dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/qui_MWT.json
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{
"quibble":{
"to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant":{
"examples":[
"he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"carp",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"niggle",
"nitpick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criticize",
"fault",
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"gripe",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"moan",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"murmur",
"mutter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applaud",
"commend",
"compliment",
"praise",
"recommend",
"approve",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"support"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"don't quibble over who gets to sit in front"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercate",
"argue",
"argufy",
"bicker",
"brabble",
"brawl",
"controvert",
"dispute",
"fall out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"jar",
"quarrel",
"row",
"scrap",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"clash",
"contend",
"contest",
"tangle",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"nitpick",
"consider",
"debate",
"discuss",
"kick",
"object",
"protest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexist",
"get along",
"accept",
"agree",
"assent",
"concur",
"consent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in niggle , objection":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"demur",
"expostulation",
"kick",
"niggle",
"objection",
"protest",
"remonstrance",
"stink",
"beef",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"complaint",
"fuss",
"grievance",
"gripe",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"grumble",
"holler",
"kvetch",
"lament",
"miserere",
"moan",
"murmur",
"plaint",
"squawk",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendation",
"compliment",
"plaudit",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"praise",
"approval",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quibbler":{
"as in nitpicker , pettifogger":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fusser",
"nitpicker",
"pettifogger",
"challenger",
"contender",
"contestant",
"skirmisher",
"advocate",
"codefendant",
"defendant",
"plaintiff",
"pleader",
"arguer",
"argufier",
"bickerer",
"brawler",
"debater",
"disputant",
"disputer",
"fighter",
"quarreler",
"quarreller",
"scrapper",
"squabbler",
"wrangler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quicken":{
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"she eventually quickened her pace so she could keep up with the others"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"bundle",
"fast-track",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"whisk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"goad",
"prod",
"propel",
"push",
"race",
"spur",
"stir",
"urge",
"aid",
"dispatch",
"ease",
"encourage",
"expedite",
"facilitate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delay",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"arrest",
"check",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
],
"antonyms":[
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the news that we'd head to Florida for Christmas quickened the children, who instantly began jumping for joy"
],
"synonyms":[
"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"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"
]
},
"quickened":{
"as in accelerated , hurried":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"rushed",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"breathtaking",
"blistering",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"quick",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"high-speed",
"rush",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slow",
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"she eventually quickened her pace so she could keep up with the others"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"bundled",
"fast-tracked",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"rushed",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"whisked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drove",
"goaded",
"prodded",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"raced",
"spurred",
"stirred",
"urged",
"aided",
"dispatched",
"eased",
"encouraged",
"expedited",
"facilitated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delayed",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"held back",
"held up",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"impeded",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"shackled",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"arrested",
"checked",
"stalled",
"stayed",
"stilled",
"stopped"
],
"antonyms":[
"braked",
"decelerated",
"retarded",
"slowed (down)"
]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the news that we'd head to Florida for Christmas quickened the children, who instantly began jumping for joy"
],
"synonyms":[
"amped (up)",
"animated",
"braced",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"filliped",
"fired",
"gingered (up)",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"juiced up",
"jump-started",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"spiked",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"vivified",
"zipped (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"killed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"quiescence":{
"a state of temporary inactivity":{
"examples":[
"the resort community's social scene is lively during the summer but undergoes a deep quiescence during the long winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"moratorium",
"suspended animation",
"suspense",
"suspension"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inaction",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"motionlessness",
"impasse",
"standstill",
"coma",
"hibernation",
"hypnosis",
"repose",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"torpor",
"recess",
"recession",
"remission",
"downtime",
"idleness",
"layoff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recommencement",
"renewal",
"resumption",
"resuscitation"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
]
},
"lack of action or activity":{
"examples":[
"was struck by the elk's quiescence as it just stood there in the clearing"
],
"synonyms":[
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inaction",
"inactivity",
"inertness",
"nonaction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indolence",
"inertia",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"laziness",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"shiftlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sloth",
"sluggishness",
"dallying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animateness",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrancy",
"vivacity",
"assiduity",
"assiduousness",
"business",
"diligence",
"employment",
"industriousness",
"industry",
"occupation"
],
"antonyms":[
"action",
"activeness",
"activity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiet (down)":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the kids quieted down when they realized I was about to ask them if they wanted ice cream"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dry up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"pipe down",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"cool (down)",
"settle (down)",
"haw",
"hem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipe up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak",
"talk"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quieted (down)":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the kids quieted down when they realized I was about to ask them if they wanted ice cream"
],
"synonyms":[
"belted up",
"clammed up",
"dried up",
"dummied up",
"hushed",
"piped down",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"cooled (down)",
"settled (down)",
"hawed",
"hemmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piped up",
"sounded off",
"spoke out",
"spoke up",
"spouted (off)",
"talked up"
],
"antonyms":[
"spoke",
"talked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quietening":{
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the nanny tried to quieten the children with assurances that help was on its way"
],
"synonyms":[
"becalming",
"calming",
"composing",
"lullabying",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"salving",
"settling",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"hushing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"laying",
"mitigating",
"quelling",
"relaxing",
"relieving",
"solacing",
"narcotizing",
"sedating",
"stupefying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"arousing",
"exciting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"rousing",
"stirring (up)",
"working up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitating",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"keying (up)",
"perturbing",
"upsetting",
"vexing"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"one young chap was trying to quieten down the group"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbing",
"extinguishing",
"hushing",
"muting",
"quelling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"shushing",
"shutting up",
"silencing",
"squelching",
"stilling"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quietens":{
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the nanny tried to quieten the children with assurances that help was on its way"
],
"synonyms":[
"becalms",
"calms",
"composes",
"lullabies",
"lulls",
"quiets",
"salves",
"settles",
"soothes",
"stills",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"hushes",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"eases",
"lays",
"mitigates",
"quells",
"relaxes",
"relieves",
"solaces",
"narcotizes",
"sedates",
"stupefies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravates",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"arouses",
"excites",
"foments",
"incites",
"rouses",
"stirs (up)",
"works up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitates",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"keys (up)",
"perturbs",
"upsets",
"vexes"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"one young chap was trying to quieten down the group"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbs",
"extinguishes",
"hushes",
"mutes",
"quells",
"quiets",
"settles",
"shushes",
"shuts up",
"silences",
"squelches",
"stills"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quietness":{
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"preferred the relaxing quietness of the mall in the early morning, before the frenzy of shopping began later in the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lull",
"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
"antonyms":[
"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
]
},
"the near or complete absence of sound":{
"examples":[
"the tense quietness of the crowd as it anxiously awaited the announcement of the winner"
],
"synonyms":[
"hush",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"silence",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"lull",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"din",
"hubbub",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
],
"antonyms":[
"noise",
"sound",
"unquietness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quietus":{
"a freeing from an obligation or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"was granted a quietus on the remainder of the debt in the old man's will"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivery",
"discharge",
"quittance",
"release"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"exemption",
"immunity",
"waiver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"her unshakable belief in a blissful afterlife allowed her to meet her quietus without the slightest tinge of fear or regret"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dissolution",
"doom",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"expiry",
"fate",
"grave",
"great divide",
"passage",
"passing",
"sleep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualty",
"fatality",
"martyrdom",
"self-destruction",
"self-murder",
"self-slaughter",
"suicide",
"annihilation",
"destruction",
"ending",
"extermination",
"ruin",
"assassination",
"execution",
"killing",
"massacre",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existence",
"life",
"creation",
"genesis",
"origination",
"rise"
],
"antonyms":[
"birth",
"nativity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quill":{
"as in pike , bayonet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"spindle",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice",
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quipper":{
"as in practical joker , banterer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banterer",
"cutup",
"kidder",
"knockabout",
"practical joker",
"prankster",
"quipster",
"teaser",
"wisecracker",
"comedienne",
"entertainer",
"buffoon",
"clown",
"fool",
"harlequin",
"zany",
"card",
"comedian",
"comic",
"droll",
"farceur",
"funnyman",
"gagger",
"gagman",
"gagster",
"humorist",
"jester",
"joker",
"jokester",
"wag",
"wit",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quirky":{
"different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion":{
"examples":[
"the waitress styles her hair in a quirky way that always gets her remembered by customers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"weirdo",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"addlepated",
"flaky",
"extraordinary",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quiver":{
"an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold":{
"examples":[
"a quiver ran through the audience when the monster cornered the movie's hero"
],
"synonyms":[
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"convulsing",
"jolt",
"quake",
"shake",
"tremor",
"vibration",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"fluctuation",
"flutter",
"oscillation",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitation",
"pulsation",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"aspen leaves quivering in the breeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"shake",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"chatter",
"quaver",
"shiver",
"thrill",
"tremble",
"twitch",
"dodder",
"waver",
"flicker",
"fluctuate",
"flutter",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quizzes":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiters",
"harassers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"persecutors",
"quizzers",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittlers",
"deriders",
"detractors",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"insulters",
"jeerers",
"scoffers",
"scorners",
"trash-talkers",
"smart alecks",
"smart alecs",
"smarties",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacres",
"wise guys",
"kidders",
"lampooners",
"satirists",
"accusers",
"blamers",
"troublemakers",
"assailants",
"attackers",
"molesters",
"victimizers",
"bothers",
"disturbers",
"pests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defenders",
"deliverers",
"guards",
"protectors",
"rescuers",
"saviors",
"saviours",
"comforters",
"solaces",
"soothers",
"succorers",
"bodyguards",
"champions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a set of questions or problems designed to assess knowledge, skills, or intelligence":{
"examples":[
"according to the magazine's marriage quiz , the chances that we'll have a 10th wedding anniversary are just about nil"
],
"synonyms":[
"examinations",
"exams",
"tests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptitude tests",
"intelligence tests",
"placement tests",
"pretests",
"retests",
"boards",
"midterms",
"midyears",
"catechisms",
"auditions",
"finals",
"checkups",
"inspections",
"reviews",
"inquiries",
"interrogations",
"investigations",
"probes",
"researches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person of odd or whimsical habits":{
"examples":[
"even by House of Lords standards, the cross-dressing earl was considered quite a quiz"
],
"synonyms":[
"characters",
"codgers",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cracks",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"flakes",
"fruitcakes",
"head cases",
"kooks",
"nutcases",
"nuts",
"nutters",
"oddballs",
"oddities",
"originals",
"screwballs",
"weirdos",
"zanies",
"odd ducks",
"pieces of work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bohemians",
"mavericks",
"nonconformists",
"quixotes",
"coots",
"geezers",
"curios",
"rarities",
"freaks",
"fantasticoes",
"fantasts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformers",
"conformists",
"followers",
"sheep"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a question or questions to":{
"examples":[
"quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class"
],
"synonyms":[
"asks",
"catechizes",
"grills",
"inquires (of)",
"interrogates",
"queries",
"questions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"besieges",
"bombards",
"cross-examines",
"cross-questions",
"examines",
"pumps",
"polls",
"surveys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rejoins",
"retorts",
"comments",
"observes",
"remarks",
"avoids",
"ducks"
],
"antonyms":[
"answers",
"replies",
"responds"
]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechizes",
"examines",
"grills",
"interrogates",
"pumps",
"queries",
"questions",
"sweats",
"gives the third degree to",
"picks the brains of"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefs",
"cross-examines",
"cross-questions",
"annoys",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"pesters",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"polls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quipping":{
"as in bandying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bandying",
"bantering",
"chaffing",
"fooling",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"quizzical",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"baiting",
"deriding",
"derisive",
"derisory",
"hassling",
"heckling",
"jeering",
"mocking",
"needling",
"ridiculing",
"taunting",
"contemptuous",
"disdainful",
"sarcastic",
"scornful"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make jokes":{
"examples":[
"she rolled her eyes at her brother's bragging and quipped , \"You're a legend in your own mind, all right\""
],
"synonyms":[
"bantering",
"chaffing",
"fooling",
"funning",
"gagging",
"japing",
"jesting",
"jiving",
"joking",
"jollying",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"wisecracking",
"yukking",
"yucking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gibing",
"jibing",
"hazing",
"jeering",
"mocking",
"ragging",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"ridiculing",
"teasing",
"caricaturing",
"lampooning",
"parodying",
"satirizing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"quicksands":{
"something that catches and holds":{
"examples":[
"mired in the quicksand of credit card debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"entanglements",
"meshes",
"morasses",
"nets",
"nooses",
"quagmires",
"snares",
"tanglements",
"toils",
"traps",
"webs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles",
"cat's cradles",
"labyrinths",
"mazes",
"cobwebs",
"spiderwebs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quizzing":{
"to put a question or questions to":{
"examples":[
"quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class"
],
"synonyms":[
"asking",
"catechizing",
"grilling",
"inquiring (of)",
"interrogating",
"querying",
"questioning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"besieging",
"bombarding",
"cross-examining",
"cross-questioning",
"examining",
"pumping",
"polling",
"surveying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rejoining",
"retorting",
"commenting",
"observing",
"remarking",
"avoiding",
"ducking"
],
"antonyms":[
"answering",
"replying",
"responding"
]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechizing",
"examining",
"grilling",
"interrogating",
"pumping",
"querying",
"questioning",
"sweating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefing",
"cross-examining",
"cross-questioning",
"annoying",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"pestering",
"canvassing",
"canvasing",
"polling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quibbles":{
"to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant":{
"examples":[
"he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"carps",
"cavils",
"fusses",
"niggles",
"nitpicks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criticizes",
"faults",
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"gripes",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"kicks",
"kvetches",
"moans",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"murmurs",
"mutters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauds",
"commends",
"compliments",
"praises",
"recommends",
"approves",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"supports"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"don't quibble over who gets to sit in front"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercates",
"argues",
"argufies",
"bickers",
"brabbles",
"brawls",
"controverts",
"disputes",
"falls out",
"fights",
"hassles",
"jars",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"scraps",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenges",
"dares",
"defies",
"clashes",
"contends",
"contests",
"tangles",
"cavils",
"fusses",
"nitpicks",
"considers",
"debates",
"discusses",
"kicks",
"objects",
"protests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexists",
"gets along",
"accepts",
"agrees",
"assents",
"concurs",
"consents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in niggles , objections":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"challenges",
"demurs",
"expostulations",
"kicks",
"niggles",
"objections",
"protests",
"remonstrances",
"stinks",
"beefs",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"complaints",
"fusses",
"grievances",
"gripes",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"grumbles",
"hollers",
"kvetches",
"laments",
"misereres",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"plaints",
"squawks",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliments",
"plaudits",
"acclaim",
"applauses",
"praises",
"approvals",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quidnunc":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"with the arrival of our other friend, we at last had a quorum of quidnuncs and enough material to while away a long lunch hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulator",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"gossipmonger",
"newsmonger",
"tale-teller",
"talebearer",
"telltale",
"yenta"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayer",
"blabbermouth",
"informant",
"informer",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"libeler",
"scandalmonger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quieting (down)":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the kids quieted down when they realized I was about to ask them if they wanted ice cream"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"drying up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"piping down",
"shutting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"cooling (down)",
"settling (down)",
"hawing",
"hemming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piping up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking",
"talking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quizzer":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"some quizzer in the front row was getting more laughs than the comedian on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"quiz",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"giber",
"jiber",
"insulter",
"jeerer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"trash-talker",
"smart aleck",
"smart alec",
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wise guy",
"kidder",
"lampooner",
"satirist",
"accuser",
"blamer",
"troublemaker",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"molester",
"victimizer",
"bother",
"disturber",
"pest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defender",
"deliverer",
"guard",
"protector",
"rescuer",
"savior",
"saviour",
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"succorer",
"bodyguard",
"champion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quivered":{
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"aspen leaves quivering in the breeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bucketed",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"waved",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quietened":{
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"the nanny tried to quieten the children with assurances that help was on its way"
],
"synonyms":[
"becalmed",
"calmed",
"composed",
"lullabied",
"lulled",
"quieted",
"salved",
"settled",
"soothed",
"stilled",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"hushed",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"eased",
"laid",
"mitigated",
"quelled",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"solaced",
"narcotized",
"sedated",
"stupefied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravated",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"aroused",
"excited",
"fomented",
"incited",
"roused",
"stirred (up)",
"worked up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"keyed (up)",
"perturbed",
"upset",
"vexed",
"vext"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"one young chap was trying to quieten down the group"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbed",
"extinguished",
"hushed",
"muted",
"quelled",
"quieted",
"settled",
"shushed",
"shut up",
"silenced",
"squelched",
"stilled"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitated",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quietudes":{
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"after his tantrum, the toddler lapsed into an exhausted quietude and fell asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lull",
"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
"antonyms":[
"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
]
},
"the near or complete absence of sound":{
"examples":[
"the quietude of the early morning was broken only by the occasional chirping of birds"
],
"synonyms":[
"hush",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"silence",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"lull",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"din",
"hubbub",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
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"sound",
"unquietness"
]
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"noun"
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"as in pikes , bayonets":{
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"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"spindles",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices",
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"runs through",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
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"verb"
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"quieten":{
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"examples":[
"the nanny tried to quieten the children with assurances that help was on its way"
],
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"becalm",
"calm",
"compose",
"lull",
"lullaby",
"quiet",
"salve",
"settle",
"soothe",
"still",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
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"conciliate",
"hush",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"ease",
"lay",
"mitigate",
"quell",
"relax",
"relieve",
"solace",
"narcotize",
"sedate",
"stupefy"
],
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"aggravate",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"arouse",
"excite",
"foment",
"incite",
"rouse",
"stir (up)",
"work up"
],
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"agitate",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"key (up)",
"perturb",
"upset",
"vex"
]
},
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"examples":[
"one young chap was trying to quieten down the group"
],
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"dumb",
"extinguish",
"hush",
"mute",
"quell",
"quiet",
"settle",
"shush",
"shut up",
"silence",
"squelch",
"still"
],
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"agitate",
"stir"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
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"mostly or entirely without sound":{
"examples":[
"one could hear a pin drop in the quieted concert hall as conductor raised his baton"
],
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"hushed",
"muted",
"noiseless",
"quiet",
"silent",
"soundless",
"still",
"stilly"
],
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"calm",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
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"boisterous",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"clattering",
"clattery",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roaring",
"roistering",
"tumultuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"noisy",
"rackety",
"unquiet",
"uproarious"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour"
],
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"calmed (down)",
"chilled out",
"cooled",
"hushed",
"piped down",
"settled (down)"
],
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"dried up",
"relaxed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"unwound",
"zoned out"
],
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"clowned (around)",
"fooled around",
"horsed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"showed off",
"skylarked"
],
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"acted up",
"carried on",
"cut up"
]
},
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"quiet a crying toddler with candy"
],
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"calmed",
"composed",
"lullabied",
"lulled",
"quietened",
"salved",
"settled",
"soothed",
"stilled",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
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"appeased",
"conciliated",
"hushed",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"eased",
"laid",
"mitigated",
"quelled",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"solaced",
"narcotized",
"sedated",
"stupefied"
],
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"aggravated",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"aroused",
"excited",
"fomented",
"incited",
"roused",
"stirred (up)",
"worked up"
],
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"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"keyed (up)",
"perturbed",
"upset",
"vexed",
"vext"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"the nanny could quiet unruly children with just a look"
],
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"dumbed",
"extinguished",
"hushed",
"muted",
"quelled",
"quietened",
"settled",
"shushed",
"shut up",
"silenced",
"squelched",
"stilled"
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"agitated",
"stirred"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"quickness":{
"a high rate of movement or performance":{
"examples":[
"his agility and overall quickness made him the football coach's top choice for receiver"
],
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"celerity",
"fastness",
"fleetness",
"haste",
"hurry",
"rapidity",
"rapidness",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"velocity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clip",
"gait",
"pace",
"rate",
"tempo",
"drive",
"hustle",
"acceleration",
"hastiness",
"precipitation",
"precipitousness",
"rush",
"alacrity",
"dispatch",
"expedition",
"expeditiousness",
"promptitude",
"promptness",
"warp speed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languidness",
"languor",
"leisureliness",
"lethargy",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"reluctance",
"deliberateness",
"deliberation",
"dilatoriness",
"lateness",
"pokiness",
"procrastination"
],
"antonyms":[
"slowness",
"sluggishness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quintet":{
"as in trio , quartet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duo",
"octet",
"quartet",
"quartette",
"septet",
"sextet",
"trio",
"company",
"troupe",
"combo",
"ensemble",
"group",
"brasses",
"strings",
"woodwinds",
"brass band",
"chamber orchestra",
"sinfonietta",
"band",
"orchestra",
"philharmonic",
"symphony",
"symphony orchestra"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quipsters":{
"as in pranksters , wisecrackers":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"banterers",
"cutups",
"kidders",
"knockabouts",
"practical jokers",
"pranksters",
"quippers",
"teasers",
"wisecrackers",
"comediennes",
"entertainers",
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"fools",
"harlequins",
"zanies",
"cards",
"comedians",
"comics",
"drolls",
"farceurs",
"funnymen",
"gaggers",
"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"humorists",
"jesters",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"wags",
"wits",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"parodists",
"satirists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiescent":{
"slow to move or act":{
"examples":[
"a group of quiescent loungers recovering from the Thanksgiving feast"
],
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"dull",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambitionless",
"apathetic",
"indolent",
"languorous",
"lazy",
"lazyish",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"slack",
"slothful",
"sluggard",
"sluggardly",
"dormant",
"inanimate",
"motionless",
"resting",
"sedentary",
"static",
"still",
"dead",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"drugged",
"asleep",
"drowsy",
"somnambulant",
"catatonic",
"comatose"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busy",
"engaged",
"occupied",
"working",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"assiduous",
"diligent",
"hardworking",
"industrious",
"sedulous"
],
"antonyms":[
"active"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quintets":{
"as in trios , quartets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duos",
"octets",
"quartets",
"quartettes",
"septets",
"sextets",
"trios",
"companies",
"troupes",
"combos",
"ensembles",
"groups",
"brasses",
"strings",
"woodwinds",
"brass bands",
"chamber orchestras",
"sinfoniettas",
"bands",
"orchestras",
"philharmonics",
"symphonies",
"symphony orchestras"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quite":{
"to a full extent or degree":{
"examples":[
"are you quite sure you have permission to go?"
],
"synonyms":[
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"wide"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"downright",
"hands down",
"plain",
"stone",
"stone-cold",
"unqualifiedly",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
]
},
"to some degree or extent":{
"examples":[
"we camped quite near Mount Rushmore"
],
"synonyms":[
"enough",
"fairly",
"kind of",
"kindly",
"like",
"moderately",
"more or less",
"pretty",
"rather",
"relatively",
"something",
"somewhat",
"sort of"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptably",
"decently",
"passably",
"tolerably",
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"vaguely",
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"partway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awfully",
"beastly",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extremely",
"frightfully",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"mightily",
"mortally",
"particularly",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"very",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"quilted":{
"as in knit , crocheted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crocheted",
"knit",
"knitted",
"cross-stitched",
"embroidered",
"basted",
"eased",
"felled",
"finished",
"overcast",
"mended",
"patched",
"repaired",
"darned",
"sewed",
"stitched",
"sutured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quite a bit":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"There's still quite a bit of soup left if you'd like to take some home."
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"quirted":{
"as in strapped , knouted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knouted",
"strapped",
"birched",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"hided",
"horsewhipped",
"lashed",
"leathered",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"slashed",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"cut",
"flicked",
"touched up",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"fustigated",
"pistol-whipped",
"banged",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clipped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cuffed",
"hit",
"knocked",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"punched",
"slapped",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"spanked",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"hammered",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"slated",
"slogged",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quickens":{
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"she eventually quickened her pace so she could keep up with the others"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"bundles",
"fast-tracks",
"hastens",
"hurries",
"rushes",
"speeds (up)",
"whisks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drives",
"goads",
"prods",
"propels",
"pushes",
"races",
"spurs",
"stirs",
"urges",
"aids",
"dispatches",
"eases",
"encourages",
"expedites",
"facilitates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delays",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"shackles",
"ties up",
"trammels",
"arrests",
"checks",
"stalls",
"stays",
"stills",
"stops"
],
"antonyms":[
"brakes",
"decelerates",
"retards",
"slows (down)"
]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the news that we'd head to Florida for Christmas quickened the children, who instantly began jumping for joy"
],
"synonyms":[
"amps (up)",
"animates",
"braces",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"fillips",
"fires",
"gingers (up)",
"invigorates",
"jazzes (up)",
"juices up",
"jump-starts",
"livens (up)",
"peps (up)",
"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"
]
},
"quick-wittedness":{
"as in smartness , intelligence":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"cleverness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"quickness",
"sharpness",
"smartness",
"acumen",
"alertness",
"astuteness",
"discernment",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perception",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonableness",
"soundness",
"validity"
],
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"boneheadedness",
"brainlessness",
"denseness",
"density",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dorkiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"foolishness",
"gormlessness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"thickness",
"vacuity",
"weak-mindedness",
"witlessness",
"feeblemindedness",
"simplemindedness",
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"idiocy",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nincompoopery",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"wackiness",
"zaniness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quilled":{
"as in piked , bayoneted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"piked",
"poniarded",
"pronged",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"pinpricked",
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"spindled",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced",
"gored",
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pierced",
"pinked",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quickly":{
"with great speed":{
"examples":[
"quickly moved to block the goal"
],
"synonyms":[
"apace",
"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"hot",
"lickety-split",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quick",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immediately",
"promptly",
"readily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"abruptly",
"suddenly",
"energetically",
"vigorously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"laggardly",
"lingeringly",
"ploddingly",
"sluggishly",
"deliberately",
"leisurely",
"belatedly",
"delinquently",
"tardily"
],
"antonyms":[
"slow",
"slowly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"quietude":{
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"after his tantrum, the toddler lapsed into an exhausted quietude and fell asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lull",
"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
"antonyms":[
"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
]
},
"the near or complete absence of sound":{
"examples":[
"the quietude of the early morning was broken only by the occasional chirping of birds"
],
"synonyms":[
"hush",
"quiet",
"quietness",
"silence",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"lull",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"din",
"hubbub",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
],
"antonyms":[
"noise",
"sound",
"unquietness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quick-witted":{
"having or showing quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"the quick-witted child easily figured out the trick to making the toy work"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quizzers":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"some quizzer in the front row was getting more laughs than the comedian on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiters",
"harassers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"persecutors",
"quizzes",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittlers",
"deriders",
"detractors",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"insulters",
"jeerers",
"scoffers",
"scorners",
"trash-talkers",
"smart alecks",
"smart alecs",
"smarties",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacres",
"wise guys",
"kidders",
"lampooners",
"satirists",
"accusers",
"blamers",
"troublemakers",
"assailants",
"attackers",
"molesters",
"victimizers",
"bothers",
"disturbers",
"pests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defenders",
"deliverers",
"guards",
"protectors",
"rescuers",
"saviors",
"saviours",
"comforters",
"solaces",
"soothers",
"succorers",
"bodyguards",
"champions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quixotical":{
"having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality":{
"examples":[
"a quixotical attempt to bring live theater to a generation hooked on video games"
],
"synonyms":[
"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotic",
"romantic",
"starry",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"crusading",
"messianic",
"zealous",
"dewy-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"sentimental",
"tender-minded",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"Pollyannaish",
"Pollyannish",
"rosy",
"upbeat",
"doctrinaire",
"ideological",
"ideologic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardheaded",
"hard-nosed",
"tough-minded",
"unsentimental",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical",
"realistic"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quip":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"has his share of the quips that seem to come with a title of nobility"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchet",
"curiosity",
"eccentricity",
"erraticism",
"idiosyncrasy",
"individualism",
"kink",
"mannerism",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quiddity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"tic",
"trick",
"twist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affectation",
"airs",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"mark",
"property",
"trait",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"way",
"wont",
"addiction",
"abnormality",
"neuroticism",
"perversion",
"weirdness",
"disposition",
"genius",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"bent",
"inclination",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn",
"attitude",
"character",
"humor",
"identity",
"individuality",
"nature",
"personality",
"temperament"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformity",
"sameness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"the crowd laughed aloud at the author's clever quip"
],
"synonyms":[
"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"crack",
"drollery",
"funny",
"gag",
"giggle",
"jape",
"jest",
"joke",
"josh",
"laugh",
"nifty",
"one-liner",
"pleasantry",
"rib",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"yuk",
"yuck",
"yak",
"yock"
],
"near synonyms":[
"funning",
"joking",
"wisecracking",
"knee-slapper",
"panic",
"riot",
"scream",
"thigh-slapper",
"antic",
"buffoonery",
"caper",
"leg-pull",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"trick",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"mock",
"mockery",
"parody",
"put-on",
"riff",
"banter",
"kidding",
"persiflage",
"raillery",
"repartee",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"comedy",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make jokes":{
"examples":[
"she rolled her eyes at her brother's bragging and quipped , \"You're a legend in your own mind, all right\""
],
"synonyms":[
"banter",
"chaff",
"fool",
"fun",
"gag",
"jape",
"jest",
"jive",
"joke",
"jolly",
"josh",
"kid",
"wisecrack",
"yuk",
"yuck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gibe",
"jibe",
"haze",
"jeer",
"mock",
"rag",
"rally",
"razz",
"rib",
"ridicule",
"tease",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satirize",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quick":{
"having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation":{
"examples":[
"she's a quick wit, always ready with a pun or joke when the moment calls for one"
],
"synonyms":[
"alacritous",
"alert",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"willing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"receptive",
"responsive",
"immediate",
"instant",
"instantaneous",
"summary",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"hit-and-run",
"lightning",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"eager",
"keen",
"sharp",
"apt",
"clever",
"quick-witted",
"ready-witted",
"sharp-witted",
"smart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unresponsive",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"lazy",
"lazyish",
"leisurely",
"logy",
"loggy",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slothful",
"slow",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"tardy",
"unhurried",
"dormant",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having or showing quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"a quick lad, he immediately caught on to how the machinery operated"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed":{
"examples":[
"a quick run through the car wash, and your vehicle will look as good as new"
],
"synonyms":[
"blistering",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"breathtaking",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"high-speed",
"rush",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"antonyms":[
"slow"
]
},
"having or showing life":{
"examples":[
"after the battle, there was a hurried accounting of the quick and the dead"
],
"synonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"breathing",
"live",
"living"
],
"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"
]
},
"able to sense slight impressions or differences":{
"examples":[
"parlayed her quick eye for beauty into ownership of a top modeling agency"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"delicate",
"fine",
"keen",
"perceptive",
"sensitive",
"sharp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accurate",
"clear",
"discerning",
"good",
"piercing",
"precise",
"receptive",
"sensible",
"subtle",
"hair-trigger",
"hyperacute",
"hypersensitive",
"oversensitive",
"supersensitive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"deadened",
"dimmed",
"dull",
"dulled",
"fading",
"dead",
"imperceptive",
"insensible",
"insensitive",
"numb",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"containing unborn young within the body":{
"examples":[
"a woman quick with child"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"caught",
"enceinte",
"expectant",
"expecting",
"gone",
"gravid",
"heavy",
"pregnant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parturient",
"prenatal",
"childbearing",
"gestational",
"brooding",
"conceiving",
"impregnated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barren",
"infertile",
"aborting",
"miscarrying",
"delivered"
],
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"nonpregnant"
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"examples":[
"watch out, as the cars pass by here pretty quick"
],
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"apace",
"briskly",
"chop-chop",
"double-quick",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"hastily",
"hell-for-leather",
"hot",
"lickety-split",
"posthaste",
"presto",
"pronto",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"snappily",
"soon",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly"
],
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"immediately",
"promptly",
"readily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"abruptly",
"suddenly",
"energetically",
"vigorously"
],
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"laggardly",
"lingeringly",
"ploddingly",
"sluggishly",
"deliberately",
"leisurely",
"belatedly",
"delinquently",
"tardily"
],
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"slow",
"slowly"
]
},
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"examples":[
"that nasty comment cut me to the quick"
],
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"belly",
"blood",
"bone(s)",
"bosom",
"breast",
"core",
"gut",
"heart",
"heartstrings",
"inner space",
"inside",
"soul"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conscience",
"mind"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
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"as in mufflers , softeners":{
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"mufflers",
"softeners",
"soft pedals",
"dampers",
"mutes"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a state of temporary inactivity":{
"examples":[
"the resort community's social scene is lively during the summer but undergoes a deep quiescence during the long winter"
],
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"abeyances",
"cold storages",
"deep freezes",
"doldrums",
"dormancies",
"holding patterns",
"latencies",
"moratoriums",
"moratoria",
"suspended animations",
"suspenses",
"suspensions"
],
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"inactions",
"inertias",
"impasses",
"standstills",
"comas",
"hibernations",
"hypnoses",
"reposes",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"torpors",
"recesses",
"recessions",
"remissions",
"downtimes",
"layoffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recommencements",
"renewals",
"resumptions",
"resuscitations"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuances",
"continuations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiffs":{
"as in pompadours":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"pompadours",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"roaches",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"shingles",
"trims",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress":{
"examples":[
"a nice quieting cup of tea after a hard day at work"
],
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"calming",
"comforting",
"dreamy",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"antianxiety",
"antidepressant",
"antidepression",
"antistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
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},
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour"
],
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"calming (down)",
"chilling out",
"cooling",
"hushing",
"piping down",
"settling (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drying up",
"relaxing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"unwinding",
"zoning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowning (around)",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"showing off",
"skylarking"
],
"antonyms":[
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"cutting up"
]
},
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"quiet a crying toddler with candy"
],
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"becalming",
"calming",
"composing",
"lullabying",
"lulling",
"quietening",
"salving",
"settling",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"hushing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"laying",
"mitigating",
"quelling",
"relaxing",
"relieving",
"solacing",
"narcotizing",
"sedating",
"stupefying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"arousing",
"exciting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"rousing",
"stirring (up)",
"working up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitating",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"keying (up)",
"perturbing",
"upsetting",
"vexing"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"the nanny could quiet unruly children with just a look"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbing",
"extinguishing",
"hushing",
"muting",
"quelling",
"quietening",
"settling",
"shushing",
"shutting up",
"silencing",
"squelching",
"stilling"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"quizzed":{
"to put a question or questions to":{
"examples":[
"quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class"
],
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"asked",
"catechized",
"grilled",
"inquired (of)",
"interrogated",
"queried",
"questioned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"besieged",
"bombarded",
"cross-examined",
"cross-questioned",
"examined",
"pumped",
"polled",
"surveyed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rejoined",
"retorted",
"commented",
"observed",
"remarked",
"avoided",
"ducked"
],
"antonyms":[
"answered",
"replied",
"responded"
]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements"
],
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"catechized",
"examined",
"grilled",
"interrogated",
"pumped",
"queried",
"questioned",
"sweat",
"sweated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefed",
"cross-examined",
"cross-questioned",
"annoyed",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"pestered",
"canvassed",
"canvased",
"polled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quixotes":{
"as in mavericks , bohemians":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bohemians",
"mavericks",
"nonconformists",
"characters",
"codgers",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cracks",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"flakes",
"fruitcakes",
"head cases",
"kooks",
"nutcases",
"nuts",
"nutters",
"oddballs",
"oddities",
"originals",
"quizzes",
"screwballs",
"weirdos",
"zanies",
"coots",
"geezers",
"curios",
"rarities",
"freaks",
"fantasticoes",
"fantasts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformers",
"conformists",
"followers",
"sheep"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quite a few":{
"being of a large but indefinite number":{
"examples":[
"This weather's already caused quite a few accidents, so take your time driving."
],
"synonyms":[
"beaucoup",
"legion",
"many",
"multifold",
"multiple",
"multiplex",
"multitudinous",
"numerous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countless",
"innumerable",
"numberless",
"uncountable",
"unnumbered",
"untold",
"several",
"some",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"sundry",
"various",
"divers",
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"myriad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"countable",
"limited"
],
"antonyms":[
"few"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"quitclaim":{
"a document containing a declaration of an intentional giving up of a right, claim, or privilege":{
"examples":[
"the city signed a quitclaim to the property, and now the company can go forward with its plans for expansion"
],
"synonyms":[
"disclaimer",
"release",
"waiver"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"exemption",
"indemnity",
"abdication",
"relinquishment",
"renouncement",
"handover",
"renunciation",
"surrender"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiz":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"quizzer",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"giber",
"jiber",
"insulter",
"jeerer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"trash-talker",
"smart aleck",
"smart alec",
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wise guy",
"kidder",
"lampooner",
"satirist",
"accuser",
"blamer",
"troublemaker",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"molester",
"victimizer",
"bother",
"disturber",
"pest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defender",
"deliverer",
"guard",
"protector",
"rescuer",
"savior",
"saviour",
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"succorer",
"bodyguard",
"champion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a set of questions or problems designed to assess knowledge, skills, or intelligence":{
"examples":[
"according to the magazine's marriage quiz , the chances that we'll have a 10th wedding anniversary are just about nil"
],
"synonyms":[
"exam",
"examination",
"test"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptitude test",
"intelligence test",
"placement test",
"pretest",
"retest",
"board(s)",
"midterm",
"midyear",
"catechism",
"audition",
"final",
"checkup",
"inspection",
"review",
"inquiry",
"interrogation",
"investigation",
"probe",
"research"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person of odd or whimsical habits":{
"examples":[
"even by House of Lords standards, the cross-dressing earl was considered quite a quiz"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"flake",
"fruitcake",
"head case",
"kook",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"zany"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bohemian",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"quixote",
"coot",
"geezer",
"curio",
"rarity",
"freak",
"fantast",
"fantastico"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformer",
"conformist",
"follower",
"sheep"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a question or questions to":{
"examples":[
"quickly quizzed her about the assignment before heading off to class"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask",
"catechize",
"grill",
"inquire (of)",
"interrogate",
"query",
"question"
],
"near synonyms":[
"besiege",
"bombard",
"cross-examine",
"cross-question",
"examine",
"pump",
"poll",
"survey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rejoin",
"retort",
"comment",
"observe",
"remark",
"avoid",
"duck"
],
"antonyms":[
"answer",
"reply",
"respond"
]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"hated the way those relatives would quiz me about my partner and our living arrangements"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechize",
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"pump",
"query",
"question",
"sweat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debrief",
"cross-examine",
"cross-question",
"annoy",
"harass",
"hound",
"pester",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"poll"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quick fixes":{
"as in substitutes , backups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alternates",
"backups",
"standbys",
"stand-ins",
"substitutes",
"understudies",
"recourses",
"refuges",
"resorts",
"expedients",
"makeshifts",
"stopgaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quirting":{
"as in strapping , knouting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knouting",
"strapping",
"birching",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"hiding",
"horsewhipping",
"lashing",
"leathering",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"slashing",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"cutting",
"flicking",
"touching up",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"fustigating",
"pistol-whipping",
"banging",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cuffing",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"pasting",
"punching",
"slapping",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"spanking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"hammering",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"slating",
"slogging",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quiets (down)":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"the kids quieted down when they realized I was about to ask them if they wanted ice cream"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts up",
"clams up",
"dries up",
"dummies up",
"hushes",
"pipes down",
"shuts up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"cools (down)",
"settles (down)",
"haws",
"hems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipes up",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"spouts (off)",
"talks up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaks",
"talks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quitters":{
"as in defeatists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatists",
"chickens",
"cowards",
"cravens",
"curs",
"dastards",
"funks",
"poltroons",
"recreants",
"sissies",
"cream puffs",
"milquetoasts",
"pushovers",
"pussies",
"weaklings",
"wimps",
"caitiffs",
"snakes",
"sneaks",
"ostriches",
"scaramouches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"stalwarts",
"valiants",
"daredevils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dropouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dropouts",
"malingerers",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wires",
"pistols",
"powerhouses",
"doers",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quintessences":{
"the most perfect type or example":{
"examples":[
"the Parthenon in Greece was considered the quintessence of the perfectly proportioned building"
],
"synonyms":[
"acmes",
"apotheoses",
"beau ideals",
"bywords",
"classics",
"epitomes",
"exemplars",
"ideals",
"perfections"
],
"near synonyms":[
"archetypes",
"models",
"prototypes",
"paradigms",
"standards",
"nonpareils",
"paragons",
"abstracts",
"avatars",
"embodiers",
"embodiments",
"incarnations",
"incorporations",
"manifestations",
"personifications",
"heights",
"last words",
"meridians",
"ultimates",
"zeniths",
"benchmarks",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"touchstones",
"yardsticks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is":{
"examples":[
"a selfless desire to help others is the quintessence of the virtue of charity"
],
"synonyms":[
"beings",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"natures",
"quiddities",
"souls",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hearts",
"spirits",
"alpha and omegas",
"centers",
"cores",
"keynotes",
"marrows",
"piths",
"seats",
"embodiments",
"epitomes",
"incarnations",
"manifestations",
"personifications",
"aspects",
"attributes",
"features",
"properties",
"gists",
"kernels",
"nubs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quick-freeze":{
"as in freeze , ice":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"freeze",
"frost",
"ice",
"supercool",
"air-condition",
"ventilate",
"chill",
"cool",
"refrigerate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heat",
"toast",
"warm",
"bake",
"boil",
"broil",
"steam",
"heat-treat",
"temper",
"microwave"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quitter":{
"as in defeatist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"chicken",
"coward",
"craven",
"cur",
"dastard",
"funk",
"poltroon",
"recreant",
"sissy",
"cream puff",
"milquetoast",
"pushover",
"pussy",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"caitiff",
"snake",
"sneak",
"ostrich",
"scaramouch",
"scaramouche"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hero",
"stalwart",
"valiant",
"daredevil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dropout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dropout",
"malingerer",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quirts":{
"as in bullwhips , knouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birches",
"blacksnakes",
"bullwhips",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhides",
"crops",
"hickories",
"knouts",
"rattans",
"rawhides",
"straps",
"floggers",
"lashes",
"scourges",
"switches",
"whips",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"nightsticks",
"staffs",
"staves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in straps , knouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knouts",
"straps",
"birches",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"flails",
"flogs",
"hides",
"horsewhips",
"lashes",
"leathers",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"slashes",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"whales",
"whips",
"cuts",
"flicks",
"touches up",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"fustigates",
"pistol-whips",
"bangs",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"hits",
"knocks",
"lams",
"pastes",
"punches",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"spanks",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"hammers",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"slates",
"slogs",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quits":{
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he decided to quit his job at the fast-food restaurant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"chucks",
"leaves",
"resigns (from)",
"retires (from)",
"steps aside (from)",
"steps down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandons",
"vacates",
"drops out (of)",
"throws up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"stays (at)"
]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"examples":[
"her doctor told her it was high time she quit smoking"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandons",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"gives up",
"knocks off",
"lays off (of)",
"packs (up or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"halts",
"leaves off",
"shuts off",
"pauses",
"tapers off",
"throws up",
"rounds (off or out)",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"wraps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goes",
"runs on",
"hangs in",
"hangs on",
"holds on",
"perseveres",
"persists",
"follows through (with)",
"renews",
"reopens",
"restarts",
"resumes",
"preserves",
"stays",
"begins",
"commences",
"starts"
],
"antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"keeps",
"keeps up",
"maintains"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"quit pestering your coworkers with pointless questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"cans",
"ceases",
"cuts off",
"cuts out",
"desists (from)",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"ends",
"gives over",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"leaves off",
"packs (up or in)",
"shuts off",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completes",
"concludes",
"finishes",
"closes (down)",
"deactivates",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"dams",
"delays",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"kiboshes",
"obstructs",
"stems",
"calls",
"suspends",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"clamps down",
"reins (in)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stamps",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abolishes",
"aborts",
"annuls",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"dissolves",
"kills",
"ruins",
"scuttles",
"snuffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps up",
"runs on",
"advances",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"he quit the house sometime around nine this morning and hasn't been seen since"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"leaves",
"maroons",
"strands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discards",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"flings",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"scraps",
"sheds",
"shucks (off)",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"delivers",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields",
"escapes",
"retreats (from)",
"takes off (from)",
"vacates",
"withdraws (from)",
"abjures",
"cuts off",
"disowns",
"rejects",
"renounces",
"repudiates",
"separates (from)",
"sacrifices",
"distances",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harbors",
"has",
"holds",
"keeps",
"owns",
"possesses",
"reserves",
"retains",
"withholds",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaims"
]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"tried to persuade his daughter to remain at home, but eventually he just quit and let her go out on her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"bows",
"budges",
"capitulates",
"concedes",
"gives in",
"knuckles under",
"relents",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesces",
"defers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contends",
"fights",
"holds off",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"resists"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"will this teasing ever quit ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"dead-ends",
"determines",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"elapses",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"goes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"lets up",
"passes",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"winks (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desists (from)",
"lays off (of)",
"refrains (from)",
"gives over",
"knocks off",
"packs (up or in)",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"cuts out",
"stalls",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abates",
"peters (out)",
"winds down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draws out",
"extends",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
],
"antonyms":[
"continues",
"hangs on",
"persists"
]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"eager to quit all debts before starting married life"
],
"synonyms":[
"antes (up)",
"balances",
"clears",
"discharges",
"foots",
"liquidates",
"meets",
"pays",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"ponies up",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)",
"stands"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiates"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"we plan to quit the amusement park around seven tonight and then head to the diner for some food"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way":{
"examples":[
"I thought the kids quitted themselves quite well at the concert tonight"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquits",
"bears",
"behaves",
"carries",
"comports",
"conducts",
"demeans",
"deports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"checks",
"collects",
"composes",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"handles",
"inhibits",
"quiets",
"represses",
"restrains",
"moderates",
"modulates",
"tempers",
"acts",
"impersonates",
"plays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acts up",
"carries on",
"cuts up",
"misbehaves",
"misconducts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quick-frozen":{
"as in supercooled , refrozen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"refrozen",
"supercooled",
"chilled",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"congealed",
"glaciated",
"semisolid",
"frozen",
"frostbitten",
"frosty",
"icy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defrosted",
"thawed",
"unfrozen",
"liquefied",
"melted",
"molten",
"deiced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quipster":{
"as in prankster , wisecracker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banterer",
"cutup",
"kidder",
"knockabout",
"practical joker",
"prankster",
"quipper",
"teaser",
"wisecracker",
"comedienne",
"entertainer",
"buffoon",
"clown",
"fool",
"harlequin",
"zany",
"card",
"comedian",
"comic",
"droll",
"farceur",
"funnyman",
"gagger",
"gagman",
"gagster",
"humorist",
"jester",
"joker",
"jokester",
"wag",
"wit",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quixotic":{
"having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality":{
"examples":[
"in this age of giant chain stores, any attempt at operating an independent bookstore must be regarded as quixotic"
],
"synonyms":[
"idealist",
"idealistic",
"quixotical",
"romantic",
"starry",
"starry-eyed",
"utopian",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"crusading",
"messianic",
"zealous",
"dewy-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"sentimental",
"tender-minded",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"Pollyannaish",
"Pollyannish",
"rosy",
"upbeat",
"doctrinaire",
"ideological",
"ideologic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hardheaded",
"hard-nosed",
"tough-minded",
"unsentimental",
"practical",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical",
"realistic"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quiltings":{
"as in linings , interlinings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"interlinings",
"linings",
"packings",
"buffers",
"bumpers",
"cushions",
"fenders",
"pads",
"fillers",
"fillings",
"fills",
"paddings",
"stuffings",
"waddings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quizzically":{
"as in incredulously , hesitantly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hesitantly",
"hesitatingly",
"incredulously",
"questioningly",
"unbelievingly",
"askance",
"askant",
"distrustfully",
"doubtfully",
"doubtingly",
"dubiously",
"mistrustfully",
"sideways",
"skeptically",
"suspiciously",
"charily",
"guardedly",
"warily",
"captiously",
"critically",
"cynically",
"deprecatingly",
"disapprovingly",
"disparagingly",
"negatively",
"reproachfully",
"reproachingly",
"reprovingly",
"unfavorably",
"anxiously",
"apprehensively",
"uncomfortably",
"uneasily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"trustfully",
"trustingly",
"approvingly",
"favorably",
"positively",
"confidently",
"sanguinely",
"credulously",
"uncritically",
"unquestioningly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"quibblers":{
"as in nitpickers , pettifoggers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fussers",
"nitpickers",
"pettifoggers",
"challengers",
"contenders",
"contestants",
"skirmishers",
"advocates",
"codefendants",
"co-defendants",
"defendants",
"plaintiffs",
"pleaders",
"arguers",
"argufiers",
"bickerers",
"brawlers",
"debaters",
"disputants",
"disputers",
"fighters",
"quarrelers",
"quarrellers",
"scrappers",
"squabblers",
"wranglers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quisling":{
"one who betrays a trust or an allegiance":{
"examples":[
"warned that all quislings would be punished without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"apostate",
"backstabber",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"Judas",
"recreant",
"serpent",
"snake",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodationist",
"collaborationist",
"collaborator",
"sellout",
"subversive",
"subverter",
"coconspirator",
"conspirator",
"intriguer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"defector",
"deserter",
"renegade",
"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"gossipmonger",
"informant",
"informer",
"rat",
"rumormonger",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"talebearer",
"talker",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quibbling":{
"as in nitpicking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nitpicking",
"delicate",
"exact",
"fine",
"finespun",
"hairline",
"hairsplitting",
"minute",
"nice",
"nuanced",
"refined",
"subtle",
"frivolous",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"negligible",
"petty",
"piddling",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"fastidious",
"finical",
"finicking",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"particular",
"picky"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarse",
"inexact",
"rough",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable",
"broad",
"indefinite",
"careless",
"heedless",
"incautious",
"slapdash",
"slipshod",
"sloppy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ambiguity , equivocation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"murkiness",
"nebulousness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"opacity",
"circumlocution",
"equivocation",
"shuffle",
"tergiversation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plumpness",
"straightforwardness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant":{
"examples":[
"he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"carping",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"fussing",
"niggling",
"nitpicking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criticizing",
"faulting",
"beefing",
"bellyaching",
"bitching",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"griping",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"kicking",
"kvetching",
"moaning",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"murmuring",
"muttering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauding",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"praising",
"recommending",
"approving",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"supporting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"don't quibble over who gets to sit in front"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercating",
"argufying",
"arguing",
"bickering",
"brabbling",
"brawling",
"controverting",
"disputing",
"falling out",
"fighting",
"hassling",
"jarring",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"rowing",
"scrapping",
"spatting",
"squabbling",
"tiffing",
"wrangling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenging",
"daring",
"defying",
"clashing",
"contending",
"contesting",
"tangling",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"fussing",
"nitpicking",
"considering",
"debating",
"discussing",
"kicking",
"objecting",
"protesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisting",
"getting along",
"accepting",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"concurring",
"consenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quit":{
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he decided to quit his job at the fast-food restaurant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"chuck",
"leave",
"resign (from)",
"retire (from)",
"step aside (from)",
"step down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandon",
"vacate",
"drop out (of)",
"throw up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"stay (at)"
]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"examples":[
"her doctor told her it was high time she quit smoking"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"give up",
"knock off",
"lay off (of)",
"pack (up or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"halt",
"leave off",
"shut off",
"pause",
"taper off",
"throw up",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"go",
"run on",
"hang in",
"hang on",
"hold on",
"persevere",
"persist",
"follow through (with)",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume",
"preserve",
"stay",
"begin",
"commence",
"start"
],
"antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"keep",
"keep up",
"maintain"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"quit pestering your coworkers with pointless questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"break up",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"leave off",
"pack (up or in)",
"shut off",
"stop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"finish",
"close (down)",
"deactivate",
"block",
"blockade",
"dam",
"delay",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"kibosh",
"obstruct",
"stem",
"call",
"suspend",
"arrest",
"brake",
"check",
"clamp down",
"rein (in)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stamp",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abolish",
"abort",
"annul",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"dissolve",
"kill",
"ruin",
"scuttle",
"snuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep up",
"run on",
"advance",
"proceed",
"progress",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"he quit the house sometime around nine this morning and hasn't been seen since"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"leave",
"maroon",
"strand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"fling",
"jettison",
"junk",
"scrap",
"shed",
"shuck (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"deliver",
"give up",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield",
"escape",
"retreat (from)",
"take off (from)",
"vacate",
"withdraw (from)",
"abjure",
"cut off",
"disown",
"reject",
"renounce",
"repudiate",
"separate (from)",
"sacrifice",
"distance",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harbor",
"have",
"hold",
"keep",
"own",
"possess",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaim"
]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"tried to persuade his daughter to remain at home, but eventually he just quit and let her go out on her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"relent",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesce",
"defer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contend",
"fight",
"hold off",
"battle",
"breast",
"combat",
"confront",
"counter",
"defy",
"face",
"meet",
"object",
"oppose",
"repel",
"thwart",
"withstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"resist"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"will this teasing ever quit ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"eager to quit all debts before starting married life"
],
"synonyms":[
"ante (up)",
"balance",
"clear",
"discharge",
"foot",
"liquidate",
"meet",
"pay",
"pay off",
"pay up",
"pony up",
"recompense",
"settle",
"spring (for)",
"stand"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiate"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"we plan to quit the amusement park around seven tonight and then head to the diner for some food"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way":{
"examples":[
"I thought the kids quitted themselves quite well at the concert tonight"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquit",
"bear",
"behave",
"carry",
"comport",
"conduct",
"demean",
"deport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"check",
"collect",
"compose",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"handle",
"inhibit",
"quiet",
"repress",
"restrain",
"moderate",
"modulate",
"temper",
"act",
"impersonate",
"play"
],
"near antonyms":[
"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up",
"misbehave",
"misconduct"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"no longer burdened with something unpleasant or painful":{
"examples":[
"I am finally quit of that terrible task"
],
"synonyms":[
"disencumbered",
"free",
"shut (of)",
"unburdened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"unhampered",
"unimpeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"encumbered",
"handicapped",
"hindered",
"hobbled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"quiff":{
"as in pompadour":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pompadour",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"roach",
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quirt":{
"as in bullwhip , knout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birch",
"blacksnake",
"bullwhip",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhide",
"crop",
"hickory",
"knout",
"rattan",
"rawhide",
"strap",
"flogger",
"lash",
"scourge",
"switch",
"whip",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"nightstick",
"staff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in strap , knout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knout",
"strap",
"birch",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"flail",
"flog",
"hide",
"horsewhip",
"lash",
"leather",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"slash",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"whale",
"whip",
"cut",
"flick",
"touch up",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"fustigate",
"pistol-whip",
"bang",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"hit",
"knock",
"lam",
"paste",
"punch",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"spank",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung",
"drub",
"fib",
"hammer",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lather",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"rough",
"slate",
"slog",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quislings":{
"one who betrays a trust or an allegiance":{
"examples":[
"warned that all quislings would be punished without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"apostates",
"backstabbers",
"betrayers",
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"Judases",
"recreants",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"traitors",
"turncoats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodationists",
"collaborationists",
"collaborators",
"sellouts",
"subversives",
"subverters",
"coconspirators",
"co-conspirators",
"conspirators",
"intriguers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"defectors",
"deserters",
"renegades",
"blabbermouths",
"gossipers",
"gossipmongers",
"gossips",
"informants",
"informers",
"rats",
"rumormongers",
"snitchers",
"snitches",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"talebearers",
"talkers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"telltales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiddity":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"for all of her quiddities , she is a very wise and generous lady"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchet",
"curiosity",
"eccentricity",
"erraticism",
"idiosyncrasy",
"individualism",
"kink",
"mannerism",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quip",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"tic",
"trick",
"twist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affectation",
"airs",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"mark",
"property",
"trait",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"way",
"wont",
"addiction",
"abnormality",
"neuroticism",
"perversion",
"weirdness",
"disposition",
"genius",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"bent",
"inclination",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn",
"attitude",
"character",
"humor",
"identity",
"individuality",
"nature",
"personality",
"temperament"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformity",
"sameness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is":{
"examples":[
"Rembrandt's genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person's quiddity in a single portrait"
],
"synonyms":[
"being",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"nature",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heart",
"spirit",
"alpha and omega",
"center",
"core",
"keynote",
"marrow",
"pith",
"seat",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"incarnation",
"manifestation",
"personification",
"aspect",
"attribute",
"feature",
"property",
"gist",
"kernel",
"nub"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiet":{
"free from disturbing noise or uproar":{
"examples":[
"left the din of the rock concert and went to a quiet restaurant where we could hear one another talk"
],
"synonyms":[
"arcadian",
"calm",
"hushed",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"restful",
"serene",
"still",
"stilly",
"tranquil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"noiseless",
"silent",
"soundless",
"mute",
"speechless",
"wordless",
"dead",
"motionless",
"quiescent",
"muffled",
"muted",
"quieted",
"dull",
"gentle",
"low",
"soft",
"ultraquiet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crazy",
"tempestuous",
"wild",
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"earsplitting",
"piercing",
"roaring",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"antonyms":[
"boisterous",
"clamorous",
"clattery",
"deafening",
"loud",
"noisy",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roistering",
"romping",
"rowdy",
"tumultuous",
"unquiet",
"uproarious",
"woolly",
"wooly"
]
},
"not excessively showy":{
"examples":[
"she decided that it would be best to wear a quiet business suit to the job interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"conservative",
"low-key",
"low-keyed",
"muted",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"sober",
"subdued",
"toned-down",
"understated",
"unflashy",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"fitting",
"proper",
"suitable",
"modest",
"plain",
"simple",
"unadorned",
"undecorated",
"inconspicuous",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"refined",
"tasteful",
"drab",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"practical",
"sensible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meretricious",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"tasteless",
"tawdry",
"trashy",
"vulgar",
"baroque",
"fancy",
"frilly",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"ornate",
"rococo",
"overdecorated",
"overdone",
"overwrought"
],
"antonyms":[
"flamboyant",
"flaring",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"loud",
"noisy",
"ostentatious",
"razzle-dazzle",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky"
]
},
"free from storms or physical disturbance":{
"examples":[
"a quiet interlude as the eye of the storm passed over us"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"halcyon",
"hushed",
"lown",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"serene",
"still",
"stilly",
"tranquil",
"untroubled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balmy",
"clement",
"equable",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate",
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"windless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blizzardy",
"blizzardly",
"blustery",
"squally",
"windy",
"extreme",
"foul",
"intemperate",
"nasty",
"severe"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"angry",
"inclement",
"restless",
"rough",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"unquiet",
"unsettled"
]
},
"screened or sequestered from view":{
"examples":[
"a quiet little house set far back from the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloistered",
"covert",
"hidden",
"isolated",
"remote",
"retired",
"secluded",
"secret",
"sheltered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lone",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"reclusive",
"solitary",
"private"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obvious",
"visible",
"exposed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"mostly or entirely without sound":{
"examples":[
"a diver who loves to retreat to the quiet world beneath the surface of the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"hushed",
"muted",
"noiseless",
"quieted",
"silent",
"soundless",
"still",
"stilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boisterous",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"clattering",
"clattery",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roaring",
"roistering",
"tumultuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"noisy",
"rackety",
"unquiet",
"uproarious"
]
},
"not loud in pitch or volume":{
"examples":[
"quiet music is generally more relaxing"
],
"synonyms":[
"dull",
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dead",
"silent",
"still",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"hushed",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"stilly",
"tranquil",
"muffled",
"muted",
"softened",
"toned (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brazen",
"crashing",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"grating",
"harsh",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident",
"clarion",
"clear",
"trumpetlike"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"overloud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"roaring",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
]
},
"without motion":{
"examples":[
"lie quiet and no one will guess you're hiding under the bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"motionlessly",
"quietly",
"still"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immovably",
"inactively"
],
"near antonyms":[
"movably"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of freedom from storm or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"sailors enjoying the quiet of a clear evening at sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"hush",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lull",
"pause",
"respite",
"silence",
"mildness",
"soothingness",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"casualness",
"easygoingness",
"informality",
"laid-backness",
"relaxedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"din",
"noise",
"racket"
],
"antonyms":[
"bustle",
"commotion",
"hubbub",
"hurly-burly",
"pandemonium",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"unquietness",
"unrest",
"uproar"
]
},
"the near or complete absence of sound":{
"examples":[
"new parents appreciating the blessed quiet that comes when their baby finally falls asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"hush",
"quietness",
"quietude",
"silence",
"still",
"stillness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm",
"lull",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"babel",
"blare",
"bluster",
"cacophony",
"chatter",
"clamor",
"clangor",
"din",
"hubbub",
"racket",
"rattle",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
],
"antonyms":[
"noise",
"sound",
"unquietness"
]
},
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"chill out",
"cool",
"hush",
"pipe down",
"settle (down)"
],
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"dry up",
"relax",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"unwind",
"zone out"
],
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"clown (around)",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"monkey (around)",
"show off",
"skylark"
],
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"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up"
]
},
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"quiet a crying toddler with candy"
],
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"becalm",
"calm",
"compose",
"lull",
"lullaby",
"quieten",
"salve",
"settle",
"soothe",
"still",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"hush",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"ease",
"lay",
"mitigate",
"quell",
"relax",
"relieve",
"solace",
"narcotize",
"sedate",
"stupefy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravate",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"arouse",
"excite",
"foment",
"incite",
"rouse",
"stir (up)",
"work up"
],
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"agitate",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"key (up)",
"perturb",
"upset",
"vex"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"the nanny could quiet unruly children with just a look"
],
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"dumb",
"extinguish",
"hush",
"mute",
"quell",
"quieten",
"settle",
"shush",
"shut up",
"silence",
"squelch",
"still"
],
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"agitate",
"stir"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quiddities":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"for all of her quiddities , she is a very wise and generous lady"
],
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"crotchets",
"curiosities",
"eccentricities",
"erraticisms",
"idiosyncrasies",
"individualisms",
"kinks",
"mannerisms",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quips",
"quirks",
"singularities",
"tics",
"tricks",
"twists"
],
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"affectations",
"airs",
"attributes",
"characteristics",
"marks",
"properties",
"traits",
"customs",
"habits",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"ways",
"wonts",
"addictions",
"abnormalities",
"neuroticisms",
"perversions",
"dispositions",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"turns",
"attitudes",
"characters",
"humors",
"identities",
"individualities",
"natures",
"personalities",
"temperaments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformities"
],
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},
"the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is":{
"examples":[
"Rembrandt's genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person's quiddity in a single portrait"
],
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"beings",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"natures",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hearts",
"spirits",
"alpha and omegas",
"centers",
"cores",
"keynotes",
"marrows",
"piths",
"seats",
"embodiments",
"epitomes",
"incarnations",
"manifestations",
"personifications",
"aspects",
"attributes",
"features",
"properties",
"gists",
"kernels",
"nubs"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quivering":{
"marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements":{
"examples":[
"our quivering dog tried to hide under the bed during the thunderstorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convulsive",
"shivering",
"shivery",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the kids were fascinated by the quivering of the jellyfish and kept poking it to see it wiggle"
],
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"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"shaking",
"shivering",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"vibration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"juddering",
"quaking",
"rocking",
"jiggle",
"palpitation",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"tremor",
"twitch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"aspen leaves quivering in the breeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bucketing",
"convulsing",
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"joggling",
"jolting",
"jouncing",
"juddering",
"quaking",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"vibrating",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"chattering",
"quavering",
"shivering",
"thrilling",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"doddering",
"wavering",
"flickering",
"fluctuating",
"fluttering",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"waving",
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quirk":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchet",
"curiosity",
"eccentricity",
"erraticism",
"idiosyncrasy",
"individualism",
"kink",
"mannerism",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quiddity",
"quip",
"singularity",
"tic",
"trick",
"twist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affectation",
"airs",
"attribute",
"characteristic",
"mark",
"property",
"trait",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"way",
"wont",
"addiction",
"abnormality",
"neuroticism",
"perversion",
"weirdness",
"disposition",
"genius",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"bent",
"inclination",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn",
"attitude",
"character",
"humor",
"identity",
"individuality",
"nature",
"personality",
"temperament"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformity",
"sameness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quirks":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchets",
"curiosities",
"eccentricities",
"erraticisms",
"idiosyncrasies",
"individualisms",
"kinks",
"mannerisms",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quiddities",
"quips",
"singularities",
"tics",
"tricks",
"twists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affectations",
"airs",
"attributes",
"characteristics",
"marks",
"properties",
"traits",
"customs",
"habits",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"ways",
"wonts",
"addictions",
"abnormalities",
"neuroticisms",
"perversions",
"dispositions",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"turns",
"attitudes",
"characters",
"humors",
"identities",
"individualities",
"natures",
"personalities",
"temperaments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"qui vives":{
"the state of being constantly attentive and responsive to signs of opportunity, activity, or danger":{
"examples":[
"an army on the qui vive for enemy attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"alertness",
"attentiveness",
"red alert",
"vigilance",
"watch",
"watchfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aliveness",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"mindfulness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"sensitivity",
"care",
"carefulness",
"cautiousness",
"chariness",
"heedfulness",
"wariness",
"preparation",
"readiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absentmindedness",
"abstraction",
"daydreaming",
"daze",
"distraction",
"absorption",
"engrossment",
"obliviousness",
"preoccupation",
"unawareness",
"unconsciousness",
"carelessness",
"heedlessness",
"inattention",
"inattentiveness",
"inobservance",
"unwariness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quilling":{
"as in piking , bayoneting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"spindling",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing",
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quitclaims":{
"a document containing a declaration of an intentional giving up of a right, claim, or privilege":{
"examples":[
"the city signed a quitclaim to the property, and now the company can go forward with its plans for expansion"
],
"synonyms":[
"disclaimers",
"releases",
"waivers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensations",
"exemptions",
"indemnities",
"abdications",
"relinquishments",
"renouncements",
"handovers",
"renunciations",
"surrenders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quicksand":{
"something that catches and holds":{
"examples":[
"mired in the quicksand of credit card debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"entanglement",
"mesh(es)",
"morass",
"net",
"noose",
"quagmire",
"snare",
"tanglement",
"toil(s)",
"trap",
"web"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"cat's cradle",
"labyrinth",
"maze",
"cobweb",
"spiderweb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quittance":{
"a freeing from an obligation or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"the indentured servant obtained a quittance from his master stating he was free to leave and was no longer required to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivery",
"discharge",
"quietus",
"release"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensation",
"exemption",
"immunity",
"waiver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"payment to another for a loss or injury":{
"examples":[
"the court awarded the plaintiff a substantial quittance for bodily injury and emotional distress"
],
"synonyms":[
"compensation",
"damages",
"indemnification",
"indemnity",
"recompense",
"recoupment",
"redress",
"remuneration",
"reparation",
"reprisal(s)",
"requital",
"restitution",
"satisfaction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"punitive damages",
"solatium",
"amends",
"atonement",
"expiation",
"refund",
"reimbursement",
"repayment",
"adjustment",
"settlement",
"punishment",
"retaliation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"qui vive":{
"the state of being constantly attentive and responsive to signs of opportunity, activity, or danger":{
"examples":[
"an army on the qui vive for enemy attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"alertness",
"attentiveness",
"red alert",
"vigilance",
"watch",
"watchfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aliveness",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"mindfulness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"sensitivity",
"care",
"carefulness",
"cautiousness",
"chariness",
"heedfulness",
"wariness",
"preparation",
"readiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absentmindedness",
"abstraction",
"daydreaming",
"daze",
"distraction",
"absorption",
"engrossment",
"obliviousness",
"preoccupation",
"unawareness",
"unconsciousness",
"carelessness",
"heedlessness",
"inattention",
"inattentiveness",
"inobservance",
"unwariness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quizzical":{
"marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasing":{
"examples":[
"my puns are usually greeted with loud quizzical groans by my so-called friends"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantering",
"chaffing",
"fooling",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandying",
"quipping",
"baiting",
"deriding",
"derisive",
"derisory",
"hassling",
"heckling",
"jeering",
"mocking",
"needling",
"ridiculing",
"taunting",
"contemptuous",
"disdainful",
"sarcastic",
"scornful"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quintessence":{
"the most perfect type or example":{
"examples":[
"the Parthenon in Greece was considered the quintessence of the perfectly proportioned building"
],
"synonyms":[
"acme",
"apotheosis",
"beau ideal",
"byword",
"classic",
"epitome",
"exemplar",
"ideal",
"perfection"
],
"near synonyms":[
"archetype",
"model",
"prototype",
"paradigm",
"standard",
"nonpareil",
"paragon",
"abstract",
"avatar",
"embodier",
"embodiment",
"incarnation",
"incorporation",
"manifestation",
"personification",
"height",
"last word",
"meridian",
"ultimate",
"zenith",
"benchmark",
"criterion",
"touchstone",
"yardstick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is":{
"examples":[
"a selfless desire to help others is the quintessence of the virtue of charity"
],
"synonyms":[
"being",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"nature",
"quiddity",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heart",
"spirit",
"alpha and omega",
"center",
"core",
"keynote",
"marrow",
"pith",
"seat",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"incarnation",
"manifestation",
"personification",
"aspect",
"attribute",
"feature",
"property",
"gist",
"kernel",
"nub"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quiets":{
"to become still and orderly":{
"examples":[
"the museum docent told the rowdy youngsters to quiet down for the tour"
],
"synonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"chills out",
"cools",
"hushes",
"pipes down",
"settles (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dries up",
"relaxes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"unwinds",
"zones out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clowns (around)",
"fools around",
"horses around",
"monkeys (around)",
"shows off",
"skylarks"
],
"antonyms":[
"acts up",
"carries on",
"cuts up"
]
},
"to free from distress or disturbance":{
"examples":[
"quiet a crying toddler with candy"
],
"synonyms":[
"becalms",
"calms",
"composes",
"lullabies",
"lulls",
"quietens",
"salves",
"settles",
"soothes",
"stills",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"hushes",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"eases",
"lays",
"mitigates",
"quells",
"relaxes",
"relieves",
"solaces",
"narcotizes",
"sedates",
"stupefies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravates",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"arouses",
"excites",
"foments",
"incites",
"rouses",
"stirs (up)",
"works up"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitates",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"keys (up)",
"perturbs",
"upsets",
"vexes"
]
},
"to stop the noise or speech of":{
"examples":[
"the nanny could quiet unruly children with just a look"
],
"synonyms":[
"dumbs",
"extinguishes",
"hushes",
"mutes",
"quells",
"quietens",
"settles",
"shushes",
"shuts up",
"silences",
"squelches",
"stills"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quipped":{
"to make jokes":{
"examples":[
"she rolled her eyes at her brother's bragging and quipped , \"You're a legend in your own mind, all right\""
],
"synonyms":[
"bantered",
"chaffed",
"fooled",
"funned",
"gagged",
"japed",
"jested",
"jived",
"joked",
"jollied",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"wisecracked",
"yukked",
"yucked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gibed",
"jibed",
"hazed",
"jeered",
"mocked",
"ragged",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"ridiculed",
"teased",
"caricatured",
"lampooned",
"parodied",
"satirized",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quittances":{
"a freeing from an obligation or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"the indentured servant obtained a quittance from his master stating he was free to leave and was no longer required to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliveries",
"discharges",
"quietuses",
"releases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensations",
"exemptions",
"immunities",
"waivers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"payment to another for a loss or injury":{
"examples":[
"the court awarded the plaintiff a substantial quittance for bodily injury and emotional distress"
],
"synonyms":[
"compensations",
"damages",
"indemnifications",
"indemnities",
"recompenses",
"recoupments",
"redresses",
"remunerations",
"reparations",
"reprisals",
"requitals",
"restitutions",
"satisfactions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"punitive damages",
"solatia",
"amends",
"atonements",
"expiations",
"refunds",
"reimbursements",
"repayments",
"adjustments",
"settlements",
"punishments",
"retaliations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quick-freezing":{
"as in freezing , icing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"freezing",
"frosting",
"icing",
"supercooling",
"air-conditioning",
"ventilating",
"chilling",
"cooling",
"refrigerating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heating",
"toasting",
"warming",
"baking",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"steaming",
"heat-treating",
"tempering",
"microwaving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quickening":{
"as in energizing , galvanizing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"vitalizing",
"inducing",
"inspirational",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"motivational",
"motivative",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"pesky",
"vexatious",
"vexing",
"explosive",
"fiery",
"incendiary",
"inflammatory",
"triggering",
"charged",
"edgy",
"exciting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"instigative",
"piquing",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"stimulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subduing",
"noninflammatory"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in acceleration , hastening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acceleration",
"hastening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"braking",
"deceleration",
"downshift",
"letup",
"retardation",
"slowdown",
"decline",
"drop",
"slump",
"ebb",
"remission",
"retreat",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"she eventually quickened her pace so she could keep up with the others"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"bundling",
"fast-tracking",
"hastening",
"hurrying",
"rushing",
"speeding (up)",
"whisking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"driving",
"goading",
"prodding",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"racing",
"spurring",
"stirring",
"urging",
"aiding",
"dispatching",
"easing",
"encouraging",
"expediting",
"facilitating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delaying",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"arresting",
"checking",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"antonyms":[
"braking",
"decelerating",
"retarding",
"slowing (down)"
]
},
"to give life, vigor, or spirit to":{
"examples":[
"the news that we'd head to Florida for Christmas quickened the children, who instantly began jumping for joy"
],
"synonyms":[
"amping (up)",
"animating",
"bracing",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"filliping",
"firing",
"gingering (up)",
"invigorating",
"jazzing (up)",
"juicing up",
"jump-starting",
"livening (up)",
"pepping (up)",
"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":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quixote":{
"as in maverick , bohemian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bohemian",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"flake",
"fruitcake",
"head case",
"kook",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"zany",
"coot",
"geezer",
"curio",
"rarity",
"freak",
"fantast",
"fantastico"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformer",
"conformist",
"follower",
"sheep"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quick fix":{
"as in substitute , backup":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"backup",
"standby",
"stand-in",
"substitute",
"understudy",
"recourse",
"refuge",
"resort",
"expedient",
"makeshift",
"stopgap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quid pro quos":{
"a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another":{
"examples":[
"in politics nobody does something for nothing: there's always a quid pro quo involved"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-and-forths",
"barters",
"commutations",
"dickers",
"exchanges",
"swaps",
"trade-offs",
"trades",
"trucks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"replacements",
"substitutions",
"reciprocations",
"recompenses",
"requitals",
"bargains",
"deals",
"horse trades",
"negotiations",
"transactions",
"dealings",
"logrollings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quid pro quo":{
"a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another":{
"examples":[
"in politics nobody does something for nothing: there's always a quid pro quo involved"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-and-forth",
"barter",
"commutation",
"dicker",
"exchange",
"swap",
"trade",
"trade-off",
"truck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"replacement",
"substitution",
"reciprocation",
"recompense",
"requital",
"bargain",
"deal",
"horse trade",
"negotiation",
"transaction",
"bargaining",
"dealing",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse trading",
"logrolling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quilt":{
"as in comforter , puff":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comforter",
"puff",
"bedcover",
"bedcovering",
"bedspread",
"counterpane",
"coverlet",
"hap",
"spread",
"bedclothes",
"bedding",
"clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in knit , crochet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crochet",
"knit",
"cross-stitch",
"embroider",
"baste",
"ease",
"fell",
"finish",
"overcast",
"mend",
"patch",
"repair",
"darn",
"sew",
"stitch",
"suture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quitted":{
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he decided to quit his job at the fast-food restaurant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"chuck",
"leave",
"resign (from)",
"retire (from)",
"step aside (from)",
"step down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandon",
"vacate",
"drop out (of)",
"throw up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"stay (at)"
]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"examples":[
"her doctor told her it was high time she quit smoking"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"give up",
"knock off",
"lay off (of)",
"pack (up or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"halt",
"leave off",
"shut off",
"pause",
"taper off",
"throw up",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"go",
"run on",
"hang in",
"hang on",
"hold on",
"persevere",
"persist",
"follow through (with)",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume",
"preserve",
"stay",
"begin",
"commence",
"start"
],
"antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"keep",
"keep up",
"maintain"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"quit pestering your coworkers with pointless questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"break up",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"leave off",
"pack (up or in)",
"shut off",
"stop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"finish",
"close (down)",
"deactivate",
"block",
"blockade",
"dam",
"delay",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"kibosh",
"obstruct",
"stem",
"call",
"suspend",
"arrest",
"brake",
"check",
"clamp down",
"rein (in)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stamp",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abolish",
"abort",
"annul",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"dissolve",
"kill",
"ruin",
"scuttle",
"snuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep up",
"run on",
"advance",
"proceed",
"progress",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"he quit the house sometime around nine this morning and hasn't been seen since"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"leave",
"maroon",
"strand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"fling",
"jettison",
"junk",
"scrap",
"shed",
"shuck (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"deliver",
"give up",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield",
"escape",
"retreat (from)",
"take off (from)",
"vacate",
"withdraw (from)",
"abjure",
"cut off",
"disown",
"reject",
"renounce",
"repudiate",
"separate (from)",
"sacrifice",
"distance",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harbor",
"have",
"hold",
"keep",
"own",
"possess",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaim"
]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"tried to persuade his daughter to remain at home, but eventually he just quit and let her go out on her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"relent",
"submit",
"succumb",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesce",
"defer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contend",
"fight",
"hold off",
"battle",
"breast",
"combat",
"confront",
"counter",
"defy",
"face",
"meet",
"object",
"oppose",
"repel",
"thwart",
"withstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"resist"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"will this teasing ever quit ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"dead-end",
"determine",
"die",
"discontinue",
"elapse",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"go",
"halt",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"let up",
"pass",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wink (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desist (from)",
"lay off (of)",
"refrain (from)",
"give over",
"knock off",
"pack (up or in)",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"cut out",
"stall",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abate",
"peter (out)",
"wind down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"draw out",
"extend",
"prolong",
"protract"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"hang on",
"persist"
]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"eager to quit all debts before starting married life"
],
"synonyms":[
"ante (up)",
"balance",
"clear",
"discharge",
"foot",
"liquidate",
"meet",
"pay",
"pay off",
"pay up",
"pony up",
"recompense",
"settle",
"spring (for)",
"stand"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiate"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"we plan to quit the amusement park around seven tonight and then head to the diner for some food"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way":{
"examples":[
"I thought the kids quitted themselves quite well at the concert tonight"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquit",
"bear",
"behave",
"carry",
"comport",
"conduct",
"demean",
"deport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"check",
"collect",
"compose",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"handle",
"inhibit",
"quiet",
"repress",
"restrain",
"moderate",
"modulate",
"temper",
"act",
"impersonate",
"play"
],
"near antonyms":[
"act up",
"carry on",
"cut up",
"misbehave",
"misconduct"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"no longer burdened with something unpleasant or painful":{
"examples":[
"I am finally quit of that terrible task"
],
"synonyms":[
"disencumbered",
"free",
"shut (of)",
"unburdened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"unhampered",
"unimpeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"encumbered",
"handicapped",
"hindered",
"hobbled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"quick-froze":{
"as in froze , iced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"frosted",
"froze",
"iced",
"supercooled",
"air-conditioned",
"ventilated",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heated",
"toasted",
"warmed",
"baked",
"boiled",
"broiled",
"steamed",
"heat-treated",
"tempered",
"microwaved"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quilts":{
"as in comforters , puffs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comforters",
"puffs",
"bedcovers",
"bedcoverings",
"bedspreads",
"counterpanes",
"coverlets",
"haps",
"spreads",
"bedclothes",
"beddings",
"clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in knits , crochets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crochets",
"knits",
"cross-stitches",
"embroiders",
"bastes",
"eases",
"fells",
"finishes",
"overcasts",
"mends",
"patches",
"repairs",
"darns",
"sews",
"stitches",
"sutures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quick-tempered":{
"easily irritated or annoyed":{
"examples":[
"a quick-tempered man who invariably utters threats at any kids who wander into his yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"fiery",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"stuffy",
"testy",
"waspish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"cross-grained",
"curmudgeonly",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"off-color",
"off-colored",
"ornery",
"querulous",
"snarly",
"surly",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"disputatious",
"fractious",
"fretful",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"huffy",
"pouty",
"sensitive",
"short",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy",
"hot-blooded",
"passionate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affable",
"companionable",
"cordial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"sociable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"sweet",
"well-disposed",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed",
"forbearing",
"long-suffering",
"obliging",
"patient",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"tolerant",
"uncomplaining",
"understanding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"quivers":{
"an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold":{
"examples":[
"a quiver ran through the audience when the monster cornered the movie's hero"
],
"synonyms":[
"shivers",
"shudders",
"trembles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitations",
"jolts",
"quakes",
"shakes",
"tremors",
"vibrations",
"wobbles",
"wabbles",
"fluctuations",
"flutters",
"oscillations",
"waves",
"beats",
"palpitations",
"pulsations",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"aspen leaves quivering in the breeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"buckets",
"convulses",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"joggles",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"judders",
"quakes",
"shakes",
"shudders",
"vibrates",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocks",
"sways",
"swings",
"chatters",
"quavers",
"shivers",
"thrills",
"trembles",
"twitches",
"dodders",
"wavers",
"flickers",
"fluctuates",
"flutters",
"oscillates",
"undulates",
"waves",
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quidnuncs":{
"a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others":{
"examples":[
"with the arrival of our other friend, we at last had a quorum of quidnuncs and enough material to while away a long lunch hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"circulators",
"gossipers",
"gossipmongers",
"gossips",
"newsmongers",
"talebearers",
"tale-tellers",
"telltales",
"yentas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayers",
"blabbermouths",
"informants",
"informers",
"snitchers",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"libelers",
"scandalmongers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quitting":{
"the act of leaving a place":{
"examples":[
"we simply didn't know what to make of the couple's sudden quitting of the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"decamping",
"decampment",
"departing",
"departure",
"exit",
"exiting",
"farewell",
"going",
"leave",
"leave-taking",
"lighting out",
"outgo",
"parting",
"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 surrendering , yielding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"resistant",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"dogged",
"insistent",
"patient",
"persevering",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"tenacious",
"assured",
"certain",
"dedicated",
"determined",
"firm",
"hell-bent",
"intent",
"positive",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in stopping , ending":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"passing",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"waning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leftover",
"remaining",
"lingering",
"residual",
"abiding",
"biding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping up",
"lasting",
"perduring",
"persisting",
"running on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give up (a job or office)":{
"examples":[
"he decided to quit his job at the fast-food restaurant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"chucking",
"leaving",
"resigning (from)",
"retiring (from)",
"stepping aside (from)",
"stepping down (from)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"vacating",
"dropping out (of)",
"throwing up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"staying (at)"
]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"examples":[
"her doctor told her it was high time she quit smoking"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"discontinuing",
"dropping",
"giving up",
"knocking off",
"laying off (of)",
"packing (up or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"halting",
"leaving off",
"shutting off",
"pausing",
"tapering off",
"throwing up",
"rounding (off or out)",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"wrapping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"going",
"running on",
"hanging in",
"hanging on",
"holding on",
"persevering",
"persisting",
"following through (with)",
"renewing",
"reopening",
"restarting",
"resuming",
"preserving",
"staying",
"beginning",
"commencing",
"starting"
],
"antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"keeping",
"keeping up",
"maintaining"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"quit pestering your coworkers with pointless questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"canning",
"ceasing",
"cutting off",
"cutting out",
"desisting (from)",
"discontinuing",
"dropping",
"ending",
"giving over",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"laying off",
"leaving off",
"packing (up or in)",
"shutting off",
"stopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completing",
"concluding",
"finishing",
"closing (down)",
"deactivating",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"damming",
"delaying",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"kiboshing",
"obstructing",
"stemming",
"calling",
"suspending",
"arresting",
"braking",
"checking",
"clamping down",
"reining (in)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stamping",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abolishing",
"aborting",
"annulling",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"dissolving",
"killing",
"ruining",
"scuttling",
"snuffing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping up",
"running on",
"advancing",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to remain behind":{
"examples":[
"he quit the house sometime around nine this morning and hasn't been seen since"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"leaving",
"marooning",
"stranding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"flinging",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"scrapping",
"shedding",
"shucking (off)",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"delivering",
"giving up",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"escaping",
"retreating (from)",
"taking off (from)",
"vacating",
"withdrawing (from)",
"abjuring",
"cutting off",
"disowning",
"rejecting",
"renouncing",
"repudiating",
"separating (from)",
"sacrificing",
"distancing",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harboring",
"having",
"holding",
"keeping",
"owning",
"possessing",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"withholding",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"reclaiming"
]
},
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"tried to persuade his daughter to remain at home, but eventually he just quit and let her go out on her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinking",
"bowing",
"budging",
"capitulating",
"conceding",
"giving in",
"knuckling under",
"relenting",
"submitting",
"succumbing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescing",
"deferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contending",
"fighting",
"holding off",
"battling",
"breasting",
"combating",
"combatting",
"confronting",
"countering",
"defying",
"facing",
"meeting",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"thwarting",
"withstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"resisting"
]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"will this teasing ever quit ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"dead-ending",
"determining",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"elapsing",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"going",
"halting",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"letting up",
"passing",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"winking (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisting (from)",
"laying off (of)",
"refraining (from)",
"giving over",
"knocking off",
"packing (up or in)",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"cutting out",
"stalling",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abating",
"petering (out)",
"winding down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drawing out",
"extending",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"hanging on",
"persisting"
]
},
"to give what is owed for":{
"examples":[
"eager to quit all debts before starting married life"
],
"synonyms":[
"anteing (up)",
"balancing",
"clearing",
"discharging",
"footing",
"liquidating",
"meeting",
"paying",
"paying off",
"paying up",
"ponying up",
"recompensing",
"settling",
"springing (for)",
"standing"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"repudiating"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"we plan to quit the amusement park around seven tonight and then head to the diner for some food"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way":{
"examples":[
"I thought the kids quitted themselves quite well at the concert tonight"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquitting",
"bearing",
"behaving",
"carrying",
"comporting",
"conducting",
"demeaning",
"deporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"checking",
"collecting",
"composing",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"handling",
"inhibiting",
"quieting",
"repressing",
"restraining",
"moderating",
"modulating",
"tempering",
"acting",
"impersonating",
"playing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"cutting up",
"misbehaving",
"misconducting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quick-freezes":{
"as in freezes , ices":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"freezes",
"frosts",
"ices",
"supercools",
"air-conditions",
"ventilates",
"chills",
"cools",
"refrigerates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heats",
"toasts",
"warms",
"bakes",
"boils",
"broils",
"steams",
"heat-treats",
"tempers",
"microwaves"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quippers":{
"as in practical jokers , banterers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banterers",
"cutups",
"kidders",
"knockabouts",
"practical jokers",
"pranksters",
"quipsters",
"teasers",
"wisecrackers",
"comediennes",
"entertainers",
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"fools",
"harlequins",
"zanies",
"cards",
"comedians",
"comics",
"drolls",
"farceurs",
"funnymen",
"gaggers",
"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"humorists",
"jesters",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"wags",
"wits",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"parodists",
"satirists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quietuses":{
"a freeing from an obligation or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"was granted a quietus on the remainder of the debt in the old man's will"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliveries",
"discharges",
"quittances",
"releases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispensations",
"exemptions",
"immunities",
"waivers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"her unshakable belief in a blissful afterlife allowed her to meet her quietus without the slightest tinge of fear or regret"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"dooms",
"ends",
"exits",
"expirations",
"expiries",
"fates",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"sleeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quietly":{
"without motion":{
"examples":[
"she stood quietly behind the curtains, hoping to scare her sister when she came into the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"motionlessly",
"quiet",
"still"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immovably",
"inactively"
],
"near antonyms":[
"movably"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"quips":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"has his share of the quips that seem to come with a title of nobility"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchets",
"curiosities",
"eccentricities",
"erraticisms",
"idiosyncrasies",
"individualisms",
"kinks",
"mannerisms",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quiddities",
"quirks",
"singularities",
"tics",
"tricks",
"twists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affectations",
"airs",
"attributes",
"characteristics",
"marks",
"properties",
"traits",
"customs",
"habits",
"patterns",
"practices",
"practises",
"ways",
"wonts",
"addictions",
"abnormalities",
"neuroticisms",
"perversions",
"dispositions",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"bents",
"inclinations",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies",
"turns",
"attitudes",
"characters",
"humors",
"identities",
"individualities",
"natures",
"personalities",
"temperaments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"the crowd laughed aloud at the author's clever quip"
],
"synonyms":[
"boffolas",
"boffs",
"boffos",
"cracks",
"drolleries",
"funnies",
"gags",
"giggles",
"japes",
"jests",
"jokes",
"joshes",
"laughs",
"nifties",
"one-liners",
"pleasantries",
"ribs",
"sallies",
"waggeries",
"wisecracks",
"witticisms",
"yuks",
"yucks",
"yaks",
"yocks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knee-slappers",
"panics",
"riots",
"screams",
"thigh-slappers",
"antics",
"buffooneries",
"capers",
"leg-pulls",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"tricks",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"put-ons",
"riffs",
"banters",
"persiflages",
"railleries",
"repartees",
"comedies",
"humors",
"wits",
"wordplays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make jokes":{
"examples":[
"she rolled her eyes at her brother's bragging and quipped , \"You're a legend in your own mind, all right\""
],
"synonyms":[
"banters",
"chaffs",
"fools",
"funs",
"gags",
"japes",
"jests",
"jives",
"jokes",
"jollies",
"joshes",
"kids",
"wisecracks",
"yuks",
"yucks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gibes",
"jibes",
"hazes",
"jeers",
"mocks",
"rags",
"rallies",
"razzes",
"ribs",
"ridicules",
"teases",
"caricatures",
"lampoons",
"parodies",
"satirizes",
"amuses",
"diverts",
"entertains"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quicks":{
"the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions":{
"examples":[
"that nasty comment cut me to the quick"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellies",
"blood",
"bones",
"bosoms",
"breasts",
"cores",
"guts",
"hearts",
"heartstrings",
"inner spaces",
"insides",
"souls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consciences",
"minds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quieter":{
"as in muffler , softener":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"muffler",
"softener",
"soft pedal",
"damper",
"mute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"quibbled":{
"to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant":{
"examples":[
"he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II"
],
"synonyms":[
"carped",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"fussed",
"niggled",
"nitpicked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criticized",
"faulted",
"beefed",
"bellyached",
"bitched",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"griped",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"moaned",
"squawked",
"squealed",
"wailed",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"yammered",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled",
"murmured",
"muttered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauded",
"commended",
"complimented",
"praised",
"recommended",
"approved",
"backed",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"supported"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"don't quibble over who gets to sit in front"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercated",
"argued",
"argufied",
"bickered",
"brabbled",
"brawled",
"controverted",
"disputed",
"fell out",
"fought",
"hassled",
"jarred",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"rowed",
"scrapped",
"spatted",
"squabbled",
"tiffed",
"wrangled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"dared",
"defied",
"clashed",
"contended",
"contested",
"tangled",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"fussed",
"nitpicked",
"considered",
"debated",
"discussed",
"kicked",
"objected",
"protested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisted",
"got along",
"accepted",
"agreed",
"assented",
"concurred",
"consented"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"quilting":{
"as in lining , interlining":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"interlining",
"lining",
"packing",
"buffer",
"bumper",
"cushion",
"fender",
"pad",
"fill",
"filler",
"filling",
"padding",
"stuffing",
"wadding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in knitting , crocheting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crocheting",
"knitting",
"cross-stitching",
"embroidering",
"basting",
"easing",
"felling",
"finishing",
"overcasting",
"mending",
"patching",
"repairing",
"darning",
"sewing",
"stitching",
"suturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"quintessential":{
"constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated":{
"examples":[
"Helen of Troy was supposedly the quintessential beauty of the ancient world"
],
"synonyms":[
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"classic",
"definitive",
"exemplary",
"imitable",
"model",
"paradigmatic",
"textbook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ideal",
"nonpareil",
"special",
"unique",
"absolute",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"perfect",
"A-OK",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"capital",
"choice",
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