dict_dl/en_MW_thesaurus/we_mwt.json
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{
"weak":{
"lacking bodily strength":{
"examples":[
"the little boy was simply too weak to lift the box"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"down-and-out",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"slight",
"soft",
"softened",
"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weakened",
"wimpish",
"wimpy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"invalid",
"paralyzed",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"breakable",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"dizzy",
"groggy",
"rocky",
"unsteady",
"woozy",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"flagging",
"tired",
"weary",
"worn-out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"lame",
"unsound",
"resistless",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"fit",
"husky",
"muscular",
"sinewy",
"strapping",
"virile",
"hard",
"hardy",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"fortified",
"hardened",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent",
"convalescing",
"recovering",
"recuperating"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
]
},
"lacking strength of will or character":{
"examples":[
"I was too weak to resist the free doughnuts in the office break room"
],
"synonyms":[
"characterless",
"effete",
"frail",
"invertebrate",
"limp-wristed",
"milk-and-water",
"namby-pamby",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"weakened",
"weak-kneed",
"weakling",
"wet",
"wimpish",
"wimpy",
"wishy-washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"forceless",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"powerless",
"emasculated",
"unnerved",
"lamblike",
"meek",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"corrupt",
"dastardly",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"fainthearted",
"lily-livered",
"nebbishy",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"sissy",
"timid",
"infirm",
"irresolute",
"vacillating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"determined",
"mettlesome",
"resolute",
"unrelenting",
"courageous",
"stalwart",
"stouthearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"backboned",
"firm",
"hard",
"strong",
"tough"
]
},
"not containing very much of some important element":{
"examples":[
"the coffee came out too weak because I didn't use enough ground beans"
],
"synonyms":[
"dilute",
"diluted",
"thin",
"thinned",
"washy",
"watery",
"weakened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adulterated",
"watered-down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriched",
"fortified",
"concentrated",
"condensed",
"evaporated"
],
"antonyms":[
"full-bodied",
"rich",
"strong"
]
},
"not using or following good reasoning":{
"examples":[
"your argument is weak"
],
"synonyms":[
"fallacious",
"illegitimate",
"illogical",
"inconsequent",
"inconsequential",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eristic",
"eristical",
"misleading",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious",
"half-baked",
"ill-advised",
"misguided",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned",
"inconsistent",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"foolish",
"meaningless",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"reasonless",
"senseless",
"silly",
"Kafkaesque",
"odd",
"peculiar",
"strange",
"surreal",
"unusual",
"weird",
"insane",
"mad",
"nutty",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"disordered",
"disorganized",
"rambling",
"random",
"unconvincing",
"inexplicable",
"unaccountable",
"unexplainable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commonsense",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sober",
"wise",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"just",
"justified",
"reasoned",
"ordered",
"organized",
"clear",
"cogent",
"compelling",
"convincing",
"credible",
"persuasive",
"plausible",
"satisfying",
"solid",
"certain",
"sure",
"true",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"substantiated",
"validated"
],
"antonyms":[
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sound",
"valid",
"well-founded",
"well-grounded"
]
},
"unable to act or achieve one's purpose":{
"examples":[
"the vice president is a relatively weak official"
],
"synonyms":[
"hamstrung",
"handcuffed",
"helpless",
"high and dry",
"hog-tied",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"paralyzed",
"powerless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inept",
"unfit",
"useless",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"passive",
"spineless",
"supine",
"unaggressive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"effective",
"efficient",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"magisterial",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"dominant",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"forceful",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"vigorous",
"important",
"major",
"significant",
"high-level",
"senior",
"top"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"strong"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weakened":{
"containing foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"the pharmacist, motivated by pure greed, would pass off the weakened drugs to unsuspecting customers, some of whom had life-threatening illnesses"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulterate",
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"contaminated",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unclarified",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"maculate",
"maculated",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"blended",
"commingled",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"compounded",
"cheapened",
"doctored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"purified",
"refined",
"ultrarefined",
"neat",
"plain",
"straight",
"concentrated",
"strong",
"uncombined",
"pasteurized",
"sterile",
"sterilized",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied"
],
"antonyms":[
"fine",
"pure",
"ultrapure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"uncontaminated",
"uncut",
"undiluted",
"unmixed",
"unpolluted",
"untainted"
]
},
"lacking bodily strength":{
"examples":[
"left weakened by a prolonged illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"down-and-out",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"slight",
"soft",
"softened",
"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weak",
"wimpish",
"wimpy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"invalid",
"paralyzed",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"breakable",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"dizzy",
"groggy",
"rocky",
"unsteady",
"woozy",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"flagging",
"tired",
"weary",
"worn-out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"lame",
"unsound",
"resistless",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"fit",
"husky",
"muscular",
"sinewy",
"strapping",
"virile",
"hard",
"hardy",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"fortified",
"hardened",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent",
"convalescing",
"recovering",
"recuperating"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
]
},
"lacking strength of will or character":{
"examples":[
"the nation's people, weakened by years of tyranny, tended to automatically obey anyone with an authoritative manner"
],
"synonyms":[
"characterless",
"effete",
"frail",
"invertebrate",
"limp-wristed",
"milk-and-water",
"namby-pamby",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"weak",
"weak-kneed",
"weakling",
"wet",
"wimpish",
"wimpy",
"wishy-washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"forceless",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"powerless",
"emasculated",
"unnerved",
"lamblike",
"meek",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"corrupt",
"dastardly",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"fainthearted",
"lily-livered",
"nebbishy",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"sissy",
"timid",
"infirm",
"irresolute",
"vacillating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"determined",
"mettlesome",
"resolute",
"unrelenting",
"courageous",
"stalwart",
"stouthearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"backboned",
"firm",
"hard",
"strong",
"tough"
]
},
"not containing very much of some important element":{
"examples":[
"some experts recommend that runners drink a weakened mixture of juice and water"
],
"synonyms":[
"dilute",
"diluted",
"thin",
"thinned",
"washy",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adulterated",
"watered-down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriched",
"fortified",
"concentrated",
"condensed",
"evaporated"
],
"antonyms":[
"full-bodied",
"rich",
"strong"
]
},
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"weeks of hardship in the desert had greatly weakened them"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"devitalized",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"etiolated",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"softened",
"tired",
"wasted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crippled",
"disabled",
"hamstrung",
"incapacitated",
"depleted",
"depressed",
"exhausted",
"impoverished",
"unmanned",
"washed out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"invalided",
"laid up",
"broke down",
"ground (down)",
"wore down",
"wore out",
"paralyzed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energized",
"invigorated",
"recruited",
"rejuvenated",
"vitalized",
"hardened",
"seasoned",
"toughened"
],
"antonyms":[
"beefed (up)",
"fortified",
"strengthened"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the bodybuilder weakened once she eased off on her workouts"
],
"synonyms":[
"decayed",
"drooped",
"emaciated",
"faded",
"failed",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"sagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"went",
"wilted",
"withered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke down",
"wore out",
"yielded",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"ran down",
"rotted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesced",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"gained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"weakened the juice with too much water"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulterated",
"cut",
"diluted",
"extended",
"laced",
"sophisticated",
"thinned",
"watered down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loaded",
"befouled",
"contaminated",
"corrupted",
"defiled",
"dirtied",
"envenomed",
"fouled",
"infected",
"poisoned",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"manipulated",
"misrepresented",
"tampered (with)",
"counterfeited",
"faked",
"falsified",
"fudged",
"doctored",
"spiked",
"attenuated",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"tempered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fertilized",
"larded",
"augmented",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"supplemented",
"decontaminated",
"purified",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"distilled",
"filtered",
"flushed",
"leached",
"pasteurized",
"purged",
"refined",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"improved",
"compacted",
"concentrated",
"condensed"
],
"antonyms":[
"enriched",
"fortified",
"richened",
"strengthened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"weakening":{
"a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or body":{
"examples":[
"the all-too-apparent weakening of our grandfather was hard on our mother"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitation",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"decline",
"degeneration",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"ebbing",
"enfeeblement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atrophy",
"exhaustion",
"drooping",
"flagging",
"limping",
"regression",
"relapse",
"setback"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invigoration",
"strengthening",
"progress",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence"
],
"antonyms":[
"comeback",
"improvement",
"rally",
"recovery",
"recuperation",
"rehabilitation",
"revitalization",
"snapback"
]
},
"as in debilitating , exhausting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deadening",
"debilitating",
"draining",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"exhausting",
"numbing",
"sapping",
"wearying",
"deleterious",
"injurious",
"pernicious",
"insalubrious",
"noxious",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bracing",
"cordial",
"invigorating",
"refreshing",
"rejuvenating",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulating",
"stimulative",
"tonic",
"vital",
"vitalizing",
"life-giving",
"conditioning",
"strengthening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"weeks of hardship in the desert had greatly weakened them"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"devitalizing",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"etiolating",
"prostrating",
"sapping",
"softening",
"tiring",
"wasting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crippling",
"disabling",
"hamstringing",
"incapacitating",
"depleting",
"depressing",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"unmanning",
"washing out",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"invaliding",
"laying up",
"breaking down",
"grinding (down)",
"wearing down",
"wearing out",
"paralyzing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"recruiting",
"rejuvenating",
"vitalizing",
"hardening",
"seasoning",
"toughening"
],
"antonyms":[
"beefing (up)",
"fortifying",
"strengthening"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the bodybuilder weakened once she eased off on her workouts"
],
"synonyms":[
"decaying",
"drooping",
"emaciating",
"fading",
"failing",
"flagging",
"going",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"sagging",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"wilting",
"withering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"wearing out",
"yielding",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"rotting",
"running down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalescing",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"gaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"weakened the juice with too much water"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulterating",
"cutting",
"diluting",
"extending",
"lacing",
"sophisticating",
"thinning",
"watering down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loading",
"befouling",
"contaminating",
"corrupting",
"defiling",
"dirtying",
"envenoming",
"fouling",
"infecting",
"poisoning",
"polluting",
"soiling",
"spoiling",
"sullying",
"tainting",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"manipulating",
"misrepresenting",
"tampering (with)",
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"falsifying",
"fudging",
"doctoring",
"spiking",
"attenuating",
"moderating",
"qualifying",
"tempering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fertilizing",
"larding",
"augmenting",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"supplementing",
"decontaminating",
"purifying",
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"distilling",
"filtering",
"flushing",
"leaching",
"pasteurizing",
"purging",
"refining",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"improving",
"compacting",
"concentrating",
"condensing"
],
"antonyms":[
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"richening",
"strengthening"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"weaknesses":{
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"his one weakness is his cockeyed optimism about everything"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerits",
"derelictions",
"failings",
"faults",
"foibles",
"frailties",
"shortcomings",
"sins",
"vices",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blots",
"spots",
"stains",
"blemishes",
"deficiencies",
"flaws",
"imperfections",
"minuses",
"nits",
"Achilles' heels",
"soft spots",
"corruptions",
"depravities",
"evils",
"immoralities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellences",
"perfections",
"integrities",
"moralities",
"probities",
"rectitudes"
],
"antonyms":[
"merits",
"virtues"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wealths":{
"a considerable amount":{
"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"
],
"examples":[
"a wealth of advice from all quarters on how they should spend their lottery winnings"
],
"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"
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"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"
],
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"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",
"mountains",
"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",
"yards"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"a wealthy man who likes to collect antique cars"
],
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"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weapon":{
"something used to defend":{
"examples":[
"Concealed weapons were not allowed in the building."
],
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"arm",
"armament",
"munitions",
"weaponry",
"aegis",
"egis",
"ammunition",
"armor",
"buckler",
"cover",
"defense",
"guard",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"security",
"shield",
"wall",
"ward",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"stronghold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is used to produce a result":{
"examples":[
"Poetry was her weapon of choice in the writing contest."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"determinant",
"expedient",
"factor",
"influence",
"ingredient",
"mechanism",
"tool",
"agency",
"agent",
"instrument",
"instrumentality",
"machinery",
"means",
"medium",
"ministry",
"organ",
"vehicle",
"activator",
"animator",
"catalyst",
"driver",
"energizer",
"executor",
"generator",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"instigator",
"launcher",
"mover",
"power",
"stimulus",
"trigger",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"occasion",
"reason",
"subagency",
"subagent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in equip , reequip":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"equip",
"reequip",
"arm",
"militarize",
"embattle",
"mechanize",
"mobilize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demilitarize",
"disarm",
"demobilize",
"denuclearize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wear down":{
"as in break down , wear out":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wearisome":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
"examples":[
"a wearisome lecture on civic responsibility"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"weary",
"wearying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wearisomeness":{
"as in boredom , weariness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blahs",
"boredom",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"ennui",
"restlessness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"tiresomeness",
"weariness",
"uniformity",
"humdrum",
"monotone",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diversity",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variability",
"variation",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"fascination",
"grip",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weaseled (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you won't be able to weasel out of your share of the work by feigning illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weave":{
"to cause to twine about one another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"as they have for the past two centuries, crafters continue to weave osiers into the distinctive baskets that are the island's trademark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disentangle",
"uncoil",
"untangle",
"untwine",
"unwind"
],
"related":[
"braid",
"plait",
"plat",
"pleach",
"blend",
"fuse",
"join",
"link",
"mix"
],
"synonyms":[
"enlace",
"entwine",
"implicate",
"interlace",
"intertwine",
"intertwist",
"interweave",
"inweave",
"lace",
"ply",
"twist",
"wreathe",
"writhe"
]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a van weaving through traffic with reckless speed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"parry",
"shirk",
"skirt",
"deflect",
"turn",
"slide",
"slip"
],
"synonyms":[
"dodge",
"duck",
"jink",
"sidestep",
"slalom",
"zigzag"
]
},
"to scatter or set here and there among other things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a political commentator who slyly weaves lies into the truth"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"insert",
"intermingle",
"mingle",
"mix",
"alternate",
"juxtapose",
"amalgamate",
"assimilate",
"blend",
"combine",
"commingle",
"embody",
"fuse",
"incorporate",
"integrate",
"merge"
],
"synonyms":[
"interlace",
"intersperse",
"interweave",
"lace",
"salt",
"thread",
"wreathe"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaves":{
"to cause to twine about one another":{
"examples":[
"as they have for the past two centuries, crafters continue to weave osiers into the distinctive baskets that are the island's trademark"
],
"synonyms":[
"enlaces",
"entwines",
"implicates",
"interlaces",
"intertwines",
"intertwists",
"interweaves",
"inweaves",
"laces",
"plies",
"twists",
"wreathes",
"writhes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braids",
"plaits",
"plats",
"pleaches",
"blends",
"fuses",
"joins",
"links",
"mixes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disentangles",
"uncoils",
"untangles",
"untwines",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to scatter or set here and there among other things":{
"examples":[
"a political commentator who slyly weaves lies into the truth"
],
"synonyms":[
"interlaces",
"intersperses",
"interweaves",
"laces",
"salts",
"threads",
"wreathes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inserts",
"intermingles",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"alternates",
"juxtaposes",
"amalgamates",
"assimilates",
"blends",
"combines",
"commingles",
"embodies",
"fuses",
"incorporates",
"integrates",
"merges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"examples":[
"a van weaving through traffic with reckless speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"dodges",
"ducks",
"jinks",
"sidesteps",
"slaloms",
"zigzags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoids",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"parries",
"shirks",
"skirts",
"deflects",
"turns",
"slides",
"slips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaving":{
"as in meandering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"meandering",
"bending",
"coiled",
"coiling",
"corkscrew",
"curled",
"curling",
"curved",
"curving",
"looped",
"looping",
"spiral",
"spiraling",
"spiralling",
"wavy",
"winding",
"devious",
"serpentine",
"sinuous",
"entwined",
"kinked",
"swirled",
"turned",
"turning",
"twined",
"twining",
"twisted",
"twisting",
"veering",
"warped",
"crooked",
"zigzag",
"zigzagging",
"bowed",
"rounded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"linear",
"right",
"straight",
"straightaway",
"straightforward",
"unbent",
"uncurled",
"untwisted",
"undeviating",
"unswerving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to twine about one another":{
"examples":[
"as they have for the past two centuries, crafters continue to weave osiers into the distinctive baskets that are the island's trademark"
],
"synonyms":[
"enlacing",
"entwining",
"implicating",
"interlacing",
"intertwining",
"intertwisting",
"interweaving",
"inweaving",
"lacing",
"plying",
"twisting",
"wreathing",
"writhing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braiding",
"plaiting",
"platting",
"pleaching",
"blending",
"fusing",
"joining",
"linking",
"mixing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disentangling",
"uncoiling",
"untangling",
"untwining",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to scatter or set here and there among other things":{
"examples":[
"a political commentator who slyly weaves lies into the truth"
],
"synonyms":[
"interlacing",
"interspersing",
"interweaving",
"lacing",
"salting",
"threading",
"wreathing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inserting",
"intermingling",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"alternating",
"juxtaposing",
"amalgamating",
"assimilating",
"blending",
"combining",
"commingling",
"embodying",
"fusing",
"incorporating",
"integrating",
"merging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"examples":[
"a van weaving through traffic with reckless speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"dodging",
"ducking",
"jinking",
"sidestepping",
"slaloming",
"zigzagging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"parrying",
"shirking",
"skirting",
"deflecting",
"turning",
"sliding",
"slipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"wedged":{
"firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge":{
"antonyms":[
"insecure",
"loose"
],
"examples":[
"the pebble in the heel of his shoe was pretty well wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dislodged",
"freed",
"loosened",
"unattached",
"unbound",
"undone",
"unfastened",
"unsecured",
"movable",
"moveable",
"yielding"
],
"related":[
"bonded",
"cemented",
"glued",
"anchored",
"clamped",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"impacted",
"implanted",
"attached",
"bound",
"fastened",
"secured",
"immovable",
"unyielding"
],
"synonyms":[
"fast",
"firm",
"frozen",
"jammed",
"lodged",
"set",
"snug",
"stuck",
"tight"
]
},
"to fit (people or things) into a tight space":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"managed to wedge one last book onto the bookshelf"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"filled",
"heaped",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed"
],
"synonyms":[
"crammed",
"crowded",
"crushed",
"jammed",
"rammed",
"sandwiched",
"shoehorned",
"squeezed",
"stuffed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"wee":{
"very small in size":{
"examples":[
"a wee baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomic",
"bitsy",
"bitty",
"infinitesimal",
"itty-bitty",
"itsy-bitsy",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"weeny",
"weensy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baby",
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"elfin",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"micro",
"mini",
"minikin",
"model",
"petite",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"insignificant",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"scrubby",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"monolithic",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"cavernous",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"vast",
"vasty",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"immense",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weeded (out)":{
"as in winnowed (out) , picked over":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"culled",
"picked over",
"screened",
"winnowed (out)",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"cherry-picked",
"choice",
"chosen",
"elect",
"favored",
"favorite",
"first-line",
"handpicked",
"picked",
"preferred",
"select",
"selected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in combed (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combed (out)",
"checked off",
"disregarded",
"deterred",
"staved off",
"warded (off)",
"ceased",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"suspended",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"obviated",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"prohibited",
"banished",
"deported",
"exiled",
"expelled",
"ousted",
"threw out",
"blackballed",
"blacklisted",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"banned",
"barred",
"closed out",
"counted (out)",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"froze out",
"ruled out",
"shut out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admitted",
"included",
"accepted",
"embraced",
"entertained",
"received",
"took in",
"welcomed",
"unbanned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"weekend bags":{
"as in weekenders , overnight bags":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overnight bags",
"overnight cases",
"weekenders",
"carryalls",
"carry-ons",
"grips",
"handbags",
"holdalls",
"portmanteaus",
"portmanteaux",
"suitcases",
"traveling bags",
"wallets",
"cosmetic cases",
"traveling cases",
"carpetbags",
"duffel bags",
"kit bags",
"kits",
"backpacks",
"haversacks",
"knapsacks",
"packsacks",
"rucksacks",
"attach\u00e9 cases",
"attach\u00e9s",
"briefcases",
"valises",
"baggages",
"bags",
"luggage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weenie":{
"a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits":{
"examples":[
"an inner-directed individual who could have cared less if others stuck the dreaded \" weenie \" label on him"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookworm",
"dink",
"dork",
"geek",
"grind",
"nerd",
"swot",
"wonk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-dome",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"brain",
"genius",
"academic",
"bookman",
"scholar",
"gearhead",
"techie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"goof-off",
"slacker",
"underachiever",
"lowbrow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weensy":{
"very small in size":{
"examples":[
"stumbled upon a weeny frog in the front yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomic",
"bitsy",
"bitty",
"infinitesimal",
"itty-bitty",
"itsy-bitsy",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baby",
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"elfin",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"micro",
"mini",
"minikin",
"model",
"petite",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"insignificant",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"scrubby",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"monolithic",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"cavernous",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"vast",
"vasty",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"immense",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weeping":{
"bending downward or forward":{
"examples":[
"with its long, weeping fronds, this plant makes a nice ornamental"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"bowing",
"declined",
"declining",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"descending",
"drooping",
"droopy",
"hanging",
"hung",
"inclining",
"nodding",
"pendulous",
"sagging",
"stooping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floppy",
"limp",
"dangling",
"falling",
"pendent",
"pendant",
"suspended",
"dipping",
"sinking",
"slumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erect",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbending",
"upright"
]
},
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"a weeping song about a long-lost love"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"woeful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in crying , sobbing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sniveling",
"sobbing",
"whimpering",
"whining",
"yammering",
"groan",
"moan",
"wail",
"keen",
"lament",
"lamentation",
"plaint",
"bawl",
"cry",
"howl",
"shriek",
"squall",
"whimper",
"whine",
"yelp",
"yowl"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cackle",
"chortle",
"chuckle",
"giggle",
"guffaw",
"laugh",
"snicker",
"snigger",
"titter",
"twitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water weeping through the basement wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"percolating",
"seeping",
"straining",
"sweating",
"transuding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"trickling",
"discharging",
"emitting",
"giving off",
"venting",
"emanating",
"flowing",
"springing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooding",
"gushing",
"pouring",
"streaming",
"surging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress":{
"examples":[
"the child was weeping over the death of his dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"blubbing",
"crying",
"sobbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greeting",
"grieving",
"keening",
"lamenting",
"mourning",
"howling",
"screaming",
"squalling",
"wailing",
"yowling",
"bleating",
"mewling",
"puling",
"whimpering",
"whining",
"sniffling",
"sniveling",
"snivelling",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sighing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"weigh":{
"to be of importance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"evidence that will weigh heavily against the defendant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"affect",
"concern",
"influence",
"sway",
"add up (to)",
"amount (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"count",
"import",
"matter",
"mean",
"signify"
]
},
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"weighed the options for weeks before making a decision"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
"related":[
"muse (upon)",
"reflect (on or upon)",
"reminisce",
"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
],
"synonyms":[
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"ponder",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"ruminate",
"study",
"think (about or over)",
"turn",
"wrestle (with)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weight":{
"the amount that something weighs":{
"examples":[
"because of a back condition, I'm not allowed to lift anything with a weight of over 10 pounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoirdupois",
"heaviness",
"heft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulk",
"mass",
"poundage",
"tonnage",
"deadweight",
"heftiness",
"massiveness",
"ponderousness",
"weightiness",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"substantiality",
"substantialness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or state of being important":{
"examples":[
"a matter of little weight that is a preoccupation solely of the news media"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"moment",
"momentousness",
"significance",
"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 mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported":{
"examples":[
"those books are a heavy weight to have to carry around all day"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"cargo",
"draft",
"freight",
"haul",
"lading",
"load",
"loading",
"payload"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consignment",
"boatload",
"carload",
"shipload",
"trainload",
"truckload",
"wagonload",
"ballast",
"deadweight",
"overload",
"surcharge",
"bale",
"bundle",
"pack",
"package",
"packet",
"parcel",
"shipment",
"manifest",
"body",
"bulk",
"mass"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special notice or importance given to something":{
"examples":[
"put extra weight on the matter by putting it at the top of the agenda"
],
"synonyms":[
"accent",
"accentuation",
"emphasis",
"stress",
"underscoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attention",
"concentration",
"focus",
"spotlight",
"consequence",
"import",
"moment",
"note",
"significance",
"value",
"worth",
"precedence",
"primacy",
"priority",
"top billing",
"consideration",
"heed",
"regard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimization",
"underemphasis",
"disregard",
"indifference"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasis"
]
},
"the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{
"examples":[
"the weight of the evidence supports my conclusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"body",
"brunt",
"bulk",
"chief",
"core",
"generality",
"heft",
"main",
"mass",
"staple"
],
"near synonyms":[
"majority",
"aggregate",
"amount",
"entirety",
"quantum",
"sum",
"sum total",
"total",
"totality",
"whole",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"marrow",
"meat",
"nature",
"pith",
"quintessence",
"root",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance",
"center",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"middle",
"nucleus",
"nut",
"seat",
"affair",
"argument",
"burden",
"crux",
"focus",
"gist",
"nub",
"pitch",
"point",
"purport",
"matter",
"motif",
"subject",
"text",
"theme",
"topic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessory",
"accessary",
"adjunct",
"appendage",
"extension",
"offshoot",
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient",
"division",
"part",
"piece",
"section",
"segment",
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"feature",
"quality",
"side"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"as a critic he has great weight in the theater world"
],
"synonyms":[
"authority",
"clout",
"credit",
"heft",
"in",
"influence",
"juice",
"leverage",
"pull",
"sway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluence",
"command",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"reign",
"scepter",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"consequence",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment",
"impact",
"impress",
"impression",
"imprint",
"mark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"finally decided to do something about his weight and began a rigorous program of diet and exercise"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"weighted the car with a ton of furniture and then headed off for college"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"encumber",
"freight",
"lade",
"laden",
"load",
"lumber",
"saddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clog",
"clutter",
"fill",
"pack",
"heap",
"mound",
"pile",
"stack",
"press",
"weigh",
"strain",
"tax",
"overburden",
"overload",
"overtax",
"surcharge",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"afflict",
"oppress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten",
"relieve"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburden",
"discharge",
"disencumber",
"unburden",
"unlade",
"unload"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"weight lifting":{
"as in gymnastics , athletics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aerobics",
"athletics",
"bodybuilding",
"body mechanics",
"calisthenics",
"gymnastics",
"isometrics",
"plyometrics",
"slimnastics",
"activity",
"conditioning",
"exercise",
"exertion",
"training",
"warm-up",
"workout",
"toning",
"trimming",
"physical therapy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weights":{
"a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported":{
"examples":[
"those books are a heavy weight to have to carry around all day"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdens",
"cargoes",
"cargos",
"drafts",
"freights",
"hauls",
"ladings",
"loadings",
"loads",
"payloads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consignments",
"boatloads",
"carloads",
"shiploads",
"trainloads",
"truckloads",
"wagonloads",
"ballasts",
"deadweights",
"overloads",
"surcharges",
"bales",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"shipments",
"manifests",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"masses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a special notice or importance given to something":{
"examples":[
"put extra weight on the matter by putting it at the top of the agenda"
],
"synonyms":[
"accents",
"accentuations",
"emphases",
"stresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attentions",
"concentrations",
"foci",
"focuses",
"spotlights",
"consequences",
"imports",
"moments",
"notes",
"significances",
"values",
"worths",
"precedences",
"primacies",
"priorities",
"top billings",
"considerations",
"heeds",
"regards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimizations",
"underemphases",
"disregards",
"indifferences"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphases"
]
},
"the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts":{
"examples":[
"the weight of the evidence supports my conclusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodies",
"brunts",
"bulks",
"chiefs",
"cores",
"generalities",
"hefts",
"mains",
"masses",
"staples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"majorities",
"aggregates",
"amounts",
"entireties",
"quanta",
"sums",
"sum totals",
"totalities",
"totals",
"wholes",
"bottoms",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"marrows",
"meats",
"natures",
"piths",
"quintessences",
"roots",
"souls",
"stuff",
"substances",
"centers",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"kernels",
"middles",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"nuts",
"seats",
"affairs",
"arguments",
"burdens",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"foci",
"focuses",
"gists",
"nubs",
"pitches",
"points",
"purports",
"matters",
"motifs",
"subjects",
"texts",
"themes",
"topics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accessories",
"accessaries",
"adjuncts",
"appendages",
"extensions",
"offshoots",
"components",
"constituents",
"elements",
"ingredients",
"divisions",
"parts",
"pieces",
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"ins",
"juices",
"leverages",
"pulls",
"sways"
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"commands",
"dominances",
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"masteries",
"predominances",
"reigns",
"scepters",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"consequences",
"eminences",
"importances",
"moments",
"impacts",
"impresses",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"marks"
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"weaknesses"
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"freights",
"ladens",
"lades",
"loads",
"lumbers",
"saddles"
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"clogs",
"clutters",
"fills",
"packs",
"heaps",
"mounds",
"piles",
"stacks",
"presses",
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"strains",
"taxes",
"overburdens",
"overloads",
"overtaxes",
"surcharges",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"afflicts",
"oppresses"
],
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"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens",
"relieves"
],
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"discharges",
"disencumbers",
"unburdens",
"unlades",
"unloads"
]
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"noun",
"verb"
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"noun"
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"bizarro",
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"crazy",
"curious",
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"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weirdo",
"wild"
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"abnormal",
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"flaky",
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"fantastic",
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"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
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"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
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"weird sounds from the woods just beyond our campsite"
],
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"creepy",
"eerie",
"eery",
"haunting",
"spookish",
"spooky",
"uncanny",
"unearthly"
],
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"ghastly",
"ghostlike",
"ghostly",
"ghoulish",
"spectral",
"bizarre",
"curious",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"unaccustomed",
"uncommon",
"unusual",
"metaphysical",
"preternatural",
"supernatural",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious",
"puzzling",
"dreadful",
"fearsome",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"terrible",
"terrifying"
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"common",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
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"usual",
"natural",
"expected",
"familiar",
"predictable"
],
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"examples":[
"a self-styled, contemporary witch, she sells herbal mixtures that she claims are weird potions"
],
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"magic",
"magical",
"mystic",
"numinous",
"occult"
],
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"enchanted",
"spellbound",
"bewitching",
"charming",
"conjuring",
"enchanting",
"wiling",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"extraordinary",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"divining",
"forecasting",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"foretelling",
"fortune-telling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"soothsaying",
"metaphysical",
"preternatural",
"unearthly",
"paranormal",
"supernormal"
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"commonplace",
"everyday",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
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"examples":[
"a weird little plant that we found growing in the garden"
],
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"curious",
"extraordinary",
"funny",
"odd",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"peculiar",
"queer",
"rare",
"singular",
"strange",
"unaccustomed",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual"
],
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"bizarre",
"eccentric",
"far-out",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"oddball",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"way-out",
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"atypical",
"exceptional",
"irregular",
"newsworthy",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"noticeable",
"particular",
"remarkable",
"special"
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"unexceptional",
"expected",
"predictable",
"familiar",
"normal",
"regular",
"typical"
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"common",
"ordinary",
"plain",
"usual"
]
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
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"composed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
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"as a curious observer, he was weirded out by the fact that members of the sect seemed to have no life outside of it"
],
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"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated"
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"angered",
"annoyed",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"chivied",
"chivvied",
"exasperated",
"fretted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"harassed",
"harried",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"pestered",
"piqued",
"put off",
"put out",
"riled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"bedeviled",
"haunted",
"plagued",
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jarred",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"shook up",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"unnerved"
],
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"agitated",
"ailed",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"derailed",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distempered",
"distracted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"flurried",
"frazzled",
"freaked (out)",
"fussed",
"hagrode",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried"
]
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"verb"
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"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
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"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
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"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
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"angering",
"annoying",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"exasperating",
"fretting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"pestering",
"piquing",
"putting off",
"putting out",
"riling",
"vexing",
"bedeviling",
"haunting",
"plaguing",
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"jarring",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"shaking up",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving"
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"agitating",
"ailing",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"derailing",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distempering",
"distracting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"flurrying",
"frazzling",
"freaking (out)",
"fussing",
"hagriding",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"welcome mat":{
"as in":{
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"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in combines , fuses":{
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"coalesces",
"combines",
"fuses",
"unites",
"cords",
"strings",
"wires",
"articulates",
"dovetails",
"integrates",
"interlocks",
"intermeshes",
"catenates",
"chains",
"compounds",
"concatenates",
"conjugates",
"connects",
"couples",
"hitches",
"hooks",
"interconnects",
"interlinks",
"joins",
"links",
"yokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disjoints",
"dissevers",
"disunites",
"separates",
"unchains",
"uncouples",
"unhitches",
"unlinks",
"unyokes",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"divides",
"parts",
"splits",
"cleaves",
"ruptures",
"severs",
"sunders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"welfare":{
"the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success":{
"examples":[
"the social worker was pleased at the improvement in the child's welfare"
],
"synonyms":[
"good",
"interest",
"weal",
"well-being"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"successfulness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill-being"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welfare state":{
"as in country , state":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commonwealth",
"country",
"land",
"nation",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"state",
"client state",
"colony",
"condominium",
"dependency",
"mandate",
"province",
"settlement",
"soil",
"trust territory",
"democracy",
"dictatorship",
"monarchy",
"monocracy",
"oligarchy",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"theocracy",
"domain",
"dominion",
"empire",
"kingdom",
"realm",
"republic",
"great power",
"power",
"sea power",
"superpower",
"world power",
"duchy",
"dukedom",
"emirate",
"principality",
"seigniory",
"seignory",
"sultanate",
"city-state",
"microstate",
"ministate",
"nation-state",
"fatherland",
"homeland",
"motherland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"well-advised":{
"as in prudent , judicious":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"brainy",
"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thoughtless",
"unintelligent",
"vacuous",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-done":{
"as in perfect , flawless":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"faultless",
"finished",
"flawless",
"meticulous",
"perfect",
"perfected",
"polished",
"refined",
"adept",
"adroit",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"expert",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"neat",
"practiced",
"practised",
"skillful",
"workmanlike",
"artful",
"artistic",
"sophisticated",
"exact",
"precise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"clumsy",
"crude",
"jerry-built",
"jerry-rigged",
"jury-rigged",
"rough",
"rough-and-ready",
"rough-and-tumble",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"unrefined",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect",
"imprecise",
"inexact"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fried , roasted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baked",
"boiled",
"braised",
"broiled",
"fried",
"grilled",
"heated",
"roasted",
"saut\u00e9ed",
"sauteed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"scorched",
"cooked",
"overdone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raw",
"uncooked",
"unheated",
"rare"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-fixed":{
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"she was always hitting up her well-fixed relatives for \"loans\""
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-groomed":{
"being clean and in good order":{
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"messy",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
],
"examples":[
"the famously well-groomed farms of the Amish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"slipshod",
"sloppy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"nasty",
"sordid",
"squalid",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"rumpled",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"disorganized",
"unsystematic"
],
"related":[
"dapper",
"natty",
"saucy",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"rakish",
"sleek",
"streamlined",
"taut",
"organized",
"straight",
"systematic"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"groomed",
"kempt",
"neat",
"orderly",
"picked up",
"prim",
"shipshape",
"smug",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trig",
"trim",
"uncluttered"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-grounded":{
"according to the rules of logic":{
"antonyms":[
"illegitimate",
"illogical",
"incoherent",
"inconsequent",
"inconsequential",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unsound",
"weak"
],
"examples":[
"counsel for the defense presented a well-grounded case for acquittal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casuistic",
"casuistical",
"eristic",
"eristical",
"fallacious",
"misleading",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious",
"unarticulated",
"unscientific",
"absurd",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"fatuous",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"loony",
"looney",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"senseless",
"thoughtless",
"uncompelling",
"unconvincing"
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"a priori",
"syllogistic",
"cognitive",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"justifiable",
"maintainable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tenable"
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"analytical",
"coherent",
"consequent",
"good",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"sound",
"valid",
"well-founded"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"widely known":{
"examples":[
"an anchorwoman so well-known that she passes for a local celebrity"
],
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"big-name",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"star",
"visible"
],
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"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"infamous",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"exceptional",
"great",
"illustrious",
"leading",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"remarkable",
"supereminent",
"superior",
"important",
"significant",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"respected",
"favorite",
"popular",
"preferred",
"estimable",
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"formidable",
"redoubtable"
],
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"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"inconspicuous",
"undistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"unpopular"
],
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"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unfamous",
"unknown",
"unsung"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
"examples":[
"any well-read person would recognize the quotation"
],
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"educated",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"lettered",
"literate",
"scholarly"
],
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"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"didactic",
"didactical",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"homeschooled",
"self-educated",
"self-instructed",
"self-taught",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"versed",
"overeducated",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic"
],
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"uncivilized",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"lowbrow",
"semiliterate",
"unintellectual",
"ill-bred",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable",
"uninstructed",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored",
"semiliterate",
"undereducated"
],
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"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unscholarly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"having many different skills, abilities, or areas of knowledge":{
"examples":[
"She was a well-rounded student having studied everything from physics to fine art."
],
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"multiskilled",
"multitalented",
"adaptable",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"protean",
"universal",
"versatile",
"general-purpose",
"mixed-use",
"multipurpose",
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"able",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"expert",
"masterful",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"accomplished",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso",
"educated",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"variable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"amateur",
"inexperienced",
"amateurish",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wellspring":{
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"the nation's colleges and universities were a wellspring for political activism and unrest"
],
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"cradle",
"font",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold",
"baseline",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an abundant source":{
"examples":[
"a gossip who is a wellspring of juicy information about the latest goings-on around town"
],
"synonyms":[
"argosy",
"cornucopia",
"gold mine",
"mine",
"mother lode",
"treasure trove"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armory",
"repository",
"stockpot",
"store",
"storehouse",
"treasure-house",
"cache",
"hoard",
"stash",
"bonanza",
"Golconda",
"gravy train",
"honeypot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black hole",
"sinkhole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welts":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
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"examples":[
"I'll hand ye a few welts with me stick and then we'll see how ye feel!"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wend":{
"to move from one place to another":{
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"examples":[
"We wended through the narrow streets."
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went (for)":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those cars go for $25,000"
],
"synonyms":[
"brought",
"cost",
"fetched",
"ran",
"run",
"sold (for)"
],
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"listed (for)",
"amounted (to)",
"came (to)",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"commanded",
"exacted",
"asked",
"demanded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take pleasure in":{
"examples":[
"I could go for a cold beer right about now."
],
"synonyms":[
"adored",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"got off (on)",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"rejoiced (in)",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"ate (up)",
"devoured",
"drank (in)",
"feasted (on)",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"cottoned (to)",
"favored",
"preferred",
"indulged (in)",
"luxuriated (in)",
"wallowed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"loathed",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a favorable opinion of":{
"examples":[
"I hope they go for my proposal."
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"approved (of)",
"cared (for)",
"countenanced",
"favored",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"subscribed (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"backed (up)",
"concurred (in)",
"stood by",
"supported",
"sustained",
"upheld",
"bore",
"endured",
"tolerated",
"assented (to)",
"consented (to)",
"commended",
"recommended",
"enjoyed",
"liked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacklisted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"damned",
"denounced",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"disliked",
"minded",
"detested",
"hated",
"loathed",
"dissented (from)",
"objected (to)",
"opposed"
],
"antonyms":[
"disapproved (of)",
"discountenanced",
"disfavored",
"frowned (on or upon)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase",
"verb"
]
},
"went down":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"when's the drug deal supposed to go down ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befell",
"betided",
"came",
"came about",
"came down",
"came off",
"chanced",
"cooked",
"did",
"happed",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired",
"was",
"went on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke",
"developed",
"rose",
"shaped (up)",
"arose",
"came up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprang (up)",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fell out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"proceeded",
"went off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went one better":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"The two siblings were always trying to go one better than the other."
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outclassed",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outgunned",
"outmatched",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"towered (over)",
"transcended"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upped",
"outpaced",
"outraced",
"outran",
"overpassed",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"outcompeted",
"outperformed",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"shamed",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"outbalanced",
"outweighed",
"overbore",
"overshadowed",
"trumped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"welling (up)":{
"as in running over , boiling over":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boiling over",
"running over",
"spilling",
"overfilling",
"overflowing",
"flowing",
"flushing",
"gushing",
"pouring",
"sluicing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"streaming",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overwhelming",
"submerging",
"submersing",
"swamping",
"washing (over)",
"brimming",
"cascading",
"slopping",
"sloshing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weepy":{
"given to expressing strong emotion (as sorrow) by readily shedding tears":{
"examples":[
"I'm weepy enough that I even cry at happy endings to movies and books"
],
"synonyms":[
"lachrymose",
"tearful",
"teary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrative",
"effusive",
"emotional",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"sentimental",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"keening",
"sniffling",
"sniveling",
"sobbing",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"whimpering",
"misty",
"misty-eyed",
"moist",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"grieving",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"lugubrious",
"brokenhearted",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"miserable",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"chuckling",
"giggling",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"gay",
"happy",
"jocose",
"jovial",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-informed":{
"having information especially as a result of study or experience":{
"examples":[
"patients considering LASIK surgery should be well-informed about the risks and possible complications"
],
"synonyms":[
"abreast",
"acquainted",
"au courant",
"conversant",
"familiar",
"informed",
"knowledgeable",
"up",
"up-to-date",
"versed"
],
"related":[
"alive",
"aware",
"cognizant",
"conscious",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"sensible",
"sentient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insensible",
"unaware",
"unconscious",
"unmindful",
"blind",
"oblivious",
"unknowing",
"unwitting",
"inattentive",
"unheeding"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorant",
"unacquainted",
"unfamiliar",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weakliness":{
"as in weakness , infirmity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"infirmity",
"invalidism",
"invalidity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"weakness",
"affliction",
"ailment",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"dysfunction",
"disfunction",
"malady",
"trouble",
"upset",
"hypochondria",
"malaise",
"sickishness",
"illness",
"indisposition",
"sickness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"comeback",
"convalescence",
"healing",
"mending",
"rally",
"recovery",
"recuperation",
"rehab",
"rehabilitation",
"snapback",
"fettle",
"fitness",
"shape",
"hardiness",
"heartiness",
"lustiness",
"robustness",
"ruggedness",
"stamina",
"strength",
"toughness",
"vigor",
"vigorousness",
"vitality",
"bloom",
"flush",
"flushness",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"well-adjusted":{
"able to deal with one's own life and with other people in a normal or healthy way":{
"examples":[
"He is now a happy, well-adjusted adult."
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"went back on":{
"to break a promise or agreement":{
"examples":[
"He went back on his decision to move to the west coast."
],
"synonyms":[
"backed down",
"backed off",
"backed out",
"copped out",
"finked out",
"reneged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chickened (out)",
"wimped out",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"abjured",
"abnegated",
"disavowed",
"forswore",
"foreswore",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"repudiated",
"retracted",
"took back",
"unsaid",
"withdrew",
"begged off",
"cried off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhered (to)",
"followed through (with)",
"complied (with)",
"fulfilled",
"honored",
"kept",
"satisfied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another":{
"examples":[
"She went back on the group and took up with a better-funded one."
],
"synonyms":[
"defected (from)",
"deserted",
"ratted (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"abdicated",
"abjured",
"apostatized",
"cut off",
"disowned",
"forsook",
"quit",
"quitted",
"rejected",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"reneged",
"departed",
"left",
"went",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhered (to)",
"clung (to)",
"stuck (to or with)",
"cherished",
"cultivated",
"fostered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be unfaithful or disloyal to":{
"examples":[
"She suspected that he had gone back on her during her time away."
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbed",
"betrayed",
"crossed",
"double-crossed",
"sold (out)",
"two-timed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gave away",
"informed (on)",
"peached",
"ratted (on)",
"shopped",
"snitched (on)",
"split (on)",
"told (on)",
"turned in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"saved",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"stood by"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"welcome mats":{
"as in open doors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weasels (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you won't be able to weasel out of your share of the work by feigning illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"finesses",
"gets around",
"scapes",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuffles (out of)",
"shuns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)",
"bans",
"bars",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"precludes",
"rules out",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"skirts",
"foils",
"foxes",
"frustrates",
"outfoxes",
"outsmarts",
"outwits",
"overreaches",
"thwarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weakling":{
"lacking strength of will or character":{
"examples":[
"argues that in a time of war, the country can't afford to have a weakling president"
],
"synonyms":[
"characterless",
"effete",
"frail",
"invertebrate",
"limp-wristed",
"milk-and-water",
"namby-pamby",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"weak",
"weak-kneed",
"weakened",
"wet",
"wimpish",
"wimpy",
"wishy-washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"forceless",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"powerless",
"emasculated",
"unnerved",
"lamblike",
"meek",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"corrupt",
"dastardly",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"fainthearted",
"lily-livered",
"nebbishy",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"sissy",
"timid",
"infirm",
"irresolute",
"vacillating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"determined",
"mettlesome",
"resolute",
"unrelenting",
"courageous",
"stalwart",
"stouthearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"backboned",
"firm",
"hard",
"strong",
"tough"
]
},
"a person lacking in physical strength":{
"examples":[
"he had been a weakling until high school, when he started working out to put on muscle"
],
"synonyms":[
"softy",
"softie",
"wimp",
"wuss",
"wussy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pushover",
"milksop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"powerhouse"
]
},
"a person without strength of character":{
"examples":[
"only a weakling would be willing to lie to save himself from punishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"doormat",
"jellyfish",
"namby-pamby",
"pushover",
"reed",
"wimp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coward",
"milquetoast",
"mouse",
"nebbish",
"nervous Nellie",
"nervous Nelly",
"pussy",
"wuss",
"wussy",
"sheep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mensch"
],
"antonyms":[
"stalwart"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"went on":{
"to take place":{
"examples":[
"what in the world is going on in there?"
],
"synonyms":[
"befell",
"betided",
"came",
"came about",
"came down",
"came off",
"chanced",
"cooked",
"did",
"happed",
"happened",
"occurred",
"passed",
"transpired",
"was",
"went down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke",
"developed",
"rose",
"shaped (up)",
"arose",
"came up",
"cropped (up)",
"materialized",
"sprang (up)",
"sprung (up)",
"intervened",
"fell out",
"followed",
"resulted",
"turned out",
"proceeded",
"went off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"my, but Aunt Betty does go on about all of her aches and pains"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathered (on)",
"maundered",
"rambled",
"ran on",
"rattled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviated",
"digressed",
"strayed",
"wandered",
"sidetracked",
"blabbed",
"blabbered",
"blithered",
"bumbled",
"burbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wedge":{
"to fit (people or things) into a tight space":{
"examples":[
"managed to wedge one last book onto the bookshelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"jam",
"ram",
"sandwich",
"shoehorn",
"squeeze",
"stuff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fill",
"heap",
"jam-pack",
"load",
"pack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-beings":{
"the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success":{
"examples":[
"we're only doing this for your own well-being"
],
"synonyms":[
"good",
"interest",
"weal",
"welfare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"successfulness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill-being"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welcome":{
"to receive or accept gladly or readily":{
"examples":[
"the eager recruits welcomed every new project with which they were presented"
],
"synonyms":[
"drink (in)",
"eat (up)",
"embrace",
"lap (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"espouse",
"take up",
"greet",
"hail",
"enjoy",
"like",
"prefer",
"cherry-pick",
"choose",
"cull",
"decide (on)",
"elect",
"handpick",
"name",
"opt (for)",
"pick",
"select",
"single (out)",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balk (at)",
"decline",
"pass up",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn",
"throw over",
"turn down",
"demur (to)",
"object (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"a welcome chance to rest after a long journey"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
]
},
"an expression of goodwill upon meeting":{
"examples":[
"offered a warm welcome to the stranger"
],
"synonyms":[
"greeting",
"hello",
"salutation",
"salute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ave",
"hail",
"amenities",
"civilities",
"pleasantries",
"regards",
"respects",
"wishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"adieu",
"bon voyage",
"cong\u00e9",
"congee",
"farewell",
"Godspeed",
"good-bye",
"good-by"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"went like clockwork":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"Once we figured out what to do, the job went like clockwork ."
],
"synonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"cooked",
"percolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languished",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"fell down",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"washed out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"westerlies":{
"as in winds , gales":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"flurries",
"gales",
"headwinds",
"northeasters",
"northers",
"northwesters",
"southeasters",
"southwesters",
"winds",
"airs",
"breaths",
"breezes",
"puffs",
"wafts",
"zephyrs",
"currents",
"drafts",
"whiffs",
"sea breezes",
"squalls",
"tempests",
"tornadoes",
"tornados",
"windstorms",
"airflows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tailwinds",
"calms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weirs":{
"as in barrages , stanks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barrages",
"milldams",
"stanks",
"floodgates",
"sluices",
"barricades",
"barriers",
"blocks",
"locks",
"canals",
"channels",
"ditches",
"gutters",
"troughs",
"breastworks",
"bulwarks",
"earthworks",
"ramparts",
"breakwaters",
"jetties",
"seawalls",
"dams",
"dikes",
"embankments",
"heads",
"levees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weekenders":{
"as in overnight bags , weekend bags":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overnight bags",
"overnight cases",
"weekend bags",
"carryalls",
"carry-ons",
"grips",
"handbags",
"holdalls",
"portmanteaus",
"portmanteaux",
"suitcases",
"traveling bags",
"wallets",
"cosmetic cases",
"traveling cases",
"carpetbags",
"duffel bags",
"kit bags",
"kits",
"backpacks",
"haversacks",
"knapsacks",
"packsacks",
"rucksacks",
"attach\u00e9 cases",
"attach\u00e9s",
"briefcases",
"valises",
"baggages",
"bags",
"luggage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wet-nursed":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"wet-nursed the woman's baby until she was well enough to do it herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-fed",
"nursed",
"suckled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-fed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"weaned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"recent college grads quickly learn that employers won't wet-nurse them the way that their teachers did"
],
"synonyms":[
"babied",
"cockered",
"coddled",
"cosseted",
"dandled",
"indulged",
"mollycoddled",
"nursed",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"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"
]
},
"weeny":{
"very small in size":{
"examples":[
"stumbled upon a weeny frog in the front yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomic",
"bitsy",
"bitty",
"infinitesimal",
"itty-bitty",
"itsy-bitsy",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baby",
"diminutive",
"dwarf",
"elfin",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"micro",
"mini",
"minikin",
"model",
"petite",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"small",
"smallish",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"insignificant",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"scrubby",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"monolithic",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"cavernous",
"immeasurable",
"infinite",
"vast",
"vasty",
"voluminous"
],
"antonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"immense",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"titanic",
"tremendous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-meaning":{
"as in generous , benevolent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"generous",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"altruistic",
"benevolent",
"charitable",
"unenvious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covetous",
"envious",
"green-eyed",
"invidious",
"jaundiced",
"jealous",
"resentful",
"begrudging",
"grudging",
"avaricious",
"grasping",
"greedy",
"rapacious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weaseling":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
"examples":[
"the polite guest chose to weasel rather than admit that he didn't like the meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"equivocating",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"tergiversating",
"waffling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flip-flopping",
"yo-yoing",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shunning",
"sidestepping",
"skirting",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"straddling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wearing on":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"His constant complaining is starting to wear on his friends."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weird out":{
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"as a curious observer, he was weirded out by the fact that members of the sect seemed to have no life outside of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"ail",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"bother",
"concern",
"derail",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distemper",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"flurry",
"frazzle",
"freak (out)",
"fuss",
"hagride",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"anger",
"annoy",
"bug",
"chafe",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"exasperate",
"fret",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"harass",
"harry",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pester",
"pique",
"put off",
"put out",
"rile",
"vex",
"bedevil",
"haunt",
"plague",
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"jar",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"shake up",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit",
"unnerve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"compose",
"quiet",
"settle",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wet-nursing":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"wet-nursed the woman's baby until she was well enough to do it herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-feeding",
"nursing",
"suckling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-feeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"recent college grads quickly learn that employers won't wet-nurse them the way that their teachers did"
],
"synonyms":[
"babying",
"cockering",
"coddling",
"cosseting",
"dandling",
"indulging",
"mollycoddling",
"nursing",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"mothering",
"obliging",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"soothing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlling",
"disciplining",
"restraining",
"oppressing",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"slighting",
"molesting",
"outraging",
"violating",
"harassing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring",
"oppressing",
"persecuting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"victimizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"abusing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"maltreating",
"manhandling",
"mishandling",
"mistreating",
"misusing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wedlock":{
"a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people":{
"examples":[
"joined the happy couple in holy wedlock"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjugality",
"connubiality",
"marriage",
"match",
"matrimony"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monogamy",
"bigamy",
"polyandry",
"polygamy",
"polygyny",
"intermarriage",
"miscegenation",
"mixed marriage",
"remarriage",
"cohabitation",
"common-law marriage",
"civil union",
"domestic partnership",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"relationship",
"betrothal",
"engagement",
"espousal",
"hand",
"pledge",
"promise",
"proposal",
"troth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"annulment",
"divorce",
"separation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welterweights":{
"as in heavyweights , featherweights":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bantamweights",
"cruiserweights",
"featherweights",
"flyweights",
"heavyweights",
"light heavyweights",
"lightweights",
"middleweights",
"superheavyweights",
"palookas",
"sluggers",
"stumblebums",
"boxers",
"fighters",
"gladiators",
"prizefighters",
"pugilists",
"pugs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wetted":{
"containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water":{
"examples":[
"I left the car windows open while it rained, and the seats got all wet"
],
"synonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"watery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless"
]
},
"marked by or abounding with rain":{
"examples":[
"a wet and dreary day"
],
"synonyms":[
"pouring",
"precipitating",
"rainy",
"stormy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drippy",
"drizzling",
"drizzly",
"misty",
"mizzly",
"spitting",
"sprinkling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"designated a driver so the others could get wet and make it home safely at the end of the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way":{
"examples":[
"things get more than a little wet during the opera's big death scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"chocolate-box",
"cloying",
"corny",
"drippy",
"fruity",
"gooey",
"lovey-dovey",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"novelettish",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"slushy",
"soppy",
"soupy",
"spoony",
"spooney",
"sticky",
"sugarcoated",
"sugary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamy",
"misty-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"nostalgic",
"starry-eyed",
"feel-good",
"fuzzy",
"melodramatic",
"soap-operatic",
"soapy",
"sudsy",
"flat",
"insipid",
"soft-boiled",
"tasteless",
"vapid",
"watery",
"cutesy",
"twee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unadulterated",
"unvarnished",
"antisentimental",
"cynical",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-edged",
"hardheaded"
],
"antonyms":[
"unsentimental"
]
},
"lacking strength of will or character":{
"examples":[
"employees of the company despised their boss as a wet and ineffectual bloke"
],
"synonyms":[
"characterless",
"effete",
"frail",
"invertebrate",
"limp-wristed",
"milk-and-water",
"namby-pamby",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"weak",
"weak-kneed",
"weakened",
"weakling",
"wimpish",
"wimpy",
"wishy-washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"forceless",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"powerless",
"emasculated",
"unnerved",
"lamblike",
"meek",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"corrupt",
"dastardly",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"fainthearted",
"lily-livered",
"nebbishy",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"sissy",
"timid",
"infirm",
"irresolute",
"vacillating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"determined",
"mettlesome",
"resolute",
"unrelenting",
"courageous",
"stalwart",
"stouthearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"backboned",
"firm",
"hard",
"strong",
"tough"
]
},
"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"examples":[
"winced as he walked out into the wet without any protection"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloudburst",
"deluge",
"downfall",
"downpour",
"rain",
"rainfall",
"rainstorm",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precipitation",
"shower",
"thundershower",
"thunderstorm",
"weather"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzle",
"mist",
"mizzle",
"scud",
"spit",
"sprinkle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"you need to wet your hair thoroughly first"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"waterlog",
"water-soak",
"wet down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"humidify",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"moisturize",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"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":[
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wells (up)":{
"as in runs over , boils over":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boils over",
"runs over",
"spills",
"overfills",
"overflows",
"flows",
"flushes",
"gushes",
"pours",
"sluices",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"streams",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overwhelms",
"submerges",
"submerses",
"swamps",
"washes (over)",
"brims",
"cascades",
"slops",
"sloshes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recedes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"welcomed":{
"to receive or accept gladly or readily":{
"examples":[
"the eager recruits welcomed every new project with which they were presented"
],
"synonyms":[
"ate (up)",
"drank (in)",
"embraced",
"lapped (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopted",
"espoused",
"took up",
"greeted",
"hailed",
"enjoyed",
"liked",
"preferred",
"cherry-picked",
"chose",
"culled",
"decided (on)",
"elected",
"handpicked",
"named",
"opted (for)",
"picked",
"selected",
"singled (out)",
"took"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balked (at)",
"declined",
"passed up",
"refused",
"rejected",
"spurned",
"threw over",
"turned down",
"demurred (to)",
"objected (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weedy":{
"growing thickly and vigorously":{
"examples":[
"weedy vegetation in the abandoned lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"prosperous",
"rampant",
"rank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavish",
"profuse",
"overgrown",
"overrun",
"verdant",
"close",
"dense",
"tangled",
"thick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dormant",
"blighted",
"stunted"
],
"antonyms":[
"sparse"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weathers":{
"as in thunderstorms , thundershowers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"precipitations",
"showers",
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downfalls",
"downpours",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"storms",
"wets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come safely through":{
"examples":[
"we've weathered worse crises, and so we'll survive this one"
],
"synonyms":[
"rides (out)",
"survives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlasts",
"outlives",
"wears out",
"pulls through",
"abides",
"continues",
"endures",
"hangs on",
"holds on",
"holds out",
"holds up",
"lasts",
"leads",
"persists",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"withstands",
"breathes",
"exists",
"is",
"lives",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croaks",
"deceases",
"departs",
"dies",
"expires",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"perishes",
"succumbs",
"disappears",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"vanishes",
"ceases",
"ends",
"stops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"weakens":{
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"weeks of hardship in the desert had greatly weakened them"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"devitalizes",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"etiolates",
"prostrates",
"saps",
"softens",
"tires",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cripples",
"disables",
"hamstrings",
"incapacitates",
"depletes",
"depresses",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"unmans",
"washes out",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"invalids",
"lays up",
"breaks down",
"grinds (down)",
"wears down",
"wears out",
"paralyzes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"recruits",
"rejuvenates",
"vitalizes",
"hardens",
"seasons",
"toughens"
],
"antonyms":[
"beefs (up)",
"fortifies",
"strengthens"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the bodybuilder weakened once she eased off on her workouts"
],
"synonyms":[
"decays",
"droops",
"emaciates",
"fades",
"fails",
"flags",
"goes",
"lags",
"languishes",
"sags",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"wilts",
"withers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"wears out",
"yields",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"rots",
"runs down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesces",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"gains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"weakened the juice with too much water"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulterates",
"cuts",
"dilutes",
"extends",
"laces",
"sophisticates",
"thins",
"waters down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loads",
"befouls",
"contaminates",
"corrupts",
"defiles",
"dirties",
"envenoms",
"fouls",
"infects",
"poisons",
"pollutes",
"soils",
"spoils",
"sullies",
"taints",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"manipulates",
"misrepresents",
"tampers (with)",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"falsifies",
"fudges",
"doctors",
"spikes",
"attenuates",
"moderates",
"qualifies",
"tempers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fertilizes",
"lards",
"augments",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"supplements",
"decontaminates",
"purifies",
"clarifies",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"distills",
"distils",
"filters",
"flushes",
"leaches",
"pasteurizes",
"purges",
"refines",
"betters",
"enhances",
"improves",
"compacts",
"concentrates",
"condenses"
],
"antonyms":[
"enriches",
"fortifies",
"richens",
"strengthens"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wet-nurse":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"wet-nursed the woman's baby until she was well enough to do it herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-feed",
"nurse",
"suckle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-feed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"recent college grads quickly learn that employers won't wet-nurse them the way that their teachers did"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby",
"cocker",
"coddle",
"cosset",
"dandle",
"indulge",
"mollycoddle",
"nurse",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
"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"
]
},
"weirdo":{
"different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion":{
"examples":[
"he saw some weirdo lights in the sky and immediately concluded that it had to be a UFO"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarre",
"bizarro",
"cranky",
"crazy",
"curious",
"eccentric",
"erratic",
"far-out",
"funky",
"funny",
"kinky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"odd",
"off-kilter",
"off-the-wall",
"offbeat",
"out-of-the-way",
"outlandish",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"rum",
"screwy",
"spaced-out",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"addlepated",
"flaky",
"extraordinary",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"freak",
"freakish",
"freaky",
"phantasmagoric",
"phantasmagorical",
"phenomenal",
"atypical",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking",
"atrocious",
"outrageous",
"shocking",
"crotchety",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"nonmainstream",
"out-there",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"conformist",
"conservative",
"conventional",
"expected",
"familiar",
"knee-jerk",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person of odd or whimsical habits":{
"examples":[
"one of those weirdos that the rest of the town always seemed to be talking about"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"flake",
"fruitcake",
"head case",
"kook",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"zany"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bohemian",
"maverick",
"nonconformist",
"quixote",
"coot",
"geezer",
"curio",
"rarity",
"freak",
"fantast",
"fantastico"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conformer",
"conformist",
"follower",
"sheep"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"wells":{
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"his quirkily dysfunctional family proved to be a bottomless well of inspiration for the novelist"
],
"synonyms":[
"cradles",
"fonts",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"origins",
"roots",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wellsprings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginnings",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"baselines",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small often deep body of water":{
"examples":[
"the spot where the spring bubbles up to the surface and forms a deep well"
],
"synonyms":[
"billabongs",
"meres",
"pools",
"puddles",
"stanks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basins",
"holes",
"sinkholes",
"swimming pools",
"lakes",
"ponds",
"water holes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wellsprings":{
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"the nation's colleges and universities were a wellspring for political activism and unrest"
],
"synonyms":[
"cradles",
"fonts",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"origins",
"roots",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginnings",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"baselines",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an abundant source":{
"examples":[
"a gossip who is a wellspring of juicy information about the latest goings-on around town"
],
"synonyms":[
"argosies",
"cornucopias",
"gold mines",
"mines",
"mother lodes",
"treasure troves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armories",
"repositories",
"stockpots",
"storehouses",
"stores",
"treasure-houses",
"caches",
"hoards",
"stashes",
"bonanzas",
"Golcondas",
"gravy trains",
"honeypots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black holes",
"sinkholes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weekend bag":{
"as in weekender , overnight bag":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overnight bag",
"overnight case",
"weekender",
"carryall",
"carry-on",
"grip",
"handbag",
"holdall",
"portmanteau",
"suitcase",
"traveling bag",
"wallet",
"cosmetic case",
"traveling case",
"carpetbag",
"duffel bag",
"kit",
"kit bag",
"backpack",
"haversack",
"knapsack",
"packsack",
"rucksack",
"attach\u00e9",
"attach\u00e9 case",
"briefcase",
"valise",
"baggage",
"bags",
"luggage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weighed down":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummed (out)",
"burdened",
"dashed",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"got down",
"oppressed",
"saddened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailed",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"afflicted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dismayed",
"dispirited",
"unnerved",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"assured",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"excited",
"inspired",
"stimulated",
"elated",
"exhilarated",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"uplifted"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"buoyed",
"cheered (up)",
"gladdened",
"lightened",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-spoken":{
"able to express oneself clearly and well":{
"examples":[
"a well-spoken advocate for the legal rights of the underprivileged"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulate",
"eloquent",
"fluent",
"silver-tongued"
],
"near synonyms":[
"facile",
"glib",
"smooth-tongued",
"voluble",
"expressive",
"outspoken",
"verbal",
"vocal",
"blabby",
"chatty",
"garrulous",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"verbose",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faltering",
"halting",
"hesitant",
"maundering",
"mumbling",
"muttering",
"sputtering",
"stammering",
"stumbling",
"stuttering",
"mute",
"speechless",
"tongueless",
"tongue-tied",
"voiceless"
],
"antonyms":[
"inarticulate",
"ineloquent",
"unvocal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weighted (down)":{
"as in weighed down , bogged (down)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bogged (down)",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"restrained",
"shackled",
"subjected",
"weighed down",
"burdened",
"encumbered",
"saddled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared",
"disburdened",
"disencumbered",
"divested",
"freed",
"relieved",
"rid",
"ridded",
"unburdened",
"discharged",
"emancipated",
"enfranchised",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"manumitted",
"released",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"uncaged",
"unchained",
"unfettered",
"bailed (out)",
"delivered",
"redeemed",
"rescued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighs in":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"examples":[
"self-appointed pundits immediately weighed in on the latest political scandal"
],
"synonyms":[
"allows",
"comments",
"editorializes",
"notes",
"observes",
"opines",
"reflects",
"remarks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commentates",
"articulates",
"expresses",
"says",
"speaks",
"states",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes",
"conjectures",
"daresays",
"guesses",
"speculates",
"supposes",
"surmises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weirdly":{
"as in oddly , strangely":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"funnily",
"oddly",
"peculiarly",
"queerly",
"strangely",
"abnormally",
"atypically",
"extraordinarily",
"uncommonly",
"untypically",
"unusually",
"anomalously",
"irregularly",
"radically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commonly",
"generally",
"natch",
"naturally",
"normally",
"ordinarily",
"typically",
"usually",
"customarily",
"habitually",
"regularly",
"routinely",
"familiarly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"weightiness":{
"the state or quality of being heavy":{
"examples":[
"the weightiness of the bookcase made it difficult to move"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoirdupois",
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"massiveness",
"ponderousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overweight",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"substantiality",
"substantialness",
"bulk",
"bulkiness",
"hugeness",
"cumbersomeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"airiness",
"delicacy",
"ethereality",
"etherealness",
"flimsiness",
"fluffiness",
"insubstantiality",
"slightness"
],
"antonyms":[
"lightness",
"weightlessness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being important":{
"examples":[
"first judged the weightiness of a case before deciding to hear it"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"moment",
"momentousness",
"significance",
"weight"
],
"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"
]
},
"wended":{
"to move from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"We wended through the narrow streets."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"journeyed",
"passed",
"ran",
"run",
"repaired",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"advanced",
"came",
"came along",
"did",
"fared",
"forged",
"got along",
"got on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"went",
"went along",
"went off",
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"took out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"balked",
"blocked",
"checked",
"detained",
"halted",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"nipped",
"obstructed",
"slowed (down or up)",
"stemmed",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"delayed",
"interrupted",
"stalled",
"cramped",
"hampered",
"inhibited",
"ceased",
"let up",
"paused",
"regressed",
"waited",
"remained",
"stayed",
"stood",
"stopped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wears (away)":{
"as in erodes , washes out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"erodes",
"scours",
"washes out",
"deteriorates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"blights",
"tarnishes",
"blemishes",
"bloodies",
"breaks",
"compromises",
"crabs",
"cripples",
"crosses (up)",
"damages",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"endamages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"dents",
"dings",
"dints",
"botches",
"gums (up)",
"queers",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"disables",
"hamstrings",
"lames",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates",
"torments",
"tortures",
"annihilates",
"bangs up",
"bashes",
"batters",
"clobbers",
"crushes",
"dashes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruins",
"scourges",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wipes out",
"wrecks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"cures",
"heals",
"helps",
"rectifies",
"rehabilitates",
"remedies",
"edits",
"remodels",
"revises",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"perfects",
"refines"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weightless":{
"having little weight":{
"examples":[
"the kitten seemed nearly weightless when I picked her up"
],
"synonyms":[
"featherlight",
"feathery",
"light",
"lightweight",
"underweight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"little",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"insubstantial",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"huge",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"massive",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"bulky",
"cumbersome",
"unwieldy"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"leaden",
"overweight",
"ponderous",
"weighty"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wear (away)":{
"as in erode , wash out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"erode",
"scour",
"wash out",
"deteriorate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"blight",
"tarnish",
"blemish",
"bloody",
"break",
"compromise",
"crab",
"cripple",
"cross (up)",
"damage",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"endamage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"dent",
"ding",
"dint",
"botch",
"gum (up)",
"queer",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"disable",
"hamstring",
"lame",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate",
"torment",
"torture",
"annihilate",
"bang up",
"bash",
"batter",
"clobber",
"crush",
"dash",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"scourge",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"waste",
"wipe out",
"wreck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp",
"cure",
"heal",
"help",
"rectify",
"rehabilitate",
"remedy",
"edit",
"remodel",
"revise",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"perfect",
"refine"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went down (with)":{
"to become affected with (a disease or disorder)":{
"examples":[
"across the United Kingdom a number of children have gone down with chicken pox this week"
],
"synonyms":[
"came down (with)",
"caught",
"contracted",
"got",
"sickened (with)",
"took"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke out (with)",
"died (from)",
"succumbed (to)",
"failed",
"languished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered",
"worsened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shook (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went (with)":{
"as in coordinated (with) , conformed (to)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blended (with)",
"blent (with)",
"conformed (to)",
"coordinated (with)",
"harmonized (with)",
"corresponded (to)",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"counterbalanced",
"counterpoised",
"echoed",
"imaged",
"mirrored",
"repeated",
"added up (to)",
"amounted (to)",
"approached",
"came (to)",
"neared",
"measured (up)",
"partook (of)",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"suggested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wear":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the job of running their own business wears them sometimes"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to damage or diminish by continued friction":{
"examples":[
"all that walking every day wore the soles of my shoes very quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrade",
"chafe",
"corrade",
"erode",
"fray",
"frazzle",
"fret",
"gall",
"rasp",
"rub"
],
"near synonyms":[
"file",
"gnaw",
"grate",
"graze",
"grind",
"nibble",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scuff",
"shave",
"erase",
"reduce",
"rub out",
"wear out",
"wipe (away)",
"bite",
"break down",
"break up",
"chew",
"corrode",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"eat",
"hone",
"sharpen",
"whet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"her marriage is so bad\u2014I don't know how she wears it"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"absorb",
"accept",
"bear",
"bide",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"go",
"hack",
"handle",
"meet",
"pocket",
"stand",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"support",
"sustain",
"sweat out",
"take",
"tolerate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allow",
"permit",
"suffer",
"swallow",
"reconcile (to)",
"acquiesce",
"agree (with or to)",
"assent (to)",
"capitulate",
"consent (to)",
"respect",
"submit (to)",
"yield (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"combat",
"contest",
"fight",
"oppose",
"resist",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"dodge",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"miss",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the result of long and hard use":{
"examples":[
"after several years, the carpet was finally showing wear"
],
"synonyms":[
"wear and tear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrasion",
"corrosion",
"erosion",
"decomposition",
"deterioration",
"disintegration",
"fatigue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstruction",
"renovation",
"repair",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"covering for the human body":{
"examples":[
"the latest in fashionable wear"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clobber",
"clothes",
"clothing",
"costumery",
"dress",
"duds",
"garments",
"gear",
"habiliment(s)",
"habit",
"rags",
"raiment",
"rig",
"rigging",
"threads",
"toggery",
"togs",
"vestiary",
"vestments",
"vesture",
"wearables",
"weeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"array",
"bravery",
"caparison",
"finery",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glad rags",
"pretties",
"regalia",
"trim",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"gaudery",
"tawdry",
"trumpery",
"tatters",
"costume",
"ensemble",
"frock",
"garb",
"getup",
"guise",
"livery",
"outfit",
"civvies",
"civies",
"mufti",
"couture",
"pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter",
"pret-a-porter",
"ready-to-wear",
"tailoring",
"activewear",
"loungewear",
"outerwear",
"playwear",
"sportswear",
"nightclothes",
"sleepwear",
"smallclothes",
"underclothes",
"underwear",
"haberdashery",
"menswear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"weighed (on or upon)":{
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bore (down on)",
"depressed",
"pressed",
"shoved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"mashed",
"punched",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"squished",
"squooshed",
"compelled",
"forced",
"pressured",
"leaned (on or against)",
"muscled",
"drove",
"propelled",
"thrust",
"compacted",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"crushed",
"scrunched",
"wrung",
"crammed",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"packed",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"weakness":{
"the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the flu left me with such overwhelming weakness that I could hardly stand"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenia",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"fragility",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"infirmity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"listlessness",
"lowness",
"wimpiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decay",
"decrepitude",
"breakdown",
"collapse",
"prostration",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"lassitude",
"weariness",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impuissance",
"powerlessness",
"effeteness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"disablement",
"incapacitation",
"invalidism",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energy",
"vitality",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"heftiness",
"huskiness",
"lustiness",
"muscularity",
"virility",
"hardness",
"ruggedness",
"stoutness",
"sturdiness",
"toughness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"wellness"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardihood",
"hardiness",
"robustness",
"strength",
"vigor"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking strength of will or character":{
"examples":[
"in a moment of weakness he said yes to his daughter's request for a new toy"
],
"synonyms":[
"frailness",
"frailty",
"softness",
"spinelessness",
"wimpiness",
"wimpishness",
"wishy-washiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"failing",
"flaw",
"foible",
"peccadillo",
"evil",
"immorality",
"wickedness",
"corruption",
"corruptness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discipline",
"self-discipline",
"goodness",
"integrity",
"morality",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"rightness",
"uprightness",
"virtuousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"backbone",
"chutzpah",
"chutzpa",
"hutzpah",
"hutzpa",
"firmness",
"fortitude",
"hardihood",
"mettle",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"resoluteness",
"strength",
"toughness"
]
},
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"his one weakness is his cockeyed optimism about everything"
],
"synonyms":[
"demerit",
"dereliction",
"failing",
"fault",
"foible",
"frailty",
"shortcoming",
"sin",
"vice",
"want"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot",
"spot",
"stain",
"blemish",
"deficiency",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"minus",
"nit",
"Achilles' heel",
"soft spot",
"corruption",
"depravity",
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"wickedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellence",
"perfection",
"goodness",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"merit",
"virtue"
]
},
"the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent":{
"examples":[
"the devastating weakness of the immune system that is experienced by people with certain chronic conditions"
],
"synonyms":[
"defenselessness",
"susceptibility",
"vulnerability"
],
"near synonyms":[
"helplessness",
"powerlessness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"infirmity",
"exposure",
"liability",
"openness",
"predisposition",
"proneness",
"sensitivity",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"easiness",
"gullibility",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"credulity",
"credulousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immunity",
"impenetrability",
"indomitability",
"indomitableness",
"invincibility"
],
"antonyms":[
"invulnerability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weanlings":{
"as in babies , infants":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babes",
"babies",
"bantlings",
"infants",
"neonates",
"nestlings",
"newborn",
"newborns",
"toddlers",
"tots",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"bairns",
"bambinos",
"bambini",
"buds",
"chaps",
"chicks",
"children",
"cubs",
"juveniles",
"kiddies",
"kiddos",
"kids",
"moppets",
"sprats",
"sprat",
"sprouts",
"squirts",
"whelps",
"younglings",
"youngsters",
"youths",
"adolescents",
"minors",
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"preschoolers",
"rug rats",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"schoolkids",
"imps",
"jackanapeses",
"mischiefs",
"monkeys",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"urchins",
"whippersnappers",
"cherubs",
"cherubim",
"preteen-agers",
"preteens",
"subteens",
"teenagers",
"teeners",
"teens",
"teenyboppers",
"tweens",
"lads",
"nippers",
"shavers",
"striplings",
"tads",
"bobby-soxers",
"hoydens",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"middle-agers",
"ancients",
"elders",
"golden-agers",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors",
"adults",
"grown-ups"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weasel (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you won't be able to weasel out of your share of the work by feigning illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wetting":{
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"you need to wet your hair thoroughly first"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"steeping",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"laving",
"rinsing",
"sloshing",
"sluicing",
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"rehydrating",
"rewashing",
"rewetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
"dehumidifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighs down":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down"
],
"synonyms":[
"bums (out)",
"burdens",
"dashes",
"dejects",
"depresses",
"gets down",
"oppresses",
"saddens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ails",
"distresses",
"troubles",
"afflicts",
"torments",
"tortures",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dismays",
"dispirits",
"unnerves",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"enlivens",
"invigorates",
"assures",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"excites",
"inspires",
"stimulates",
"elates",
"exhilarates",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"lifts",
"uplifts"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"buoys",
"cheers (up)",
"gladdens",
"lightens",
"rejoices"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaponed":{
"as in equipped , reequipped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"equipped",
"reequipped",
"re-equipped",
"armed",
"militarized",
"embattled",
"mechanized",
"mobilized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demilitarized",
"disarmed",
"demobilized",
"denuclearized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-handled":{
"as in shopworn , beat-up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aged",
"beat-up",
"old",
"shabby",
"shopworn",
"worn",
"dirty",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"stale",
"hand-me-down",
"secondhand",
"used"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"unused",
"clean",
"fresh",
"mint",
"pristine",
"unspoiled",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weal":{
"the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success":{
"examples":[
"the belief that somehow it is the nation's president who is responsible for the weal or woe of the people"
],
"synonyms":[
"good",
"interest",
"welfare",
"well-being"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"successfulness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill-being"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weariness":{
"a complete depletion of energy or strength":{
"examples":[
"the kind of satisfying weariness that comes from a good day's labor"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnout",
"collapse",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"lassitude",
"prostration",
"tiredness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitation",
"debility",
"disablement",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"infirmity",
"weakness",
"overfatigue",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"slumber",
"stupor",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"apathy",
"inertia",
"passiveness",
"passivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bounce",
"dash",
"drive",
"energy",
"ginger",
"go",
"liveliness",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"strength",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"refreshment",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence",
"revitalization"
]
},
"the state of being bored":{
"examples":[
"faces showing weariness and irritation at the long graduation speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"blahs",
"boredom",
"doldrums",
"ennui",
"listlessness",
"restlessness",
"tedium"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheerlessness",
"dispiritedness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"lifelessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beguilement",
"bewitchment",
"captivation",
"enchantment",
"fascination",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"immersion",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation",
"amusement",
"entertainment",
"diversion",
"relief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wet behind the ears":{
"lacking in adult experience or maturity":{
"examples":[
"The new intern is still a little wet behind the ears ."
],
"synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"callow",
"green",
"immature",
"inexperienced",
"juvenile",
"puerile",
"raw",
"unfledged",
"unformed",
"unripe",
"unripened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babyish",
"childish",
"infantile",
"infantilized",
"infantine",
"boyish",
"girlish",
"juvenescent",
"kiddish",
"young",
"youngish",
"youthful",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"tender",
"unknowing",
"unseasoned",
"unsophisticated",
"untrained",
"untried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"precocious",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise"
],
"antonyms":[
"adult",
"experienced",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"ripe"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"well-turned":{
"as in shapely , curvaceous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bosomy",
"built",
"busty",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"stacked",
"well-endowed",
"plump",
"round",
"Rubenesque",
"voluptuous",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"curvaceous",
"curvacious",
"curvy",
"pneumatic",
"shapely",
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"callipygian",
"callipygous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapeless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in terse , epigrammatic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"monosyllabic",
"pithy",
"sententious",
"succinct",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"short",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"meaty",
"substantial",
"meaningful",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy",
"pleonastic",
"redundant",
"repetitious",
"tautological",
"tautologous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"inflated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weighing in":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"examples":[
"self-appointed pundits immediately weighed in on the latest political scandal"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"commenting",
"editorializing",
"noting",
"observing",
"opining",
"reflecting",
"remarking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commentating",
"articulating",
"expressing",
"saying",
"speaking",
"stating",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing",
"conjecturing",
"daresaying",
"guessing",
"speculating",
"supposing",
"surmising"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wealthiness":{
"as in wealth , affluence":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affluence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"wealth",
"luxury",
"prosperity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beggary",
"destituteness",
"destitution",
"impecuniosity",
"impecuniousness",
"impoverishment",
"indigence",
"necessity",
"need",
"neediness",
"pauperism",
"penuriousness",
"penury",
"poorness",
"poverty",
"want",
"gutter",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"exigency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"went in (on)":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"law enforcement officials decided to wait before going in on the barricaded gunman"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighty":{
"having a matter of importance as its topic":{
"examples":[
"interrupted a weighty discussion with a silly question"
],
"synonyms":[
"grave",
"heavy",
"serious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"portentous",
"significant",
"solid",
"substantial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"frivolous",
"insignificant",
"lite",
"little",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minor",
"silly",
"slight",
"small",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"unserious"
]
},
"having great meaning or lasting effect":{
"examples":[
"choosing a college is a weighty decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"earth-shattering",
"earthshaking",
"eventful",
"historic",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"monumental",
"much",
"significant",
"substantial",
"tectonic"
],
"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"
]
},
"having great weight":{
"examples":[
"lifted the weighty sack and wondered what was in it"
],
"synonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"massive",
"ponderous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burdensome",
"leaden",
"lumpish",
"bulky",
"elephantine",
"massy",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"voluminous",
"overweight",
"top-heavy",
"solid",
"substantial",
"ultraheavy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"airy",
"ethereal",
"feathery",
"fluffy",
"gossamer",
"gossamery",
"flimsy",
"insubstantial",
"slight",
"lightweight",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"underweight",
"ultralight",
"ultralightweight"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"weightless"
]
},
"not joking or playful in mood or manner":{
"examples":[
"the police office looked at me with a rather weighty expression"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"humorless",
"no-nonsense",
"po-faced",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"staid",
"uncomic",
"unsmiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"harsh",
"stern",
"strict",
"businesslike",
"professional",
"dignified",
"distinguished",
"elevated",
"serious-minded",
"gloomy",
"grim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"laughable",
"light",
"light-headed",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"lighthearted",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"humorous",
"jesting",
"jocular",
"joking",
"kittenish",
"ludic",
"playful"
]
},
"having power over the minds or behavior of others":{
"examples":[
"one of the weightiest figures in the field of pediatric medicine"
],
"synonyms":[
"authoritative",
"forceful",
"influential"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cogent",
"controlling",
"dominating",
"masterful",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"regnant",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"supreme",
"eminent",
"important",
"momentous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"weak",
"incapable",
"unable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"went steady":{
"to go on dates that may eventually lead to marriage":{
"examples":[
"She asked him if he wanted to go steady ."
],
"synonyms":[
"courted",
"dated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attended",
"gallanted",
"romanced",
"sparked",
"wooed",
"escorted",
"saw",
"took out",
"stepped out",
"went out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weavers":{
"as in knitters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knitters",
"embroiderers",
"needleworkers",
"tailors",
"needlewomen",
"seamstresses",
"seamsters",
"sewers",
"stitchers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weighing down":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumming (out)",
"burdening",
"dashing",
"dejecting",
"depressing",
"getting down",
"oppressing",
"saddening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailing",
"distressing",
"troubling",
"afflicting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"enlivening",
"invigorating",
"assuring",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"exciting",
"inspiring",
"stimulating",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"lifting",
"uplifting"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"buoying",
"cheering (up)",
"gladdening",
"lightening",
"rejoicing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wears out":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything is going according to our plans"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"came",
"came along",
"did",
"fared",
"forged",
"got along",
"got on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"went along",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"ran",
"run",
"repaired",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"took out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"balked",
"blocked",
"checked",
"detained",
"halted",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"nipped",
"obstructed",
"slowed (down or up)",
"stemmed",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"delayed",
"interrupted",
"stalled",
"cramped",
"hampered",
"inhibited",
"ceased",
"let up",
"paused",
"regressed",
"waited"
],
"antonyms":[
"remained",
"stayed",
"stood",
"stopped"
]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"will go on vacation at the end of the year",
"decided it would be better to go before she got any angrier"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"to be fitting or proper":{
"examples":[
"at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitted",
"beseemed",
"did",
"fitted",
"fit",
"served",
"suited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"satisfied",
"sufficed",
"functioned",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"your account of how the fire started doesn't go with what she said"
],
"synonyms":[
"accorded",
"agreed",
"answered",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"harmonized",
"jibed",
"rhymed",
"rimed",
"sorted",
"squared",
"tallied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled",
"aligned",
"alined",
"lined up",
"registered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"nullified",
"clashed",
"conflicted",
"jarred"
],
"antonyms":[
"differed (from)",
"disagreed (with)"
]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the highway goes right along the river"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"extended",
"headed",
"lay",
"led",
"ran",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossed",
"cut",
"passed",
"coursed",
"followed",
"spanned",
"traversed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"she goes crazy on the dance floor when they start playing 1980s pop",
"the room went dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"became",
"came",
"got",
"grew",
"ran",
"run",
"turned",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"metamorphosed",
"modified",
"mutated",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"continued",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed",
"was"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"watched the building go after the demolition crew detonated the charges"
],
"synonyms":[
"buckled",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"foundered",
"gave",
"imploded",
"tumbled",
"went out",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflated",
"flattened",
"melted",
"melted down",
"broke",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"died",
"failed",
"gave out",
"stalled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crumbled",
"popped",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflated",
"rose",
"swelled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have or be in a usual or proper place":{
"examples":[
"these plates go in this cabinet"
],
"synonyms":[
"belonged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"placed",
"stayed",
"fitted (in)",
"fit (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"when you get old, your eyesight starts to go"
],
"synonyms":[
"decayed",
"drooped",
"emaciated",
"faded",
"failed",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"sagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke down",
"wore out",
"yielded",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"ran down",
"rotted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesced",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"gained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"I went the length of the street before finding an empty parking space"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursed",
"covered",
"crossed",
"cut (across)",
"followed",
"navigated",
"passed (over)",
"perambulated",
"peregrinated",
"proceeded (along)",
"tracked",
"transited",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"traversed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiked",
"traipsed",
"tramped",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked",
"ran",
"run",
"rode",
"rid",
"crisscrossed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"selling prices for houses in that neighborhood generally go between one and two million"
],
"synonyms":[
"ran",
"run",
"ranged",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternated",
"fluctuated",
"moved",
"shifted",
"changed",
"mutated",
"extended",
"reached",
"stretched",
"swept"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"to play in this game of poker, you have to be willing to go at least five dollars per round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bet",
"betted",
"gambled",
"laid",
"played",
"put",
"staked",
"wagered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bade",
"bid",
"offered",
"adventured",
"chanced",
"hazarded",
"speculated",
"ventured",
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"jeopardized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I didn't go to fire the gun\u2014it just went off"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"allowed",
"aspired",
"calculated",
"contemplated",
"designed",
"intended",
"looked",
"meant",
"meditated",
"planned",
"proposed",
"purported",
"purposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"hoped",
"wished",
"considered",
"debated",
"mulled (over)",
"pondered",
"attempted",
"endeavored",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"tried",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"effected",
"executed",
"performed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an end":{
"examples":[
"we were having so much fun that the evening just came and went"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke off",
"broke up",
"ceased",
"closed",
"concluded",
"dead-ended",
"determined",
"died",
"discontinued",
"elapsed",
"ended",
"expired",
"finished",
"halted",
"lapsed",
"left off",
"let up",
"passed",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"winked (out)",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"desisted (from)",
"laid off (of)",
"refrained (from)",
"gave over",
"knocked off",
"packed (up or in)",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"cut out",
"stalled",
"paused",
"stayed",
"suspended",
"abated",
"petered (out)",
"wound down",
"winded down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drew out",
"extended",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
],
"antonyms":[
"continued",
"hung on",
"persisted"
]
},
"to have enough money for":{
"examples":[
"I think I can go for the new car after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covered",
"expended",
"financed",
"outlaid",
"paid (for)",
"ponied up",
"sprang (for)",
"sprung (for)",
"picked up",
"purchased",
"took",
"acquired",
"got",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured",
"bade",
"bid",
"offered",
"bankrolled",
"endowed",
"subsidized",
"underwrote"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"I can't go the smell of that rotting food for one more minute"
],
"synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"absorbed",
"accepted",
"bode",
"bided",
"bore",
"brooked",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"hacked",
"handled",
"met",
"pocketed",
"stomached",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"supported",
"sustained",
"sweat out",
"sweated out",
"tolerated",
"took",
"wore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowed",
"permitted",
"suffered",
"swallowed",
"reconciled (to)",
"acquiesced",
"agreed (with or to)",
"assented (to)",
"capitulated",
"consented (to)",
"respected",
"submitted (to)",
"yielded (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declined",
"dismissed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"spurned",
"turned down",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"dodged",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"missed",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"refrained (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"her grandmother went peacefully last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"checked out",
"conked (out)",
"croaked",
"deceased",
"demised",
"departed",
"died",
"dropped",
"ended",
"exited",
"expired",
"fell",
"flatlined",
"kicked in",
"kicked off",
"parted",
"passed away",
"passed (on)",
"pegged out",
"perished",
"popped off",
"stepped out",
"succumbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceased",
"consumed",
"disappeared",
"dried up",
"faded",
"failed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came to",
"revived",
"lingered",
"existed",
"subsisted",
"was",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathed",
"lived"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"we tried very hard to get the food cooperative to go , but it never really worked out"
],
"synonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went over",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"cooked",
"percolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languished",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"fell down",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
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"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"washed out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighing (upon)":{
"as in squeezing , pressuring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"bearing (down)",
"compressing",
"depressing",
"jamming",
"pressuring",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"impelling",
"moving",
"bulldozing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"leaning (on or against)",
"muscling",
"ramming",
"driving",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wear on":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"His constant complaining is starting to wear on his friends."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weeds (out)":{
"as in combs (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combs (out)",
"checks off",
"disregards",
"deters",
"staves off",
"wards (off)",
"ceases",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"suspends",
"blocks",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"obviates",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"prohibits",
"banishes",
"deports",
"exiles",
"expels",
"ousts",
"throws out",
"blackballs",
"blacklists",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"bans",
"bars",
"closes out",
"counts (out)",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"freezes out",
"rules out",
"shuts out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admits",
"includes",
"accepts",
"embraces",
"entertains",
"receives",
"takes in",
"welcomes",
"unbans"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weakhearted":{
"as in chickenhearted , uncourageous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"yellow",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"webbings":{
"as in webs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"webs",
"meshes",
"nets",
"nettings",
"networks",
"grilles",
"grills",
"lattices",
"screenings",
"screens",
"wireworks",
"bobbinets",
"Brussels laces",
"filigrees",
"fishnets",
"laces",
"marquisettes",
"tulles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welkins":{
"the expanse of air surrounding the earth":{
"examples":[
"the movie has been so overhyped that one half expects its opening to be accompanied by the proverbial ringing of the welkin"
],
"synonyms":[
"blues",
"firmaments",
"heavens",
"highs",
"skies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midairs",
"horizons",
"skylines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wearing":{
"as in overwhelming , crushing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crushing",
"grinding",
"overwhelming",
"agonizing",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"painful",
"wretched",
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"harrowing",
"tortuous",
"biting",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"wild",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"hostile",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"austere",
"bleak",
"comfortless",
"discomforting",
"forbidding",
"inhospitable",
"spartan",
"uncomfortable",
"bitter",
"brutal",
"burdensome",
"cruel",
"excruciating",
"grievous",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy",
"inhuman",
"murderous",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rugged",
"searing",
"severe",
"stiff",
"tough",
"trying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"light",
"soft",
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"luxurious",
"snug",
"agreeable",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"peaceful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"painless",
"tolerable",
"balmy",
"calm",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in exhausting , draining":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"palling",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"longsome",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey",
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"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":[]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the job of running their own business wears them sometimes"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to damage or diminish by continued friction":{
"examples":[
"all that walking every day wore the soles of my shoes very quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrading",
"chafing",
"corrading",
"eroding",
"fraying",
"frazzling",
"fretting",
"galling",
"rasping",
"rubbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filing",
"gnawing",
"grating",
"grazing",
"grinding",
"nibbling",
"sandblasting",
"sandpapering",
"scouring",
"scraping",
"scuffing",
"shaving",
"erasing",
"reducing",
"rubbing out",
"wearing out",
"wiping (away)",
"biting",
"breaking down",
"breaking up",
"chewing",
"corroding",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"eating",
"honing",
"sharpening",
"whetting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put up with (something painful or difficult)":{
"examples":[
"her marriage is so bad\u2014I don't know how she wears it"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"absorbing",
"accepting",
"bearing",
"biding",
"brooking",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"going",
"hacking",
"handling",
"meeting",
"pocketing",
"standing",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"sweating out",
"taking",
"tolerating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowing",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"swallowing",
"reconciling (to)",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing (with or to)",
"assenting (to)",
"capitulating",
"consenting (to)",
"respecting",
"submitting (to)",
"yielding (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dismissing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contesting",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"dodging",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"missing",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"weighing (on or upon)":{
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bearing (down on)",
"depressing",
"pressing",
"shoving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"mashing",
"punching",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"squishing",
"squooshing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"pressuring",
"leaning (on or against)",
"muscling",
"driving",
"propelling",
"thrusting",
"compacting",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"crushing",
"scrunching",
"wringing",
"cramming",
"jamming",
"jam-packing",
"packing",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"welcomes":{
"to receive or accept gladly or readily":{
"examples":[
"the eager recruits welcomed every new project with which they were presented"
],
"synonyms":[
"drinks (in)",
"eats (up)",
"embraces",
"laps (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"espouses",
"takes up",
"greets",
"hails",
"enjoys",
"likes",
"prefers",
"cherry-picks",
"chooses",
"culls",
"decides (on)",
"elects",
"handpicks",
"names",
"opts (for)",
"picks",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balks (at)",
"declines",
"passes up",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"spurns",
"throws over",
"turns down",
"demurs (to)",
"objects (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an expression of goodwill upon meeting":{
"examples":[
"offered a warm welcome to the stranger"
],
"synonyms":[
"greetings",
"hellos",
"salutations",
"salutes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aves",
"hails",
"amenities",
"civilities",
"pleasantries",
"regards",
"respects",
"wishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"adieus",
"adieux",
"bon voyages",
"cong\u00e9s",
"congees",
"farewells",
"Godspeeds",
"good-byes",
"good-bys"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wearables":{
"covering for the human body":{
"examples":[
"models showing off vintage wearables from the swinging '60s"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clobber",
"clothes",
"clothing",
"costumery",
"dress",
"duds",
"garments",
"gear",
"habiliment(s)",
"habit",
"rags",
"raiment",
"rig",
"rigging",
"threads",
"toggery",
"togs",
"vestiary",
"vestments",
"vesture",
"wear",
"weeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"array",
"bravery",
"caparison",
"finery",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glad rags",
"pretties",
"regalia",
"trim",
"foofaraw",
"frippery",
"gaudery",
"tawdry",
"trumpery",
"tatters",
"costume",
"ensemble",
"frock",
"garb",
"getup",
"guise",
"livery",
"outfit",
"civvies",
"civies",
"mufti",
"couture",
"pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter",
"pret-a-porter",
"ready-to-wear",
"tailoring",
"activewear",
"loungewear",
"outerwear",
"playwear",
"sportswear",
"nightclothes",
"sleepwear",
"smallclothes",
"underclothes",
"underwear",
"haberdashery",
"menswear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"weary":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I am just too weary to do any more work tonight"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted":{
"examples":[
"I am totally weary of this constant bickering"
],
"synonyms":[
"bored",
"fed up",
"jaded",
"sick",
"sick and tired",
"tired",
"wearied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"disinterested",
"uninterested",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"surfeited",
"dejected",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"beat",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"done in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"limp",
"played out",
"tuckered (out)",
"worn-out",
"annoyed",
"exasperated",
"frustrated",
"irritated",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repulsed",
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"world-weary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"invigorated",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"amused",
"entertained",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"enthralled",
"fascinated",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"thrilled"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbed",
"engaged",
"engrossed",
"interested",
"intrigued",
"rapt"
]
},
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"a weary march through a lot of boring facts and figures"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"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"
]
},
"to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous":{
"examples":[
"these constant complaints are really wearying me"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"tire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pall",
"burn out",
"do in",
"drain",
"enervate",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"deject",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"animate",
"energize",
"enliven",
"excite",
"galvanize",
"invigorate",
"stimulate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"amuse",
"entertain",
"allure",
"attract",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"monopolize",
"preoccupy",
"busy",
"immerse",
"involve",
"occupy",
"pump up",
"rally",
"rouse",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorb",
"busy",
"engage",
"engross",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"interest",
"intrigue"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"a whole day of hard physical labor had thoroughly wearied her"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"weenies":{
"a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits":{
"examples":[
"an inner-directed individual who could have cared less if others stuck the dreaded \" weenie \" label on him"
],
"synonyms":[
"bookworms",
"dinks",
"dorks",
"geeks",
"grinds",
"nerds",
"swots",
"wonks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double-domes",
"highbrows",
"intellectuals",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"academics",
"bookmen",
"scholars",
"gearheads",
"techies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"goof-offs",
"slackers",
"underachievers",
"lowbrows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weiners":{
"as in bolognas , frankfurters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolognas",
"frankfurters",
"franks",
"hot dogs",
"kielbasas",
"kielbasy",
"knockwursts",
"knackwursts",
"liver sausages",
"liver puddings",
"liverwursts",
"pepperonis",
"salamis",
"Vienna sausages",
"weenies",
"wienerwursts",
"bangers",
"links",
"sausages",
"wursts",
"blood sausages",
"blood puddings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weigh down":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"all these tragedies occurring simultaneously are weighing me down"
],
"synonyms":[
"bum (out)",
"burden",
"dash",
"deject",
"depress",
"get down",
"oppress",
"sadden"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ail",
"distress",
"trouble",
"afflict",
"torment",
"torture",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dismay",
"dispirit",
"unnerve",
"agitate",
"bother",
"concern",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"assure",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"excite",
"inspire",
"stimulate",
"elate",
"exhilarate",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"boost",
"elevate",
"lift",
"uplift"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"buoy",
"cheer (up)",
"gladden",
"lighten",
"rejoice"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaseling (out of)":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you won't be able to weasel out of your share of the work by feigning illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"shunning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went under":{
"as in failed , flamed out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"tanked",
"washed out",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"crumbled",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out",
"cooked",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weirds out":{
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"as a curious observer, he was weirded out by the fact that members of the sect seemed to have no life outside of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"ails",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"derails",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distempers",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"flurries",
"frazzles",
"freaks (out)",
"fusses",
"hagrides",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"angers",
"annoys",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"exasperates",
"frets",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"harasses",
"harries",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"pesters",
"piques",
"puts off",
"puts out",
"riles",
"vexes",
"bedevils",
"haunts",
"plagues",
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"jars",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"shakes up",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits",
"unnerves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"alleviates",
"assuages",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates"
],
"antonyms":[
"calms",
"composes",
"quiets",
"settles",
"soothes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wetness":{
"as in dankness , sogginess":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clamminess",
"dankness",
"soddenness",
"sogginess",
"sultriness",
"mugginess",
"stickiness",
"stuffiness",
"damp",
"dampness",
"humidity",
"moistness",
"moisture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aridity",
"dehumidification",
"dehydration",
"dryness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"went (by)":{
"as in accepted , complied (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acceded (to)",
"accepted",
"acquiesced",
"assented (to)",
"complied (with)",
"consented (to)",
"subscribed",
"agreed",
"coincided",
"concurred",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"united",
"collaborated",
"cooperated",
"got along",
"got on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"differed",
"disagreed",
"clashed",
"collided",
"conflicted",
"bickered",
"countered",
"disputed",
"dissented",
"diverged",
"fell out",
"objected",
"opposed",
"protested",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"resisted",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"dissociated",
"separated",
"split"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weltschmerz":{
"as in boredom , weariness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boredom",
"doldrums",
"ennui",
"listlessness",
"restlessness",
"tedium",
"tiredness",
"weariness",
"apathy",
"disinterest",
"incuriosity",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"cheerlessness",
"dispiritedness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admiration",
"amazement",
"astonishment",
"awe",
"wonder",
"wonderment",
"dread",
"fear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weighed in":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"examples":[
"self-appointed pundits immediately weighed in on the latest political scandal"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"commented",
"editorialized",
"noted",
"observed",
"opined",
"reflected",
"remarked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commentated",
"articulated",
"expressed",
"said",
"spoke",
"stated",
"talked",
"told",
"uttered",
"verbalized",
"vocalized",
"conjectured",
"daresaid",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weightlessness":{
"the state or quality of having little weight":{
"examples":[
"the relative weightlessness of the suitcase surprised me"
],
"synonyms":[
"lightness",
"slightness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airiness",
"delicacy",
"ethereality",
"etherealness",
"flimsiness",
"fluffiness",
"insubstantiality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"solidity",
"solidness",
"substantiality"
],
"antonyms":[
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"massiveness",
"ponderousness",
"weightiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weapons":{
"something used to defend":{
"examples":[
"Concealed weapons were not allowed in the building."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"armaments",
"arms",
"munitions",
"weaponries",
"aegises",
"egises",
"ammunitions",
"armors",
"bucklers",
"covers",
"defenses",
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"securities",
"shields",
"walls",
"wards",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"strongholds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is used to produce a result":{
"examples":[
"Poetry was her weapon of choice in the writing contest."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"determinants",
"expedients",
"factors",
"influences",
"ingredients",
"mechanisms",
"tools",
"agencies",
"agents",
"instrumentalities",
"instruments",
"machineries",
"means",
"mediums",
"media",
"ministries",
"organs",
"vehicles",
"activators",
"animators",
"catalysts",
"drivers",
"energizers",
"executors",
"generators",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"inspirations",
"instigations",
"instigators",
"launchers",
"movers",
"powers",
"stimuli",
"triggers",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"subagencies",
"sub-agencies",
"subagents",
"sub-agents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in equips , reequips":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"equips",
"reequips",
"arms",
"militarizes",
"embattles",
"mechanizes",
"mobilizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demilitarizes",
"disarms",
"demobilizes",
"denuclearizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wets down":{
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"it will be easier to clean up if you wet down the surfaces first",
"the stylist began by wetting down my hair"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"bedraggles",
"douses",
"dowses",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"washes",
"waterlogs",
"waters",
"water-soaks",
"wets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperses",
"bedews",
"dampens",
"damps",
"drizzles",
"humidifies",
"hydrates",
"mists",
"moistens",
"moisturizes",
"showers",
"sprinkles",
"deluges",
"floods",
"hoses (down)",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"splashes",
"impregnates",
"saturates",
"steeps",
"flushes",
"irrigates",
"laves",
"rinses",
"sloshes",
"sluices",
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"rehydrates",
"rewashes",
"rewets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewaters",
"evaporates",
"freeze-dries",
"drip-dries",
"wrings",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"scorches",
"sears"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wear to a frazzle":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"Trying to meet all the deadlines had her worn to a frazzle ."
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weepers":{
"as in screamers , moaners":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawlers",
"bleaters",
"moaners",
"screamers",
"squawkers",
"wailers",
"babies",
"bellyachers",
"complainers",
"crybabies",
"fussbudgets",
"fussers",
"fusspots",
"gripers",
"grumblers",
"kvetchers",
"kvetches",
"snivelers",
"whiners",
"crabs",
"grumps",
"malcontents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"happy campers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"went to pot":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"The house went to pot quickly after the owners moved out."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophied",
"crumbled",
"decayed",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"devolved",
"ebbed",
"regressed",
"retrograded",
"rotted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"worsened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"waned",
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decomposed",
"degraded",
"dilapidated",
"disintegrated",
"moldered",
"putrefied",
"soured",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"debilitated",
"undermined",
"drooped",
"failed",
"fell",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"ran down",
"sagged",
"slipped",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettered",
"upgraded",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"strengthened",
"advanced",
"developed",
"marched",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"improved",
"meliorated"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"went along":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"came",
"came along",
"did",
"fared",
"forged",
"got along",
"got on",
"marched",
"paced",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"fast-forwarded",
"sped",
"speeded",
"approached",
"neared",
"journeyed",
"passed",
"ran",
"run",
"repaired",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"wended",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"took out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"balked",
"blocked",
"checked",
"detained",
"halted",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"nipped",
"obstructed",
"slowed (down or up)",
"stemmed",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"delayed",
"interrupted",
"stalled",
"cramped",
"hampered",
"inhibited",
"ceased",
"let up",
"paused",
"regressed",
"waited"
],
"antonyms":[
"remained",
"stayed",
"stood",
"stopped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weariless":{
"showing no signs of weariness even after long hard effort":{
"examples":[
"the weariless efforts to bring peace to that troubled region"
],
"synonyms":[
"indefatigable",
"inexhaustible",
"tireless",
"unflagging",
"untiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assiduous",
"conscientious",
"diligent",
"meticulous",
"painstaking",
"sedulous",
"determined",
"dogged",
"patient",
"persevering",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"plodding",
"relentless",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unabated",
"unfailing",
"unfaltering",
"unflinching",
"unrelenting",
"unremitting",
"unwavering",
"active",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"feverish",
"spirited",
"vigorous",
"hard",
"industrious",
"intense",
"laborious",
"slavish",
"strenuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolent",
"lackadaisical",
"laggard",
"lazy",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"slothful",
"sluggish",
"apathetic",
"casual",
"desultory",
"languid",
"spiritless",
"beat",
"broken",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"done in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"jaded",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"played out",
"sapped",
"spent",
"tuckered (out)",
"wearied",
"worn-out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weighing":{
"to be of importance":{
"examples":[
"evidence that will weigh heavily against the defendant"
],
"synonyms":[
"counting",
"importing",
"mattering",
"meaning",
"signifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affecting",
"concerning",
"influencing",
"swaying",
"adding up (to)",
"amounting (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"weighed the options for weeks before making a decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewing over",
"cogitating",
"considering",
"contemplating",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"entertaining",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"kicking around",
"meditating",
"mulling (over)",
"perpending",
"pondering",
"poring (over)",
"questioning",
"revolving",
"ruminating",
"studying",
"thinking (about or over)",
"turning",
"wrestling (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"musing (upon)",
"reflecting (on or upon)",
"reminiscing",
"analyzing",
"exploring",
"reviewing",
"concluding",
"reasoning",
"second-guessing",
"speculating (about)",
"brooding (about or over)",
"dwelling (on or upon)",
"fixating (on or upon)",
"fretting (about or over)",
"obsessing (about or over)",
"believing",
"conceiving",
"opining",
"absorbing",
"assimilating",
"digesting",
"drinking (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"slighting",
"dismissing",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"rejecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaved":{
"to cause to twine about one another":{
"examples":[
"as they have for the past two centuries, crafters continue to weave osiers into the distinctive baskets that are the island's trademark"
],
"synonyms":[
"enlaced",
"entwined",
"implicated",
"interlaced",
"intertwined",
"intertwisted",
"interwoven",
"interweaved",
"inwoven",
"inweaved",
"laced",
"plied",
"twisted",
"wreathed",
"writhed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braided",
"plaited",
"platted",
"pleached",
"blended",
"blent",
"fused",
"joined",
"linked",
"mixed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disentangled",
"uncoiled",
"untangled",
"untwined",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to scatter or set here and there among other things":{
"examples":[
"a political commentator who slyly weaves lies into the truth"
],
"synonyms":[
"interlaced",
"interspersed",
"interwoven",
"interweaved",
"laced",
"salted",
"threaded",
"wreathed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inserted",
"intermingled",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"alternated",
"juxtaposed",
"amalgamated",
"assimilated",
"blended",
"blent",
"combined",
"commingled",
"embodied",
"fused",
"incorporated",
"integrated",
"merged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move suddenly aside or to and fro":{
"examples":[
"a van weaving through traffic with reckless speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"dodged",
"ducked",
"jinked",
"sidestepped",
"slalomed",
"zigzagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoided",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"parried",
"shirked",
"skirted",
"deflected",
"turned",
"slid",
"slipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-off":{
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"a well-off couple adopted the baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wearily":{
"as in casually , tiredly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"weighting (down)":{
"as in weighing down , bogging (down)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bogging (down)",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"subjecting",
"weighing down",
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"saddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"disburdening",
"disencumbering",
"divesting",
"freeing",
"relieving",
"ridding",
"unburdening",
"discharging",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering",
"bailing (out)",
"delivering",
"redeeming",
"rescuing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaponing":{
"as in equipping , reequipping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"equipping",
"reequipping",
"re-equipping",
"arming",
"militarizing",
"embattling",
"mechanizing",
"mobilizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demilitarizing",
"disarming",
"demobilizing",
"denuclearizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weathercocks":{
"a person who dexterously and expediently changes or adopts opinions":{
"examples":[
"when the winds suddenly shifted on social values, the weathercocks wasted no time in proclaiming their newfound passion for conservatism"
],
"synonyms":[
"acrobats",
"chameleons",
"chancers",
"opportunists",
"temporizers",
"timeservers",
"trimmers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"egoists",
"egotists",
"self-seekers",
"connivers",
"machinators",
"plotters",
"schemers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wets":{
"a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity":{
"examples":[
"winced as he walked out into the wet without any protection"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloudbursts",
"deluges",
"downfalls",
"downpours",
"rainfalls",
"rains",
"rainstorms",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precipitations",
"showers",
"thundershowers",
"thunderstorms",
"weathers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drizzles",
"mists",
"mizzles",
"scuds",
"spits",
"sprinkles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"you need to wet your hair thoroughly first"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"bedraggles",
"douses",
"dowses",
"drenches",
"drowns",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"washes",
"waterlogs",
"waters",
"water-soaks",
"wets down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperses",
"bedews",
"dampens",
"damps",
"drizzles",
"humidifies",
"hydrates",
"mists",
"moistens",
"moisturizes",
"showers",
"sprinkles",
"deluges",
"floods",
"hoses (down)",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"splashes",
"impregnates",
"saturates",
"steeps",
"flushes",
"irrigates",
"laves",
"rinses",
"sloshes",
"sluices",
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"rehydrates",
"rewashes",
"rewets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewaters",
"evaporates",
"freeze-dries",
"drip-dries",
"wrings",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"scorches",
"sears"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"went public (with)":{
"to make known (as information previously kept secret)":{
"examples":[
"The celeb went public with the news of her pregnancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"let on (about)",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"unbosomed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confided",
"shared",
"debunked",
"showed up",
"unclothed",
"undraped",
"advertised",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"brought out",
"declared",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"sounded",
"betrayed",
"blabbed",
"gave away",
"leaked",
"informed",
"squealed",
"talked",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"related",
"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"avowed",
"conceded",
"confessed",
"owned",
"disinterred",
"raked up",
"smoked out",
"unearthed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obscured",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"antonyms":[
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered (up)",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weight (down)":{
"as in weigh down , bog (down)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bog (down)",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"restrain",
"shackle",
"subject",
"weigh down",
"burden",
"encumber",
"saddle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"disburden",
"disencumber",
"divest",
"free",
"relieve",
"rid",
"unburden",
"discharge",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter",
"bail (out)",
"deliver",
"redeem",
"rescue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wedlocks":{
"a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people":{
"examples":[
"joined the happy couple in holy wedlock"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjugalities",
"connubialities",
"marriages",
"matches",
"matrimonies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monogamies",
"bigamies",
"polyandries",
"polygamies",
"polygynies",
"intermarriages",
"miscegenations",
"mixed marriages",
"remarriages",
"cohabitations",
"common-law marriages",
"civil unions",
"domestic partnerships",
"attachments",
"commitments",
"relationships",
"betrothals",
"engagements",
"espousals",
"hands",
"pledges",
"promises",
"proposals",
"troths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"annulments",
"divorces",
"separations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weed (out)":{
"as in comb (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comb (out)",
"check off",
"disregard",
"deter",
"stave off",
"ward (off)",
"cease",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"suspend",
"block",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"obviate",
"preclude",
"prevent",
"prohibit",
"banish",
"deport",
"exile",
"expel",
"oust",
"throw out",
"blackball",
"blacklist",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"ban",
"bar",
"close out",
"count (out)",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"freeze out",
"rule out",
"shut out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admit",
"include",
"accept",
"embrace",
"entertain",
"receive",
"take in",
"welcome",
"unban"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wealth":{
"the total of one's money and property":{
"examples":[
"her wealth increased to the point where she could afford several luxurious homes"
],
"synonyms":[
"assets",
"capital",
"fortune",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"substance",
"wherewithal",
"worth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belongings",
"chattels",
"effects",
"holdings",
"paraphernalia",
"possessions",
"things",
"bankroll",
"deep pockets",
"finances",
"funds",
"money",
"wallet",
"abundance",
"affluence",
"prosperity",
"success",
"treasure",
"valuables",
"accession",
"acquisition",
"personal property",
"personalty",
"property",
"nest egg",
"reserve",
"resources",
"savings",
"treasury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debts",
"liabilities",
"indebtedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"a wealth of advice from all quarters on how they should spend their lottery winnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"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"
]
},
"an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs":{
"examples":[
"a wealth of documentation to support her thesis"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"cornucopia",
"feast",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"plethora",
"superabundance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adequacy",
"competence",
"competency",
"sufficiency",
"ampleness",
"amplitude",
"liberality",
"excess",
"overdose",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"oversupply",
"redundancy",
"superfluity",
"superfluousness",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"copiousness",
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"opulence",
"richness",
"lavishness",
"luxuriance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarcity",
"barrenness",
"infertility",
"sterility"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wears on":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"His constant complaining is starting to wear on his friends."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"phrase"
]
},
"welcoming":{
"as in pleasing , pleasurable":{
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"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"animating",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"invigorating",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"thrilling",
"kind",
"kindly",
"loving",
"warm",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"edifying",
"elevating",
"uplifting",
"affecting",
"inspiring",
"inspiriting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"encouraging",
"fulfilling",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"rewarding",
"satisfying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralizing",
"depressing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"cheerless",
"disappointing",
"disgruntling",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"saddening",
"discomforting",
"disconcerting",
"dismaying",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"cold",
"unfeeling",
"unfriendly",
"unkind",
"unloving",
"unpleasant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive or accept gladly or readily":{
"examples":[
"the eager recruits welcomed every new project with which they were presented"
],
"synonyms":[
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"embracing",
"lapping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopting",
"espousing",
"taking up",
"greeting",
"hailing",
"enjoying",
"liking",
"preferring",
"cherry-picking",
"choosing",
"culling",
"deciding (on)",
"electing",
"handpicking",
"naming",
"opting (for)",
"picking",
"selecting",
"singling (out)",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balking (at)",
"declining",
"passing up",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning",
"throwing over",
"turning down",
"demurring (to)",
"objecting (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"wenching":{
"as in debauchery , lechery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"debauchery",
"lechery",
"licentiousness",
"venery",
"whoring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstinence",
"celibacy",
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"continence",
"modesty",
"purity",
"honor",
"innocence",
"virginity",
"virtue"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weighs (on or upon)":{
"to push steadily against with some force":{
"examples":[
"the bulky backpack weighed upon my back uncomfortably"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears (down on)",
"depresses",
"presses",
"shoves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"mashes",
"punches",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"squishes",
"squooshes",
"compels",
"forces",
"pressures",
"leans (on or against)",
"muscles",
"drives",
"propels",
"thrusts",
"compacts",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"crushes",
"scrunches",
"wrings",
"crams",
"jam-packs",
"jams",
"packs",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went through":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"I know how that feels because I've gone through it."
],
"synonyms":[
"endured",
"experienced",
"felt",
"had",
"knew",
"passed",
"saw",
"suffered",
"sustained",
"tasted",
"underwent",
"witnessed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountered",
"met",
"accepted",
"received",
"assimilated",
"digested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"He'd recently gone through the process of obtaining a driver's license."
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"committed",
"compassed",
"did",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"fulfilled",
"made",
"negotiated",
"performed",
"perpetrated",
"prosecuted",
"pulled off",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brought about",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"implemented",
"aced",
"nailed",
"engaged (in)",
"practiced",
"practised",
"worked (at)",
"reduplicated",
"reenacted",
"repeated",
"actualized",
"attained",
"realized",
"completed",
"ended",
"finished",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failed",
"skimped",
"slighted",
"slurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use the mind to acquire knowledge":{
"examples":[
"They went through the lesson several times."
],
"synonyms":[
"boned (up)",
"studied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crammed",
"ground",
"swotted",
"analyzed",
"deduced",
"found out",
"conned",
"learned",
"memorized",
"read",
"researched",
"restudied",
"apprehended",
"comprehended",
"grasped",
"knew",
"understood",
"absorbed",
"digested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"welcomely":{
"in a pleasing way":{
"examples":[
"the commencement speaker's welcomely brief speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeably",
"charmingly",
"delectably",
"deliciously",
"delightfully",
"dreamily",
"enchantingly",
"enjoyably",
"favorably",
"felicitously",
"fetchingly",
"gloriously",
"gratifyingly",
"great",
"nicely",
"palatably",
"pleasantly",
"pleasingly",
"pleasurably",
"prettily",
"satisfyingly",
"splendidly",
"sweetly",
"swimmingly",
"well",
"winningly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"finely",
"grandly",
"magnificently",
"advantageously",
"helpfully",
"blessedly",
"fortunately",
"happily",
"luckily",
"excellently",
"superbly",
"marvelously",
"sensationally",
"wonderfully",
"attractively",
"beautifully",
"handsomely",
"appealingly",
"appetizingly",
"enticingly",
"invitingly",
"temptingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominably",
"appallingly",
"awfully",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"shockingly",
"sickeningly",
"terribly",
"vilely",
"annoyingly",
"disgustingly",
"distressingly",
"irritatingly",
"vexingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"badly",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"unpleasantly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"wetland":{
"spongy land saturated or partially covered with water":{
"examples":[
"the conservation board has not always been rigorous in protecting the wetlands from development"
],
"synonyms":[
"bog",
"fen",
"marsh",
"marshland",
"mire",
"moor",
"morass",
"muskeg",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"swamp",
"swampland",
"wash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swale",
"quagmire",
"guck",
"gook",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slime",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weanling":{
"as in baby , infant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babe",
"baby",
"bantling",
"infant",
"neonate",
"nestling",
"newborn",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"bairn",
"bambino",
"bud",
"chap",
"chick",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"moppet",
"sprat",
"sprout",
"squirt",
"whelp",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"youth",
"adolescent",
"minor",
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"preschooler",
"rug rat",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"schoolkid",
"imp",
"jackanapes",
"mischief",
"monkey",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"cherub",
"preteen",
"preteen-ager",
"subteen",
"teen",
"teenager",
"teener",
"teenybopper",
"tween",
"lad",
"nipper",
"shaver",
"stripling",
"tad",
"bobby-soxer",
"hoyden",
"tomboy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"middle-ager",
"ancient",
"elder",
"golden-ager",
"oldster",
"old-timer",
"senior",
"senior citizen",
"adult",
"grown-up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"web":{
"something that catches and holds":{
"examples":[
"he was caught in the web of branches",
"she was trapped by her own web of lies"
],
"synonyms":[
"entanglement",
"mesh(es)",
"morass",
"net",
"noose",
"quagmire",
"quicksand",
"snare",
"tanglement",
"toil(s)",
"trap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"cat's cradle",
"labyrinth",
"maze",
"cobweb",
"spiderweb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise":{
"examples":[
"an ingenious web that was spun by undercover agents going after drug dealers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambush",
"net",
"snare",
"trap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enmeshment",
"entanglement",
"entrapment",
"envelopment",
"booby trap",
"catch",
"hazard",
"land mine",
"pitfall",
"snag",
"artifice",
"cheat",
"cheating",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"subterfuge",
"trick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wear out":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"welterweight":{
"as in heavyweight , featherweight":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bantamweight",
"cruiserweight",
"featherweight",
"flyweight",
"heavyweight",
"light heavyweight",
"lightweight",
"middleweight",
"superheavyweight",
"palooka",
"slugger",
"stumblebum",
"boxer",
"fighter",
"gladiator",
"prizefighter",
"pug",
"pugilist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weeding (out)":{
"as in combing (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"combing (out)",
"checking off",
"disregarding",
"deterring",
"staving off",
"warding (off)",
"ceasing",
"discontinuing",
"halting",
"suspending",
"blocking",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"obviating",
"precluding",
"preventing",
"prohibiting",
"banishing",
"deporting",
"exiling",
"expelling",
"ousting",
"throwing out",
"blackballing",
"blacklisting",
"excommunicating",
"ostracizing",
"banning",
"barring",
"closing out",
"counting (out)",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"freezing out",
"ruling out",
"shutting out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"admitting",
"including",
"accepting",
"embracing",
"entertaining",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"welcoming",
"unbanning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weltering":{
"as in wallowing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wallowing",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling",
"blundering",
"bumbling",
"flogging",
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"struggling",
"stumbling",
"trudging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasting",
"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wears down":{
"as in breaks down , wears out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"grinds (down)",
"wears out",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"invalids",
"lays up",
"paralyzes",
"depletes",
"depresses",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"unmans",
"washes out",
"cripples",
"disables",
"hamstrings",
"incapacitates",
"debilitates",
"devitalizes",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"etiolates",
"prostrates",
"saps",
"softens",
"tires",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefs (up)",
"fortifies",
"strengthens",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"recruits",
"rejuvenates",
"vitalizes",
"hardens",
"seasons",
"toughens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-defined":{
"easy to see or understand":{
"examples":[
"a well-defined boundary",
"well-defined policies"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"apparent",
"bald",
"bald-faced",
"barefaced",
"bright-line",
"broad",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"crystal clear",
"decided",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"luculent",
"luminous",
"manifest",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"palpable",
"patent",
"pellucid",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"ringing",
"straightforward",
"transparent",
"unambiguous",
"unambivalent",
"unequivocal",
"unmistakable",
"cognizable",
"cognoscible",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"digestible",
"fathomable",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"understandable",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"clean-cut",
"simple",
"tidy",
"uncomplicated",
"overt",
"undisguised",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"clean",
"decipherable",
"fair",
"legible",
"readable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"unknowable",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indiscernible",
"insensible",
"cloudy",
"gauzy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"imprecise",
"indefinite",
"indeterminate",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"noncommittal",
"sketchy",
"slippery",
"subtle",
"vague",
"illegible",
"undecipherable",
"unreadable",
"ambiguous",
"clouded",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"indistinct",
"mysterious",
"nonobvious",
"obfuscated",
"obscure",
"unapparent",
"unclarified",
"unclear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well (up)":{
"as in run over , boil over":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boil over",
"run over",
"spill",
"overfill",
"overflow",
"flow",
"flush",
"gush",
"pour",
"sluice",
"spout",
"spurt",
"stream",
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overwhelm",
"submerge",
"submerse",
"swamp",
"wash (over)",
"brim",
"cascade",
"slop",
"slosh"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recede"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weakly":{
"chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health":{
"examples":[
"a weakly baby who required repeated hospitalizations"
],
"synonyms":[
"ailing",
"invalid",
"sickly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedfast",
"bedridden",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"dying",
"fading",
"incurable",
"moribund",
"challenged",
"debilitated",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"decrepit",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"infirm",
"weak",
"weakened",
"worn-out",
"ill",
"indisposed",
"peaked",
"poorly",
"run-down",
"sick",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"fit",
"hale",
"hearty",
"sound",
"well-conditioned",
"whole",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"healthy",
"well"
]
},
"as in gently , softly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"feebly",
"gently",
"softly",
"delicately",
"faintly",
"frailly",
"shakily",
"bloodlessly",
"halfheartedly",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"spiritlessly",
"impotently",
"ineffectively",
"ineffectually",
"lamely",
"nervelessly",
"spinelessly",
"uncertainly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"explosively",
"firmly",
"forcefully",
"forcibly",
"hard",
"mightily",
"muscularly",
"powerfully",
"roundly",
"stiffly",
"stoutly",
"strenuously",
"strongly",
"sturdily",
"vigorously",
"fiercely",
"hammer and tongs",
"robustly",
"roughshod",
"sharply",
"vehemently",
"violently",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"eagerly",
"gamely",
"heartily",
"lustily",
"snappily",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"vivaciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"welfares":{
"the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success":{
"examples":[
"the social worker was pleased at the improvement in the child's welfare"
],
"synonyms":[
"good",
"interest",
"weal",
"well-being"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"successfulness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill-being"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weathercock":{
"a person who dexterously and expediently changes or adopts opinions":{
"examples":[
"when the winds suddenly shifted on social values, the weathercocks wasted no time in proclaiming their newfound passion for conservatism"
],
"synonyms":[
"acrobat",
"chameleon",
"chancer",
"opportunist",
"temporizer",
"timeserver",
"trimmer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"egoist",
"egotist",
"self-seeker",
"conniver",
"machinator",
"plotter",
"schemer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"went off the deep end":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"wending":{
"to move from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"We wended through the narrow streets."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going along",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting",
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaken":{
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"weeks of hardship in the desert had greatly weakened them"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"devitalize",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"etiolate",
"prostrate",
"sap",
"soften",
"tire",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cripple",
"disable",
"hamstring",
"incapacitate",
"deplete",
"depress",
"exhaust",
"impoverish",
"unman",
"wash out",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"invalid",
"lay up",
"break down",
"grind (down)",
"wear down",
"wear out",
"paralyze"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energize",
"invigorate",
"recruit",
"rejuvenate",
"vitalize",
"harden",
"season",
"toughen"
],
"antonyms":[
"beef (up)",
"fortify",
"strengthen"
]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the bodybuilder weakened once she eased off on her workouts"
],
"synonyms":[
"decay",
"droop",
"emaciate",
"fade",
"fail",
"flag",
"go",
"lag",
"languish",
"sag",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"wilt",
"wither"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break down",
"wear out",
"yield",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"rot",
"run down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesce",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"gain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances":{
"examples":[
"weakened the juice with too much water"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulterate",
"cut",
"dilute",
"extend",
"lace",
"sophisticate",
"thin",
"water down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"load",
"befoul",
"contaminate",
"corrupt",
"defile",
"dirty",
"envenom",
"foul",
"infect",
"poison",
"pollute",
"soil",
"spoil",
"sully",
"taint",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"manipulate",
"misrepresent",
"tamper (with)",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"falsify",
"fudge",
"doctor",
"spike",
"attenuate",
"moderate",
"qualify",
"temper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fertilize",
"lard",
"augment",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"supplement",
"decontaminate",
"purify",
"clarify",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"distill",
"distil",
"filter",
"flush",
"leach",
"pasteurize",
"purge",
"refine",
"better",
"enhance",
"improve",
"compact",
"concentrate",
"condense"
],
"antonyms":[
"enrich",
"fortify",
"richen",
"strengthen"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wet-nurses":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"wet-nursed the woman's baby until she was well enough to do it herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-feeds",
"nurses",
"suckles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-feeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to treat with great or excessive care":{
"examples":[
"recent college grads quickly learn that employers won't wet-nurse them the way that their teachers did"
],
"synonyms":[
"babies",
"cockers",
"coddles",
"cossets",
"dandles",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"nurses",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"contents",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"mothers",
"obliges",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"soothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controls",
"disciplines",
"restrains",
"oppresses",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"molests",
"outrages",
"violates",
"harasses",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"torments",
"tortures",
"victimizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"abuses",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"mishandles",
"mistreats",
"misuses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wearying":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"a wearying effort to sort through years of records"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary"
],
"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"
]
},
"to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous":{
"examples":[
"these constant complaints are really wearying me"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"tiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"palling",
"burning out",
"doing in",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"dejecting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"amusing",
"entertaining",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"monopolizing",
"preoccupying",
"busying",
"immersing",
"involving",
"occupying",
"pumping up",
"rallying",
"rousing",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"busying",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"a whole day of hard physical labor had thoroughly wearied her"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"wetting down":{
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"it will be easier to clean up if you wet down the surfaces first",
"the stylist began by wetting down my hair"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"steeping",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"laving",
"rinsing",
"sloshing",
"sluicing",
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"rehydrating",
"rewashing",
"rewetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
"dehumidifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wellborn":{
"of high birth, rank, or station":{
"examples":[
"the wellborn men among the colonists had no experience with physical labor"
],
"synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"noble",
"patrician",
"silk-stocking",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high",
"lofty",
"superior",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"exalted",
"gentlemanly",
"kingly",
"knightly",
"ladylike",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"regal",
"royal",
"high-level",
"senior"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferior",
"knavish",
"bastard",
"illegitimate",
"ordinary",
"plain",
"abased",
"degraded",
"junior",
"subordinate"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"low",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"mean",
"nonaristocratic",
"plebeian",
"ungenteel"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"weaver":{
"as in knitter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knitter",
"embroiderer",
"needleworker",
"tailor",
"needlewoman",
"seamstress",
"seamster",
"sewer",
"stitcher"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weeklies":{
"an publication that is issued once every week":{
"examples":[
"enjoyed the fishing reports in the outdoor club's weekly"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"yearbooks",
"books",
"bulletins",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"reviews",
"serials",
"zines",
"digests",
"little magazines",
"fanzines",
"pictorials",
"slicks",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welter":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"there was a welter of pushing and shoving as people rushed to grab the best seats for the outdoor concert"
],
"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",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a welter of junk in the closet, most of which needed to be thrown out"
],
"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",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"rummage",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety"
],
"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":[]
},
"a state in which everything is out of order":{
"examples":[
"the claim that a troop withdrawal would plunge the country into a welter of anarchy and endless civil war"
],
"synonyms":[
"chance-medley",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"dishevelment",
"disorder",
"disorderedness",
"disorderliness",
"disorganization",
"free-for-all",
"havoc",
"heck",
"hell",
"jumble",
"mare's nest",
"mess",
"messiness",
"misorder",
"muddle",
"muss",
"shambles",
"snake pit",
"tumble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anarchy",
"lawlessness",
"misrule",
"riot",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"labyrinth",
"maze",
"web",
"maelstrom",
"storm",
"bollix",
"clutter",
"litter",
"mishmash",
"shuffle",
"hodgepodge",
"medley",
"miscellany",
"morass",
"motley"
],
"near antonyms":[
"method",
"pattern",
"plan",
"system"
],
"antonyms":[
"order",
"orderliness"
]
},
"as in wallow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wallow",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"falter",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"fumble",
"muddle",
"blunder",
"bumble",
"flog",
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"struggle",
"stumble",
"trudge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coast",
"fly",
"glide",
"kilt",
"sail",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"well-wishing":{
"as in praise , blessing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commendation",
"compliment",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects",
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weak-kneed":{
"lacking strength of will or character":{
"examples":[
"management is too weak-kneed to effectively enforce even a minimal dress code"
],
"synonyms":[
"characterless",
"effete",
"frail",
"invertebrate",
"limp-wristed",
"milk-and-water",
"namby-pamby",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"weak",
"weakened",
"weakling",
"wet",
"wimpish",
"wimpy",
"wishy-washy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"flaccid",
"forceless",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"powerless",
"emasculated",
"unnerved",
"lamblike",
"meek",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"corrupt",
"dastardly",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"fainthearted",
"lily-livered",
"nebbishy",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"sissy",
"timid",
"infirm",
"irresolute",
"vacillating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"moral",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"determined",
"mettlesome",
"resolute",
"unrelenting",
"courageous",
"stalwart",
"stouthearted"
],
"antonyms":[
"backboned",
"firm",
"hard",
"strong",
"tough"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"well-to-do":{
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"a doctor who is now quite well-to-do as a result of his successful medical practice"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wedding":{
"a ceremony in which two people are united in matrimony":{
"examples":[
"the couple chose to have a garden wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridal",
"espousal",
"marriage",
"nuptial(s)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"match",
"matrimony",
"wedlock",
"union"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give in marriage":{
"examples":[
"the king wished to wed his favorite daughter to the bravest knight in the realm"
],
"synonyms":[
"espousing",
"marrying",
"matching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committing",
"engaging",
"affiancing",
"betrothing",
"pledging",
"promising"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to perform the ceremony of marriage for":{
"examples":[
"the priest usually weds six to eight couples a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"marrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"matching",
"mating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"uniting",
"affiancing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take a spouse":{
"examples":[
"she swore that she would never wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"marrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coupling",
"mating",
"pairing off",
"remarrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"divorcing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take as a spouse":{
"examples":[
"a true romantic, he intends to wed her on Valentine's Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"espousing",
"marrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiancing",
"betrothing",
"committing",
"engaging",
"pledging",
"promising",
"proposing",
"remarrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"separating (from)"
],
"antonyms":[
"divorcing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"weeper":{
"as in screamer , moaner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bawler",
"bleater",
"moaner",
"screamer",
"squawker",
"wailer",
"baby",
"bellyacher",
"complainer",
"crybaby",
"fussbudget",
"fusser",
"fusspot",
"griper",
"grumbler",
"kvetch",
"kvetcher",
"sniveler",
"whiner",
"crab",
"grump",
"malcontent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"happy camper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"wet blanket":{
"a person who spoils the pleasure of others":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to go to the party, but with my cold, I'm afraid I'd just be a wet blanket"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag",
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddy",
"goody-goody",
"Goody Two-shoes",
"old maid",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"defeatist",
"Jeremiah",
"knocker",
"pessimist",
"complainer",
"crab",
"cynic",
"grouch",
"grump",
"sorehead",
"sourpuss",
"whiner",
"bore",
"downer",
"drip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutup",
"jester",
"live wire",
"carouser",
"celebrant",
"celebrator",
"merrymaker",
"rejoicer",
"reveler",
"reveller",
"roisterer",
"libertine",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"rake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"welters":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"there was a welter of pushing and shoving as people rushed to grab the best seats for the outdoor concert"
],
"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",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"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":[]
},
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a welter of junk in the closet, most of which needed to be thrown out"
],
"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",
"motleys",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"rummages",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties"
],
"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":[]
},
"a state in which everything is out of order":{
"examples":[
"the claim that a troop withdrawal would plunge the country into a welter of anarchy and endless civil war"
],
"synonyms":[
"chance-medleys",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"dishevelments",
"disorders",
"disorganizations",
"free-for-alls",
"havoc",
"hecks",
"hells",
"jumbles",
"mare's nests",
"mares' nests",
"messes",
"misorders",
"muddles",
"musses",
"shambles",
"snake pits",
"tumbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anarchies",
"misrules",
"riots",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles",
"labyrinths",
"mazes",
"webs",
"maelstroms",
"storms",
"bollixes",
"clutters",
"litters",
"mishmashes",
"shuffles",
"hodgepodges",
"medleys",
"miscellanies",
"morasses",
"motleys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"methods",
"patterns",
"plans",
"systems"
],
"antonyms":[
"orders"
]
},
"as in wallows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wallows",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"falters",
"lurches",
"reels",
"staggers",
"sways",
"teeters",
"totters",
"fumbles",
"muddles",
"blunders",
"bumbles",
"flogs",
"limps",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"struggles",
"stumbles",
"trudges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasts",
"flies",
"glides",
"kilts",
"sails",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"wedges":{
"to fit (people or things) into a tight space":{
"examples":[
"managed to wedge one last book onto the bookshelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"jams",
"rams",
"sandwiches",
"shoehorns",
"squeezes",
"stuffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fills",
"heaps",
"jam-packs",
"loads",
"packs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighs (anchor)":{
"as in embarks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embarks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debarks",
"disembarks",
"lands",
"beaches",
"anchors",
"docks",
"puts in"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighting":{
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"weighted the car with a ton of furniture and then headed off for college"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"freighting",
"ladening",
"lading",
"loading",
"lumbering",
"saddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clogging",
"cluttering",
"filling",
"packing",
"heaping",
"mounding",
"piling",
"stacking",
"pressing",
"weighing",
"straining",
"taxing",
"overburdening",
"overloading",
"overtaxing",
"surcharging",
"hampering",
"handicapping",
"afflicting",
"oppressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviating",
"easing",
"lightening",
"relieving"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburdening",
"discharging",
"disencumbering",
"unburdening",
"unlading",
"unloading"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weighed":{
"decided on as a result of careful thought":{
"examples":[
"a carefully weighed decision to take the company in a new direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"advised",
"calculated",
"considered",
"deliberate",
"knowing",
"measured",
"reasoned",
"studied",
"thought-out",
"thoughtful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aforethought",
"premeditated",
"prepense",
"educated",
"informed",
"intentional",
"purposeful",
"designed",
"intended",
"planned",
"projected",
"careful",
"meticulous",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"provident",
"prudent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"half-cocked",
"ill-advised",
"chance",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"random",
"aimless",
"desultory",
"purposeless",
"hasty",
"hurried",
"rushed",
"abrupt",
"impetuous",
"sudden",
"automatic",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"instinctive",
"spontaneous"
],
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"unadvised",
"uncalculated",
"unconsidered",
"unstudied"
]
},
"to be of importance":{
"examples":[
"evidence that will weigh heavily against the defendant"
],
"synonyms":[
"counted",
"imported",
"mattered",
"meant",
"signified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"concerned",
"influenced",
"swayed",
"added up (to)",
"amounted (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"weighed the options for weeks before making a decision"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewed over",
"cogitated",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"entertained",
"eyed",
"kicked around",
"meditated",
"mulled (over)",
"perpended",
"pondered",
"pored (over)",
"questioned",
"revolved",
"ruminated",
"studied",
"thought (about or over)",
"turned",
"wrestled (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mused (upon)",
"reflected (on or upon)",
"reminisced",
"analyzed",
"explored",
"reviewed",
"concluded",
"reasoned",
"second-guessed",
"speculated (about)",
"brooded (about or over)",
"dwelled (on or upon)",
"dwelt (on or upon)",
"fixated (on or upon)",
"fretted (about or over)",
"obsessed (about or over)",
"believed",
"conceived",
"opined",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"rejected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"weighing (anchor)":{
"as in embarking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embarking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debarking",
"disembarking",
"landing",
"beaching",
"anchoring",
"docking",
"putting in"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"welled (up)":{
"as in ran over , boiled over":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boiled over",
"ran over",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"overfilled",
"overflowed",
"flowed",
"flushed",
"gushed",
"poured",
"sluiced",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"streamed",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged",
"submersed",
"swamped",
"washed (over)",
"brimmed",
"cascaded",
"slopped",
"sloshed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wearing (away)":{
"as in eroding , washing out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"eroding",
"scouring",
"washing out",
"deteriorating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"blighting",
"tarnishing",
"blemishing",
"bloodying",
"breaking",
"compromising",
"crabbing",
"crippling",
"crossing (up)",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"endamaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"denting",
"dinging",
"dinting",
"botching",
"gumming (up)",
"queering",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"disabling",
"hamstringing",
"laming",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"annihilating",
"banging up",
"bashing",
"battering",
"clobbering",
"crushing",
"dashing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"scourging",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"wasting",
"wiping out",
"wrecking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstructing",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"curing",
"healing",
"helping",
"rectifying",
"rehabilitating",
"remedying",
"editing",
"remodeling",
"revising",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"refining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wedded":{
"of or relating to marriage":{
"examples":[
"living in wedded bliss"
],
"synonyms":[
"conjugal",
"connubial",
"marital",
"married",
"matrimonial",
"nuptial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espoused",
"matched",
"mated",
"bridal",
"prenuptial",
"spousal",
"wifely",
"affianced",
"betrothed",
"committed",
"engaged",
"pledged",
"promised"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give in marriage":{
"examples":[
"the king wished to wed his favorite daughter to the bravest knight in the realm"
],
"synonyms":[
"espoused",
"married",
"matched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"committed",
"engaged",
"affianced",
"betrothed",
"pledged",
"promised"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to perform the ceremony of marriage for":{
"examples":[
"the priest usually weds six to eight couples a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"married"
],
"near synonyms":[
"matched",
"mated",
"conjoined",
"connected",
"united",
"affianced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take a spouse":{
"examples":[
"she swore that she would never wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"married"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coupled",
"mated",
"paired off",
"remarried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"divorced",
"separated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take as a spouse":{
"examples":[
"a true romantic, he intends to wed her on Valentine's Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"espoused",
"married"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affianced",
"betrothed",
"committed",
"engaged",
"pledged",
"promised",
"proposed",
"remarried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"separated (from)"
],
"antonyms":[
"divorced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"wearing to a frazzle":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"well-endowed":{
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"that independent company is not so well-endowed that it could afford to fight a protracted lawsuit"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wearies":{
"to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous":{
"examples":[
"these constant complaints are really wearying me"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"jades",
"tires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"palls",
"burns out",
"does in",
"drains",
"enervates",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wears",
"wears out",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"dejects",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"animates",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"excites",
"galvanizes",
"invigorates",
"stimulates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"amuses",
"entertains",
"allures",
"attracts",
"beguiles",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"enchants",
"hypnotizes",
"mesmerizes",
"monopolizes",
"preoccupies",
"busies",
"immerses",
"involves",
"occupies",
"pumps up",
"rallies",
"rouses",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbs",
"busies",
"engages",
"engrosses",
"enthralls",
"enthrals",
"fascinates",
"grips",
"interests",
"intrigues"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"a whole day of hard physical labor had thoroughly wearied her"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wears",
"wears out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went to seed":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophied",
"crumbled",
"decayed",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"devolved",
"ebbed",
"regressed",
"retrograded",
"rotted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"worsened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"waned",
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decomposed",
"degraded",
"dilapidated",
"disintegrated",
"moldered",
"putrefied",
"soured",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"debilitated",
"undermined",
"drooped",
"failed",
"fell",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"ran down",
"sagged",
"slipped",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettered",
"upgraded",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"strengthened",
"advanced",
"developed",
"marched",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"improved",
"meliorated"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"wept":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water weeping through the basement wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bled",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"percolated",
"seeped",
"strained",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"transuded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"trickled",
"discharged",
"emitted",
"gave off",
"vented",
"emanated",
"flowed",
"sprang",
"sprung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooded",
"gushed",
"poured",
"streamed",
"surged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress":{
"examples":[
"the child was weeping over the death of his dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawled",
"blubbed",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greeted",
"grieved",
"keened",
"lamented",
"mourned",
"howled",
"screamed",
"squalled",
"wailed",
"yowled",
"bleated",
"mewled",
"puled",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"sniffled",
"sniveled",
"snivelled",
"groaned",
"moaned",
"sighed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wearilessly":{
"as in tirelessly , indefatigably":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"weaklings":{
"a person lacking in physical strength":{
"examples":[
"he had been a weakling until high school, when he started working out to put on muscle"
],
"synonyms":[
"softies",
"wimps",
"wusses",
"wussies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pushovers",
"milksops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"powerhouses"
]
},
"a person without strength of character":{
"examples":[
"only a weakling would be willing to lie to save himself from punishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"doormats",
"jellyfish",
"namby-pambies",
"pushovers",
"reeds",
"wimps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cowards",
"mice",
"milquetoasts",
"nebbishes",
"nervous Nellies",
"pussies",
"wusses",
"wussies",
"sheep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mensches"
],
"antonyms":[
"stalwarts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"went over":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"his sales pitch went over as expected and he saw a 200% increase in his commissions"
],
"synonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"cooked",
"percolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languished",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"fell down",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"washed out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-wishers":{
"someone who wants another person to be happy, successful, etc.":{
"examples":[
"Dozens of well-wishers gathered to say goodbye to him."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boosters",
"rooters",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanatics",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers",
"groupies",
"admirers",
"amateurs",
"collectors",
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"authorities",
"experts",
"adherents",
"converts",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"votaries",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"exponents",
"friends",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirers",
"belittlers",
"carpers",
"critics",
"detractors",
"nonfans"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"well":{
"in a satisfactory way":{
"examples":[
"our current system for dividing household chores works well , so let's keep it"
],
"synonyms":[
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"alright",
"creditably",
"decently",
"fine",
"good",
"middlingly",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"passably",
"respectably",
"satisfactorily",
"serviceably",
"so-so",
"sufficiently",
"tolerably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"happily",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"seemly",
"suitably",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly",
"effectively",
"effectually",
"efficiently",
"neatly",
"tidily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbearably",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"unsuitably",
"awfully",
"deplorably",
"disastrously",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"miserably",
"terribly"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"ill",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"intolerably",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily"
]
},
"in a generous manner":{
"examples":[
"a warm and gracious host who always treats guests well"
],
"synonyms":[
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously",
"selflessly",
"ungrudgingly",
"unselfishly",
"altruistically",
"beneficently",
"benevolently",
"bigheartedly",
"charitably",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"magnanimously",
"philanthropically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"obnoxiously",
"provocatively",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously"
]
},
"in a skillful or expert manner":{
"examples":[
"she plays the piano very well"
],
"synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"artfully",
"capably",
"competently",
"consummately",
"deftly",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"masterly",
"proficiently",
"skillfully"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptly",
"fluently",
"cleanly",
"cleverly",
"dexterously",
"neatly",
"nimbly",
"easily",
"facilely",
"handily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaptly",
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"crudely"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateurishly",
"artlessly",
"incapably",
"incompetently",
"inefficiently",
"ineptly",
"inexpertly",
"poorly",
"unskillfully"
]
},
"with good reason or courtesy":{
"examples":[
"we cannot well get out of going to your cousin's wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"considerately",
"courteously",
"graciously",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"thoughtfully"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pleasantly",
"excusably",
"fairly",
"justifiably",
"validly",
"discreetly",
"judiciously",
"prudently",
"sensibly",
"wisely",
"chivalrously",
"decorously",
"deferentially",
"gallantly",
"politely",
"respectfully",
"solicitously",
"compassionately",
"humanely",
"kindheartedly",
"sweetly",
"sympathetically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"disrespectfully",
"impolitely",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"snootily",
"cruelly",
"heartlessly",
"nastily",
"viciously",
"shabbily",
"unfairly"
],
"antonyms":[
"discourteously",
"inconsiderately",
"thoughtlessly"
]
},
"in a pleasing way":{
"examples":[
"the day went well , despite the rough beginning"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeably",
"charmingly",
"delectably",
"deliciously",
"delightfully",
"dreamily",
"enchantingly",
"enjoyably",
"favorably",
"felicitously",
"fetchingly",
"gloriously",
"gratifyingly",
"great",
"nicely",
"palatably",
"pleasantly",
"pleasingly",
"pleasurably",
"prettily",
"satisfyingly",
"splendidly",
"sweetly",
"swimmingly",
"welcomely",
"winningly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"finely",
"grandly",
"magnificently",
"advantageously",
"helpfully",
"blessedly",
"fortunately",
"happily",
"luckily",
"excellently",
"superbly",
"marvelously",
"sensationally",
"wonderfully",
"attractively",
"beautifully",
"handsomely",
"appealingly",
"appetizingly",
"enticingly",
"invitingly",
"temptingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominably",
"appallingly",
"awfully",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"shockingly",
"sickeningly",
"terribly",
"vilely",
"annoyingly",
"disgustingly",
"distressingly",
"irritatingly",
"vexingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"badly",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"unpleasantly"
]
},
"to a full extent or degree":{
"examples":[
"we are well aware that this home renovation is going to be costly"
],
"synonyms":[
"all",
"all of",
"all over",
"altogether",
"clean",
"completely",
"dead",
"enough",
"entire",
"entirely",
"even",
"exactly",
"fast",
"flat",
"full",
"fully",
"heartily",
"out",
"perfectly",
"plumb",
"quite",
"soundly",
"thoroughly",
"through and through",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"wide"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"categorically",
"cold",
"downright",
"hands down",
"plain",
"stone",
"stone-cold",
"unqualifiedly",
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"more or less",
"mostly",
"overall",
"predominantly",
"predominately",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially",
"abundantly",
"copiously",
"generously",
"greatly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"kind of",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely",
"slightly",
"superficially",
"approximately",
"roughly",
"somewhat"
],
"antonyms":[
"half",
"halfway",
"incompletely",
"part",
"partially",
"partly"
]
},
"without difficulty":{
"examples":[
"he can well afford to spare the time"
],
"synonyms":[
"easily",
"easy",
"effortlessly",
"facilely",
"fluently",
"freely",
"handily",
"hands down",
"lightly",
"painlessly",
"readily",
"smoothly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"competently",
"deftly",
"dexterously",
"efficiently",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"proficiently",
"skillfully",
"instinctively",
"intuitively",
"naturally",
"spontaneously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"gracelessly",
"ham-handedly",
"ineptly",
"maladroitly",
"unskillfully",
"meticulously",
"painfully",
"painstakingly",
"thoroughly",
"assiduously",
"diligently",
"indefatigably",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intently",
"mightily",
"sedulously",
"tirelessly"
],
"antonyms":[
"arduously",
"hardly",
"laboriously",
"strenuously"
]
},
"how surprising, doubtful, or unbelievable":{
"examples":[
"well , that is odd!"
],
"synonyms":[
"ah",
"aha",
"come on",
"fie",
"indeed",
"my word",
"no",
"pshaw",
"what",
"why"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gee",
"gee whiz",
"ha",
"hello",
"hey",
"lo",
"oh",
"fiddlesticks",
"phooey",
"pooh",
"there",
"oops",
"whoops",
"woops",
"ugh",
"egad",
"gad",
"gadzooks",
"(the) deuce",
"the devil",
"the dickens",
"zounds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"his quirkily dysfunctional family proved to be a bottomless well of inspiration for the novelist"
],
"synonyms":[
"cradle",
"font",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"wellspring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold",
"baseline",
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small often deep body of water":{
"examples":[
"the spot where the spring bubbles up to the surface and forms a deep well"
],
"synonyms":[
"billabong",
"mere",
"pool",
"puddle",
"stank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basin",
"hole",
"sinkhole",
"swimming pool",
"lake",
"pond",
"water hole"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"enjoying health and vigor":{
"examples":[
"my mother is quite well , thank you"
],
"synonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"bouncing",
"fit",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"robust",
"sound",
"well-conditioned",
"whole",
"wholesome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hard",
"hardy",
"iron",
"lusty",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"ambulatory",
"nondisabled",
"uncrippled",
"active",
"agile",
"chipper",
"lively",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"spry",
"vigorous",
"vital",
"blooming",
"clean-cut",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"all right",
"good",
"right"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrepit",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"infirm",
"run-down",
"sickened",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakened",
"weakly",
"worn-out",
"challenged",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"differently abled",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"malnourished",
"undernourished",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"bad",
"poorly"
],
"antonyms":[
"ailing",
"diseased",
"ill",
"sick",
"unfit",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"interjection",
"noun"
]
},
"wends":{
"to move from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"We wended through the narrow streets."
],
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"journeys",
"passes",
"repairs",
"runs",
"travels",
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"does",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"goes off",
"marches",
"paces",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"accelerates",
"fast-forwards",
"speeds",
"approaches",
"nears",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"takes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"balks",
"blocks",
"checks",
"detains",
"halts",
"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"nips",
"obstructs",
"slows (down or up)",
"stems",
"represses",
"retards",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"delays",
"interrupts",
"stalls",
"cramps",
"hampers",
"inhibits",
"ceases",
"lets up",
"pauses",
"regresses",
"waits",
"remains",
"stands",
"stays",
"stops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"well-ordered":{
"as in orderly , tidy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"kempt",
"neat",
"neatened",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"shipshape",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"antiseptic",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"hygienic",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"manicured",
"well-groomed",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"hugger-mugger",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"pell-mell",
"rumpled",
"sloppy",
"topsy-turvy",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"upside-down",
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"shaggy",
"slatternly",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"uncombed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wearing out":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went (to)":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"when the sales representative refused to help us, we went to the store manager"
],
"synonyms":[
"consulted",
"referred (to)",
"resorted (to)",
"turned (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"depended (on)",
"relied (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"weaned":{
"as in disaccustomed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disaccustomed",
"inexperienced",
"new",
"unseasoned",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"opposed",
"unapt",
"unlikely",
"unaccustomed",
"unused",
"unwonted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accustomed",
"given",
"habituated",
"used",
"wont",
"apt",
"inclined",
"liable",
"likely",
"prone",
"hardened",
"inured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"went to one's head":{
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"The drink the host made for him really went to his head ."
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weighs (upon)":{
"as in squeezes , pressures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bears (down)",
"compresses",
"depresses",
"jams",
"pressures",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"impels",
"moves",
"bulldozes",
"compels",
"forces",
"leans (on or against)",
"muscles",
"rams",
"drives",
"propels",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went (away)":{
"as in disappeared , cleared":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cleared",
"disappeared",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"fled",
"melted",
"branched (out)",
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"diverged",
"divided",
"forked",
"separated",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"disassembled",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"dissolved",
"scattered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"congregated",
"gathered",
"met"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went ballistic":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The partners went ballistic when they lost the business deal of a lifetime."
],
"synonyms":[
"blew up",
"flared (up)",
"flipped (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angered",
"fulminated",
"raged",
"ranted",
"raved",
"snapped",
"snarled",
"sputtered",
"stormed",
"teed off",
"vented",
"vituperated",
"bristled",
"burned",
"burnt",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"glared",
"glowered",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"steamed",
"warmed",
"burst",
"bursted",
"exploded",
"flared (out)",
"flashed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"maddened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilled out",
"cooled (off or down)",
"relaxed",
"hushed",
"quieted (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calmed (down)",
"simmered down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weights (down)":{
"as in weighs down , bogs (down)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bogs (down)",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"restrains",
"shackles",
"subjects",
"weighs down",
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"saddles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"disburdens",
"disencumbers",
"divests",
"frees",
"relieves",
"rids",
"unburdens",
"discharges",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"manumits",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters",
"bails (out)",
"delivers",
"redeems",
"rescues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went to pieces":{
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"After the breakup of his marriage he completely went to pieces ."
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"wears to a frazzle":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"Trying to meet all the deadlines had her worn to a frazzle ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weeps":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water weeping through the basement wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeds",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"percolates",
"seeps",
"strains",
"sweats",
"transudes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbles",
"drips",
"trickles",
"discharges",
"emits",
"gives off",
"vents",
"emanates",
"flows",
"springs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floods",
"gushes",
"pours",
"streams",
"surges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress":{
"examples":[
"the child was weeping over the death of his dog"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"blubs",
"cries",
"sobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greets",
"grieves",
"keens",
"laments",
"mourns",
"howls",
"screams",
"squalls",
"wails",
"yowls",
"bleats",
"mewls",
"pules",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"sniffles",
"snivels",
"groans",
"moans",
"sighs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"went up in flames":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"The neighbors called the fire department when they saw the old house go up in flames ."
],
"synonyms":[
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"combusted",
"flamed",
"glowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught",
"enkindled",
"deflagrated",
"fired",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"flared (up)",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)",
"flickered",
"guttered",
"wavered",
"baked",
"broiled",
"charred",
"cooked",
"melted",
"roasted",
"scorched",
"sweltered",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"sparked",
"sputtered",
"beamed",
"brightened",
"radiated",
"beat (down)",
"flashed",
"glared",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"shone",
"shined",
"sparkled",
"twinkled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"weigh (anchor)":{
"as in embark":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debark",
"disembark",
"land",
"beach",
"anchor",
"dock",
"put in"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"wettish":{
"slightly or moderately wet":{
"examples":[
"the ground is still rather wettish after last night's downpour"
],
"synonyms":[
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"moist"
],
"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"
]
},
"well-behaved":{
"as in docile , obedient":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"controllable",
"governable",
"manageable",
"tractable",
"compliant",
"placable",
"pliable",
"submissive",
"yielding",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"trainable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"froward",
"headstrong",
"incontrollable",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncontrollable",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bullheaded",
"contrary",
"difficult",
"hardheaded",
"incorrigible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-willed",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"undisciplined",
"unpunished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"wear and tear":{
"the result of long and hard use":{
"examples":[
"my favorite jeans finally succumbed to wear and tear and had to be replaced"
],
"synonyms":[
"wear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrasion",
"corrosion",
"erosion",
"decomposition",
"deterioration",
"disintegration",
"fatigue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstruction",
"renovation",
"repair",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"well-being":{
"the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success":{
"examples":[
"we're only doing this for your own well-being"
],
"synonyms":[
"good",
"interest",
"weal",
"welfare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"successfulness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill-being"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weasel":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
"examples":[
"the polite guest chose to weasel rather than admit that he didn't like the meal"
],
"synonyms":[
"equivocate",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"tergiversate",
"waffle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flip-flop",
"yo-yo",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"eschew",
"evade",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"sidestep",
"skirt",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"straddle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in snake , skunk":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"skunk",
"snake",
"lurker",
"skulk",
"skulker",
"slyboots",
"sneak",
"sneaker",
"sharper",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"slicker",
"swindler",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"stalker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"webs":{
"something that catches and holds":{
"examples":[
"he was caught in the web of branches",
"she was trapped by her own web of lies"
],
"synonyms":[
"entanglements",
"meshes",
"morasses",
"nets",
"nooses",
"quagmires",
"quicksands",
"snares",
"tanglements",
"toils",
"traps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles",
"cat's cradles",
"labyrinths",
"mazes",
"cobwebs",
"spiderwebs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise":{
"examples":[
"an ingenious web that was spun by undercover agents going after drug dealers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambushes",
"nets",
"snares",
"traps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enmeshments",
"entanglements",
"entrapments",
"envelopments",
"booby traps",
"catches",
"hazards",
"land mines",
"pitfalls",
"snags",
"artifices",
"cheats",
"deceptions",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"ploys",
"ruses",
"subterfuges",
"tricks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"weds":{
"to give in marriage":{
"examples":[
"the king wished to wed his favorite daughter to the bravest knight in the realm"
],
"synonyms":[
"espouses",
"marries",
"matches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commits",
"engages",
"affiances",
"betroths",
"pledges",
"promises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to perform the ceremony of marriage for":{
"examples":[
"the priest usually weds six to eight couples a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"marries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"matches",
"mates",
"conjoins",
"connects",
"unites",
"affiances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take a spouse":{
"examples":[
"she swore that she would never wed"
],
"synonyms":[
"marries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"couples",
"mates",
"pairs off",
"remarries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"divorces",
"separates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take as a spouse":{
"examples":[
"a true romantic, he intends to wed her on Valentine's Day"
],
"synonyms":[
"espouses",
"marries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiances",
"betroths",
"commits",
"engages",
"pledges",
"promises",
"proposes",
"remarries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"separates (from)"
],
"antonyms":[
"divorces"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}