncolored",
"diaphanous",
"lucid",
"semitranslucent",
"semitransparent",
"sheer",
"translucent",
"transparentized",
"glassy",
"vitreous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colored",
"dark",
"glazed",
"tinted",
"filmy",
"foggy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"nebulous",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"dense",
"muddy",
"murky",
"turbid"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloudy",
"opaque"
]
},
"free from emotional or mental agitation":{
"examples":[
"the limpid conscience of a man who is at peace with himself as he awaits death"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"cool",
"coolheaded",
"equal",
"level",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"possessed",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"unruffled",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"even",
"even-keeled",
"steady",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"centered",
"disciplined",
"equable",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"loosey-goosey",
"mellow",
"carefree",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"indifferent",
"bovine",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"sober",
"stolid",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"restless",
"skittish",
"tense",
"high-strung",
"unstable",
"uptight"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
"unglued",
"unhinged",
"unstrung",
"upset"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lighted (on or upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"the novelist lit upon the plot for his latest thriller while visiting a remote lighthouse in Maine"
],
"synonyms":[
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"found",
"happened (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"met",
"pitched (upon)",
"stumbled (on or onto)",
"tumbled (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucked (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronted",
"faced",
"discovered",
"struck",
"turned up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"library paste":{
"as in paste , epoxy resin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"epoxy",
"epoxy resin",
"mucilage",
"paste",
"superglue",
"water glass",
"adhesive",
"bond",
"cement",
"glue",
"size",
"dope",
"goo",
"gum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liberalism":{
"a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom":{
"examples":[
"liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good"
],
"synonyms":[
"left",
"leftism",
"left wing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neoliberalism",
"radicalism",
"socialism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"neoconservatism"
],
"antonyms":[
"conservatism",
"illiberalism",
"immobilism",
"right"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lipped":{
"to flow along or against":{
"examples":[
"the waves, reflecting the red glow of the sunset, gently lipped the prow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"lapped",
"laved",
"splashed",
"washed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bubbled",
"gurgled",
"plashed",
"rippled",
"sloshed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"linguistic forms":{
"as in morphemes , monosyllables":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"monosyllables",
"morphemes",
"speech forms",
"expressions",
"terms",
"words",
"polysyllables",
"collocations",
"idioms",
"locutions",
"phrases",
"archaisms",
"coinages",
"colloquialisms",
"euphemisms",
"loanwords",
"modernisms",
"neologisms",
"vernacularisms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"line up":{
"as in order , organize":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arrange",
"group",
"order",
"organize",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"mobilize",
"muster",
"rally",
"call (up)",
"convene",
"summon",
"activate",
"collect",
"round up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demob",
"demobilize",
"disarrange",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"deactivate",
"dismiss",
"break up",
"disband",
"dissolve",
"split (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in register , align":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"align",
"aline",
"register",
"equal",
"match",
"parallel",
"accord",
"agree",
"answer",
"check",
"chord",
"cohere",
"coincide",
"comport",
"conform",
"consist",
"correspond",
"dovetail",
"fit",
"go",
"harmonize",
"jibe",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"sort",
"square",
"tally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differ (from)",
"disagree (with)",
"contradict",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"nullify",
"clash",
"conflict",
"jar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lion's share":{
"the largest part or quantity of something":{
"examples":[
"the lead actress deservedly got the lion's share of credit for the show's success",
"the lion's share of ballots went the incumbent's way"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulk",
"generality",
"majority",
"mass",
"preponderance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plurality",
"maximum",
"most",
"abundance",
"heap",
"loads",
"lot",
"much",
"oodles",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"reams",
"scads",
"wealth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"couple",
"few",
"handful",
"smattering",
"sprinkling",
"least",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[
"minority"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lineage":{
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"examples":[
"his Italian lineage was very important to him"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestry",
"birth",
"blood",
"bloodline",
"breeding",
"descent",
"extraction",
"family tree",
"genealogy",
"line",
"origin",
"parentage",
"pedigree",
"stock",
"strain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heredity",
"succession",
"family",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relations",
"relatives",
"race"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"child",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"son",
"successor"
],
"antonyms":[
"issue",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed"
]
},
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
"examples":[
"it is now generally accepted that the lineage of Thomas Jefferson includes black as well as white members"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"clan",
"family",
"folks",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"kinfolk",
"kinfolks",
"kinsfolk",
"line",
"people",
"race",
"stock",
"tribe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blended family",
"nuclear family",
"extended family",
"household",
"kith",
"brood",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"issue",
"offspring",
"progeny",
"scion",
"seed",
"clansman",
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"kinswoman",
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"extraction",
"origin",
"pedigree"
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"type":[
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"charcoal",
"pastel",
"watercolor",
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"etch",
"etching",
"blueprint",
"depiction",
"image",
"likeness",
"portrait",
"representation",
"caricature",
"doodle",
"illustration",
"contour",
"figure",
"outline",
"silhouette",
"cartoon",
"delineation",
"drawing",
"sketch"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"fluxing",
"fusing",
"melting",
"running",
"thawing"
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"guttering",
"trying",
"dissolving",
"rendering",
"softening",
"thinning"
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"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"jelling",
"jellying",
"thickening"
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"hardening",
"setting",
"solidifying"
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"verb"
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"betrayers",
"blabbermouths",
"informants",
"informers",
"snitchers",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"circulators",
"gossipers",
"gossipmongers",
"gossips",
"newsmongers",
"quidnuncs",
"talebearers",
"tale-tellers",
"telltales",
"yentas"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"litmus":{
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"acid test",
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"cross",
"crucible",
"fire",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"ordeal",
"trial",
"baptism",
"initiation",
"challenge",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"grief",
"grievance",
"hardship",
"rigor"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"librettist":{
"as in lyricist , lyrist":{
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"lyrist",
"bard",
"minstrel",
"muse",
"poet",
"poetaster",
"rhymester",
"rimester",
"versifier",
"cocomposer",
"composer",
"songsmith",
"songwriter",
"tunesmith",
"epigrammatist",
"epigrammatizer",
"rhymer",
"sonneteer",
"poetess",
"poet laureate",
"scop",
"troubadour",
"rhapsode",
"rhapsodist"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"actions",
"lawsuits",
"proceedings",
"suits",
"cases",
"causes",
"complaints",
"counterclaims",
"countersuits",
"counter-suits",
"cross actions",
"cross-claims"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liftoffs":{
"a rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket)":{
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"everyone was quiet in the control room as they waited for lift-off"
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"blastoffs",
"launches",
"takeoffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascents"
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"near antonyms":[
"crashes",
"splashdowns"
],
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"landings"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"licensees":{
"as in permittees , assignees":{
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"assignees",
"licentiates",
"permittees",
"candidates",
"inductees",
"appointees",
"designees",
"nominees",
"selectees",
"agents",
"delegatees",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"choices",
"draftees",
"endorsees",
"picks",
"selections"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"listening":{
"to pay attention especially through the act of hearing":{
"examples":[
"would you listen to what I have to say?"
],
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"attending",
"harkening",
"harking",
"hearing",
"hearkening",
"harkening",
"heeding",
"minding"
],
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"discounting",
"disregarding"
],
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"ignoring",
"tuning out"
]
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"type":[
"verb"
]
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"lifer":{
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"trusty",
"con",
"convict",
"jailbird",
"parolee",
"probationer",
"captive",
"capture",
"inmate",
"internee",
"prisoner"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"as in veteran , warhorse":{
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"near synonyms":[
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"conscript",
"draftee",
"enrollee",
"recruit",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"reservist",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"champion",
"knight",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"digger",
"gallowglass",
"gendarme",
"archer",
"crossbowman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literate":{
"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
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"the columnist's witty and literate comments on current events make her a popular guest on political talk shows"
],
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"educated",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"lettered",
"scholarly",
"well-read"
],
"near synonyms":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"didactic",
"didactical",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"homeschooled",
"self-educated",
"self-instructed",
"self-taught",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"versed",
"overeducated",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncivilized",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"lowbrow",
"semiliterate",
"unintellectual",
"ill-bred",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable",
"uninstructed",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored",
"semiliterate",
"undereducated"
],
"antonyms":[
"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unscholarly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"likelihoods":{
"the quality or state of being likely to occur":{
"examples":[
"the weatherman on TV said that the likelihood of rain today was fairly high"
],
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"liability",
"probability"
],
"near synonyms":[
"credibility",
"plausibility",
"plausibleness",
"feasibility",
"feasibleness",
"possibility",
"potentiality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"viability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"impracticability",
"impracticality",
"implausibility",
"incredibility",
"incredibleness"
],
"antonyms":[
"improbability",
"unlikelihood",
"unlikeliness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lives":{
"a history of a person's life":{
"examples":[
"a renowned historian who has written lives of several early presidents"
],
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"biographies",
"bios",
"memoirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"autobiographies",
"hagiographies",
"psychobiographies",
"pathographies",
"tell-alls",
"chronicles",
"histories",
"pasts",
"stories",
"obituaries",
"character sketches",
"profiles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"an appalling number of lives were lost in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"beings",
"birds",
"bodies",
"bods",
"characters",
"cookies",
"creatures",
"customers",
"devils",
"ducks",
"eggs",
"faces",
"fish",
"fishes",
"guys",
"heads",
"human beings",
"humans",
"individuals",
"men",
"mortals",
"parties",
"people",
"personages",
"scouts",
"slobs",
"sorts",
"souls",
"specimens",
"stiffs",
"things",
"wights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominids",
"homos",
"humanoids",
"brothers",
"brethren",
"fellowmen",
"fellows",
"neighbors",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"selves",
"somebodies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animals",
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"critters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"the Egyptian civilization had an extremely long life"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuances",
"dates",
"durations",
"life spans",
"lifetimes",
"runs",
"standings",
"times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spells",
"stretches",
"spans",
"tenures",
"terms",
"hitches",
"tours",
"turns",
"half-lifes",
"half-lives",
"ages",
"longevities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way people live at a particular time and place":{
"examples":[
"frontier life must have been rugged, exciting, challenging, and more than a little dangerous"
],
"synonyms":[
"civilizations",
"cultures",
"lifestyles",
"societies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"customs",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"folklores",
"heritages",
"legacies",
"traditions",
"subcultures",
"subsocieties",
"sub-societies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a home":{
"examples":[
"he lives next door to the hospital"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"resides"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lodges",
"settles",
"stays",
"frequents",
"hangs (at)",
"haunts",
"visits",
"cohabits",
"inhabits",
"occupies",
"peoples",
"populates",
"leases",
"rents",
"sublets",
"tenants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have life":{
"examples":[
"Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece"
],
"synonyms":[
"breathes",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abides",
"continues",
"endures",
"holds on",
"holds up",
"keeps (on)",
"kicks",
"lasts",
"leads",
"persists",
"rules",
"runs on",
"survives",
"moves",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappears",
"evaporates",
"vanishes",
"ceases",
"desists",
"discontinues",
"ends",
"quits",
"stops",
"abates",
"dies (down)",
"ebbs",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"wanes"
],
"antonyms":[
"departs",
"dies",
"expires",
"passes away",
"perishes",
"succumbs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lids":{
"a piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents":{
"examples":[
"I had to get a screwdriver to pry the lid off of the paint can"
],
"synonyms":[
"caps",
"covers",
"tops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"hoods",
"roofs",
"capsules",
"cases",
"casings",
"coverings",
"housings",
"jackets",
"sheaths",
"shells"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a covering for the head usually having a shaped crown":{
"examples":[
"as he left the field, the pitcher tipped his lid to the cheering crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"list (for)":{
"as in come (to) , ask":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bring",
"cost",
"fetch",
"go (for)",
"run",
"sell (for)",
"amount (to)",
"come (to)",
"total",
"ask",
"demand",
"command",
"exact"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liquefy":{
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"the steel liquefied in the intense heat of the forge"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquesce",
"flux",
"fuse",
"melt",
"run",
"thaw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"found",
"gutter",
"smelt",
"try",
"dissolve",
"render",
"soften",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clot",
"coagulate",
"congeal",
"gel",
"jell",
"jelly",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"harden",
"set",
"solidify"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lists (for)":{
"as in comes (to) , asks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brings",
"costs",
"fetches",
"goes (for)",
"runs",
"sells (for)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"totals",
"asks",
"demands",
"commands",
"exacts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lissome":{
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"the lissome actress's dance training is apparent in the way she moves on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"rattan is such a lissome material that it can be used for all manner of furniture and baskets"
],
"synonyms":[
"bendy",
"flexible",
"limber",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"light-headed":{
"having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down":{
"examples":[
"I always get light-headed after riding roller coasters, even when I'm standing still again"
],
"synonyms":[
"aswoon",
"dizzy",
"giddy",
"reeling",
"swimmy",
"vertiginous",
"whirling",
"woozy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faint",
"weak",
"addled",
"befuddled",
"confused",
"dazed",
"groggy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearheaded",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lacking in seriousness or maturity":{
"examples":[
"we couldn't concentrate on our work because we were feeling so light-headed"
],
"synonyms":[
"birdbrained",
"ditzy",
"ditsy",
"dizzy",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"frothy",
"futile",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-minded",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"yeasty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"inane",
"nonsensical",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"daft",
"fruity",
"exuberant",
"flippant",
"fluttery",
"giggly",
"happy",
"light",
"lighthearted",
"playful",
"sappy",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"melancholy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"thoughtful",
"dignified",
"heavy",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"severe",
"solemn",
"staid"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"unfrivolous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liniment":{
"a liquid that is rubbed on your skin to relieve pain or stiffness in your muscles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embrocation",
"lotion",
"ointment",
"potion",
"poultice",
"salve",
"cure",
"drug",
"medicament",
"medication",
"medicinal",
"medicine",
"pharmaceutical",
"physic",
"remedy",
"specific",
"cure-all",
"nostrum",
"panacea",
"botanical",
"patent medicine",
"prescription",
"prescription drug",
"cordial",
"potion",
"tonic",
"miracle drug",
"wonder drug",
"cap",
"capsule",
"pill",
"tablet",
"injection",
"shot",
"syrup",
"sirup",
"tincture",
"antibiotic",
"antiseptic",
"serum",
"cathartic",
"purgative"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libertarian":{
"as in nontotalitarian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nontotalitarian",
"representative",
"democratic",
"popular",
"republican",
"self-governing",
"self-ruling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondemocratic",
"undemocratic",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"monarchal",
"monarchial",
"monarchical",
"monarchic",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in libertine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"libertine",
"immoralist",
"misbehaver"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bluenose",
"moralist",
"Mrs. Grundy",
"nice nelly",
"prude",
"puritan",
"wowser",
"moralizer",
"goody-goody",
"Goody Two-shoes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"lined up":{
"as in ordered , organized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arranged",
"grouped",
"ordered",
"organized",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"mobilized",
"mustered",
"rallied",
"called (up)",
"convened",
"summoned",
"activated",
"collected",
"rounded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demobbed",
"demobilized",
"disarranged",
"disordered",
"disorganized",
"disrupted",
"disturbed",
"deactivated",
"dismissed",
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dissolved",
"split (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in registered , aligned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aligned",
"alined",
"registered",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled",
"accorded",
"agreed",
"answered",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"harmonized",
"jibed",
"rhymed",
"rimed",
"sorted",
"squared",
"tallied",
"went"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differed (from)",
"disagreed (with)",
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"nullified",
"clashed",
"conflicted",
"jarred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"links (with)":{
"as in connects (with) , attaches (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attaches (to)",
"communicates (with)",
"connects (with)",
"abuts",
"adjoins",
"borders (on)",
"butts (on or against)",
"flanks",
"fringes",
"joins",
"marches (with)",
"neighbors",
"skirts",
"touches",
"verges (on)",
"bounds",
"embraces",
"encircles",
"encloses",
"incloses",
"fences",
"lines",
"margins",
"rims",
"surrounds",
"contacts",
"converges",
"meets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liquors":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"you can't order liquor in a bar until you're 21 years old"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohols",
"aqua vitaes",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"bottles",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"inebriants",
"intoxicants",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"lushes",
"moonshines",
"potables",
"rums",
"sauces",
"spirits",
"stimulants",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aperitifs",
"bracers",
"chasers",
"digestifs",
"nightcaps",
"belts",
"loads",
"nips",
"pegs",
"pops",
"shooters",
"shots",
"slugs",
"snifters",
"snorts",
"tots",
"whets",
"cocktails",
"mixed drinks",
"ales",
"beers",
"brewages",
"brews",
"brewskis",
"home brews",
"malt liquors",
"microbrews",
"mums",
"nappies",
"meads",
"sakes",
"sakis",
"wines",
"barley-brees",
"barley-broos",
"brandies",
"gins",
"liqueurs",
"mao-tais",
"mescals",
"schnapps",
"tequilas",
"vodkas",
"whiskeys",
"whiskies",
"Dutch courages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"listening in (on)":{
"to listen to (another in private conversation)":{
"examples":[
"it's not polite to listen in on other people's private conversations"
],
"synonyms":[
"eavesdropping (on)",
"overhearing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bugging",
"tapping",
"wiretapping",
"monitoring",
"snooping",
"spying",
"surveilling",
"attending",
"hearing",
"hearkening",
"harkening",
"heeding",
"minding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"list price":{
"as in face value , unit price":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"face value",
"unit price",
"valuation",
"value",
"worth",
"charge",
"cost",
"fee",
"figure",
"price",
"rate",
"appraisal",
"assessment",
"estimate",
"estimation",
"evaluation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literalism":{
"realistic depiction in art and literature":{
"examples":[
"if audiences ever got the literalism they claim they want in movies, they'd be fast asleep by the second reel"
],
"synonyms":[
"naturalism",
"realism",
"representationalism",
"verisimilitude",
"verismo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"photo-realism",
"authenticity",
"grittiness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"life":{
"a history of a person's life":{
"examples":[
"a renowned historian who has written lives of several early presidents"
],
"synonyms":[
"bio",
"biography",
"memoir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"autobiography",
"hagiography",
"psychobiography",
"pathography",
"tell-all",
"chronicle",
"history",
"past",
"story",
"obituary",
"character sketch",
"profile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"an appalling number of lives were lost in the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"being",
"bird",
"bod",
"body",
"character",
"cookie",
"cooky",
"creature",
"customer",
"devil",
"duck",
"egg",
"face",
"fish",
"guy",
"head",
"human",
"human being",
"individual",
"man",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"personage",
"scout",
"slob",
"sort",
"soul",
"specimen",
"stiff",
"thing",
"wight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominid",
"homo",
"humanoid",
"brother",
"fellow",
"fellowman",
"neighbor",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"self",
"somebody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"critter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"even though he's 86 years old, he still shows a lot of life"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal spirits",
"animation",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"snappiness",
"spirit",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"spunk",
"spunkiness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"ardor",
"\u00e9lan",
"fervor",
"fire",
"passion",
"zeal",
"main",
"metal",
"mettle",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"stamina",
"strength",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"hardiness",
"huskiness",
"sturdiness",
"virility",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"disablement",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"infirmity",
"powerlessness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"weakness",
"enervation",
"exhaustion",
"inanition",
"prostration"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
]
},
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"the Egyptian civilization had an extremely long life"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuance",
"date",
"duration",
"life span",
"lifetime",
"run",
"standing",
"time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spell",
"stretch",
"span",
"tenure",
"term",
"hitch",
"tour",
"turn",
"half-life",
"age",
"longevity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way people live at a particular time and place":{
"examples":[
"frontier life must have been rugged, exciting, challenging, and more than a little dangerous"
],
"synonyms":[
"civilization",
"culture",
"lifestyle",
"society"
],
"near synonyms":[
"customs",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"folklore",
"heritage",
"legacy",
"tradition",
"subculture",
"subsociety"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lighthouses":{
"a tower that is built on or near the shore and that has a powerful illuminated signal to guide ships away from danger":{
"examples":[
"The sailor spotted the lighthouse in the distance."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamps",
"arc lights",
"candelabra",
"candelabrums",
"candelabras",
"candles",
"chandeliers",
"dark lanterns",
"electrics",
"flares",
"flashbulbs",
"flashcubes",
"flashes",
"flashlights",
"floodlights",
"fluorescent lamps",
"gaslights",
"gasoliers",
"girandoles",
"headlights",
"incandescent lamps",
"klieg lights",
"kleig lights",
"lanterns",
"light bulbs",
"lightings",
"sconces",
"spotlights",
"streetlights",
"sun lamps",
"beacons",
"illuminants",
"lamps",
"lights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liberated":{
"as in released , freed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"freed",
"released",
"disencumbered",
"free",
"quit",
"shut (of)",
"unburdened",
"unhampered",
"unimpeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"encumbered",
"handicapped",
"hindered",
"hobbled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"examples":[
"the animal rightists snuck into the laboratory in the middle of the night to liberate all of the monkeys"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharged",
"disenthralled",
"disenthraled",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"enlarged",
"freed",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"manumitted",
"released",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailed (out)",
"delivered",
"paroled",
"ransomed",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"saved",
"disembarrassed",
"disencumbered",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"extricated",
"unshackled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"shackled",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"committed",
"immured",
"imprisoned",
"incarcerated",
"interned",
"jailed",
"locked (up)",
"conquered",
"enslaved",
"subdued",
"subjugated"
],
"antonyms":[
"bound",
"confined",
"enchained",
"fettered",
"restrained"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"we were liberated from our financial woes when we hit the grand prize in the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleared",
"disembarrassed",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"extricated",
"freed",
"released",
"untangled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"redeemed",
"rescued",
"saved",
"disburdened",
"disencumbered",
"unburdened",
"unraveled",
"unsnarled",
"untied",
"untwined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocked",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"burdened",
"encumbered",
"loaded",
"weighed"
],
"antonyms":[
"embroiled",
"entangled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"likens":{
"to describe as similar":{
"examples":[
"he generally likened a root canal to some horrible form of torture"
],
"synonyms":[
"analogizes",
"assimilates",
"brackets",
"compares",
"equates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"connects",
"couples",
"links",
"alludes",
"refers",
"relates",
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contrasts"
]
},
"to regard or represent as equal or comparable":{
"examples":[
"I think that we can liken the two pianists, at least in terms of natural talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"compares",
"equates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"associates",
"connects",
"correlates",
"identifies",
"joins",
"links",
"matches",
"relates",
"groups",
"lumps (together)",
"assorts",
"categorizes",
"classes",
"classifies",
"grades",
"groups",
"sorts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differentiates",
"discerns",
"discriminates",
"distinguishes",
"separates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"listed":{
"as in itemized , enumerated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enumerated",
"inventoried",
"itemized",
"numerated",
"blow-by-blow",
"circumstantial",
"detailed",
"elaborate",
"full",
"minute",
"particular",
"particularized",
"thorough",
"delineated",
"specific",
"specified",
"abundant",
"copious",
"comprehensive",
"encyclopedic",
"exhausting",
"exhaustive",
"inclusionary",
"inclusive",
"in-depth",
"omnibus",
"panoramic",
"thoroughgoing",
"accurate",
"correct",
"exact",
"precise",
"complete",
"entire",
"replete",
"distinct",
"explicit",
"sharp",
"mapped (out)",
"descriptive",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"picturesque",
"vivid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compendious",
"summary",
"brief",
"compact",
"concise",
"crisp",
"pithy",
"short",
"succinct",
"terse",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"pruned",
"shortened",
"trimmed",
"ambiguous",
"indeterminate",
"nebulous",
"nondescript",
"sketchy",
"vague",
"bird's-eye",
"broad",
"general",
"nonspecific",
"overall",
"unspecified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in inclined , angled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped",
"craggy",
"hillocky",
"hilly",
"mountainous",
"scarped",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"abrupt",
"bold",
"precipitous",
"sheer",
"steep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"gentle",
"gradual",
"moderate",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"unruffled",
"unwrinkled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a list of":{
"examples":[
"the coach listed the people on the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"enumerated",
"inventoried",
"itemized",
"numerated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counted",
"marked",
"numbered",
"checked (off)",
"ticked (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"examples":[
"her number isn't listed in the phone book"
],
"synonyms":[
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"enrolled",
"entered",
"indexed",
"inscribed",
"put down",
"recorded",
"registered",
"scheduled",
"slated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booked",
"carded",
"filed",
"noted",
"classified",
"compiled",
"tabulated",
"tallied",
"rescheduled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deleted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member":{
"examples":[
"our grandfather is listed among the war dead honored by the memorial"
],
"synonyms":[
"enrolled",
"inscribed",
"matriculated",
"registered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enlisted",
"impaneled",
"impanelled",
"empaneled",
"empanelled",
"inducted",
"conscripted",
"drafted",
"mustered",
"wait-listed",
"booked",
"scheduled",
"checked in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checked off",
"excluded",
"expelled",
"expunged",
"rejected",
"omitted",
"overlooked"
],
"antonyms":[
"delisted"
]
},
"to specify one after another":{
"examples":[
"do I need to list all of the reasons why your idea won't work?"
],
"synonyms":[
"detailed",
"enumerated",
"itemized",
"numerated",
"recited",
"reeled off",
"rehearsed",
"ticked (off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlined",
"tabulated",
"tallied",
"cataloged",
"catalogued",
"inventoried",
"charted",
"diagrammed",
"diagramed",
"graphed",
"calculated",
"computed",
"estimated",
"figured",
"reckoned",
"cited",
"mentioned",
"named"
],
"near antonyms":[
"generalized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the sudden shift of the load in the hull listed the ship badly"
],
"synonyms":[
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"leaned",
"pitched",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banked",
"bent",
"deviated",
"swerved",
"veered",
"declined",
"descended",
"reclined",
"retreated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"straightened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"lickerishness":{
"as in salaciousness , lewdness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"libidinousness",
"licentiousness",
"randiness",
"salaciousness",
"wantonness",
"erotomania",
"nymphomania",
"satyriasis",
"ardor",
"concupiscence",
"eros",
"eroticism",
"horniness",
"itch",
"lust",
"lustfulness",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frigidity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lilt":{
"the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern":{
"examples":[
"There was a charming lilt to her voice.",
"a tune with a lilt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"movement",
"sway",
"swing",
"beat",
"cadence",
"measure",
"meter",
"rhythm",
"accent",
"accentuation",
"emphasis",
"stress",
"inflection",
"intonation",
"backbeat",
"drum",
"throb",
"hexameter",
"pentameter",
"tetrameter",
"trimeter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in croon , warble":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"belt",
"croon",
"harmonize",
"hum",
"quaver",
"scat",
"sharp",
"slur",
"trill",
"troll",
"warble",
"yodel",
"carol",
"chant",
"descant",
"sing",
"vocalize",
"serenade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liquoring (up)":{
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"the men liquored up at the roadhouse and then thought it would be a good idea to go hunting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibbing",
"boozing",
"drinking",
"guzzling",
"lushing (up)",
"soaking",
"tippling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"imbibing",
"nipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lighting":{
"as in candle , spotlight":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamp",
"arc light",
"candelabra",
"candelabrum",
"candle",
"chandelier",
"dark lantern",
"flare",
"flash",
"flashbulb",
"flashcube",
"flashlight",
"floodlight",
"fluorescent lamp",
"gaslight",
"gasolier",
"girandole",
"headlight",
"incandescent lamp",
"klieg light",
"kleig light",
"lantern",
"light bulb",
"lighthouse",
"sconce",
"spotlight",
"streetlight",
"sun lamp",
"beacon",
"illuminant",
"lamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs"
],
"synonyms":[
"burning",
"enkindling",
"firing",
"igniting",
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"enflaming",
"kindling",
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"charring",
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"ashing",
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"incinerating",
"kilning",
"setting off",
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"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
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"radiating",
"scalding",
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"searing",
"reigniting",
"rekindling",
"relighting",
"banking",
"stoking"
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"suffocating",
"stamping (out)",
"blackening",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
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"illuming",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening"
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"beaming",
"beating (down)",
"radiating",
"shining",
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"haloing",
"floodlighting",
"highlighting",
"spotlighting",
"blazing",
"burning",
"firing",
"flaming",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"igniting",
"incinerating",
"kindling",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling",
"gleaming",
"glistening",
"glittering"
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"dulling",
"obscuring",
"covering",
"shrouding",
"veiling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
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"darkening",
"obfuscating"
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"landing",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling",
"touching down"
],
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"belly-landing",
"crash-landing"
],
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"ascending",
"climbing",
"rising",
"floating",
"flying",
"gliding",
"planing",
"soaring",
"winging",
"hanging",
"hovering"
],
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"taking off"
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"he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street"
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"disembarking",
"dismounting",
"getting down"
],
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"detraining"
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"climbing (aboard)",
"getting in",
"mounting",
"enplaning",
"emplaning",
"entraining"
],
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"embarking"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"lyrists",
"bards",
"minstrels",
"muses",
"poetasters",
"poets",
"rhymesters",
"rimesters",
"versifiers",
"cocomposers",
"co-composers",
"composers",
"songsmiths",
"songwriters",
"tunesmiths",
"epigrammatists",
"epigrammatizers",
"rhymers",
"sonneteers",
"poetesses",
"poets laureate",
"poet laureates",
"scops",
"troubadours",
"rhapsodes",
"rhapsodists"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"dead",
"deadness",
"death",
"grave",
"nothingness",
"sleep"
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"mortality"
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"life span",
"lifetime"
],
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"existence",
"life"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"livestock":{
"farm animals (such as cows, horses, and pigs) that are kept, raised, and used by people":{
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"a market where livestock are bought and sold"
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"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"creature",
"critter",
"blastie",
"varmint",
"vermin",
"biped",
"quadruped",
"carnivore",
"herbivore",
"insectivore",
"invertebrate",
"vertebrate",
"domestic animal",
"pet",
"feral"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"lining up":{
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"alining",
"alignment",
"alinement",
"design",
"layout",
"pattern",
"structure",
"system",
"arrangement",
"array",
"disposal",
"disposition",
"distribution",
"order",
"ordering",
"orientation",
"sequence",
"setup",
"continuity",
"precedence",
"priority",
"chain",
"procession",
"progression",
"succession",
"series"
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"confusion",
"disorder",
"disorganization",
"disruption",
"upset",
"disconnection",
"disjointedness"
],
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"arranging",
"grouping",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"mobilizing",
"mustering",
"rallying",
"calling (up)",
"convening",
"summoning",
"activating",
"collecting",
"rounding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demobbing",
"demobilizing",
"disarranging",
"disordering",
"disorganizing",
"disrupting",
"disturbing",
"deactivating",
"dismissing",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dissolving",
"splitting (up)"
],
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"as in registering , aligning":{
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"aligning",
"alining",
"registering",
"equaling",
"equalling",
"matching",
"paralleling",
"according",
"agreeing",
"answering",
"checking",
"chording",
"cohering",
"coinciding",
"comporting",
"conforming",
"consisting",
"corresponding",
"dovetailing",
"fitting",
"going",
"harmonizing",
"jibing",
"rhyming",
"riming",
"sorting",
"squaring",
"tallying"
],
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"differing (from)",
"disagreeing (with)",
"contradicting",
"disputing",
"gainsaying",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"clashing",
"conflicting",
"jarring"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lit (up)":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up"
],
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"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litany":{
"a long stated list of things one after another":{
"examples":[
"Nobody wants to deal with a coworker who repeats the same litany of complaints day after day."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"enumeration",
"recital",
"recitation",
"iteration",
"repetition",
"account",
"narration",
"report",
"story",
"catalog",
"checklist",
"list",
"listing",
"index",
"inventory"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an address to a deity or religious figure":{
"examples":[
"In Catholic tradition, the Litany of the Saints is commonly sung at Mass the night before Easter."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"collect",
"grace",
"invocation",
"requiescat",
"thanksgiving",
"prayer",
"orison",
"evensong",
"matins",
"vespers",
"appeal",
"begging",
"beseeching",
"entreaty",
"imploring",
"petition",
"pleading",
"request",
"soliciting",
"suit",
"supplication"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightplanes":{
"as in biplanes , tilt-rotors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"biplanes",
"tilt-rotors",
"towplanes",
"trimotors",
"triplanes",
"amphibians",
"seaplanes",
"gliders",
"sailplanes",
"bombers",
"fighters",
"jump jets",
"torpedo bombers",
"warplanes",
"aerospace planes",
"rocket planes",
"jetliners",
"jets",
"superjets",
"supersonics",
"supersonic transports",
"trijets",
"turbojets",
"turboprops",
"freighters",
"tankers",
"aerodynes",
"aircraft",
"air-cushion vehicles",
"airframes",
"airships",
"ships",
"tractors",
"airliners",
"air taxis",
"liners",
"aeroplanes",
"airplanes",
"planes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light-fingered":{
"as in deft , adroit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful",
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"lineal":{
"as in straight , linear":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"linear",
"right",
"straight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"helical",
"involute",
"screwlike",
"spiral",
"winding",
"circular",
"curling",
"curving",
"swirly",
"twisting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liar":{
"a person who tells lies":{
"examples":[
"she knew he was a liar when he started claiming that he was an astronaut"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricator",
"fabulist",
"fibber",
"prevaricator",
"storyteller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaggerator",
"mythomaniac",
"calumniator",
"defamer",
"libeler",
"libelist",
"slanderer",
"perjurer",
"distorter",
"falsifier",
"equivocator",
"palterer",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"charlatan",
"cheat",
"cheater",
"counterfeiter",
"cozener",
"deceiver",
"defrauder",
"dissembler",
"dissimulator",
"double-dealer",
"fraud",
"hustler",
"knave",
"mountebank",
"operator",
"pretender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"like as not":{
"by reasonable assumption":{
"examples":[
"As like as not they'll have eaten by the time we arrive."
],
"synonyms":[
"assumably",
"doubtless",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"liege man":{
"one who follows the opinions or teachings of another":{
"examples":[
"a highly influential anthropologist whose liege men can now be found in a score of major universities"
],
"synonyms":[
"acolyte",
"adherent",
"convert",
"disciple",
"epigone",
"follower",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votarist",
"votary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apostle",
"missionary",
"proselytizer",
"soldier",
"faithful",
"loyalist",
"advocate",
"backer",
"champion",
"supporter",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9",
"scholar",
"student",
"ideologist",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"sectarian",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"apparatchik",
"camp follower",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"hanger-on",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lickspittle",
"minion",
"myrmidon",
"satellite",
"stooge",
"sycophant",
"toady",
"yes-man"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apostate",
"defector",
"renegade",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"antonyms":[
"coryphaeus",
"leader"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lived":{
"to have a home":{
"examples":[
"he lives next door to the hospital"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"resided"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lodged",
"settled",
"stayed",
"frequented",
"haunted",
"hung (at)",
"hanged (at)",
"visited",
"cohabited",
"inhabited",
"occupied",
"peopled",
"populated",
"leased",
"rented",
"sublet",
"tenanted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have life":{
"examples":[
"Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece"
],
"synonyms":[
"breathed",
"existed",
"subsisted",
"was"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"continued",
"endured",
"held on",
"held up",
"kept (on)",
"kicked",
"lasted",
"led",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"ruled",
"survived",
"moved",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappeared",
"evaporated",
"vanished",
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"ended",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"abated",
"died (down)",
"ebbed",
"let up",
"moderated",
"subsided",
"waned"
],
"antonyms":[
"departed",
"died",
"expired",
"passed away",
"perished",
"succumbed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liver sausages":{
"as in hot dogs , Vienna sausages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolognas",
"frankfurters",
"franks",
"hot dogs",
"kielbasas",
"kielbasy",
"knockwursts",
"knackwursts",
"liverwursts",
"pepperonis",
"salamis",
"Vienna sausages",
"weenies",
"wieners",
"weiners",
"wienerwursts",
"bangers",
"links",
"sausages",
"wursts",
"blood sausages",
"blood puddings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lifeworks":{
"as in calls":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calls",
"callings",
"employments",
"games",
"lays",
"lines",
"occupations",
"professions",
"trades",
"vocations",
"works",
"businesses",
"enterprises",
"fields",
"livelihoods",
"livings",
"m\u00e9tiers",
"metiers",
"rackets",
"assignments",
"engagements",
"gigs",
"missions",
"arts",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"handicrafts",
"appointments",
"berths",
"billets",
"offices",
"places",
"positions",
"posts",
"situations",
"duties",
"functions",
"jobs",
"loads",
"tasks",
"workloads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocations",
"hobbies",
"pursuits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liquidation":{
"as in removal , elimination":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elimination",
"eradication",
"erasure",
"removal",
"abatement",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"abrogation",
"annulment",
"avoidance",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"defeasance",
"dissolution",
"invalidation",
"negation",
"nullification",
"quashing",
"repeal",
"rescindment",
"voiding",
"abortion",
"calling off",
"recall",
"countermand",
"override",
"overruling",
"overturn",
"veto",
"retraction",
"reversal",
"revocation",
"suspension",
"withdrawal",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbiddance",
"outlawing",
"prohibition",
"disallowance",
"dismissal",
"rejection"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enactment",
"legislation",
"establishment",
"founding",
"institution",
"formalization",
"legalization",
"legitimation",
"legitimization",
"validation",
"passing",
"ratification",
"approval",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"permission",
"sanctioning",
"commandment",
"decreeing",
"mandating",
"ordering",
"prescription"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"libertinism":{
"a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior":{
"examples":[
"a group of urban bohemians who were better known for their libertinism than for their intellectualism"
],
"synonyms":[
"abjection",
"corruption",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"debauchery",
"decadence",
"decadency",
"degeneracy",
"degenerateness",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"demoralization",
"depravity",
"dissipatedness",
"dissipation",
"dissoluteness",
"libertinage",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"rakishness",
"turpitude"
],
"near synonyms":[
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"filth",
"gangrene",
"rot",
"squalor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goodness",
"morality",
"righteousness",
"virtue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society":{
"examples":[
"even by the standards of ancient Rome, Caligula's reign was marked by a libertinism that went beyond the pale"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"licentiousness",
"profligacy",
"sin",
"vice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"depravedness",
"dissoluteness",
"dissolution",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lechery",
"lewdness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"wantonness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"criminality",
"reprehensibleness",
"baseness",
"despicableness",
"dirtiness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"lousiness",
"miserableness",
"wretchedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"pureness",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liberalness":{
"as in liberalism , progressivism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"liberalism",
"open-mindedness",
"progressivism",
"neoliberalism",
"extremism",
"radicalism",
"nonconformism",
"nonconformity",
"unconventionalism",
"unorthodoxy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservatism",
"conservativeness",
"die-hardism",
"reactionaryism",
"traditionalism",
"ultraconservatism",
"neoconservatism",
"Toryism",
"bigotry",
"illiberalism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limpidity":{
"the state or quality of being easily seen through":{
"examples":[
"Crystal Lake was obviously named for the limpidity of its water"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarity",
"clearness",
"limpidness",
"lucency",
"translucence",
"translucency",
"transparency"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"effulgence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"definition",
"resolution",
"sharpness",
"apparentness",
"observability",
"visibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"milkiness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloudiness",
"opacity",
"opaqueness",
"turbidity",
"turbidness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lists":{
"a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system":{
"examples":[
"we put eggs, sour cream, tomatoes, roast beef, and cheddar cheese on the shopping list"
],
"synonyms":[
"canons",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"checklists",
"listings",
"menus",
"registers",
"registries",
"roll calls",
"rolls",
"rosters",
"schedules",
"tables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agendas",
"bibliographies",
"catalogues raisonn\u00e9s",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compilations",
"directories",
"dockets",
"enumerations",
"glossaries",
"indexes",
"indices",
"inventories",
"manifests",
"payrolls",
"calendars",
"chronologies",
"timetables"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the extreme list of the racing yacht made it hard for the untried crew to keep their balance"
],
"synonyms":[
"anglings",
"bends",
"cocks",
"inclinations",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"turns",
"twists",
"veers",
"bows",
"dips",
"nods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a long narrow piece of material":{
"examples":[
"shave a thin list from the side of the board"
],
"synonyms":[
"ribbons",
"slips",
"strips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slats",
"bandages",
"bands",
"belts",
"bindings",
"girths",
"straps",
"swatches",
"swaths",
"swathes",
"tapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a list of":{
"examples":[
"the coach listed the people on the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"enumerates",
"inventories",
"itemizes",
"numerates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counts",
"marks",
"numbers",
"checks (off)",
"ticks (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"examples":[
"her number isn't listed in the phone book"
],
"synonyms":[
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"enters",
"indexes",
"inscribes",
"puts down",
"records",
"registers",
"schedules",
"slates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"books",
"cards",
"files",
"notes",
"classifies",
"compiles",
"tabulates",
"tallies",
"reschedules"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deletes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member":{
"examples":[
"our grandfather is listed among the war dead honored by the memorial"
],
"synonyms":[
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"inscribes",
"matriculates",
"registers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enlists",
"impanels",
"inducts",
"conscripts",
"drafts",
"musters",
"wait-lists",
"books",
"schedules",
"checks in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"checks off",
"excludes",
"expels",
"expunges",
"rejects",
"omits",
"overlooks"
],
"antonyms":[
"delists"
]
},
"to specify one after another":{
"examples":[
"do I need to list all of the reasons why your idea won't work?"
],
"synonyms":[
"details",
"enumerates",
"itemizes",
"numerates",
"recites",
"reels off",
"rehearses",
"ticks (off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlines",
"tabulates",
"tallies",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"inventories",
"charts",
"diagrams",
"graphs",
"calculates",
"computes",
"estimates",
"figures",
"reckons",
"cites",
"mentions",
"names"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or cause to be at an angle":{
"examples":[
"the sudden shift of the load in the hull listed the ship badly"
],
"synonyms":[
"angles",
"cants",
"cocks",
"heels",
"inclines",
"leans",
"pitches",
"slants",
"slopes",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bends",
"deviates",
"swerves",
"veers",
"declines",
"descends",
"reclines",
"retreats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"levels",
"straightens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"light-year":{
"a huge physical or conceptual distance":{
"examples":[
"my sister and I are close in age, but personality-wise, there are light-years between us"
],
"synonyms":[
"galaxy",
"world"
],
"near synonyms":[
"country mile",
"long haul",
"way",
"infinity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hop, skip, and jump",
"shouting distance",
"stone's throw",
"striking distance",
"hair",
"hairbreadth",
"hairsbreadth",
"inch"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light (upon)":{
"as in tumble (to) , hit (upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"reencounter",
"remeet",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"accost",
"confront",
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lightheartedly":{
"as in blithely , breezily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"sunnily",
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"happily",
"heartily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"smilingly",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily",
"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"list prices":{
"as in face values , unit prices":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"face values",
"unit prices",
"valuations",
"values",
"worths",
"charges",
"costs",
"fees",
"figures",
"prices",
"rates",
"appraisals",
"assessments",
"estimates",
"estimations",
"evaluations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"life-or-death":{
"as in decisive , weighty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decisive",
"weighty",
"critical",
"crucial",
"key",
"pivotal",
"vital",
"basic",
"elementary",
"fundamental",
"essential",
"indispensable",
"instrumental",
"necessary",
"requisite",
"pressing",
"urgent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"insignificant",
"minor",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"limitation":{
"a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go":{
"examples":[
"the bridge has a weight limitation that bars heavy trucks from crossing it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"boundary",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"confines",
"end",
"extent",
"limit",
"line",
"termination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extremity",
"fag end",
"terminus",
"border",
"brim",
"edge",
"margin",
"rim",
"verge",
"outside",
"bar",
"barrier",
"fence",
"hedge",
"restraint",
"stop",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that limits one's freedom of action or choice":{
"examples":[
"the state has some fairly strict limitations on the sale and use of alcoholic beverages"
],
"synonyms":[
"check",
"circumscription",
"condition",
"constraint",
"curb",
"fetter",
"restraint",
"restriction",
"stricture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exception",
"proviso",
"qualification",
"reservation",
"stipulation",
"strings",
"ban",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freedom",
"latitude"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or practice of keeping something (as an activity) within certain boundaries":{
"examples":[
"the limitation on the number of vehicles allowed on the island does not sit well with year-round residents"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumscription",
"confinement",
"rein",
"restriction",
"stint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constraint",
"restraint",
"containment",
"isolation",
"segregation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lit (upon)":{
"as in tumbled (to) , hit (upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"crisscrossed",
"crossed",
"passed",
"reencountered",
"re-encountered",
"remet",
"collided (with)",
"crashed (into)",
"faced",
"greeted",
"saluted",
"accosted",
"confronted",
"caught",
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"happened (upon)",
"met",
"stumbled (upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook",
"shunned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lineaments":{
"as in appearance , presence":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appearance",
"aspect",
"features",
"looks",
"mien",
"presence",
"countenance",
"face",
"kisser",
"mug",
"pan",
"puss",
"visage",
"expression",
"physiognomy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"little bitty":{
"very small in size":{
"examples":[
"all that was left when I finally got to the dessert table was one little bitty piece of pie"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomic",
"bitsy",
"bitty",
"infinitesimal",
"itty-bitty",
"itsy-bitsy",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baby",
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"elfin",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"micro",
"mini",
"minikin",
"model",
"petite",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"insignificant",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"scrubby",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"monolithic",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"cavernous",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"vast",
"vasty",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"immense",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"livens (up)":{
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the bandleader tried to liven up the party by playing more energetic music so people would dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"amps (up)",
"animates",
"braces",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"fillips",
"fires",
"gingers (up)",
"invigorates",
"jazzes (up)",
"juices up",
"jump-starts",
"peps (up)",
"quickens",
"spikes",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"vivifies",
"zips (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"raises",
"rouses",
"stirs",
"wakes (up)",
"activates",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"motivates",
"motives",
"moves",
"propels",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"galvanizes",
"enkindles",
"excites",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"instigates",
"kindles",
"provokes",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"triggers",
"turns on",
"whips (up)",
"abets",
"boosts",
"buoys",
"cheers",
"emboldens",
"fortifies",
"heartens",
"infuses",
"inspires",
"lifts",
"rallies",
"steels",
"strengthens",
"reactivates",
"reanimates",
"reawakens",
"reawakes",
"recharges",
"recreates",
"reenergizes",
"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"reinvigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"rekindles",
"renews",
"restimulates",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burns out",
"debilitates",
"does in",
"drains",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"harasses",
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"saps",
"tuckers (out)",
"undermines",
"washes out",
"weakens",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out",
"checks",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"jades",
"quells",
"quenches",
"represses",
"restrains",
"slows",
"stills",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dampens",
"damps",
"deadens",
"dulls",
"kills"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"linguistic form":{
"as in morpheme , monosyllable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"monosyllable",
"morpheme",
"speech form",
"expression",
"term",
"word",
"polysyllable",
"collocation",
"idiom",
"locution",
"phrase",
"archaism",
"coinage",
"colloquialism",
"euphemism",
"loanword",
"modernism",
"neologism",
"vernacularism"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"licentiates":{
"as in licensees , permittees":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assignees",
"licensees",
"permittees",
"candidates",
"inductees",
"appointees",
"designees",
"nominees",
"selectees",
"agents",
"delegatees",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"choices",
"draftees",
"endorsees",
"picks",
"selections"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lighten":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"the patient lightened when he heard the disease responds well to treatment"
],
"synonyms":[
"brighten",
"buck up",
"cheer (up)",
"look up",
"perk (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoice",
"liven (up)",
"revive",
"beam",
"glow",
"radiate",
"sparkle",
"encourage",
"gladden",
"hearten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despair",
"despond",
"brood",
"fret",
"mope"
],
"antonyms":[
"darken",
"sadden"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the room was gradually lightened by the rising sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"beacon",
"emblaze",
"illume",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"light"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brighten",
"beam",
"beat (down)",
"radiate",
"shine",
"enhalo",
"halo",
"floodlight",
"highlight",
"spotlight",
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"ignite",
"incinerate",
"kindle",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle",
"gleam",
"glisten",
"glitter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure",
"cover",
"shroud",
"veil",
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"obfuscate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"listens (to)":{
"to take notice of and be guided by":{
"examples":[
"you'd better listen to my advice!"
],
"synonyms":[
"follows",
"heeds",
"minds",
"notes",
"observes",
"regards",
"watches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considers",
"contemplates",
"mulls",
"ponders",
"weighs",
"complies (with)",
"conforms (to)",
"keeps",
"obeys",
"respects",
"attends (to)",
"harks (to)",
"hearkens (to)",
"hears",
"marks",
"notices",
"sees"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"discounts",
"dismisses",
"glosses (over)",
"glozes (over)",
"neglects",
"passes over",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"scorns",
"shrugs off",
"defies",
"flouts",
"slights",
"snubs"
],
"antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"tunes out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lines up":{
"as in orders , organizes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arranges",
"groups",
"orders",
"organizes",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"mobilizes",
"musters",
"rallies",
"calls (up)",
"convenes",
"summons",
"activates",
"collects",
"rounds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demobilizes",
"demobs",
"disarranges",
"disorders",
"disorganizes",
"disrupts",
"disturbs",
"deactivates",
"dismisses",
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"dissolves",
"splits (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in registers , aligns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aligns",
"alines",
"registers",
"equals",
"matches",
"parallels",
"accords",
"agrees",
"answers",
"checks",
"chords",
"coheres",
"coincides",
"comports",
"conforms",
"consists",
"corresponds",
"dovetails",
"fits",
"goes",
"harmonizes",
"jibes",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"sorts",
"squares",
"tallies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differs (from)",
"disagrees (with)",
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"nullifies",
"clashes",
"conflicts",
"jars"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"library pastes":{
"as in pastes , epoxy resins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"epoxies",
"epoxy resins",
"mucilages",
"pastes",
"superglues",
"water glasses",
"adhesives",
"bonds",
"cements",
"glues",
"sizes",
"dope",
"goos",
"gums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"light-footed":{
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"the light-footed cat crept silently through the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"literary":{
"suggestive of the vocabulary used in books":{
"examples":[
"the novel's dialogue is a little too literary in flavor to be entirely convincing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookish",
"erudite",
"learned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"academic",
"academical",
"donnish",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"scholastic",
"belletristic",
"belle-lettristic",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"educated",
"schooled",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"high-flown",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"stately",
"towering",
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"pompous",
"stilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chatty",
"conversational",
"familiar",
"informal",
"slangy",
"illiterate"
],
"antonyms":[
"colloquial",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liberate":{
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"examples":[
"the animal rightists snuck into the laboratory in the middle of the night to liberate all of the monkeys"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharge",
"disenthrall",
"disenthral",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"enlarge",
"free",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bail (out)",
"deliver",
"parole",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save",
"disembarrass",
"disencumber",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"unshackle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"commit",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"lock (up)",
"conquer",
"enslave",
"subdue",
"subjugate"
],
"antonyms":[
"bind",
"confine",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"restrain"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"we were liberated from our financial woes when we hit the grand prize in the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear",
"disembarrass",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"free",
"release",
"untangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deliver",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save",
"disburden",
"disencumber",
"unburden",
"unravel",
"unsnarl",
"untie",
"untwine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"block",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"burden",
"encumber",
"load",
"weigh"
],
"antonyms":[
"embroil",
"entangle"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lighter":{
"as in barge , keel":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"narrow boat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"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",
"cockleshell",
"tub",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"licencing":{
"as in license , consent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"allowing",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"consent",
"granting",
"leave",
"letting",
"license",
"licence",
"permission",
"permitting",
"sanction",
"sanctioning",
"sufferance",
"tolerance",
"toleration",
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"imprimatur",
"OK",
"okay",
"prescription",
"enabling",
"encouragement",
"facilitation",
"promotion",
"support",
"compliance",
"obedience",
"submission",
"accession",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"embargo",
"interdict",
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"veto",
"no-no",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"constraint",
"inhibition",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give official or legal power to":{
"examples":[
"a state statute licenses county sheriffs to choose their own deputies"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrediting",
"authorizing",
"certifying",
"chartering",
"commissioning",
"empowering",
"enabling",
"investing",
"qualifying",
"vesting",
"warranting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approving",
"clearing",
"credentialing",
"credentialling",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"affirming",
"confirming",
"validating",
"inaugurating",
"inducting",
"initiating",
"installing",
"instating",
"swearing in",
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"enfranchising",
"entitling",
"privileging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banning",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disbarring",
"discouraging",
"disenfranchising",
"disfranchising",
"excluding",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"preventing",
"shutting out",
"stopping",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"interdicting",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"vetoing"
],
"antonyms":[
"disqualifying"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"linked":{
"as in associated , connected":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"associated",
"collateral",
"connected",
"related",
"contemporaneous",
"contemporary",
"simultaneous",
"synchronous",
"consequent",
"resultant",
"resulting",
"accompanying",
"attendant",
"attending",
"coexistent",
"coexisting",
"coincident",
"coincidental",
"concomitant",
"concurrent",
"ensuing",
"following",
"subsequent",
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"freak",
"incident",
"incidental"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unassociated",
"unconnected",
"unrelated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
"examples":[
"she linked the flowers together to form a long chain"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenated",
"chained",
"compounded",
"concatenated",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"hitched",
"hooked",
"interconnected",
"interlinked",
"joined",
"yoked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"articulated",
"dovetailed",
"integrated",
"interlocked",
"intermeshed",
"corded",
"strung",
"wired",
"cemented",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"fused",
"united",
"welded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"divided",
"parted",
"split",
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"ruptured",
"severed",
"sundered"
],
"antonyms":[
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"disunited",
"separated",
"unchained",
"uncoupled",
"unhitched",
"unlinked",
"unyoked"
]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"examples":[
"since childhood I have always linked trips to the beach with the discomforts of sunburn and sand in my clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"connected",
"correlated",
"identified",
"related"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compared",
"equated",
"likened",
"grouped",
"joined",
"lumped (together)",
"tied (together)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrasted",
"differentiated",
"discriminated",
"distinguished",
"separated",
"set off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"linns":{
"a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage":{
"examples":[
"climb to the cairn above the loch, and from there you'll get a broad view of the linn"
],
"synonyms":[
"canyons",
"ca\u00f1ons",
"cols",
"couloirs",
"defiles",
"flumes",
"gaps",
"gills",
"gorges",
"gulches",
"gulfs",
"kloofs",
"notches",
"passes",
"ravines",
"saddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysses",
"chasms",
"cirques",
"clefts",
"crevasses",
"crevices",
"cwms",
"fissures",
"combes",
"coombes",
"coombs",
"dales",
"dells",
"glens",
"hollows",
"shut-ins",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"floodplains",
"kettles",
"arroyos",
"barrancas",
"barrancos",
"coulees",
"draws",
"gullies",
"gulleys",
"gutters",
"nullahs",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"wadis",
"washes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limped":{
"to walk while favoring one leg":{
"examples":[
"she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler"
],
"synonyms":[
"halted",
"hobbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hitched",
"blundered",
"faltered",
"floundered",
"lurched",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"doddered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breezed",
"glided",
"sailed"
],
"antonyms":[
"strode"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"the damaged boat limped back into port"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bumbled",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"struggled",
"stumbled",
"trudged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"wallowed",
"weltered",
"faltered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"fumbled",
"muddled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasted",
"flew",
"glided",
"kilted",
"sailed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to stop limping if we are ever going to make our destination in time"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"creaked (along)",
"crept",
"dragged",
"inched",
"nosed",
"oozed",
"plodded",
"poked",
"slouched",
"snailed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lumbered",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"tramped",
"trudged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floated",
"glided",
"sailed",
"hurried",
"tore"
],
"antonyms":[
"flew",
"raced",
"sped",
"speeded",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"littorals":{
"as in coasts , shorelines":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coastlands",
"coastlines",
"coasts",
"shorelines",
"shores",
"seaboards",
"seacoasts",
"seashores",
"seasides",
"beaches",
"beachfronts",
"sands",
"strands",
"banks",
"riverbanks",
"riverfronts",
"riversides",
"oceanfronts",
"shorefronts",
"waterfronts",
"lidos",
"plages",
"esplanades"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liars":{
"a person who tells lies":{
"examples":[
"she knew he was a liar when he started claiming that he was an astronaut"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricators",
"fabulists",
"fibbers",
"prevaricators",
"storytellers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaggerators",
"mythomaniacs",
"calumniators",
"defamers",
"libelers",
"libelists",
"slanderers",
"perjurers",
"distorters",
"falsifiers",
"equivocators",
"palterers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"talebearers",
"charlatans",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"counterfeiters",
"cozeners",
"deceivers",
"defrauders",
"dissemblers",
"dissimulators",
"double-dealers",
"frauds",
"hustlers",
"knaves",
"mountebanks",
"operators",
"pretenders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lithe":{
"able to bend easily without breaking":{
"examples":[
"the lithe blade of a fencing foil"
],
"synonyms":[
"bendy",
"flexible",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithesome",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"willowy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"elastic",
"fluid",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"variable",
"yielding",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"limp",
"semiflexible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"nonmalleable",
"unyielding",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"fragile"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stiffened"
]
},
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"lithe dancers glided across the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
"examples":[
"she has the lithe , sinewy body of a distance runner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bony",
"boney",
"fatless",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"liquifies":{
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"the steel liquefied in the intense heat of the forge"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquesces",
"fluxes",
"fuses",
"melts",
"runs",
"thaws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founds",
"gutters",
"tries",
"dissolves",
"renders",
"softens",
"thins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"jellies",
"jells",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardens",
"sets",
"solidifies"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"limned":{
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"he limned the scene in the courtroom so perfectly I could practically see it"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"depicted",
"described",
"drew",
"imaged",
"painted",
"pictured",
"portrayed",
"rendered",
"set out",
"sketched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterized",
"defined",
"labeled",
"labelled",
"qualified",
"represented",
"demonstrated",
"illustrated",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported",
"told",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"showed",
"hinted",
"suggested",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"traced",
"vignetted",
"summarized",
"summed up",
"touched off",
"redescribed",
"reimaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colored",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"misdescribed",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"libels":{
"to make untrue and harmful statements about":{
"examples":[
"the court decided that the newspaper's reportage of the former mayor, while irresponsible, did not constitute an effort to libel him"
],
"synonyms":[
"asperses",
"blackens",
"calumniates",
"defames",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"smears",
"traduces",
"vilifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittles",
"denigrates",
"detracts",
"disparages",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"shames",
"abases",
"debases",
"degrades",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"disdains",
"scorns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exalts",
"glorifies",
"honors",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"commends",
"praises",
"esteems",
"respects",
"admires",
"regards",
"adores",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lies low":{
"to remain out of sight":{
"examples":[
"The thief decided to lie low after a string of crimes."
],
"synonyms":[
"hides",
"holes up",
"lies",
"lurks",
"reposes",
"skulks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slinks",
"sneaks",
"avoids",
"eludes",
"evades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes out",
"materializes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appears"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"litigants":{
"someone who brings a legal action against another person or against whom a legal action is brought":{
"examples":[
"Both litigants chose to represent themselves in court."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parties",
"suitors",
"complainants",
"plaintiffs",
"suers",
"accused",
"defendants",
"appellees",
"accusers",
"appellants",
"petitioners",
"pleaders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lickings":{
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"our team took a licking last night, but we'll get them next time"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatings",
"defeats",
"drubbings",
"losses",
"lumps",
"overthrows",
"plasterings",
"routs",
"shellackings",
"trimmings",
"whippings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapses",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"nonsuccesses",
"setbacks",
"upsets",
"lurches",
"shutouts",
"washouts",
"whitewashes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"blowouts",
"cakewalks",
"landslides",
"romps",
"runaways",
"sweeps",
"walkaways",
"walkovers"
],
"antonyms":[
"successes",
"triumphs",
"victories",
"wins"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"life-giving":{
"giving or having power to create or support life; essential to life":{
"examples":[
"The sun provides life-giving energy."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conditioning",
"strengthening",
"bracing",
"cordial",
"invigorating",
"refreshing",
"rejuvenating",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulating",
"stimulative",
"tonic",
"vital",
"vitalizing",
"animating",
"exhilarating",
"exhilarative",
"quickening",
"sharp",
"corrective",
"curative",
"curing",
"medicinal",
"rectifying",
"recuperative",
"reformative",
"reformatory",
"rehabilitative",
"remedial",
"remedying",
"reparative",
"therapeutic",
"beneficial",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"helpful",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deadening",
"debilitating",
"draining",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"numbing",
"sapping",
"weakening",
"wearying",
"deleterious",
"injurious",
"pernicious",
"insalubrious",
"noxious",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"like crazy":{
"with all power or resources being used":{
"examples":[
"She studied like crazy hoping for an A."
],
"synonyms":[
"all out",
"full blast",
"full tilt",
"tooth and nail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completely",
"comprehensively",
"detailedly",
"exhaustively",
"fully",
"minutely",
"roundly",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"extremely",
"utterly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"listened in (on)":{
"to listen to (another in private conversation)":{
"examples":[
"it's not polite to listen in on other people's private conversations"
],
"synonyms":[
"eavesdropped (on)",
"overheard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bugged",
"tapped",
"wiretapped",
"monitored",
"snooped",
"spied",
"surveilled",
"attended",
"heard",
"hearkened",
"harkened",
"heeded",
"minded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"line":{
"a series of persons or things arranged one behind another":{
"examples":[
"the line for tickets stretched around the block"
],
"synonyms":[
"column",
"cue",
"file",
"queue",
"range",
"string",
"train"
],
"near synonyms":[
"echelon",
"rank",
"row",
"tier",
"chain",
"progression",
"sequence",
"succession",
"array"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a way of acting or proceeding":{
"examples":[
"since the election, the president has taken a very conservative line"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"methodology",
"policy",
"procedure",
"program"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blueprint",
"design",
"plan",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"approach",
"direction",
"method",
"path",
"pathway",
"tack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the activity by which one regularly makes a living":{
"examples":[
"my line of business is \"pre-owned\" vehicles, and have I got a deal for you!"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"employment",
"game",
"lay",
"occupation",
"profession",
"trade",
"vocation",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"call",
"lifework",
"business",
"enterprise",
"field",
"livelihood",
"living",
"m\u00e9tier",
"metier",
"racket",
"assignment",
"engagement",
"gig",
"mission",
"art",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"handicraft",
"appointment",
"berth",
"billet",
"office",
"place",
"position",
"post",
"situation",
"duty",
"function",
"job",
"load",
"task",
"workload"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocation",
"hobby",
"pursuit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"examples":[
"advanced mathematics is a little outside of my line , but I'll see what I can do to help"
],
"synonyms":[
"area",
"arena",
"bailiwick",
"barony",
"business",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"field",
"firmament",
"front",
"game",
"kingdom",
"precinct",
"province",
"realm",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"walk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frontier",
"study",
"subject",
"territory",
"turf",
"occupation",
"profession",
"pursuit",
"racket",
"vocation",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confine",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"ken",
"reach",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width",
"subfield",
"subspecialty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go":{
"examples":[
"you really crossed the line with that outrageous display of bad behavior"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"boundary",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"confines",
"end",
"extent",
"limit",
"limitation",
"termination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extremity",
"fag end",
"terminus",
"border",
"brim",
"edge",
"margin",
"rim",
"verge",
"outside",
"bar",
"barrier",
"fence",
"hedge",
"restraint",
"stop",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)":{
"examples":[
"the workers rushed to fix the leak in the gas line"
],
"synonyms":[
"channel",
"conduit",
"duct",
"leader",
"penstock",
"pipe",
"trough",
"tube"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drain",
"drainpipe",
"funnel",
"hydrant",
"main",
"smokestack",
"spout",
"standpipe",
"stovepipe",
"tile",
"waste pipe",
"waterspout",
"pipage",
"pipeage",
"pipeline",
"piping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things":{
"examples":[
"he made sure to bring extra fishing line in case a fish broke free"
],
"synonyms":[
"cable",
"cord",
"lace",
"lacing",
"rope",
"string",
"wire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"guy",
"halyard",
"lanyard",
"stay",
"bungee cord",
"whipcord"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management":{
"examples":[
"she owns a line of limousines"
],
"synonyms":[
"armada",
"caravan",
"cavalcade",
"fleet",
"motorcade",
"train"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argosy",
"convoy",
"flotilla",
"navy",
"column",
"cortege",
"cort\u00e8ge",
"parade",
"procession"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the direction along which something or someone moves":{
"examples":[
"the airplane took a southerly line toward the capital"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"path",
"pathway",
"route",
"routeway",
"steps",
"track",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circle",
"circuit",
"loop",
"orbit",
"arc",
"flight path",
"trajectory",
"ascent",
"descent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of persons who come from the same ancestor":{
"examples":[
"a 10th of all island residents are members of the line of this early settler"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"clan",
"family",
"folks",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"kinfolk",
"kinfolks",
"kinsfolk",
"lineage",
"people",
"race",
"stock",
"tribe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blended family",
"nuclear family",
"extended family",
"household",
"kith",
"brood",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"issue",
"offspring",
"progeny",
"scion",
"seed",
"clansman",
"kinsman",
"kinswoman",
"relative",
"dynasty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancestry",
"birth",
"descent",
"extraction",
"origin",
"pedigree"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended":{
"examples":[
"he comes from a noble line that goes back several centuries"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestry",
"birth",
"blood",
"bloodline",
"breeding",
"descent",
"extraction",
"family tree",
"genealogy",
"lineage",
"origin",
"parentage",
"pedigree",
"stock",
"strain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heredity",
"succession",
"family",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relations",
"relatives",
"race"
],
"near antonyms":[
"offspring",
"child",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"son",
"successor"
],
"antonyms":[
"issue",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed"
]
},
"as in line up , align":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"align",
"aline",
"cue",
"line up",
"queue",
"emplace",
"place",
"set",
"unscramble",
"alphabetize",
"file",
"hierarchize",
"prioritize",
"sequence",
"display",
"map (out)",
"set out",
"arrange",
"array",
"balance",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"equalize",
"even",
"lay out",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"proportion",
"range",
"regularize",
"standardize",
"systematize",
"groom",
"make up",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"derange",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"mess (up)",
"muss (up)",
"rumple",
"upset",
"misalign"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in surround , embrace":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bound",
"embrace",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"fence",
"margin",
"rim",
"surround",
"attach (to)",
"communicate (with)",
"connect (with)",
"link (with)",
"contact",
"converge",
"meet",
"abut",
"adjoin",
"border (on)",
"butt (on or against)",
"flank",
"fringe",
"join",
"march (with)",
"neighbor",
"skirt",
"touch",
"verge (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"liberates":{
"to set free (as from slavery or confinement)":{
"examples":[
"the animal rightists snuck into the laboratory in the middle of the night to liberate all of the monkeys"
],
"synonyms":[
"discharges",
"disenthralls",
"disenthrals",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"enlarges",
"frees",
"loosens",
"looses",
"manumits",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bails (out)",
"delivers",
"paroles",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves",
"disembarrasses",
"disencumbers",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"unshackles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"commits",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"locks (up)",
"conquers",
"enslaves",
"subdues",
"subjugates"
],
"antonyms":[
"binds",
"confines",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"restrains"
]
},
"to set free from entanglement or difficulty":{
"examples":[
"we were liberated from our financial woes when we hit the grand prize in the lottery"
],
"synonyms":[
"clears",
"disembarrasses",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"frees",
"releases",
"untangles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivers",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves",
"disburdens",
"disencumbers",
"unburdens",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"unties",
"untwines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blocks",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"loads",
"weighs"
],
"antonyms":[
"embroils",
"entangles"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lifeboats":{
"as in yawls , launches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auxiliaries",
"bumboats",
"cutters",
"jolly boats",
"launches",
"longboats",
"tender",
"yawls",
"houseboats",
"riverboats",
"barges",
"hoys",
"keelboats",
"keels",
"lighters",
"narrow boats",
"cruisers",
"inboards",
"motorboats",
"outboards",
"powerboats",
"towboats",
"tugboats",
"tugs",
"bateaux",
"batteaux",
"ca\u00efques",
"canoes",
"catamarans",
"coracles",
"curraghs",
"currachs",
"dhows",
"dinghies",
"dinks",
"dories",
"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",
"ferries",
"ferryboats",
"gondolas",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"water taxis",
"catboats",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"yachts",
"bankers",
"cobles",
"draggers",
"gillnetters",
"hookers",
"luggers",
"scallopers",
"seiners",
"shrimpers",
"trawlers",
"whaleboats",
"whalers",
"workboats",
"boats",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels",
"watercrafts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"littler":{
"as in smaller , slighter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slighter",
"smaller",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"unacceptable",
"jerkwater",
"low-rent",
"one-horse",
"small-time",
"two-bit",
"amiss",
"bad",
"defective",
"unsatisfactory",
"wrong",
"average",
"common",
"fair",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"junior",
"lesser",
"lower",
"low-level",
"petty",
"smaller",
"subordinate",
"under",
"inferior",
"mean",
"minor",
"secondary",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"greater",
"higher",
"superior",
"major",
"more",
"primary",
"senior",
"choice",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"high-grade",
"premium",
"prime",
"select",
"selected",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litigation":{
"as in lawsuit , case":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"action",
"lawsuit",
"proceeding",
"suit",
"case",
"cause",
"complaint",
"counterclaim",
"countersuit",
"cross action",
"cross-claim"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightless":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"wondered what might be lurking in the lightless corners of the basement"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"library":{
"a place where books, periodicals, and records are kept for use but not for sale":{
"examples":[
"I went to the library to do some research for my report"
],
"synonyms":[
"archive"
],
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"rental library",
"lending library",
"bibliotheca",
"stacks"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"an organized group of objects acquired and maintained for study, exhibition, or personal pleasure":{
"examples":[
"a confirmed cineast with an impressive library of classic movies on DVD"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemblage",
"collection"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assortment",
"kaleidoscope",
"miscellanea",
"mixed bag",
"omnium-gatherum",
"phantasmagoria",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"arsenal",
"cache",
"hoard",
"repertoire",
"repertory",
"reserve",
"stock",
"stockpile",
"store",
"supply",
"accumulation",
"assembly",
"gathering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bric-a-brac",
"clutter",
"heap",
"jumble",
"litter",
"pile",
"ragbag"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lighthearted":{
"having or showing freedom from worries or trouble":{
"examples":[
"his lighthearted attitude in the face of danger was the source of some concern"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"gay",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lightsome",
"slaphappy",
"unconcerned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"breezy",
"cavalier",
"nonchalant",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"unfussy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"somber",
"sombre",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"wary",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"upset",
"worried",
"long-suffering",
"overburdened",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"limited war":{
"as in civil war , world war":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"civil war",
"cold war",
"holy war",
"police action",
"world war",
"conflagration",
"conflict",
"hostilities",
"hot war",
"war",
"action",
"battle",
"engagement",
"skirmish",
"combat",
"fighting",
"warfare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peace",
"demilitarization",
"demobilization",
"disarmament",
"pacification",
"cease-fire",
"truce",
"calm",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"liege men":{
"one who follows the opinions or teachings of another":{
"examples":[
"a highly influential anthropologist whose liege men can now be found in a score of major universities"
],
"synonyms":[
"acolytes",
"adherents",
"converts",
"disciples",
"epigones",
"followers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries",
"votarists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apostles",
"missionaries",
"proselytizers",
"soldiers",
"faithfuls",
"loyalists",
"advocates",
"backers",
"champions",
"supporters",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9s",
"scholars",
"students",
"ideologists",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"sectarians",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"camp followers",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"hangers-on",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lickspittles",
"minions",
"myrmidons",
"satellites",
"stooges",
"sycophants",
"toadies",
"yes-men"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apostates",
"defectors",
"renegades",
"traitors",
"turncoats"
],
"antonyms":[
"coryphaei",
"leaders"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"litmuses":{
"as in litmus tests , acid tests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acid tests",
"litmus tests",
"crosses",
"crucibles",
"fires",
"gauntlets",
"gantlets",
"ordeals",
"trials",
"baptisms",
"initiations",
"challenges",
"complications",
"difficulties",
"griefs",
"grievances",
"hardships",
"rigors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"line drawings":{
"as in watercolors , charcoals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aquatints",
"charcoals",
"pastels",
"watercolors",
"engravings",
"etches",
"etchings",
"blueprints",
"depictions",
"images",
"likenesses",
"portraits",
"representations",
"caricatures",
"doodles",
"illustrations",
"contours",
"figures",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"cartoons",
"delineations",
"drawings",
"sketches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"life span":{
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"I saw no need to pay more for a better-built computer that would just grow obsolete before the end of its life span"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuance",
"date",
"duration",
"life",
"lifetime",
"run",
"standing",
"time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spell",
"stretch",
"span",
"tenure",
"term",
"hitch",
"tour",
"turn",
"half-life",
"age",
"longevity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"literally":{
"in a literal, true, or accurate way":{
"examples":[
"She is not one for hyperbole\u2014all of her warnings should be taken literally .",
"The employees took the CEO's remarks literally and rightfully worried about the future health of the company."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accurately",
"precisely",
"ad verbum",
"directly",
"exactly",
"verbatim",
"word for word",
"actually",
"authentically",
"certifiably",
"genuinely",
"really",
"truly",
"veritably",
"just",
"right",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely",
"identically",
"positively",
"simply"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carelessly",
"freely",
"imprecisely",
"inaccurately",
"loosely",
"inexactly",
"metaphorically"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"lie up":{
"as in sleep , rest":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"bed (down)",
"retire",
"turn in",
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"couch",
"doss (down)",
"flop (down)",
"lie (down)",
"recline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"roll out",
"turn out",
"uprise",
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"wake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lite":{
"as in light":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"light",
"natural",
"plain",
"simple",
"unseasoned",
"diet",
"nonfattening",
"slimming",
"nonfat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heavy",
"rich",
"buttery",
"fat",
"fatty",
"greasy",
"oily",
"caloric",
"calorific",
"fattening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"litterateur":{
"a person who creates a written work":{
"examples":[
"Washington Irving is generally credited as the first American litterateur to gain a reputation in Britain and on the Continent"
],
"synonyms":[
"author",
"pen",
"penman",
"scribe",
"scrivener",
"writer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auteur",
"belletrist",
"belle-lettrist",
"stylist",
"wordsmith",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"prosaist",
"prosateur",
"proser",
"bard",
"poet",
"rhymer",
"versifier",
"blogger",
"columnist",
"journalist",
"newspaperman",
"paragrapher",
"reporter",
"sportswriter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightening":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"the patient lightened when he heard the disease responds well to treatment"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightening",
"bucking up",
"cheering (up)",
"looking up",
"perking (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoicing",
"livening (up)",
"reviving",
"beaming",
"glowing",
"radiating",
"sparkling",
"encouraging",
"gladdening",
"heartening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despairing",
"desponding",
"brooding",
"fretting",
"moping"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkening",
"saddening"
]
},
"to supply with light":{
"examples":[
"the room was gradually lightened by the rising sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathing",
"beaconing",
"emblazing",
"illuminating",
"illuming",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lighting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brightening",
"beaming",
"beating (down)",
"radiating",
"shining",
"enhaloing",
"haloing",
"floodlighting",
"highlighting",
"spotlighting",
"blazing",
"burning",
"firing",
"flaming",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"igniting",
"incinerating",
"kindling",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling",
"gleaming",
"glistening",
"glittering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimming",
"dulling",
"obscuring",
"covering",
"shrouding",
"veiling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"blackening",
"darkening",
"obfuscating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"live wires":{
"a very energetic person":{
"examples":[
"the babysitter will have her hands full with those two little live wires"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamos",
"fireballs",
"pistols"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters",
"achievers",
"comers",
"dashers",
"doers",
"enterprisers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdlers",
"idlers",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"triflers",
"clock-watchers",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"couch potatoes",
"deadbeats",
"do-nothings",
"drones",
"layabouts",
"lazybones",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"that new reporter on the police beat is a real live wire"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"highfliers",
"highflyers",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beavers",
"achievers",
"comers",
"doers",
"enterprisers",
"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"
]
},
"linked (up)":{
"to come together to form a single unit":{
"examples":[
"carbon atoms link up to form a diamond crystal"
],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"conjoined",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"fused",
"interfused",
"joined",
"married",
"unified",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mated",
"yoked",
"allied",
"confederated",
"leagued",
"chained",
"compounded",
"hitched",
"hooked",
"spliced",
"assembled",
"clustered",
"congregated",
"constellated",
"convened",
"gathered",
"met",
"recombined",
"reconnected",
"rejoined",
"reunified",
"reunited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disaffiliated",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"fractionated",
"isolated",
"resolved",
"uncoupled",
"unyoked",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"scattered"
],
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"dissevered",
"parted",
"sectioned",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"unlinked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"likelihood":{
"the quality or state of being likely to occur":{
"examples":[
"the weatherman on TV said that the likelihood of rain today was fairly high"
],
"synonyms":[
"liability",
"probability"
],
"near synonyms":[
"credibility",
"plausibility",
"plausibleness",
"feasibility",
"feasibleness",
"possibility",
"potentiality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"viability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"impracticability",
"impracticality",
"implausibility",
"incredibility",
"incredibleness"
],
"antonyms":[
"improbability",
"unlikelihood",
"unlikeliness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"licentious":{
"having a strong sexual desire":{
"examples":[
"a moralist who decried what she regarded as the licentious and corrupt culture of the entertainment industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"immoral",
"indecent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celibate",
"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"antonyms":[
"frigid",
"undersexed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"licentiousness":{
"immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society":{
"examples":[
"our minister often condemns the licentiousness he sees cavalierly portrayed in today's mass media"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"profligacy",
"sin",
"vice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"depravedness",
"dissoluteness",
"dissolution",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lechery",
"lewdness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"wantonness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"criminality",
"reprehensibleness",
"baseness",
"despicableness",
"dirtiness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"lousiness",
"miserableness",
"wretchedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"pureness",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lividities":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"the boss was livid when yet another deadline was missed"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"lacking a healthy skin color":{
"examples":[
"her face was livid with fear"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"blanched",
"cadaverous",
"doughy",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"wan"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"sick",
"sickly",
"waxen",
"waxy",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"bloodless",
"untanned",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blushing",
"flushed",
"pink"
],
"antonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
]
},
"an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something":{
"examples":[
"the level of the boss's lividity was something I'd never seen outside of cartoons\u2014I almost expected steam to rise out of his head"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"mood",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"vexation",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bile",
"biliousness",
"bitterness",
"contempt",
"embitterment",
"empoisonment",
"enmity",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"rancor",
"envy",
"jaundice",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"spite",
"vengefulness",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"belligerence",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"crankiness",
"disputatiousness",
"hot-headedness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"orneriness",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"blowup",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"outburst",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"pet",
"rise",
"ruffle",
"temper",
"air rage",
"road rage",
"delirium",
"heat",
"passion",
"warmth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmness",
"forbearance",
"patience"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"limping":{
"as in flagging , drooping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drooping",
"flagging",
"exhaustion",
"regression",
"relapse",
"setback",
"atrophy",
"debilitation",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"decline",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"ebbing",
"enfeeblement",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comeback",
"improvement",
"rally",
"recovery",
"recuperation",
"rehabilitation",
"revitalization",
"snapback",
"invigoration",
"strengthening",
"progress",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to walk while favoring one leg":{
"examples":[
"she limped all day after stubbing her toe on the lawn sprinkler"
],
"synonyms":[
"halting",
"hobbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hitching",
"blundering",
"faltering",
"floundering",
"lurching",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"stumbling",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"doddering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breezing",
"gliding",
"sailing"
],
"antonyms":[
"striding"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"the damaged boat limped back into port"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"bumbling",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"struggling",
"stumbling",
"trudging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"wallowing",
"weltering",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasting",
"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move slowly":{
"examples":[
"we'll have to stop limping if we are ever going to make our destination in time"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creaking (along)",
"creeping",
"dragging",
"inching",
"nosing",
"oozing",
"plodding",
"poking",
"slouching",
"snailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lumbering",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"tramping",
"trudging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floating",
"gliding",
"sailing",
"hurrying",
"tearing"
],
"antonyms":[
"flying",
"racing",
"speeding",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lies up":{
"as in sleeps , rests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catnaps",
"dozes",
"drops off",
"naps",
"nods",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes",
"beds (down)",
"retires",
"turns in",
"bunks",
"perches",
"roosts",
"settles",
"couches",
"dosses (down)",
"flops (down)",
"lies (down)",
"reclines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arises",
"gets up",
"rises",
"rolls out",
"turns out",
"uprises",
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"bestirs",
"stirs",
"wakes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"limpness":{
"as in looseness , laxity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"floppiness",
"laxity",
"laxness",
"looseness",
"droop",
"hang",
"sag",
"slack",
"slackness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"tautness",
"tenseness",
"tension",
"tightness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lingerers":{
"someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others":{
"examples":[
"he's known as a lingerer , always the last to arrive and the last to leave"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawlers",
"dalliers",
"dawdlers",
"draggers",
"laggards",
"laggers",
"loiterers",
"plodders",
"slowpokes",
"snails",
"stragglers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"latecomers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"delayers",
"procrastinators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"go-getters",
"hustlers",
"scramblers",
"hurriers",
"rushers",
"speeders"
],
"antonyms":[
"speedsters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"link":{
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
"examples":[
"she linked the flowers together to form a long chain"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenate",
"chain",
"compound",
"concatenate",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"hitch",
"hook",
"interconnect",
"interlink",
"join",
"yoke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"articulate",
"dovetail",
"integrate",
"interlock",
"intermesh",
"cord",
"string",
"wire",
"cement",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"fuse",
"unite",
"weld"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"divide",
"part",
"split",
"cleave",
"rupture",
"sever",
"sunder"
],
"antonyms":[
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"disunite",
"separate",
"unchain",
"uncouple",
"unhitch",
"unlink",
"unyoke"
]
},
"to think of (something) in combination":{
"examples":[
"since childhood I have always linked trips to the beach with the discomforts of sunburn and sand in my clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"connect",
"correlate",
"identify",
"relate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compare",
"equate",
"liken",
"group",
"join",
"lump (together)",
"tie (together)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contrast",
"differentiate",
"discriminate",
"distinguish",
"separate",
"set off"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a rod-shaped portion of seasoned ground meat in a casing":{
"examples":[
"I like to put maple syrup on my breakfast links"
],
"synonyms":[
"banger",
"sausage",
"wurst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bologna",
"frank",
"frankfurter",
"hot dog",
"kielbasa",
"knockwurst",
"knackwurst",
"liver sausage",
"liver pudding",
"liverwurst",
"pepperoni",
"salami",
"Vienna sausage",
"weenie",
"wiener",
"weiner",
"wienerwurst",
"blood sausage",
"blood pudding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a uniting or binding force or influence":{
"examples":[
"those old love letters were her only remaining link with her late grandparents"
],
"synonyms":[
"bond",
"cement",
"cord",
"knot",
"ligature",
"tie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attachment",
"connection",
"fastening",
"hookup",
"joint",
"linkage",
"linkup",
"nexus",
"tie-up",
"union",
"yoke",
"affection",
"fondness",
"sympathy",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hampering",
"limit",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"parting",
"separation",
"unbinding",
"unfastening",
"unfettering",
"untying",
"untieing",
"emancipation",
"freedom",
"liberation",
"release"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"livelihoods":{
"a way of earning money in order to live":{
"examples":[
"Many fishermen believe that the new regulations threaten their livelihoods ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"businesses",
"enterprises",
"fields",
"livings",
"m\u00e9tiers",
"metiers",
"rackets",
"callings",
"employments",
"games",
"lays",
"lines",
"occupations",
"professions",
"trades",
"vocations",
"works",
"calls",
"lifeworks",
"assignments",
"engagements",
"gigs",
"missions",
"arts",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"handicrafts",
"appointments",
"berths",
"billets",
"offices",
"places",
"positions",
"posts",
"situations",
"duties",
"functions",
"jobs",
"loads",
"tasks",
"workloads"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avocations",
"hobbies",
"pursuits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"limelights":{
"the center of public attention":{
"examples":[
"an actress who discovered that the limelight was not such a glowing experience when her privacy was invaded"
],
"synonyms":[
"catbird seats",
"center stages",
"spotlights",
"top billings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"front burners",
"attentions",
"heeds",
"notices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lights (upon)":{
"as in tumbles (to) , hits (upon)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hits (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"reencounters",
"remeets",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"accosts",
"confronts",
"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"happens (upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"liberties":{
"the power, right, or opportunity to choose":{
"examples":[
"he doesn't want to go to the sales conference, but he doesn't have that liberty"
],
"synonyms":[
"alternatives",
"choices",
"discretions",
"druthers",
"elections",
"options",
"picks",
"preferences",
"selections",
"volitions",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determinations",
"free wills",
"wills",
"says",
"voices",
"votes",
"inclinations",
"likings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"discernments",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"perspicacities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coercions",
"duresses",
"forces",
"duties",
"obligations",
"Hobson's choices"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state of being free from the control or power of another":{
"examples":[
"the hope that the country's first-ever elections will usher in a new era of liberty and respect for the rule of law"
],
"synonyms":[
"autonomies",
"freedoms",
"independences",
"independencies",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emancipations",
"enfranchisements",
"liberations",
"manumissions",
"releases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivities",
"enchainments",
"enslavements",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"internments",
"subjugations"
],
"antonyms":[
"dependences",
"dependances",
"heteronomies",
"subjections",
"unfreedoms"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"live-boxes":{
"as in sheepfolds , fences":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cages",
"coops",
"corrals",
"hutches",
"pens",
"pounds",
"kennels",
"runs",
"folds",
"sheepfolds",
"cotes",
"dovecotes",
"dovecots",
"henhouses",
"aquariums",
"aquaria",
"terraria",
"terrariums",
"fences",
"kraals",
"stockades",
"pigpens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"life spans":{
"the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress":{
"examples":[
"I saw no need to pay more for a better-built computer that would just grow obsolete before the end of its life span"
],
"synonyms":[
"continuances",
"dates",
"durations",
"lifetimes",
"lives",
"runs",
"standings",
"times"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spells",
"stretches",
"spans",
"tenures",
"terms",
"hitches",
"tours",
"turns",
"half-lifes",
"half-lives",
"ages",
"longevities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightships":{
"as in warships , steamships":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carriers",
"argosies",
"barges",
"coasters",
"colliers",
"containerships",
"corvettes",
"cruisers",
"cutters",
"destroyers",
"ferryboats",
"flagships",
"freighters",
"icebreakers",
"ironclads",
"liners",
"men-of-war",
"men-o'-war",
"merchantmen",
"merchant ships",
"motor ships",
"packets",
"steamers",
"steamships",
"superliners",
"supertankers",
"tankers",
"traders",
"tramps",
"transports",
"warships",
"watercrafts",
"boats",
"keels",
"ships",
"vessels",
"barks",
"barques",
"brigantines",
"brigs",
"caravels",
"clippers",
"junk",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"square-riggers",
"tall ships",
"windjammers",
"xebecs",
"yachts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lightweights":{
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"among astronomers she's considered a lightweight"
],
"synonyms":[
"ciphers",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"insects",
"insignificancies",
"morsels",
"nobodies",
"nonentities",
"nullities",
"numbers",
"pip-squeaks",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"snippersnappers",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-names",
"noncelebrities",
"leasts",
"inferiors",
"mediocrities",
"obscurities",
"figureheads",
"puppets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chiefs",
"heads",
"leaders",
"leads",
"celebrities",
"luminaries",
"notables",
"personalities",
"planets",
"stars",
"superstars",
"authorities",
"superiors",
"great powers",
"parties",
"powers"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"eminences",
"figures",
"kahunas",
"kingpins",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"personages",
"somebodies",
"VIPs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"linear":{
"free from irregularities or digressions in course":{
"examples":[
"the bullets from early firearms were notorious for not following a strictly linear path through the air"
],
"synonyms":[
"direct",
"right",
"straight",
"straightaway",
"straightforward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbent",
"uncurled",
"untwisted",
"undeviating",
"unswerving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowed",
"rounded",
"entwined",
"kinked",
"swirled",
"turned",
"turning",
"twined",
"twining",
"twisted",
"twisting",
"veering",
"warped",
"bending",
"coiled",
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"curled",
"curling",
"curved",
"curving",
"looped",
"looping",
"spiral",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"wavy",
"winding",
"meandering",
"weaving",
"devious",
"serpentine",
"sinuous",
"crooked",
"zigzag",
"zigzagging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}