dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/dar_MWT.json
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{
"daresays":{
"to form an opinion from little or no evidence":{
"examples":[
"I daresay we might manage to finish on time after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"imagines",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"supposes",
"surmises",
"suspects",
"suspicions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"deduces",
"gathers",
"infers",
"hypothecates",
"hypothesizes",
"theorizes",
"believes",
"conceives",
"expects",
"judges",
"reckons",
"takes",
"thinks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demonstrates",
"documents",
"establishes",
"proves",
"substantiates",
"validates",
"ascertains",
"determines",
"finds out",
"learns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"daringness":{
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
"examples":[
"the sheer daringness of Hannibal's trek over the Alps with the aid of elephants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"related":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"darken":{
"to take on a gloomy or forbidding look":{
"examples":[
"his face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news"
],
"synonyms":[
"gloom",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frown",
"scowl",
"glare",
"stare",
"brood",
"mope",
"pet",
"pout",
"sulk",
"anger",
"bristle",
"fume",
"rage",
"steam",
"storm",
"intimidate",
"menace",
"threaten"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"cheer (up)",
"lighten",
"perk (up)"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"examples":[
"the sky darkened as a storm moved in"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacken",
"black out",
"close in",
"dusk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dim",
"fade",
"wane",
"gloom",
"lower",
"lour"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawn",
"beam",
"glow",
"radiate",
"shine"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"light",
"lighten"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"years of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen"
],
"synonyms":[
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"blacken",
"blear",
"blur",
"cloud",
"dim",
"dislimn",
"fog",
"fuzz (up)",
"haze",
"mist",
"obscure",
"overcast",
"overcloud",
"overshadow",
"shadow",
"shroud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrate",
"blot out",
"conceal",
"eclipse",
"hide",
"obliterate",
"screen",
"shade",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"mask",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expose",
"reveal",
"uncover",
"unveil"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"light (up)",
"lighten"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"the scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"mar",
"poison",
"spoil",
"stain",
"taint",
"tarnish",
"touch",
"vitiate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begrime",
"besmear",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"blur",
"cloud",
"dirty",
"discolor",
"pollute",
"smear",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"smut",
"soil",
"sully",
"tar",
"abase",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"lower",
"shame",
"sink",
"bastardize",
"corrupt",
"debauch",
"demoralize",
"deprave",
"pervert",
"subvert",
"color",
"distort",
"twist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanse",
"purify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"glorify",
"hallow",
"magnify",
"uplift"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"darkened":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"wanting to surprise her, we waited in the darkened room for her to get home before calling out \"happy birthday\""
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"to take on a gloomy or forbidding look":{
"examples":[
"his face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news"
],
"synonyms":[
"gloomed",
"glowered",
"lowered",
"loured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frowned",
"scowled",
"glared",
"stared",
"brooded",
"moped",
"petted",
"pouted",
"sulked",
"angered",
"bristled",
"fumed",
"raged",
"steamed",
"stormed",
"intimidated",
"menaced",
"threatened"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"cheered (up)",
"lightened",
"perked (up)"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"examples":[
"the sky darkened as a storm moved in"
],
"synonyms":[
"blacked out",
"blackened",
"closed in",
"dusked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dimmed",
"faded",
"waned",
"gloomed",
"lowered",
"loured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawned",
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"lightened",
"lit",
"lighted"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"years of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blackened",
"bleared",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"dimmed",
"dislimned",
"fogged",
"fuzzed (up)",
"hazed",
"misted",
"obscured",
"overcast",
"overclouded",
"overshadowed",
"shadowed",
"shrouded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrated",
"blotted out",
"concealed",
"eclipsed",
"hid",
"obliterated",
"screened",
"shaded",
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"masked",
"veiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"revealed",
"uncovered",
"unveiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"lightened",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"the scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemished",
"marred",
"poisoned",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"touched",
"vitiated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begrimed",
"besmeared",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"blurred",
"clouded",
"dirtied",
"discolored",
"polluted",
"smeared",
"smirched",
"smudged",
"smutted",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tarred",
"abased",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"bastardized",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"subverted",
"colored",
"distorted",
"twisted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleansed",
"purified",
"dignified",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"glorified",
"hallowed",
"magnified",
"uplifted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"darkling":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[
"the darkling valleys of Transylvania, where tales of vampires have long existed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"related":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"darksome":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
],
"examples":[
"a pile of darksome ruins in the heart of the forest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"related":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"darn":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"nobody gave a darn about us when we were poor, but now that we are rich, we have friends we never knew about!"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bubkes",
"bupkes",
"bupkus",
"continental",
"damn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"modicum",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to close up with a series of interlacing stitches":{
"examples":[
"in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"sew",
"stitch",
"suture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mend",
"patch",
"repair",
"baste",
"ease",
"fell",
"finish",
"overcast",
"cross-stitch",
"embroider",
"crochet",
"knit",
"quilt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure":{
"examples":[
"I can't seem to tie this darn shoe"
],
"synonyms":[
"accursed",
"accurst",
"blasted",
"confounded",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"damnable",
"dang",
"danged",
"darned",
"durned",
"deuced",
"doggone",
"doggoned",
"freaking",
"infernal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bum",
"detestable",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"punk",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"nasty",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"shameful",
"sorry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"praiseworthy",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dart":{
"an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the darts flew fast and furiously when the two former friends bumped into each other at the party"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accolade",
"commendation",
"compliment",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"praise",
"adulation",
"flattery"
],
"related":[
"catcall",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"mock",
"quip",
"sneer",
"taunt",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"disapproval",
"opprobrium",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"shame",
"attack",
"criticism",
"knock",
"slam",
"swipe",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"synonyms":[
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"cut",
"dig",
"dis",
"diss",
"epithet",
"gird",
"indignity",
"insult",
"name",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"personality",
"poke",
"put-down",
"sarcasm",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur"
]
},
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the housefly darted about the room until it found an open window and flew out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"float",
"hang",
"hover"
],
"related":[
"dash",
"fly",
"sail",
"shoot",
"speed",
"sprint",
"zing",
"zoom",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"skip",
"skitter",
"meander",
"ramble",
"roam",
"wander"
],
"synonyms":[
"dance",
"flick",
"flicker",
"flirt",
"flit",
"flitter",
"flutter",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"darts":{
"an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings":{
"examples":[
"the darts flew fast and furiously when the two former friends bumped into each other at the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"affronts",
"barbs",
"brickbats",
"cuts",
"digs",
"dises",
"disses",
"epithets",
"girds",
"indignities",
"insults",
"names",
"offenses",
"offences",
"outrages",
"personalities",
"pokes",
"put-downs",
"sarcasms",
"slaps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catcalls",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"mocks",
"quips",
"sneers",
"taunts",
"abuses",
"invectives",
"vituperations",
"disapprovals",
"opprobriums",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"shames",
"attacks",
"criticisms",
"knocks",
"slams",
"swipes",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accolades",
"commendations",
"compliments",
"acclaim",
"applauses",
"praises",
"adulations",
"flatteries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"examples":[
"the housefly darted about the room until it found an open window and flew out"
],
"synonyms":[
"dances",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"flirts",
"flits",
"flitters",
"flutters",
"zips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dashes",
"flies",
"sails",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"sprints",
"zings",
"zooms",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"skips",
"skitters",
"meanders",
"rambles",
"roams",
"wanders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floats",
"hangs",
"hovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"darlingness":{
"as in sweetness , pleasingness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"delightfulness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"niceness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasingness",
"sweetness",
"allurement",
"attraction",
"call",
"lure",
"seduction",
"sex appeal",
"allure",
"animal magnetism",
"appeal",
"attractiveness",
"captivation",
"charisma",
"charm",
"duende",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"force field",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"magic",
"magnetism",
"oomph",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"seductiveness",
"witchery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repulsion",
"repulsiveness",
"disagreeableness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"offensiveness",
"unpleasantness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"darted":{
"to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements":{
"examples":[
"the housefly darted about the room until it found an open window and flew out"
],
"synonyms":[
"danced",
"flicked",
"flickered",
"flirted",
"flitted",
"flittered",
"fluttered",
"zipped"
],
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"dashed",
"flew",
"sailed",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"sprinted",
"zinged",
"zoomed",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"skipped",
"skittered",
"meandered",
"rambled",
"roamed",
"wandered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"darkness":{
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"the raiding party snuck up under cover of darkness"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"shadows",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning":{
"examples":[
"the darkness of certain passages in the Book of Revelation"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"murkiness",
"mysteriousness",
"nebulosity",
"nebulousness",
"obliqueness",
"obliquity",
"obscurity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mystery",
"reconditeness",
"cloudiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"fogginess",
"fuzziness",
"haziness",
"indefiniteness",
"indistinctness",
"mistiness",
"shade",
"shadow",
"uncertainty",
"vagueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"circuitousness",
"circuity",
"indirectness",
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness",
"abstruseness",
"abstrusity",
"complexity",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"obtuseness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"legibility",
"brightness",
"distinctness",
"self-evidence",
"certainty",
"surety",
"definiteness",
"exactness",
"explicitness",
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"perspicuity",
"perspicuousness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"palpability",
"tangibility",
"tangibleness",
"visibility",
"readability",
"readableness",
"obviousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"clarity",
"clearness",
"obviousness",
"plainness"
]
},
"the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight":{
"examples":[
"let's wait for darkness before telling ghost stories"
],
"synonyms":[
"dark",
"night",
"nighttime"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dusk",
"evening",
"gloaming",
"nightfall",
"twilight",
"midnight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawn",
"daybreak",
"sunrise",
"sunup",
"forenoon",
"morning",
"high noon",
"midday",
"noon",
"noonday",
"noontide",
"noontime",
"afternoon"
],
"antonyms":[
"day",
"daytime"
]
},
"an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom":{
"examples":[
"the darkness of that period of my life is best forgotten"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloud",
"pall",
"shadow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fog",
"haze",
"mist",
"murk",
"penumbra",
"umbra",
"midnight",
"night",
"mantle",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"daredevil":{
"foolishly adventurous or bold":{
"examples":[
"his daredevil stunts are sure to end in disaster someday"
],
"synonyms":[
"audacious",
"brash",
"foolhardy",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"reckless",
"temerarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"bold",
"daring",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"rash",
"brainless",
"foolish",
"harebrained",
"scatterbrained",
"careless",
"heedless",
"thoughtless",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unadventurous",
"unambitious",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"timorous",
"calm",
"cool",
"levelheaded",
"sensible",
"alert",
"intelligent",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"lily-livered",
"pusillanimous",
"recreant",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow"
],
"antonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"circumspect",
"guarded",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"safe",
"wary"
]
},
"having or showing a lack of concern for the consequences of one's actions":{
"examples":[
"a daredevil driver who thinks that drag racing on city streets is a harmless game"
],
"synonyms":[
"devil-may-care",
"foolhardy",
"harum-scarum",
"hell-for-leather",
"irresponsible",
"kamikaze",
"reckless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"venturesome",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"precipitate",
"rash",
"wild",
"blithe",
"carefree",
"happy-go-lucky",
"madcap",
"slaphappy",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"unworried",
"careless",
"freewheeling",
"heedless",
"inattentive",
"incautious",
"mindless",
"regardless",
"unheeding",
"unmindful",
"feckless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"circumspect",
"heedful",
"overcareful",
"overcautious",
"timid"
],
"antonyms":[
"responsible"
]
},
"a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear":{
"examples":[
"that little daredevil has broken an arm and an ankle this year alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"devil",
"madcap",
"madman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berserk",
"berserker",
"cowboy",
"hotdog",
"showboat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"darlings":{
"a person or thing that is preferred over others":{
"examples":[
"for a while that candidate was the darling of the news media and could do no wrong"
],
"synonyms":[
"faves",
"favs",
"favorites",
"minions",
"pets",
"preferences",
"speeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beloveds",
"dears",
"sweethearts",
"jewels",
"prizes",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"b\u00eates noires",
"bugbears"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with whom one is in love":{
"examples":[
"anything you say, darling"
],
"synonyms":[
"beloveds",
"dears",
"flames",
"honeys",
"hons",
"loves",
"squeezes",
"sweethearts",
"sweetie pies",
"sweeties",
"sweets",
"trueloves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaux",
"beaus",
"boyfriends",
"boys",
"fellows",
"men",
"swains",
"gals",
"girlfriends",
"girls",
"inamoratas",
"ladyloves",
"lasses",
"mistresses",
"tootsies",
"amours",
"lovers",
"paramours",
"dolls",
"ducks",
"pets",
"dates",
"escorts",
"steadies",
"admirers",
"gallants",
"suitors",
"wooers",
"grooms",
"husbands",
"brides",
"wives",
"significant others",
"fianc\u00e9s",
"intendeds",
"crushes",
"heartthrobs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"darned":{
"deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure":{
"examples":[
"the darned computer is broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"accursed",
"accurst",
"blasted",
"confounded",
"cursed",
"curst",
"cussed",
"damnable",
"dang",
"danged",
"darn",
"durn",
"deuced",
"doggone",
"doggoned",
"freaking",
"infernal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"bum",
"detestable",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"punk",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"odious",
"vile",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"miserable",
"nasty",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"scabby",
"scummy",
"scurvy",
"shameful",
"sorry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendable",
"creditable",
"laudable",
"praiseworthy",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to close up with a series of interlacing stitches":{
"examples":[
"in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"sewed",
"stitched",
"sutured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mended",
"patched",
"repaired",
"basted",
"eased",
"felled",
"finished",
"overcast",
"cross-stitched",
"embroidered",
"crocheted",
"knit",
"knitted",
"quilted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"darning":{
"as in sewing , mending":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"closing",
"filling",
"healing",
"knitting",
"mending",
"patching",
"plugging",
"repair",
"sealing",
"sewing",
"stitching",
"suturing",
"combination",
"combining",
"connecting",
"connection",
"consolidation",
"coupling",
"joining",
"junction",
"linking",
"merger",
"merging",
"unification",
"union",
"uniting",
"hill",
"mound",
"rise",
"bump",
"bunch",
"hump",
"lump",
"pimple",
"swell",
"swelling",
"tumor",
"bulge",
"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"crack",
"fissure",
"fracture",
"rift",
"rupture",
"split",
"tear",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"slash",
"slit",
"breach",
"gap",
"opening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to close up with a series of interlacing stitches":{
"examples":[
"in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"sewing",
"stitching",
"suturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mending",
"patching",
"repairing",
"basting",
"easing",
"felling",
"finishing",
"overcasting",
"cross-stitching",
"embroidering",
"crocheting",
"knitting",
"quilting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"darkish":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"the darkish galleries do not show off the museum's paintings to their best advantage"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dark lantern":{
"as in fluorescent lamp , light bulb":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arc lamp",
"arc light",
"candelabra",
"candelabrum",
"candle",
"chandelier",
"flare",
"flash",
"flashbulb",
"flashcube",
"flashlight",
"floodlight",
"fluorescent lamp",
"gaslight",
"gasolier",
"girandole",
"headlight",
"incandescent lamp",
"klieg light",
"kleig light",
"lantern",
"light bulb",
"lighthouse",
"lighting",
"sconce",
"spotlight",
"streetlight",
"sun lamp",
"beacon",
"illuminant",
"lamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"darks":{
"the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight":{
"examples":[
"we were going to wait until dark to go trick-or-treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"nights",
"nighttimes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dusks",
"evenings",
"gloamings",
"nightfalls",
"twilights",
"midnights"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawns",
"daybreaks",
"sunrises",
"sunups",
"forenoons",
"mornings",
"high noons",
"middays",
"noondays",
"noons",
"noontides",
"noontimes",
"afternoons"
],
"antonyms":[
"days",
"daytimes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dark ages":{
"as in sunsets , nadirs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nadirs",
"sunsets",
"decadences",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"d\u00e9gringolades",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devolutions",
"downfalls",
"downgrades",
"ebbs",
"eclipses",
"falls",
"decays",
"breakups",
"decompositions",
"disintegrations",
"dissolutions",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"depreciations",
"decimations",
"demolishments",
"demolitions",
"desolations",
"destructions",
"havoc",
"ruinations",
"ruins",
"abatements",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"de-escalations",
"deflations",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"dips",
"downslides",
"downtrends",
"downturns",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"losses",
"reductions",
"sags",
"shrinkages",
"slips",
"slumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ascents",
"rises",
"upswings",
"advancements",
"developments",
"evolutions",
"growths",
"flowerings",
"renewals",
"restorations",
"revitalizations",
"accretions",
"accruals",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"enhancements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"darns":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"nobody gave a darn about us when we were poor, but now that we are rich, we have friends we never knew about!"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continentals",
"damns",
"diddlies",
"diddly-squats",
"doodley-squats",
"doodly-squats",
"figs",
"ghosts",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"licks",
"modicums",
"raps",
"squats",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"whits",
"whoops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"pins",
"rays",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"semblances",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to close up with a series of interlacing stitches":{
"examples":[
"in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"sews",
"stitches",
"sutures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mends",
"patches",
"repairs",
"bastes",
"eases",
"fells",
"finishes",
"overcasts",
"cross-stitches",
"embroiders",
"crochets",
"knits",
"quilts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"daringly":{
"as in audaciously , adventurously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adventurously",
"audaciously",
"hardily",
"venturesomely",
"venturously",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"stoutly",
"self-confidently",
"determinedly",
"firmly",
"gamely",
"grittily",
"pluckily",
"resolutely",
"crazily",
"foolishly",
"insanely",
"boldly",
"bravely",
"courageously",
"dauntlessly",
"doughtily",
"fearlessly",
"gallantly",
"gutsily",
"heroically",
"intrepidly",
"manfully",
"stalwartly",
"stoutheartedly",
"valiantly",
"valorously",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"foolhardily",
"heedlessly",
"hotheadedly",
"impetuously",
"imprudently",
"impulsively",
"incautiously",
"overconfidently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"thoughtlessly",
"wildly",
"hastily",
"precipitately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cowardly",
"cravenly",
"fearfully",
"pusillanimously",
"spinelessly",
"spiritlessly",
"timorously",
"diffidently",
"mousily",
"shyly",
"skittishly",
"timidly",
"anxiously",
"apprehensively",
"nervously",
"carefully",
"cautiously",
"heedfully",
"prudently"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"daresaying":{
"to form an opinion from little or no evidence":{
"examples":[
"I daresay we might manage to finish on time after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"imagining",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"supposing",
"surmising",
"suspecting",
"suspicioning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deducing",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"hypothecating",
"hypothesizing",
"theorizing",
"believing",
"conceiving",
"expecting",
"judging",
"reckoning",
"taking",
"thinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demonstrating",
"documenting",
"establishing",
"proving",
"substantiating",
"validating",
"ascertaining",
"determining",
"finding out",
"learning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"darings":{
"inclined or willing to take risks":{
"examples":[
"daring acrobats who risk life and limb every day for the entertainment of the crowds at the circus"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"enterprising",
"free-swinging",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"nerved",
"nervy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brash",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"swashbuckling",
"unafraid",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"witless",
"unnecessary",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chickenhearted",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"milky",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"wary",
"overcareful",
"overcautious",
"affrighted",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"calm",
"cool",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sage",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"antonyms":[
"unadventurous",
"unenterprising"
]
},
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"examples":[
"the daring that the early explorers of Oceania must have had"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
]
},
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
"examples":[
"I dare you to repeat that to my face!",
"he dared his friend to race to the end of the block"
],
"synonyms":[
"challenging",
"defying",
"stumping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"outfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"every day the old fisherman dared the elements to make his meager living"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"outfacing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facing up (to)",
"fronting",
"affronting",
"challenging",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accosting",
"approaching",
"cornering",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"standing",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"squaring (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodging",
"ducking",
"funking",
"shirking",
"sidestepping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"darkening":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"a darkening sky that seemed to match our downcast spirits"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"to take on a gloomy or forbidding look":{
"examples":[
"his face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news"
],
"synonyms":[
"glooming",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frowning",
"scowling",
"glaring",
"staring",
"brooding",
"moping",
"petting",
"pouting",
"sulking",
"angering",
"bristling",
"fuming",
"raging",
"steaming",
"storming",
"intimidating",
"menacing",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"cheering (up)",
"lightening",
"perking (up)"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"examples":[
"the sky darkened as a storm moved in"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackening",
"blacking out",
"closing in",
"dusking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dimming",
"fading",
"waning",
"glooming",
"lowering",
"louring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawning",
"beaming",
"glowing",
"radiating",
"shining"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"lightening",
"lighting"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"years of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blackening",
"blearing",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"dimming",
"dislimning",
"fogging",
"fuzzing (up)",
"hazing",
"misting",
"obscuring",
"overcasting",
"overclouding",
"overshadowing",
"shadowing",
"shrouding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrating",
"blotting out",
"concealing",
"eclipsing",
"hiding",
"obliterating",
"screening",
"shading",
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"masking",
"veiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposing",
"revealing",
"uncovering",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"lightening",
"lighting (up)"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"the scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemishing",
"marring",
"poisoning",
"spoiling",
"staining",
"tainting",
"tarnishing",
"touching",
"vitiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begriming",
"besmearing",
"besmirching",
"blackening",
"blurring",
"clouding",
"dirtying",
"discoloring",
"polluting",
"smearing",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"smutting",
"soiling",
"sullying",
"tarring",
"abasing",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"lowering",
"shaming",
"sinking",
"bastardizing",
"corrupting",
"debauching",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"perverting",
"subverting",
"coloring",
"distorting",
"twisting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"dignifying",
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"glorifying",
"hallowing",
"magnifying",
"uplifting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"daring":{
"inclined or willing to take risks":{
"examples":[
"daring acrobats who risk life and limb every day for the entertainment of the crowds at the circus"
],
"synonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"enterprising",
"free-swinging",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"nerved",
"nervy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brash",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"swashbuckling",
"unafraid",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"witless",
"unnecessary",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chickenhearted",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"milky",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"shy",
"timid",
"timorous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"wary",
"overcareful",
"overcautious",
"affrighted",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"calm",
"cool",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sage",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"antonyms":[
"unadventurous",
"unenterprising"
]
},
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"examples":[
"the daring that the early explorers of Oceania must have had"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
]
},
"to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat":{
"examples":[
"I dare you to repeat that to my face!",
"he dared his friend to race to the end of the block"
],
"synonyms":[
"challenging",
"defying",
"stumping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"outfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage":{
"examples":[
"every day the old fisherman dared the elements to make his meager living"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"outfacing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facing up (to)",
"fronting",
"affronting",
"challenging",
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accosting",
"approaching",
"cornering",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"standing",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"squaring (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodging",
"ducking",
"funking",
"shirking",
"sidestepping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"darkens":{
"to take on a gloomy or forbidding look":{
"examples":[
"his face slowly darkened as we told him the sad news"
],
"synonyms":[
"glooms",
"glowers",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frowns",
"scowls",
"glares",
"stares",
"broods",
"mopes",
"pets",
"pouts",
"sulks",
"angers",
"bristles",
"fumes",
"rages",
"steams",
"storms",
"intimidates",
"menaces",
"threatens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"cheers (up)",
"lightens",
"perks (up)"
]
},
"to grow dark":{
"examples":[
"the sky darkened as a storm moved in"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackens",
"blacks out",
"closes in",
"dusks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dims",
"fades",
"wanes",
"glooms",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawns",
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"shines"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"lightens",
"lights"
]
},
"to make dark, dim, or indistinct":{
"examples":[
"years of accumulated grime have darkened the painting until it can barely be seen"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouds",
"bedims",
"befogs",
"blackens",
"blears",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"dims",
"dislimns",
"fogs",
"fuzzes (up)",
"hazes",
"mists",
"obscures",
"overcasts",
"overclouds",
"overshadows",
"shadows",
"shrouds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adumbrates",
"blots out",
"conceals",
"eclipses",
"hides",
"obliterates",
"screens",
"shades",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"covers",
"curtains",
"disguises",
"masks",
"veils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposes",
"reveals",
"uncovers",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"lightens",
"lights (up)"
]
},
"to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable":{
"examples":[
"the scandal darkened his otherwise sterling reputation"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemishes",
"mars",
"poisons",
"spoils",
"stains",
"taints",
"tarnishes",
"touches",
"vitiates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begrimes",
"besmears",
"besmirches",
"blackens",
"blurs",
"clouds",
"dirties",
"discolors",
"pollutes",
"smears",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"smuts",
"soils",
"sullies",
"tars",
"tarres",
"abases",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"lowers",
"shames",
"sinks",
"bastardizes",
"corrupts",
"debauches",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"perverts",
"subverts",
"colors",
"distorts",
"twists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"dignifies",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"glorifies",
"hallows",
"magnifies",
"uplifts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dark":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"a dark alley that most people wisely avoided"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"not having a light complexion":{
"examples":[
"he was tall, dark , and handsome"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"brunet",
"brunette",
"swart",
"swarthy"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"pale",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"wan"
],
"antonyms":[
"light"
]
},
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"her mind was filled with dark thoughts until the results of the medical test came back as negative"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"given to keeping one's activities hidden from public observation or knowledge":{
"examples":[
"the actor was always quite dark about his life before his arrival in Hollywood"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"closemouthed",
"reticent",
"secretive",
"tight-mouthed",
"uncommunicative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quiet",
"reserved",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"tight-lipped",
"discreet",
"prudent",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hugger-mugger",
"secret",
"sneak",
"sneaky",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candid",
"frank",
"honest",
"out-front",
"up-front",
"blunt",
"outspoken",
"tactless"
],
"antonyms":[
"communicative",
"open"
]
},
"having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning":{
"examples":[
"the superhero was not daunted by the villain's dark threats"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"arcane",
"cryptic",
"deep",
"Delphic",
"double-edged",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"fuliginous",
"inscrutable",
"murky",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"occult",
"opaque"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstruse",
"esoteric",
"recondite",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"muddy",
"obfuscatory",
"obnubilated",
"obscurant",
"obscurantic",
"shaded",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"sphinxlike",
"indefinite",
"inexact",
"inexplicit",
"noncommittal",
"questionable",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"inexplicable",
"eerie",
"eery",
"uncanny",
"weird",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"unanswerable",
"unknowable",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"unfathomable",
"circuitous",
"indirect",
"roundabout",
"complex",
"complicated",
"difficult",
"obtuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comprehensible",
"fathomable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"legible",
"pellucid",
"understandable",
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure",
"defined",
"determined",
"direct",
"straightforward",
"definite",
"exact",
"explicit",
"appreciable",
"palpable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"blatant",
"patent",
"unmistakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"accessible",
"clear",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"plain",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal"
]
},
"lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books":{
"examples":[
"is known as a dark period in European history when people lived in ignorance, fear, and want"
],
"synonyms":[
"analphabetic",
"benighted",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"nonliterate",
"rude",
"simple",
"uneducated",
"uninstructed",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"functionally illiterate",
"innumerate",
"semiliterate",
"unknowledgeable",
"artless",
"lowbrow",
"philistine",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"unsophisticated",
"raw",
"unskilled",
"untrained",
"brainless",
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"witless",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"silly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brilliant",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"experienced",
"expert",
"trained",
"erudite",
"learned",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"sophisticated",
"acquainted",
"aware",
"familiar"
],
"antonyms":[
"educated",
"knowledgeable",
"lettered",
"literate",
"schooled",
"well-informed",
"well-read"
]
},
"not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable":{
"examples":[
"dark deeds that resulted in the Russian czar being known to history as Ivan the Terrible"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"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"
]
},
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"I have a bad habit of running into tables in the dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"shadows",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight":{
"examples":[
"we were going to wait until dark to go trick-or-treating"
],
"synonyms":[
"darkness",
"night",
"nighttime"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dusk",
"evening",
"gloaming",
"nightfall",
"twilight",
"midnight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawn",
"daybreak",
"sunrise",
"sunup",
"forenoon",
"morning",
"high noon",
"midday",
"noon",
"noonday",
"noontide",
"noontime",
"afternoon"
],
"antonyms":[
"day",
"daytime"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"daredevils":{
"a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear":{
"examples":[
"that little daredevil has broken an arm and an ankle this year alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"devils",
"madcaps",
"madmen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berserks",
"berserkers",
"cowboys",
"hotdogs",
"showboats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}