dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/len_MWT.json
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{
"lengthen":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"I had to lengthen the handle of the paint roller in order to reach the top of the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag (out)",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"extend",
"outstretch",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplify",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lengthening":{
"the act of making longer":{
"examples":[
"a lengthening of the school year is favored by many of the parents in the school district"
],
"synonyms":[
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
]
},
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"I had to lengthen the handle of the paint roller in order to reach the top of the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragging (out)",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"extending",
"outstretching",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifying",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"attenuating",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"shortening"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"lent":{
"to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned":{
"antonyms":[
"borrowed"
],
"examples":[
"I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend",
"can you lend me five dollars?"
],
"near antonyms":[
"received",
"took"
],
"related":[
"furnished",
"gave",
"granted",
"leased",
"let",
"rented"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"loaned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"lenience":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"a judge's reputation for lenience towards first-time criminals"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"leniency",
"lenity",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"length":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadth",
"distance",
"expanse",
"expansion",
"extent",
"field",
"plain",
"reach",
"sheet",
"spread",
"stretch",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domain",
"sphere",
"territory",
"compass",
"range",
"scope",
"sweep",
"gamut",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"depth",
"emptiness",
"void",
"extension",
"latitude",
"span",
"amplitude",
"immensity",
"magnitude"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline"
],
"synonyms":[
"distance",
"lead",
"remove",
"spacing",
"spread",
"stretch",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitude",
"area",
"breadth",
"depth",
"height",
"rise",
"space",
"volume",
"width",
"extension",
"extent",
"cast",
"range",
"reach",
"scope",
"shot",
"sweep",
"throw",
"drop",
"fall",
"flight",
"haul",
"berth",
"clearance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lenient":{
"allowing a lot of freedom and not punishing bad behavior in a strong way":{
"examples":[
"a teacher who is lenient with students who have misbehaved",
"The public was outraged by the lenient sentence the corrupt banker received."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clement",
"forbearing",
"forgiving",
"merciful",
"soft",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warmhearted",
"attentive",
"considerate",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"affable",
"amicable",
"benign",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"gentle",
"good",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"mild",
"neighborly",
"nice",
"pleasant",
"sweet",
"warm",
"patient",
"pitying",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"altruistic",
"brotherly",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"greathearted",
"humanitarian",
"liberal",
"magnanimous",
"munificent",
"noble",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"selfless",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"anticruelty",
"cruelty-free"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grim",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unthinking",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"virulent",
"antihumanitarian",
"uncharitable",
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"uncompassionate",
"unfeeling",
"unkind",
"unkindly",
"unsympathetic",
"vicious",
"wanton"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"Leninist":{
"as in Trotskyist , Stalinist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolshevik",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leniency":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"the defense requested leniency in light of their client's lack of a prior criminal record"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"lenience",
"lenity",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lend":{
"to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned":{
"examples":[
"I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend",
"can you lend me five dollars?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"loan"
],
"near synonyms":[
"furnish",
"give",
"grant",
"lease",
"let",
"rent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receive",
"take"
],
"antonyms":[
"borrow"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Leninite":{
"as in Stalinist , Maoist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"Red",
"socialist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lengthwise":{
"as in longitudinally":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"longitudinally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"athwart",
"bias",
"cornerways",
"cornerwise",
"crossways",
"crosswise",
"diagonally",
"kitty-corner",
"catty-corner",
"catercorner",
"kitty-cornered",
"catty-cornered",
"catercornered",
"obliquely",
"transversely",
"across",
"on the bias",
"on the diagonal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"Leninism":{
"as in bolshevism , Marxism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bolshevism",
"Marxism",
"Sovietism",
"Stalinism",
"collectivism",
"Communism",
"leftism",
"liberalism",
"radicalism",
"Big Brother",
"Big Brotherism",
"fascism",
"Nazism",
"absolutism",
"autarchy",
"authoritarianism",
"autocracy",
"Caesarism",
"czarism",
"tsarism",
"tzarism",
"despotism",
"dictatorship",
"totalism",
"totalitarianism",
"tyranny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democracy",
"self-governance",
"self-government",
"self-rule",
"freedom",
"self-determination",
"autonomy",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lengthened":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"I had to lengthen the handle of the paint roller in order to reach the top of the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged (out)",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"extended",
"outstretched",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"increased",
"attenuated",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shortened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Leninites":{
"as in Stalinists , Maoists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"leniencies":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"the defense requested leniency in light of their client's lack of a prior criminal record"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"lenience",
"lenity",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lensmen":{
"one who takes photographs":{
"examples":[
"an expert lensman whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines"
],
"synonyms":[
"photographers",
"photogs",
"shooters",
"shutterbugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinematographers",
"paparazzi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lengthiness":{
"as in prolixity , extensiveness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"diffuseness",
"garrulousness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"talkativeness",
"talkiness",
"verboseness",
"volubility",
"wordiness",
"elongating",
"elongation",
"extending",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"protraction",
"stretching",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness",
"extensiveness",
"expansion",
"growth",
"spread"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"conciseness",
"shortness",
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compression",
"condensation",
"contraction",
"curtailment",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"shortening",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lengths":{
"a wide space or area":{
"examples":[
"vowed that he would journey the lengths of the earth to find her"
],
"synonyms":[
"breadths",
"distances",
"expanses",
"expansions",
"extents",
"fields",
"plains",
"reaches",
"sheets",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domains",
"spheres",
"territories",
"compasses",
"ranges",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"gamuts",
"scales",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"depths",
"voids",
"extensions",
"latitudes",
"spans",
"amplitudes",
"immensities",
"magnitudes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects":{
"examples":[
"the length of a professional tennis court is 78 feet from baseline to baseline"
],
"synonyms":[
"distances",
"leads",
"removes",
"spacings",
"spreads",
"stretches",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"areas",
"breadths",
"depths",
"heights",
"rises",
"spaces",
"volumes",
"widths",
"extensions",
"extents",
"casts",
"ranges",
"reaches",
"scopes",
"shots",
"sweeps",
"throws",
"drops",
"falls",
"flights",
"hauls",
"berths",
"clearances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lends":{
"to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned":{
"examples":[
"I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend",
"can you lend me five dollars?"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"loans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"furnishes",
"gives",
"grants",
"leases",
"lets",
"rents"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receives",
"takes"
],
"antonyms":[
"borrows"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Leninists":{
"as in Trotskyists , Stalinists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"Reds",
"socialists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"capitalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lenities":{
"kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it":{
"examples":[
"a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us"
],
"synonyms":[
"charity",
"clemency",
"forbearance",
"lenience",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"quarter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy",
"empathy",
"pity",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"commiseration",
"favor",
"grace",
"benevolence",
"care",
"compassion",
"gentleness",
"goodness",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"meekness",
"mildness",
"niceness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"altruism",
"generosity",
"magnanimity",
"nobility",
"affection",
"devotion",
"love",
"worship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"uncharitableness",
"reprisal",
"requital",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"venom",
"vindictiveness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"cruelty",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"violence",
"wantonness",
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"discipline",
"punishment",
"scolding",
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"detestation",
"execration",
"hate",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"cattiness",
"malevolence",
"malice",
"maliciousness",
"malignancy",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spite",
"spitefulness",
"spleen",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jealousy",
"pique",
"resentment",
"bile",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"hatefulness",
"invidiousness",
"coarseness",
"hardness",
"harshness",
"roughness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lending library":{
"as in library , archive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"archive",
"library",
"stacks",
"bibliotheca"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"lensman":{
"one who takes photographs":{
"examples":[
"an expert lensman whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines"
],
"synonyms":[
"photog",
"photographer",
"shooter",
"shutterbug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinematographer",
"paparazzo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}