dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/sin_MWT.json
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{
"sine qua non":{
"something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable":{
"examples":[
"an extensive grounding in mathematics is a sine qua non for a career in architecture"
],
"synonyms":[
"condition",
"demand",
"essential",
"must",
"must-have",
"necessary",
"necessity",
"need",
"needful",
"requirement",
"requisite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precondition",
"prerequisite",
"advantage",
"edge",
"plus",
"desideration",
"desideratum",
"wish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amenity",
"comfort",
"extra",
"extravagance",
"frill",
"indulgence",
"luxury",
"superfluity",
"surplus",
"surplusage"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonessential",
"nonnecessity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singing (out)":{
"as in calling , crying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawling",
"baying",
"bellowing",
"calling",
"crying",
"hollering",
"roaring",
"shouting",
"thundering",
"vociferating",
"yelling",
"piping up",
"shooting",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up",
"articulating",
"enouncing",
"enunciating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"shutting up",
"suppressing",
"quieting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"single (out)":{
"to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities":{
"examples":[
"she quickly singled out the most qualified candidate from the pool of the applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-pick",
"choose",
"cull",
"elect",
"handpick",
"name",
"opt (for)",
"pick",
"prefer",
"select",
"tag",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselect",
"appoint",
"designate",
"fix",
"mark",
"nominate",
"set",
"tab",
"tap",
"accept",
"adopt",
"embrace",
"espouse",
"settle (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapprove",
"negative",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"discard",
"jettison",
"throw away",
"throw out"
],
"antonyms":[
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"turn down"
]
},
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"through careful reasoning and the process of elimination, neighbors singled her out as the writer of the anonymous letter"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguish",
"finger",
"ID",
"identify",
"pinpoint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnose",
"determine",
"find",
"locate",
"pick out",
"place",
"recognize",
"spot",
"check",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"notice",
"observe",
"scrutinize",
"betray",
"disclose",
"discover",
"reveal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide",
"counterfeit",
"feign",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"singleness":{
"as in uniqueness , oneness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distinctiveness",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oneness",
"peculiarity",
"separateness",
"singularity",
"uniqueness",
"character",
"identity",
"individualism",
"individuality",
"personality",
"selfhood",
"self-identity",
"disposition",
"humor",
"nature",
"temper",
"temperament",
"independence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformity",
"conventionality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singly":{
"without aid or support":{
"examples":[
"either singly or with the cooperation of other nations, we must do something about this pressing environmental issue"
],
"synonyms":[
"alone",
"independently",
"single-handed",
"single-handedly",
"solely",
"unaided",
"unassisted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"individually",
"separately",
"solo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collectively",
"conjointly",
"cooperatively",
"hand in glove",
"hand and glove",
"hand in hand",
"jointly",
"mutually",
"together",
"en masse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"singularities":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"a college professor with singularities of dress and speech that have long endeared him to his students"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchets",
"curiosities",
"eccentricities",
"erraticisms",
"idiosyncrasies",
"individualisms",
"kinks",
"mannerisms",
"oddities",
"peculiarities",
"quiddities",
"quips",
"quirks",
"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"
]
},
"sinister":{
"being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come":{
"examples":[
"the movie relies too much on sinister background music to create the suspense that the plot sorely lacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"inauspicious",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"threatening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dim",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"hopeless",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"star-crossed",
"troubled",
"unfortunate",
"unlucky",
"evil",
"malign",
"malignant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"auspicious",
"benign",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"favorable",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"prosperous"
],
"antonyms":[
"unthreatening"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sink":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"his fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophy",
"crumble",
"decay",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"devolve",
"ebb",
"regress",
"retrograde",
"rot",
"worsen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"recede",
"wane",
"break down",
"corrupt",
"decompose",
"degrade",
"dilapidate",
"disintegrate",
"molder",
"putrefy",
"sour",
"spoil",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"debilitate",
"undermine",
"droop",
"fail",
"fall",
"flag",
"lag",
"languish",
"run down",
"sag",
"slip",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"better",
"upgrade",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"fortify",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"strengthen",
"advance",
"develop",
"march",
"proceed",
"progress"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"improve",
"meliorate"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"I had just bought a bundle of shares of the stock when its price sank like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crash",
"crater",
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"dive",
"drop",
"fall",
"lower",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"skid",
"tumble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"die (down)",
"diminish",
"droop",
"dwindle",
"ebb",
"lessen",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"taper off",
"wane",
"recede",
"retreat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"lift",
"mount",
"rise",
"soar",
"spike",
"up"
]
},
"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
"examples":[
"sinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation"
],
"synonyms":[
"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"pocket",
"repress",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"submerge",
"suppress",
"swallow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"control",
"govern",
"manage",
"bridle",
"check",
"curb",
"quash",
"quell",
"bottle up",
"contain",
"muffle",
"squelch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"express",
"loose",
"release",
"take out",
"unleash",
"vent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"that evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialize",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"flee",
"fly",
"melt",
"vanish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blank (out)",
"clear",
"die (away or down or out)",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"dry up",
"blur",
"dim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrive",
"break out",
"come out",
"emerge",
"issue",
"loom",
"show up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"the slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuate",
"break",
"cheapen",
"depreciate",
"depress",
"devaluate",
"devalue",
"downgrade",
"lower",
"mark down",
"reduce",
"write down",
"write off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debase",
"demonetize",
"underestimate",
"underprice",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"abridge",
"compress",
"contract",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"moderate",
"shrink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloat",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"overestimate",
"overprice",
"overrate",
"overvalue",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"compound",
"dilate",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"multiply",
"raise",
"swell",
"up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciate",
"enhance",
"mark up",
"upgrade"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"the revelation that he has been embezzling for years definitely sinks him in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower",
"shame",
"smirch",
"take down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the road sinks abruptly after that curve"
],
"synonyms":[
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"drop",
"fall",
"plunge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"recline",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"straighten"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"climb",
"mount",
"rise",
"uprise",
"upsweep",
"upturn"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home"
],
"synonyms":[
"decay",
"droop",
"emaciate",
"fade",
"fail",
"flag",
"go",
"lag",
"languish",
"sag",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break down",
"wear out",
"yield",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"rot",
"run down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesce",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"gain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place of great vice and corruption":{
"examples":[
"was able to rise above the sink that was his birthplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"Augean stable",
"cesspool",
"Gomorrah"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tenderloin",
"den",
"dump",
"pigpen",
"pigsty",
"hellhole",
"hole"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sinless":{
"free from sin":{
"examples":[
"the belief that limbo is the place where sinless but unbaptized souls abide until Judgment Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"impeccable",
"innocent",
"pure",
"white"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chaste",
"moral",
"virgin",
"virtuous",
"immaculate",
"spotless",
"unblemished",
"unstained",
"unsullied",
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"blameless",
"guiltless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"lickerish",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"unchaste",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"reprobate",
"unrighteous",
"virtueless",
"wicked",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"erring",
"fallen",
"lost",
"perverted",
"condemned",
"damned"
],
"antonyms":[
"impure",
"peccant",
"sinful",
"sinning"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sinning":{
"as in sinful , impure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impure",
"peccant",
"sinful",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"lickerish",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"unchaste",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"reprobate",
"unrighteous",
"virtueless",
"wicked",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"erring",
"fallen",
"lost",
"perverted",
"condemned",
"damned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeccable",
"innocent",
"pure",
"sinless",
"white",
"chaste",
"moral",
"virgin",
"virtuous",
"immaculate",
"spotless",
"unblemished",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"bless me, Father, for I have sinned"
],
"synonyms":[
"erring",
"falling",
"offending",
"straying",
"transgressing",
"trespassing",
"wandering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"violating",
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"messing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgiving",
"justifying",
"pardoning",
"regretting",
"repenting",
"ruing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"singed":{
"as in burned , charred":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to burn on the surface":{
"examples":[
"the marshmallows got a bit singed over the campfire, but we like them that way"
],
"synonyms":[
"charred",
"scorched",
"seared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted",
"baked",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"scalded",
"scathed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sincere":{
"genuine in feeling":{
"examples":[
"she offered a sincere apology for her angry outburst"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartfelt",
"unfeigned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unaffected",
"unforced",
"artless",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"translucent",
"transparent",
"true",
"authentic",
"genuine",
"hearty",
"wholehearted",
"whole-souled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backhanded",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"false",
"feigned",
"insincere"
]
},
"free from any intent to deceive or impress others":{
"examples":[
"done out of a sincere desire to help others"
],
"synonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"guileless",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"natural",
"real",
"simple",
"true",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childlike",
"dewy-eyed",
"gee-whiz",
"impressionable",
"inexperienced",
"malleable",
"persuadable",
"persuasible",
"simpleminded",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"spontaneous",
"unforced",
"unstudied",
"candid",
"direct",
"frank",
"free",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"openhearted",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"single-minded",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"unguarded",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"susceptible",
"unwary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"critical",
"cynical",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"wary",
"cosmopolitan",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"polished",
"refined",
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"manipulative",
"two-faced",
"arch",
"calculating",
"canny",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"designing",
"foxy",
"knavish",
"scheming",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"slippery",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"underhanded",
"wily",
"flattering",
"mealymouthed",
"smooth",
"sycophantic",
"unctuous",
"feigned",
"forced",
"strained"
],
"antonyms":[
"affected",
"artful",
"artificial",
"assuming",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"fake",
"false",
"guileful",
"insincere",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sinew(s)":{
"as in spine , backbone":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"spine",
"anchor",
"buttress",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"mainstay",
"pillar",
"reliance",
"standby",
"right hand",
"bolsterer",
"crutch",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"prop",
"stay",
"anchorage",
"harbor",
"refuge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singe":{
"to burn on the surface":{
"examples":[
"the marshmallows got a bit singed over the campfire, but we like them that way"
],
"synonyms":[
"char",
"scorch",
"sear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light",
"bake",
"cremate",
"incinerate",
"scald",
"scathe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sing (out)":{
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"examples":[],
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"bawl",
"bay",
"bellow",
"call",
"cry",
"holler",
"roar",
"shout",
"thunder",
"vociferate",
"yell",
"pipe up",
"shoot",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up",
"articulate",
"enounce",
"enunciate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"shut up",
"suppress",
"quiet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sine qua nons":{
"something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable":{
"examples":[
"an extensive grounding in mathematics is a sine qua non for a career in architecture"
],
"synonyms":[
"conditions",
"demands",
"essentials",
"must-haves",
"musts",
"necessaries",
"necessities",
"needfuls",
"needs",
"requirements",
"requisites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preconditions",
"prerequisites",
"advantages",
"edges",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"desiderata",
"desiderations",
"wishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amenities",
"comforts",
"extras",
"extravagances",
"frills",
"indulgences",
"luxuries",
"superfluities",
"surplusages",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonessentials",
"nonnecessities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinks":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"his fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business"
],
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"atrophies",
"crumbles",
"decays",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"devolves",
"ebbs",
"regresses",
"retrogrades",
"rots",
"worsens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"wanes",
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decomposes",
"degrades",
"dilapidates",
"disintegrates",
"molders",
"putrefies",
"sours",
"spoils",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"debilitates",
"undermines",
"droops",
"fails",
"falls",
"flags",
"lags",
"languishes",
"runs down",
"sags",
"slips",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"betters",
"upgrades",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"fortifies",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"strengthens",
"advances",
"develops",
"marches",
"proceeds",
"progresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"improves",
"meliorates"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"I had just bought a bundle of shares of the stock when its price sank like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashes",
"craters",
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"dives",
"drops",
"falls",
"lowers",
"nose-dives",
"plummets",
"plunges",
"skids",
"tumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (down)",
"diminishes",
"droops",
"dwindles",
"ebbs",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"tapers off",
"wanes",
"recedes",
"retreats"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"lifts",
"mounts",
"rises",
"soars",
"spikes",
"ups"
]
},
"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
"examples":[
"sinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation"
],
"synonyms":[
"chokes (back)",
"holds back",
"pockets",
"represses",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"submerges",
"suppresses",
"swallows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controls",
"governs",
"manages",
"bridles",
"checks",
"curbs",
"quashes",
"quells",
"bottles up",
"contains",
"muffles",
"squelches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expresses",
"looses",
"releases",
"takes out",
"unleashes",
"vents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"that evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerializes",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evanesces",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"flees",
"flies",
"melts",
"vanishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanks (out)",
"clears",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"dries up",
"blurs",
"dims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrives",
"breaks out",
"comes out",
"emerges",
"issues",
"looms",
"shows up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appears",
"materializes"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"the slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuates",
"breaks",
"cheapens",
"depreciates",
"depresses",
"devaluates",
"devalues",
"downgrades",
"lowers",
"marks down",
"reduces",
"writes down",
"writes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debases",
"demonetizes",
"underestimates",
"underprices",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"abridges",
"compresses",
"contracts",
"de-escalates",
"deflates",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"moderates",
"shrinks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloats",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"overestimates",
"overprices",
"overrates",
"overvalues",
"adds",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"balloons",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"dilates",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"heightens",
"increases",
"maximizes",
"multiplies",
"raises",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciates",
"enhances",
"marks up",
"upgrades"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"the revelation that he has been embezzling for years definitely sinks him in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"chastens",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers",
"shames",
"smirches",
"takes down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"belittles",
"castigates",
"cries down",
"criticizes",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"detracts",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"writes off",
"bad-mouths",
"defames",
"defiles",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"affronts",
"insults",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"execrates",
"reprehends",
"reprobates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"boasts",
"celebrates",
"cheers",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"decorates",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"hails",
"honors",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts",
"acknowledges",
"recognizes",
"highlights",
"plays up",
"spotlights",
"dignifies",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"enskies",
"enthrones",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"advances",
"boosts",
"lifts",
"promotes",
"raises",
"upgrades",
"uplifts",
"idealizes",
"romanticizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"elevates",
"exalts"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the road sinks abruptly after that curve"
],
"synonyms":[
"declines",
"descends",
"dips",
"drops",
"falls",
"plunges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"cants",
"cocks",
"heels",
"inclines",
"leans",
"lists",
"reclines",
"slants",
"slopes",
"tilts",
"tips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"flattens",
"levels",
"planes",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"straightens"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"ascends",
"climbs",
"mounts",
"rises",
"uprises",
"upsweeps",
"upturns"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home"
],
"synonyms":[
"decays",
"droops",
"emaciates",
"fades",
"fails",
"flags",
"goes",
"lags",
"languishes",
"sags",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"wears out",
"yields",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"rots",
"runs down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesces",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"gains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place of great vice and corruption":{
"examples":[
"was able to rise above the sink that was his birthplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"Augean stables",
"cesspools",
"Gomorrahs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tenderloins",
"dens",
"dumps",
"pigpens",
"pigsties",
"hellholes",
"holes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"single-mindedness":{
"as in relentlessness , perseverance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"bullheadedness",
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singles":{
"as in individuals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"individuals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrays",
"bands",
"batches",
"batteries",
"bodies",
"boodles",
"bunches",
"clusters",
"clutches",
"consorts",
"constellations",
"crops",
"groupings",
"groups",
"huddles",
"knots",
"lots",
"parcels",
"parties",
"passels",
"assemblies",
"collectives",
"congregations",
"gatherings",
"musters",
"organizations",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"fellowships",
"gangs",
"rings",
"rounds",
"sets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in units , items":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entities",
"items",
"units"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"bands",
"banks",
"batches",
"batteries",
"blocks",
"bunches",
"clots",
"clumps",
"clusters",
"clutches",
"collections",
"constellations",
"groupings",
"groups",
"huddles",
"knots",
"lots",
"musters",
"packages",
"parcels",
"passels",
"sets",
"suites",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerations",
"agglomerations",
"assortments",
"hodgepodges",
"jumbles",
"miscellanies",
"mixtures",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"varieties"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bachelors , maids":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bachelorettes",
"maidens",
"maids",
"spinsters",
"bachelors",
"exes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"better halves",
"consorts",
"mates",
"partners",
"significant others",
"spouses",
"soul mates",
"domestic partners"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"single":{
"not married":{
"examples":[
"there was such a shortage of single men in the neighborhood that he had his pick of girlfriends"
],
"synonyms":[
"unattached",
"unmarried",
"unwed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fancy-free",
"footloose",
"marriageable",
"unpaired",
"divorced",
"separated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mated",
"paired",
"affianced",
"betrothed",
"committed",
"engaged",
"pledged",
"promised",
"remarried"
],
"antonyms":[
"attached",
"espoused",
"hitched",
"married",
"wedded",
"wed"
]
},
"belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named":{
"examples":[
"any view expressed on the newspaper's editorial pages is the single opinion of the writer of the column"
],
"synonyms":[
"exclusive",
"sole",
"unshared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"proprietary",
"personal",
"private"
],
"near antonyms":[
"common",
"communal",
"conjoint",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"shared",
"united"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonexclusive"
]
},
"not physically attached to another unit":{
"examples":[
"the average price of single homes in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"detached",
"disconnected",
"discrete",
"free",
"freestanding",
"separate",
"unattached",
"unconnected"
],
"near synonyms":[
"independent",
"self-contained",
"individual",
"private"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adjoining"
],
"antonyms":[
"attached",
"connected",
"joined",
"linked"
]
},
"not being in the company of others":{
"examples":[
"a restaurant where the single diner is made to feel welcome and given the same level of service as couples or groups"
],
"synonyms":[
"alone",
"lone",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"solitary",
"solo",
"unaccompanied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unattended",
"unchaperoned",
"forlorn",
"friendless",
"cloistered",
"disassociated",
"hermetic",
"hermetical",
"insulated",
"isolate",
"isolated",
"remote",
"retired",
"secluded",
"withdrawn",
"quarantined",
"segregated",
"separated",
"sequestered",
"separate",
"unattached",
"unconnected",
"unlinked",
"detached",
"disconnected",
"disjointed",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"fractionated",
"abandoned",
"adrift",
"deserted",
"desolate",
"forgotten",
"forsaken",
"lorn",
"neglected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"escorted",
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"communicating",
"contiguous",
"neighboring",
"next-door",
"attached",
"connected",
"coupled",
"linked"
],
"antonyms":[
"accompanied"
]
},
"as in individual":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"individual"
],
"near antonyms":[
"array",
"band",
"batch",
"battery",
"body",
"boodle",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"consort",
"constellation",
"crop",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"parcel",
"party",
"passel",
"assembly",
"collective",
"congregation",
"gathering",
"muster",
"organization",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"fellowship",
"gang",
"ring",
"round",
"set"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in unit , item":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entity",
"item",
"unit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"block",
"bunch",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration",
"agglomeration",
"assortment",
"hodgepodge",
"jumble",
"miscellany",
"mixture",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"variety"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bachelor , maid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bachelorette",
"maid",
"maiden",
"spinster",
"bachelor",
"ex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"better half",
"consort",
"mate",
"partner",
"significant other",
"spouse",
"soul mate",
"domestic partner"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"as in purity , chastity":{
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"purity",
"morality",
"virtue",
"harmlessness",
"inoffensiveness",
"decency",
"goodness",
"honesty",
"incorruptibility",
"integrity",
"law-abidingness",
"righteousness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"faultlessness",
"guiltlessness",
"impeccability",
"innocence",
"innocency",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness"
],
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"blameworthiness",
"culpability",
"guilt",
"guiltiness",
"blame",
"fault",
"responsibility",
"corruption",
"criminality",
"depravity",
"evil",
"immorality",
"reprehensibleness",
"sinfulness",
"wickedness",
"harmfulness",
"offensiveness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
"thanked them sincerely for their help"
],
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"artlessly",
"guilelessly",
"ingenuously",
"innocently",
"naively",
"na\u00efvely",
"naturally",
"unaffectedly",
"unfeignedly",
"unpretentiously"
],
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"honestly",
"simply",
"truly",
"freely",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"matter-of-factly",
"casually",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"nonchalantly",
"informally",
"relaxedly",
"unceremoniously"
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"cannily",
"deceitfully",
"deceptively",
"deviously",
"dishonestly",
"falsely",
"archly",
"calculatingly",
"craftily",
"cunningly",
"furtively",
"insidiously",
"sharply",
"shiftily",
"slickly",
"slyly",
"slily",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"flatteringly",
"sycophantically",
"unctuously"
],
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"artificially",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"pretentiously",
"unnaturally"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
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"as in unusually , extraordinarily":{
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"extraordinarily",
"freakishly",
"uncommonly",
"uncustomarily",
"unusually",
"improperly",
"inappropriately",
"astronomically",
"considerably",
"deadly",
"eminently",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extensively",
"extra",
"extremely",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"incredibly",
"mightily",
"remarkably",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"super",
"terribly",
"very",
"whacking",
"extortionately",
"inexcusably",
"obscenely",
"unbearably",
"unconscionably",
"unreasonably",
"extravagantly",
"immoderately",
"intemperately",
"devilishly",
"excessively",
"exorbitantly",
"inordinately",
"intolerably",
"monstrously",
"overly",
"overmuch",
"too",
"unacceptably",
"unduly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"acceptably",
"moderately",
"modestly",
"reasonably",
"temperately",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"meagerly",
"minimally",
"scantily",
"scarcely",
"slightly"
],
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},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"sinews":{
"as in spine , backbone":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"spine",
"anchor",
"buttress",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"mainstay",
"pillar",
"reliance",
"standby",
"right hand",
"bolsterer",
"crutch",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"prop",
"stay",
"anchorage",
"harbor",
"refuge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinks one's teeth into":{
"to crush or grind with the teeth":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bites (on)",
"champs",
"chaws",
"chews",
"chomps (on)",
"crunches (on)",
"gnaws (on)",
"masticates",
"nibbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ruminates",
"munches",
"noshes",
"snacks",
"consumes",
"eats",
"ingests",
"swallows",
"bolts",
"devours",
"gobbles (up or down)",
"gorges",
"gulps",
"scarfs",
"scoffs",
"snacks",
"wolfs",
"nips",
"pecks (at)",
"picks (at)",
"gums",
"mumbles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"single tax":{
"as in property tax , income tax":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capitation",
"custom(s)",
"excise",
"hidden tax",
"income tax",
"poll tax",
"property tax",
"sales tax",
"sin tax",
"tariff",
"toll",
"tribute",
"value-added tax",
"withholding tax",
"assessment",
"duty",
"imposition",
"impost",
"levy",
"tax",
"direct tax",
"personal tax",
"supertax",
"surcharge",
"surtax",
"death tax",
"estate tax",
"inheritance tax",
"flat tax",
"proportional tax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singer":{
"one who sings":{
"examples":[
"a famous opera singer will be performing at the gala opening of the arts center"
],
"synonyms":[
"caroler",
"caroller",
"songster",
"vocalist",
"vocalizer",
"voice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belter",
"crooner",
"harmonizer",
"hummer",
"warbler",
"yodeler",
"serenader",
"cantor",
"chanter",
"chorister",
"chansonnier",
"chanteuse",
"songstress",
"bard",
"troubadour"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinfoniettas":{
"as in chamber orchestras , brass bands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brass bands",
"chamber orchestras",
"bands",
"orchestras",
"philharmonics",
"symphonies",
"symphony orchestras",
"brasses",
"strings",
"woodwinds",
"combos",
"ensembles",
"groups",
"companies",
"troupes",
"duos",
"octets",
"quartets",
"quartettes",
"quintets",
"septets",
"sextets",
"trios"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"since":{
"as in after , past":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"after",
"apr\u00e8s",
"behind",
"below",
"following",
"next to",
"past"
],
"near antonyms":[
"afore",
"ahead of",
"before",
"ere",
"of",
"previous to",
"prior to",
"to",
"toward",
"towards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"earlier than the present time":{
"examples":[
"an ancient marking whose meaning is long since forgotten"
],
"synonyms":[
"ago",
"agone",
"back",
"syne"
],
"near synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[
"hence"
]
},
"for the reason that":{
"examples":[
"since you are already here, we might as well get the meeting started"
],
"synonyms":[
"as",
"as long as",
"because",
"being (as or as how or that)",
"'cause",
"considering",
"for",
"inasmuch as",
"now",
"seeing",
"whereas"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb",
"conjunction",
"preposition"
]
},
"single taxes":{
"as in property taxes , income taxes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capitations",
"customs",
"excises",
"hidden taxes",
"income taxes",
"poll taxes",
"property taxes",
"sales taxes",
"sin taxes",
"tariffs",
"tolls",
"tributes",
"value-added taxes",
"withholding taxes",
"assessments",
"duties",
"impositions",
"imposts",
"levies",
"taxes",
"direct taxes",
"personal taxes",
"supertaxes",
"surcharges",
"surtaxes",
"death taxes",
"estate taxes",
"inheritance taxes",
"flat taxes",
"proportional taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"single-handed":{
"without aid or support":{
"examples":[
"she was adamant that if she was expected to do the project single-handed , she should not have to share the credit afterward"
],
"synonyms":[
"alone",
"independently",
"single-handedly",
"singly",
"solely",
"unaided",
"unassisted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"individually",
"separately",
"solo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collectively",
"conjointly",
"cooperatively",
"hand in glove",
"hand and glove",
"hand in hand",
"jointly",
"mutually",
"together",
"en masse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"singes":{
"to burn on the surface":{
"examples":[
"the marshmallows got a bit singed over the campfire, but we like them that way"
],
"synonyms":[
"chars",
"scorches",
"sears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fires",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"lights",
"bakes",
"cremates",
"incinerates",
"scalds",
"scathes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"singularity":{
"an odd or peculiar habit":{
"examples":[
"a college professor with singularities of dress and speech that have long endeared him to his students"
],
"synonyms":[
"crotchet",
"curiosity",
"eccentricity",
"erraticism",
"idiosyncrasy",
"individualism",
"kink",
"mannerism",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quiddity",
"quip",
"quirk",
"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"
]
},
"sink one's teeth into":{
"to crush or grind with the teeth":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bite (on)",
"champ",
"chaw",
"chew",
"chomp (on)",
"crunch (on)",
"gnaw (on)",
"masticate",
"nibble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ruminate",
"munch",
"nosh",
"snack",
"consume",
"eat",
"ingest",
"swallow",
"bolt",
"devour",
"gobble (up or down)",
"gorge",
"gulp",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"snack",
"wolf",
"nip",
"peck (at)",
"pick (at)",
"gum",
"mumble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"sinners":{
"a person who commits moral wrongs":{
"examples":[
"even the worst sinner can be redeemed"
],
"synonyms":[
"evildoers",
"immoralists",
"malefactors",
"wrongdoers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criminals",
"crooks",
"felons",
"lawbreakers",
"miscreants",
"misdoers",
"misfeasors",
"offenders",
"reprobates",
"transgressors",
"villains",
"corrupters",
"corruptors"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels",
"innocents",
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinking funds":{
"as in funds , nest eggs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coffers",
"deposits",
"funds",
"nest eggs",
"savings",
"treasures",
"caches",
"hoards",
"stashes",
"stockpiles",
"stores",
"inventories",
"pools",
"reserves",
"reservoirs",
"stocks",
"provisions",
"resources",
"accumulations",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"gatherings",
"harvests",
"repertories"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinfully":{
"as in wickedly , immorally":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"evilly",
"immorally",
"impurely",
"wickedly",
"indecently",
"obscenely",
"vulgarly",
"lasciviously",
"lewdly",
"lustfully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chastely",
"innocently",
"modestly",
"morally",
"purely",
"righteously",
"virtuously",
"decently",
"decorously",
"properly",
"priggishly",
"primly",
"prudishly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"singular":{
"being out of the ordinary":{
"examples":[
"the novelist's singular command of the language makes her a compelling voice in contemporary fiction"
],
"synonyms":[
"aberrant",
"aberrated",
"abnormal",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"especial",
"exceeding",
"exceptional",
"extraordinaire",
"extraordinary",
"freak",
"odd",
"peculiar",
"phenomenal",
"preternatural",
"rare",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"salient",
"striking",
"bizarre",
"deviant",
"eccentric",
"freakish",
"monstrous",
"oddball",
"outlandish",
"quaint",
"strange",
"weird",
"incomprehensible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"everyday",
"familiar",
"frequent"
],
"antonyms":[
"common",
"customary",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unextraordinary",
"usual"
]
},
"noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced":{
"examples":[
"appearing on the game show has been the most singular experience of my life"
],
"synonyms":[
"curious",
"extraordinary",
"funny",
"odd",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"peculiar",
"queer",
"rare",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"weird"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"oddball",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"way-out",
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"atypical",
"exceptional",
"irregular",
"newsworthy",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"noticeable",
"particular",
"remarkable",
"special"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unexceptional",
"expected",
"predictable",
"familiar",
"normal",
"regular",
"typical"
],
"antonyms":[
"common",
"ordinary",
"plain",
"usual"
]
},
"of, relating to, or belonging to a single person":{
"examples":[
"preserving our national heritage is not a singular responsibility but our collective duty"
],
"synonyms":[
"idiomatic",
"individual",
"individualized",
"particular",
"patented",
"peculiar",
"personal",
"personalized",
"private",
"privy",
"separate",
"subjective",
"unique"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characteristic",
"distinctive",
"intimate",
"identifying",
"idiosyncratic",
"especial",
"express",
"special",
"specific",
"independent",
"nonconformist",
"self-directed",
"self-sufficient",
"custom",
"customized",
"specialized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"widespread",
"common",
"normal",
"regular",
"typical"
],
"antonyms":[
"general",
"generic",
"popular",
"public",
"shared",
"universal"
]
},
"being the one or ones of a class with no other members":{
"examples":[
"this crime was a singular case, and using it as a reason for revising the criminal code would be ill-advised"
],
"synonyms":[
"alone",
"lone",
"one",
"one-off",
"only",
"sole",
"solitary",
"special",
"sui generis",
"unique"
],
"near synonyms":[
"single",
"solo",
"unaccompanied",
"unattended",
"incomparable",
"inimitable",
"matchless",
"peerless",
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unrivaled",
"unrivalled",
"unsurpassable",
"unsurpassed",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"individual",
"separate",
"nonce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"divers",
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"myriad",
"assorted",
"heterogenous",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"promiscuous",
"varied",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"prevalent",
"rampant",
"perennial",
"recurrent",
"repeated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sins":{
"a breaking of a moral or legal code":{
"examples":[
"a child old enough to know that lying is a sin"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaches",
"crimes",
"debts",
"errors",
"lawbreakings",
"malefactions",
"misdeeds",
"misdoings",
"offenses",
"offences",
"transgressions",
"trespasses",
"violations",
"wrongdoings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bias crimes",
"hate crimes",
"felonies",
"misconducts",
"misdemeanors",
"misfeasances",
"faults",
"foibles",
"peccadilloes",
"peccadillos",
"breaks",
"infringements",
"immoralities",
"iniquities",
"vices",
"corruptions",
"debaucheries",
"depravities",
"abuses",
"criminalities",
"illegalities",
"descents",
"downfalls",
"falls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeccabilities",
"innocences",
"irreproachabilities",
"moralities",
"virtues"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncrimes"
]
},
"that which is morally unacceptable":{
"examples":[
"a minister who worries that modern society has abandoned the concept of sin"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"evils",
"ills",
"immoralities",
"iniquities",
"villainies",
"wrongs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrocities",
"diabolisms",
"enormities",
"satanisms",
"devilries",
"deviltries",
"cancers",
"cankers",
"decays",
"rot",
"squalors",
"corruptions",
"debaucheries",
"degeneracies",
"depravities",
"indecencies",
"malefactions",
"perversions",
"scurrilities",
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"taboos",
"tabus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decencies",
"honesties",
"integrities",
"probities",
"rectitudes"
],
"antonyms":[
"goods",
"moralities",
"rights",
"virtues"
]
},
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"examples":[
"it's a sin to waste food when people are starving"
],
"synonyms":[
"crimes",
"disgraces",
"pities",
"shames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outrages",
"scandals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"my besetting sin is impatience\u2014I hate to wait for anything"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerits",
"derelictions",
"failings",
"faults",
"foibles",
"frailties",
"shortcomings",
"vices",
"wants",
"weaknesses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blots",
"spots",
"stains",
"blemishes",
"deficiencies",
"flaws",
"imperfections",
"minuses",
"nits",
"Achilles' heels",
"soft spots",
"corruptions",
"depravities",
"evils",
"immoralities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellences",
"perfections",
"integrities",
"moralities",
"probities",
"rectitudes"
],
"antonyms":[
"merits",
"virtues"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"bless me, Father, for I have sinned"
],
"synonyms":[
"errs",
"falls",
"offends",
"strays",
"transgresses",
"trespasses",
"wanders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"infringes",
"violates",
"backslides",
"lapses",
"messes up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgives",
"justifies",
"pardons",
"regrets",
"repents",
"rues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sin tax":{
"as in income tax , property tax":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capitation",
"custom(s)",
"excise",
"hidden tax",
"income tax",
"poll tax",
"property tax",
"sales tax",
"single tax",
"tariff",
"toll",
"tribute",
"value-added tax",
"withholding tax",
"assessment",
"duty",
"imposition",
"impost",
"levy",
"tax",
"direct tax",
"personal tax",
"supertax",
"surcharge",
"surtax",
"death tax",
"estate tax",
"inheritance tax",
"flat tax",
"proportional tax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinking":{
"as in fading , expiring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expiring",
"fading",
"passing away",
"dying",
"moribund",
"decadent",
"declining",
"deteriorating",
"dead",
"deceased",
"defunct",
"demised",
"departed",
"fallen",
"gone",
"lifeless",
"passed away",
"terminal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alive",
"animate",
"live",
"living",
"quick",
"being",
"breathing",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"surviving",
"booming",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"roaring",
"thriving",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in foundering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foundering",
"beaching",
"grounding",
"stranding",
"scuttling",
"shipwreck",
"shipwrecking",
"wreck",
"wreckage",
"wrecking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovery",
"salvage",
"salvaging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in plummeting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plummeting",
"comedown",
"decline",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"descent",
"dip",
"dive",
"down",
"drop",
"fall",
"nosedive",
"plunge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ascent",
"climb",
"rise",
"rising",
"soaring",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"progression",
"betterment",
"improvement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"his fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"rotting",
"worsening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"waning",
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decomposing",
"degrading",
"dilapidating",
"disintegrating",
"moldering",
"putrefying",
"souring",
"spoiling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"debilitating",
"undermining",
"drooping",
"failing",
"falling",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"running down",
"sagging",
"slipping",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettering",
"upgrading",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"strengthening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"marching",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"improving",
"meliorating"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"I had just bought a bundle of shares of the stock when its price sank like a rock"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashing",
"cratering",
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"diving",
"dropping",
"falling",
"lowering",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"skidding",
"tumbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"drooping",
"dwindling",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"tapering off",
"waning",
"receding",
"retreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"lifting",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"spiking",
"upping"
]
},
"to refrain from openly showing or uttering":{
"examples":[
"sinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation"
],
"synonyms":[
"choking (back)",
"holding back",
"pocketing",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"submerging",
"suppressing",
"swallowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controlling",
"governing",
"managing",
"bridling",
"checking",
"curbing",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"bottling up",
"containing",
"muffling",
"squelching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expressing",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"taking out",
"unleashing",
"venting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"that evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerializing",
"disappearing",
"dissolving",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"melting",
"vanishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanking (out)",
"clearing",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"drying up",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"blurring",
"dimming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arriving",
"breaking out",
"coming out",
"emerging",
"issuing",
"looming",
"showing up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appearing",
"materializing"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"the slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuating",
"breaking",
"cheapening",
"depreciating",
"depressing",
"devaluating",
"devaluing",
"downgrading",
"lowering",
"marking down",
"reducing",
"writing down",
"writing off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debasing",
"demonetizing",
"underestimating",
"underpricing",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"abridging",
"compressing",
"contracting",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"moderating",
"shrinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloating",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"overestimating",
"overpricing",
"overrating",
"overvaluing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"dilating",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"enhancing",
"marking up",
"upgrading"
]
},
"to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes":{
"examples":[
"the revelation that he has been embezzling for years definitely sinks him in my opinion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"chastening",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering",
"shaming",
"smirching",
"taking down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"belittling",
"castigating",
"criticizing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"detracting",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"writing off",
"bad-mouthing",
"defaming",
"defiling",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"execrating",
"reprehending",
"reprobating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"boasting",
"celebrating",
"cheering",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"acknowledging",
"recognizing",
"highlighting",
"playing up",
"spotlighting",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enskying",
"enthroning",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"advancing",
"boosting",
"lifting",
"promoting",
"raising",
"upgrading",
"uplifting",
"idealizing",
"romanticizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"elevating",
"exalting"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the road sinks abruptly after that curve"
],
"synonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"dropping",
"falling",
"plunging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"planing",
"smoothing",
"straightening"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"mounting",
"rising",
"uprising",
"upsweeping",
"upturning"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home"
],
"synonyms":[
"decaying",
"drooping",
"emaciating",
"fading",
"failing",
"flagging",
"going",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"sagging",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"wearing out",
"yielding",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"rotting",
"running down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalescing",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"gaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"singling (out)":{
"as in choice , election":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"choice",
"choosing",
"destination",
"election",
"nomination",
"picking",
"selection",
"assignment",
"commission",
"designation",
"billet",
"gig",
"job",
"office",
"place",
"position",
"situation",
"spot",
"station",
"authorization",
"delegation",
"deputation",
"emplacement",
"placement",
"ranking",
"anointing",
"anointment",
"appointment",
"induction",
"installation",
"installment",
"instalment",
"instating",
"investiture",
"investment",
"ordination"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackball",
"rejection",
"deposition",
"dethronement",
"ejection",
"eviction",
"ouster",
"overthrow",
"removal",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"dismission",
"expulsion",
"firing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities":{
"examples":[
"she quickly singled out the most qualified candidate from the pool of the applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picking",
"choosing",
"culling",
"electing",
"handpicking",
"naming",
"opting (for)",
"picking",
"preferring",
"selecting",
"tagging",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselecting",
"appointing",
"designating",
"fixing",
"marking",
"nominating",
"setting",
"tabbing",
"tapping",
"accepting",
"adopting",
"embracing",
"espousing",
"settling (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"discarding",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out"
],
"antonyms":[
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"turning down"
]
},
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"through careful reasoning and the process of elimination, neighbors singled her out as the writer of the anonymous letter"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguishing",
"fingering",
"identifying",
"ID'ing",
"IDing",
"pinpointing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnosing",
"determining",
"finding",
"locating",
"picking out",
"placing",
"recognizing",
"spotting",
"checking",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"investigating",
"noticing",
"observing",
"scrutinizing",
"betraying",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"revealing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"hiding",
"counterfeiting",
"feigning",
"shamming",
"simulating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"single-minded":{
"fully committed to achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"every successful reform movement has been spearheaded by a single-minded activist who refused to accept defeat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent (on or upon)",
"bound",
"decisive",
"determined",
"do-or-die",
"firm",
"hell-bent (on or upon)",
"intent",
"out",
"purposeful",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"set",
"on one's mettle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bitter",
"vehement",
"certain",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"earnest",
"serious",
"steady",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unswerving",
"unwavering",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"disinclined",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant"
],
"antonyms":[
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"weak-kneed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sinful":{
"not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable":{
"examples":[
"chastised by his minister for his sinful behavior"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"dark",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"unethical",
"unlawful",
"unrighteous",
"unsavory",
"vicious",
"vile",
"villainous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"dirty",
"disreputable",
"evil-minded",
"ignoble",
"ill",
"infernal",
"low",
"mean",
"snide",
"sordid",
"atrocious",
"cruel",
"infamous",
"nasty",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"objectionable",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"loose",
"low-minded",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"scrofulous",
"sick",
"unhealthy",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"defiling",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"pestilential",
"ugly",
"ungodly",
"unwholesome",
"banned",
"barred",
"condemned",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"illegal",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"unauthorized",
"unclean",
"disallowed",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"vulgar",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elevated",
"high",
"high-minded",
"law-abiding",
"legitimate",
"lofty",
"noble",
"principled",
"reputable",
"scrupulous",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"clean",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless",
"legitimate",
"chaste",
"immaculate",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"lily-white",
"perfect",
"pure",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"unfallen",
"unobjectionable",
"venerable",
"white",
"wholesome",
"esteemed",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy"
],
"antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"sublime",
"upright",
"virtuous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sin taxes":{
"as in income taxes , property taxes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capitations",
"customs",
"excises",
"hidden taxes",
"income taxes",
"poll taxes",
"property taxes",
"sales taxes",
"single taxes",
"tariffs",
"tolls",
"tributes",
"value-added taxes",
"withholding taxes",
"assessments",
"duties",
"impositions",
"imposts",
"levies",
"taxes",
"direct taxes",
"personal taxes",
"supertaxes",
"surcharges",
"surtaxes",
"death taxes",
"estate taxes",
"inheritance taxes",
"flat taxes",
"proportional taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sincerity":{
"the act or fact of being honest or direct":{
"examples":[
"His sincerity and loyalty made him a good friend."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"straightforwardness",
"bluntness",
"directness",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"outspokenness",
"plainness",
"unguardedness",
"unreserve",
"unreservedness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"verity",
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singled (out)":{
"to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities":{
"examples":[
"she quickly singled out the most qualified candidate from the pool of the applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picked",
"chose",
"culled",
"elected",
"handpicked",
"named",
"opted (for)",
"picked",
"preferred",
"selected",
"tagged",
"took"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselected",
"appointed",
"designated",
"fixed",
"marked",
"nominated",
"set",
"tabbed",
"tapped",
"accepted",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"espoused",
"settled (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproved",
"negatived",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"discarded",
"jettisoned",
"threw away",
"threw out"
],
"antonyms":[
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"turned down"
]
},
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"through careful reasoning and the process of elimination, neighbors singled her out as the writer of the anonymous letter"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguished",
"fingered",
"ID'd",
"IDed",
"identified",
"pinpointed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnosed",
"determined",
"found",
"located",
"picked out",
"placed",
"recognized",
"spotted",
"checked",
"examined",
"inspected",
"investigated",
"noticed",
"observed",
"scrutinized",
"betrayed",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"revealed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"hid",
"counterfeited",
"feigned",
"shammed",
"simulated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sinkhole":{
"as in hole , basin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"basin",
"hole",
"billabong",
"mere",
"pool",
"puddle",
"stank",
"well",
"swimming pool",
"lake",
"pond",
"water hole"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sing":{
"to produce musical sounds with the voice":{
"examples":[
"it's relatively rare to find actors who can also sing well"
],
"synonyms":[
"carol",
"chant",
"descant",
"vocalize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belt",
"croon",
"harmonize",
"hum",
"lilt",
"quaver",
"scat",
"sharp",
"slur",
"trill",
"troll",
"warble",
"yodel",
"serenade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter in musical or drawn out tones":{
"examples":[
"the cantor sang the prayers before the entire congregation"
],
"synonyms":[
"chant",
"intonate",
"intone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellow",
"belt",
"roar",
"chime",
"chorus"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter one's distinctive animal sound":{
"examples":[
"I can hear a bird singing in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"cry"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"once he saw the kind of jail time he was facing, the suspect was singing loud and clear to the police"
],
"synonyms":[
"fink",
"grass (on)",
"inform",
"rat (on)",
"snitch",
"split (on)",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tell (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betray",
"give away",
"turn in",
"backstab",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time",
"blab",
"tattle",
"tip (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in jam , ceilidh":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ceilidh",
"ceili",
"hootenanny",
"jam",
"jam session",
"songfest",
"recital",
"symphony",
"festival",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"shindig",
"performance",
"presentation",
"concert",
"musicale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sinew":{
"the ability to exert effort for the accomplishment of a task":{
"examples":[
"the justices displayed great intellectual depth and sinew in writing their opinion on this case"
],
"synonyms":[
"energy",
"firepower",
"force",
"horsepower",
"might",
"muscle",
"potence",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"strength",
"vigor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptitude",
"capability",
"capacity",
"competence",
"competency",
"adequacy",
"effectiveness",
"effectualness",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disability",
"inability",
"inaptitude",
"incapability",
"incapableness",
"incapacity",
"incompetence",
"incompetency",
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness",
"inefficaciousness",
"inefficacy",
"uselessness",
"helplessness",
"paralysis"
],
"antonyms":[
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sings":{
"to produce musical sounds with the voice":{
"examples":[
"it's relatively rare to find actors who can also sing well"
],
"synonyms":[
"carols",
"chants",
"descants",
"vocalizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belts",
"croons",
"harmonizes",
"hums",
"lilts",
"quavers",
"scats",
"sharps",
"slurs",
"trills",
"trolls",
"warbles",
"yodels",
"serenades"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter in musical or drawn out tones":{
"examples":[
"the cantor sang the prayers before the entire congregation"
],
"synonyms":[
"chants",
"intonates",
"intones"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellows",
"belts",
"roars",
"chimes",
"choruses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter one's distinctive animal sound":{
"examples":[
"I can hear a bird singing in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"cries"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"once he saw the kind of jail time he was facing, the suspect was singing loud and clear to the police"
],
"synonyms":[
"finks",
"grasses (on)",
"informs",
"rats (on)",
"snitches",
"splits (on)",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"talks",
"tells (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrays",
"gives away",
"turns in",
"backstabs",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times",
"blabs",
"tattles",
"tips (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in jams , ceilidhs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ceilidhs",
"ceilis",
"hootenannies",
"jams",
"jam sessions",
"songfests",
"recitals",
"symphonies",
"festivals",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"shindigs",
"performances",
"presentations",
"concerts",
"musicales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"single combat":{
"as in fire , attack":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attack",
"fire",
"firefight",
"pitched battle",
"action",
"battle",
"combat",
"field",
"hostilities",
"operations",
"warfare",
"duty",
"service"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singeing":{
"to burn on the surface":{
"examples":[
"the marshmallows got a bit singed over the campfire, but we like them that way"
],
"synonyms":[
"charring",
"scorching",
"searing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"firing",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"lighting",
"baking",
"cremating",
"incinerating",
"scalding",
"scathing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"single-handedly":{
"without aid or support":{
"examples":[
"the team's star slugger hit three home runs, effectively winning the game single-handedly"
],
"synonyms":[
"alone",
"independently",
"single-handed",
"singly",
"solely",
"unaided",
"unassisted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"individually",
"separately",
"solo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collectively",
"conjointly",
"cooperatively",
"hand in glove",
"hand and glove",
"hand in hand",
"jointly",
"mutually",
"together",
"en masse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"sinewy":{
"having muscles capable of exerting great physical force":{
"examples":[
"the lithe, sinewy body of the ballet company's leading male dancer"
],
"synonyms":[
"brawny",
"muscular",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forceful",
"forcible",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"fit",
"trim",
"beefy",
"burly",
"husky",
"strapping",
"masculine",
"virile",
"hard",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"paralyzed",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"puny",
"slight",
"small",
"unathletic",
"unfit",
"unhealthy"
],
"antonyms":[
"delicate",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"weakling",
"wimpy"
]
},
"marked by a well-developed musculature":{
"examples":[
"the sinewy arms of the weight lifter"
],
"synonyms":[
"brawny",
"muscular"
],
"near synonyms":[
"wiry",
"powerful",
"strong",
"beefy",
"burly",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"herculean",
"mighty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"sturdy",
"muscle-bound",
"sculpted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonathletic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"weak",
"weakened",
"weakly",
"wimpy",
"light",
"lightweight",
"slight",
"lean",
"slender",
"slim",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"thin",
"willowy",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"spare"
],
"antonyms":[
"scrawny",
"skinny"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sincereness":{
"as in sincerity , genuineness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"genuineness",
"sincerity",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"honesty",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"probity",
"straightforwardness",
"truthfulness",
"artlessness",
"guilelessness",
"naturalness",
"unaffectedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cant",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"piousness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"double-dealing",
"falsity",
"perfidy",
"two-facedness",
"affectation",
"affectedness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"sanctimoniousness",
"self-righteousness",
"self-satisfaction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinfonietta":{
"as in chamber orchestra , brass band":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brass band",
"chamber orchestra",
"band",
"orchestra",
"philharmonic",
"symphony",
"symphony orchestra",
"brasses",
"strings",
"woodwinds",
"combo",
"ensemble",
"group",
"company",
"troupe",
"duo",
"octet",
"quartet",
"quartette",
"quintet",
"septet",
"sextet",
"trio"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singers":{
"one who sings":{
"examples":[
"a famous opera singer will be performing at the gala opening of the arts center"
],
"synonyms":[
"carolers",
"carollers",
"songsters",
"vocalists",
"vocalizers",
"voices"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belters",
"crooners",
"harmonizers",
"hummers",
"warblers",
"yodelers",
"serenaders",
"cantors",
"chanters",
"choristers",
"chansonniers",
"chanteuses",
"songstresses",
"bards",
"troubadours"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinned":{
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"bless me, Father, for I have sinned"
],
"synonyms":[
"erred",
"fell",
"offended",
"strayed",
"transgressed",
"trespassed",
"wandered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"infringed",
"violated",
"backslid",
"lapsed",
"messed up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgave",
"justified",
"pardoned",
"regretted",
"repented",
"rued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sinfulness":{
"the state or quality of being utterly evil":{
"examples":[
"private diaries reveal that the torturers came to realize the unspeakable sinfulness of their actions and were ever afterwards haunted by nightmares"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"hideousness",
"monstrosity",
"vileness",
"wickedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accursedness",
"baseness",
"cursedness",
"devilishness",
"execrableness",
"fiendishness",
"hellishness",
"corruption",
"decadence",
"degeneracy",
"pervertedness",
"immorality",
"infamy",
"notoriety"
],
"near antonyms":[
"morality",
"chasteness",
"innocence",
"purity"
],
"antonyms":[
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinner":{
"a person who commits moral wrongs":{
"examples":[
"even the worst sinner can be redeemed"
],
"synonyms":[
"evildoer",
"immoralist",
"malefactor",
"wrongdoer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"criminal",
"crook",
"felon",
"lawbreaker",
"miscreant",
"misdoer",
"misfeasor",
"offender",
"reprobate",
"transgressor",
"villain",
"corrupter",
"corruptor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel",
"innocent",
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinkholes":{
"as in holes , basins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"basins",
"holes",
"billabongs",
"meres",
"pools",
"puddles",
"stanks",
"wells",
"swimming pools",
"lakes",
"ponds",
"water holes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"singing":{
"to produce musical sounds with the voice":{
"examples":[
"it's relatively rare to find actors who can also sing well"
],
"synonyms":[
"caroling",
"carolling",
"chanting",
"descanting",
"vocalizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belting",
"crooning",
"harmonizing",
"humming",
"lilting",
"quavering",
"scatting",
"sharping",
"slurring",
"trilling",
"trolling",
"warbling",
"yodeling",
"yodelling",
"serenading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter in musical or drawn out tones":{
"examples":[
"the cantor sang the prayers before the entire congregation"
],
"synonyms":[
"chanting",
"intonating",
"intoning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellowing",
"belting",
"roaring",
"chiming",
"chorusing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter one's distinctive animal sound":{
"examples":[
"I can hear a bird singing in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"crying"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"once he saw the kind of jail time he was facing, the suspect was singing loud and clear to the police"
],
"synonyms":[
"finking",
"grassing (on)",
"informing",
"ratting (on)",
"snitching",
"splitting (on)",
"squeaking",
"squealing",
"talking",
"telling (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betraying",
"giving away",
"turning in",
"backstabbing",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing",
"blabbing",
"tattling",
"tipping (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sinuous":{
"marked by a long series of irregular curves":{
"examples":[
"the river flowed in a sinuous path through the lush valley"
],
"synonyms":[
"bending",
"crazy",
"crooked",
"curled",
"curling",
"curved",
"curving",
"curvy",
"devious",
"serpentine",
"tortuous",
"twisted",
"twisting",
"winding",
"windy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"zigzag",
"zigzagging",
"circling",
"coiled",
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"looping",
"spiral",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"swirling",
"circuitous",
"indirect",
"roundabout",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"wandering",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"linear"
],
"antonyms":[
"straight",
"straightaway"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sin":{
"a breaking of a moral or legal code":{
"examples":[
"a child old enough to know that lying is a sin"
],
"synonyms":[
"breach",
"crime",
"debt",
"error",
"lawbreaking",
"malefaction",
"misdeed",
"misdoing",
"offense",
"offence",
"transgression",
"trespass",
"violation",
"wrongdoing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bias crime",
"hate crime",
"felony",
"misconduct",
"misdemeanor",
"misfeasance",
"fault",
"foible",
"peccadillo",
"break",
"infringement",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"sinfulness",
"vice",
"wickedness",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"licentiousness",
"abuse",
"criminality",
"illegality",
"lawlessness",
"unlawfulness",
"descent",
"downfall",
"fall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blamelessness",
"faultlessness",
"guiltlessness",
"impeccability",
"innocence",
"irreproachability",
"goodness",
"morality",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncrime"
]
},
"that which is morally unacceptable":{
"examples":[
"a minister who worries that modern society has abandoned the concept of sin"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"villainy",
"wrong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"balefulness",
"darkness",
"depravedness",
"devilishness",
"diabolism",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"iniquitousness",
"satanism",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"cancer",
"canker",
"decay",
"rot",
"squalor",
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"depravity",
"indecency",
"malefaction",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"scurrility",
"scurrilousness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decency",
"goodness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"good",
"morality",
"right",
"virtue"
]
},
"immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society":{
"examples":[
"a sordid section of the city that is mainly known for sin and degradation"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"licentiousness",
"profligacy",
"vice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"depravedness",
"dissoluteness",
"dissolution",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lechery",
"lewdness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"wantonness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"criminality",
"reprehensibleness",
"baseness",
"despicableness",
"dirtiness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"lousiness",
"miserableness",
"wretchedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"pureness",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue"
]
},
"a regrettable or blameworthy act":{
"examples":[
"it's a sin to waste food when people are starving"
],
"synonyms":[
"crime",
"disgrace",
"pity",
"shame"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outrage",
"scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"my besetting sin is impatience\u2014I hate to wait for anything"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerit",
"dereliction",
"failing",
"fault",
"foible",
"frailty",
"shortcoming",
"vice",
"want",
"weakness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot",
"spot",
"stain",
"blemish",
"deficiency",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"minus",
"nit",
"Achilles' heel",
"soft spot",
"corruption",
"depravity",
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"wickedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellence",
"perfection",
"goodness",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"merit",
"virtue"
]
},
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"bless me, Father, for I have sinned"
],
"synonyms":[
"err",
"fall",
"offend",
"stray",
"transgress",
"trespass",
"wander"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"infringe",
"violate",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"mess up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgive",
"justify",
"pardon",
"regret",
"repent",
"rue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sine quibus non":{
"something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable":{
"examples":[
"an extensive grounding in mathematics is a sine qua non for a career in architecture"
],
"synonyms":[
"conditions",
"demands",
"essentials",
"must-haves",
"musts",
"necessaries",
"necessities",
"needfuls",
"needs",
"requirements",
"requisites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preconditions",
"prerequisites",
"advantages",
"edges",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"desiderata",
"desiderations",
"wishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amenities",
"comforts",
"extras",
"extravagances",
"frills",
"indulgences",
"luxuries",
"superfluities",
"surplusages",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonessentials",
"nonnecessities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sings (out)":{
"as in calls , cries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawls",
"bays",
"bellows",
"calls",
"cries",
"hollers",
"roars",
"shouts",
"thunders",
"vociferates",
"yells",
"pipes up",
"shoots",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"spouts (off)",
"talks up",
"articulates",
"enounces",
"enunciates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belts up",
"clams up",
"dummies up",
"hushes",
"shuts up",
"suppresses",
"quiets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sinking fund":{
"as in deposit , treasure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coffers",
"deposit",
"funds",
"nest egg",
"savings",
"treasure",
"cache",
"hoard",
"stash",
"stockpile",
"store",
"inventory",
"pool",
"reserve",
"reservoir",
"stock",
"provisions",
"resources",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"gathering",
"harvest",
"repertory"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sincerities":{
"the act or fact of being honest or direct":{
"examples":[
"His sincerity and loyalty made him a good friend."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"straightforwardness",
"bluntness",
"directness",
"openheartedness",
"openness",
"outspokenness",
"plainness",
"unguardedness",
"unreserve",
"unreservedness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"verity",
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sinking one's teeth into":{
"to crush or grind with the teeth":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"biting (on)",
"champing",
"chawing",
"chewing",
"chomping (on)",
"crunching (on)",
"gnawing (on)",
"masticating",
"nibbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ruminating",
"munching",
"noshing",
"snacking",
"consuming",
"eating",
"ingesting",
"swallowing",
"bolting",
"devouring",
"gobbling (up or down)",
"gorging",
"gulping",
"scarfing",
"scoffing",
"snacking",
"wolfing",
"nipping",
"pecking (at)",
"picking (at)",
"gumming",
"mumbling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"singles (out)":{
"to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities":{
"examples":[
"she quickly singled out the most qualified candidate from the pool of the applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"cherry-picks",
"chooses",
"culls",
"elects",
"handpicks",
"names",
"opts (for)",
"picks",
"prefers",
"selects",
"tags",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselects",
"appoints",
"designates",
"fixes",
"marks",
"nominates",
"sets",
"tabs",
"taps",
"accepts",
"adopts",
"embraces",
"espouses",
"settles (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disapproves",
"negatives",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"discards",
"jettisons",
"throws away",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"turns down"
]
},
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[
"through careful reasoning and the process of elimination, neighbors singled her out as the writer of the anonymous letter"
],
"synonyms":[
"distinguishes",
"fingers",
"identifies",
"IDs",
"pinpoints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnoses",
"determines",
"finds",
"locates",
"picks out",
"places",
"recognizes",
"spots",
"checks",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"notices",
"observes",
"scrutinizes",
"betrays",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"reveals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"hides",
"counterfeits",
"feigns",
"shams",
"simulates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}