dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/mo_mwt.json
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{
"moaning":{
"as in crying , groaning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"yammering",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched",
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter a moan":{
"examples":[
"he moaned and cried for days after his dog, his only companion, died"
],
"synonyms":[
"groaning",
"wailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"weeping",
"sniffing",
"sniveling",
"snivelling",
"whimpering",
"whining",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"keening",
"lamenting",
"ruing",
"agonizing",
"anguishing",
"bleeding",
"grieving",
"hurting",
"mourning",
"sorrowing",
"suffering",
"bawling",
"howling",
"shrieking",
"squalling",
"yammering",
"yelping",
"yowling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cackling",
"chortling",
"chuckling",
"cracking up",
"giggling",
"guffawing",
"laughing",
"snickering",
"tittering",
"twittering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"their son moaned whenever anyone asked him to do some work"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefing",
"bellyaching",
"bitching",
"bleating",
"carping",
"caterwauling",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grizzling",
"grouching",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"grumping",
"hollering",
"inveighing",
"keening",
"kicking",
"kvetching",
"maundering",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"nagging",
"repining",
"screaming",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whinging",
"whingeing",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objecting (to)",
"protesting",
"quarreling (with)",
"quarrelling (with)",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"worrying",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"bearing",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending"
],
"antonyms":[
"crowing",
"delighting",
"rejoicing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"moans":{
"a long low sound indicating pain or grief":{
"examples":[
"she uttered an agonized moan and clutched her stomach"
],
"synonyms":[
"groans",
"wails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"whinings",
"keens",
"lamentations",
"laments",
"plaints",
"bawls",
"cries",
"howls",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"yelps",
"yowls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cackles",
"chortles",
"chuckles",
"giggles",
"guffaws",
"laughs",
"snickers",
"sniggers",
"titters",
"twitters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a crying out in grief":{
"examples":[
"moans arose from the crowd as the funeral procession for the well-loved senator made its way down the street"
],
"synonyms":[
"groans",
"howls",
"keens",
"lamentations",
"laments",
"plaints",
"wails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cries",
"sobs",
"tears",
"mournings",
"sufferings",
"hand-wringings",
"regrets",
"complaints",
"cris de coeur",
"outcries",
"protests",
"anguishes",
"dolors",
"griefs",
"heartaches",
"heartbreaks",
"sorrows",
"woes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"exultations",
"rejoicings"
]
},
"an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment":{
"examples":[
"the crowd responded with a moan when it was announced that the rest of the show would be cancelled due to the weather"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"complaints",
"fusses",
"grievances",
"gripes",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"grumbles",
"hollers",
"kvetches",
"laments",
"misereres",
"murmurs",
"plaints",
"squawks",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenges",
"demurs",
"expostulations",
"kicks",
"niggles",
"objections",
"protests",
"quibbles",
"remonstrances",
"stinks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliments",
"plaudits",
"acclaim",
"applauses",
"praises",
"approvals",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to utter a moan":{
"examples":[
"he moaned and cried for days after his dog, his only companion, died"
],
"synonyms":[
"groans",
"wails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blubbers",
"cries",
"sobs",
"weeps",
"sniffs",
"snivels",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"keens",
"laments",
"rues",
"agonizes",
"anguishes",
"bleeds",
"grieves",
"hurts",
"mourns",
"sorrows",
"suffers",
"bawls",
"howls",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"yammers",
"yelps",
"yowls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cackles",
"chortles",
"chuckles",
"cracks up",
"giggles",
"guffaws",
"laughs",
"snickers",
"titters",
"twitters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"their son moaned whenever anyone asked him to do some work"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"caterwauls",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grizzles",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"grumps",
"hollers",
"inveighs",
"keens",
"kicks",
"kvetches",
"maunders",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"nags",
"repines",
"screams",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objects (to)",
"protests",
"quarrels (with)",
"cavils",
"quibbles",
"frets",
"stews",
"worries",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"sobs",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"bears",
"countenances",
"endures",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends"
],
"antonyms":[
"crows",
"delights",
"rejoices"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mobilities":{
"as in locomotions , motilities":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"locomotions",
"motilities",
"motivities",
"dislocations",
"migrations",
"relocations",
"fiddlings",
"squirms",
"motions",
"movements",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirrings",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mobility":{
"as in locomotion , motility":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"locomotion",
"motility",
"motivity",
"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shift",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring",
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination",
"motionlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mocker":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"the players paid no attention to the mockers in the stands"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"quiz",
"quizzer",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"giber",
"jiber",
"insulter",
"jeerer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"trash-talker",
"smart aleck",
"smart alec",
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wise guy",
"kidder",
"lampooner",
"satirist",
"accuser",
"blamer",
"troublemaker",
"assailant",
"attacker",
"molester",
"victimizer",
"bother",
"disturber",
"pest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defender",
"deliverer",
"guard",
"protector",
"rescuer",
"savior",
"saviour",
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"succorer",
"bodyguard",
"champion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mod":{
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"the young artist's converted loft is decorated in a self-consciously mod style"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"new-fashioned",
"newfangled",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"recent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anachronistic",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"hoary",
"old",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"former",
"late",
"olden",
"past",
"antique",
"historic",
"historical",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"unmodernized",
"old-world",
"discarded",
"disused",
"moth-eaten",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
"keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments especially in fashion and entertainment":{
"examples":[
"a chichi boutique for mod dressers with deep pockets"
],
"synonyms":[
"au courant",
"cool",
"def",
"downtown",
"groovy",
"hep",
"hip",
"in",
"now",
"trendy",
"turned-on",
"with-it"
],
"near synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"voguish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"geeky",
"nerdish",
"nerdy",
"dowdy",
"styleless",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"uncool",
"unhip",
"untrendy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mode":{
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"examples":[
"uses a colloquial mode of expression for his informal essays"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashion",
"locution",
"manner",
"phraseology",
"style",
"tone",
"vein"
],
"near synonyms":[
"address",
"delivery",
"elocution",
"archaism",
"colloquialism",
"regionalism",
"acceptation",
"connotation",
"denotation",
"expression",
"idiom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"when I'm in my cooking mode , I just have to go into the kitchen and make something"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"feather",
"humor",
"mood",
"spirit",
"temper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"attitude",
"mind-set",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"emotion",
"feeling",
"heart",
"passion",
"sentiment",
"strain",
"belief",
"conviction",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"opinion",
"expression",
"tone",
"vein",
"character",
"disposition",
"identity",
"individuality",
"makeup",
"mettle",
"personality",
"selfhood",
"self-identity",
"temperament",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"slim, tanned bodies are definitely the mode at this beach resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fad",
"fashion",
"flavor",
"go",
"hot ticket",
"last word",
"latest",
"rage",
"sensation",
"style",
"ton",
"trend",
"vogue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonder",
"nine day wonder",
"new wave",
"crush",
"infatuation",
"fervor",
"passion",
"furor",
"fuss",
"hullabaloo",
"to-do",
"uproar",
"bandwagon",
"crusade",
"cult",
"movement",
"novelty",
"wrinkle",
"caprice",
"fancy",
"whim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"standard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modelling":{
"as in matching , patterning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"patterning",
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring",
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moderated":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"related":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"modernized":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"recast",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporized",
"streamlined",
"updated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"modest":{
"being about midway between extremes of amount or size":{
"examples":[
"he was awarded a modest pension when he retired"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"intermediate",
"mean",
"median",
"medium",
"middle",
"middling",
"midsize",
"midsized",
"moderate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reasonable",
"common",
"commonplace",
"conventional",
"normal",
"popular",
"regular",
"routine",
"standard",
"typical",
"usual",
"adequate",
"passable",
"tolerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"extreme",
"exceptional",
"rare",
"strange",
"uncommon",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"idiosyncratic",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"peculiar",
"private"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"free from any trace of the coarse or indecent":{
"examples":[
"tended to wear more modest swimsuits than the thong-clad guests at the resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaste",
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"immaculate",
"pure",
"vestal",
"virgin",
"virginal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lily-white",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unsoiled",
"unspotted",
"unstained",
"unsullied",
"untainted",
"untarnished",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"cultivated",
"refined",
"tasteful",
"harmless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defiled",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"improper",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"ribald",
"unseemly",
"crude",
"tacky",
"tasteless",
"unrefined"
],
"antonyms":[
"coarse",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"immodest",
"impure",
"indecent",
"obscene",
"smutty",
"unchaste",
"unclean",
"vulgar"
]
},
"not comfortable around people":{
"examples":[
"a modest winner who said a quick thank-you and promptly left the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"backward",
"bashful",
"coy",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"recessive",
"retiring",
"self-effacing",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"withdrawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antisocial",
"lone",
"lone-wolf",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"awkward",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"unadventurous",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising",
"inhibited",
"reserved",
"uneasy",
"uptight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social",
"bold",
"dashing",
"forceful",
"brash",
"forward",
"overbold",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing"
]
},
"not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness":{
"examples":[
"appealingly modest about her success in the fashion industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"ingenuous",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"plain",
"simple",
"unaffected",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"aw-shucks",
"self-deprecating",
"self-deprecatory",
"self-effacing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"hubristic",
"overconfident",
"self-confident",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"narcissistic",
"prideful",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-engrossed",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggy",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"overbearing",
"patronizing",
"pontificating",
"flamboyant",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"chesty",
"conceited",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modesty":{
"the absence of any feelings of being better than others":{
"antonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"examples":[
"his natural modesty makes him reluctant to run for public office"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness"
],
"related":[
"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"ingenuousness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"directness",
"plainness",
"simpleness",
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"mousiness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"sheepishness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"synonyms":[
"demureness",
"down-to-earthness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being morally pure":{
"antonyms":[
"immodesty",
"impurity",
"unchasteness",
"unchastity"
],
"examples":[
"in this day and age, that's very becoming modesty in a teenager"
],
"near antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"sinfulness",
"unrighteousness",
"wickedness",
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"vulgarity"
],
"related":[
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"decency",
"decorum",
"propriety",
"seemliness"
],
"synonyms":[
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"immaculacy",
"innocence",
"purity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modified":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to limit the meaning of (as a noun)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"adjectives are words that modify nouns, while adverbs can modify adjectives and verbs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadened",
"expanded",
"widened"
],
"related":[
"altered",
"colored",
"distorted",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped",
"narrowed"
],
"synonyms":[
"qualified"
]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"antonyms":[
"fixed",
"froze",
"set",
"stabilized"
],
"examples":[
"he modified the appliance so that it would run more quietly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"deformed",
"metamorphosed",
"mutated",
"regenerated",
"revolutionized",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted",
"commuted",
"converted",
"exchanged",
"rejiggered",
"retooled"
],
"synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"made over",
"recast",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"modify":{
"to limit the meaning of (as a noun)":{
"examples":[
"adjectives are words that modify nouns, while adverbs can modify adjectives and verbs"
],
"synonyms":[
"qualify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alter",
"color",
"distort",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp",
"narrow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broaden",
"expand",
"widen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"he modified the appliance so that it would run more quietly"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter",
"change",
"make over",
"recast",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deform",
"metamorphose",
"mutate",
"regenerate",
"revolutionize",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute",
"commute",
"convert",
"exchange",
"rejigger",
"retool"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fix",
"freeze",
"set",
"stabilize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modulated":{
"to make changes to (something) in order to keep a desirable balance, proportion, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He takes insulin to modulate his blood sugar levels.",
"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adjusted",
"regulated",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"fiddled (with)",
"fine-tuned",
"phased",
"registered",
"rigged",
"tweaked",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored",
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"patterned",
"altered",
"changed",
"modified",
"redressed",
"righted",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"fixed",
"mended",
"repaired",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"redrafted",
"redrew",
"restyled",
"revised",
"reworked",
"rewrote",
"blue-penciled",
"cut",
"shortened",
"amended",
"debugged",
"emended",
"rectified",
"red-penciled",
"reformed",
"remedied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"aggravated",
"worsened",
"misadjusted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modulates":{
"to make changes to (something) in order to keep a desirable balance, proportion, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He takes insulin to modulate his blood sugar levels.",
"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adjusts",
"regulates",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"rigs",
"tweaks",
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors",
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"alters",
"changes",
"modifies",
"redresses",
"rights",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"improves",
"perfects",
"polishes",
"touches up",
"fixes",
"mends",
"repairs",
"moderates",
"qualifies",
"redrafts",
"redraws",
"restyles",
"revises",
"reworks",
"rewrites",
"blue-pencils",
"cuts",
"shortens",
"amends",
"debugs",
"emends",
"rectifies",
"red-pencils",
"reforms",
"remedies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"spoils",
"aggravates",
"worsens",
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mogul":{
"a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"movie moguls promising to turn young actresses into stars"
],
"synonyms":[
"baron",
"captain",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lion",
"lord",
"magnate",
"monarch",
"Napoleon",
"prince",
"tycoon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"big gun",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"figure",
"heavy",
"heavyweight",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"main man",
"mover and shaker",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"notable",
"personage",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"supremo",
"VIP",
"celebrity",
"personality",
"star",
"superstar",
"deity",
"demigod",
"god"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pint",
"lightweight",
"small-timer",
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"nobody",
"nothing",
"zero"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moguls":{
"a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"movie moguls promising to turn young actresses into stars"
],
"synonyms":[
"barons",
"captains",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"lords",
"magnates",
"monarchs",
"Napoleons",
"princes",
"tycoons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"figures",
"heavies",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"main men",
"movers and shakers",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"notables",
"personages",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"supremos",
"VIPs",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"stars",
"superstars",
"deities",
"demigods",
"gods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pints",
"lightweights",
"small-timers",
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"nobodies",
"zeros",
"zeroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moil":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"went for a retreat at the monastery for a temporary respite from the moil of the modern world"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"related":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
]
},
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the angry mob moiled around the courthouse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"calm",
"subside"
],
"related":[
"reel",
"spin",
"swirl",
"whirl",
"agitate",
"stir"
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"churn",
"roil",
"seethe"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"miners moiling all day in the sunless recesses of the earth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
],
"examples":[
"fed up with the moil and moneygrubbing of Wall Street, he decided to open a bed-and-breakfast in Vermont"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"related":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeywork",
"drudge",
"drudgery",
"fatigue",
"grind",
"labor",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail"
]
}
},
"moisturized":{
"as in hydrated , moistened":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moisturizing":{
"as in hydrating , moistening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting",
"wetting down",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
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"steeping",
"flushing",
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"dipping",
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"rewashing",
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"parching",
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"searing",
"dewatering",
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"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
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"rot",
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"turn",
"turn off",
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"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"addle",
"curdle",
"ferment",
"mortify",
"rust",
"crumble",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"dilapidate",
"sink",
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"age",
"develop",
"grow",
"mature",
"ripen",
"refresh",
"renew",
"restore",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"assemble",
"compose",
"integrate",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"meliorate"
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"rots",
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"cleanses",
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"plants molding in the abandoned garden"
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"fouls",
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"spoils"
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"turns",
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"obsolete",
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"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"vintage",
"historic",
"historical",
"olden",
"traditional",
"old hat",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"superannuated",
"dated",
"fusty",
"moth-eaten",
"musty",
"stodgy",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
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"atavistic",
"fossilized",
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"former",
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"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
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"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
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"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"fresh",
"new",
"chic",
"designer",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"nontraditional",
"recent"
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"decaying",
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"disintegrating",
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"putrefying",
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"rotting",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"gangrenous",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"putrid",
"rotten",
"spoiled"
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"undecomposed",
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
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"a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country":{
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"for years we have had a mole in the enemy's national intelligence agency"
],
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"courier",
"counterspy",
"double agent",
"sleeper",
"infiltrator",
"informer",
"stool pigeon",
"spymaster",
"superspy"
],
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"agent",
"asset",
"emissary",
"intelligencer",
"operative",
"spook",
"spy",
"undercover"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"gal",
"gill",
"girl",
"girlfriend",
"inamorata",
"lady",
"ladylove",
"old lady",
"woman",
"beloved",
"darling",
"dear",
"favorite",
"flame",
"honey",
"love",
"lover",
"significant other",
"sweet",
"sweetheart",
"valentine"
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"noun"
]
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"as in decrease , mitigation":{
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"appeasement",
"assuagement",
"decrease",
"diminishment",
"mitigation",
"moderation",
"alleviation",
"comfort",
"ease",
"release",
"relief",
"calming",
"salving",
"soothing"
],
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"discomfort",
"unrest",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"smart",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in appeased , placated":{
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"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
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"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"maddened",
"outraged"
],
"examples":[
"an apology would probably mollify your friend"
],
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"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"antagonized",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
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"irked",
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"nettled",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"provoked",
"roused",
"harassed",
"harried",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"offended",
"slighted"
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"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"hushed",
"quieted",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"endeared (to)",
"ingratiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"adulated",
"blarneyed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"quenched",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"sweet-talked",
"wheedled",
"babied",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"dulcified",
"sweetened"
],
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"assuaged",
"conciliated",
"disarmed",
"gentled",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated"
]
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"to make more bearable or less severe":{
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"aggravated",
"exacerbated"
],
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"a friendly gesture that did a lot to mollify their suspicions about the new neighbor"
],
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"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"sharpened"
],
"related":[
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"lightened",
"moderated",
"softened",
"tempered",
"cured",
"healed",
"remedied",
"amended",
"corrected",
"emended",
"fixed",
"mended",
"rectified",
"reformed",
"repaired",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"refined"
],
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"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"eased",
"helped",
"mitigated",
"palliated",
"relieved",
"soothed"
]
},
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
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"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"madden",
"outrage"
],
"examples":[
"an apology would probably mollify your friend"
],
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"annoy",
"antagonize",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pique",
"put out",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"provoke",
"rouse",
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"harry",
"persecute",
"pester",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fret",
"perturb",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend",
"slight"
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"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"hush",
"quiet",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"endear (to)",
"ingratiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"adulate",
"blarney",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle",
"baby",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"dulcify",
"sweeten"
],
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"assuage",
"conciliate",
"disarm",
"gentle",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate"
]
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"to make more bearable or less severe":{
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"aggravate",
"exacerbate"
],
"examples":[
"a friendly gesture that did a lot to mollify their suspicions about the new neighbor"
],
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"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"sharpen"
],
"related":[
"abate",
"lighten",
"moderate",
"soften",
"temper",
"cure",
"heal",
"remedy",
"amend",
"correct",
"emend",
"fix",
"mend",
"rectify",
"reform",
"repair",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"perfect",
"refine"
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"synonyms":[
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"alleviate",
"assuage",
"ease",
"help",
"mitigate",
"palliate",
"relieve",
"soothe"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"tending to lessen or avoid conflict or hostility":{
"examples":[
"a future son-in-law using mollifying flattery to overcome a bad first impression"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"conciliatory",
"disarming",
"pacific",
"pacifying",
"peacemaking",
"placating",
"placatory",
"propitiatory"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"winning",
"winsome",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"nonbelligerent",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"obliging",
"satisfying",
"affable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"kindly",
"passive",
"submissive",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abrasive",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"chafing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"inflammatory",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nagging",
"nettlesome",
"nettling",
"offensive",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"rankling",
"riling",
"vexing",
"engaging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"hostile",
"inhospitable",
"inimical",
"unfriendly",
"unsympathetic",
"aggressive",
"agonistic",
"argumentative",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"contentious",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"martial",
"militant",
"militaristic",
"military",
"warlike"
],
"antonyms":[
"antagonizing"
]
},
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"examples":[
"an apology would probably mollify your friend"
],
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"appeasing",
"assuaging",
"conciliating",
"disarming",
"gentling",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"hushing",
"quieting",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"endearing (to)",
"ingratiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"adulating",
"blarneying",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"soft-soaping",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"satisfying",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"sweet-talking",
"wheedling",
"babying",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling",
"dulcifying",
"sweetening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"antagonizing",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"persecuting",
"pestering",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"offending",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"outraging"
]
},
"to make more bearable or less severe":{
"examples":[
"a friendly gesture that did a lot to mollify their suspicions about the new neighbor"
],
"synonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"helping",
"mitigating",
"palliating",
"relieving",
"soothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"lightening",
"moderating",
"softening",
"tempering",
"curing",
"healing",
"remedying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"emending",
"fixing",
"mending",
"rectifying",
"reforming",
"repairing",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"refining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"sharpening"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"exacerbating"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a crab molts its shell as it grows larger"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliate",
"shed",
"slip",
"slough",
"sluff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flake",
"peel",
"scale",
"chuck",
"discard",
"ditch",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"junk",
"scrap",
"shuck (off)",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"unload"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"momentous":{
"having great meaning or lasting effect":{
"examples":[
"a momentous occasion that will go down in the history books"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"earth-shattering",
"earthshaking",
"eventful",
"historic",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"monumental",
"much",
"significant",
"substantial",
"tectonic",
"weighty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"strategic",
"earnest",
"grave",
"heavy",
"serious",
"sincere",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"central",
"critical",
"crucial",
"essential",
"key",
"pivotal",
"seminal",
"vital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paltry",
"petty",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monasticism":{
"as in austerity , asceticism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"asceticism",
"austereness",
"austerity",
"dourness",
"gruffness",
"callousness",
"hard-heartedness",
"implacability",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"pitilessness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolve",
"steadfastness",
"obstinacy",
"stubbornness",
"exactingness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"inflexibility",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"stringency"
],
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"forbearance",
"indulgence",
"kindness",
"lenience",
"patience",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"tolerance",
"flexibility",
"gentleness",
"laxness",
"mildness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a wealthy person":{
"examples":[
"the old moneybags was used to being deferred to by his fellow townspeople"
],
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"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"fat cat",
"have",
"money",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking"
],
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"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
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"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
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"have-not",
"pauper"
]
},
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"plural noun"
]
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"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
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"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
],
"examples":[
"luxury goods that are purchased mainly by moneyed tourists from abroad"
],
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"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
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"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
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"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"seeing as no respectable rodeo performer could possibly be known as Leslie, a suitably masculine moniker was created for him"
],
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"aliases",
"bynames",
"cognomens",
"cognomina",
"epithets",
"handles",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"surnames"
],
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"appellations",
"denominations",
"denotations",
"designations",
"labels",
"tags",
"titles",
"anonyms",
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms"
],
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},
"a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known":{
"examples":[
"\"Cornelius Jedidiah Beauregard\" is his rather unwieldy moniker"
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"appellations",
"appellatives",
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"cognomina",
"compellations",
"denominations",
"denotations",
"designations",
"handles",
"names",
"nomenclatures",
"titles"
],
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"baptismal names",
"Christian names",
"first names",
"forenames",
"given names",
"family names",
"maiden names",
"middle names",
"surnames",
"matronymics",
"patronymics",
"bynames",
"diminutives",
"epithets",
"hypocorisms",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"banners",
"rubrics",
"tags",
"aliases",
"cryptonyms",
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms",
"binomials",
"monomials",
"trivial names",
"vernaculars",
"misnomers",
"brand names",
"labels",
"trademarks",
"trade names"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monitoring":{
"as in observation , policing":{
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"observance",
"observation",
"observing",
"policing",
"care",
"charge",
"guidance",
"headship",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision",
"surveillance",
"administration",
"control",
"direction",
"generalship",
"hand(s)",
"management",
"running",
"leadership",
"piloting",
"shepherding",
"steering",
"government",
"reign",
"rule",
"aegis",
"egis",
"auspices",
"guardianship",
"protection",
"trusteeship",
"tutelage"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
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"police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders"
],
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"covering",
"watching"
],
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"surveilling",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"beholding",
"espying",
"looking",
"noticing",
"noting",
"observing",
"regarding",
"seeing",
"sighting",
"spying",
"viewing",
"witnessing",
"gaping",
"gawking",
"gazing",
"glaring",
"goggling",
"peering",
"rubbernecking",
"staring",
"glancing",
"glimpsing",
"peeking",
"peeping"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monkeying":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
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"examples":[
"all that monkeying was sure to end in someone or something getting hurt"
],
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"related":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
]
}
},
"monkeys":{
"a physiological need for certain drugs":{
"examples":[
"I've got this monkey on my back, and going to detox is the only way to get it off"
],
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"addictions",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"habits",
"joneses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alcoholisms",
"heroinisms",
"morphinisms",
"habituations",
"tolerances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an appealingly mischievous person":{
"examples":[
"come back here, you little monkey !"
],
"synonyms":[
"devils",
"hellions",
"imps",
"mischiefs",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"scamps",
"urchins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutups",
"larkers",
"madcaps",
"skylarkers",
"ragamuffins",
"brats",
"disrupters",
"misbehavers",
"nuisances",
"juvenile delinquents",
"gamines",
"gamins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"curs",
"heels",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"knaves",
"miscreants",
"reprobates",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in mimics , apes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apes",
"copies",
"imitates",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"travesties",
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades (as)",
"personates",
"plays",
"poses (as)",
"performs",
"portrays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monkeyshine(s)":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"hockey players who are known for their monkeyshines on and off the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"on the alert for paleontological monkeyshines ever since the unmasking of Piltdown man"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monochromic":{
"having or consisting of a single color":{
"examples":[
"dull, monochromic decor"
],
"synonyms":[
"monochromatic",
"monochrome",
"self",
"self-colored",
"solid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"achromatic",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"shaded",
"mottled",
"parti-color",
"parti-colored",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"skewbald",
"banded",
"barred",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"streaked",
"striated",
"checkered",
"dotted",
"patterned",
"plaid",
"striped",
"flecked",
"specked",
"speckled",
"spotted",
"bichrome",
"bicolored",
"bicolor",
"dichromatic",
"trichromatic",
"tricolor",
"tricolored",
"two-tone"
],
"antonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monomania":{
"as in obsession , phobia":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monomaniac":{
"as in obsessed , monomaniacal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fixated",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"depressed",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"dotty",
"fey",
"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy",
"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monopolized":{
"to have complete control over":{
"examples":[
"it is illegal in the United States to monopolize an entire industry",
"you shouldn't monopolize the exercise equipment while others are waiting to use it"
],
"synonyms":[
"sewed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bogarted",
"cornered",
"hogged",
"absorbed",
"consumed",
"engrossed",
"had",
"held",
"owned",
"possessed",
"commanded",
"controlled",
"directed",
"governed",
"managed",
"reigned (over)",
"ruled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monstrosities":{
"a person, thing, or event that is far from normal":{
"examples":[
"any monstrosities born to the farm animals were sent to the agricultural college for study"
],
"synonyms":[
"abnormalities",
"anomalies",
"freaks",
"monsters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abortions",
"malformations",
"miscreations",
"mutants",
"mutations",
"characters",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"kooks",
"nuts",
"oddballs",
"screwballs",
"weirdos",
"aberrants",
"deviants",
"individualists",
"mavericks",
"nonconformists",
"curiosities",
"peculiarities",
"singularities",
"aberrations",
"exceptions",
"irregularities",
"oddities",
"rarities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"samples",
"specimens",
"commonplaces",
"usuals"
],
"antonyms":[
"averages",
"normals",
"norms",
"pars",
"standards"
]
},
"a strange or horrible and often frightening creature":{
"examples":[
"filled the haunted house with all sorts of spooks and mechanical monstrosities"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesqueries",
"grotesques",
"monsters",
"ogres"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ogresses",
"Frankensteins",
"b\u00eates noires",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"banshees",
"bogeymen",
"bogymen",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"frights",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"horrors",
"terrors",
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"abnormalities",
"freaks",
"mutants",
"mutations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something unpleasant to look at":{
"examples":[
"we were glad when the city tore down that monstrosity that used to stand across from the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"eyesores",
"frights",
"hideosities",
"horrors",
"messes",
"sights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eye-catchers",
"blots",
"smears",
"smudges",
"spots",
"stains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"visions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"months":{
"a long or seemingly long period of time":{
"examples":[
"that meeting lasted for months"
],
"synonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"blue moon",
"coon's age",
"cycle",
"donkey's years",
"eternity",
"forever",
"long",
"moon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infinity",
"lifetime"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flash",
"instant",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink",
"microsecond",
"nanosecond"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"monument":{
"a shaped stone laid over or erected near a grave and usually bearing an inscription to identify and preserve the memory of the deceased":{
"examples":[
"the Quakers disapproved of monuments , regarding them as idolatrous, so thousands of Nantucketers spend their eternal rest in complete anonymity"
],
"synonyms":[
"gravestone",
"headstone",
"stone",
"tombstone"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"marker",
"plaque",
"table",
"tablet",
"monolith",
"obelisk",
"pillar",
"memorial",
"shrine",
"burial",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event":{
"examples":[
"a moving monument to the great war and a tribute to the untold millions who died in it"
],
"synonyms":[
"commemorative",
"keepsake",
"memento",
"memorial",
"remembrance",
"reminder",
"souvenir",
"token"
],
"near synonyms":[
"memorabilia",
"relic",
"vestige",
"cairn",
"landmark",
"marker",
"testimonial",
"tribute",
"cenotaph"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mooched":{
"to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"leeched",
"begged",
"exploited",
"used"
],
"synonyms":[
"freeloaded",
"sponged"
]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"kids on vacation mooching about the house and looking for something to do"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"ambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"dawdled",
"moped",
"gypsied",
"hoboed",
"tramped",
"vagabonded",
"milled (about or around)",
"straggled",
"strayed"
],
"synonyms":[
"batted",
"cruised",
"drifted",
"floated",
"gadded (about)",
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"kicked around",
"knocked (about)",
"maundered",
"meandered",
"rambled",
"ranged",
"roamed",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"edged",
"inched",
"wormed",
"ghosted",
"padded",
"tiptoed"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurked",
"moused",
"pussyfooted",
"shirked",
"skulked",
"slid",
"slipped",
"slunk",
"slinked",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moocher":{
"a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, too many people at the community potluck were moochers who didn't bring any food of their own"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsucker",
"free rider",
"freeloader",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependent",
"deadbeat",
"idler",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"satellite",
"stooge",
"sycophant",
"toady",
"yes-man",
"cheapskate",
"miser",
"niggard",
"piker",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benefactor",
"philanthropist",
"supporter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonbeam":{
"as in sunbeam , sunburst":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sunbeam",
"sunburst",
"beam",
"ray",
"shaft",
"laser",
"spotlight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonshine":{
"illegally produced liquor":{
"examples":[
"during Prohibition, moonshine and \"bathtub gin\" were made secretly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootleg",
"mountain dew",
"white lightning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gin",
"red-eye",
"rotgut",
"alcohol",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"potable",
"rum",
"spirits",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"serving all sorts of moonshine at the bar"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohol",
"aqua vitae",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"bottle",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"inebriant",
"intoxicant",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"liquor",
"lush",
"potable",
"rum",
"sauce",
"spirits",
"stimulant",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aperitif",
"bracer",
"chaser",
"digestif",
"nightcap",
"belt",
"load",
"nip",
"peg",
"pop",
"shooter",
"shot",
"slug",
"snifter",
"snort",
"tot",
"whet",
"cocktail",
"mixed drink",
"ale",
"beer",
"brew",
"brewage",
"brewski",
"home brew",
"malt liquor",
"microbrew",
"mum",
"nappy",
"mead",
"sake",
"saki",
"wine",
"barley-bree",
"barley-broo",
"brandy",
"gin",
"liqueur",
"mao-tai",
"mescal",
"schnapps",
"tequila",
"vodka",
"whiskey",
"whisky",
"Dutch courage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a book about the so-called good old days that's sentimental moonshine"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moony":{
"as in dreamy , nostalgic":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mooring":{
"as in berth , slip":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"berth",
"slip",
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"pier",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf",
"embarcadero",
"dockyard",
"marina",
"quayage",
"shipyard",
"wharfage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in port , anchorage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorage",
"port",
"oasis",
"cover",
"screen",
"asylum",
"bolt-hole",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haven",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"sanctuary",
"sanctum",
"shelter",
"abode",
"diggings",
"domicile",
"dwelling",
"habitation",
"house",
"housing",
"lodging",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"rest",
"roof",
"cloister",
"closet",
"covert",
"den",
"hermitage",
"hideaway",
"hideout",
"lair",
"castle",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"redoubt",
"stronghold",
"lean-to",
"lee",
"shed",
"windbreak"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"moored the boat to the dock"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchoring",
"catching",
"clamping",
"fastening",
"fixing",
"hitching",
"securing",
"setting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extracting",
"prizing",
"prying",
"pulling",
"rooting (out)",
"tearing (out)",
"uprooting",
"wresting",
"yanking"
],
"antonyms":[
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unfastening",
"unfixing",
"unloosening",
"unloosing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"moot":{
"open to question or dispute":{
"examples":[
"it's a moot question what might have happened if the American colonies had not broken away from Great Britain"
],
"synonyms":[
"arguable",
"controvertible",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"issuable",
"negotiable",
"questionable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contradictable",
"refutable",
"controversial",
"debated",
"disputed",
"dubious",
"iffy",
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"academic",
"academical",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irrefutable",
"definite",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"absolute",
"clear",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"uncontested",
"undisputed"
],
"antonyms":[
"accomplished",
"certain",
"hands-down",
"inarguable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefragable",
"positive",
"questionless",
"settled",
"sure",
"unanswerable",
"unarguable",
"unchallengeable",
"undebatable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"to present or bring forward for discussion":{
"examples":[
"conservatives had shouted down the proposal when it was first mooted"
],
"synonyms":[
"bring up",
"broach",
"introduce",
"place",
"raise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allude (to)",
"cite",
"mention",
"name",
"refer (to)",
"offer",
"propose",
"suggest",
"air",
"express",
"speak (of)",
"talk (about)",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"interject",
"interrupt",
"debate",
"discuss",
"thrash (out or over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"hush (up)",
"quiet",
"silence",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion":{
"examples":[
"the issue of whether a person's nature or upbringing is more important continues to be mooted by experts and laymen alike"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"argue",
"bandy",
"bat (around or back and forth)",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"debate",
"discuss",
"dispute",
"hash (over or out)",
"talk over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"review",
"speak (about)",
"talk (about)",
"broach",
"introduce",
"propound",
"raise",
"stir up",
"forge",
"hammer out",
"talk out",
"thrash (out)",
"wrestle (with)",
"chew over",
"consider",
"deliberate",
"weigh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"moots":{
"to present or bring forward for discussion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"conservatives had shouted down the proposal when it was first mooted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censors",
"hushes (up)",
"quiets",
"silences",
"suppresses"
],
"related":[
"alludes (to)",
"cites",
"mentions",
"names",
"refers (to)",
"offers",
"proposes",
"suggests",
"airs",
"expresses",
"speaks (of)",
"talks (about)",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"interjects",
"interrupts",
"debates",
"discusses",
"thrashes (out or over)"
],
"synonyms":[
"brings up",
"broaches",
"introduces",
"places",
"raises"
]
},
"to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the issue of whether a person's nature or upbringing is more important continues to be mooted by experts and laymen alike"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"reviews",
"speaks (about)",
"talks (about)",
"broaches",
"introduces",
"propounds",
"raises",
"stirs up",
"forges",
"hammers out",
"talks out",
"thrashes (out)",
"wrestles (with)",
"chews over",
"considers",
"deliberates",
"weighs"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"argues",
"bandies",
"bats (around or back and forth)",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"debates",
"discusses",
"disputes",
"hashes (over or out)",
"talks over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moped":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"we were in a rush, and the Sunday driver in front of us was just moping along"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"she's been moping all weekend because her boyfriend hasn't called even once"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumped",
"pouted",
"sulked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brooded",
"dwelled (on)",
"dwelt (on)",
"mulled (over)",
"mused (over)",
"pondered",
"frowned",
"glowered",
"lowered",
"loured",
"scowled",
"carried on",
"took on",
"petted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"morbid":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"a pessimist who is given to morbid introspection and thoughts of death"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moron":{
"a stupid person":{
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
],
"examples":[
"some moron forgot to lock the doors before going home"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"related":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morons":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"some moron forgot to lock the doors before going home"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morose":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"those morose job seekers who have grown accustomed to rejection"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"morosely":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"morphs":{
"to take on a different shape, appearance, or state":{
"examples":[
"When it emerged from its chrysalis, the caterpillar had morphed into a striking butterfly."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"metamorphoses",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes",
"transposes",
"transubstantiates",
"changes",
"fluctuates",
"mutates",
"shifts",
"snaps",
"varies",
"betters",
"improves",
"deteriorates",
"worsens",
"turns around"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mortarman":{
"as in gunner , rifleman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"commando",
"raider",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"dragoon",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"servicewoman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortifications":{
"the emotional state of being made self-consciously uncomfortable":{
"examples":[
"the mortification of being dumped the night before the prom"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashments",
"confusions",
"discomfitures",
"disconcertments",
"embarrassments",
"flusters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitations",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposures",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"perturbations",
"upsets",
"disgraces",
"ignominies",
"shames",
"debasements",
"degradations",
"humiliations",
"humble pies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplombs",
"assurances",
"composures",
"confidences",
"equanimities",
"poises",
"self-confidences",
"self-possessions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortified":{
"as in chagrined , flustered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"irritated",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"humiliated",
"self-conscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was mortified by her children's atrocious manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"put off",
"put out",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"queered",
"shamed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"relieved",
"soothed",
"buoyed",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"assured",
"reassured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"mortify":{
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was mortified by her children's atrocious manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"nonplus",
"rattle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"put off",
"put out",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"queer",
"shame"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"comfort",
"console",
"relieve",
"soothe",
"buoy",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"assure",
"reassure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mote":{
"a very small piece":{
"examples":[
"there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house"
],
"synonyms":[
"atom",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dribble",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"nubbin",
"nugget",
"particle",
"patch",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"snip",
"snippet",
"speck",
"tittle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"dab",
"dash",
"driblet",
"drop",
"fraction",
"haet",
"halfpenny",
"ha'penny",
"iota",
"jot",
"kenning",
"lick",
"minim",
"mite",
"modicum",
"nutshell",
"ounce",
"pinch",
"shred",
"smatter",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"spot",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace",
"whisper",
"whit",
"bite",
"mouthful",
"nibble",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"fragment",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"chip",
"flake",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving",
"smithereens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunk",
"gob",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab",
"abundance",
"barrel",
"bucket",
"bushel",
"deal",
"heaps",
"loads",
"mass",
"mountain",
"peck",
"pile",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"scads",
"stack",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motet":{
"as in madrigal , aria":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aria",
"art song",
"barcarole",
"barcarolle",
"blues",
"chanson",
"chant",
"chantey",
"chanty",
"shanty",
"chorus",
"croon",
"descant",
"discant",
"folk song",
"glee",
"lullaby",
"madrigal",
"part-song",
"pop",
"rocker",
"round",
"roundelay",
"serenade",
"standard",
"ballad",
"ditty",
"jingle",
"lay",
"lyric",
"solo",
"song",
"vocal",
"anthem",
"cantata",
"canticle",
"carol",
"chorale",
"hymn",
"noel",
"psalm",
"spiritual",
"dirge",
"lament",
"requiem",
"threnody",
"hallelujah",
"paean",
"drinking song",
"fight song",
"torch song",
"cover",
"medley",
"remix"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moth-eaten":{
"having passed its time of use or usefulness":{
"examples":[
"moth-eaten scientific theories that no one's believed in ages"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moribund",
"mossy",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"Stone Age",
"superannuated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"obsolescent",
"discarded",
"disused",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"useless",
"dead",
"defunct",
"expired",
"extinct",
"vanished",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"fusty",
"musty",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"retro",
"vintage",
"aged",
"age-old",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"atavistic",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"historic",
"historical",
"late",
"old-world",
"past"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"recent",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute",
"fresh",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"functional",
"operable",
"operational",
"workable",
"active",
"alive",
"busy",
"employed",
"functioning",
"operating",
"operative"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"examples":[
"a man who's been wearing the same moth-eaten clothes for decades"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"used or heard so often as to be dull":{
"examples":[
"an uncle who tells the same moth-eaten stories every Thanksgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"banal",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"clich\u00e9d",
"cobwebby",
"commonplace",
"hack",
"hackney",
"hackneyed",
"musty",
"obligatory",
"shopworn",
"stale",
"stereotyped",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tired",
"trite",
"well-worn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"twice-told",
"bromidic",
"platitudinal",
"platitudinous",
"canned",
"cardboard",
"conventional",
"cookie-cutter",
"derivative",
"imitative",
"ready-made",
"tried-and-true",
"unimaginative",
"uninspired",
"unoriginal",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"rote",
"routine",
"standard",
"stock",
"typical",
"usual",
"arid",
"barren",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedantic",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"prosaic",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"undramatic",
"uninteresting",
"vapid",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying",
"old-fashioned",
"old hat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"atypical",
"extraordinary",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"uncommon",
"unfamiliar",
"unheard-of",
"unknown",
"unprecedented",
"unusual",
"pathbreaking",
"pioneering",
"trailblazing"
],
"antonyms":[
"fresh",
"new",
"novel",
"original",
"unclich\u00e9d",
"unhackneyed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mother-naked":{
"lacking or shed of clothing":{
"examples":[
"shocked to find that many of the participants at the spring break bacchanal were mother-naked"
],
"synonyms":[
"au naturel",
"bare",
"bottomless",
"disrobed",
"naked",
"nude",
"raw",
"starkers",
"stripped",
"unclad",
"unclothed",
"undressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seminude",
"topless",
"denuded",
"peeled",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"veiled",
"arrayed",
"caparisoned",
"decked (out)",
"rigged (out)",
"tricked (out)",
"vested",
"decent"
],
"antonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"attired",
"clad",
"clothed",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"invested",
"robed",
"suited"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mothered":{
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"I hope to mother at least one child"
],
"synonyms":[
"birthed",
"bore",
"delivered",
"dropped",
"had",
"produced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labored",
"bred",
"multiplied",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"generated",
"got",
"sired",
"calved",
"kidded",
"kindled",
"kittened",
"littered",
"pupped",
"whelped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborted",
"lost",
"miscarried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attend to the needs and comforts of":{
"examples":[
"mothered the patients with chicken soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"administered (to)",
"cared (for)",
"ministered (to)",
"nursed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cured",
"healed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"treated",
"aided",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"provided (for)",
"supported",
"babied",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"slighted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motherless":{
"as in fatherless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fatherless",
"baseborn",
"bastard",
"illegitimate",
"misbegotten",
"natural",
"spurious",
"supposititious",
"unfathered",
"nameless",
"adopted",
"orphaned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"legitimate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"motifs":{
"a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the motif of mute figures standing in lonely isolation is a recurrent one in the artist's works"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asides",
"digressions",
"excursions",
"interjections",
"parentheses",
"tangents"
],
"related":[
"subject matters",
"talking points",
"counts",
"ideas",
"points",
"purposes",
"considerations",
"issues",
"problems",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"burdens",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"fundamentals",
"generalities",
"gists",
"grists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"mains",
"marrows",
"masses",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"purports",
"quicks",
"staples",
"substances",
"sums",
"bases",
"bottoms",
"essentialities",
"essentials",
"affairs",
"arguments",
"debates"
],
"synonyms":[
"contents",
"matters",
"motives",
"questions",
"subjects",
"themes",
"topics"
]
},
"a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the fabric for the upholstery features a scallop shell motif"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"schemes",
"devices",
"adornments",
"caparisons",
"decorations",
"embellishments",
"frills",
"garnishes",
"ornaments",
"trims"
],
"synonyms":[
"designs",
"figures",
"motives",
"patterns"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motion":{
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"we were instructed not to make any sudden motions or we might scare away the deer"
],
"synonyms":[
"move",
"movement",
"shift",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motivity",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"motionlessness"
]
},
"to direct or notify by a movement or gesture":{
"examples":[
"the referee motioned the team captains to confer with him on the sideline"
],
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"beckon",
"flag",
"gesture",
"signal",
"wave"
],
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"nod",
"gesticulate",
"mime",
"pantomime",
"sign",
"signalize",
"acquaint",
"advise",
"inform",
"relate",
"tell",
"flourish",
"shrug"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"motion sickness":{
"as in morning sickness , altitude sickness":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motionlessness":{
"as in inaction , inertia":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inaction",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"moratorium",
"quiescence",
"suspended animation",
"suspense",
"suspension",
"impasse",
"standstill",
"coma",
"hibernation",
"hypnosis",
"repose",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"torpor",
"recess",
"recession",
"remission",
"downtime",
"idleness",
"layoff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation",
"recommencement",
"renewal",
"resumption",
"resuscitation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motivates":{
"to rouse to action or activity":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The presence of treats motivated the dogs to obey their owner's commands.",
"They drove a campaign to motivate voters to show up to the polls."
],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motived":{
"as in inspired , motivated":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"activated",
"animated",
"drove",
"energized",
"galvanized",
"induced",
"inspired",
"keyed (up)",
"motivated",
"pumped up",
"quickened",
"set off",
"vitalized",
"fanned",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"triggered",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"raised",
"whipped (up)",
"aroused",
"encouraged",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"impassioned",
"incited",
"instigated",
"moved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"revved (up)",
"sparked",
"stimulated",
"stirred",
"angered",
"enraged",
"maddened",
"upset",
"jeered",
"taunted",
"teased",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"irritated",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"soothed",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motivity":{
"as in mobility , locomotion":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shift",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring",
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination",
"motionlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motor":{
"a device that changes energy into mechanical motion":{
"examples":[
"the device was equipped with a small electrical motor to make the gears spin"
],
"synonyms":[
"engine",
"machine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"converter",
"transformer",
"appliance",
"mechanism",
"equipment",
"tool",
"mill"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels":{
"examples":[
"went shopping for a new automobile at Valley Motors"
],
"synonyms":[
"auto",
"automobile",
"bus",
"car",
"horseless carriage",
"machine",
"motor vehicle",
"motorcar",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coach",
"jitney",
"microbus",
"minibus",
"minivan",
"omnibus",
"van",
"convertible",
"fastback",
"hardtop",
"hatchback",
"notchback",
"ragtop",
"sports car",
"sport-utility vehicle",
"station wagon",
"SUV",
"town car",
"wagon",
"woody",
"woodie",
"compact",
"coupe",
"coup\u00e9",
"intermediate",
"limousine",
"mini",
"minicar",
"sedan",
"subcompact",
"V-8",
"gas-guzzler",
"land yacht",
"muscle car",
"stock car",
"turbocar",
"beater",
"clunker",
"crate",
"flivver",
"jalopy",
"junker",
"cream puff",
"phaeton",
"roadster",
"tin lizzie",
"touring car",
"hybrid"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"effortlessly motored past the other runners for a first-place finish"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"examples":[
"motoring along the highway at the speed limit"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobile",
"drive",
"tool"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roll",
"wheel",
"joyride",
"chauffeur",
"hack",
"taxi",
"ride",
"drag",
"race"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"motor vehicles":{
"a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels":{
"examples":[
"got a license to drive a motor vehicle the minute she turned 16"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiles",
"autos",
"buses",
"busses",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motorcars",
"motors",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"convertibles",
"fastbacks",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"station wagons",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"compacts",
"coupes",
"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"limousines",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars",
"hybrids"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motored":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"effortlessly motored past the other runners for a first-place finish"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"examples":[
"motoring along the highway at the speed limit"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiled",
"drove",
"tooled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rolled",
"wheeled",
"joyrode",
"chauffeured",
"hacked",
"taxied",
"rode",
"rid",
"dragged",
"raced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motormouth":{
"a person who talks constantly":{
"examples":[
"I had to listen to the motormouth's cell phone conversations for the entire commute"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbler",
"blabber",
"blabbermouth",
"blowhard",
"cackler",
"chatterbox",
"chatterer",
"conversationalist",
"gabbler",
"gasbag",
"jabberer",
"jay",
"magpie",
"prattler",
"talker",
"windbag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"blatherer",
"blatherskite",
"converser",
"discourser"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motors":{
"a device that changes energy into mechanical motion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the device was equipped with a small electrical motor to make the gears spin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"converters",
"transformers",
"appliances",
"mechanisms",
"equipments",
"tools",
"mills"
],
"synonyms":[
"engines",
"machines"
]
},
"a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"went shopping for a new automobile at Valley Motors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"convertibles",
"fastbacks",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"station wagons",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"compacts",
"coupes",
"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"limousines",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars",
"hybrids"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiles",
"autos",
"buses",
"busses",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motorcars",
"motor vehicles",
"wheels"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
],
"examples":[
"effortlessly motored past the other runners for a first-place finish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"related":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"motoring along the highway at the speed limit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rolls",
"wheels",
"joyrides",
"chauffeurs",
"hacks",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"rides",
"drags",
"races"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiles",
"drives",
"tools"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mountain":{
"an elevation of land higher than a hill":{
"examples":[
"my cousin likes to climb mountains just because she can"
],
"synonyms":[
"alp",
"hump",
"mount",
"peak"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cordillera",
"mountain range",
"range",
"sierra",
"inselberg",
"knob",
"seamount",
"aiguille",
"horn",
"mountaintop",
"pinnacle",
"summit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basin",
"bowl",
"depression",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"receives a mountain of mail every year for the holidays"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"he piled a mountain of mashed potatoes on his plate"
],
"synonyms":[
"cock",
"heap",
"hill",
"mound",
"pile",
"stack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"bar",
"drift",
"embankment",
"bed",
"layer",
"mow",
"pyramid",
"rick",
"barrow",
"cairn",
"pyre",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"array",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"conglomeration",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"hoard",
"huddle",
"jumble",
"knot",
"pileup"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountain man":{
"as in woodsman , bushranger":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bushranger",
"woodsman",
"explorer",
"pathfinder",
"trailblazer",
"colonial",
"colonist",
"colonizer",
"frontiersman",
"homesteader",
"pioneer",
"settler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountainous":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"unusually large":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"examples":[
"the seemingly mountainous obstacles he had to overcome while growing up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"related":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
}
},
"mountainousness":{
"as in immensity , enormity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"extensiveness",
"grossness",
"healthiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"massiveness",
"mightiness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"vastness",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness",
"substantiality",
"voluminousness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"handsomeness",
"liberality",
"muchness",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"weightiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fineness",
"littleness",
"puniness",
"smallness",
"diminutiveness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"slightness",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountains":{
"an elevation of land higher than a hill":{
"examples":[
"my cousin likes to climb mountains just because she can"
],
"synonyms":[
"alps",
"humps",
"mounts",
"peaks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cordilleras",
"mountain ranges",
"ranges",
"sierras",
"inselbergs",
"inselberge",
"knobs",
"seamounts",
"aiguilles",
"horns",
"mountaintops",
"pinnacles",
"summits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basins",
"bowls",
"depressions",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"receives a mountain of mail every year for the holidays"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"he piled a mountain of mashed potatoes on his plate"
],
"synonyms":[
"cocks",
"heaps",
"hills",
"mounds",
"piles",
"stacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bars",
"drifts",
"embankments",
"beds",
"layers",
"mows",
"pyramids",
"ricks",
"barrows",
"cairns",
"pyres",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"conglomerations",
"gatherings",
"groupings",
"hoards",
"huddles",
"jumbles",
"knots",
"pileups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountebankery":{
"as in subterfuge , chicanery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"fraudulence",
"hanky-panky",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"obliquity",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"wile",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"falsehood",
"falsity",
"fib",
"untruth",
"artifice",
"cheating",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"foxiness",
"fraud",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"wiliness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"sanctimoniousness",
"two-facedness",
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"deviousness",
"shrewdness",
"treacherousness",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"covertness",
"furtiveness",
"secrecy",
"shadiness",
"sneakiness",
"stealthiness",
"oiliness",
"shiftiness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"frankness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness",
"honesty",
"probity",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"solidity",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"decency",
"goodness",
"incorruptibility",
"integrity",
"righteousness",
"truthfulness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moused":{
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"edged",
"inched",
"wormed",
"ghosted",
"padded",
"tiptoed"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurked",
"mooched",
"pussyfooted",
"shirked",
"skulked",
"slid",
"slipped",
"slunk",
"slinked",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mousiness":{
"as in diffidence , timidity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"sheepishness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"timorousness",
"carefulness",
"cautiousness",
"wariness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"gutlessness",
"poltroonery",
"pusillanimity",
"spinelessness",
"demureness",
"down-to-earthness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"modesty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness",
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mousy":{
"easily frightened":{
"examples":[
"a mousy little girl who hid behind her mother the entire time we were there"
],
"synonyms":[
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"timorous",
"tremulous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"spooky",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panicky",
"panic-stricken",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"undeterred",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky"
],
"antonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"dashing",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mouth":{
"the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
"examples":[
"the baby chicks opened their mouths very wide and chirped piteously when their mother came back with worms"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gob",
"kisser",
"mug",
"piehole",
"trap",
"yap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countenance",
"face",
"puss",
"visage",
"muzzle",
"jaws",
"mandible",
"maxilla",
"gullet",
"maw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"the boy usually makes a mouth when he gets an injection"
],
"synonyms":[
"face",
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"moue",
"mow",
"mug",
"pout",
"scowl",
"snoot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinch",
"squinch",
"wince",
"growl",
"snarl",
"rictus",
"simper",
"smirk",
"scoff",
"sneer",
"glare",
"glower",
"look",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grin",
"laugh",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request":{
"examples":[
"I won't tolerate you giving your mother mouth about everything"
],
"synonyms":[
"back talk",
"backchat",
"cheek",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"sass",
"sauce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comeback",
"rejoinder",
"retort",
"riposte",
"wisecrack",
"cuteness",
"discourtesy",
"disrespect",
"guff",
"impoliteness",
"nonsense",
"rudeness",
"tactlessness",
"audaciousness",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"coarseness",
"crassness",
"crudity",
"vulgarity",
"abruptness",
"bluffness",
"bluntness",
"brusqueness",
"crossness",
"curtness",
"gruffness",
"surliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civility",
"cordiality",
"courtesy",
"diplomacy",
"politeness",
"tactfulness",
"consideration",
"gallantry",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"smoothness",
"suaveness",
"suavity",
"deference",
"respect",
"affability"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who speaks for another or for a group":{
"examples":[
"the press secretary is the official mouth of the administration"
],
"synonyms":[
"mouthpiece",
"point man",
"point person",
"prophet",
"speaker",
"spokesman",
"spokesperson"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spokesmodel",
"spokeswoman",
"front",
"promoter",
"shill",
"communicator",
"sayer",
"talker",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"when her mother told her to mind, the little girl mouthed insolently and rolled her eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"grimace",
"mug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pout",
"contort",
"deform",
"twist",
"warp",
"frown",
"glare",
"gloom",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl",
"gape",
"gaze",
"ogle",
"stare",
"growl",
"snarl",
"sneer",
"simper",
"smirk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"grin",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"the prompter mouthed the forgotten words under his breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"chunter",
"grunt",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"maunder",
"prattle",
"ramble",
"breathe",
"gasp",
"pant",
"whisper",
"buzz"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak out",
"speak up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mouth (down)":{
"as in swallow , down":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouth (off)":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"some crank mouthing off in the center of town to anyone who would listen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rant",
"rave",
"bloviate",
"blow",
"lecture",
"preach",
"sermonize",
"advertise",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"proclaim",
"pronounce",
"speak",
"speechify",
"talk"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaim",
"discourse",
"harangue",
"orate",
"perorate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouthful":{
"a small piece or quantity of food":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"took a small mouthful of the soup to see if she liked it"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"collop",
"medallion",
"noisette",
"nosh",
"snack",
"appetizer",
"canap\u00e9",
"hors d'oeuvre",
"bit",
"chew",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dribble",
"driblet",
"fleck",
"hint",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"pinch",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"shred",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snip",
"snippet",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"suspicion",
"tittle",
"touch",
"trace",
"dash",
"drop",
"lap",
"lick",
"gulp",
"swallow",
"swig"
],
"synonyms":[
"bite",
"morsel",
"nibble",
"nugget",
"taste",
"tidbit",
"titbit"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mouths (off)":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"examples":[
"some crank mouthing off in the center of town to anyone who would listen"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaims",
"discourses",
"harangues",
"orates",
"perorates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rants",
"raves",
"bloviates",
"blows",
"lectures",
"preaches",
"sermonizes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"pronounces",
"speaks",
"speechifies",
"talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouton":{
"as in fleece":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"movement":{
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"a sudden movement in the far corner of the room made her turn in that direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"motion",
"move",
"shift",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motivity",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"motionlessness"
]
},
"a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal":{
"examples":[
"a movement for political reform in the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandwagon",
"blitz",
"campaign",
"cause",
"crusade",
"drive",
"juggernaut",
"push"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assault",
"attack",
"maneuver",
"march",
"offensive",
"action",
"bid",
"enterprise",
"initiative",
"mission",
"project",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moviemaking":{
"the art or business of making a movie":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a director with 25 years of experience at moviemaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"Bollywood",
"Hollywood",
"showbiz",
"show business"
],
"synonyms":[
"big screen",
"cinema",
"film",
"filmdom",
"filmland",
"filmmaking",
"movie",
"pictures",
"screen",
"silver screen"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mowed":{
"to shorten the standing leafy plant cover of":{
"examples":[
"you really should mow the lawn before it gets much higher"
],
"synonyms":[
"cut"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clipped",
"cropped",
"curtailed",
"cut back",
"docked",
"hacked",
"lopped",
"manicured",
"nipped",
"pared",
"pruned",
"trimmed",
"bobbed",
"shaved",
"sheared",
"snipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring down by cutting":{
"examples":[
"an afternoon spent mowing hay"
],
"synonyms":[
"chopped (down)",
"cut (down)",
"felled",
"hewed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozed",
"demolished",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"razed",
"tore down"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moxie":{
"knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something":{
"examples":[
"it was old-fashioned military moxie that got medical supplies to the disaster site in record time"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"experience",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"proficiency",
"savvy",
"skills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"background",
"command",
"mastery",
"acquaintance",
"conversance",
"familiarity",
"intimacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"unawareness",
"unfamiliarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"inexperience"
]
},
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"examples":[
"a fearless journalist who denounced McCarthyism when few had the moxie to do so"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"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"
]
},
"active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"say, you're full of moxie this morning!"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal spirits",
"animation",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"snappiness",
"spirit",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"spunk",
"spunkiness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"ardor",
"\u00e9lan",
"fervor",
"fire",
"passion",
"zeal",
"main",
"metal",
"mettle",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"stamina",
"strength",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"hardiness",
"huskiness",
"sturdiness",
"virility",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"disablement",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"infirmity",
"powerlessness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"weakness",
"enervation",
"exhaustion",
"inanition",
"prostration"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monkey (around)":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"examples":[
"stop monkeying around in the house or you'll break something"
],
"synonyms":[
"act up",
"clown (around)",
"cut up",
"fool around",
"horse around",
"hotdog",
"show off",
"showboat",
"skylark"
],
"related":[
"carry on",
"misbehave",
"roughhouse",
"caper",
"cavort",
"disport",
"frisk",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"carouse",
"maffick",
"revel",
"roar",
"wassail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"would rather just monkey around instead of doing work"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodle",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang about",
"kick around",
"mess around",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"clown (around)",
"horse around",
"diddle (with)",
"tinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckle (down)",
"knuckle down",
"set (to)",
"settle (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mooncalves":{
"a person who lacks good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"he was a helpless mooncalf when it came to making decisions about even the most trivial things"
],
"synonyms":[
"berks",
"boobies",
"charlies",
"charleys",
"cuckoos",
"ding-a-lings",
"dingbats",
"ding-dongs",
"dipsticks",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"featherheads",
"fools",
"geese",
"gits",
"half-wits",
"jackasses",
"lunatics",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nutcases",
"nuts",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"turkeys",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daredevils",
"madmen",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"goons",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"morons",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"pinheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schlumps",
"schnooks",
"stocks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"butts",
"dupes",
"laughingstocks",
"mockeries",
"monkeys",
"chumps",
"losers",
"schlemiels",
"shlemiels",
"characters",
"codgers",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cranks",
"kooks",
"oddballs",
"screwballs",
"weirdos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sages",
"thinkers",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonlight":{
"the light of the moon":{
"examples":[
"A figure appeared in the moonlight .",
"a moonlight cruise down the river"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daylight",
"sunlight",
"sunshine",
"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
"shine",
"flash",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"afterglow",
"aureole",
"aureola",
"aurora",
"beam",
"halo",
"ray",
"shaft",
"streak",
"stream",
"sunbeam",
"glisten",
"gloss",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"reflection",
"sheen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dimness",
"dusk",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"night",
"shadow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moist":{
"slightly or moderately wet":{
"examples":[
"luckily, my new suede shoes are only a bit moist after I accidentally wore them in the rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"wettish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semimoist",
"dewy",
"misty",
"clammy",
"humid",
"muggy",
"sticky",
"sultry",
"summery",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"tropical",
"awash",
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"steeped",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"waterless",
"baked",
"bone-dry",
"burned",
"burnt",
"dehydrated",
"desert",
"droughty",
"dusty",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modifies":{
"to limit the meaning of (as a noun)":{
"examples":[
"adjectives are words that modify nouns, while adverbs can modify adjectives and verbs"
],
"synonyms":[
"qualifies"
],
"related":[
"alters",
"colors",
"distorts",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"twists",
"warps",
"narrows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadens",
"expands",
"widens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"he modified the appliance so that it would run more quietly"
],
"synonyms":[
"alters",
"changes",
"makes over",
"recasts",
"redoes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
],
"related":[
"deforms",
"metamorphoses",
"mutates",
"regenerates",
"revolutionizes",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes",
"commutes",
"converts",
"exchanges",
"rejiggers",
"retools"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixes",
"freezes",
"sets",
"stabilizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moderating":{
"as in waning , ebbing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"related":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"monitor":{
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"watch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surveil",
"eye",
"behold",
"espy",
"look",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"regard",
"see",
"sight",
"spy",
"view",
"witness",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gaze",
"glare",
"goggle",
"peer",
"rubberneck",
"stare",
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in observer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"observer",
"experimenter",
"investigator",
"researcher",
"empiric",
"empiricist",
"fact finder",
"field-worker",
"examiner",
"inspector"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mockery":{
"a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something":{
"examples":[
"the predetermined outcome of the hearings made them a mockery of true justice"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricature",
"cartoon",
"farce",
"joke",
"parody",
"sham",
"travesty"
],
"related":[
"burlesque",
"comedy",
"lampoon",
"takeoff",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feigning",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"knockoff",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"simulation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homage",
"tribute"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is made fun of":{
"examples":[
"you won't make a mockery of me!"
],
"synonyms":[
"butt",
"derision",
"jest",
"joke",
"laughingstock",
"mark",
"mock",
"sport",
"target"
],
"related":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"fall guy",
"fool",
"gull",
"monkey",
"pigeon",
"sap",
"sucker",
"victim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darling",
"favorite",
"pet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the making of unkind jokes as a way of showing one's scorn for someone or something":{
"examples":[
"insulted by their mockery of his mannerisms"
],
"synonyms":[
"derision",
"ridicule",
"sport"
],
"related":[
"contempt",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"belittlement",
"deprecation",
"disparagement",
"catcall",
"insult",
"put-down",
"laughter",
"snickering",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"mimicry",
"pasquinade",
"satire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applause",
"approval",
"commendation",
"praise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monitored":{
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders"
],
"synonyms":[
"covered",
"watched"
],
"related":[
"surveilled",
"eyed",
"beheld",
"espied",
"looked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"regarded",
"saw",
"sighted",
"spied",
"viewed",
"witnessed",
"gaped",
"gawked",
"gazed",
"glared",
"goggled",
"peered",
"rubbernecked",
"stared",
"glanced",
"glimpsed",
"peeked",
"peeped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mottling":{
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"examples":[
"old papers that were mottled by mold"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotching",
"dappling",
"dotting",
"flecking",
"freckling",
"marbling",
"peppering",
"shooting",
"specking",
"speckling",
"splotching",
"spotting",
"sprinkling",
"stippling"
],
"related":[
"blotting",
"dyeing",
"staining",
"banding",
"barring",
"streaking",
"striping",
"interspersing",
"setting",
"studding",
"bespattering",
"spattering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monopolizing":{
"to have complete control over":{
"examples":[
"it is illegal in the United States to monopolize an entire industry",
"you shouldn't monopolize the exercise equipment while others are waiting to use it"
],
"synonyms":[
"sewing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bogarting",
"cornering",
"hogging",
"absorbing",
"consuming",
"engrossing",
"having",
"holding",
"owning",
"possessing",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"directing",
"governing",
"managing",
"reigning (over)",
"ruling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motives":{
"a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition)":{
"examples":[
"the principal motive of the piece was introduced in the flute section"
],
"synonyms":[
"contents",
"matters",
"motifs",
"questions",
"subjects",
"themes",
"topics"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subject matters",
"talking points",
"counts",
"ideas",
"points",
"purposes",
"considerations",
"issues",
"problems",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"burdens",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"fundamentals",
"generalities",
"gists",
"grists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"mains",
"marrows",
"masses",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"purports",
"quicks",
"staples",
"substances",
"sums",
"bases",
"bottoms",
"essentialities",
"essentials",
"affairs",
"arguments",
"debates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asides",
"digressions",
"excursions",
"interjections",
"parentheses",
"tangents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric)":{
"examples":[
"decorated with a paisley motive"
],
"synonyms":[
"designs",
"figures",
"motifs",
"patterns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"schemes",
"devices",
"adornments",
"caparisons",
"decorations",
"embellishments",
"frills",
"garnishes",
"ornaments",
"trims"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing":{
"examples":[
"the detective felt that the first suspect didn't have any motive for committing the crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"authorities",
"grounds",
"reasons",
"subjects",
"wherefores",
"whys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"inspirations",
"instigations",
"occasions",
"stimuli"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in inspires , motivates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"activates",
"animates",
"drives",
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"induces",
"inspires",
"keys (up)",
"motivates",
"pumps up",
"quickens",
"sets off",
"vitalizes",
"fans",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"triggers",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"raises",
"whips (up)",
"arouses",
"encourages",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"impassions",
"incites",
"instigates",
"moves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"revs (up)",
"sparks",
"stimulates",
"stirs",
"angers",
"enrages",
"maddens",
"upsets",
"jeers",
"taunts",
"teases",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irritates",
"vexes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"soothes",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mothballed":{
"to stop using (something) while keeping it to be possibly used in the future":{
"examples":[
"Many navy ships were mothballed after the war."
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouths":{
"the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal":{
"examples":[
"the baby chicks opened their mouths very wide and chirped piteously when their mother came back with worms"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"gobs",
"kissers",
"mugs",
"pieholes",
"pie holes",
"traps",
"yaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countenances",
"faces",
"pusses",
"visages",
"muzzles",
"jaws",
"mandibles",
"maxillae",
"maxillas",
"gullets",
"maws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"the boy usually makes a mouth when he gets an injection"
],
"synonyms":[
"faces",
"frowns",
"grimaces",
"lowers",
"lours",
"moues",
"mows",
"mugs",
"pouts",
"scowls",
"snoots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinches",
"squinches",
"winces",
"growls",
"snarls",
"rictuses",
"simpers",
"smirks",
"scoffs",
"sneers",
"glares",
"glowers",
"looks",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grins",
"laughs",
"smiles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who speaks for another or for a group":{
"examples":[
"the press secretary is the official mouth of the administration"
],
"synonyms":[
"mouthpieces",
"point men",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spokesmodels",
"spokeswomen",
"fronts",
"promoters",
"shills",
"communicators",
"sayers",
"talkers",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"when her mother told her to mind, the little girl mouthed insolently and rolled her eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"grimaces",
"mugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouts",
"contorts",
"deforms",
"twists",
"warps",
"frowns",
"glares",
"glooms",
"glowers",
"lowers",
"lours",
"scowls",
"gapes",
"gazes",
"ogles",
"stares",
"growls",
"snarls",
"sneers",
"simpers",
"smirks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"grins",
"smiles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"the prompter mouthed the forgotten words under his breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"chunters",
"grunts",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbles",
"blabs",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"gabbles",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"maunders",
"prattles",
"rambles",
"breathes",
"gasps",
"pants",
"whispers",
"buzzes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulates",
"enunciates"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaks out",
"speaks up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"moils":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"went for a retreat at the monastery for a temporary respite from the moil of the modern world"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"fed up with the moil and moneygrubbing of Wall Street, he decided to open a bed-and-breakfast in Vermont"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeyworks",
"drudgeries",
"drudges",
"fatigues",
"grinds",
"labors",
"slaveries",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadeworks",
"efforts",
"exertions",
"pains",
"struggles",
"troubles",
"chores",
"duties",
"jobs",
"obligations",
"responsibilities",
"routines",
"tediums",
"treadmills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompressions",
"eases",
"leisures",
"relaxations",
"reposes",
"rests",
"amusements",
"dalliances",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"recreations",
"sports",
"dormancies",
"inactivities",
"inertias"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"plays"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"miners moiling all day in the sunless recesses of the earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the angry mob moiled around the courthouse"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"churns",
"roils",
"seethes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reels",
"spins",
"swirls",
"whirls",
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"calms",
"subsides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"molten":{
"melted by heat":{
"examples":[
"molten metal",
"molten lava"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering",
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moo":{
"as in meow , cluck":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"bay",
"bellow",
"blat",
"bleat",
"bray",
"cackle",
"calling",
"caterwaul",
"caw",
"cheep",
"chirp",
"cluck",
"coo",
"crake",
"croak",
"crow",
"grunt",
"honk",
"hoot",
"howl",
"low",
"meow",
"miaow",
"mew",
"neigh",
"oink",
"peep",
"quack",
"roar",
"screech",
"squall",
"squawk",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"trumpet",
"tu-whit tu-whoo",
"twitter",
"whinny",
"yap",
"yelp",
"yip",
"yowl",
"call",
"cry",
"note"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motley":{
"consisting of many things of different sorts":{
"examples":[
"a ship with a motley crew of old salts, young adventurers, and shifty characters of all ages"
],
"synonyms":[
"assorted",
"eclectic",
"heterogeneous",
"indiscriminate",
"kitchen-sink",
"magpie",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"patchwork",
"piebald",
"promiscuous",
"raggle-taggle",
"ragtag",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"multiple",
"multiplex",
"myriad",
"disparate",
"divergent",
"diverse",
"sundry",
"various",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"farraginous",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"amalgamated",
"blended",
"combined",
"commingled",
"commixed",
"conglomerated",
"fused",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"composite",
"conglomerate",
"hybrid",
"unclassified",
"unsorted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"monolithic",
"uniform",
"alike",
"identical",
"like",
"same",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"individual",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"homogeneous"
]
},
"marked by a variety of usually vivid colors":{
"examples":[
"a tropical bird with motley plumage"
],
"synonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated",
"various"
],
"near synonyms":[
"iridescent",
"opalescent",
"brave",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"gay",
"vibrant",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"loud",
"showy",
"splashy",
"checkered",
"dotted",
"patterned",
"plaid",
"plaided",
"striped",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"mottled",
"parti-color",
"parti-colored",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"flecked",
"specked",
"speckled",
"spotted",
"banded",
"barred",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"streaked",
"striated",
"bichrome",
"bicolored",
"bicolor",
"dichromatic",
"trichromatic",
"tricolor",
"tricolored",
"two-tone",
"two-toned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achromatic",
"bleached",
"decolorized",
"faded",
"washed-out",
"dull",
"faint",
"gray",
"grey",
"neutral",
"pale",
"pallid",
"unbrilliant"
],
"antonyms":[
"colorless",
"monochromatic",
"monochromic",
"monotone",
"self-colored",
"solid"
]
},
"a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks":{
"examples":[
"the motleys with their colorful outfits"
],
"synonyms":[
"fool",
"jester"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buffoon",
"clown",
"comedian",
"comedienne",
"comic",
"cutup",
"droll",
"harlequin",
"joker",
"jokester",
"madcap",
"merry-andrew",
"vice",
"wag",
"zany",
"mime",
"mummer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a motley of old junk stored in the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"litter",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"catchall",
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"blend",
"combination",
"commixture",
"composite",
"compound",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"mix-up",
"bollix",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"dog's breakfast",
"mess",
"morass",
"shambles",
"imbroglio",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"money order":{
"as in cashier's check , promissory note":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"note",
"promissory note",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"coinage",
"specie",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molestation":{
"as in offense , torture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggro",
"offense",
"offence",
"persecution",
"provocation",
"torment",
"torture",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"bedevilment",
"botheration",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"mischief"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molls":{
"as in mistresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mistresses",
"gals",
"gills",
"girlfriends",
"girls",
"inamoratas",
"ladies",
"ladyloves",
"old ladies",
"women",
"beloveds",
"darlings",
"dears",
"favorites",
"flames",
"honeys",
"lovers",
"loves",
"significant others",
"sweethearts",
"sweets",
"valentines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountain sickness":{
"as in morning sickness , altitude sickness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airsickness",
"altitude sickness",
"car sickness",
"morning sickness",
"motion sickness",
"seasickness",
"qualm",
"nausea",
"nauseousness",
"qualmishness",
"queasiness",
"queerness",
"sickness",
"squeamishness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mourns":{
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"we mourned for weeks after our beloved pet's death"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizes",
"anguishes",
"bleeds",
"grieves",
"hurts",
"sorrows",
"suffers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aches",
"longs (for)",
"pines (away)",
"sighs",
"smarts",
"racks",
"torments",
"tortures",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments",
"rues",
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"groans",
"howls",
"keens",
"moans",
"sobs",
"takes on",
"wails",
"weeps",
"yammers",
"yowls",
"languishes",
"regrets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"cheers",
"crows",
"delights",
"exults",
"glories",
"joys",
"laughs",
"ravishes",
"rejoices",
"triumphs",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"commiserates",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"sympathizes"
],
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},
"to feel or express sorrow for":{
"examples":[
"an editorial that mourns the loss of the town's last movie theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"grieves (for)",
"laments",
"wails (for)"
],
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"elegizes",
"cries (for)",
"keens",
"moans",
"weeps",
"regrets",
"rues",
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"sobs",
"agonizes",
"bleeds",
"hurts",
"sorrows",
"suffers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beams",
"cheers",
"grins",
"laughs",
"smiles"
],
"antonyms":[
"delights",
"exults (in)",
"glories (in)",
"joys",
"rejoices (in)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moderator":{
"a person in charge of a meeting":{
"examples":[
"the moderator should make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak"
],
"synonyms":[
"chair",
"chairman",
"chairperson",
"president",
"presider",
"prolocutor",
"speaker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chairwoman",
"cochair",
"cochairman",
"cochairperson",
"cochairwoman",
"copresident"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morphinisms":{
"as in alcoholisms , heroinisms":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alcoholisms",
"heroinisms",
"addictions",
"dependences",
"dependances",
"habits",
"joneses",
"monkeys",
"habituations",
"tolerances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moored":{
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"moored the boat to the dock"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchored",
"caught",
"clamped",
"fastened",
"fixed",
"hitched",
"secured",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extracted",
"pried",
"prized",
"pulled",
"rooted (out)",
"tore (out)",
"uprooted",
"wrested",
"yanked"
],
"antonyms":[
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unfastened",
"unfixed",
"unloosed",
"unloosened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mockers":{
"a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another":{
"examples":[
"the players paid no attention to the mockers in the stands"
],
"synonyms":[
"baiters",
"harassers",
"hecklers",
"needlers",
"persecutors",
"quizzers",
"quizzes",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belittlers",
"deriders",
"detractors",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"insulters",
"jeerers",
"scoffers",
"scorners",
"trash-talkers",
"smart alecks",
"smart alecs",
"smarties",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacres",
"wise guys",
"kidders",
"lampooners",
"satirists",
"accusers",
"blamers",
"troublemakers",
"assailants",
"attackers",
"molesters",
"victimizers",
"bothers",
"disturbers",
"pests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defenders",
"deliverers",
"guards",
"protectors",
"rescuers",
"saviors",
"saviours",
"comforters",
"solaces",
"soothers",
"succorers",
"bodyguards",
"champions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modernizes":{
"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporizes",
"streamlines",
"updates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recasts",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monumental":{
"large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception":{
"examples":[
"a monumental misunderstanding that had far-reaching consequences"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colossal",
"monstrous",
"prodigious",
"stupendous",
"tremendous",
"kingly",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"awesome",
"awful",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"formidable",
"impressive",
"prepossessing",
"redoubtable",
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"inflated",
"operatic",
"overblown",
"pompous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"superb",
"terrific",
"wonderful",
"extravagant",
"lavish",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"palatine",
"sumptuous",
"gorgeous",
"resplendent",
"splendiferous",
"extraordinary",
"killer",
"remarkable",
"sensational",
"striking",
"celestial",
"divine",
"heavenly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lowly",
"modest",
"unprepossessing",
"average",
"common",
"mediocre",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-rate",
"abject",
"mean",
"meretricious",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"paltry",
"petty",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
]
},
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"serves a monumental sundae that usually requires three people to finish it"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
]
},
"having great meaning or lasting effect":{
"examples":[
"the moon landing was seen as a monumental event in human history"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"earth-shattering",
"earthshaking",
"eventful",
"historic",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"much",
"significant",
"substantial",
"tectonic",
"weighty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"strategic",
"earnest",
"grave",
"heavy",
"serious",
"sincere",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"central",
"critical",
"crucial",
"essential",
"key",
"pivotal",
"seminal",
"vital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paltry",
"petty",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mobbed":{
"to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers":{
"examples":[
"the snack bar was mobbed as soon as the meeting was over"
],
"synonyms":[
"crowded",
"flocked",
"swarmed",
"thronged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beset",
"infested",
"invaded",
"overran",
"clogged",
"dammed",
"jammed",
"obstructed",
"plugged (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monologs":{
"a long discourse delivered by a single person":{
"examples":[
"His monologue on the failings of modern society continued long after everyone else had stopped listening."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"soliloquies",
"diatribes",
"rants",
"tirades",
"addresses",
"declamations",
"harangues",
"orations",
"perorations",
"speeches",
"talks",
"eulogies",
"panegyrics",
"tributes",
"keynote addresses",
"keynote speeches",
"lectures",
"salutatories",
"homilies",
"sermons",
"pitches",
"presentations",
"spiels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molded":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"plants molding in the abandoned garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sank",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grew",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motor homes":{
"a motor vehicle that is specially equipped for living while traveling":{
"examples":[
"they lived out of their motor home until they found a suitable house"
],
"synonyms":[
"campers",
"caravans",
"recreational vehicles",
"RVs",
"trailers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"house trailers",
"mobile homes",
"coaches",
"vans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mouses":{
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurks",
"mooches",
"pussyfoots",
"shirks",
"skulks",
"slides",
"slinks",
"slips",
"snakes",
"sneaks",
"steals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"edges",
"inches",
"worms",
"ghosts",
"pads",
"tiptoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moralizes":{
"as in preaches , lectures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catechizes",
"lectures",
"preaches",
"directs",
"guides",
"leads",
"rears",
"implants",
"inculcates",
"instills",
"instils",
"drills",
"fits",
"grounds",
"habilitates",
"prepares",
"primes",
"qualifies",
"homeschools",
"coaches",
"mentors",
"edifies",
"enlightens",
"educates",
"indoctrinates",
"instructs",
"lessons",
"schools",
"teaches",
"trains",
"tutors",
"briefs",
"familiarizes",
"imparts (to)",
"informs",
"verses",
"initiates",
"introduces",
"shows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motions":{
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"we were instructed not to make any sudden motions or we might scare away the deer"
],
"synonyms":[
"movements",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirrings",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocations",
"migrations",
"relocations",
"locomotions",
"mobilities",
"motilities",
"motivities",
"fiddlings",
"squirms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to direct or notify by a movement or gesture":{
"examples":[
"the referee motioned the team captains to confer with him on the sideline"
],
"synonyms":[
"beckons",
"flags",
"gestures",
"signals",
"waves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nods",
"gesticulates",
"mimes",
"pantomimes",
"signs",
"signalizes",
"acquaints",
"advises",
"informs",
"relates",
"tells",
"flourishes",
"shrugs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"moralizer":{
"as in preacher , lecturer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catechist",
"lecturer",
"preacher",
"intern",
"interne",
"practice teacher",
"reader",
"student teacher",
"governess",
"homeschooler",
"academe",
"academic",
"academician",
"didact",
"pedant",
"dean",
"docent",
"doctor",
"don",
"prof",
"professor",
"regius professor",
"drillmaster",
"inculcator",
"mentor",
"tutor",
"tutoress",
"coach",
"guide",
"guru",
"preparer",
"trainer",
"headmistress",
"instructress",
"mistress",
"schoolmarm",
"schoolma'am",
"schoolmistress"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in moralist , prude":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bluenose",
"moralist",
"Mrs. Grundy",
"nice nelly",
"prude",
"puritan",
"wowser",
"fuddy-duddy",
"old maid",
"prig",
"spoilsport",
"stuffed shirt",
"goody-goody",
"Goody Two-shoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immoralist",
"libertarian",
"libertine",
"misbehaver"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modishness":{
"the quality or state of being fashionable":{
"examples":[
"when it comes to clothes, she prefers modesty to modishness"
],
"synonyms":[
"cool",
"coolness",
"fashionableness",
"hip",
"hipness",
"hipsterism",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chic",
"chicness",
"dapperness",
"elegance",
"poshness",
"smartness",
"style",
"swank",
"swankiness",
"class",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"majesty",
"stateliness",
"artfulness",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"gracelessness",
"grotesqueness",
"tackiness",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness"
],
"antonyms":[
"unfashionableness"
]
},
"the state of enjoying widespread approval":{
"examples":[
"the modishness of that hairstyle is now so transparent that the really hip people have moved on to something else"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashionability",
"fashionableness",
"favor",
"hotness",
"popularity",
"vogue",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craze",
"fad",
"mode",
"rage",
"style",
"trend",
"bandwagon",
"boom",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"prominence",
"renown",
"enthusiasm",
"fervor",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oblivion",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"unpopularity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mowed (down)":{
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"butchered",
"massacred",
"slaughtered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"croaked",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"murdered",
"slew",
"smote",
"snuffed",
"annihilated",
"blotted out",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wasted",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled (down or over)",
"downed",
"dropped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"knocked over",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"prostrated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"KO'd",
"overthrew",
"threw down",
"toppled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"clobbered",
"hammered",
"hit",
"jabbed",
"pasted",
"poked",
"pounded",
"punched",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mollifies":{
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"examples":[
"an apology would probably mollify your friend"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeases",
"assuages",
"conciliates",
"disarms",
"gentles",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calms",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"hushes",
"quiets",
"soothes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"endears (to)",
"ingratiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"adulates",
"blarneys",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"soft-soaps",
"quenches",
"sates",
"satiates",
"satisfies",
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"indulges",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"sweet-talks",
"wheedles",
"babies",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils",
"dulcifies",
"sweetens"
],
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"aggravates",
"annoys",
"antagonizes",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rankles",
"riles",
"roils",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"harasses",
"harries",
"persecutes",
"pesters",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offends",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[
"angers",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"ires",
"maddens",
"outrages"
]
},
"to make more bearable or less severe":{
"examples":[
"a friendly gesture that did a lot to mollify their suspicions about the new neighbor"
],
"synonyms":[
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"eases",
"helps",
"mitigates",
"palliates",
"relieves",
"soothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"lightens",
"moderates",
"softens",
"tempers",
"cures",
"heals",
"remedies",
"amends",
"corrects",
"emends",
"fixes",
"mends",
"rectifies",
"reforms",
"repairs",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"perfects",
"refines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"sharpens"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggravates",
"exacerbates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouthed":{
"as in whispered , muttered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathed",
"chirped",
"drawled",
"gasped",
"intoned",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"purred",
"shouted",
"spluttered",
"sputtered",
"squeaked",
"whispered",
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced",
"sonant",
"oral",
"spoken",
"uttered",
"vocal",
"voiced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonvocal",
"inarticulate",
"mute",
"quiet",
"silent",
"unexpressed",
"unsaid",
"unspoken",
"unuttered",
"unvoiced",
"surd",
"voiceless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"when her mother told her to mind, the little girl mouthed insolently and rolled her eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"grimaced",
"mugged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouted",
"contorted",
"deformed",
"twisted",
"warped",
"frowned",
"glared",
"gloomed",
"glowered",
"lowered",
"loured",
"scowled",
"gaped",
"gazed",
"ogled",
"stared",
"growled",
"snarled",
"sneered",
"simpered",
"smirked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beamed",
"grinned",
"smiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"the prompter mouthed the forgotten words under his breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"chuntered",
"grunted",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbled",
"blabbed",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"maundered",
"prattled",
"rambled",
"breathed",
"gasped",
"panted",
"whispered",
"buzzed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated"
],
"antonyms":[
"spoke out",
"spoke up"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"moneymakers":{
"as in money-spinners":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"money-spinners",
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"fat cats",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"billionaires",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"multibillionaires",
"multimillionaires",
"multi-millionaires",
"multimillionairesses",
"multi-millionairesses",
"zillionaires",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"have-nots",
"paupers",
"bankrupts",
"beggars"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mobilizes":{
"to assemble and make ready for action":{
"examples":[
"we are prepared to mobilize the troops on very short notice"
],
"synonyms":[
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"musters",
"rallies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arranges",
"groups",
"lines up",
"orders",
"organizes",
"calls (up)",
"convenes",
"summons",
"activates",
"collects",
"rounds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranges",
"disorders",
"disorganizes",
"disrupts",
"disturbs",
"deactivates",
"dismisses",
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"dissolves",
"splits (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"demobilizes",
"demobs"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moccasin":{
"as in rattlesnake , copperhead":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adder",
"anaconda",
"asp",
"black racer",
"blacksnake",
"blue racer",
"boa",
"bull snake",
"bushmaster",
"chicken snake",
"cobra",
"constrictor",
"copperhead",
"coral snake",
"cottonmouth moccasin",
"diamondback rattlesnake",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snake",
"gopher snake",
"green snake",
"hognose snake",
"horned viper",
"indigo snake",
"king cobra",
"king snake",
"krait",
"mamba",
"milk snake",
"pine snake",
"pit viper",
"puff adder",
"python",
"racer",
"rat snake",
"rattlesnake",
"sea serpent",
"sea snake",
"sidewinder",
"taipan",
"water moccasin",
"water snake",
"worm snake",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moaner":{
"as in screamer , weeper":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawler",
"bleater",
"screamer",
"squawker",
"wailer",
"weeper",
"baby",
"bellyacher",
"complainer",
"crybaby",
"fussbudget",
"fusser",
"fusspot",
"griper",
"grumbler",
"kvetch",
"kvetcher",
"sniveler",
"whiner",
"crab",
"grump",
"malcontent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"happy camper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mother tongues":{
"the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication":{
"examples":[
"although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue"
],
"synonyms":[
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"speeches",
"tongues",
"vocabularies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrolects",
"argots",
"cants",
"colloquials",
"dialects",
"idiolects",
"idioms",
"jargons",
"parlances",
"patois",
"patter",
"pidgins",
"slangs",
"slanguages",
"vernaculars",
"colloquialisms",
"localisms",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"shibboleths",
"vernacularisms",
"terminologies",
"coinages",
"modernisms",
"neologisms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moon":{
"a long or seemingly long period of time":{
"examples":[
"we've been planning this big event for many moons"
],
"synonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"blue moon",
"coon's age",
"cycle",
"donkey's years",
"eternity",
"forever",
"long",
"months"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infinity",
"lifetime"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flash",
"instant",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink",
"microsecond",
"nanosecond"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moniker":{
"a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual":{
"examples":[
"seeing as no respectable rodeo performer could possibly be known as Leslie, a suitably masculine moniker was created for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"alias",
"byname",
"cognomen",
"epithet",
"handle",
"nickname",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet",
"surname"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appellation",
"denomination",
"denotation",
"designation",
"label",
"tag",
"title",
"anonym",
"nom de guerre",
"nom de plume",
"pen name",
"pseudonym"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known":{
"examples":[
"\"Cornelius Jedidiah Beauregard\" is his rather unwieldy moniker"
],
"synonyms":[
"appellation",
"appellative",
"cognomen",
"compellation",
"denomination",
"denotation",
"designation",
"handle",
"name",
"nomenclature",
"title"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baptismal name",
"Christian name",
"first name",
"forename",
"given name",
"family name",
"maiden name",
"middle name",
"surname",
"matronymic",
"patronymic",
"byname",
"diminutive",
"epithet",
"hypocorism",
"nickname",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet",
"banner",
"rubric",
"tag",
"alias",
"cryptonym",
"nom de guerre",
"nom de plume",
"pen name",
"pseudonym",
"binomial",
"monomial",
"trivial name",
"vernacular",
"misnomer",
"brand name",
"label",
"trademark",
"trade name"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mouthfuls":{
"a small piece or quantity of food":{
"examples":[
"took a small mouthful of the soup to see if she liked it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bites",
"morsels",
"nibbles",
"nuggets",
"tastes",
"tidbits",
"titbits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collops",
"medallions",
"noisettes",
"noshes",
"snacks",
"appetizers",
"canap\u00e9s",
"hors d'oeuvres",
"hors d'oeuvre",
"bits",
"chews",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"dribbles",
"driblets",
"flecks",
"hints",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"pinches",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"shreds",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snippets",
"snips",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"suspicions",
"tittles",
"touches",
"traces",
"dashes",
"drops",
"laps",
"licks",
"gulps",
"swallows",
"swigs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morphing":{
"to take on a different shape, appearance, or state":{
"examples":[
"When it emerged from its chrysalis, the caterpillar had morphed into a striking butterfly."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"transposing",
"transubstantiating",
"changing",
"fluctuating",
"mutating",
"shifting",
"snapping",
"varying",
"bettering",
"improving",
"deteriorating",
"worsening",
"turning around"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mountain dew":{
"illegally produced liquor":{
"examples":[
"one sip of the hillbilly's potent mountain dew left inexperienced drinkers gasping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootleg",
"moonshine",
"white lightning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gin",
"red-eye",
"rotgut",
"alcohol",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"potable",
"rum",
"spirits",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountebank":{
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"claimed that many doctors were frauds and mountebanks"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatan",
"fake",
"faker",
"fakir",
"fraud",
"hoaxer",
"humbug",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretender",
"quack",
"quacksalver",
"ringer",
"sham"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycat",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"mimic",
"actor",
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"deceiver",
"dissembler",
"duper",
"feigner",
"misleader",
"operator",
"trickster",
"poseur",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"fraudster",
"scammer",
"scamster",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"skinner",
"swindler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"authority",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"past master",
"professional",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modes":{
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"examples":[
"uses a colloquial mode of expression for his informal essays"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashions",
"locutions",
"manners",
"phraseologies",
"styles",
"tones",
"veins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addresses",
"deliveries",
"elocution",
"archaisms",
"colloquialisms",
"regionalisms",
"acceptations",
"connotations",
"denotations",
"expressions",
"idioms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"when I'm in my cooking mode , I just have to go into the kitchen and make something"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheers",
"feathers",
"humors",
"moods",
"spirits",
"tempers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"attitudes",
"mind-sets",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"emotions",
"feelings",
"hearts",
"passions",
"sentiments",
"strains",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"opinions",
"expressions",
"tones",
"veins",
"characters",
"dispositions",
"identities",
"individualities",
"makeups",
"mettles",
"personalities",
"selfhoods",
"self-identities",
"temperaments",
"sensibilities",
"sensitivities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"slim, tanned bodies are definitely the mode at this beach resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzzes",
"chics",
"crazes",
"dernier cris",
"enthusiasms",
"fads",
"fashions",
"flavors",
"hot tickets",
"last words",
"rages",
"sensations",
"styles",
"tons",
"trends",
"vogues"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonders",
"nine day wonders",
"new waves",
"crushes",
"infatuations",
"fervors",
"passions",
"furors",
"fusses",
"hullabaloos",
"to-dos",
"uproars",
"bandwagons",
"crusades",
"cults",
"movements",
"novelties",
"wrinkles",
"caprices",
"fancies",
"whims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classics",
"standards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountaineer":{
"a person who climbs mountains; a mountain climber":{
"examples":[
"They were guided on the adventure by an experienced mountaineer who had scaled many of the country's highest peaks."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alpinist",
"backpacker",
"climber",
"ambler",
"hiker",
"perambulator",
"rambler",
"tramper",
"walker",
"pedestrian",
"roamer",
"rover",
"trekker",
"wanderer",
"wayfarer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modulate":{
"to make changes to (something) in order to keep a desirable balance, proportion, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He takes insulin to modulate his blood sugar levels.",
"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adjust",
"regulate",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"rig",
"tweak",
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor",
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"alter",
"change",
"modify",
"redress",
"right",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"perfect",
"polish",
"touch up",
"fix",
"mend",
"repair",
"moderate",
"qualify",
"redraft",
"redraw",
"restyle",
"revise",
"rework",
"rewrite",
"blue-pencil",
"cut",
"shorten",
"amend",
"debug",
"emend",
"rectify",
"red-pencil",
"reform",
"remedy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"aggravate",
"worsen",
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monarchy":{
"a system of government in which there is only one ruler whose power is unlimited":{
"examples":[
"Under a monarchy , the position of ruler is often passed down from parent to child."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"monarchism",
"monocracy",
"absolutism",
"autarchy",
"authoritarianism",
"autocracy",
"Caesarism",
"czarism",
"tsarism",
"tzarism",
"despotism",
"dictatorship",
"totalism",
"totalitarianism",
"tyranny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democracy",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"self-rule",
"freedom",
"self-determination",
"autonomy",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of people who live in a territory ruled by a single person":{
"examples":[
"The country was formerly a monarchy , but has now transitioned to a republic."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"democracy",
"dictatorship",
"monocracy",
"oligarchy",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"theocracy",
"city-state",
"microstate",
"ministate",
"nation-state",
"domain",
"dominion",
"empire",
"kingdom",
"realm",
"republic",
"commonwealth",
"country",
"land",
"nation",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"state",
"duchy",
"dukedom",
"emirate",
"principality",
"seigniory",
"seignory",
"sultanate",
"client state",
"colony",
"condominium",
"dependency",
"mandate",
"province",
"settlement",
"soil",
"trust territory",
"fatherland",
"homeland",
"motherland",
"great power",
"power",
"sea power",
"superpower",
"world power",
"welfare state"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moment":{
"a particular point at which an event takes place":{
"examples":[
"at that moment he suddenly turned around and headed toward me"
],
"synonyms":[
"occasion",
"time"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flash",
"instant",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"bit",
"space",
"spell",
"stretch",
"while"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or state of being important":{
"examples":[
"an event of great moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"momentousness",
"significance",
"weight",
"weightiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celebrity",
"distinction",
"eminence",
"fame",
"note",
"noteworthiness",
"notoriety",
"preeminence",
"prominence",
"renown",
"store",
"substance",
"substantiveness",
"value",
"worth",
"worthiness",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"authority",
"control",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"potency",
"power",
"sway",
"mark",
"name",
"report",
"reputation",
"repute",
"centrality",
"essentiality",
"essentialness",
"cachet",
"position",
"prestige",
"rank",
"standing",
"stature",
"status",
"glory",
"greatness",
"honor",
"illustriousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paltriness",
"pettiness",
"valuelessness",
"worthlessness",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"shame",
"anonymity",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"insignificance",
"littleness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"smallness",
"triviality"
]
},
"a very small space of time":{
"examples":[
"I'll be there in just a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"eyeblink",
"flash",
"heartbeat",
"instant",
"jiff",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"nanosecond",
"New York minute",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"twinkling",
"wink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"microsecond",
"snatch",
"spurt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aeon",
"eon",
"age",
"eternity",
"forever",
"infinity",
"lifetime"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the time currently existing or in progress":{
"examples":[
"I'm not doing anything at the moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"here and now",
"now",
"present",
"today"
],
"near synonyms":[
"phase",
"stage",
"state"
],
"near antonyms":[
"history",
"past",
"yesterday",
"yesteryear",
"yore",
"by-and-by",
"future",
"futurity",
"hereafter",
"offing",
"tomorrow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motivities":{
"as in mobilities , locomotions":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"locomotions",
"mobilities",
"motilities",
"dislocations",
"migrations",
"relocations",
"fiddlings",
"squirms",
"motions",
"movements",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirrings",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mope":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"we were in a rush, and the Sunday driver in front of us was just moping along"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"she's been moping all weekend because her boyfriend hasn't called even once"
],
"synonyms":[
"grump",
"pout",
"sulk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brood",
"dwell (on)",
"mull (over)",
"muse (over)",
"ponder",
"frown",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl",
"carry on",
"take on",
"pet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monocracy":{
"a system of government in which there is only one ruler whose power is unlimited":{
"examples":[
"Until its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union operated under a monocracy ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"monarchism",
"monarchy",
"absolutism",
"autarchy",
"authoritarianism",
"autocracy",
"Caesarism",
"czarism",
"tsarism",
"tzarism",
"despotism",
"dictatorship",
"totalism",
"totalitarianism",
"tyranny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democracy",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"self-rule",
"freedom",
"self-determination",
"autonomy",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mooching":{
"to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way"
],
"synonyms":[
"freeloading",
"sponging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leeching",
"begging",
"exploiting",
"using"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurking",
"mousing",
"pussyfooting",
"shirking",
"skulking",
"sliding",
"slinking",
"slipping",
"snaking",
"sneaking",
"stealing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"edging",
"inching",
"worming",
"ghosting",
"padding",
"tiptoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"kids on vacation mooching about the house and looking for something to do"
],
"synonyms":[
"batting",
"cruising",
"drifting",
"floating",
"gadding (about)",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"kicking around",
"knocking (about)",
"maundering",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"traipsing",
"wandering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"dawdling",
"moping",
"gypsying",
"hoboing",
"tramping",
"vagabonding",
"milling (about or around)",
"straggling",
"straying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"movable":{
"capable of being moved especially with ease":{
"examples":[
"any furniture that is not movable will be covered with protective cloths by the painters"
],
"synonyms":[
"mobile",
"portable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjustable",
"flexible",
"modular",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"motile",
"moving",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"manageable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immotile",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"motionless",
"moveless",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"stuck",
"wedged",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"steadfast"
],
"antonyms":[
"immobile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmobile",
"unmovable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monkey":{
"a physiological need for certain drugs":{
"examples":[
"I've got this monkey on my back, and going to detox is the only way to get it off"
],
"synonyms":[
"addiction",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"habit",
"jones"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alcoholism",
"heroinism",
"morphinism",
"habituation",
"tolerance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an appealingly mischievous person":{
"examples":[
"come back here, you little monkey !"
],
"synonyms":[
"devil",
"hellion",
"imp",
"mischief",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"scamp",
"urchin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutup",
"larker",
"madcap",
"skylarker",
"ragamuffin",
"brat",
"disrupter",
"misbehaver",
"nuisance",
"juvenile delinquent",
"gamin",
"gamine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"cur",
"heel",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"reprobate",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in mimic , ape":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ape",
"copy",
"imitate",
"mime",
"mimic",
"mock",
"parody",
"travesty",
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade (as)",
"personate",
"play",
"pose (as)",
"perform",
"portray"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mossy":{
"having passed its time of use or usefulness":{
"examples":[
"mossy rules of etiquette that date from the Victorian era"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moribund",
"moth-eaten",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"Stone Age",
"superannuated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"obsolescent",
"discarded",
"disused",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"useless",
"dead",
"defunct",
"expired",
"extinct",
"vanished",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"fusty",
"musty",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"retro",
"vintage",
"aged",
"age-old",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"atavistic",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"historic",
"historical",
"late",
"old-world",
"past"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"recent",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute",
"fresh",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"functional",
"operable",
"operational",
"workable",
"active",
"alive",
"busy",
"employed",
"functioning",
"operating",
"operative"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monthlies":{
"an occurrence of menstruating":{
"examples":[
"she couldn't go swimming because of her monthlies"
],
"synonyms":[
"menstruation",
"period"
],
"near synonyms":[
"menses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"mommies":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"the little boy cried for his mommy"
],
"synonyms":[
"mamas",
"mammas",
"mommas",
"mammies",
"mas",
"maters",
"moms",
"mothers",
"old ladies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamiliases",
"matriarchs",
"matrons",
"stepmothers",
"supermoms",
"superwomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morals":{
"the code of good conduct for an individual or group":{
"examples":[
"at issue were the doctor's professional ethics, not her private morals"
],
"synonyms":[
"ethics",
"ethos",
"morality",
"norms",
"principles",
"standards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"customs",
"dictates",
"etiquette",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"beliefs",
"dogma",
"faith",
"tenets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"mortgaging":{
"to obligate by prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"committing",
"engaging",
"pledging",
"trothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiancing",
"betrothing",
"plighting",
"promising",
"swearing",
"vowing",
"contracting",
"enlisting",
"enrolling",
"signing on",
"signing up",
"overcommitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reneging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Montezuma's revenge":{
"abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools":{
"examples":[
"the one person in the tour group who didn't drink the water was spared Montezuma's revenge"
],
"synonyms":[
"Delhi belly",
"diarrhea",
"flux",
"runs",
"trots",
"turista"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dysentery",
"shigellosis",
"scour(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mow (down)":{
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"butcher",
"massacre",
"slaughter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"fell",
"murder",
"slay",
"smite",
"snuff",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"waste",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl (down or over)",
"down",
"drop",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"level",
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moveables":{
"the movable articles (such as tables and chairs) in a room":{
"examples":[
"when painting a room, you should first cover or remove all of the movables"
],
"synonyms":[
"appointments",
"cabinetwork",
"furnishings",
"furniture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"paraphernalia",
"possessions",
"things",
"case goods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built-ins",
"fixtures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"packed our movables into the van and headed off to our new home"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"mountain ranges":{
"as in ranges , sierras":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cordilleras",
"ranges",
"sierras",
"alps",
"humps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"inselbergs",
"inselberge",
"knobs",
"seamounts",
"aiguilles",
"horns",
"mountaintops",
"pinnacles",
"summits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basins",
"bowls",
"depressions",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moue":{
"a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"a moue of distaste at the display of bad manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"face",
"frown",
"grimace",
"lower",
"lour",
"mouth",
"mow",
"mug",
"pout",
"scowl",
"snoot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinch",
"squinch",
"wince",
"growl",
"snarl",
"rictus",
"simper",
"smirk",
"scoff",
"sneer",
"glare",
"glower",
"look",
"stare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grin",
"laugh",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mowing (down)":{
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"butchering",
"massacring",
"slaughtering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"felling",
"murdering",
"slaying",
"smiting",
"snuffing",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wasting",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"downing",
"dropping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"prostrating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"money orders":{
"as in drafts , checks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"checks",
"drafts",
"cash",
"chips",
"currencies",
"dough",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"money",
"C-notes",
"fifties",
"fins",
"fivers",
"fives",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"ones",
"sawbucks",
"tenners",
"tens",
"twenties",
"twos",
"bucks",
"dollars",
"simoleons",
"smackers",
"dead presidents",
"paper money",
"scrips",
"banknotes",
"bills",
"greenbacks",
"notes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motif":{
"a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition)":{
"examples":[
"the motif of mute figures standing in lonely isolation is a recurrent one in the artist's works"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"matter",
"motive",
"question",
"subject",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subject matter",
"talking point",
"count",
"idea",
"point",
"purpose",
"consideration",
"issue",
"problem",
"body",
"bulk",
"burden",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"fundamental",
"generality",
"gist",
"grist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"main",
"marrow",
"mass",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"purport",
"quick",
"staple",
"substance",
"sum",
"basis",
"bottom",
"essential",
"essentiality",
"affair",
"argument",
"debate"
],
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"aside",
"digression",
"excursion",
"interjection",
"parenthesis",
"tangent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric)":{
"examples":[
"the fabric for the upholstery features a scallop shell motif"
],
"synonyms":[
"design",
"figure",
"motive",
"pattern"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scheme",
"device",
"adornment",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"ornament",
"trim"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mobs":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"a mob of pigeons soon flocked around us after they spied the bread crumbs"
],
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"armies",
"bikes",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"masses",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"routs",
"scrums",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs",
"gaggles",
"heaps",
"mountains",
"piles",
"jams",
"logjams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group involved in secret or criminal activities":{
"examples":[
"the club owner was accused of having connections with a mob of racketeers"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabals",
"conspiracies",
"crews",
"gangs",
"Mafias",
"rings",
"syndicates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunches",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"covens",
"crowds",
"gal\u00e8res",
"lots",
"networks",
"packs",
"sets",
"juntas",
"oligarchies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"political speeches designed to appeal to the mob"
],
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"commoners",
"commons",
"crowds",
"herds",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"multitudes",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebes",
"populaces",
"publics",
"rank and files"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cattle",
"proletariats",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"ragtag and bobtails",
"riffraffs",
"routs",
"scums",
"tag, rag, and bobtails",
"tagrag and bobtails",
"trash",
"unwasheds",
"bourgeoisies",
"middle classes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentilities",
"gentlefolks",
"gentries",
"haute mondes",
"nobilities",
"patriciates",
"peerages",
"qualities",
"royalties",
"societies"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-lists",
"aristocracies",
"best",
"choices",
"corps d'elite",
"creams",
"elect",
"elites",
"fat",
"flowers",
"picks",
"pinks",
"prides",
"upper crusts"
]
},
"to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers":{
"examples":[
"the snack bar was mobbed as soon as the meeting was over"
],
"synonyms":[
"crowds",
"flocks",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"besets",
"infests",
"invades",
"overruns",
"clogs",
"dams",
"jams",
"obstructs",
"plugs (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mocked":{
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"team members good-naturedly mocked the coach's familiar bellow"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesqued",
"caricatured",
"did",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"parodied",
"sent up",
"spoofed",
"travestied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampooned",
"pasquinaded",
"satirized",
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"ridiculed",
"aped",
"copycatted",
"monkeyed",
"parroted",
"duplicated",
"emulated",
"replicated",
"reproduced",
"acted",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"feigned",
"pretended",
"shammed",
"simulated",
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"magnified",
"padded",
"played up",
"stretched",
"amplified",
"enhanced",
"enlarged (on or upon)",
"expanded",
"fleshed (out)",
"overdrew",
"overstated",
"put on",
"mimed",
"pantomimed",
"impersonated",
"performed",
"personated",
"played"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"the fashion gurus loved to mock the famous couple for their unsophisticated clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"laughed (at)",
"ridiculed",
"scouted",
"shot down",
"skewered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffed (at)",
"scorned",
"sneered (at)",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"disparaged",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"put down",
"chaffed",
"jived",
"joshed",
"kidded",
"quizzed",
"rallied",
"razzed",
"ribbed",
"rode",
"rid",
"teased",
"tweaked",
"twitted",
"baited",
"barracked",
"bugged",
"catcalled",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"heckled",
"needled",
"pestered",
"ragged",
"targeted",
"taunted",
"tormented",
"aped",
"burlesqued",
"caricatured",
"imitated",
"lampooned",
"mimicked",
"parodied",
"parroted",
"pilloried",
"satirized",
"took off (on)",
"travestied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauded",
"approved",
"commended",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of":{
"examples":[
"a person willing to mock the religious prohibition against working on the Sabbath"
],
"synonyms":[
"defied",
"disobeyed",
"rebelled (against)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disobliged",
"mutinied (against)",
"revolted (against)",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"tuned out",
"brushed (off)",
"dismissed",
"flouted",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"rejected",
"scoffed (at)",
"scorned",
"shrugged off",
"winked (at)",
"breached",
"broke",
"infringed",
"transgressed",
"violated",
"bucked",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"disputed",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitulated (to)",
"conceded (to)",
"deferred (to)",
"goose-stepped (to)",
"served",
"stooped (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)",
"cooperated (with)",
"kept",
"observed",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced (to)",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"obliged",
"attended",
"heard",
"heeded",
"listened (to)",
"marked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"regarded",
"watched"
],
"antonyms":[
"complied (with)",
"conformed (to)",
"followed",
"minded",
"obeyed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"morning sickness":{
"as in altitude sickness , motion sickness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airsickness",
"altitude sickness",
"car sickness",
"motion sickness",
"mountain sickness",
"seasickness",
"qualm",
"nausea",
"nauseousness",
"qualmishness",
"queasiness",
"queerness",
"sickness",
"squeamishness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modicum":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"only a modicum of skill is necessary to put the kit together"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bubkes",
"bupkes",
"bupkus",
"continental",
"damn",
"darn",
"durn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monumentally":{
"to a large extent or degree":{
"examples":[
"your parents will be monumentally disappointed if you don't go to college"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomically",
"big-time",
"broadly",
"colossally",
"considerably",
"enormously",
"extensively",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"largely",
"massively",
"monstrously",
"much",
"sizably",
"staggeringly",
"stupendously",
"tremendously",
"utterly",
"vastly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciably",
"noticeably",
"significantly",
"abundantly",
"amply",
"copiously",
"healthily",
"plentifully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modestly",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"infinitesimally",
"insignificantly",
"invisibly",
"microscopically",
"minutely",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"moralized":{
"as in preached , lectured":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catechized",
"lectured",
"preached",
"directed",
"guided",
"led",
"reared",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"instilled",
"drilled",
"fitted",
"fit",
"grounded",
"habilitated",
"prepared",
"primed",
"qualified",
"homeschooled",
"coached",
"mentored",
"edified",
"enlightened",
"educated",
"indoctrinated",
"instructed",
"lessoned",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"briefed",
"familiarized",
"imparted (to)",
"informed",
"versed",
"initiated",
"introduced",
"showed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monograph":{
"as in tract , treatise":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tract",
"treatise",
"article",
"composition",
"essay",
"paper",
"theme",
"discourse",
"discussion",
"exposition",
"prolegomenon",
"study",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"causerie",
"column",
"commentary",
"editorial",
"feature",
"report",
"review",
"write-up",
"dissertation",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortality":{
"the death especially of large numbers of people or animals":{
"examples":[
"Tuberculosis was a leading cause of mortality back then."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dead",
"deadness",
"death",
"grave",
"lifelessness",
"nothingness",
"sleep",
"bloodletting",
"bloodshed",
"foul play",
"homicide",
"killing",
"manslaughter",
"murder",
"slaying",
"genocide",
"pogrom",
"assassination",
"execution",
"bloodbath",
"butchery",
"carnage",
"death",
"holocaust",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immortality",
"life span",
"lifetime",
"living",
"existence",
"life"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morns":{
"the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance":{
"examples":[
"my herald of the morn is my cat, sticking his paw in my face to wake me up"
],
"synonyms":[
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"cockcrows",
"dawns",
"daybreaks",
"daylights",
"days",
"lights",
"mornings",
"sunrises",
"suns",
"sunups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daytimes",
"forenoons"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"midnights",
"nights",
"nighttimes",
"afternoons",
"middays",
"dusks",
"evenings",
"eventides",
"gloamings",
"twilights"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfalls",
"sundowns",
"sunsets"
]
},
"the time from sunrise until noon":{
"examples":[
"so, how are you this lovely morn ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"forenoons",
"mornings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"dawns",
"daybreaks",
"daylights",
"cockcrows",
"sunrises",
"sunups",
"days",
"daytimes",
"lights"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"nights",
"nighttimes",
"twilights",
"dusks",
"evenings",
"nightfalls",
"sundowns",
"sunsets",
"afternoons"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mousers":{
"as in cats , kittens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cats",
"felines",
"house cats",
"kitties",
"moggies",
"pusses",
"pussies",
"pussycats",
"kits",
"kittens",
"alley cats",
"tabbies",
"gibs",
"tomcats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moldable":{
"capable of being easily molded or modeled":{
"examples":[
"as the clay dries out, it becomes less and less moldable"
],
"synonyms":[
"malleable",
"plastic",
"shapable",
"shapeable",
"waxy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"bendable",
"bendy",
"ductile",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"waxen",
"willowy",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"flexile",
"limber",
"resilient",
"workable",
"bending",
"giving",
"kneadable",
"tractable",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"intractable",
"rigid",
"stiff"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modernize":{
"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporize",
"streamline",
"update"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recast",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monachal":{
"as in monastic , mendicant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conventual",
"mendicant",
"monastic",
"divine",
"holy",
"religious",
"sacramental",
"caliphal",
"rabbinic",
"rabbinical",
"churchly",
"ecclesiastic",
"ecclesiastical",
"apostolic",
"canonical",
"diaconal",
"diocesan",
"episcopal",
"papal",
"patriarchal",
"pontifical",
"evangelical",
"evangelic",
"missionary",
"clerical",
"clerkly",
"ministerial",
"pastoral",
"priestly",
"sacerdotal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay",
"nonclerical",
"secular",
"temporal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monotonous":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"the lecturer's monotonous delivery threatened to put us to sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mother":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"he dreaded telling his mother that her favorite figurine had gotten broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"ma",
"mama",
"mamma",
"momma",
"mammy",
"mater",
"mom",
"mommy",
"old lady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamilias",
"matriarch",
"matron",
"stepmother",
"supermom",
"superwoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"of, relating to, or characteristic of a mother":{
"examples":[
"she often offered to babysit for friends, hoping to satisfy her mother urges until she had children of her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"maternal",
"motherly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parental",
"female",
"feminine",
"womanish",
"womanlike",
"womanly",
"matriarchal",
"matronly",
"caring",
"giving",
"nurturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"I hope to mother at least one child"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"birth",
"deliver",
"drop",
"have",
"produce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labor",
"breed",
"multiply",
"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"beget",
"father",
"generate",
"get",
"sire",
"calve",
"kid",
"kindle",
"kitten",
"litter",
"pup",
"whelp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abort",
"lose",
"miscarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attend to the needs and comforts of":{
"examples":[
"mothered the patients with chicken soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"administer (to)",
"care (for)",
"minister (to)",
"nurse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cure",
"heal",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"treat",
"aid",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"provide (for)",
"support",
"baby",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
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"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"slight"
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"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"The deer stood there absolutely motionless , listening attentively."
],
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"frozen",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"wooden",
"blank",
"catatonic",
"deadpan",
"empty",
"expressionless",
"impassive",
"inexpressive",
"numb",
"stolid",
"vacant",
"immobile",
"immotile",
"irremovable",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"unbudging",
"unmovable",
"unresponsive"
],
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"active",
"alive",
"animated",
"bright",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"effervescent",
"energetic",
"expansive",
"exuberant",
"lively",
"vivacious",
"mobile",
"motile",
"movable",
"moveable",
"moving",
"gestic",
"gesticulant",
"gesticulative",
"gesticulatory",
"gestural",
"demonstrative",
"expressive"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers":{
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"the snack bar was mobbed as soon as the meeting was over"
],
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"crowding",
"flocking",
"swarming",
"thronging"
],
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"besetting",
"infesting",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"clogging",
"damming",
"jamming",
"obstructing",
"plugging (up)"
],
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"verb"
]
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"engrosser",
"retailer",
"seller",
"shopkeeper",
"storekeeper",
"vendor",
"vender",
"jobber",
"middleman",
"wholesaler",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"hustler",
"peddler",
"pedlar",
"distributor",
"provider",
"provisioner",
"purveyor",
"supplier",
"buyer",
"marketer",
"purchaser",
"businessman",
"enterpriser",
"entrepreneur",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"trafficker"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moat":{
"a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked":{
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"ha-ha",
"stank",
"sunk fence",
"dike",
"ditch",
"fosse",
"foss",
"gutter",
"sheugh",
"trench",
"trough",
"acequia",
"culvert",
"drain",
"draw",
"gully",
"gulley",
"ravine",
"drill",
"furrow",
"kennel"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mournful":{
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"she had such a mournful expression that someone teasingly asked if her dog had died"
],
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"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
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"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
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},
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"the mournful survivors of the disaster were faced with the grim task of burying the dead"
],
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"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down",
"down in the mouth",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"hangdog",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"joyless",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"miserable",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrieved",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"worried",
"despairing",
"hopeless",
"sunk",
"disappointed",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"suicidal",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"plaintive",
"tearful",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"grieving",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"funereal",
"gray",
"grey",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"lightsome",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"excited",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"content",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"boon",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"causing unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"the mournful death of a beloved entertainer"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressing",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"melancholy",
"pathetic",
"sad",
"saddening",
"sorry",
"tearful",
"teary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"distressful",
"grievous",
"lamentable",
"unfortunate",
"woeful",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"inspiring",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"uplifting",
"agreeable",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"exhilarating",
"thrilling"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheering",
"cheery",
"glad",
"happy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moneymaking":{
"yielding a profit":{
"examples":[
"a celebrity chef with a moneymaking line of cookware"
],
"synonyms":[
"economic",
"fat",
"gainful",
"juicy",
"lucrative",
"money-spinning",
"paying",
"profitable",
"remunerative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"rewarding",
"useful",
"worthwhile",
"bankable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moving (to)":{
"as in relocating (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"relocating (to)",
"inhabiting",
"colonizing",
"peopling",
"populating",
"settling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depopulating",
"unpeopling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"molecular":{
"as in specific , detailed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"close-up",
"delineated",
"detailed",
"particularized",
"specific",
"limited",
"restricted",
"specified",
"distinct",
"explicit",
"precise",
"sharp",
"comprehensive",
"elaborate",
"full",
"mapped (out)",
"thorough",
"enumerated",
"inventoried",
"itemized",
"listed",
"individual",
"singular",
"particular",
"peculiar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"all-around",
"all-round",
"bird's-eye",
"broad",
"general",
"nonspecific",
"overall",
"comprehensive",
"inclusive",
"absolute",
"boundless",
"expansive",
"extensive",
"infinite",
"panoramic",
"sweeping",
"vast",
"wide"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moronic":{
"as in stupid , dumb":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"stupid",
"brash",
"graceless",
"ill-advised",
"imprudent",
"inadvisable",
"indelicate",
"indiscreet",
"injudicious",
"tactless",
"undiplomatic",
"unwise",
"careless",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"mindless",
"thoughtless",
"ill-mannered",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"indecorous",
"unbecoming",
"uncivil",
"unseemly",
"foolish",
"harebrained",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"senseless",
"silly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advisable",
"discreet",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"tactful",
"wise",
"intelligent",
"logical",
"rational",
"sensible",
"smart",
"sound",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"civil",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Mother Hubbard":{
"as in sweaterdress , granny dress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemise",
"coatdress",
"granny dress",
"housedress",
"jumper",
"kimono",
"kirtle",
"minidress",
"muumuu",
"overdress",
"sack",
"sheath",
"shift",
"shirtdress",
"shirtwaist",
"sundress",
"sweaterdress",
"tea gown",
"dress",
"frock",
"gown"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monologuists":{
"as in prima donnas , leading ladies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leading ladies",
"leading men",
"leads",
"stars",
"prima donnas",
"scene-stealers",
"barnstormers",
"enactors",
"entertainers",
"performers",
"coactors",
"co-actors",
"costars",
"co-stars",
"tragedians",
"tragediennes",
"extras",
"spear-carriers",
"supernumeraries",
"walk-ons",
"actresses",
"starlets",
"doubles",
"understudies",
"comedians",
"farceurs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monastery":{
"a residence for men under religious vows":{
"examples":[
"Gregory Mendel worked out his concepts of genetics by doing breeding experiments using pea plants in the monastery's garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbey",
"cloister",
"friary",
"hermitage",
"priory"
],
"near synonyms":[
"house",
"convent",
"nunnery",
"lamasery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"move (to)":{
"as in relocate (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"relocate (to)",
"inhabit",
"colonize",
"people",
"populate",
"settle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depopulate",
"unpeople"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moisturize":{
"as in hydrate , moisten":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"humidify",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"waterlog",
"water-soak",
"wet",
"wet down",
"deluge",
"flood",
"hose (down)",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"splash",
"impregnate",
"saturate",
"steep",
"flush",
"irrigate",
"lave",
"rinse",
"slosh",
"sluice",
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"rehydrate",
"rewash",
"rewet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear",
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modish":{
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"examples":[
"the strikingly modish gowns that actresses wear to award shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
]
},
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"a modish chef who is currently the darling of the restaurant reviewers"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"favorite",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"red-hot",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monkish":{
"as in monastic , ascetic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"monastic",
"austere",
"authoritarian",
"flinty",
"hard",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ramrod",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"callous",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"hard-line",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"merciless",
"ossified",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"rock-ribbed",
"stiff",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"dour",
"gruff",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"determined",
"firm",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"dogged",
"intractable",
"obstinate",
"relentless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undemanding",
"charitable",
"kind",
"merciful",
"mild",
"patient",
"soft",
"softhearted",
"accepting",
"compromising",
"yielding",
"responsive",
"willing",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"compliant",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"lax",
"lenient",
"tolerant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monsignors":{
"as in bishops , archbishops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abbots",
"archbishops",
"archpriests",
"bishops",
"deans",
"diocesans",
"popes",
"prelates",
"presbyters",
"clergywomen",
"deaconesses",
"priestesses",
"abb\u00e9s",
"curates",
"cur\u00e9s",
"parsons",
"pastors",
"rectors",
"shepherds",
"vicars",
"churchmen",
"clergymen",
"fathers",
"Holy Joes",
"padres",
"chaplains",
"confessors",
"sky pilots",
"clergypersons",
"clericals",
"clerics",
"clerks",
"deacons",
"divines",
"dominies",
"ecclesiastics",
"ministers",
"preachers",
"priests",
"reverends",
"evangelists",
"missionaries",
"missioners",
"missionizers",
"revivalists",
"friars",
"mendicants",
"monastics",
"monks",
"oblates",
"religious",
"high priestesses",
"high priests"
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"laypeople",
"seculars",
"secular",
"lay readers",
"lectors"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels":{
"examples":[
"a convention for those who love antique motorcars"
],
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"automobiles",
"autos",
"buses",
"busses",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motors",
"motor vehicles",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"convertibles",
"fastbacks",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"station wagons",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"compacts",
"coupes",
"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"limousines",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars",
"hybrids"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monied":{
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"luxury goods that are purchased mainly by moneyed tourists from abroad"
],
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"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
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"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
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"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
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"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
},
"monochrome":{
"having or consisting of a single color":{
"examples":[
"an artist who produces monochrome pencil drawings"
],
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"monochromatic",
"monochromic",
"self",
"self-colored",
"solid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"achromatic",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"shaded",
"mottled",
"parti-color",
"parti-colored",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"skewbald",
"banded",
"barred",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"streaked",
"striated",
"checkered",
"dotted",
"patterned",
"plaid",
"striped",
"flecked",
"specked",
"speckled",
"spotted",
"bichrome",
"bicolored",
"bicolor",
"dichromatic",
"trichromatic",
"tricolor",
"tricolored",
"two-tone"
],
"antonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated"
]
},
"as in daguerreotype , sepia":{
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"daguerreotype",
"ferrotype",
"sepia",
"tintype",
"photo",
"photograph",
"pic",
"print",
"shot",
"snap",
"snapshot",
"blowup",
"close-up",
"enlargement",
"still",
"telephoto"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"mountain bikes":{
"as in tandem bicycles , ten-speeds":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"tandem bicycles",
"ten-speeds",
"bicycles",
"bikes",
"cycles",
"push-bikes",
"push bicycles",
"two-wheelers",
"velocipedes"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motherly":{
"of, relating to, or characteristic of a mother":{
"examples":[
"she showed a sweet motherly tenderness toward the tiny kitten she was taking care of"
],
"synonyms":[
"maternal",
"mother"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parental",
"female",
"feminine",
"womanish",
"womanlike",
"womanly",
"matriarchal",
"matronly",
"caring",
"giving",
"nurturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monotone":{
"a tedious lack of variety":{
"examples":[
"there's a monotone to the landscape in that part of the state: uniformly flat land in all directions, for as far as the eye can see"
],
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"humdrum",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness"
],
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"uniformity",
"blahs",
"boredom",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"ennui",
"restlessness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"tiresomeness",
"weariness",
"wearisomeness"
],
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"diversity",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variability",
"variation",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"fascination",
"grip",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation"
],
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"as in solid , monochromatic":{
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"monochromatic",
"monochromic",
"self-colored",
"solid",
"colorless",
"achromatic",
"bleached",
"decolorized",
"faded",
"washed-out",
"dull",
"faint",
"gray",
"grey",
"neutral",
"pale",
"pallid",
"unbrilliant"
],
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"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated",
"various",
"iridescent",
"opalescent",
"brave",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"gay",
"vibrant"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"model":{
"an exact representation of something in greatly reduced size":{
"examples":[
"the dollhouse was a tiny, perfect model of the family's actual house"
],
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"miniature"
],
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"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dummy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
"mock",
"reduplication",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction",
"dwarf",
"midget",
"mini",
"pocket edition",
"pygmy",
"pigmy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archetype",
"original",
"prototype",
"blowup",
"enlargement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising":{
"examples":[
"the most famous models can earn thousands of dollars an hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"manikin",
"mannikin",
"mannequin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"figure",
"form",
"doll",
"dummy",
"spokesmodel",
"supermodel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation":{
"examples":[
"she's the very model of the dedicated teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"beau ideal",
"classic",
"eidolon",
"exemplar",
"idea",
"ideal",
"nonesuch",
"nonpareil",
"paragon",
"patron saint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"role model",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"incarnation",
"manifestation",
"personification",
"phantom",
"pink",
"archetype",
"example",
"mirror",
"paradigm",
"pattern",
"guideline",
"principle",
"rule",
"gauge",
"gage",
"standard",
"touchstone",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"acme",
"apex",
"apotheosis",
"culmination",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated":{
"examples":[
"why can't you be like your sister, who is such a well-behaved model child?"
],
"synonyms":[
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"classic",
"definitive",
"exemplary",
"imitable",
"paradigmatic",
"quintessential",
"textbook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ideal",
"nonpareil",
"special",
"unique",
"absolute",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"perfect",
"A-OK",
"A1",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"capital",
"choice",
"crackerjack",
"dandy",
"excellent",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"nifty",
"par excellence",
"prime",
"primo",
"sensational",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"low-grade",
"poor",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"atrocious",
"execrable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"deficient",
"disappointing",
"failed",
"inadequate",
"inferior",
"average",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"representative",
"typical",
"mediocre",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in match , pattern":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"pattern",
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor",
"readapt",
"readjust",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"avoiding extremes in behavior or expression":{
"examples":[
"he was only a moderate drinker, generally stopping after a couple of glasses of wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"temperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controlled",
"curbed",
"disciplined",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"self-controlled",
"self-denying",
"self-disciplined",
"calculated",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"average",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"modest",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"so-so",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"regular",
"routine",
"typical",
"usual"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"extreme",
"inordinate",
"radical",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"extremist",
"fanatic",
"fanatical",
"rabid",
"unbridled",
"unchecked",
"uncontrolled",
"unrestrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"immoderate",
"intemperate"
]
},
"avoiding major social change or extreme political ideas":{
"examples":[
"the principal's moderate position on cell phones is that students can use them at school but only for emergencies"
],
"synonyms":[
"central",
"centrist",
"middle-of-the-road"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conventional",
"nonrevolutionary",
"orthodox",
"traditional",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"conservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"leftist",
"liberal",
"progressive",
"fanatic",
"fanatical",
"rabid",
"subversive",
"violent",
"agitating",
"exciting",
"fomenting",
"incendiary",
"inciting",
"inflammatory",
"instigating",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"rabble-rousing",
"dissenting"
],
"antonyms":[
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultra"
]
},
"being about midway between extremes of amount or size":{
"examples":[
"a moderate snowfall was forecast for the region"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"intermediate",
"mean",
"median",
"medium",
"middle",
"middling",
"midsize",
"midsized",
"modest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reasonable",
"common",
"commonplace",
"conventional",
"normal",
"popular",
"regular",
"routine",
"standard",
"typical",
"usual",
"adequate",
"passable",
"tolerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"extreme",
"exceptional",
"rare",
"strange",
"uncommon",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"idiosyncratic",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"peculiar",
"private"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low":{
"examples":[
"a city that is celebrated for its moderate climate"
],
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soft",
"temperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"tranquil",
"delightful",
"fine",
"pleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"windy",
"misty",
"rainy",
"showery",
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dismal",
"foggy",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"bitter",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw"
],
"antonyms":[
"harsh",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
]
},
"a person who holds moderate views":{
"examples":[
"to the community's detriment, moderates were often shouted down at town meetings by the local hotheads"
],
"synonyms":[
"centrist",
"middle-of-the-roader"
],
"near synonyms":[
"progressive",
"reformer",
"accommodationist",
"compromiser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"leftist",
"left-winger",
"liberal"
],
"antonyms":[
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultraist"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits":{
"examples":[
"the kind of person who does everything in moderation"
],
"synonyms":[
"moderateness",
"temperance",
"temperateness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constraint",
"control",
"discipline",
"restraint",
"self-control",
"self-discipline",
"middle-of-the-roadism",
"asceticism",
"austerity",
"frugality",
"mortification",
"sacrifice",
"self-command",
"self-containment",
"self-denial",
"self-mastery",
"abnegation",
"abstention",
"avoidance",
"eschewal",
"forbearance",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibility",
"sensibleness",
"abstinence",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"teetotalism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excess",
"superfluity",
"extremeness",
"extremity",
"unconstraint",
"unrestraint",
"extremism",
"radicalness",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"insobriety"
],
"antonyms":[
"excessiveness",
"immoderacy",
"immoderateness",
"immoderation",
"intemperance",
"intemperateness"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monotheism":{
"as in paganism , polytheism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deism",
"heathenism",
"paganism",
"pantheism",
"polytheism",
"theism",
"doctrine",
"dogma",
"theology",
"church",
"communion",
"denomination",
"sect",
"credo",
"creed",
"cult",
"faith",
"persuasion",
"religion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingism",
"atheism",
"godlessness",
"nonbelief",
"secularism",
"unbelief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monicker":{
"a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual":{
"examples":[
"seeing as no respectable rodeo performer could possibly be known as Leslie, a suitably masculine moniker was created for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"alias",
"byname",
"cognomen",
"epithet",
"handle",
"nickname",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet",
"surname"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appellation",
"denomination",
"denotation",
"designation",
"label",
"tag",
"title",
"anonym",
"nom de guerre",
"nom de plume",
"pen name",
"pseudonym"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known":{
"examples":[
"\"Cornelius Jedidiah Beauregard\" is his rather unwieldy moniker"
],
"synonyms":[
"appellation",
"appellative",
"cognomen",
"compellation",
"denomination",
"denotation",
"designation",
"handle",
"name",
"nomenclature",
"title"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baptismal name",
"Christian name",
"first name",
"forename",
"given name",
"family name",
"maiden name",
"middle name",
"surname",
"matronymic",
"patronymic",
"byname",
"diminutive",
"epithet",
"hypocorism",
"nickname",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet",
"banner",
"rubric",
"tag",
"alias",
"cryptonym",
"nom de guerre",
"nom de plume",
"pen name",
"pseudonym",
"binomial",
"monomial",
"trivial name",
"vernacular",
"misnomer",
"brand name",
"label",
"trademark",
"trade name"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mock-up":{
"a full-sized model of something (such as a boat or a car) that is used for studying, testing, or showing its features":{
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"miniature",
"simulation",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dummy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
"mock",
"reduplication",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"knockoff",
"phony",
"phoney",
"rip-off",
"rubber stamp",
"sham",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"image",
"likeness",
"semblance",
"shadow",
"impression",
"imprint",
"print",
"approximation",
"reincarnation",
"version",
"extra",
"reserve",
"spare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archetype",
"original",
"prototype"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moles":{
"a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country":{
"examples":[
"for years we have had a mole in the enemy's national intelligence agency"
],
"synonyms":[
"agents",
"assets",
"emissaries",
"intelligencers",
"operatives",
"spies",
"spooks",
"undercovers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"couriers",
"counterspies",
"double agents",
"sleepers",
"infiltrators",
"informers",
"stool pigeons",
"spymasters",
"superspies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molest":{
"as in violate , outrage":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"outrage",
"violate",
"abuse",
"brutalize",
"bully",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"kick around",
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"mess over",
"mishandle",
"mistreat",
"misuse",
"harass",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"torment",
"torture",
"burn",
"sandbag",
"victimize",
"wrong",
"beat (up)",
"mess (up)",
"rough (up)",
"work (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"care (for)",
"cherish",
"foster",
"nurture",
"baby",
"cater (to)",
"coddle",
"favor",
"gratify",
"humor",
"indulge",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"morn":{
"the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance":{
"examples":[
"my herald of the morn is my cat, sticking his paw in my face to wake me up"
],
"synonyms":[
"aurora",
"cockcrow",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"day",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"light",
"morning",
"sun",
"sunrise",
"sunup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daytime",
"forenoon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark",
"darkness",
"midnight",
"night",
"nighttime",
"afternoon",
"midday",
"dusk",
"evening",
"eventide",
"gloaming",
"twilight"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset"
]
},
"the time from sunrise until noon":{
"examples":[
"so, how are you this lovely morn ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"forenoon",
"morning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aurora",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"cockcrow",
"sunrise",
"sunup",
"day",
"daytime",
"light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark",
"darkness",
"night",
"nighttime",
"twilight",
"dusk",
"evening",
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset",
"afternoon"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mounted":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"medical expenses began to mount"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"the huge amount of money needed to mount an opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"carried",
"gave",
"offered",
"presented",
"staged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"paraded",
"showed",
"showed off",
"unveiled",
"previewed",
"acted",
"impersonated",
"performed",
"played",
"portrayed",
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"represented",
"extended",
"proffered",
"tendered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or extend upward":{
"examples":[
"the cable car continues to mount to ever higher terrain until the moment when the entire valley comes into view"
],
"synonyms":[
"arose",
"ascended",
"aspired",
"climbed",
"lifted",
"rose",
"soared",
"thrust",
"upped",
"upreared",
"uprose",
"upthrusted",
"upturned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surged",
"towered",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upheaved",
"uplifted",
"upraised",
"ballooned",
"blasted off",
"took off",
"zoomed",
"crested",
"scaled",
"surmounted",
"topped",
"canted",
"inclined",
"leaned",
"listed",
"reclined",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dived",
"dove",
"nose-dived",
"plummeted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slid"
],
"antonyms":[
"declined",
"descended",
"dipped",
"dropped",
"fell (off)",
"plunged"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moralities":{
"conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong":{
"examples":[
"given his reputation for unswerving morality , scandal of any kind would wreck his political career"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"decency",
"goodness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"rightness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-mindedness",
"honor",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"appropriateness",
"correctness",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"etiquette",
"fitness",
"propriety",
"seemliness",
"ethics",
"morals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"indecorum",
"indiscretion",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"sinfulness",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"corruption"
],
"antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy",
"wickedness"
]
},
"the code of good conduct for an individual or group":{
"examples":[
"the morality that members of the Mafia are expected to adhere to\u2014or suffer the consequences"
],
"synonyms":[
"ethics",
"ethos",
"morals",
"norms",
"principles",
"standards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"customs",
"dictates",
"etiquette",
"manners",
"mores",
"values",
"beliefs",
"dogma",
"faith",
"tenets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monitory":{
"serving as or offering a warning":{
"examples":[
"historically natural disasters have often been interpreted by some as punitive or monitory measures against sin-ridden humanity"
],
"synonyms":[
"admonishing",
"admonitory",
"cautionary",
"cautioning",
"exemplary",
"premonitory",
"warning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"didactic",
"moralistic",
"moralizing",
"advisory",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"punishing",
"punitive"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modernity":{
"as in currency , freshness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"currency",
"currentness",
"freshness",
"modernness",
"novelty",
"recentness",
"newness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"age",
"agedness",
"ancientness",
"antiquity",
"hoariness",
"antiquation",
"datedness",
"obsolescence",
"obsoleteness",
"old-fashionedness",
"fustiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monsignori":{
"as in bishops , archbishops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abbots",
"archbishops",
"archpriests",
"bishops",
"deans",
"diocesans",
"popes",
"prelates",
"presbyters",
"clergywomen",
"deaconesses",
"priestesses",
"abb\u00e9s",
"curates",
"cur\u00e9s",
"parsons",
"pastors",
"rectors",
"shepherds",
"vicars",
"churchmen",
"clergymen",
"fathers",
"Holy Joes",
"padres",
"chaplains",
"confessors",
"sky pilots",
"clergypersons",
"clericals",
"clerics",
"clerks",
"deacons",
"divines",
"dominies",
"ecclesiastics",
"ministers",
"preachers",
"priests",
"reverends",
"evangelists",
"missionaries",
"missioners",
"missionizers",
"revivalists",
"friars",
"mendicants",
"monastics",
"monks",
"oblates",
"religious",
"high priestesses",
"high priests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"laymen",
"laypeople",
"seculars",
"secular",
"lay readers",
"lectors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molted":{
"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a crab molts its shell as it grows larger"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliated",
"shed",
"slipped",
"sloughed",
"sluffed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flaked",
"peeled",
"scaled",
"chucked",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"flung (off or away)",
"jettisoned",
"junked",
"scrapped",
"shucked (off)",
"threw away",
"threw out",
"unloaded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mommy":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"the little boy cried for his mommy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ma",
"mama",
"mamma",
"momma",
"mammy",
"mater",
"mom",
"mother",
"old lady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamilias",
"matriarch",
"matron",
"stepmother",
"supermom",
"superwoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motile":{
"as in moving":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"moving",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"adjustable",
"flexible",
"modular",
"manageable",
"mobile",
"movable",
"moveable",
"portable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmobile",
"unmovable",
"immotile",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"motionless",
"moveless",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"stuck",
"wedged",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"steadfast"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modifying":{
"to limit the meaning of (as a noun)":{
"examples":[
"adjectives are words that modify nouns, while adverbs can modify adjectives and verbs"
],
"synonyms":[
"qualifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altering",
"coloring",
"distorting",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"twisting",
"warping",
"narrowing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadening",
"expanding",
"widening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"he modified the appliance so that it would run more quietly"
],
"synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"making over",
"recasting",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforming",
"metamorphosing",
"mutating",
"regenerating",
"revolutionizing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"commuting",
"converting",
"exchanging",
"rejiggering",
"retooling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixing",
"freezing",
"setting",
"stabilizing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motorist":{
"a person who travels by automobile":{
"examples":[
"environmental organizations suggest that motorists get together and carpool to avoid adding to pollution levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobilist",
"driver",
"wheelman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"operator",
"codriver",
"chauffeur",
"carpooler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mod con":{
"something that adds to one's ease of living":{
"examples":[
"bedrooms at the English country inn are filled with 18th-century charm, while the bathrooms have all the mod cons that 21st-century tourists demand"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodation",
"amenity",
"comfort",
"convenience",
"creature comfort",
"luxury",
"nicety"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonus",
"extra",
"benefit",
"help",
"service",
"anodyne",
"solace",
"delight",
"indulgence",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"burden",
"millstone",
"weight"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modernizing":{
"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporizing",
"streamlining",
"updating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recasting",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monocle":{
"a single round lens for one eye that helps people see and that is held in place by the muscles around the eye":{
"examples":[
"His outfit for the party, consisting of a cape, tophat, and monocle , was sure to attract attention."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lorgnette",
"pince-nez",
"eyeglasses",
"glasses",
"specs",
"spectacles",
"bifocals",
"half-glasses",
"trifocals",
"sunglasses",
"goggles",
"contact lens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"money-spinning":{
"yielding a profit":{
"examples":[
"turning his stately ancestral home into a tourist attraction proved to be a money-spinning venture for the earl"
],
"synonyms":[
"economic",
"fat",
"gainful",
"juicy",
"lucrative",
"moneymaking",
"paying",
"profitable",
"remunerative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"rewarding",
"useful",
"worthwhile",
"bankable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mooch":{
"to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility":{
"examples":[
"he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way"
],
"synonyms":[
"freeload",
"sponge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leech",
"beg",
"exploit",
"use"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mouse",
"pussyfoot",
"shirk",
"skulk",
"slide",
"slink",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"edge",
"inch",
"worm",
"ghost",
"pad",
"tiptoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"kids on vacation mooching about the house and looking for something to do"
],
"synonyms":[
"bat",
"cruise",
"drift",
"float",
"gad (about)",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"meander",
"ramble",
"range",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"dawdle",
"mope",
"gypsy",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"mill (about or around)",
"straggle",
"stray"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moisture":{
"the amount of water suspended in the air in tiny droplets":{
"examples":[
"dew is really just moisture from the air that condenses and collects when the temperature drops at night"
],
"synonyms":[
"damp",
"dampness",
"humidity",
"moistness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mugginess",
"stickiness",
"stuffiness",
"sultriness",
"clamminess",
"dankness",
"soddenness",
"sogginess",
"wetness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aridity",
"dehumidification",
"dehydration",
"dryness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moola":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"we dropped some serious moola on that home theater system"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monogamies":{
"as in marriages , relationships":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"betrothals",
"engagements",
"espousals",
"hands",
"pledges",
"promises",
"proposals",
"troths",
"bigamies",
"polyandries",
"polygamies",
"polygynies",
"conjugalities",
"connubialities",
"marriages",
"matches",
"matrimonies",
"wedlocks",
"intermarriages",
"miscegenations",
"mixed marriages",
"remarriages",
"attachments",
"commitments",
"relationships",
"cohabitations",
"common-law marriages",
"civil unions",
"domestic partnerships"
],
"near antonyms":[
"annulments",
"divorces",
"separations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortification":{
"the emotional state of being made self-consciously uncomfortable":{
"examples":[
"the mortification of being dumped the night before the prom"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashment",
"confusion",
"discomfiture",
"disconcertment",
"embarrassment",
"fluster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"perturbation",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"upset",
"disgrace",
"ignominy",
"shame",
"debasement",
"degradation",
"humiliation",
"humble pie"
],
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"aplomb",
"assurance",
"composure",
"confidence",
"coolness",
"equanimity",
"poise",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"self-possession"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motes":{
"a very small piece":{
"examples":[
"there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house"
],
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"atoms",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dribbles",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"nubbins",
"nuggets",
"particles",
"patches",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"snippets",
"snips",
"specks",
"tittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"dabs",
"dashes",
"driblets",
"drops",
"fractions",
"haets",
"halfpence",
"halfpennies",
"ha'pennies",
"iotas",
"jots",
"kennings",
"licks",
"minims",
"mites",
"modicums",
"nutshells",
"ounces",
"pinches",
"shreds",
"smatters",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"spots",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces",
"whispers",
"whits",
"bites",
"mouthfuls",
"nibbles",
"tidbits",
"titbits",
"fragments",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"chips",
"flakes",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings",
"smithereens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunks",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs",
"abundances",
"barrels",
"buckets",
"bushels",
"deals",
"heaps",
"loads",
"masses",
"mountains",
"pecks",
"piles",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"scads",
"stacks",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monsters":{
"a strange or horrible and often frightening creature":{
"examples":[
"both children insisted that their parents check under the bed for monsters every night"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesqueries",
"grotesques",
"monstrosities",
"ogres"
],
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"ogresses",
"Frankensteins",
"b\u00eates noires",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"banshees",
"bogeymen",
"bogymen",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"frights",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"horrors",
"terrors",
"abominations",
"anathemas",
"abnormalities",
"freaks",
"mutants",
"mutations"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a person, thing, or event that is far from normal":{
"examples":[
"the gardener destroyed all of the monsters that mutated from his tomato plants"
],
"synonyms":[
"abnormalities",
"anomalies",
"freaks",
"monstrosities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abortions",
"malformations",
"miscreations",
"mutants",
"mutations",
"characters",
"crackbrains",
"crackpots",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"kooks",
"nuts",
"oddballs",
"screwballs",
"weirdos",
"aberrants",
"deviants",
"individualists",
"mavericks",
"nonconformists",
"curiosities",
"peculiarities",
"singularities",
"aberrations",
"exceptions",
"irregularities",
"oddities",
"rarities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"samples",
"specimens",
"commonplaces",
"usuals"
],
"antonyms":[
"averages",
"normals",
"norms",
"pars",
"standards"
]
},
"a mean, evil, or unprincipled person":{
"examples":[
"the guards at the concentration camps were monsters who enjoyed seeing their victims suffer"
],
"synonyms":[
"baddies",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"caitiffs",
"devils",
"evildoers",
"fiends",
"heavies",
"hounds",
"knaves",
"meanies",
"miscreants",
"nazis",
"no-goods",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"savages",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scamps",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains",
"wretches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"villainesses",
"blackguards",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"culprits",
"felons",
"lawbreakers",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"transgressors",
"sinners",
"trespassers",
"wrongdoers",
"cads",
"heels",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"outlaws",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gunmen",
"hoodlums",
"hooligans",
"racketeers",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"toughs",
"losers",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"stinkers",
"trash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels",
"innocents",
"saints",
"heroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something large of its kind":{
"examples":[
"a monster of a sandwich that could easily feed two hearty eaters"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoths",
"blockbusters",
"colossi",
"dinosaurs",
"dreadnoughts",
"elephants",
"elephant",
"giants",
"Goliaths",
"jumbos",
"leviathans",
"mammoths",
"mastodons",
"titans",
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazons",
"giantesses",
"bulks",
"hulks",
"heavyweights",
"juggernauts",
"steamrollers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"weaklings",
"wimps",
"wisps",
"nonentities",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"runts",
"shrimp",
"shrimps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monomaniacs":{
"as in obsessed , monomaniacal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"fixated",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"depressed",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"dotty",
"fey",
"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy",
"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"morning":{
"the time from sunrise until noon":{
"examples":[
"after working in the fields all morning , we were ready for a hearty lunch"
],
"synonyms":[
"forenoon",
"morn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aurora",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"cockcrow",
"sunrise",
"sunup",
"day",
"daytime",
"light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark",
"darkness",
"night",
"nighttime",
"twilight",
"dusk",
"evening",
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset",
"afternoon"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance":{
"examples":[
"morning has broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"aurora",
"cockcrow",
"dawn",
"dawning",
"day",
"daybreak",
"daylight",
"light",
"morn",
"sun",
"sunrise",
"sunup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daytime",
"forenoon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dark",
"darkness",
"midnight",
"night",
"nighttime",
"afternoon",
"midday",
"dusk",
"evening",
"eventide",
"gloaming",
"twilight"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfall",
"sundown",
"sunset"
]
},
"the point at which something begins":{
"examples":[
"the period when people in ancient Mesopotamia began living in cities is usually regarded as the morning of civilization"
],
"synonyms":[
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing board",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one",
"creation",
"founding",
"inauguration",
"initiation",
"institution",
"origination",
"cradle",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"germ",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring",
"dawning",
"opening",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence",
"childhood",
"infancy",
"youth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cessation",
"closing",
"closure",
"completion",
"finale",
"finish",
"period",
"stop",
"termination",
"windup"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountebanks":{
"one who makes false claims of identity or expertise":{
"examples":[
"claimed that many doctors were frauds and mountebanks"
],
"synonyms":[
"charlatans",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"fakirs",
"frauds",
"hoaxers",
"humbugs",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"pretenders",
"quacks",
"quacksalvers",
"ringers",
"shams"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copycats",
"imitators",
"impersonators",
"mimics",
"actors",
"bluffers",
"counterfeiters",
"deceivers",
"dissemblers",
"duper",
"feigners",
"misleaders",
"operators",
"tricksters",
"poseurs",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"fraudsters",
"scammers",
"scamsters",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"skinners",
"swindlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"authorities",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"experts",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"past masters",
"professionals",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motor home":{
"a motor vehicle that is specially equipped for living while traveling":{
"examples":[
"they lived out of their motor home until they found a suitable house"
],
"synonyms":[
"camper",
"caravan",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"coach",
"van"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moggie":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"an unattached schoolteacher who lives in a London flat with a moggy as her only companion"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat",
"feline",
"house cat",
"kitty",
"puss",
"pussy",
"pussycat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mouser",
"kit",
"kitten",
"alley cat",
"tabby",
"gib",
"tomcat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monomials":{
"as in binomials":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binomials",
"aliases",
"cryptonyms",
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms",
"trivial names",
"vernaculars",
"banners",
"rubrics",
"tags",
"misnomers",
"bynames",
"diminutives",
"epithets",
"hypocorisms",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"brand names",
"labels",
"trademarks",
"trade names",
"matronymics",
"patronymics",
"family names",
"maiden names",
"middle names",
"surnames",
"baptismal names",
"Christian names",
"first names",
"forenames",
"given names"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monstrousness":{
"as in stupendousness , tremendousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ampleness",
"amplitude",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"enormousness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"grossness",
"heftiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"largeness",
"mass",
"massiveness",
"stupendousness",
"tremendousness",
"vastness",
"volume",
"voluminousness",
"capaciousness",
"commodiousness",
"roominess",
"spaciousness",
"area",
"bulk",
"dimension",
"extent",
"magnitude",
"measure",
"measurement",
"proportion",
"size"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modeling":{
"as in matching , patterning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"patterning",
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring",
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouthwatering":{
"very pleasing to the sense of taste":{
"examples":[
"an eye-catching display of mouthwatering cakes and pastries"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"appetizing",
"dainty",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delish",
"flavorful",
"flavorsome",
"luscious",
"lush",
"palatable",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scrumptious",
"succulent",
"tasteful",
"tasty",
"toothsome",
"toothy",
"yummy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digestible",
"eatable",
"edible",
"delightful",
"heavenly",
"pleasing",
"agreeable",
"gratifying",
"pleasant",
"satisfying",
"choice",
"delicate",
"exquisite",
"rare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banal",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"tedious",
"noisome",
"smelly",
"stinky",
"noxious",
"unwholesome",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"awful",
"detestable",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"foul",
"horrid",
"nauseating",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"sickening",
"unpleasant"
],
"antonyms":[
"distasteful",
"flat",
"flavorless",
"insipid",
"stale",
"tasteless",
"unappetizing",
"unpalatable",
"unsavory",
"yucky",
"yukky"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monkeying (around)":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"examples":[
"stop monkeying around in the house or you'll break something"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting up",
"clowning (around)",
"cutting up",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"hotdogging",
"showboating",
"showing off",
"skylarking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"misbehaving",
"roughhousing",
"capering",
"cavorting",
"disporting",
"frisking",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"larking",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"carousing",
"mafficking",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"roaring",
"wassailing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"would rather just monkey around instead of doing work"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodling",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging about",
"kicking around",
"messing around",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"clowning (around)",
"horsing around",
"diddling (with)",
"tinkering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckling (down)",
"knuckling down",
"setting (to)",
"settling (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modifiable":{
"capable of being readily changed":{
"examples":[
"architects designed the arena to be easily modifiable for staging a variety of events"
],
"synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"pliable",
"variable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"changing",
"fluctuating",
"inconstant",
"labile",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"varying",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvarying"
],
"antonyms":[
"established",
"fixed",
"immutable",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"nonmalleable",
"ramrod",
"set",
"unadaptable",
"unalterable",
"unbudgeable",
"unchangeable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mouser":{
"as in cat , kitten":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cat",
"feline",
"house cat",
"kitty",
"moggy",
"moggie",
"puss",
"pussy",
"pussycat",
"kit",
"kitten",
"alley cat",
"tabby",
"gib",
"tomcat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moderate":{
"avoiding extremes in behavior or expression":{
"examples":[
"he was only a moderate drinker, generally stopping after a couple of glasses of wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"temperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controlled",
"curbed",
"disciplined",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"self-controlled",
"self-denying",
"self-disciplined",
"calculated",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"average",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"modest",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"so-so",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"regular",
"routine",
"typical",
"usual"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"extreme",
"inordinate",
"radical",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"extremist",
"fanatic",
"fanatical",
"rabid",
"unbridled",
"unchecked",
"uncontrolled",
"unrestrained"
],
"antonyms":[
"immoderate",
"intemperate"
]
},
"avoiding major social change or extreme political ideas":{
"examples":[
"the principal's moderate position on cell phones is that students can use them at school but only for emergencies"
],
"synonyms":[
"central",
"centrist",
"middle-of-the-road"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conventional",
"nonrevolutionary",
"orthodox",
"traditional",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"conservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"leftist",
"liberal",
"progressive",
"fanatic",
"fanatical",
"rabid",
"subversive",
"violent",
"agitating",
"exciting",
"fomenting",
"incendiary",
"inciting",
"inflammatory",
"instigating",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"rabble-rousing",
"dissenting"
],
"antonyms":[
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultra"
]
},
"being about midway between extremes of amount or size":{
"examples":[
"a moderate snowfall was forecast for the region"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"intermediate",
"mean",
"median",
"medium",
"middle",
"middling",
"midsize",
"midsized",
"modest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reasonable",
"common",
"commonplace",
"conventional",
"normal",
"popular",
"regular",
"routine",
"standard",
"typical",
"usual",
"adequate",
"passable",
"tolerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"extreme",
"exceptional",
"rare",
"strange",
"uncommon",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"idiosyncratic",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"peculiar",
"private"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low":{
"examples":[
"a city that is celebrated for its moderate climate"
],
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soft",
"temperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"tranquil",
"delightful",
"fine",
"pleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"windy",
"misty",
"rainy",
"showery",
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dismal",
"foggy",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"bitter",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw"
],
"antonyms":[
"harsh",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
]
},
"a person who holds moderate views":{
"examples":[
"to the community's detriment, moderates were often shouted down at town meetings by the local hotheads"
],
"synonyms":[
"centrist",
"middle-of-the-roader"
],
"near synonyms":[
"progressive",
"reformer",
"accommodationist",
"compromiser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"leftist",
"left-winger",
"liberal"
],
"antonyms":[
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultraist"
]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monkeyshine":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"hockey players who are known for their monkeyshines on and off the ice"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"on the alert for paleontological monkeyshines ever since the unmasking of Piltdown man"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mouthpiece":{
"a person who speaks for another or for a group":{
"examples":[
"a statement read by the official mouthpiece of the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"mouth",
"point man",
"point person",
"prophet",
"speaker",
"spokesman",
"spokesperson"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spokesmodel",
"spokeswoman",
"front",
"promoter",
"shill",
"communicator",
"sayer",
"talker",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mown (down)":{
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"butcher",
"massacre",
"slaughter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"fell",
"murder",
"slay",
"smite",
"snuff",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"waste",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl (down or over)",
"down",
"drop",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"level",
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mother country":{
"a place of origin":{
"examples":[
"Greece can boast to being the mother country of democracy"
],
"synonyms":[
"birthplace",
"cradle",
"home",
"motherland"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hometown",
"Blighty",
"country",
"nativity",
"old country",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship":{
"examples":[
"even after decades of living in their adopted nation, they maintained a strong attachment to the mother country"
],
"synonyms":[
"country",
"fatherland",
"home",
"homeland",
"motherland",
"sod"
],
"near synonyms":[
"old country",
"community",
"neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonless":{
"as in starless , sunless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"starless",
"sunless",
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"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",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lightsome",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monolith":{
"a very large stone that is usually tall and narrow":{
"examples":[
"Archaeologists have reported the discovery of an ancient monolith ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"obelisk",
"pillar",
"megalith",
"cross",
"marker",
"plaque",
"table",
"tablet",
"memorial",
"shrine",
"burial",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb",
"gravestone",
"headstone",
"monument",
"stone",
"tombstone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monotony":{
"a tedious lack of variety":{
"examples":[
"the monotony of the cafeteria's selections was as bad as the quality"
],
"synonyms":[
"humdrum",
"monotone",
"monotonousness",
"sameness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uniformity",
"blahs",
"boredom",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"ennui",
"restlessness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"tiresomeness",
"weariness",
"wearisomeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diversity",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variability",
"variation",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"fascination",
"grip",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mousses":{
"as in froths , sprays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foams",
"froths",
"heads",
"lathers",
"spumes",
"suds",
"surfs",
"mists",
"spindrifts",
"sprays",
"scums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortifies":{
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was mortified by her children's atrocious manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitates",
"bothers",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"queers",
"shames"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"relieves",
"soothes",
"buoys",
"cheers",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"assures",
"reassures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motels":{
"as in resorts , courts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"courts",
"motor courts",
"motor inns",
"motor lodges",
"resorts",
"spas",
"tourist courts",
"youth hostels",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rests",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"apartment hotels",
"bunkhouses",
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"B and Bs",
"bed-and-breakfasts",
"guesthouses",
"boardinghouses",
"lodging houses",
"rooming houses",
"auberges",
"caravansaries",
"caravanserais",
"caravanserai",
"hospices",
"hostelries",
"hostels",
"hotels",
"inns",
"lodges",
"public houses",
"taverns",
"doss-houses",
"fleabags",
"flophouses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monomanias":{
"as in obsessions , phobias":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"obsessions",
"phobias",
"delusions",
"hallucinations",
"abnormalities",
"senile dementias",
"hallucinoses",
"hypomanias",
"paranoias",
"schizophrenias",
"deliriums",
"frenzies",
"hysterias",
"instabilities",
"irrationalities",
"aberrations",
"dementias",
"derangements",
"insanities",
"lunacies",
"manias",
"rages",
"neuroses",
"psychoses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lucidities",
"rationalities",
"reasonabilities",
"normalities",
"minds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountings":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"examples":[
"built a new mounting for the engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"braces",
"buttresses",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"shores",
"spurs",
"stays",
"supports",
"underpinnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shorings",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"arches",
"bolsters",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"bearings",
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"trusses",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mousily":{
"as in timidly , fearfully":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fearfully",
"timidly",
"obsequiously",
"servilely",
"subserviently",
"bashfully",
"diffidently",
"self-deprecatingly",
"shyly",
"timorously",
"abjectly",
"deferentially",
"hat in hand",
"humbly",
"lowly",
"meanly",
"meekly",
"modestly",
"sheepishly",
"submissively",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"politely",
"respectfully",
"suppliantly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrogantly",
"audaciously",
"boldly",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"contemptuously",
"haughtily",
"huffily",
"imperiously",
"loftily",
"pompously",
"presumptuously",
"pretentiously",
"pridefully",
"proudly",
"scornfully",
"self-importantly",
"superciliously",
"swaggeringly",
"uppishly",
"fearlessly",
"discourteously",
"disdainfully",
"disrespectfully",
"impertinently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"saucily",
"bitchily",
"impolitely",
"impudently",
"rudely",
"uncivilly",
"ungraciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"moment of truth":{
"a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action":{
"examples":[
"The hours that the coach devoted to having the team practice the play proved worthwhile when the moment of truth arrived."
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling point",
"breaking point",
"clutch",
"conjuncture",
"crisis",
"crossroad(s)",
"crunch",
"crunch time",
"Dunkirk",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"extremity",
"flash point",
"head",
"juncture",
"tinderbox",
"zero hour"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contingency",
"possibility",
"climax",
"turning point",
"happening",
"landmark",
"milestone",
"condition",
"pass",
"situation",
"strait",
"deadlock",
"impasse",
"stalemate",
"corner",
"fix",
"hole",
"hot water",
"jam",
"last ditch",
"pinch",
"predicament",
"scrape",
"spot",
"eleventh hour",
"last minute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a particular and often important moment in time":{
"examples":[
"It was a moment of truth for the contestants as they waited to hear the winner's name called."
],
"synonyms":[
"juncture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"crack",
"flash",
"heartbeat",
"instant",
"jiffy",
"minute",
"moment",
"nanosecond",
"point",
"second",
"shake",
"split second",
"tick",
"trice",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"bit",
"spell",
"stretch",
"while",
"brink",
"cusp",
"nick",
"threshold",
"verge",
"crisis",
"crunch time",
"wire"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"monastic":{
"as in ascetic , monkish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"monkish",
"austere",
"authoritarian",
"flinty",
"hard",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ramrod",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"callous",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"hard-line",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"merciless",
"ossified",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"rock-ribbed",
"stiff",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"dour",
"gruff",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"determined",
"firm",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"dogged",
"intractable",
"obstinate",
"relentless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undemanding",
"charitable",
"kind",
"merciful",
"mild",
"patient",
"soft",
"softhearted",
"accepting",
"compromising",
"yielding",
"responsive",
"willing",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"compliant",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"clement",
"forbearing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"lax",
"lenient",
"tolerant"
],
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},
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conventual",
"mendicant",
"monachal",
"divine",
"holy",
"religious",
"sacramental",
"caliphal",
"rabbinic",
"rabbinical",
"churchly",
"ecclesiastic",
"ecclesiastical",
"apostolic",
"canonical",
"diaconal",
"diocesan",
"episcopal",
"papal",
"patriarchal",
"pontifical",
"evangelical",
"evangelic",
"missionary",
"clerical",
"clerkly",
"ministerial",
"pastoral",
"priestly",
"sacerdotal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay",
"nonclerical",
"secular",
"temporal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in monk , mendicant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brother",
"friar",
"mendicant",
"monk",
"oblate",
"clergyperson",
"cleric",
"clerical",
"clerk",
"deacon",
"divine",
"dominie",
"ecclesiastic",
"high priest",
"minister",
"preacher",
"reverend",
"abbot",
"archbishop",
"archpriest",
"bishop",
"dean",
"diocesan",
"monsignor",
"pope",
"prelate",
"presbyter",
"churchman",
"clergyman",
"father",
"Holy Joe",
"padre",
"abb\u00e9",
"curate",
"cur\u00e9",
"parson",
"pastor",
"rector",
"shepherd",
"vicar",
"chaplain",
"confessor",
"sky pilot",
"evangelist",
"missionary",
"missioner",
"missionizer",
"revivalist",
"nun",
"abbess",
"anchoress",
"ancress",
"cloistress",
"conventual",
"mother superior",
"novice",
"prioress",
"religious",
"Reverend Mother",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay reader",
"lector",
"layman",
"layperson",
"secular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"mousse":{
"as in froth , spray":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foam",
"froth",
"head",
"lather",
"spume",
"suds",
"surf",
"mist",
"spindrift",
"spray",
"scum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monks":{
"as in brothers , friars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brothers",
"brethren",
"friars",
"mendicants",
"monastics",
"oblates",
"clergypersons",
"clericals",
"clerics",
"clerks",
"deacons",
"divines",
"dominies",
"ecclesiastics",
"high priests",
"ministers",
"preachers",
"reverends",
"abbots",
"archbishops",
"archpriests",
"bishops",
"deans",
"diocesans",
"monsignors",
"monsignori",
"popes",
"prelates",
"presbyters",
"churchmen",
"clergymen",
"fathers",
"Holy Joes",
"padres",
"abb\u00e9s",
"curates",
"cur\u00e9s",
"parsons",
"pastors",
"rectors",
"shepherds",
"vicars",
"chaplains",
"confessors",
"sky pilots",
"evangelists",
"missionaries",
"missioners",
"missionizers",
"revivalists",
"nuns",
"abbesses",
"anchoresses",
"ancresses",
"cloistresses",
"conventuals",
"mother superior",
"novices",
"prioresses",
"religious",
"Reverend Mother",
"votaries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lay readers",
"lectors",
"laymen",
"laypeople",
"seculars",
"secular"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mouthing (off)":{
"to talk as if giving an important and formal speech":{
"examples":[
"some crank mouthing off in the center of town to anyone who would listen"
],
"synonyms":[
"declaiming",
"discoursing",
"haranguing",
"orating",
"perorating"
],
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"ranting",
"raving",
"bloviating",
"blowing",
"lecturing",
"preaching",
"sermonizing",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing",
"speaking",
"speechifying",
"talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mottled":{
"having blotches of two or more colors":{
"examples":[
"a mottled complexion"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"splotched",
"spotted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shaded",
"checkered",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"varicolored",
"variegated",
"blotted",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"calico",
"specked",
"speckled",
"streaked",
"colored",
"colorful",
"pigmented",
"dotted",
"peppered",
"sprinkled",
"stippled",
"discolored",
"dyed",
"marked",
"stained",
"flecked",
"streaked",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"monochromatic",
"monochrome",
"monochromic",
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked with spots":{
"examples":[
"mottled leather upholstery that isn't supposed to look perfect"
],
"synonyms":[
"dappled",
"dapple",
"dotted",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotchy",
"spotted",
"spotty",
"stippled",
"variegated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spangled",
"marbled",
"moir\u00e9",
"moire",
"veined",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"piebald",
"pinto",
"roan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[
"unspotted"
]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"examples":[
"old papers that were mottled by mold"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotched",
"dappled",
"dotted",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"marbled",
"peppered",
"shot",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotched",
"spotted",
"sprinkled",
"stippled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blotted",
"dyed",
"stained",
"banded",
"barred",
"streaked",
"striped",
"interspersed",
"set",
"studded",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"mop":{
"as in wash , brush":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brush",
"comb",
"dry-clean",
"dust",
"launder",
"muck (out)",
"rinse",
"scour",
"scrub",
"shampoo",
"sponge",
"swab",
"sweep",
"vacuum",
"wash",
"wipe",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"deterge",
"GI",
"turn out",
"decontaminate",
"purge",
"purify",
"disinfect",
"sanitize",
"brighten",
"deodorize",
"freshen",
"spruce (up)",
"sweeten",
"pick up",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy",
"unclutter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrime",
"muddy",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"blacken",
"discolor",
"besmirch",
"dirty",
"foul",
"soil",
"spot",
"stain",
"sully"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mountaintop":{
"as in summit , pinnacle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aiguille",
"horn",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"inselberg",
"knob",
"seamount",
"cordillera",
"mountain range",
"range",
"sierra",
"alp",
"hump",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basin",
"bowl",
"depression",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monstrous":{
"badly or imperfectly formed":{
"examples":[
"a monstrous melon that was clearly not fit to eat"
],
"synonyms":[
"deformed",
"distorted",
"malformed",
"misshapen",
"shapeless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"freakish",
"mutant",
"asymmetrical",
"asymmetric",
"crooked",
"disproportionate",
"irregular",
"lopsided",
"nonsymmetrical",
"overbalanced",
"unbalanced",
"unequal",
"horrible",
"horrific",
"terrible",
"ugly",
"unattractive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapely",
"flawless",
"perfect"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeformed"
]
},
"extremely disturbing or repellent":{
"examples":[
"the monstrous measures taken by the dictator against anyone who opposed his regime"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"dreadful",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"nightmare",
"nightmarish",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarming",
"bloodcurdling",
"dire",
"direful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"gut-wrenching",
"hair-raising",
"heart-stopping",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"terrifying",
"abhorrent",
"deplorable",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"abominable",
"evil",
"foul",
"heinous",
"noxious",
"odious",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"grotesque",
"ugly",
"unsightly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"enticing",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"a monstrous tomato as big as a basketball"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
]
},
"unpleasant to look at":{
"examples":[
"some monstrous high-rises have begun to spoil that lovely residential neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"ugly",
"unappealing",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly",
"vile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"dreadful",
"gross",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"plain",
"unaesthetic",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapely",
"imposing",
"impressive",
"prepossessing"
],
"antonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"lovely",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
]
},
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"a monstrous pretty gal, she was"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"moor":{
"a broad area of level or rolling treeless country":{
"examples":[
"as she wanders the windswept moor , the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar"
],
"synonyms":[
"campo",
"champaign",
"down(s)",
"grassland",
"heath",
"lea",
"ley",
"llano",
"pampa",
"plain",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"tundra",
"veld",
"veldt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"field",
"meadow",
"floodplain",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"flat",
"lowland",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"upland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"spongy land saturated or partially covered with water":{
"examples":[
"a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England"
],
"synonyms":[
"bog",
"fen",
"marsh",
"marshland",
"mire",
"morass",
"muskeg",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"swamp",
"swampland",
"wash",
"wetland"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swale",
"quagmire",
"guck",
"gook",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slime",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"moored the boat to the dock"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchor",
"catch",
"clamp",
"fasten",
"fix",
"hitch",
"secure",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"stuff",
"wedge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extract",
"prize",
"pry",
"pull",
"root (out)",
"tear (out)",
"uproot",
"wrest",
"yank"
],
"antonyms":[
"loose",
"loosen",
"unfasten",
"unfix",
"unloose",
"unloosen"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monthly":{
"as in daily , weekly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"annual",
"yearly",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"intermittent",
"perennial",
"periodic",
"recurrent",
"regular",
"repeated",
"routine",
"serial",
"usual"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in weekly , biweekly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"fanzine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"modelled":{
"as in matched , patterned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"patterned",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored",
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed"
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"misadjusted"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"to make changes to (something) in order to keep a desirable balance, proportion, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He takes insulin to modulate his blood sugar levels.",
"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
],
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"adjusting",
"regulating",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"rigging",
"tweaking",
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring",
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"altering",
"changing",
"modifying",
"redressing",
"righting",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"perfecting",
"polishing",
"touching up",
"fixing",
"mending",
"repairing",
"moderating",
"qualifying",
"redrafting",
"redrawing",
"restyling",
"revising",
"reworking",
"rewriting",
"blue-penciling",
"cutting",
"shortening",
"amending",
"debugging",
"emending",
"rectifying",
"red-penciling",
"reforming",
"remedying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"spoiling",
"aggravating",
"worsening",
"misadjusting"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouthpieces":{
"a person who speaks for another or for a group":{
"examples":[
"a statement read by the official mouthpiece of the company"
],
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"mouths",
"point men",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople"
],
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"spokesmodels",
"spokeswomen",
"fronts",
"promoters",
"shills",
"communicators",
"sayers",
"talkers",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monster":{
"a strange or horrible and often frightening creature":{
"examples":[
"both children insisted that their parents check under the bed for monsters every night"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesque",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"monstrosity",
"ogre"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ogress",
"Frankenstein",
"b\u00eate noire",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugaboo",
"bugbear",
"banshee",
"bogeyman",
"bogyman",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"fright",
"imp",
"incubus",
"horror",
"terror",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"abnormality",
"freak",
"mutant",
"mutation"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a person, thing, or event that is far from normal":{
"examples":[
"the gardener destroyed all of the monsters that mutated from his tomato plants"
],
"synonyms":[
"abnormality",
"anomaly",
"freak",
"monstrosity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abortion",
"malformation",
"miscreation",
"mutant",
"mutation",
"character",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"kook",
"nut",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"aberrant",
"deviant",
"individualist",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"curiosity",
"peculiarity",
"singularity",
"aberration",
"exception",
"irregularity",
"oddity",
"rarity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sample",
"specimen",
"commonplace",
"usual"
],
"antonyms":[
"average",
"norm",
"normal",
"par",
"standard"
]
},
"a mean, evil, or unprincipled person":{
"examples":[
"the guards at the concentration camps were monsters who enjoyed seeing their victims suffer"
],
"synonyms":[
"baddie",
"baddy",
"beast",
"brute",
"caitiff",
"devil",
"evildoer",
"fiend",
"heavy",
"hound",
"knave",
"meanie",
"meany",
"miscreant",
"nazi",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"savage",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain",
"wretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"villainess",
"blackguard",
"criminal",
"crook",
"culprit",
"felon",
"lawbreaker",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"transgressor",
"sinner",
"trespasser",
"wrongdoer",
"cad",
"heel",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"desperado",
"outlaw",
"con",
"convict",
"jailbird",
"assassin",
"cutthroat",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gunman",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"racketeer",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"rough",
"rowdy",
"tough",
"loser",
"lowlife",
"ne'er-do-well",
"stinker",
"trash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel",
"innocent",
"saint",
"hero"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something large of its kind":{
"examples":[
"a monster of a sandwich that could easily feed two hearty eaters"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoth",
"blockbuster",
"colossus",
"dinosaur",
"dreadnought",
"elephant",
"giant",
"Goliath",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"mastodon",
"titan",
"whale",
"whopper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazon",
"giantess",
"bulk",
"hulk",
"heavyweight",
"juggernaut",
"steamroller"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"wisp",
"nonentity",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"midget",
"mite",
"peewee",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"runt",
"shrimp"
]
},
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"a monster truck competition"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"motherliness":{
"motherly character or qualities":{
"examples":[
"he cherished his foster parent for her motherliness"
],
"synonyms":[
"maternity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nurturance",
"fertileness",
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"productivity",
"richness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mount":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"medical expenses began to mount"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
},
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"the huge amount of money needed to mount an opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry",
"give",
"offer",
"present",
"stage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"parade",
"show",
"show off",
"unveil",
"preview",
"act",
"impersonate",
"perform",
"play",
"portray",
"depict",
"dramatize",
"enact",
"render",
"represent",
"extend",
"proffer",
"tender"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or extend upward":{
"examples":[
"the cable car continues to mount to ever higher terrain until the moment when the entire valley comes into view"
],
"synonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"aspire",
"climb",
"lift",
"rise",
"soar",
"thrust",
"up",
"uprear",
"uprise",
"upthrust",
"upturn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surge",
"tower",
"boost",
"elevate",
"raise",
"upheave",
"uplift",
"upraise",
"balloon",
"blast off",
"take off",
"zoom",
"crest",
"scale",
"surmount",
"top",
"cant",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"recline",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dive",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"sink",
"slide"
],
"antonyms":[
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"drop",
"fall (off)",
"plunge"
]
},
"an elevation of land higher than a hill":{
"examples":[
"Mount Everest"
],
"synonyms":[
"alp",
"hump",
"mountain",
"peak"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cordillera",
"mountain range",
"range",
"sierra",
"inselberg",
"knob",
"seamount",
"aiguille",
"horn",
"mountaintop",
"pinnacle",
"summit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basin",
"bowl",
"depression",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"examples":[
"hammered together a mount for the cameras"
],
"synonyms":[
"brace",
"buttress",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"support",
"underpinning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"molestations":{
"as in offenses , tortures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggros",
"offenses",
"offences",
"persecutions",
"provocations",
"torments",
"tortures",
"aggravations",
"annoyances",
"bedevilments",
"botherations",
"disturbances",
"harassments",
"importunities",
"vexations",
"devilments",
"devilries",
"deviltries",
"mischiefs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mouse":{
"as in coward , pussy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coward",
"milquetoast",
"nebbish",
"nervous Nellie",
"nervous Nelly",
"pussy",
"wuss",
"wussy",
"doormat",
"jellyfish",
"namby-pamby",
"pushover",
"reed",
"weakling",
"wimp",
"sheep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stalwart",
"mensch"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in iceberg , cold fish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cold fish",
"iceberg",
"icicle",
"introvert",
"shrinking violet",
"wallflower"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extrovert",
"extravert"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mooch",
"pussyfoot",
"shirk",
"skulk",
"slide",
"slink",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"edge",
"inch",
"worm",
"ghost",
"pad",
"tiptoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mollifications":{
"as in decreases , mitigations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasements",
"assuagements",
"decreases",
"diminishments",
"mitigations",
"moderations",
"alleviations",
"comforts",
"eases",
"releases",
"reliefs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discomforts",
"agonies",
"anguishes",
"miseries",
"sufferings",
"torments",
"tortures",
"aches",
"pains",
"pangs",
"pricks",
"smarts",
"stings",
"stitches",
"throes",
"tingles",
"twinges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mottles":{
"a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part":{
"examples":[
"canvases covered with streaks and mottles"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotches",
"dapples",
"dots",
"eyespots",
"flecks",
"patches",
"pips",
"points",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"birthmarks",
"freckles",
"moles",
"blobs",
"blots",
"marks",
"smears",
"smudges",
"smutches",
"stains",
"spatters",
"splashes",
"polka dots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to mark with small spots especially unevenly":{
"examples":[
"old papers that were mottled by mold"
],
"synonyms":[
"blotches",
"dapples",
"dots",
"flecks",
"freckles",
"marbles",
"peppers",
"shoots",
"speckles",
"specks",
"splotches",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"stipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blots",
"dyes",
"stains",
"bands",
"bars",
"streaks",
"stripes",
"intersperses",
"sets",
"studs",
"bespatters",
"spatters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monographs":{
"as in tracts , treatises":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tracts",
"treatises",
"articles",
"compositions",
"essays",
"papers",
"themes",
"discourses",
"discussions",
"expositions",
"prolegomena",
"studies",
"primers",
"textbooks",
"texts",
"causeries",
"columns",
"commentaries",
"editorials",
"features",
"reports",
"reviews",
"write-ups",
"dissertations",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mod cons":{
"something that adds to one's ease of living":{
"examples":[
"bedrooms at the English country inn are filled with 18th-century charm, while the bathrooms have all the mod cons that 21st-century tourists demand"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodations",
"amenities",
"comforts",
"conveniences",
"creature comforts",
"luxuries",
"niceties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonuses",
"extras",
"benefits",
"help",
"services",
"anodynes",
"solaces",
"delights",
"indulgences",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"burdens",
"millstones",
"weights"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mosques":{
"a building that is used for Muslim religious services":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pagodas",
"shuls",
"synagogues",
"synagogs",
"churches",
"kirks",
"tabernacles",
"temples",
"abbeys",
"bethels",
"cathedrals",
"chapels",
"minsters",
"missions",
"oratories",
"sanctuaries",
"shrines",
"meetinghouses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moms":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"be sure to tell your mom and dad that you'll be home late for supper"
],
"synonyms":[
"mamas",
"mammas",
"mommas",
"mammies",
"mas",
"maters",
"mommies",
"mothers",
"old ladies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamiliases",
"matriarchs",
"matrons",
"stepmothers",
"supermoms",
"superwomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moping":{
"as in brooding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brooding",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perverse",
"pettish",
"petulant",
"prickly",
"quick-tempered",
"raspy",
"ratty",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snappy",
"snarky",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"testy",
"waspish",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"disagreeable",
"dyspeptic",
"ill-humored",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"ornery",
"dour",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"huffy",
"sensitive",
"temperamental",
"tetchy",
"thin-skinned",
"touchy",
"glum",
"mopey",
"pouting",
"pouty",
"sulky",
"sullen",
"surly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sociable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gladsome",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"perky",
"sunny",
"carefree",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"we were in a rush, and the Sunday driver in front of us was just moping along"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"she's been moping all weekend because her boyfriend hasn't called even once"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumping",
"pouting",
"sulking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brooding",
"dwelling (on)",
"mulling (over)",
"musing (over)",
"pondering",
"frowning",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"carrying on",
"taking on",
"petting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"moldering":{
"as in rotting , decaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"mildewy",
"moldy",
"putrefying",
"putrescent",
"rotting",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"gangrenous",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"putrid",
"rotten",
"spoiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undecomposed",
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fermentation , curdling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"curdling",
"fermentation",
"souring",
"crumbling",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"breakdown",
"corruption",
"decay",
"decomposition",
"festering",
"putrefaction",
"putrescence",
"rot",
"spoilage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"growth",
"maturation",
"ripening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"leaves moldering in the compost pile"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"moonshines":{
"illegally produced liquor":{
"examples":[
"during Prohibition, moonshine and \"bathtub gin\" were made secretly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootlegs",
"mountain dews",
"white lightnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gins",
"red-eyes",
"rotguts",
"alcohols",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"potables",
"rums",
"spirits",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"serving all sorts of moonshine at the bar"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohols",
"aqua vitaes",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"bottles",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"inebriants",
"intoxicants",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"liquors",
"lushes",
"potables",
"rums",
"sauces",
"spirits",
"stimulants",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aperitifs",
"bracers",
"chasers",
"digestifs",
"nightcaps",
"belts",
"loads",
"nips",
"pegs",
"pops",
"shooters",
"shots",
"slugs",
"snifters",
"snorts",
"tots",
"whets",
"cocktails",
"mixed drinks",
"ales",
"beers",
"brewages",
"brews",
"brewskis",
"home brews",
"malt liquors",
"microbrews",
"mums",
"nappies",
"meads",
"sakes",
"sakis",
"wines",
"barley-brees",
"barley-broos",
"brandies",
"gins",
"liqueurs",
"mao-tais",
"mescals",
"schnapps",
"tequilas",
"vodkas",
"whiskeys",
"whiskies",
"Dutch courages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mollycoddled":{
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"refused to mollycoddle her malingering son and sent him off to school"
],
"synonyms":[
"babied",
"cockered",
"coddled",
"cosseted",
"dandled",
"indulged",
"nursed",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"wet-nursed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"contented",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"mothered",
"obliged",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"soothed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"disciplined",
"restrained",
"oppressed",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"molested",
"outraged",
"violated",
"harassed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"victimized"
],
"antonyms":[
"abused",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"mishandled",
"mistreated",
"misused"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mouthing":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"when her mother told her to mind, the little girl mouthed insolently and rolled her eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"grimacing",
"mugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouting",
"contorting",
"deforming",
"twisting",
"warping",
"frowning",
"glaring",
"glooming",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"gaping",
"gazing",
"ogling",
"staring",
"growling",
"snarling",
"sneering",
"simpering",
"smirking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"grinning",
"smiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"the prompter mouthed the forgotten words under his breath"
],
"synonyms":[
"chuntering",
"grunting",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbling",
"blabbing",
"chattering",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattling",
"rambling",
"breathing",
"gasping",
"panting",
"whispering",
"buzzing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking out",
"speaking up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moggy":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"an unattached schoolteacher who lives in a London flat with a moggy as her only companion"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat",
"feline",
"house cat",
"kitty",
"puss",
"pussy",
"pussycat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mouser",
"kit",
"kitten",
"alley cat",
"tabby",
"gib",
"tomcat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moralizing":{
"marked by or given to preaching moral values":{
"examples":[
"I found the novel's moralizing tone a bit much for beach reading"
],
"synonyms":[
"didactic",
"homiletic",
"homiletical",
"moralistic",
"preachy",
"sententious",
"sermonic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"prescriptive",
"admonishing",
"admonitory",
"cautionary",
"advisory",
"enlightening",
"instructive",
"holier-than-thou",
"self-righteous"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in preaching , pontificating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pontificating",
"preaching",
"interference",
"kibitzing",
"kibbitzing",
"meddling",
"exhortation",
"lecture",
"lesson",
"sermon",
"speech",
"assistance",
"briefing",
"coaching",
"direction",
"instruction",
"mentoring",
"priming",
"prompting",
"teaching",
"tutoring",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"observation",
"verdict",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"alert",
"caution",
"cautioning",
"expostulation",
"forewarning",
"remonstrance",
"remonstration",
"urging",
"warning",
"advisement",
"consideration",
"thought",
"answer",
"solution",
"data",
"feedback",
"information",
"hint",
"pointer",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in preaching , lecturing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catechizing",
"lecturing",
"preaching",
"directing",
"guiding",
"leading",
"rearing",
"implanting",
"inculcating",
"instilling",
"drilling",
"fitting",
"grounding",
"habilitating",
"preparing",
"priming",
"qualifying",
"homeschooling",
"coaching",
"mentoring",
"edifying",
"enlightening",
"educating",
"indoctrinating",
"instructing",
"lessoning",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tutoring",
"briefing",
"familiarizing",
"imparting (to)",
"informing",
"versing",
"initiating",
"introducing",
"showing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mouthing (down)":{
"as in swallowing , downing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"digesting",
"downing",
"swallowing",
"consuming",
"eating",
"ingesting",
"partaking (of)",
"putting away",
"putting down",
"tucking (away or in)",
"bolting",
"chowing (down on)",
"devouring",
"glutting (on)",
"gobbling (up or down)",
"gorging",
"gulping",
"scoffing",
"slopping",
"snarfing (down)",
"swilling",
"wolfing",
"chewing",
"gnawing (at or on)",
"gumming",
"lapping",
"licking",
"nibbling (on)",
"nursing",
"picking (at)",
"relishing",
"savoring",
"savouring",
"tasting",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"faring",
"feasting",
"gormandizing",
"pigging out",
"regaling",
"dispatching",
"polishing off",
"breakfasting",
"lunching",
"supping",
"munching",
"noshing",
"snacking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monarchs":{
"one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority":{
"examples":[
"the ruling monarch of Britain at that time was Queen Elizabeth I"
],
"synonyms":[
"autocrats",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"corulers",
"co-rulers",
"Caesars",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"emirs",
"amirs",
"ameers",
"emperors",
"empresses",
"kaisers",
"khans",
"khedives",
"kings",
"lords",
"mikados",
"moguls",
"princes",
"queens",
"satraps",
"shahs",
"sultans",
"suzerains",
"authoritarians",
"Big Brothers",
"despots",
"dictators",
"f\u00fchrers",
"fuehrers",
"monocrats",
"overlords",
"paramounts",
"tyrants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field":{
"examples":[
"the glitzy gala was attended by most of the reigning monarchs of the recording industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"barons",
"captains",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"lords",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"Napoleons",
"princes",
"tycoons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"figures",
"heavies",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"main men",
"movers and shakers",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"notables",
"personages",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"supremos",
"VIPs",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"stars",
"superstars",
"deities",
"demigods",
"gods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pints",
"lightweights",
"small-timers",
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"nobodies",
"zeros",
"zeroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mobilized":{
"to assemble and make ready for action":{
"examples":[
"we are prepared to mobilize the troops on very short notice"
],
"synonyms":[
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"mustered",
"rallied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arranged",
"grouped",
"lined up",
"ordered",
"organized",
"called (up)",
"convened",
"summoned",
"activated",
"collected",
"rounded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranged",
"disordered",
"disorganized",
"disrupted",
"disturbed",
"deactivated",
"dismissed",
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dissolved",
"split (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"demobbed",
"demobilized"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"molested":{
"as in violated , outraged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outraged",
"violated",
"abused",
"brutalized",
"bullied",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"kicked around",
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"messed over",
"mishandled",
"mistreated",
"misused",
"harassed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"burned",
"burnt",
"sandbagged",
"victimized",
"wronged",
"beat (up)",
"messed (up)",
"roughed (up)",
"worked (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"cherished",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"babied",
"catered (to)",
"coddled",
"favored",
"gratified",
"humored",
"indulged",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mooting":{
"to present or bring forward for discussion":{
"examples":[
"conservatives had shouted down the proposal when it was first mooted"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringing up",
"broaching",
"introducing",
"placing",
"raising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluding (to)",
"citing",
"mentioning",
"naming",
"referring (to)",
"offering",
"proposing",
"suggesting",
"airing",
"expressing",
"speaking (of)",
"talking (about)",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"interjecting",
"interrupting",
"debating",
"discussing",
"thrashing (out or over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"hushing (up)",
"quieting",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion":{
"examples":[
"the issue of whether a person's nature or upbringing is more important continues to be mooted by experts and laymen alike"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"arguing",
"bandying",
"batting (around or back and forth)",
"canvassing",
"canvasing",
"debating",
"discussing",
"disputing",
"hashing (over or out)",
"talking over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reviewing",
"speaking (about)",
"talking (about)",
"broaching",
"introducing",
"propounding",
"raising",
"stirring up",
"forging",
"hammering out",
"talking out",
"thrashing (out)",
"wrestling (with)",
"chewing over",
"considering",
"deliberating",
"weighing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mostly":{
"for the most part":{
"examples":[
"the weather this month has been mostly mild"
],
"synonyms":[
"altogether",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially"
],
"near synonyms":[
"about",
"more or less",
"most",
"much",
"near",
"nearly",
"next to",
"nigh",
"practically",
"some",
"virtually",
"well-nigh",
"approximately",
"broadly",
"plus or minus",
"roughly",
"commonly",
"frequently",
"normally",
"ordinarily",
"typically",
"usually",
"incompletely",
"partially",
"partly",
"rather",
"somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"perfectly",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"wholly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"unqualifiedly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"momentousness":{
"the quality or state of being important":{
"examples":[
"no one could fail to realize the momentousness of the occasion"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"moment",
"significance",
"weight",
"weightiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celebrity",
"distinction",
"eminence",
"fame",
"note",
"noteworthiness",
"notoriety",
"preeminence",
"prominence",
"renown",
"store",
"substance",
"substantiveness",
"value",
"worth",
"worthiness",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"authority",
"control",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"potency",
"power",
"sway",
"mark",
"name",
"report",
"reputation",
"repute",
"centrality",
"essentiality",
"essentialness",
"cachet",
"position",
"prestige",
"rank",
"standing",
"stature",
"status",
"glory",
"greatness",
"honor",
"illustriousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paltriness",
"pettiness",
"valuelessness",
"worthlessness",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"disrepute",
"ignominy",
"infamy",
"odium",
"opprobrium",
"shame",
"anonymity",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"insignificance",
"littleness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"smallness",
"triviality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mops":{
"as in washes , brushes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushes",
"combs",
"dry-cleans",
"dusts",
"launders",
"mucks (out)",
"rinses",
"scours",
"scrubs",
"shampoos",
"sponges",
"swabs",
"sweeps",
"vacuums",
"washes",
"wipes",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"deterges",
"GIs",
"turns out",
"decontaminates",
"purges",
"purifies",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes",
"brightens",
"deodorizes",
"freshens",
"spruces (up)",
"sweetens",
"picks up",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies",
"unclutters"
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"begrimes",
"muddies",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"blackens",
"discolors",
"besmirches",
"dirties",
"fouls",
"soils",
"spots",
"stains",
"sullies"
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},
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"verb"
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"a building that is used for Muslim religious services":{
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"pagoda",
"shul",
"synagogue",
"synagog",
"church",
"kirk",
"tabernacle",
"temple",
"abbey",
"bethel",
"cathedral",
"chapel",
"minster",
"mission",
"oratory",
"sanctuary",
"shrine",
"meetinghouse"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"serving or likely to arouse action or activity":{
"examples":[
"The biggest motivating factor behind her decision to change jobs was the pay increase.",
"The positive feedback he received was very motivating ."
],
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"inspirational",
"inspiring",
"motivational",
"motivative",
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"energizing",
"galvanizing",
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"vitalizing",
"angering",
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"maddening",
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"annoying",
"bothersome",
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"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"pesky",
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"vexing",
"explosive",
"fiery",
"incendiary",
"inflammatory",
"triggering",
"charged",
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"instigating",
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"piquing",
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"stimulating"
],
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"subduing",
"noninflammatory"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"The presence of treats motivated the dogs to obey their owner's commands.",
"They drove a campaign to motivate voters to show up to the polls."
],
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"arousing",
"encouraging",
"exciting",
"firing (up)",
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"inciting",
"instigating",
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"provoking",
"revving (up)",
"sparking",
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"stirring",
"activating",
"animating",
"driving",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"inducing",
"inspiring",
"keying (up)",
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"propelling",
"pumping up",
"quickening",
"setting off",
"vitalizing",
"forcing",
"impelling",
"alluring",
"baiting",
"beguiling",
"bribing",
"enticing",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"tempting",
"goading",
"persuading",
"fanning",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"triggering",
"abetting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"raising",
"whipping (up)",
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"annoying",
"bothering",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"irritating",
"vexing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting"
],
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"calming",
"soothing",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"monochromatic":{
"having or consisting of a single color":{
"examples":[
"although marble and bronze sculptures are monochromatic , they can be amazingly lifelike"
],
"synonyms":[
"monochrome",
"monochromic",
"self",
"self-colored",
"solid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"achromatic",
"neutral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dappled",
"dapple",
"marbled",
"shaded",
"mottled",
"parti-color",
"parti-colored",
"piebald",
"pied",
"pinto",
"skewbald",
"banded",
"barred",
"brindled",
"brindle",
"streaked",
"striated",
"checkered",
"dotted",
"patterned",
"plaid",
"striped",
"flecked",
"specked",
"speckled",
"spotted",
"bichrome",
"bicolored",
"bicolor",
"dichromatic",
"trichromatic",
"tricolor",
"tricolored",
"two-tone"
],
"antonyms":[
"chromatic",
"colorful",
"kaleidoscopic",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"varied",
"variegated"
]
},
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"a monochromatic portrayal of a hero seemingly without flaws or even distinctive traits"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mountain men":{
"as in woodsmen , bushrangers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bushrangers",
"woodsmen",
"explorers",
"pathfinders",
"trailblazers",
"colonials",
"colonists",
"colonizers",
"frontiersmen",
"homesteaders",
"pioneers",
"settlers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monorails":{
"as in rails , roads":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"railroads",
"rails",
"railways",
"roads",
"elevated railroads",
"elevateds",
"els"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mousetrapping":{
"as in trapping , ensnaring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"ensnaring",
"entrapping",
"netting",
"snaring",
"trapping",
"charging",
"sallying",
"hunting",
"preying (on or upon)",
"stalking",
"jumping",
"mugging",
"pouncing (on)",
"tackling",
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"storming",
"striking",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modulations":{
"as in regulations , adjustments":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adjustments",
"regulations",
"tweaks",
"amendments",
"corrections",
"rectifications",
"reforms",
"changeovers",
"conversions",
"deformations",
"distortions",
"metamorphoses",
"mutations",
"reconstructions",
"reconversions",
"transfigurations",
"transformations",
"fluctuations",
"oscillations",
"shifts",
"displacements",
"replacements",
"substitutions",
"redesigns",
"redos",
"alterations",
"changes",
"differences",
"modifications",
"reformations",
"reviews",
"revises",
"revisions",
"variations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixations",
"stabilizations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"more or less":{
"very close to but not completely":{
"examples":[
"the lot is 16 acres more or less"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"all but",
"almost",
"borderline",
"fair",
"fairly",
"feckly",
"most",
"much",
"near",
"nearly",
"next to",
"nigh",
"practically",
"somewhere",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciably",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"largely",
"mainly",
"mostly",
"kind of",
"partially",
"partly",
"somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"plain",
"plumb",
"quite",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to some degree or extent":{
"examples":[
"most couples in the survey said that they were more or less happy in their marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"enough",
"fairly",
"kind of",
"kindly",
"like",
"moderately",
"pretty",
"quite",
"rather",
"relatively",
"something",
"somewhat",
"sort of"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptably",
"decently",
"passably",
"tolerably",
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"vaguely",
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"partway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awfully",
"beastly",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extremely",
"frightfully",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"mightily",
"mortally",
"particularly",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"very",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"close to but not exactly":{
"examples":[
"the box weighs 60 pounds more or less"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"approximately",
"around",
"like",
"much",
"near",
"plus or minus",
"roughly",
"say",
"some"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generally",
"kind of",
"loosely",
"nearly",
"nominally",
"practically",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
],
"near antonyms":[
"due",
"even",
"just",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely"
],
"antonyms":[
"exactly",
"precisely"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"modular":{
"having parts that can be connected or combined in different ways":{
"examples":[
"In many offices, desks are separated by modular walls that can be moved around."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adjustable",
"flexible",
"mobile",
"movable",
"portable",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"motile",
"moving",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"manageable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immotile",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"motionless",
"moveless",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"stuck",
"wedged",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"steadfast",
"immobile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmobile",
"unmovable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"motorists":{
"a person who travels by automobile":{
"examples":[
"environmental organizations suggest that motorists get together and carpool to avoid adding to pollution levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobilists",
"drivers",
"wheelmen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"operators",
"codrivers",
"co-drivers",
"chauffeurs",
"carpoolers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motherhood":{
"as in maternity , mothering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"maternity",
"mothering",
"fatherhood",
"fathering",
"paternity",
"caregiving",
"caretaking",
"raising",
"rearing",
"upbringing",
"parenthood",
"parenting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mollycoddle":{
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"refused to mollycoddle her malingering son and sent him off to school"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"cocker",
"coddle",
"cosset",
"dandle",
"indulge",
"nurse",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"wet-nurse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"content",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"mother",
"oblige",
"please",
"satisfy",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"soothe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"control",
"discipline",
"restrain",
"oppress",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"slight",
"molest",
"outrage",
"violate",
"harass",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"torment",
"torture",
"victimize"
],
"antonyms":[
"abuse",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"mishandle",
"mistreat",
"misuse"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motioned":{
"to direct or notify by a movement or gesture":{
"examples":[
"the referee motioned the team captains to confer with him on the sideline"
],
"synonyms":[
"beckoned",
"flagged",
"gestured",
"signaled",
"signalled",
"waved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodded",
"gesticulated",
"mimed",
"pantomimed",
"signed",
"signalized",
"acquainted",
"advised",
"informed",
"related",
"told",
"flourished",
"shrugged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mobile homes":{
"as in house trailers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"house trailers",
"campers",
"caravans",
"motor homes",
"recreational vehicles",
"RVs",
"trailers",
"coaches",
"vans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monkhoods":{
"as in priesthoods , clerkships":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clerkships",
"priesthoods",
"diaconates",
"episcopates",
"hierarchies",
"presbyteries",
"churches",
"clergies",
"cloths",
"first estates",
"ministries",
"spiritualities",
"spiritualties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"laities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motor ships":{
"as in aircraft carriers , merchant ships":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carriers",
"argosies",
"barges",
"coasters",
"colliers",
"containerships",
"corvettes",
"cruisers",
"cutters",
"destroyers",
"ferryboats",
"flagships",
"freighters",
"icebreakers",
"ironclads",
"lightships",
"liners",
"men-of-war",
"men-o'-war",
"merchantmen",
"merchant ships",
"packets",
"steamers",
"steamships",
"superliners",
"supertankers",
"tankers",
"traders",
"tramps",
"transports",
"warships",
"watercrafts",
"boats",
"keels",
"ships",
"vessels",
"barks",
"barques",
"brigantines",
"brigs",
"caravels",
"clippers",
"junk",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"square-riggers",
"tall ships",
"windjammers",
"xebecs",
"yachts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moody":{
"frequently influenced by moods and especially bad moods":{
"examples":[
"teenagers are often both moody and changeable"
],
"synonyms":[
"temperamental"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"freakish",
"impulsive",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"uncertain",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile",
"whimsical",
"pouty",
"sulky",
"choleric",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"cross",
"crotchety",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"quick-tempered",
"short-tempered",
"snappish",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"testy",
"waspish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equable",
"even",
"immutable",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable",
"changeless",
"constant",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mopes":{
"a state or spell of low spirits":{
"examples":[
"he's got the mopes because his girlfriend is mad at him"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolation",
"despond",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"dolefulness",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"miserableness",
"mournfulness",
"oppression",
"sadness",
"sorrowfulness",
"unhappiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"melancholia",
"self-pity",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"mourning",
"somberness",
"sorrow",
"woefulness",
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"moodiness",
"despair",
"desperation",
"hopelessness",
"self-despair",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"tedium",
"dismalness",
"drear",
"morbidness",
"moroseness",
"morosity",
"regret",
"rue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"satisfaction",
"delight",
"gratification"
],
"antonyms":[
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"happiness",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"we were in a rush, and the Sunday driver in front of us was just moping along"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"to silently go about in a bad mood":{
"examples":[
"she's been moping all weekend because her boyfriend hasn't called even once"
],
"synonyms":[
"grumps",
"pouts",
"sulks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broods",
"dwells (on)",
"mulls (over)",
"muses (over)",
"ponders",
"frowns",
"glowers",
"lowers",
"lours",
"scowls",
"carries on",
"takes on",
"pets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun",
"verb"
]
},
"moseyed":{
"to walk or move in a slow and relaxed way":{
"examples":[
"I think I'll mosey on over to the post office and see if the mail has come in yet.",
"He moseyed up to the bar."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambled",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"wandered",
"ambulated",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"legged (it)",
"padded",
"stepped",
"traipsed",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked",
"paraded",
"promenaded",
"marched",
"paced",
"stepped out",
"strode",
"trooped",
"power walked",
"hiked",
"peregrinated",
"trekked",
"clumped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"trampled",
"tromped",
"footslogged",
"plodded",
"trudged",
"gimped",
"hobbled",
"limped",
"minced",
"pranced",
"pussyfooted",
"tiptoed",
"bounced",
"sashayed",
"stalked",
"strutted",
"swaggered",
"faltered",
"lumbered",
"lurched",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"toddled",
"waddled",
"nipped",
"tapped",
"tripped",
"trotted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"momenta":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"the former president's endorsement was all the momentum the campaign needed"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosts",
"encouragements",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"impulses",
"incentives",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"motivations",
"provocations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"yeasts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducements",
"invitations",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"grounds",
"motives",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"fuels",
"sparks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moveless":{
"as in static , stationary":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"motionless",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"immobile",
"immotile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"unbudging",
"unmovable",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"steadfast",
"stuck",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mobile",
"motile",
"movable",
"moveable",
"moving",
"portable",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monarchal":{
"fit for or worthy of a royal ruler":{
"examples":[
"a singing superstar with a monarchal haughtiness that drives her assistants crazy"
],
"synonyms":[
"kingly",
"monarchical",
"monarchic",
"princely",
"queenly",
"regal",
"royal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"baronial",
"imperial",
"lordly",
"noble",
"patrician",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imposing",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"monumental",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mottos":{
"a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group":{
"examples":[
"\"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst\" is my motto .",
"The Scout motto is \"Be prepared.\""
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"axioms",
"precepts",
"truisms",
"truths",
"adages",
"aphorisms",
"apothegms",
"bywords",
"epigrams",
"maxims",
"proverbs",
"saws",
"sayings",
"sententiae",
"words",
"bromides",
"clich\u00e9s",
"cliches",
"commonplaces",
"platitudes",
"wheezes",
"expressions",
"felicities",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"comments",
"notes",
"reflections",
"remarks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortician":{
"a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation":{
"examples":[
"the mortician will take care of all of the arrangements for the funeral"
],
"synonyms":[
"funeral director",
"undertaker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embalmer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mold":{
"the loose surface material in which plants naturally grow":{
"examples":[
"mold so rich that just about anything will grow in it"
],
"synonyms":[
"clod",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"soil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackland",
"clay",
"gault",
"gley",
"guck",
"gook",
"gumbo",
"kaolin",
"muck",
"mud",
"dust",
"gravel",
"sand",
"humus",
"loam",
"topsoil",
"alluvium",
"colluvium",
"detritus",
"loess",
"marl",
"sediment",
"shingle",
"silt",
"duff",
"mull",
"subsoil",
"substratum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"plants molding in the abandoned garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"corrupt",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"fester",
"foul",
"molder",
"perish",
"putrefy",
"rot",
"spoil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sour",
"turn",
"turn off",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"addle",
"curdle",
"ferment",
"mortify",
"rust",
"crumble",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"dilapidate",
"sink",
"wither"
],
"near antonyms":[
"age",
"develop",
"grow",
"mature",
"ripen",
"refresh",
"renew",
"restore",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"assemble",
"compose",
"integrate",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"meliorate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mounding":{
"to form into a pile or ridge of earth":{
"examples":[
"mound the mulch around the plants"
],
"synonyms":[
"banking",
"hilling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heaping",
"piling",
"pyramiding",
"stacking",
"embanking",
"bunching",
"bundling",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"massing",
"wadding",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"conglomerating",
"gathering",
"grouping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat"
],
"synonyms":[
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banking",
"layering",
"pyramiding",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"massing",
"bunching",
"clumping",
"lumping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moving pictures":{
"a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track":{
"examples":[
"in the 20th century moving pictures became an important form of artistic expression"
],
"synonyms":[
"films",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"motion pictures",
"movies",
"pictures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoons",
"cartoons",
"docudramas",
"documentaries",
"features",
"featurettes",
"shorts",
"short subjects",
"silents",
"talkies",
"B movies",
"B pictures",
"cofeatures",
"co-features"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moralists":{
"a person who is greatly concerned with seemly behavior and morality especially regarding sexual matters":{
"examples":[
"a smattering of moralists around the country tried to get the songs banned from the radio"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluenoses",
"Mrs. Grundys",
"nice nellies",
"prudes",
"puritans",
"wowsers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moralizers",
"goody-goodies",
"fuddy-duddies",
"old maids",
"prigs",
"spoilsports",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"libertarians",
"libertines",
"misbehavers"
],
"antonyms":[
"immoralists"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moons":{
"a long or seemingly long period of time":{
"examples":[
"we've been planning this big event for many moons"
],
"synonyms":[
"aeons",
"eons",
"ages",
"blue moons",
"coon's ages",
"cycles",
"donkey's years",
"eternities",
"forevers",
"longs",
"months"
],
"near synonyms":[
"infinities",
"lifetimes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flashes",
"instants",
"jiffies",
"minutes",
"moments",
"seconds",
"shakes",
"split seconds",
"trices",
"twinkles",
"twinklings",
"winks",
"microseconds",
"nanoseconds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mossbacks":{
"a person with old-fashioned ideas":{
"examples":[
"those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed"
],
"synonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"fuds",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"Tories",
"mandarins",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"old maids"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberals",
"progressives",
"radicals"
],
"antonyms":[
"hipsters",
"moderns",
"trendies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motorcades":{
"a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management":{
"examples":[
"the next part of the parade was a motorcade of fire engines"
],
"synonyms":[
"armadas",
"caravans",
"cavalcades",
"fleets",
"lines",
"trains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argosies",
"convoys",
"flotillas",
"navies",
"columns",
"corteges",
"cort\u00e8ges",
"parades",
"processions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motherland":{
"a place of origin":{
"examples":[
"for many oenophiles, France remains the motherland of fine wines"
],
"synonyms":[
"birthplace",
"cradle",
"home",
"mother country"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hometown",
"Blighty",
"country",
"nativity",
"old country",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship":{
"examples":[
"all his life he longed to return to his motherland"
],
"synonyms":[
"country",
"fatherland",
"home",
"homeland",
"mother country",
"sod"
],
"near synonyms":[
"old country",
"community",
"neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monosyllabic":{
"marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning":{
"examples":[
"the sullen teenager would give only a monosyllabic response to even the friendliest question"
],
"synonyms":[
"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"pithy",
"sententious",
"succinct",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"short",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"meaty",
"substantial",
"meaningful",
"significant",
"well-turned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pleonastic",
"redundant",
"repetitious",
"tautological",
"tautologous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"inflated"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monologists":{
"as in prima donnas , leading ladies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"leading ladies",
"leading men",
"leads",
"stars",
"prima donnas",
"scene-stealers",
"barnstormers",
"enactors",
"entertainers",
"performers",
"coactors",
"co-actors",
"costars",
"co-stars",
"tragedians",
"tragediennes",
"extras",
"spear-carriers",
"supernumeraries",
"walk-ons",
"actresses",
"starlets",
"doubles",
"understudies",
"comedians",
"farceurs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motleys":{
"a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks":{
"examples":[
"the motleys with their colorful outfits"
],
"synonyms":[
"fools",
"jesters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"comedians",
"comediennes",
"comics",
"cutups",
"drolls",
"harlequins",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"madcaps",
"merry-andrews",
"vices",
"wags",
"zanies",
"mimes",
"mummers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a motley of old junk stored in the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"agglomerations",
"alphabet soups",
"assortments",
"botches",
"clutters",
"collages",
"crazy quilts",
"farragoes",
"gallimaufries",
"grab bags",
"gumbos",
"hashes",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jambalayas",
"jumbles",
"jungles",
"litters",
"mac\u00e9doines",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"menageries",
"miscellanea",
"miscellanies",
"mishmashes",
"mixed bags",
"montages",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"rummages",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties",
"welters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"catchalls",
"admixtures",
"alloys",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"commixtures",
"composites",
"compounds",
"fusions",
"intermixtures",
"mix-ups",
"bollixes",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"dog's breakfasts",
"messes",
"morasses",
"shambles",
"imbroglios",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moues":{
"a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"a moue of distaste at the display of bad manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"faces",
"frowns",
"grimaces",
"lowers",
"lours",
"mouths",
"mows",
"mugs",
"pouts",
"scowls",
"snoots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flinches",
"squinches",
"winces",
"growls",
"snarls",
"rictuses",
"simpers",
"smirks",
"scoffs",
"sneers",
"glares",
"glowers",
"looks",
"stares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grins",
"laughs",
"smiles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monotheisms":{
"as in paganisms , polytheisms":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deisms",
"heathenisms",
"paganisms",
"pantheisms",
"polytheisms",
"theisms",
"doctrines",
"dogmas",
"dogmata",
"theologies",
"churches",
"communions",
"denominations",
"sects",
"credos",
"creeds",
"cults",
"faiths",
"persuasions",
"religions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agnosticism",
"know-nothingisms",
"atheisms",
"nonbeliefs",
"secularisms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mossback":{
"a person with old-fashioned ideas":{
"examples":[
"those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed"
],
"synonyms":[
"antediluvian",
"Colonel Blimp",
"dodo",
"fogy",
"fogey",
"fossil",
"fud",
"fuddy-duddy",
"reactionary",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"stuffed shirt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservative",
"rightist",
"Tory",
"mandarin",
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"veteran",
"old maid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberal",
"progressive",
"radical"
],
"antonyms":[
"hipster",
"modern",
"trendy"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morocco":{
"as in goatskin , calfskin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortals":{
"a member of the human race":{
"examples":[
"just an ordinary mortal living an ordinary life"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"beings",
"birds",
"bodies",
"bods",
"characters",
"cookies",
"creatures",
"customers",
"devils",
"ducks",
"eggs",
"faces",
"fish",
"fishes",
"guys",
"heads",
"human beings",
"humans",
"individuals",
"lives",
"men",
"parties",
"people",
"personages",
"scouts",
"slobs",
"sorts",
"souls",
"specimens",
"stiffs",
"things",
"wights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hominids",
"homos",
"humanoids",
"brothers",
"brethren",
"fellowmen",
"fellows",
"neighbors",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"selves",
"somebodies"
],
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"animals",
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"critters"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monkeyed (with)":{
"to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously":{
"examples":[
"don't monkey with that broken lawnmower"
],
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"diddled (with)",
"fiddled (with)",
"fooled (with)",
"messed (with)",
"played (with)",
"tampered (with)",
"tinkered (with)",
"toyed (with)",
"twiddled (with)"
],
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"abused",
"altered",
"doctored",
"manhandled",
"manipulated",
"mistreated",
"misused",
"butted in",
"interfered",
"intruded",
"meddled",
"mucked (about or around)"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monodramas":{
"as in comedies , tragedies":{
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"near synonyms":[
"comedies",
"comedy dramas",
"docudramas",
"dramedies",
"melodramas",
"musical comedies",
"musicals",
"psychodramas",
"tragedies",
"tragicomedies",
"interludes",
"playlets",
"magnum opuses",
"opera",
"opuses",
"works",
"dramas",
"dramatizations",
"plays",
"adaptations"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mob":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"a mob of pigeons soon flocked around us after they spied the bread crumbs"
],
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"army",
"bike",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mass",
"multitude",
"press",
"rout",
"scrum",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
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"masses",
"millions",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff",
"gaggle",
"heap",
"mountain",
"pile",
"jam",
"logjam"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a group involved in secret or criminal activities":{
"examples":[
"the club owner was accused of having connections with a mob of racketeers"
],
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"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"crew",
"gang",
"Mafia",
"ring",
"syndicate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunch",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"coven",
"crowd",
"gal\u00e8re",
"lot",
"network",
"pack",
"set",
"junta",
"oligarchy"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"political speeches designed to appeal to the mob"
],
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"commoners",
"commons",
"crowd",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"mass",
"millions",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cattle",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"riffraff",
"rout",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentility",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"gentry",
"haute monde",
"nobility",
"patriciate",
"peerage",
"quality",
"royalty",
"society"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"upper crust"
]
},
"to move upon or fill (something) in great numbers":{
"examples":[
"the snack bar was mobbed as soon as the meeting was over"
],
"synonyms":[
"crowd",
"flock",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beset",
"infest",
"invade",
"overrun",
"clog",
"dam",
"jam",
"obstruct",
"plug (up)"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monodies":{
"as in elegiacs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elegiacs",
"taps",
"dirges",
"elegies",
"laments",
"requiems",
"threnodies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"encomiums",
"encomia",
"eulogies",
"paeans",
"panegyrics"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"most":{
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"a most careful driver, especially in bad weather"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
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"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"very close to but not completely":{
"examples":[
"the cost of most everything is higher nowadays"
],
"synonyms":[
"about",
"all but",
"almost",
"borderline",
"fair",
"fairly",
"feckly",
"more or less",
"much",
"near",
"nearly",
"next to",
"nigh",
"practically",
"somewhere",
"virtually",
"well-nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciably",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"largely",
"mainly",
"mostly",
"kind of",
"partially",
"partly",
"somewhat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"entirely",
"fully",
"plain",
"plumb",
"quite",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"well",
"wholly",
"barely",
"hardly",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"of the greatest or highest degree or quantity":{
"examples":[
"the player with the most ability on the tennis team"
],
"synonyms":[
"consummate",
"last",
"max",
"maximum",
"nth",
"outside",
"paramount",
"supreme",
"top",
"ultimate",
"utmost",
"uttermost"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unrivaled",
"unrivalled",
"unsurpassed",
"biggest",
"hugest",
"largest",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"littlest",
"minutest",
"smallest",
"tiniest",
"lowest",
"fewest"
],
"antonyms":[
"least",
"minimal",
"minimum",
"slightest"
]
},
"the greatest amount, number, or part":{
"examples":[
"this room will accommodate 50 people at the most"
],
"synonyms":[
"max",
"maximum",
"outside"
],
"near synonyms":[
"best",
"ultimate",
"utmost",
"extreme"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"least",
"minimum"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"monsoon":{
"as in storm , downpour":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cloudburst",
"deluge",
"downpour",
"storm",
"rainstorm",
"thunderstorm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzle",
"mist",
"mizzle",
"sprinkle",
"precipitation",
"rainfall",
"shower"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mothball":{
"to stop using (something) while keeping it to be possibly used in the future":{
"examples":[
"Many navy ships were mothballed after the war."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismantle",
"phase out",
"put aside",
"deactivate",
"kill",
"shut off",
"turn off",
"flick (off)",
"arrest",
"brake",
"chock",
"cut off",
"draw up",
"halt",
"jam",
"stall",
"stick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"electrify",
"energize",
"fire",
"fuel",
"generate",
"power",
"push",
"discharge",
"launch",
"release",
"switch",
"trip",
"reactivate",
"recharge",
"activate",
"actuate",
"crank (up)",
"drive",
"move",
"propel",
"run",
"set off",
"spark",
"start",
"touch off",
"trigger",
"turn on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moralism":{
"a tendency to care a great deal about seemly behavior and morals especially in sexual matters":{
"examples":[
"the moralism that the candidate displays on the campaign trail is seen by some as hypocritical"
],
"synonyms":[
"nice-nellyism",
"prudery",
"prudishness",
"puritanism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Comstockery",
"old-maidishness",
"priggery",
"priggishness",
"primness",
"morality",
"virtue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lechery",
"prurience",
"pruriency",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"libertarianism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moribund":{
"nearly dead":{
"examples":[
"with its run-down look and empty aisles, the grocery store appeared moribund"
],
"synonyms":[
"dying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expiring",
"fading",
"passing away",
"sinking",
"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":[]
},
"having passed its time of use or usefulness":{
"examples":[
"youngsters snickering at the moribund slang their parents were using"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"d\u00e9mod\u00e9",
"demoded",
"fossilized",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"mossy",
"moth-eaten",
"neolithic",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"out-of-date",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"prehistoric",
"prehistorical",
"rusty",
"Stone Age",
"superannuated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"obsolescent",
"discarded",
"disused",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"useless",
"dead",
"defunct",
"expired",
"extinct",
"vanished",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"free",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"latent",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
"dateless",
"fusty",
"musty",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"retro",
"vintage",
"aged",
"age-old",
"hoary",
"venerable",
"atavistic",
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"former",
"historic",
"historical",
"late",
"old-world",
"past"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"recent",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute",
"fresh",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"functional",
"operable",
"operational",
"workable",
"active",
"alive",
"busy",
"employed",
"functioning",
"operating",
"operative"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modishly":{
"as in elegantly , stylishly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elegantly",
"fashionably",
"stylishly",
"swankily",
"neatly",
"orderly",
"tidily",
"trimly",
"carefully",
"fastidiously",
"fussily",
"meticulously",
"dashingly",
"nattily",
"sharply",
"smartly",
"snappily",
"sprucely",
"cleanly",
"immaculately",
"pristinely",
"spotlessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sloppily",
"slovenly",
"dowdily",
"inelegantly",
"slatternly",
"messily",
"mussily",
"untidily",
"scruffily",
"shabbily",
"sleazily",
"dingily",
"dirtily",
"filthily",
"foully",
"grubbily",
"nastily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"moroccos":{
"as in goatskins , calfskins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"buckskins",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sharkskins",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes",
"hides",
"leathers",
"skins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moats":{
"a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ha-has",
"stanks",
"sunk fences",
"dikes",
"ditches",
"fosses",
"gutters",
"sheughs",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"acequias",
"culverts",
"drains",
"draws",
"gullies",
"gulleys",
"ravines",
"drills",
"furrows",
"kennels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modernisms":{
"a way of saying something that is particular to the present day; a modern speech form":{
"examples":[
"modernisms like \"blog\" and \"life hack\""
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"archaisms",
"coinages",
"colloquialisms",
"euphemisms",
"loanwords",
"neologisms",
"vernacularisms",
"expressions",
"terms",
"words",
"linguistic forms",
"monosyllables",
"morphemes",
"speech forms",
"polysyllables",
"collocations",
"idioms",
"locutions",
"phrases"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortgage":{
"to obligate by prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"commit",
"engage",
"pledge",
"troth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiance",
"betroth",
"plight",
"promise",
"swear",
"vow",
"contract",
"enlist",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"sign on",
"sign up",
"overcommit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"renege"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"morphemes":{
"as in monosyllables , linguistic forms":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"linguistic forms",
"monosyllables",
"speech forms",
"expressions",
"terms",
"words",
"polysyllables",
"collocations",
"idioms",
"locutions",
"phrases",
"archaisms",
"coinages",
"colloquialisms",
"euphemisms",
"loanwords",
"modernisms",
"neologisms",
"vernacularisms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mobile":{
"capable of being moved especially with ease":{
"examples":[
"a mobile electric generator"
],
"synonyms":[
"movable",
"moveable",
"portable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjustable",
"flexible",
"modular",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"motile",
"moving",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"manageable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immotile",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"motionless",
"moveless",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"stuck",
"wedged",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"steadfast"
],
"antonyms":[
"immobile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmobile",
"unmovable"
]
},
"having a way of life that involves moving from one region to another typically on a seasonal basis":{
"examples":[
"mobile workers who work the New England resorts in the summer and the ones in Florida during the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"migrant",
"migratory"
],
"near synonyms":[
"errant",
"fugitive",
"itinerant",
"nomadic",
"peregrine",
"peripatetic",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"tramp",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"vagabond",
"vagrant",
"wandering",
"wayfaring",
"ambulant",
"ambulatory",
"drifting",
"fiddle-footed",
"footloose",
"gadabout",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"meandering",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"traipsing",
"walking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobile",
"stationary",
"established",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"sedentary",
"set",
"settled"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmigrant",
"nonmigratory",
"resident"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monologuist":{
"as in prima donna , leading lady":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lead",
"leading lady",
"leading man",
"star",
"prima donna",
"scene-stealer",
"barnstormer",
"enactor",
"entertainer",
"performer",
"coactor",
"costar",
"tragedian",
"tragedienne",
"extra",
"spear-carrier",
"supernumerary",
"walk-on",
"actress",
"starlet",
"double",
"understudy",
"comedian",
"farceur"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motivated":{
"having a strong desire for personal advancement":{
"examples":[
"He was lauded by faculty as an exceptionally hardworking, curious, and motivated student.",
"The company was looking for motivated self-starters to fill the sales position."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"diligent",
"driving",
"dynamic",
"enterprising",
"gung ho",
"hungry",
"hustling",
"industrious",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"animated",
"lively",
"spirited",
"ardent",
"avid",
"eager",
"energetic",
"impassioned",
"keen",
"raring",
"vigorous",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"high-flying",
"opportunistic",
"overambitious",
"pretentious",
"pushy",
"self-assertive",
"competing",
"competitive",
"rival",
"rivalrous",
"ambitious",
"aspiring",
"go-getting",
"hard-driving",
"pushing",
"self-seeking"
],
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"apathetic",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic",
"unexcited",
"uninterested",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"lackadaisical",
"lazyish",
"halfhearted",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"lazy",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"sluggish",
"spiritless",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"ambitionless",
"unambitious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rouse to action or activity":{
"examples":[
"The presence of treats motivated the dogs to obey their owner's commands.",
"They drove a campaign to motivate voters to show up to the polls."
],
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"aroused",
"encouraged",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"impassioned",
"incited",
"instigated",
"moved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"revved (up)",
"sparked",
"spurred",
"stimulated",
"stirred",
"activated",
"animated",
"drove",
"energized",
"galvanized",
"induced",
"inspired",
"keyed (up)",
"motived",
"propelled",
"pumped up",
"quickened",
"set off",
"vitalized",
"forced",
"impelled",
"allured",
"baited",
"beguiled",
"bribed",
"enticed",
"led on",
"lured",
"seduced",
"tempted",
"goaded",
"persuaded",
"fanned",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"triggered",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"raised",
"whipped (up)",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"irritated",
"vexed",
"vext",
"angered",
"enraged",
"maddened",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"soothed",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"mournfully":{
"with feelings of bitterness or grief":{
"examples":[
"cried out mournfully for the son who would never return home from the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizingly",
"bitterly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"grievously",
"hard",
"hardly",
"inconsolably",
"lugubriously",
"painfully",
"plaintively",
"regretfully",
"resentfully",
"ruefully",
"sadly",
"sorely",
"sorrowfully",
"unhappily",
"wailfully",
"woefully",
"wretchedly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abjectly",
"cheerlessly",
"crestfallenly",
"dejectedly",
"despairingly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"downheartedly",
"low-spiritedly",
"blackly",
"darkly",
"dismally",
"distressfully",
"distressingly",
"dourly",
"drearily",
"forlornly",
"gloomily",
"glumly",
"joylessly",
"mirthlessly",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"pessimistically",
"somberly",
"sullenly",
"acutely",
"harshly",
"keenly",
"piercingly",
"poignantly",
"severely",
"sharply",
"cruelly",
"hurtfully",
"ill",
"rancorously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"delightedly",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"gleefully",
"good-naturedly",
"lightheartedly",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"rejoicingly",
"sunnily",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"calmly",
"casually",
"dispassionately",
"easily",
"impassively",
"indifferently",
"lightly",
"nonchalantly",
"stoically",
"unconcernedly",
"favorably",
"well"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissfully",
"gladly",
"happily",
"joyfully",
"joyously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"motive":{
"a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition)":{
"examples":[
"the principal motive of the piece was introduced in the flute section"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"matter",
"motif",
"question",
"subject",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subject matter",
"talking point",
"count",
"idea",
"point",
"purpose",
"consideration",
"issue",
"problem",
"body",
"bulk",
"burden",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"fundamental",
"generality",
"gist",
"grist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"main",
"marrow",
"mass",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"purport",
"quick",
"staple",
"substance",
"sum",
"basis",
"bottom",
"essential",
"essentiality",
"affair",
"argument",
"debate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aside",
"digression",
"excursion",
"interjection",
"parenthesis",
"tangent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric)":{
"examples":[
"decorated with a paisley motive"
],
"synonyms":[
"design",
"figure",
"motif",
"pattern"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scheme",
"device",
"adornment",
"caparison",
"decoration",
"embellishment",
"frill",
"garnish",
"ornament",
"trim"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing":{
"examples":[
"the detective felt that the first suspect didn't have any motive for committing the crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"authority",
"grounds",
"reason",
"subject",
"wherefore",
"why"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"occasion",
"stimulus"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"as in inspire , motivate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"activate",
"animate",
"drive",
"energize",
"galvanize",
"induce",
"inspire",
"key (up)",
"motivate",
"pump up",
"quicken",
"set off",
"vitalize",
"fan",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"trigger",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"raise",
"whip (up)",
"arouse",
"encourage",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"impassion",
"incite",
"instigate",
"move",
"pique",
"provoke",
"rev (up)",
"spark",
"stimulate",
"stir",
"anger",
"enrage",
"madden",
"upset",
"jeer",
"taunt",
"tease",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irritate",
"vex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"soothe",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mongrel":{
"being offspring produced by parents of different races, breeds, species, or genera":{
"examples":[
"a mongrel dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-blooded",
"coldblood",
"cross",
"crossbred",
"hybrid",
"mixed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grade",
"half-bred",
"dihybrid",
"trihybrid",
"crossed",
"hybridized",
"interbred",
"outcrossed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pedigreed",
"pedigree",
"inbred",
"linebred",
"straightbred"
],
"antonyms":[
"blooded",
"full-blood",
"full-blooded",
"purebred",
"thoroughbred"
]
},
"an offspring of parents with different genes especially when of different races, breeds, species, or genera":{
"examples":[
"mongrels often suffer fewer health problems than purebreds"
],
"synonyms":[
"cross",
"crossbred",
"crossbreed",
"hybrid",
"intercross"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mule",
"outcross",
"half-bred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"full-blood",
"pureblood",
"purebred",
"thoroughbred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"mordant":{
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"a mordant review of the movie that compared it to having one's teeth pulled for two hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"moisten":{
"to make or become slightly or moderately wet":{
"examples":[
"moisten the cloth before cleaning with it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathe",
"lave",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"impregnate",
"saturate",
"soak",
"souse",
"steep",
"wash",
"water",
"wet",
"humidify",
"dip",
"dunk",
"immerge",
"immerse",
"flush",
"irrigate",
"rinse",
"sluice",
"refresh",
"rehydrate",
"remoisten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehumidify",
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
],
"antonyms":[
"dry"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moggies":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"an unattached schoolteacher who lives in a London flat with a moggy as her only companion"
],
"synonyms":[
"cats",
"felines",
"house cats",
"kitties",
"pusses",
"pussies",
"pussycats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mousers",
"kits",
"kittens",
"alley cats",
"tabbies",
"gibs",
"tomcats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monochromes":{
"as in daguerreotypes , sepias":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daguerreotypes",
"ferrotypes",
"sepias",
"tintypes",
"photographs",
"photos",
"pics",
"pix",
"prints",
"shots",
"snaps",
"snapshots",
"blowups",
"close-ups",
"enlargements",
"stills",
"telephotos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monarchic":{
"fit for or worthy of a royal ruler":{
"examples":[
"guests who stay in the hotel's most expensive suite live in monarchical splendor"
],
"synonyms":[
"kingly",
"monarchal",
"monarchial",
"princely",
"queenly",
"regal",
"royal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"baronial",
"imperial",
"lordly",
"noble",
"patrician",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"imposing",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"monumental",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"movements":{
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"a sudden movement in the far corner of the room made her turn in that direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"motions",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirrings",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocations",
"migrations",
"relocations",
"locomotions",
"mobilities",
"motilities",
"motivities",
"fiddlings",
"squirms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal":{
"examples":[
"a movement for political reform in the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandwagons",
"blitzes",
"campaigns",
"causes",
"crusades",
"drives",
"juggernauts",
"pushes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assaults",
"attacks",
"maneuvers",
"marches",
"offensives",
"actions",
"bids",
"enterprises",
"initiatives",
"missions",
"projects",
"undertakings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mottoes":{
"a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group":{
"examples":[
"\"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst\" is my motto .",
"The Scout motto is \"Be prepared.\""
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"axioms",
"precepts",
"truisms",
"truths",
"adages",
"aphorisms",
"apothegms",
"bywords",
"epigrams",
"maxims",
"proverbs",
"saws",
"sayings",
"sententiae",
"words",
"bromides",
"clich\u00e9s",
"cliches",
"commonplaces",
"platitudes",
"wheezes",
"expressions",
"felicities",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"comments",
"notes",
"reflections",
"remarks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molding":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"plants molding in the abandoned garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mountain bike":{
"as in tandem bicycle , ten-speed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tandem bicycle",
"ten-speed",
"bicycle",
"bike",
"cycle",
"push-bike",
"push bicycle",
"two-wheeler",
"velocipede"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"movables":{
"the movable articles (such as tables and chairs) in a room":{
"examples":[
"when painting a room, you should first cover or remove all of the movables"
],
"synonyms":[
"appointments",
"cabinetwork",
"furnishings",
"furniture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"paraphernalia",
"possessions",
"things",
"case goods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built-ins",
"fixtures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"transportable items that one owns":{
"examples":[
"packed our movables into the van and headed off to our new home"
],
"synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"duds",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"paraphernalia",
"personal effects",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"plunder",
"possession",
"stuff",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"treasures",
"valuables",
"appointments",
"fixtures",
"furnishings",
"estate",
"property",
"tangibles",
"collateral"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immovables",
"real estate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"moorings":{
"as in berths , slips":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"berths",
"slips",
"docks",
"floats",
"jetties",
"landings",
"levees",
"piers",
"quais",
"quays",
"wharves",
"wharfs",
"embarcaderos",
"dockyards",
"marinas",
"quayages",
"shipyards",
"wharfages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ports , anchorages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorages",
"ports",
"oases",
"covers",
"screens",
"asylums",
"bolt-holes",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"havens",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"sanctuaries",
"sanctums",
"sancta",
"shelters",
"abodes",
"diggings",
"domiciles",
"dwellings",
"habitations",
"houses",
"housings",
"lodgings",
"lodgments",
"lodgements",
"pads",
"places",
"quarters",
"residences",
"rests",
"roofs",
"cloisters",
"closets",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"lairs",
"castles",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"redoubts",
"strongholds",
"lean-tos",
"lees",
"sheds",
"windbreaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modernism":{
"a way of saying something that is particular to the present day; a modern speech form":{
"examples":[
"modernisms like \"blog\" and \"life hack\""
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"archaism",
"coinage",
"colloquialism",
"euphemism",
"loanword",
"neologism",
"vernacularism",
"expression",
"term",
"word",
"linguistic form",
"monosyllable",
"morpheme",
"speech form",
"polysyllable",
"collocation",
"idiom",
"locution",
"phrase"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monorail":{
"as in rail , road":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rail",
"railroad",
"railway",
"road",
"el",
"elevated",
"elevated railroad"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mothering":{
"as in motherhood , maternity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"maternity",
"motherhood",
"fatherhood",
"fathering",
"paternity",
"caregiving",
"caretaking",
"raising",
"rearing",
"upbringing",
"parenthood",
"parenting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"I hope to mother at least one child"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"birthing",
"delivering",
"dropping",
"having",
"producing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laboring",
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"begetting",
"fathering",
"generating",
"getting",
"siring",
"calving",
"kidding",
"kindling",
"kittening",
"littering",
"pupping",
"whelping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"losing",
"miscarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attend to the needs and comforts of":{
"examples":[
"mothered the patients with chicken soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"administering (to)",
"caring (for)",
"ministering (to)",
"nursing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curing",
"healing",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"treating",
"aiding",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"providing (for)",
"supporting",
"babying",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
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"brushing (aside or off)",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"slighting"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to some degree or extent":{
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"it was raining moderately hard outside"
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"fairly",
"kind of",
"kindly",
"like",
"more or less",
"pretty",
"quite",
"rather",
"relatively",
"something",
"somewhat",
"sort of"
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"passably",
"tolerably",
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"vaguely",
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly",
"partway"
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"awfully",
"beastly",
"deadly",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extremely",
"frightfully",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"mightily",
"mortally",
"particularly",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"very",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially"
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"type":[
"adverb"
]
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"movies":{
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"many a small-town girl has gone to Hollywood, dreaming of making it big in the movies"
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"big screen",
"cinema",
"film",
"filmdom",
"filmland",
"filmmaking",
"moviemaking",
"pictures",
"screen",
"silver screen"
],
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"Bollywood",
"Hollywood",
"showbiz",
"show business"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"of, relating to, or suggestive of death":{
"examples":[
"the huge department store's mortuary atmosphere in its sad, last weeks of operation"
],
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"dead",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"mortal"
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"cadaverous",
"ghostlike",
"ghostly",
"phantom",
"spectral",
"inactive",
"inert",
"inoperative",
"lifeless",
"quiescent",
"still",
"macabre",
"baleful",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"fell",
"killer",
"lethal",
"murderous",
"pestilent"
],
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"active",
"alive",
"animate",
"breathing",
"live",
"living",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"gay",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"able-bodied",
"chipper",
"fit",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"robust",
"sound",
"well",
"whole",
"wholesome"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mosey":{
"to walk or move in a slow and relaxed way":{
"examples":[
"I think I'll mosey on over to the post office and see if the mail has come in yet.",
"He moseyed up to the bar."
],
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"amble",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"wander",
"ambulate",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"leg (it)",
"pad",
"step",
"traipse",
"tread",
"walk",
"parade",
"promenade",
"march",
"pace",
"step out",
"stride",
"troop",
"power walk",
"hike",
"peregrinate",
"trek",
"clump",
"stomp",
"stump",
"tramp",
"trample",
"tromp",
"footslog",
"plod",
"trudge",
"gimp",
"hobble",
"limp",
"mince",
"prance",
"pussyfoot",
"tiptoe",
"bounce",
"sashay",
"stalk",
"strut",
"swagger",
"falter",
"lumber",
"lurch",
"pound",
"scuff",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stumble",
"toddle",
"waddle",
"nip",
"tap",
"trip",
"trot"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"motormouths":{
"a person who talks constantly":{
"examples":[
"I had to listen to the motormouth's cell phone conversations for the entire commute"
],
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"babblers",
"blabbermouths",
"blabbers",
"blowhards",
"cacklers",
"chatterboxes",
"chatterers",
"conversationalists",
"gabblers",
"gasbags",
"jabberers",
"jays",
"magpies",
"prattlers",
"talkers",
"windbags"
],
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"gossipers",
"gossips",
"talebearers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"blatherers",
"blatherskites",
"conversers",
"discoursers"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morphed":{
"to take on a different shape, appearance, or state":{
"examples":[
"When it emerged from its chrysalis, the caterpillar had morphed into a striking butterfly."
],
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"metamorphosed",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted",
"transposed",
"transubstantiated",
"changed",
"fluctuated",
"mutated",
"shifted",
"snapped",
"varied",
"bettered",
"improved",
"deteriorated",
"worsened",
"turned around"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mornings":{
"the time from sunrise until noon":{
"examples":[
"after working in the fields all morning , we were ready for a hearty lunch"
],
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"forenoons",
"morns"
],
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"auroras",
"aurorae",
"dawns",
"daybreaks",
"daylights",
"cockcrows",
"sunrises",
"sunups",
"days",
"daytimes",
"lights"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"nights",
"nighttimes",
"twilights",
"dusks",
"evenings",
"nightfalls",
"sundowns",
"sunsets",
"afternoons"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance":{
"examples":[
"morning has broken"
],
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"auroras",
"aurorae",
"cockcrows",
"dawns",
"daybreaks",
"daylights",
"days",
"lights",
"morns",
"sunrises",
"suns",
"sunups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daytimes",
"forenoons"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"midnights",
"nights",
"nighttimes",
"afternoons",
"middays",
"dusks",
"evenings",
"eventides",
"gloamings",
"twilights"
],
"antonyms":[
"nightfalls",
"sundowns",
"sunsets"
]
},
"the point at which something begins":{
"examples":[
"the period when people in ancient Mesopotamia began living in cities is usually regarded as the morning of civilization"
],
"synonyms":[
"alphas",
"baselines",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drawing boards",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones",
"creations",
"inaugurations",
"initiations",
"institutions",
"originations",
"cradles",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"germs",
"origins",
"roots",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings",
"openings",
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"emergences",
"childhoods",
"infancies",
"youths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cessations",
"closings",
"closures",
"completions",
"finales",
"finishes",
"periods",
"stops",
"terminations",
"windups"
],
"antonyms":[
"closes",
"conclusions",
"endings",
"ends",
"omegas"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"more":{
"in addition to what has been said":{
"examples":[
"the sci-fi movie was totally unbelievable and, what's more , it was boring"
],
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"additionally",
"again",
"also",
"besides",
"either",
"further",
"furthermore",
"likewise",
"moreover",
"then",
"too",
"withal",
"yet"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to a greater or higher extent":{
"examples":[
"the boxers for this bout are more evenly matched than the last two were"
],
"synonyms":[
"better"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"resulting in an increase in amount or number":{
"examples":[
"bought more apples in order to make a bigger pie"
],
"synonyms":[
"added",
"additional",
"another",
"else",
"farther",
"fresh",
"further",
"other"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessory",
"adjunct",
"collateral",
"extraneous",
"peripheral",
"side",
"supplemental",
"supplementary",
"new",
"excess",
"extra",
"plus",
"spare",
"supernumerary",
"supervenient",
"surplus",
"complementary",
"contributory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fewer",
"less"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something added (as by growth)":{
"examples":[
"add a little more to the mixture"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"expansion",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"plus",
"proliferation",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"supplement",
"uptick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"gathering",
"complement",
"accession",
"appendix",
"continuation",
"extension",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"jump",
"run-up",
"spike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction"
],
"antonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"depletion",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"moaners":{
"as in screamers , weepers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawlers",
"bleaters",
"screamers",
"squawkers",
"wailers",
"weepers",
"babies",
"bellyachers",
"complainers",
"crybabies",
"fussbudgets",
"fussers",
"fusspots",
"gripers",
"grumblers",
"kvetchers",
"kvetches",
"snivelers",
"whiners",
"crabs",
"grumps",
"malcontents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"happy campers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mounting":{
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"examples":[
"built a new mounting for the engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"brace",
"buttress",
"mount",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"support",
"underpinning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"medical expenses began to mount"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"to bring before the public in performance or exhibition":{
"examples":[
"the huge amount of money needed to mount an opera"
],
"synonyms":[
"carrying",
"giving",
"offering",
"presenting",
"staging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"parading",
"showing",
"showing off",
"unveiling",
"previewing",
"acting",
"impersonating",
"performing",
"playing",
"portraying",
"depicting",
"dramatizing",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"representing",
"extending",
"proffering",
"tendering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or extend upward":{
"examples":[
"the cable car continues to mount to ever higher terrain until the moment when the entire valley comes into view"
],
"synonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"aspiring",
"climbing",
"lifting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"thrusting",
"upping",
"uprearing",
"uprising",
"upthrusting",
"upturning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surging",
"towering",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"raising",
"upheaving",
"uplifting",
"upraising",
"ballooning",
"blasting off",
"taking off",
"zooming",
"cresting",
"scaling",
"surmounting",
"topping",
"canting",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"sinking",
"sliding"
],
"antonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"dropping",
"falling (off)",
"plunging"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mores":{
"personal conduct or behavior as evaluated by an accepted standard of appropriateness for a social or professional setting":{
"examples":[
"the mores of academic life as opposed to those of the business world"
],
"synonyms":[
"etiquette",
"form",
"manner",
"proprieties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amenities",
"civilities",
"pleasantries",
"bearing",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"mien",
"courtesy",
"decorum",
"mannerliness",
"politeness",
"formalities",
"protocol",
"rules",
"air",
"attitude",
"carriage",
"poise",
"polish",
"pose",
"posture",
"presence",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"trick",
"way",
"wont",
"convention",
"fashion",
"mode",
"style"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"mock-ups":{
"a full-sized model of something (such as a boat or a car) that is used for studying, testing, or showing its features":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"miniatures",
"simulations",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"copies",
"dummies",
"dupes",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"imitations",
"mocks",
"reduplications",
"replicas",
"replications",
"reproductions",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"knockoffs",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"rip-offs",
"rubber stamps",
"shams",
"reconstructions",
"re-creations",
"images",
"likenesses",
"semblances",
"shadows",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"prints",
"approximations",
"reincarnations",
"versions",
"extras",
"reserves",
"spares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archetypes",
"originals",
"prototypes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monickers":{
"a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual":{
"examples":[
"seeing as no respectable rodeo performer could possibly be known as Leslie, a suitably masculine moniker was created for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"aliases",
"bynames",
"cognomens",
"cognomina",
"epithets",
"handles",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"surnames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appellations",
"denominations",
"denotations",
"designations",
"labels",
"tags",
"titles",
"anonyms",
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known":{
"examples":[
"\"Cornelius Jedidiah Beauregard\" is his rather unwieldy moniker"
],
"synonyms":[
"appellations",
"appellatives",
"cognomens",
"cognomina",
"compellations",
"denominations",
"denotations",
"designations",
"handles",
"names",
"nomenclatures",
"titles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baptismal names",
"Christian names",
"first names",
"forenames",
"given names",
"family names",
"maiden names",
"middle names",
"surnames",
"matronymics",
"patronymics",
"bynames",
"diminutives",
"epithets",
"hypocorisms",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"banners",
"rubrics",
"tags",
"aliases",
"cryptonyms",
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms",
"binomials",
"monomials",
"trivial names",
"vernaculars",
"misnomers",
"brand names",
"labels",
"trademarks",
"trade names"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monitors":{
"to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"police regularly monitor that road to record traffic density and to catch speeders"
],
"synonyms":[
"covers",
"watches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"surveils",
"eyes",
"beholds",
"espies",
"looks",
"notes",
"notices",
"observes",
"regards",
"sees",
"sights",
"spies",
"views",
"witnesses",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gazes",
"glares",
"goggles",
"peers",
"rubbernecks",
"stares",
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in observers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"observers",
"experimenters",
"investigators",
"researchers",
"empiricists",
"empirics",
"fact finders",
"field-workers",
"examiners",
"inspectors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"motivation":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"fear of failing should be plenty of motivation to study for the test"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducement",
"invitation",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"grounds",
"motive",
"occasion",
"reason",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"fuel",
"spark"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moneymaker":{
"as in money-spinner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"money-spinner",
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"fat cat",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"have-not",
"pauper",
"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mojoes":{
"something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil":{
"examples":[
"a mojo is a type of voodoo charm"
],
"synonyms":[
"amulets",
"charms",
"fetishes",
"fetiches",
"mascots",
"periapts",
"phylacteries",
"talismans"
],
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"gris-gris",
"grigri",
"jujus",
"philters",
"toadstones",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"totems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curses",
"hexes",
"spells"
],
"antonyms":[
"hoodoos",
"jinxes"
]
},
"the power to control natural forces through supernatural means":{
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"he joked that he had worked his mojo to assure a sunny day for the picnic"
],
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"bewitcheries",
"bewitchments",
"devilries",
"deviltries",
"diableries",
"enchantments",
"ensorcellments",
"magics",
"necromancies",
"sorceries",
"thaumaturgies",
"voodooisms",
"witchcrafts",
"witcheries",
"wizardries"
],
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"abracadabras",
"amulets",
"charms",
"fetishes",
"fetiches",
"mascots",
"periapts",
"phylacteries",
"talismans",
"conjurations",
"glamours",
"glamors",
"incantations",
"spells",
"curses",
"hexes",
"jinxes",
"auguries",
"crystal gazings",
"divinations",
"fortune-tellings",
"soothsayings",
"sortileges",
"hexereis",
"hoodoos",
"occultisms",
"spiritualisms",
"augurs",
"omens",
"exorcisms",
"alchemies"
],
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"sciences"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mounds":{
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"examples":[
"mounds of snow after the plow had passed"
],
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"banks",
"bars",
"drifts"
],
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"snowbanks",
"snowdrifts",
"embankments",
"sandbars",
"heaps",
"hills",
"masses",
"mountains",
"stacks",
"tufts"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor"
],
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"cocks",
"heaps",
"hills",
"mountains",
"piles",
"stacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bars",
"drifts",
"embankments",
"beds",
"layers",
"mows",
"pyramids",
"ricks",
"barrows",
"cairns",
"pyres",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"conglomerations",
"gatherings",
"groupings",
"hoards",
"huddles",
"jumbles",
"knots",
"pileups"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"an area of high ground":{
"examples":[
"a pitcher's mound"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"hills",
"humps",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters"
],
"antonyms":[
"lowlands"
]
},
"to form into a pile or ridge of earth":{
"examples":[
"mound the mulch around the plants"
],
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"banks",
"hills"
],
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"heaps",
"piles",
"pyramids",
"stacks",
"embanks",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"masses",
"wads",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"conglomerates",
"gathers",
"groups"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to lay or throw on top of one another":{
"examples":[
"mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat"
],
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"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks"
],
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"banks",
"layers",
"pyramids",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"masses",
"bunches",
"clumps",
"lumps"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"monkeying (with)":{
"to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously":{
"examples":[
"don't monkey with that broken lawnmower"
],
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"diddling (with)",
"fiddling (with)",
"fooling (with)",
"messing (with)",
"playing (with)",
"tampering (with)",
"tinkering (with)",
"toying (with)",
"twiddling (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abusing",
"altering",
"doctoring",
"manhandling",
"manipulating",
"mistreating",
"misusing",
"butting in",
"interfering",
"intruding",
"meddling",
"mucking (about or around)"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moaned":{
"to utter a moan":{
"examples":[
"he moaned and cried for days after his dog, his only companion, died"
],
"synonyms":[
"groaned",
"wailed"
],
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"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed",
"wept",
"sniffed",
"sniveled",
"snivelled",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"keened",
"lamented",
"rued",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bled",
"grieved",
"hurt",
"mourned",
"sorrowed",
"suffered",
"bawled",
"howled",
"shrieked",
"squalled",
"yammered",
"yelped",
"yowled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cackled",
"chortled",
"chuckled",
"cracked up",
"giggled",
"guffawed",
"laughed",
"snickered",
"tittered",
"twittered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"their son moaned whenever anyone asked him to do some work"
],
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"beefed",
"bellyached",
"bitched",
"bleated",
"carped",
"caterwauled",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"fussed",
"griped",
"grizzled",
"grouched",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"grumped",
"hollered",
"inveighed",
"keened",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"maundered",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"nagged",
"repined",
"screamed",
"squawked",
"squealed",
"wailed",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"whinged",
"yammered",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled"
],
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"objected (to)",
"protested",
"quarreled (with)",
"quarrelled (with)",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"quibbled",
"fretted",
"stewed",
"worried",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"lamented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"bore",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"tolerated",
"took",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"commended"
],
"antonyms":[
"crowed",
"delighted",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monomial":{
"as in binomial":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"binomial",
"alias",
"cryptonym",
"nom de guerre",
"nom de plume",
"pen name",
"pseudonym",
"trivial name",
"vernacular",
"banner",
"rubric",
"tag",
"misnomer",
"byname",
"diminutive",
"epithet",
"hypocorism",
"nickname",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet",
"brand name",
"label",
"trademark",
"trade name",
"matronymic",
"patronymic",
"family name",
"maiden name",
"middle name",
"surname",
"baptismal name",
"Christian name",
"first name",
"forename",
"given name"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monodrama":{
"as in comedy , tragedy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comedy drama",
"docudrama",
"dramedy",
"melodrama",
"musical",
"musical comedy",
"psychodrama",
"tragedy",
"tragicomedy",
"interlude",
"playlet",
"magnum opus",
"opus",
"work",
"drama",
"dramatization",
"play",
"adaptation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monsoons":{
"as in storms , downpours":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downpours",
"storms",
"rainstorms",
"thunderstorms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"sprinkles",
"precipitations",
"rainfalls",
"showers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mothballing":{
"to stop using (something) while keeping it to be possibly used in the future":{
"examples":[
"Many navy ships were mothballed after the war."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismantling",
"phasing out",
"putting aside",
"deactivating",
"killing",
"shutting off",
"turning off",
"flicking (off)",
"arresting",
"braking",
"chocking",
"cutting off",
"drawing up",
"halting",
"jamming",
"stalling",
"sticking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charging",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"firing",
"fueling",
"fuelling",
"generating",
"powering",
"pushing",
"discharging",
"launching",
"releasing",
"switching",
"tripping",
"reactivating",
"recharging",
"activating",
"actuating",
"cranking (up)",
"driving",
"moving",
"propelling",
"running",
"setting off",
"sparking",
"starting",
"touching off",
"triggering",
"turning on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moralistic":{
"marked by or given to preaching moral values":{
"examples":[
"parental opinion was divided on the school's moralistic curriculum"
],
"synonyms":[
"didactic",
"homiletic",
"homiletical",
"moralizing",
"preachy",
"sententious",
"sermonic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"prescriptive",
"admonishing",
"admonitory",
"cautionary",
"advisory",
"enlightening",
"instructive",
"holier-than-thou",
"self-righteous"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"motorboats":{
"a boat equipped with a motor":{
"examples":[
"motorboats are banned on the lake because they are a hazard to swimmers"
],
"synonyms":[
"powerboats",
"speedboats",
"stinkpots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabin cruisers",
"cruisers",
"hydrofoils",
"motor sailers",
"runabouts",
"sedans",
"sportfishermen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motorizations":{
"as in electrifications":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"electrifications",
"computerizations",
"cybernations",
"automations",
"mechanizations",
"robotizations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moir\u00e9":{
"as in marbled , veined":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"marbled",
"veined",
"spangled",
"chromatic",
"colored",
"colorful",
"motley",
"multicolored",
"multihued",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"prismatic",
"rainbow",
"varicolored",
"dappled",
"dapple",
"dotted",
"flecked",
"freckled",
"mottled",
"specked",
"speckled",
"splotchy",
"spotted",
"spotty",
"stippled",
"variegated",
"blotched",
"blotchy",
"piebald",
"pinto",
"roan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unspotted",
"solid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"monocultural":{
"as in arable , agronomic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agronomic",
"arable",
"agrarian",
"agricultural",
"farming",
"bucolic",
"georgic",
"pastoral",
"pastoralist",
"garden",
"aquacultural",
"arboricultural",
"country",
"rural",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"villatic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonagricultural",
"metro",
"metropolitan",
"urban",
"industrial",
"industrialized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mood":{
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"losing my favorite sweater left me in a bad mood for the rest of the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"feather",
"humor",
"mode",
"spirit",
"temper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"attitude",
"mind-set",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"emotion",
"feeling",
"heart",
"passion",
"sentiment",
"strain",
"belief",
"conviction",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"opinion",
"expression",
"tone",
"vein",
"character",
"disposition",
"identity",
"individuality",
"makeup",
"mettle",
"personality",
"selfhood",
"self-identity",
"temperament",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special quality or impression associated with something":{
"examples":[
"there's a haunting mood of melancholy about the ruined old castle"
],
"synonyms":[
"air",
"ambience",
"ambiance",
"aroma",
"atmosphere",
"aura",
"climate",
"flavor",
"halo",
"karma",
"nimbus",
"note",
"odor",
"patina",
"smell",
"temper",
"vibration(s)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aureole",
"aureola",
"mystique",
"romance",
"genius loci",
"feel",
"feeling",
"sensation",
"sense",
"spirit",
"attribute",
"character",
"characteristic",
"image",
"mark",
"notion",
"peculiarity",
"picture",
"property",
"trait",
"color",
"illusion",
"overtone",
"semblance",
"suggestion",
"tone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something":{
"examples":[
"in his mood , the king spared no one his venomous tongue"
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"angriness",
"birse",
"choler",
"furor",
"fury",
"indignation",
"irateness",
"ire",
"lividity",
"lividness",
"mad",
"madness",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"wrathfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"exasperation",
"irritation",
"vexation",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bile",
"biliousness",
"bitterness",
"contempt",
"embitterment",
"empoisonment",
"enmity",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"rancor",
"envy",
"jaundice",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"spite",
"vengefulness",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"belligerence",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"crankiness",
"disputatiousness",
"hot-headedness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"orneriness",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness",
"blowup",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"outburst",
"chafe",
"dander",
"dudgeon",
"huff",
"pet",
"rise",
"ruffle",
"temper",
"air rage",
"road rage",
"delirium",
"heat",
"passion",
"warmth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmness",
"forbearance",
"patience"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"pleasure"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountain dews":{
"illegally produced liquor":{
"examples":[
"one sip of the hillbilly's potent mountain dew left inexperienced drinkers gasping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootlegs",
"moonshines",
"white lightnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gins",
"red-eyes",
"rotguts",
"alcohols",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"potables",
"rums",
"spirits",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modicums":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"only a modicum of skill is necessary to put the kit together"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continentals",
"damns",
"darns",
"durns",
"diddlies",
"diddly-squats",
"doodley-squats",
"doodly-squats",
"figs",
"ghosts",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"licks",
"raps",
"squats",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"whits",
"whoops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"pins",
"rays",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"semblances",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modifications":{
"the act, process, or result of making different":{
"examples":[
"the rough draft needed only a few modifications before it was ready to hand in"
],
"synonyms":[
"alterations",
"changes",
"differences",
"reviews",
"revises",
"revisions",
"variations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amendments",
"corrections",
"rectifications",
"reforms",
"conversions",
"deformations",
"distortions",
"metamorphoses",
"mutations",
"transfigurations",
"transformations",
"fluctuations",
"oscillations",
"shifts",
"displacements",
"replacements",
"substitutions",
"adjustments",
"modulations",
"regulations",
"tweaks",
"redesigns",
"redos"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixations",
"stabilizations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modi operandi":{
"a usual way of doing something":{
"examples":[
"the thief's modus operandi"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"modes",
"approaches",
"fashions",
"forms",
"hows",
"manners",
"methodologies",
"methods",
"recipes",
"strategies",
"styles",
"systems",
"tacks",
"tactics",
"techniques",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"game plans",
"games",
"ground plans",
"intrigues",
"layouts",
"lines",
"models",
"plans",
"plots",
"programs",
"routes",
"schemes",
"expedients",
"moves",
"shifts",
"steps",
"practices",
"practises",
"processes",
"routines",
"policies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mokes":{
"a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things":{
"examples":[
"scolded his assistant for having no more intelligence than a moke"
],
"synonyms":[
"asses",
"burros",
"donkeys",
"jackasses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jacks",
"jennets",
"jennies",
"hinnies",
"mules",
"pack animals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motherlands":{
"a place of origin":{
"examples":[
"for many oenophiles, France remains the motherland of fine wines"
],
"synonyms":[
"birthplaces",
"cradles",
"homes",
"mother countries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hometowns",
"Blighties",
"countries",
"nativities",
"old countries",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship":{
"examples":[
"all his life he longed to return to his motherland"
],
"synonyms":[
"countries",
"fatherlands",
"homelands",
"homes",
"mother countries",
"sods"
],
"near synonyms":[
"old countries",
"communities",
"neighborhoods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monkey (with)":{
"to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously":{
"examples":[
"don't monkey with that broken lawnmower"
],
"synonyms":[
"diddle (with)",
"fiddle (with)",
"fool (with)",
"mess (with)",
"play (with)",
"tamper (with)",
"tinker (with)",
"toy (with)",
"twiddle (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abuse",
"alter",
"doctor",
"manhandle",
"manipulate",
"mistreat",
"misuse",
"butt in",
"interfere",
"intrude",
"meddle",
"muck (about or around)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mourning":{
"as in sad , grieving":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distressed",
"grieving",
"melancholy",
"miserable",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowing",
"suffering",
"unhappy",
"upset",
"orphaned",
"widowed",
"bemoaning",
"crying",
"lamenting",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"bereaved",
"bereft"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in suffering , grieving":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agonizing",
"grieving",
"sorrowing",
"suffering",
"weeping",
"cry",
"sob",
"tears",
"hand-wringing",
"regret",
"groan",
"howl",
"keen",
"lament",
"lamentation",
"moan",
"plaint",
"wail",
"complaint",
"cri de coeur",
"outcry",
"protest",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"sorrow",
"woe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exultation",
"rejoicing",
"cheering",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"we mourned for weeks after our beloved pet's death"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonizing",
"anguishing",
"bleeding",
"grieving",
"hurting",
"sorrowing",
"suffering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aching",
"longing (for)",
"pining (away)",
"sighing",
"smarting",
"racking",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting",
"ruing",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"taking on",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"yammering",
"yowling",
"languishing",
"regretting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"cheering",
"crowing",
"delighting",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"joying",
"laughing",
"ravishing",
"rejoicing",
"triumphing",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"commiserating",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"sympathizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel or express sorrow for":{
"examples":[
"an editorial that mourns the loss of the town's last movie theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"grieving (for)",
"lamenting",
"wailing (for)"
],
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"elegizing",
"crying (for)",
"keening",
"moaning",
"weeping",
"regretting",
"ruing",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"sobbing",
"agonizing",
"bleeding",
"hurting",
"sorrowing",
"suffering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"cheering",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"exulting (in)",
"glorying (in)",
"joying",
"rejoicing (in)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"momes":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"he's a mome , but a harmless fellow for all of that"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morphinism":{
"as in alcoholism , heroinism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alcoholism",
"heroinism",
"addiction",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"habit",
"jones",
"monkey",
"habituation",
"tolerance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monumentalizes":{
"to be a memorial of":{
"examples":[
"adding to the appeal of the Taj Mahal is the fact that it monumentalizes one man's undying love for his wife"
],
"synonyms":[
"commemorates",
"memorializes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celebrates",
"keeps",
"observes",
"remembers",
"enshrines",
"exalts",
"glorifies",
"honors",
"blesses",
"consecrates",
"sanctifies",
"solemnizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgraces",
"dishonors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monogram":{
"a sign of identity that has the first letters of a person's first, middle, and last names and that is put on towels, blankets, clothes, etc., as a decoration or to show ownership":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badge",
"coat of arms",
"cognizance",
"crest",
"insignia",
"emblem",
"ensign",
"hallmark",
"impresa",
"logo",
"symbol",
"totem",
"trademark",
"attribute",
"icon",
"ikon",
"pictograph",
"logogram",
"logograph",
"colophon",
"stamp",
"token"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monstrosity":{
"a person, thing, or event that is far from normal":{
"examples":[
"any monstrosities born to the farm animals were sent to the agricultural college for study"
],
"synonyms":[
"abnormality",
"anomaly",
"freak",
"monster"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abortion",
"malformation",
"miscreation",
"mutant",
"mutation",
"character",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"kook",
"nut",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"aberrant",
"deviant",
"individualist",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"curiosity",
"peculiarity",
"singularity",
"aberration",
"exception",
"irregularity",
"oddity",
"rarity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sample",
"specimen",
"commonplace",
"usual"
],
"antonyms":[
"average",
"norm",
"normal",
"par",
"standard"
]
},
"a strange or horrible and often frightening creature":{
"examples":[
"filled the haunted house with all sorts of spooks and mechanical monstrosities"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesque",
"grotesquerie",
"grotesquery",
"monster",
"ogre"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ogress",
"Frankenstein",
"b\u00eate noire",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugaboo",
"bugbear",
"banshee",
"bogeyman",
"bogyman",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"fright",
"imp",
"incubus",
"horror",
"terror",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"abnormality",
"freak",
"mutant",
"mutation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something unpleasant to look at":{
"examples":[
"we were glad when the city tore down that monstrosity that used to stand across from the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"eyesore",
"fright",
"hideosity",
"horror",
"mess",
"sight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eye-catcher",
"blot",
"smear",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"vision"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay":{
"examples":[
"the monstrosity of the famine can scarcely be conveyed to those who have not witnessed it in person"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"awfulness",
"dreadfulness",
"frightfulness",
"ghastliness",
"grisliness",
"gruesomeness",
"hideousness",
"horridness",
"horror",
"repulsiveness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badness",
"baseness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"evil",
"evilness",
"foulness",
"heinousness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"invidiousness",
"sinfulness",
"ungodliness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"accursedness",
"cursedness",
"deplorableness",
"despicableness",
"detestableness",
"execrableness",
"hatefulness",
"loathsomeness",
"reprehensibleness",
"creepiness",
"eeriness",
"fearfulness",
"fearsomeness",
"ghostliness",
"ghoulishness",
"scariness",
"agony",
"anguish",
"hellishness",
"misery",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"delightfulness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasurableness",
"allurement",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"attractiveness",
"desirability",
"desirableness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or quality of being utterly evil":{
"examples":[
"the monstrosity of the terrorists' actions shocked the entire civilized world"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"hideousness",
"sinfulness",
"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"
]
},
"moistening":{
"to make or become slightly or moderately wet":{
"examples":[
"moisten the cloth before cleaning with it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathing",
"laving",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"sousing",
"steeping",
"washing",
"watering",
"wetting",
"humidifying",
"dipping",
"dunking",
"immerging",
"immersing",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"rinsing",
"sluicing",
"refreshing",
"rehydrating",
"remoistening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehumidifying",
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
],
"antonyms":[
"drying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monotheist":{
"as in theist , polytheist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deist",
"polytheist",
"theist",
"cultist",
"pietist",
"zealot",
"churchgoer",
"communicant",
"congregant",
"fundamentalist",
"believer",
"religionist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moistened":{
"to make or become slightly or moderately wet":{
"examples":[
"moisten the cloth before cleaning with it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bathed",
"laved",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soused",
"steeped",
"washed",
"watered",
"wet",
"wetted",
"humidified",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"immerged",
"immersed",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"refreshed",
"rehydrated",
"remoistened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehumidified",
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
],
"antonyms":[
"dried"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"mountain range":{
"as in range , sierra":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cordillera",
"range",
"sierra",
"alp",
"hump",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak",
"inselberg",
"knob",
"seamount",
"aiguille",
"horn",
"mountaintop",
"pinnacle",
"summit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basin",
"bowl",
"depression",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morosity":{
"as in drear , moroseness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismalness",
"drear",
"morbidness",
"moroseness",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"tedium",
"regret",
"rue",
"despair",
"desperation",
"hopelessness",
"self-despair",
"moodiness",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"mourning",
"somberness",
"sorrow",
"woefulness",
"melancholia",
"self-pity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"happiness",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"rapture",
"rapturousness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"satisfaction",
"delight",
"gratification"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moseys":{
"to walk or move in a slow and relaxed way":{
"examples":[
"I think I'll mosey on over to the post office and see if the mail has come in yet.",
"He moseyed up to the bar."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambles",
"perambulates",
"rambles",
"saunters",
"strolls",
"wanders",
"ambulates",
"foots (it)",
"hoofs (it)",
"legs (it)",
"pads",
"steps",
"traipses",
"treads",
"walks",
"parades",
"promenades",
"marches",
"paces",
"steps out",
"strides",
"troops",
"power walks",
"hikes",
"peregrinates",
"treks",
"clumps",
"stomps",
"stumps",
"tramples",
"tramps",
"tromps",
"footslogs",
"plods",
"trudges",
"gimps",
"hobbles",
"limps",
"minces",
"prances",
"pussyfoots",
"tiptoes",
"bounces",
"sashays",
"stalks",
"struts",
"swaggers",
"falters",
"lumbers",
"lurches",
"pounds",
"scuffs",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"stumbles",
"toddles",
"waddles",
"nips",
"taps",
"trips",
"trots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"momma":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"I'm not your mama \u2014you'll have to clean up after yourself"
],
"synonyms":[
"ma",
"mammy",
"mater",
"mom",
"mommy",
"mother",
"old lady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamilias",
"matriarch",
"matron",
"stepmother",
"supermom",
"superwoman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monody":{
"as in elegiac":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elegiac",
"taps",
"dirge",
"elegy",
"lament",
"requiem",
"threnody"
],
"near antonyms":[
"encomium",
"eulogy",
"paean",
"panegyric"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monstrously":{
"beyond a normal or acceptable limit":{
"examples":[
"our team wasn't merely bad\u2014we were monstrously inept"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishly",
"excessively",
"exorbitantly",
"inordinately",
"intolerably",
"overly",
"overmuch",
"too",
"unacceptably",
"unduly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extravagantly",
"immoderately",
"intemperately",
"extortionately",
"inexcusably",
"obscenely",
"unbearably",
"unconscionably",
"unreasonably",
"improperly",
"inappropriately",
"abnormally",
"extraordinarily",
"freakishly",
"singularly",
"uncommonly",
"uncustomarily",
"unusually",
"astronomically",
"considerably",
"deadly",
"eminently",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extensively",
"extra",
"extremely",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"incredibly",
"mightily",
"remarkably",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"super",
"terribly",
"very",
"whacking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptably",
"moderately",
"modestly",
"reasonably",
"temperately",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"meagerly",
"minimally",
"scantily",
"scarcely",
"slightly"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently"
]
},
"to a large extent or degree":{
"examples":[
"a monstrously expensive movie that nearly bankrupted the studio"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomically",
"big-time",
"broadly",
"colossally",
"considerably",
"enormously",
"extensively",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"largely",
"massively",
"monumentally",
"much",
"sizably",
"staggeringly",
"stupendously",
"tremendously",
"utterly",
"vastly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciably",
"noticeably",
"significantly",
"abundantly",
"amply",
"copiously",
"healthily",
"plentifully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modestly",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"infinitesimally",
"insignificantly",
"invisibly",
"microscopically",
"minutely",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"momentarily":{
"at or within a short time":{
"examples":[
"we'll be finished momentarily"
],
"synonyms":[
"anon",
"before long",
"by and by",
"directly",
"presently",
"shortly",
"soon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forthwith",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instantly",
"now",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"right away",
"right now",
"right off",
"straightaway",
"straightway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"moratorium":{
"a state of temporary inactivity":{
"examples":[
"the director of the blood bank called for a moratorium in donations until the surplus could be used up"
],
"synonyms":[
"abeyance",
"cold storage",
"deep freeze",
"doldrums",
"dormancy",
"holding pattern",
"latency",
"quiescence",
"suspended animation",
"suspense",
"suspension"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inaction",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"motionlessness",
"impasse",
"standstill",
"coma",
"hibernation",
"hypnosis",
"repose",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"torpor",
"recess",
"recession",
"remission",
"downtime",
"idleness",
"layoff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recommencement",
"renewal",
"resumption",
"resuscitation"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortarmen":{
"as in gunners , riflemen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artillerymen",
"cannoneers",
"gunners",
"musketeers",
"riflemen",
"jarheads",
"marines",
"rangers",
"archers",
"crossbowmen",
"commandos",
"commandoes",
"raiders",
"lancers",
"pikemen",
"spearmen",
"doughboys",
"footmen",
"foot soldiers",
"grunts",
"infantrymen",
"Confederates",
"Continentals",
"Federals",
"GIs",
"GI's",
"guardsmen",
"militiamen",
"minutemen",
"carabineers",
"carabiniers",
"cavaliers",
"cavalrymen",
"cuirassiers",
"dragoons",
"counterguerrillas",
"counterguerillas",
"guerrillas",
"guerillas",
"irregulars",
"paramilitaries",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"servicewomen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mop-up":{
"the last part of a process or action":{
"examples":[
"the general announced that the remaining fighting would be only a mop-up to a war that was all but over"
],
"synonyms":[
"capper",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"consummation",
"end",
"endgame",
"ending",
"finale",
"finis",
"finish",
"grand finale",
"homestretch",
"windup",
"wrap-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"capstone",
"climax",
"copestone",
"coup de gr\u00e2ce",
"coup de grace",
"crescendo",
"crown",
"culmination",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith",
"aftermath",
"anticlimax",
"coda",
"epilogue",
"epilog",
"postscript",
"shank",
"tag end",
"tail end"
],
"near antonyms":[
"foreword",
"introduction",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseline",
"beginning",
"dawn",
"day one",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"opening",
"start"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moolah":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"we dropped some serious moola on that home theater system"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motorcade":{
"a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management":{
"examples":[
"the next part of the parade was a motorcade of fire engines"
],
"synonyms":[
"armada",
"caravan",
"cavalcade",
"fleet",
"line",
"train"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argosy",
"convoy",
"flotilla",
"navy",
"column",
"cortege",
"cort\u00e8ge",
"parade",
"procession"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motor courts":{
"as in courts , motor inns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"courts",
"motels",
"motor inns",
"motor lodges",
"resorts",
"spas",
"tourist courts",
"youth hostels",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rests",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"apartment hotels",
"bunkhouses",
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"B and Bs",
"bed-and-breakfasts",
"guesthouses",
"boardinghouses",
"lodging houses",
"rooming houses",
"auberges",
"caravansaries",
"caravanserais",
"caravanserai",
"hospices",
"hostelries",
"hostels",
"hotels",
"inns",
"lodges",
"public houses",
"taverns",
"doss-houses",
"fleabags",
"flophouses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mordancy":{
"biting sharpness of feeling or expression":{
"examples":[
"the surprising mordancy with which the two physicians contested each other's claim to having discovered an effective vaccine for polio"
],
"synonyms":[
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimony",
"asperity",
"bile",
"bitterness",
"cattiness",
"corrosiveness",
"tartness",
"virulence",
"virulency",
"vitriol"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gruffness",
"harshness",
"hostility",
"relentlessness",
"severity",
"sternness",
"vehemence",
"coldness",
"crossness",
"discourteousness",
"iciness",
"impoliteness",
"incivility",
"nastiness",
"rudeness",
"sourness",
"surliness",
"ungraciousness",
"anger",
"animosity",
"gall",
"jaundice",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"rancor",
"scorn",
"spite",
"spleen",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"sour grapes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civility",
"cordiality",
"courtesy",
"diplomacy",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"kindness",
"politeness",
"tactfulness",
"compassion",
"softness",
"sweetness",
"sympathy",
"tenderness",
"warmth",
"oiliness",
"smoothness",
"suaveness",
"suavity",
"unctuousness",
"urbanity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monkeyed":{
"as in mimicked , aped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aped",
"copied",
"imitated",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"mocked",
"parodied",
"travestied",
"acted",
"impersonated",
"masqueraded (as)",
"personated",
"played",
"posed (as)",
"performed",
"portrayed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"money-spinner":{
"as in moneymaker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"moneymaker",
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"fat cat",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"have-not",
"pauper",
"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moderateness":{
"an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits":{
"examples":[
"the moderateness of their enthusiasm for my proposed outing suggested that they would rather do something else"
],
"synonyms":[
"moderation",
"temperance",
"temperateness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constraint",
"control",
"discipline",
"restraint",
"self-control",
"self-discipline",
"middle-of-the-roadism",
"asceticism",
"austerity",
"frugality",
"mortification",
"sacrifice",
"self-command",
"self-containment",
"self-denial",
"self-mastery",
"abnegation",
"abstention",
"avoidance",
"eschewal",
"forbearance",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibility",
"sensibleness",
"abstinence",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"teetotalism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excess",
"superfluity",
"extremeness",
"extremity",
"unconstraint",
"unrestraint",
"extremism",
"radicalness",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"insobriety"
],
"antonyms":[
"excessiveness",
"immoderacy",
"immoderateness",
"immoderation",
"intemperance",
"intemperateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molting":{
"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a crab molts its shell as it grows larger"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliating",
"shedding",
"slipping",
"sloughing",
"sluffing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flaking",
"peeling",
"scaling",
"chucking",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"junking",
"scrapping",
"shucking (off)",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"unloading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moistness":{
"the amount of water suspended in the air in tiny droplets":{
"examples":[
"the moistness of the limestone caves creates an ideal environment for the ripening of Roquefort cheese"
],
"synonyms":[
"damp",
"dampness",
"humidity",
"moisture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mugginess",
"stickiness",
"stuffiness",
"sultriness",
"clamminess",
"dankness",
"soddenness",
"sogginess",
"wetness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aridity",
"dehumidification",
"dehydration",
"dryness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moieties":{
"one of two equal or nearly equal parts":{
"examples":[
"the lot was split into two equal moieties"
],
"synonyms":[
"halves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"halvers",
"hemispheres",
"meridians",
"semicircles",
"components",
"constituents",
"divisions",
"elements",
"fractions",
"parts",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"segments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregates",
"sums",
"totals",
"wholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mocking":{
"as in sardonic , derisive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"derisive",
"sardonic",
"scornful",
"distrustful",
"mistrustful",
"negativist",
"negativistic",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"defeatist",
"fatalistic",
"negative",
"cynical",
"misanthropic",
"pessimistic",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"sarcastic",
"jaded",
"sophisticated",
"worldly-wise",
"hard-bitten",
"hard-boiled",
"hardcase",
"hard-edged",
"unsentimental"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncynical",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"unsuspicious",
"cheerful",
"optimistic",
"positive",
"positivist",
"positivistic",
"rose-colored",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"unsophisticated",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"romantic",
"maudlin",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"sentimental"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in ridiculing , ribbing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fooling",
"kidding",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"ridiculing",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay",
"barb",
"crack",
"dig",
"gag",
"gambit",
"jest",
"joke",
"laugh",
"pleasantry",
"quip",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"nothings",
"backchat",
"badinage",
"banter",
"chaff",
"give-and-take",
"jesting",
"joshing",
"persiflage",
"raillery",
"repartee",
"chatter",
"chitchat",
"gossip",
"small talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"team members good-naturedly mocked the coach's familiar bellow"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesquing",
"caricaturing",
"doing",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"parodying",
"sending up",
"spoofing",
"travestying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampooning",
"pasquinading",
"satirizing",
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"ridiculing",
"aping",
"copycatting",
"monkeying",
"parroting",
"duplicating",
"emulating",
"replicating",
"reproducing",
"acting",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"pretending",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"elaborating",
"embellishing",
"embroidering",
"exaggerating",
"magnifying",
"padding",
"playing up",
"stretching",
"amplifying",
"enhancing",
"enlarging (on or upon)",
"expanding",
"fleshing (out)",
"overdrawing",
"overstating",
"putting on",
"miming",
"pantomiming",
"impersonating",
"performing",
"personating",
"playing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter":{
"examples":[
"the fashion gurus loved to mock the famous couple for their unsophisticated clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"deriding",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"laughing (at)",
"ridiculing",
"scouting",
"shooting down",
"skewering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"sneering (at)",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"disparaging",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"putting down",
"chaffing",
"jiving",
"joshing",
"kidding",
"quizzing",
"rallying",
"razzing",
"ribbing",
"riding",
"teasing",
"tweaking",
"twitting",
"baiting",
"barracking",
"bugging",
"catcalling",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"hassling",
"heckling",
"needling",
"pestering",
"ragging",
"targeting",
"taunting",
"tormenting",
"aping",
"burlesquing",
"caricaturing",
"imitating",
"lampooning",
"mimicking",
"parodying",
"parroting",
"pillorying",
"satirizing",
"taking off (on)",
"travestying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applauding",
"approving",
"commending",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of":{
"examples":[
"a person willing to mock the religious prohibition against working on the Sabbath"
],
"synonyms":[
"defying",
"disobeying",
"rebelling (against)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disobliging",
"mutinying (against)",
"revolting (against)",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"tuning out",
"brushing (off)",
"dismissing",
"flouting",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"rejecting",
"scoffing (at)",
"scorning",
"shrugging off",
"winking (at)",
"breaching",
"breaking",
"infringing",
"transgressing",
"violating",
"bucking",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitulating (to)",
"conceding (to)",
"deferring (to)",
"goose-stepping (to)",
"serving",
"stooping (to)",
"submitting (to)",
"surrendering (to)",
"yielding (to)",
"cooperating (with)",
"keeping",
"observing",
"acceding (to)",
"acquiescing (to)",
"agreeing (to)",
"assenting (to)",
"obliging",
"attending",
"hearing",
"heeding",
"listening (to)",
"marking",
"noticing",
"noting",
"regarding",
"watching"
],
"antonyms":[
"complying (with)",
"conforming (to)",
"following",
"minding",
"obeying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"modestly":{
"in a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertion":{
"examples":[
"spoke modestly about his accomplishments as an entrepreneur"
],
"synonyms":[
"abjectly",
"deferentially",
"hat in hand",
"humbly",
"lowly",
"meanly",
"meekly",
"sheepishly",
"submissively"
],
"near synonyms":[
"obsequiously",
"servilely",
"subserviently",
"fearfully",
"mousily",
"timidly",
"bashfully",
"diffidently",
"self-deprecatingly",
"shyly",
"timorously",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"politely",
"respectfully",
"suppliantly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fearlessly",
"discourteously",
"disdainfully",
"disrespectfully",
"impertinently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"saucily",
"bitchily",
"impolitely",
"impudently",
"rudely",
"uncivilly",
"ungraciously"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrogantly",
"audaciously",
"boldly",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"contemptuously",
"haughtily",
"huffily",
"imperiously",
"loftily",
"pompously",
"presumptuously",
"pretentiously",
"pridefully",
"proudly",
"scornfully",
"self-importantly",
"superciliously",
"swaggeringly",
"uppishly"
]
},
"with purity of thought and deed":{
"examples":[
"dressed modestly to go to church"
],
"synonyms":[
"chastely",
"innocently",
"morally",
"purely",
"righteously",
"virtuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decently",
"decorously",
"properly",
"priggishly",
"primly",
"prudishly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indecently",
"obscenely",
"vulgarly",
"lasciviously",
"lewdly",
"lustfully"
],
"antonyms":[
"evilly",
"immorally",
"impurely",
"sinfully",
"wickedly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"mournfulness":{
"a state or spell of low spirits":{
"examples":[
"the memorial to the war's dead has an aura of mournfulness that cannot be conveyed in words"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue devils",
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolation",
"despond",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"dolefulness",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"miserableness",
"mopes",
"oppression",
"sadness",
"sorrowfulness",
"unhappiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"melancholia",
"self-pity",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"mourning",
"somberness",
"sorrow",
"woefulness",
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"moodiness",
"despair",
"desperation",
"hopelessness",
"self-despair",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"tedium",
"dismalness",
"drear",
"morbidness",
"moroseness",
"morosity",
"regret",
"rue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"satisfaction",
"delight",
"gratification"
],
"antonyms":[
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"happiness",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"rapture",
"rapturousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morass":{
"something that catches and holds":{
"examples":[
"advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible"
],
"synonyms":[
"entanglement",
"mesh(es)",
"net",
"noose",
"quagmire",
"quicksand",
"snare",
"tanglement",
"toil(s)",
"trap",
"web"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"cat's cradle",
"labyrinth",
"maze",
"cobweb",
"spiderweb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"spongy land saturated or partially covered with water":{
"examples":[
"the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass"
],
"synonyms":[
"bog",
"fen",
"marsh",
"marshland",
"mire",
"moor",
"muskeg",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"swamp",
"swampland",
"wash",
"wetland"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swale",
"quagmire",
"guck",
"gook",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slime",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Mother Hubbards":{
"as in sweaterdresses , granny dresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemises",
"coatdresses",
"granny dresses",
"housedresses",
"jumpers",
"kimonos",
"kirtles",
"minidresses",
"muumuus",
"overdresses",
"sacks",
"sheaths",
"shifts",
"shirtdresses",
"shirtwaists",
"sundresses",
"sweaterdresses",
"tea gowns",
"dresses",
"frocks",
"gowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"morsel":{
"a small piece or quantity of food":{
"examples":[
"the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel"
],
"synonyms":[
"bite",
"mouthful",
"nibble",
"nugget",
"taste",
"tidbit",
"titbit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collop",
"medallion",
"noisette",
"nosh",
"snack",
"appetizer",
"canap\u00e9",
"hors d'oeuvre",
"bit",
"chew",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dribble",
"driblet",
"fleck",
"hint",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"pinch",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"shred",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snip",
"snippet",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"suspicion",
"tittle",
"touch",
"trace",
"dash",
"drop",
"lap",
"lick",
"gulp",
"swallow",
"swig"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small piece":{
"examples":[
"searching for any morsel of useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"atom",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dribble",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"nugget",
"particle",
"patch",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"snip",
"snippet",
"speck",
"tittle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"dab",
"dash",
"driblet",
"drop",
"fraction",
"haet",
"halfpenny",
"ha'penny",
"iota",
"jot",
"kenning",
"lick",
"minim",
"mite",
"modicum",
"nutshell",
"ounce",
"pinch",
"shred",
"smatter",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"spot",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace",
"whisper",
"whit",
"bite",
"mouthful",
"nibble",
"tidbit",
"titbit",
"fragment",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"chip",
"flake",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving",
"smithereens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunk",
"gob",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab",
"abundance",
"barrel",
"bucket",
"bushel",
"deal",
"heaps",
"loads",
"mass",
"mountain",
"peck",
"pile",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"scads",
"stack",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person of no importance or influence":{
"examples":[
"a morsel like her wouldn't last a week in the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cipher",
"dwarf",
"half-pint",
"insect",
"insignificancy",
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"nullity",
"number",
"pip-squeak",
"pygmy",
"pigmy",
"shrimp",
"snippersnapper",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-name",
"noncelebrity",
"least",
"inferior",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity",
"figurehead",
"puppet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chief",
"head",
"lead",
"leader",
"celebrity",
"luminary",
"notable",
"personality",
"planet",
"star",
"superstar",
"authority",
"superior",
"great power",
"party",
"power"
],
"antonyms":[
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"bigwig",
"eminence",
"figure",
"kahuna",
"kingpin",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"personage",
"somebody",
"VIP"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monkeys (around)":{
"to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior":{
"examples":[
"stop monkeying around in the house or you'll break something"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts up",
"clowns (around)",
"cuts up",
"fools around",
"horses around",
"hotdogs",
"showboats",
"shows off",
"skylarks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"misbehaves",
"roughhouses",
"capers",
"cavorts",
"disports",
"frisks",
"frolics",
"gambols",
"larks",
"rollicks",
"romps",
"carouses",
"mafficks",
"revels",
"roars",
"wassails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"would rather just monkey around instead of doing work"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodles",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs about",
"kicks around",
"messes around",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"clowns (around)",
"horses around",
"diddles (with)",
"tinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckles (down)",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moving picture":{
"a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track":{
"examples":[
"in the 20th century moving pictures became an important form of artistic expression"
],
"synonyms":[
"film",
"flick",
"flicker",
"motion picture",
"movie",
"picture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoon",
"cartoon",
"docudrama",
"documentary",
"feature",
"featurette",
"short",
"short subject",
"silent",
"talkie",
"B movie",
"B picture",
"cofeature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moments of truth":{
"a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action":{
"examples":[
"The hours that the coach devoted to having the team practice the play proved worthwhile when the moment of truth arrived."
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling points",
"breaking points",
"clutches",
"conjunctures",
"crises",
"crossroads",
"crunches",
"crunch times",
"Dunkirks",
"emergencies",
"exigencies",
"extremities",
"flash points",
"heads",
"junctures",
"tinderboxes",
"zero hours"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contingencies",
"possibilities",
"climaxes",
"turning points",
"happenings",
"landmarks",
"milestones",
"conditions",
"passes",
"situations",
"straits",
"deadlocks",
"impasses",
"stalemates",
"corners",
"fixes",
"holes",
"hot waters",
"jams",
"last ditches",
"pinches",
"predicaments",
"scrapes",
"spots",
"eleventh hours",
"last minutes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a particular and often important moment in time":{
"examples":[
"It was a moment of truth for the contestants as they waited to hear the winner's name called."
],
"synonyms":[
"junctures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"cracks",
"flashes",
"heartbeats",
"instants",
"jiffies",
"minutes",
"moments",
"nanoseconds",
"points",
"seconds",
"shakes",
"split seconds",
"ticks",
"trices",
"twinkles",
"winks",
"bits",
"spells",
"stretches",
"whiles",
"brinks",
"cusps",
"nicks",
"thresholds",
"verges",
"crises",
"crunch times",
"wires"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"monologue":{
"a long discourse delivered by a single person":{
"examples":[
"His monologue on the failings of modern society continued long after everyone else had stopped listening."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"soliloquy",
"diatribe",
"rant",
"tirade",
"address",
"declamation",
"harangue",
"oration",
"peroration",
"speech",
"talk",
"eulogy",
"panegyric",
"tribute",
"keynote address",
"keynote speech",
"lecture",
"salutatory",
"homily",
"sermon",
"pitch",
"presentation",
"spiel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mortifying":{
"as in humiliating , humbling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"unsettling",
"confusing",
"difficult",
"disagreeable",
"impossible",
"inconvenient",
"intolerable",
"troublesome",
"unpleasant",
"unwieldy",
"awkward",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"disturbing",
"embarrassing",
"flustering",
"uncomfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"comfortable",
"convenient",
"pleasing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of self-conscious distress":{
"examples":[
"was mortified by her children's atrocious manners"
],
"synonyms":[
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"queering",
"shaming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"relieving",
"soothing",
"buoying",
"cheering",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"assuring",
"reassuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"motility":{
"as in mobility , locomotion":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motivity",
"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shift",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring",
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination",
"motionlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motorways":{
"as in interstates , autobahns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"superhighways",
"causeways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mountaineers":{
"a person who climbs mountains; a mountain climber":{
"examples":[
"They were guided on the adventure by an experienced mountaineer who had scaled many of the country's highest peaks."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alpinists",
"Alpinists",
"backpackers",
"climbers",
"amblers",
"hikers",
"perambulators",
"ramblers",
"trampers",
"walkers",
"pedestrians",
"roamers",
"rovers",
"trekkers",
"wanderers",
"wayfarers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"momentariness":{
"the state or quality of lasting only for a short time":{
"examples":[
"the momentariness of the pain from the needle prick hardly compares to the lasting good feelings that a blood donor experiences"
],
"synonyms":[
"ephemerality",
"evanescence",
"fleetingness",
"fugitiveness",
"impermanence",
"impermanency",
"temporariness",
"transience",
"transiency",
"transitoriness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brevity",
"shortness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuance",
"continuation",
"longevity"
],
"antonyms":[
"endurance",
"permanence",
"permanency"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moonstruck":{
"having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind":{
"examples":[
"police asked psychiatrists to put together a portrait of the moonstruck marksman who was responsible for the shootings"
],
"synonyms":[
"balmy",
"barmy",
"bats",
"batty",
"bedlam",
"bonkers",
"brainsick",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackers",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"demented",
"deranged",
"fruity",
"gaga",
"haywire",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loco",
"loony",
"looney",
"loony tunes",
"looney tunes",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"non compos mentis",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"unsound",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"wud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dotty",
"fey",
"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"depressed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"fixated",
"monomaniac",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
"antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"movers and shakers":{
"as in big shots , big boys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"figures",
"heavies",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"main men",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"notables",
"personages",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"supremos",
"VIPs",
"barons",
"captains",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"lords",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"monarchs",
"Napoleons",
"princes",
"tycoons",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"stars",
"superstars",
"deities",
"demigods",
"gods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-pints",
"lightweights",
"small-timers",
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"nobodies",
"zeros",
"zeroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"motor lodge":{
"as in motor inn , motor court":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"court",
"motel",
"motor court",
"motor inn",
"resort",
"spa",
"tourist court",
"youth hostel",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rest",
"camp",
"campground",
"apartment hotel",
"bunkhouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"B and B",
"bed-and-breakfast",
"guesthouse",
"boardinghouse",
"lodging house",
"rooming house",
"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hospice",
"hostel",
"hostelry",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern",
"doss-house",
"fleabag",
"flophouse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"momentum":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"the former president's endorsement was all the momentum the campaign needed"
],
"synonyms":[
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducement",
"invitation",
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"noun"
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"antiquity",
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"datedness",
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"noun"
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"wholesalers",
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"labors",
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"geneses",
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"originations",
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"genitures",
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"abortions",
"miscarriages",
"stillbirths"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"cries",
"sobs",
"tears",
"hand-wringings",
"regrets",
"groans",
"howls",
"keens",
"lamentations",
"laments",
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"plaints",
"wails",
"complaints",
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"heartaches",
"heartbreaks",
"sorrows",
"woes"
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"rejoicings"
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"noun"
]
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"meridian",
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"piece",
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"section",
"segment"
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"aggregate",
"sum",
"total",
"whole"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"Augean",
"backbreaking",
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"demanding",
"difficult",
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"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"murderous",
"pick-and-shovel",
"rigorous",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"sweaty",
"tall",
"testing",
"toilsome",
"tough",
"uphill"
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"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"elusive",
"hairy",
"insoluble",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"opaque",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite",
"serious",
"spiny",
"stubborn",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"tricky",
"bruising",
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"labored",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"tight",
"trying",
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"bothersome",
"distressing",
"irksome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"grievous",
"grim",
"strict",
"stringent",
"brutal",
"cruel",
"inhuman",
"painful"
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"achievable",
"clear",
"doable",
"elementary",
"manageable",
"uncomplicated",
"comforting",
"gentle",
"painless",
"relaxed",
"smooth",
"soothing",
"accessible",
"friendly",
"idiotproof",
"user-friendly"
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"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"light",
"mindless",
"simple",
"soft",
"undemanding"
]
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"miners moiling all day in the sunless recesses of the earth"
],
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"banging away",
"beavering (away)",
"digging (away)",
"drudging",
"endeavoring",
"fagging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"tugging",
"working"
],
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"applying (oneself)",
"buckling (down)",
"digging in",
"hammering (away)",
"knuckling down",
"pitching in",
"attacking",
"driving",
"essaying",
"trying",
"exercising",
"exerting",
"overexerting",
"overworking",
"eking out",
"grinding (out)",
"putting out",
"scrabbling",
"scratching",
"trudging",
"wading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking",
"easing (up)",
"letting up",
"slackening",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goldbricking",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"lazing",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"shirking",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"lolling",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"dabbling",
"doodling",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
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},
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the angry mob moiled around the courthouse"
],
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"boiling",
"churning",
"roiling",
"seething"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeling",
"spinning",
"swirling",
"whirling",
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"calming",
"subsiding"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"mom":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"be sure to tell your mom and dad that you'll be home late for supper"
],
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"ma",
"mama",
"mamma",
"momma",
"mammy",
"mater",
"mommy",
"mother",
"old lady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamilias",
"matriarch",
"matron",
"stepmother",
"supermom",
"superwoman"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mover":{
"as in carrier , hauler":{
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"near synonyms":[
"carrier",
"hauler",
"conveyance",
"transport",
"transportation",
"vehicle",
"transit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in power , driver":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"activator",
"animator",
"driver",
"energizer",
"executor",
"generator",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"instigator",
"launcher",
"power",
"stimulus",
"trigger",
"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"provocation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"yeast",
"inducement",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"fuel",
"invitation",
"spark",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"grounds",
"motive",
"occasion",
"reason"
],
"near antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"momentums":{
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"the former president's endorsement was all the momentum the campaign needed"
],
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"boosts",
"encouragements",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"impulses",
"incentives",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"motivations",
"provocations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"yeasts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducements",
"invitations",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"grounds",
"motives",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"fuels",
"sparks"
],
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"antonyms":[
"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"monotheists":{
"as in theist , polytheists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deists",
"polytheists",
"theist",
"cultists",
"pietists",
"zealots",
"churchgoers",
"communicants",
"congregants",
"fundamentalists",
"believers",
"religionists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"molts":{
"to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside":{
"examples":[
"a crab molts its shell as it grows larger"
],
"synonyms":[
"exfoliates",
"sheds",
"slips",
"sloughs",
"sluffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flakes",
"peels",
"scales",
"chucks",
"discards",
"ditches",
"flings (off or away)",
"jettisons",
"junks",
"scraps",
"shucks (off)",
"throws away",
"throws out",
"unloads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moods":{
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"losing my favorite sweater left me in a bad mood for the rest of the day"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheers",
"feathers",
"humors",
"modes",
"spirits",
"tempers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"attitudes",
"mind-sets",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"emotions",
"feelings",
"hearts",
"passions",
"sentiments",
"strains",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"opinions",
"expressions",
"tones",
"veins",
"characters",
"dispositions",
"identities",
"individualities",
"makeups",
"mettles",
"personalities",
"selfhoods",
"self-identities",
"temperaments",
"sensibilities",
"sensitivities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special quality or impression associated with something":{
"examples":[
"there's a haunting mood of melancholy about the ruined old castle"
],
"synonyms":[
"airs",
"ambiences",
"ambiances",
"aromas",
"atmospheres",
"auras",
"climates",
"flavors",
"halos",
"haloes",
"karmas",
"nimbi",
"nimbuses",
"notes",
"odors",
"patinas",
"patinae",
"smells",
"tempers",
"vibrations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"mystiques",
"romances",
"genius locis",
"feelings",
"feels",
"sensations",
"senses",
"spirits",
"attributes",
"characteristics",
"characters",
"images",
"marks",
"notions",
"peculiarities",
"pictures",
"properties",
"traits",
"colors",
"illusions",
"overtones",
"semblances",
"suggestions",
"tones"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moiled":{
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"miners moiling all day in the sunless recesses of the earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged away",
"beavered (away)",
"drudged",
"dug (away)",
"endeavored",
"fagged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"tugged",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applied (oneself)",
"buckled (down)",
"dug in",
"hammered (away)",
"knuckled down",
"pitched in",
"attacked",
"drove",
"essayed",
"tried",
"exercised",
"exerted",
"overexerted",
"overworked",
"eked out",
"ground (out)",
"put out",
"scrabbled",
"scratched",
"trudged",
"waded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke",
"eased (up)",
"let up",
"slackened",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dillydallied",
"footled",
"goldbricked",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"lounged",
"shirked",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"lolled",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"dabbled",
"doodled",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the angry mob moiled around the courthouse"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiled",
"churned",
"roiled",
"seethed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeled",
"spun",
"swirled",
"whirled",
"agitated",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"calmed",
"subsided"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"monoculture":{
"as in pastoralism , animal husbandry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animal husbandry",
"mixed farming",
"pastoralism",
"agriculture",
"farming",
"husbandry",
"cultivation",
"culture",
"farmwork",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"tillage",
"agribusiness",
"agroecology",
"agronomy",
"agroforestry",
"arboriculture",
"pomology",
"aquaculture",
"aquiculture",
"hydroponics",
"sharecropping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moveable":{
"capable of being moved especially with ease":{
"examples":[
"any furniture that is not movable will be covered with protective cloths by the painters"
],
"synonyms":[
"mobile",
"portable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adjustable",
"flexible",
"modular",
"removable",
"removeable",
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transportable",
"motile",
"moving",
"unbalanced",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"manageable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immotile",
"nonmotile",
"nonmoving",
"motionless",
"moveless",
"standing",
"static",
"stationary",
"still",
"stuck",
"wedged",
"fast",
"fixed",
"rooted",
"steadfast"
],
"antonyms":[
"immobile",
"immovable",
"irremovable",
"nonmobile",
"unmovable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mothers":{
"a female human parent":{
"examples":[
"he dreaded telling his mother that her favorite figurine had gotten broken"
],
"synonyms":[
"mamas",
"mammas",
"mommas",
"mammies",
"mas",
"maters",
"mommies",
"moms",
"old ladies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"materfamiliases",
"matriarchs",
"matrons",
"stepmothers",
"supermoms",
"superwomen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"I hope to mother at least one child"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"births",
"delivers",
"drops",
"has",
"produces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labors",
"breeds",
"multiplies",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"begets",
"fathers",
"generates",
"gets",
"sires",
"calves",
"kids",
"kindles",
"kittens",
"litters",
"pups",
"whelps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborts",
"loses",
"miscarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to attend to the needs and comforts of":{
"examples":[
"mothered the patients with chicken soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"administers (to)",
"cares (for)",
"ministers (to)",
"nurses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cures",
"heals",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"treats",
"aids",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"provides (for)",
"supports",
"babies",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils",
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"indulges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"mourn":{
"to feel deep sadness or mental pain":{
"examples":[
"we mourned for weeks after our beloved pet's death"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonize",
"anguish",
"bleed",
"grieve",
"hurt",
"sorrow",
"suffer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ache",
"long (for)",
"pine (away)",
"sigh",
"smart",
"rack",
"torment",
"torture",
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"lament",
"rue",
"bawl",
"blubber",
"cry",
"groan",
"howl",
"keen",
"moan",
"sob",
"take on",
"wail",
"weep",
"yammer",
"yowl",
"languish",
"regret"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"cheer",
"crow",
"delight",
"exult",
"glory",
"joy",
"laugh",
"ravish",
"rejoice",
"triumph",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"commiserate",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"sympathize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel or express sorrow for":{
"examples":[
"an editorial that mourns the loss of the town's last movie theater"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"grieve (for)",
"lament",
"wail (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elegize",
"cry (for)",
"keen",
"moan",
"weep",
"regret",
"rue",
"bawl",
"blubber",
"sob",
"agonize",
"bleed",
"hurt",
"sorrow",
"suffer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"cheer",
"grin",
"laugh",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"exult (in)",
"glory (in)",
"joy",
"rejoice (in)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}