dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/und_MWT.json
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{
"undaunted":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"undaunted despite their repeated failures at starting a business"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"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",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undefeated":{
"not having or including any losses or defeats":{
"examples":[
"They were undefeated in their first nine games.",
"an undefeated team"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unbeaten",
"unbowed",
"unconquered",
"unsubdued",
"bulletproof",
"impregnable",
"indomitable",
"insuperable",
"insurmountable",
"invincible",
"invulnerable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"unstoppable",
"inviolable",
"unassailable",
"unbreachable",
"untouchable",
"armored",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safe",
"safeguarded",
"secure",
"shielded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"insecure",
"liable",
"open",
"susceptible",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unsafe",
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"powerless",
"weak",
"superable",
"surmountable",
"vincible",
"vulnerable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undemonstrative":{
"not feeling or showing emotion":{
"antonyms":[
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"passional",
"passionate",
"vehement"
],
"examples":[
"an undemonstrative person by nature, he nevertheless loved his wife very much"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"red-hot",
"ardent",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"warm-blooded",
"zealous",
"gushing",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"sentimental",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overemotional",
"overheated",
"perfervid",
"compassionate",
"responsive",
"sympathetic",
"reactive",
"sensitive"
],
"related":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"unmoved",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"imperturbable",
"unflappable",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"taciturn",
"bland",
"blank",
"deadpan",
"dry",
"empty",
"expressionless",
"inexpressive",
"stone-faced",
"straight-faced",
"vacant",
"wooden",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"impenetrable",
"inscrutable",
"aloof",
"bloodless",
"detached",
"indifferent",
"insensible",
"unconcerned",
"unsentimental",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"unresponsive",
"hard-hearted",
"pitiless",
"unfeeling",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"apathetic",
"cold-blooded",
"emotionless",
"impassible",
"impassive",
"numb",
"passionless",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"unemotional"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"under the influence":{
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"Not wanting to drive while under the influence , she called a cab to take her home."
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"related":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"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",
"wet",
"wiped out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"under-the-table":{
"as in under-the-counter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"under-the-counter",
"bootleg",
"contraband",
"smuggled",
"unapproved",
"unauthorized",
"unlicensed",
"unsanctioned",
"criminal",
"felonious",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"improper",
"unlawful",
"wrongful",
"banned",
"barred",
"criminalized",
"disallowed",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed",
"permitted",
"authorized",
"licensed",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"suggested",
"supported",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underachiever":{
"as in slacker , goof-off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"goof-off",
"slacker",
"lowbrow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bookworm",
"dink",
"dork",
"geek",
"grind",
"nerd",
"swot",
"weenie",
"wonk",
"double-dome",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"brain",
"genius"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underbellies":{
"a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream":{
"examples":[
"unable to get work in mainstream films, the actor ended up in Hollywood's underbelly \u2014the porn industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"demimondes",
"demiworlds",
"half-worlds",
"netherworlds",
"underworlds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abysses",
"depths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"the underbelly of the old submarine is in bad shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottoms",
"underbodies",
"underparts",
"undersides",
"undersurfaces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellies",
"soles",
"toes",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"floors",
"grounds",
"seats",
"underpinnings",
"undercarriages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"roofs",
"summits",
"cusps",
"heads",
"points",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"faces",
"tops"
]
},
"a vulnerable point":{
"examples":[
"the vast, thinly guarded southern border was obviously the underbelly of the nation's line of defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"Achilles' heels",
"backs",
"chinks",
"jugulars",
"soft spots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downfalls",
"ruins",
"undoings",
"hamartias",
"tragic flaws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underbody":{
"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"the underbody of the car was starting to rust"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom",
"underbelly",
"underpart",
"underside",
"undersurface"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly",
"sole",
"toe",
"base",
"floor",
"foot",
"ground",
"seat",
"underpinning",
"undercarriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"roof",
"summit",
"cusp",
"head",
"point",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"face",
"top"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undercharging":{
"as in overcharging":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underclothes":{
"clothing intended to be worn underneath other clothing":{
"examples":[
"keeps her underclothes in a separate drawer"
],
"synonyms":[
"underclothing",
"undergarments",
"underwear",
"undies",
"unmentionables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingerie",
"panties",
"scanties",
"slip",
"underskirt",
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underdrawers",
"underpants",
"undershirt",
"undershorts",
"union suit",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"undercoats":{
"as in underfurs":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undercover":{
"undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others":{
"examples":[
"an undercover operation to infiltrate the terrorist organization"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstairs",
"behind-the-scenes",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hole-and-corner",
"hugger-mugger",
"hush-hush",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealth",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"underground",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back-channel",
"closed-door",
"off-the-books",
"off-the-record",
"classified",
"confidential",
"restricted",
"top secret",
"undisclosed",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"secreted",
"subterranean",
"unadvertised",
"unexposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"avowed",
"aboveboard",
"straightforward",
"unconcealed",
"undisguised",
"unclassified",
"unrestricted",
"clear",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"patent",
"plain"
],
"antonyms":[
"open",
"overt",
"public"
]
},
"working on missions in which one's objectives, activities, or true identity are not publicly revealed":{
"examples":[
"for months she's been an undercover agent pretending to be a drug dealer"
],
"synonyms":[
"secret"
],
"near synonyms":[
"covert",
"private",
"secretive",
"subterranean"
],
"near antonyms":[
"overt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country":{
"examples":[
"within the city was a well-organized fifth column, and these undercovers would make themselves known as soon as the invading forces breached the city limits"
],
"synonyms":[
"agent",
"asset",
"emissary",
"intelligencer",
"mole",
"operative",
"spook",
"spy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courier",
"counterspy",
"double agent",
"sleeper",
"infiltrator",
"informer",
"stool pigeon",
"spymaster",
"superspy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in surreptitiously , underground":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"furtively",
"secretively",
"sneakily",
"stealthily",
"surreptitiously",
"underground",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"clandestinely",
"collusively",
"conspiratorially",
"covertly",
"offscreen",
"offstage",
"inwardly",
"sotto voce",
"\u00e0 deux",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate",
"backstage",
"confidentially",
"in camera",
"intimately",
"privately",
"secretly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"openly",
"publicly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"undercuts":{
"as in scores , grooves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"grooves",
"scores",
"joggles",
"nocks",
"punches",
"snips",
"slits",
"slots",
"chips",
"hacks",
"indentations",
"indents",
"indentures",
"kerfs",
"nicks",
"notches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in undermines , weakens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attenuates",
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"tires",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"cripples",
"disables",
"hamstrings",
"immobilizes",
"incapacitates",
"paralyzes",
"prostrates",
"hobbles",
"lames",
"maims",
"mutilates",
"knocks out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"invigorates",
"vitalizes",
"fortifies",
"strengthens",
"empowers",
"freshens",
"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"rejuvenates",
"restores",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"underdrawers":{
"as in pants , boxer shorts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underpants",
"undershirt",
"undershorts",
"union suit",
"slip",
"underskirt",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's",
"panties",
"scanties",
"lingerie",
"underclothes",
"underclothing",
"undergarments",
"underwear",
"undies",
"unmentionables"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"underestimated":{
"to place too low a value on":{
"antonyms":[
"overestimated",
"overrated",
"overvalued"
],
"examples":[
"we had underestimated her ability to raise the start-up money for her own design firm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"admired",
"esteemed",
"regarded",
"respected",
"adored",
"idolized",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"related":[
"de-emphasized",
"minimized",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"belittled",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned"
],
"synonyms":[
"underrated",
"undervalued"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undergo":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"some people undergo a complete transformation while away at college"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive",
"assimilate",
"digest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underhanded":{
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"the commercial is a part of an underhanded PR campaign to whitewash the company's environmental record"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others":{
"examples":[
"an underhanded attempt at infiltrating the other party's headquarters"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstairs",
"behind-the-scenes",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hole-and-corner",
"hugger-mugger",
"hush-hush",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealth",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back-channel",
"closed-door",
"off-the-books",
"off-the-record",
"classified",
"confidential",
"restricted",
"top secret",
"undisclosed",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"secreted",
"subterranean",
"unadvertised",
"unexposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"avowed",
"aboveboard",
"straightforward",
"unconcealed",
"undisguised",
"unclassified",
"unrestricted",
"clear",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"patent",
"plain"
],
"antonyms":[
"open",
"overt",
"public"
]
},
"as in surreptitiously , underhand":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"furtively",
"secretively",
"sneakily",
"stealthily",
"surreptitiously",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhand",
"underhandedly",
"clandestinely",
"collusively",
"conspiratorially",
"covertly",
"offscreen",
"offstage",
"inwardly",
"sotto voce",
"\u00e0 deux",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate",
"backstage",
"confidentially",
"in camera",
"intimately",
"privately",
"secretly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"openly",
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"sneakily",
"stealthily",
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"underground",
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"underhanded",
"clandestinely",
"collusively",
"conspiratorially",
"covertly",
"offscreen",
"offstage",
"inwardly",
"sotto voce",
"\u00e0 deux",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate",
"backstage",
"confidentially",
"in camera",
"intimately",
"privately",
"secretly"
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"publicly"
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"italicize",
"stress",
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"boost",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"augment",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"enlarge",
"heighten",
"magnify",
"maximize",
"supplement",
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"jazz (up)"
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"diminish",
"lessen",
"minimize",
"reduce",
"subdue",
"tone (down)",
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"weaken"
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"basal",
"basic",
"beginning",
"elemental",
"elementary",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"introductory",
"meat-and-potatoes",
"rudimental",
"rudimentary"
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"primary",
"prime",
"simple",
"crude",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"rude",
"uncomplicated",
"preliminary",
"preparatory",
"crucial",
"important",
"key"
],
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"sophisticated",
"complicated",
"convoluted",
"detailed",
"elaborate",
"extensive",
"intricate",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"refined"
],
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"A layer of rock underlies the topsoil."
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"trussing",
"bearing",
"bolstering",
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"carrying",
"propping (up)",
"shoring (up)",
"staying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"underpinning",
"upholding"
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"The assumption that underlies their argument is faulty."
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"basing",
"hanging",
"predicating",
"resting",
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
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"buttressing",
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"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"shoring (up)",
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"supporting",
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"verifying",
"affirming",
"avouching",
"validating",
"establishing",
"founding",
"assuming",
"postulating",
"premising",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"supposing"
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"undermining",
"weakening"
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"verb"
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"underbelly",
"underbody",
"underside",
"undersurface"
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"sole",
"toe",
"base",
"floor",
"foot",
"ground",
"seat",
"underpinning",
"undercarriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"roof",
"summit",
"cusp",
"head",
"point",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
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"face",
"top"
]
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"noun"
]
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"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
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"the central beliefs that underpin a free society"
],
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"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"uphold"
],
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"truss",
"underlie"
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"verb"
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"an immaterial thing upon which something else rests":{
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"the underpinnings of the theory have recently been called into question"
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"base",
"basis",
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"cornerstone",
"footing",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"root",
"warp",
"warp and woof"
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"bed",
"brace",
"bulwark",
"buttress",
"framework",
"infrastructure",
"mount",
"prop",
"shore",
"stay",
"substratum",
"substructure",
"support",
"assumption",
"justification",
"premise",
"premiss",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"rationale",
"supposition",
"theory",
"thesis",
"warrant",
"backbone",
"center",
"core",
"eye",
"focus",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"nucleus",
"seat",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"touchstone"
],
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"the underpinnings of the bridge were seriously damaged in the collision"
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"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"support"
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"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
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"buttressing",
"carrying",
"propping (up)",
"shoring (up)",
"staying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"upholding"
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"trussing",
"underlying"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"an immaterial thing upon which something else rests":{
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"the underpinnings of the theory have recently been called into question"
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"bases",
"bases",
"bedrocks",
"bottoms",
"cornerstones",
"footings",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"keystones",
"roots",
"warp and woofs",
"warps"
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"beds",
"braces",
"bulwarks",
"buttresses",
"frameworks",
"infrastructures",
"mounts",
"props",
"shores",
"stays",
"substrata",
"substructures",
"supports",
"assumptions",
"justifications",
"premises",
"premisses",
"presumptions",
"presuppositions",
"rationales",
"suppositions",
"theories",
"theses",
"warrants",
"backbones",
"centers",
"cores",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"kernels",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"seats",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"touchstones"
],
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"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
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"braces",
"buttresses",
"mountings",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"shores",
"spurs",
"stays",
"supports"
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"shorings",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"arches",
"bolsters",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"bearings",
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"trusses",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to make more apparent":{
"examples":[
"a history of the Old West that underscores the role that pioneer women had in bringing order and stability to the wild frontier"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"brought out",
"emphasized",
"italicized",
"stressed",
"underlined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"beefed (up)",
"boosted",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"augmented",
"deepened",
"enhanced",
"enlarged",
"heightened",
"magnified",
"maximized",
"supplemented",
"enlivened",
"jazzed (up)"
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"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"minimized",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"understated",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasized"
]
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"type":[
"verb"
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"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"the underside of the cat's coat is pure white"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom",
"underbelly",
"underbody",
"underpart",
"undersurface"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly",
"sole",
"toe",
"base",
"floor",
"foot",
"ground",
"seat",
"underpinning",
"undercarriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"roof",
"summit",
"cusp",
"head",
"point",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"face",
"top"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"understand":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
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"examples":[
"as I understand it, this is the best plan that we have"
],
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"assume",
"suppose",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"speculate",
"surmise",
"construe",
"interpret",
"read",
"contemplate",
"philosophize",
"rationalize",
"think",
"ascertain",
"dope (out)",
"find out"
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"synonyms":[
"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"derive",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"make out",
"reason"
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},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"antonyms":[
"miss"
],
"examples":[
"after a few weeks in Russia I began to understand the language a little bit"
],
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"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"related":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"recognize",
"register",
"savvy",
"see",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig"
]
},
"to have a practical understanding of":{
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"examples":[
"I think I understand how an engine works now"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misinterpret",
"misknow",
"misperceive",
"misunderstand"
],
"related":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"cognize",
"fathom",
"follow",
"ken",
"perceive",
"savvy",
"have",
"possess",
"catch on (to)",
"pick up"
],
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"comprehend",
"grasp",
"know"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"understandability":{
"as in":{
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"synonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"understates":{
"to say that (something) is smaller, less important, etc., than it really is":{
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"examples":[
"He understated his taxable income.",
"She's trying to understate the issue/problem."
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"to say that (something) is smaller, less important, etc., than it really is":{
"examples":[
"He understated his taxable income.",
"She's trying to understate the issue/problem."
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"underplaying",
"de-emphasizing",
"downplaying",
"playing down",
"soft-pedaling",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerating",
"overdoing",
"overdrawing",
"overstating",
"elaborating",
"embellishing",
"embroidering",
"magnifying",
"padding",
"stretching",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"melodramatizing",
"overemphasizing",
"overplaying",
"sensationalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"understudy":{
"as in alternate":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
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"as in double":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in substitute , cover":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"antonyms":[
"abundance",
"adequacy",
"amplitude",
"opulence",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"sufficiency",
"wealth"
],
"examples":[
"an undersupply of affordable office space"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"oversupply",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"related":[
"absence",
"omission",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"skimpiness",
"necessity",
"need",
"privation"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunch",
"dearth",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"drought",
"drouth",
"failure",
"famine",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"pinch",
"poverty",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"want"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own"
],
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"accept",
"assume",
"bear",
"shoulder",
"take over"
],
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"adopt",
"embrace",
"take up",
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"espouse",
"stand by",
"support",
"uphold",
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"consent",
"reaccept",
"reassume"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjure",
"recant",
"renounce",
"retract",
"take back",
"unsay",
"withdraw",
"decline",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn",
"turn down",
"abstain (from)",
"forbear",
"refrain (from)",
"avoid",
"bypass",
"detour",
"abandon",
"abnegate",
"forsake",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"spurn",
"surrender",
"back down",
"back off",
"backtrack"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"repudiate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"you shouldn't undervalue your talent\u2014you are a very gifted singer"
],
"synonyms":[
"underestimate",
"underrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"de-emphasize",
"minimize",
"play down",
"soft-pedal",
"belittle",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"admire",
"esteem",
"regard",
"respect",
"adore",
"idolize",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"worship"
],
"antonyms":[
"overestimate",
"overrate",
"overvalue"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"you shouldn't undervalue your talent\u2014you are a very gifted singer"
],
"synonyms":[
"underestimates",
"underrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"de-emphasizes",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"soft-pedals",
"belittles",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"disparages",
"despises",
"disdains",
"scorns"
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"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"admires",
"esteems",
"regards",
"respects",
"adores",
"idolizes",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships"
],
"antonyms":[
"overestimates",
"overrates",
"overvalues"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underweight":{
"having little weight":{
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"leaden",
"overweight",
"ponderous",
"weighty"
],
"examples":[
"the long illness left him frail and underweight"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"little",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"insubstantial",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"synonyms":[
"featherlight",
"feathery",
"light",
"lightweight",
"weightless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underwhelm":{
"as in bore , pall":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"pall",
"tire",
"weary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affect",
"impact",
"impress",
"influence",
"move",
"reach",
"strike",
"sway",
"tell (on)",
"touch",
"carry away",
"dazzle",
"enrapture",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"entrance",
"ravish",
"transport",
"bias",
"color"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underwhelms":{
"as in bores , palls":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bores",
"jades",
"palls",
"tires",
"wearies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affects",
"impacts",
"impresses",
"influences",
"moves",
"reaches",
"strikes",
"sways",
"tells (on)",
"touches",
"carries away",
"dazzles",
"enraptures",
"enthralls",
"enthrals",
"entrances",
"ravishes",
"transports",
"biases",
"biasses",
"colors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underworlds":{
"a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream":{
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"examples":[
"a magazine article taking an insightful look at the underworld inhabited by street people"
],
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"related":[
"abysses",
"depths"
],
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"demimondes",
"demiworlds",
"half-worlds",
"netherworlds",
"underbellies"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underwriting":{
"to provide money for":{
"examples":[
"a university willing to underwrite an archaeological expedition"
],
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"bankrolling",
"capitalizing",
"endowing",
"financing",
"funding",
"staking",
"subsidizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grubstaking",
"cofinancing",
"co-financing",
"refinancing",
"advocating",
"aiding",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"sponsoring",
"supporting",
"maintaining",
"nourishing",
"providing (for)",
"clearing",
"defraying",
"discharging",
"footing",
"liquidating",
"paying",
"paying off",
"paying up",
"quitting",
"recompensing",
"settling",
"springing (for)",
"standing",
"refunding"
],
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"antonyms":[
"defunding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to provide money for":{
"examples":[
"a university willing to underwrite an archaeological expedition"
],
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"bankrolled",
"capitalized",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"staked",
"subsidized"
],
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"grubstaked",
"cofinanced",
"co-financed",
"refinanced",
"advocated",
"aided",
"backed",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"patronized",
"sponsored",
"supported",
"maintained",
"nourished",
"provided (for)",
"cleared",
"defrayed",
"discharged",
"footed",
"liquidated",
"paid",
"paid off",
"paid up",
"quit",
"quitted",
"recompensed",
"settled",
"sprung (for)",
"stood",
"refunded"
],
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"antonyms":[
"defunded"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undeterred":{
"not discouraged or stopped by problems, criticism, etc.":{
"examples":[
"Despite the opposition to their proposal, they remain undeterred .",
"The team was undeterred by their recent losses."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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",
"weak",
"wimpy",
"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",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undistinguished":{
"as in unremarkable , unexceptional":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"insignificant",
"minor",
"unimportant",
"unpopular",
"nameless",
"no-name",
"noteless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unfamous",
"unknown",
"unrecognized",
"unsung",
"anonymous",
"faceless",
"unnoticeable",
"unrecognizable",
"unnewsworthy",
"unnoticed",
"forgotten",
"unremembered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"infamous",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"exceptional",
"great",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prestigious",
"remarkable",
"estimable",
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable",
"important",
"influential",
"leading",
"major",
"newsworthy",
"noteworthy",
"significant",
"favorite",
"popular",
"preferred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undisturbed":{
"free from emotional or mental agitation":{
"examples":[
"didn't tell him the sad news until after the test, so he would remain undisturbed"
],
"synonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"cool",
"coolheaded",
"equal",
"level",
"limpid",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"possessed",
"recollected",
"sedate",
"self-composed",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"smooth",
"together",
"tranquil",
"unperturbed",
"unruffled",
"unshaken",
"untroubled",
"unworried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"even",
"even-keeled",
"steady",
"well-adjusted",
"well-balanced",
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unflappable",
"unshakable",
"centered",
"disciplined",
"equable",
"self-contained",
"self-controlled",
"affable",
"breezy",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"laid-back",
"loosey-goosey",
"mellow",
"carefree",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"aloof",
"detached",
"dispassionate",
"indifferent",
"bovine",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"sober",
"stolid",
"relaxed",
"relieved",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anxious",
"bothered",
"distressed",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"unsettled",
"worried",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"restless",
"skittish",
"tense",
"high-strung",
"unstable",
"uptight"
],
"antonyms":[
"agitated",
"discomposed",
"disturbed",
"flustered",
"perturbed",
"unglued",
"unhinged",
"unstrung",
"upset"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undo":{
"to deprive of courage or confidence":{
"antonyms":[
"nerve"
],
"examples":[
"the sudden shriek undid the campers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fortify",
"strengthen",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten"
],
"related":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"neuter",
"weaken",
"prostrate",
"sap",
"soften",
"tire",
"waste",
"frighten",
"intimidate",
"psych (out)",
"scare",
"terrify",
"terrorize",
"daunt",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dismay",
"dispirit",
"craze",
"derange",
"madden",
"unbalance",
"unhinge",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"faze",
"perturb",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out"
],
"synonyms":[
"demoralize",
"emasculate",
"paralyze",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"unstring"
]
},
"to disengage the knotted parts of":{
"antonyms":[
"bind",
"fasten",
"knot",
"lash",
"tie"
],
"examples":[
"undo a tangled shoelace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"braid",
"interlace",
"interweave",
"lace",
"wind",
"entangle",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"related":[
"unbraid",
"unlace",
"disentangle",
"ravel",
"unravel",
"unsnarl",
"untangle",
"unwind",
"loose",
"loosen"
],
"synonyms":[
"unbind",
"unfasten",
"unlash",
"untie"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"compose",
"quiet",
"settle",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
"examples":[
"the mere mention of the home invasion still had the power to undo her"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"ail",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"bother",
"concern",
"derail",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distemper",
"distract",
"distress",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"flurry",
"frazzle",
"freak (out)",
"fuss",
"hagride",
"perturb",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"weird out",
"worry"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undoes":{
"to deprive of courage or confidence":{
"examples":[
"the sudden shriek undid the campers"
],
"synonyms":[
"demoralizes",
"emasculates",
"paralyzes",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"unstrings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"neuters",
"weakens",
"prostrates",
"saps",
"softens",
"tires",
"wastes",
"frightens",
"intimidates",
"psychs (out)",
"scares",
"terrifies",
"terrorizes",
"daunts",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dismays",
"dispirits",
"crazes",
"deranges",
"maddens",
"unbalances",
"unhinges",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"fazes",
"perturbs",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"weirds out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fortifies",
"strengthens",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens"
],
"antonyms":[
"nerves"
]
},
"to disengage the knotted parts of":{
"examples":[
"undo a tangled shoelace"
],
"synonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unfastens",
"unlashes",
"unties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbraids",
"unlaces",
"disentangles",
"ravels",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"untangles",
"unwinds",
"loosens",
"looses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"braids",
"interlaces",
"interweaves",
"laces",
"winds",
"entangles",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"antonyms":[
"binds",
"fastens",
"knots",
"lashes",
"ties"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the mere mention of the home invasion still had the power to undo her"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"ails",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"derails",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distempers",
"distracts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"flurries",
"frazzles",
"freaks (out)",
"fusses",
"hagrides",
"perturbs",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"weirds out",
"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"
]
},
"undone":{
"as in untied , unfastened":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"detached",
"free",
"unattached",
"unbound",
"unfastened",
"untied",
"insecure",
"lax",
"loose",
"loosened",
"relaxed",
"slack",
"slackened",
"unsecured",
"baggy",
"blousy",
"saggy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"taut",
"tense",
"tight",
"constrained",
"restrained",
"attached",
"bound",
"fastened",
"tied",
"fast",
"firm",
"jammed",
"snug",
"stuck",
"wedged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in unnerved , unmanned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"exhausted",
"knackered",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"edgy",
"nervous",
"tense",
"uneasy",
"shell-shocked",
"stressed",
"stressed-out",
"agitated",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"troubled",
"upset",
"aggravated",
"angry",
"annoyed",
"exasperated",
"irritated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"laid-back",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"carefree",
"devil-may-care",
"happy-go-lucky",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of courage or confidence":{
"examples":[
"the sudden shriek undid the campers"
],
"synonyms":[
"demoralized",
"emasculated",
"paralyzed",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"unstrung"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"neutered",
"weakened",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"softened",
"tired",
"wasted",
"frightened",
"intimidated",
"psyched (out)",
"scared",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"daunted",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dismayed",
"dispirited",
"crazed",
"deranged",
"maddened",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"perturbed",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fortified",
"strengthened",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened"
],
"antonyms":[
"nerved"
]
},
"to disengage the knotted parts of":{
"examples":[
"undo a tangled shoelace"
],
"synonyms":[
"unbound",
"unfastened",
"unlashed",
"untied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unbraided",
"unlaced",
"disentangled",
"raveled",
"ravelled",
"unraveled",
"unsnarled",
"untangled",
"unwound",
"loosed",
"loosened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"braided",
"interlaced",
"interwoven",
"interweaved",
"laced",
"wound",
"winded",
"entangled",
"snarled",
"tangled"
],
"antonyms":[
"bound",
"fastened",
"knotted",
"lashed",
"tied"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the mere mention of the home invasion still had the power to undo her"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"ailed",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"derailed",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distempered",
"distracted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"flurried",
"frazzled",
"freaked (out)",
"fussed",
"hagridden",
"perturbed",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"weirded out",
"worried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"angered",
"annoyed",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"chivied",
"chivvied",
"exasperated",
"fretted",
"galled",
"got",
"gotten",
"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",
"shaken up",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"unnerved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated"
],
"antonyms":[
"calmed",
"composed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"undrape":{
"as in expose , uncover":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undresses":{
"to remove clothing from":{
"antonyms":[
"dresses",
"gowns",
"robes"
],
"examples":[
"I quickly undressed myself and pulled on a set of dry clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"covers",
"decks",
"dresses",
"feathers",
"garbs",
"garments",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"vests",
"cloaks",
"mantles",
"drapes",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"outfits"
],
"related":[
"bares",
"denudes",
"divests",
"exposes",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils",
"barks",
"flays",
"peels",
"skins"
],
"synonyms":[
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"disguises",
"masks"
],
"examples":[
"a self-styled financial investor who was eventually undressed as a con artist running a pyramid scheme"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hides",
"secretes",
"veils"
],
"related":[
"demolishes",
"discredits",
"disproves",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"nails",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undulant":{
"rising and falling in a wavelike pattern":{
"examples":[
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"undulatory",
"wavy",
"rolling",
"billowing",
"swelling",
"surging",
"rippled",
"rippling",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform",
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
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"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth"
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"adjective"
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"an undulating surface"
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"fluctuate",
"flutter",
"oscillate",
"wave",
"agitate",
"bucket",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"chatter",
"quaver",
"shiver",
"thrill",
"tremble",
"twitch",
"dodder",
"waver",
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"as in underdeveloped , backward":{
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"undergrads":{
"as in underclassmen , upperclassmen":{
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undercover agent":{
"as in secret agent":{
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"agent",
"asset",
"emissary",
"intelligencer",
"mole",
"operative",
"spook",
"spy",
"undercover"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"underdress":{
"as in dress down":{
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"dress down",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"bedight",
"equip",
"furnish",
"habilitate",
"outfit",
"tailor",
"uniform",
"drape",
"enswathe",
"hap",
"huddle",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"wrap",
"cloak",
"frock",
"jacket",
"mantle",
"vest",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck (out)",
"do up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"enrobe",
"garb",
"garment",
"get up",
"gown",
"habit",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"robe",
"suit",
"tog (up or out)",
"toilet",
"vesture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarray",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"unclothe",
"undress",
"untruss",
"denude",
"divest",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underlies":{
"to lie underneath":{
"examples":[
"A layer of rock underlies the topsoil."
],
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"steadies",
"trusses",
"bears",
"bolsters",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"stays",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"underpins",
"upholds"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"to form the basis or foundation of (something, such as an idea)":{
"examples":[
"The assumption that underlies their argument is faulty."
],
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"grounds",
"bases",
"hangs",
"predicates",
"rests",
"conduces (to)",
"contributes (to)",
"backs",
"bolsters",
"buttresses",
"corroborates",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"shores (up)",
"substantiates",
"supports",
"confirms",
"establishes",
"proves",
"verifies",
"affirms",
"avouches",
"validates",
"establishes",
"founds",
"assumes",
"postulates",
"premises",
"presumes",
"presupposes",
"supposes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercuts",
"undermines",
"weakens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undernourishment":{
"as in malnutrition , starvation":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"malnutrition",
"starvation",
"appetite",
"belly",
"emptiness",
"famishment",
"hunger",
"munchies",
"stomach",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"ravenousness",
"voraciousness",
"voracity",
"craving",
"sweet tooth",
"famine",
"fast",
"hunger strike",
"gluttony",
"gourmandism",
"greed",
"hoggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"fullness",
"glut",
"repleteness",
"repletion",
"satiation",
"satiety",
"satisfaction",
"surfeit",
"inappetence"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undermost":{
"of, relating to, or located at the bottom":{
"examples":[
"the undermost layer of the mattress filling should provide firm back support"
],
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"bottom",
"bottommost",
"low",
"lowermost",
"nethermost",
"rock-bottom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"below",
"lower",
"low-grade",
"lowly",
"nether",
"under",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[
"highest",
"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underdresses":{
"as in dresses down":{
"examples":[],
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"dresses down",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"bedights",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"habilitates",
"outfits",
"tailors",
"uniforms",
"drapes",
"enswathes",
"haps",
"huddles",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"jackets",
"mantles",
"vests",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks (out)",
"does up",
"dresses",
"dresses up",
"enrobes",
"garbs",
"garments",
"gets up",
"gowns",
"habits",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits",
"togs (up or out)",
"toilets",
"vestures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarrays",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes",
"undresses",
"untrusses",
"denudes",
"divests",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"under weigh":{
"in progress":{
"examples":[
"registration for the summer session is under weigh"
],
"synonyms":[
"afoot",
"under way"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"deferred",
"delayed",
"postponed",
"suspended"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"undiplomatic":{
"showing poor judgment especially in personal relationships or social situations":{
"examples":[
"the reporter's undiplomatic references to the state's overweight governor"
],
"synonyms":[
"brash",
"graceless",
"ill-advised",
"imprudent",
"inadvisable",
"indelicate",
"indiscreet",
"injudicious",
"tactless",
"unwise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dumb",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"stupid",
"careless",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"mindless",
"thoughtless",
"ill-mannered",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"indecorous",
"unbecoming",
"uncivil",
"unseemly",
"foolish",
"harebrained",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"senseless",
"silly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intelligent",
"logical",
"rational",
"sensible",
"smart",
"sound",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"civil",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient"
],
"antonyms":[
"advisable",
"discreet",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"tactful",
"wise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undying":{
"having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish":{
"examples":[
"his undying devotion to his terminally ill wife is truly inspiring"
],
"synonyms":[
"abiding",
"ageless",
"continuing",
"dateless",
"enduring",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"imperishable",
"lasting",
"ongoing",
"perennial",
"perpetual",
"timeless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"endless",
"permanent",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"obsolete",
"outdated",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lasting forever":{
"examples":[
"a duet in which the singers swear undying love for one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"permanent",
"perpetual",
"unending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"long-lived",
"persistent",
"stubborn",
"imperishable",
"indefeasible",
"indefectible",
"indelible",
"indestructible",
"indissoluble",
"inexpungible",
"timeless",
"abiding",
"stable",
"standing",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"unfailing",
"unfaltering",
"continual",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ephemeral",
"evanescent",
"fleeting",
"fugacious",
"fugitive",
"momentary",
"passing",
"short-lived",
"transitory",
"interim",
"provisional",
"short-term"
],
"antonyms":[
"impermanent",
"mortal",
"temporary",
"transient"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underlined":{
"to indicate the importance of by giving prominent display":{
"examples":[
"the dean's speech underlined some of the impressive accomplishments racked up by members of the graduation class"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"brought out",
"emphasized",
"italicized",
"stressed",
"underscored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"beefed (up)",
"boosted",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"augmented",
"deepened",
"enhanced",
"enlarged",
"heightened",
"magnified",
"maximized",
"supplemented",
"enlivened",
"jazzed (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"minimized",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"understated",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasized"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underemphasizes":{
"as in understates , tones (down)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"tones (down)",
"understates",
"de-emphasizes",
"plays down",
"belittles",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accents",
"accentuates",
"emphasizes",
"features",
"foregrounds",
"highlights",
"illuminates",
"plays up",
"points (up)",
"presses",
"punctuates",
"stresses",
"focuses",
"focusses",
"identifies",
"pinpoints",
"spotlights",
"advertises",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undeformed":{
"as in perfect , flawless":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flawless",
"perfect",
"shapely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deformed",
"distorted",
"malformed",
"misshapen",
"monstrous",
"shapeless",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"freakish",
"mutant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undressed":{
"being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining":{
"examples":[
"undressed animal hides"
],
"synonyms":[
"crude",
"native",
"natural",
"raw",
"rude",
"unprocessed",
"unrefined",
"untreated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"undeveloped",
"rough-hewn",
"semifinished",
"unfinished",
"unpolished",
"uncooked",
"impure",
"unfiltered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filtered",
"pure",
"purified"
],
"antonyms":[
"dressed",
"processed",
"refined",
"treated"
]
},
"lacking or shed of clothing":{
"examples":[
"an undressed patient waiting to be examined by the doctor"
],
"synonyms":[
"au naturel",
"bare",
"bottomless",
"disrobed",
"mother-naked",
"naked",
"nude",
"raw",
"starkers",
"stripped",
"unclad",
"unclothed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seminude",
"topless",
"denuded",
"peeled",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"veiled",
"arrayed",
"caparisoned",
"decked (out)",
"rigged (out)",
"tricked (out)",
"vested",
"decent"
],
"antonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"attired",
"clad",
"clothed",
"dressed",
"garbed",
"invested",
"robed",
"suited"
]
},
"to remove clothing from":{
"examples":[
"I quickly undressed myself and pulled on a set of dry clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"divested",
"exposed",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled",
"barked",
"flayed",
"peeled",
"skinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"covered",
"decked",
"dressed",
"feathered",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"vested",
"cloaked",
"mantled",
"draped",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"outfitted"
],
"antonyms":[
"dressed",
"gowned",
"robed"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"a self-styled financial investor who was eventually undressed as a con artist running a pyramid scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"nailed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolished",
"discredited",
"disproved",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hid",
"secreted",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"cloaked",
"disguised",
"masked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"understandings":{
"an arrangement about action to be taken":{
"examples":[
"the tenants came to an understanding with the landlord that they would be able to renew their leases for the same rent"
],
"synonyms":[
"accords",
"agreements",
"bargains",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"conventions",
"covenants",
"deals",
"dispositions",
"pacts",
"settlements"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charters",
"treaties",
"binders",
"pledges",
"promises",
"alliances",
"associations",
"entente cordiales",
"ententes",
"leagues",
"partnerships",
"acceptances",
"approvals",
"assents",
"concurrences",
"consents",
"OKs",
"okays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something":{
"examples":[
"a social observer with a deep understanding of the problems that the nation's cities face in the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciations",
"apprehensions",
"comprehensions",
"grasps",
"grips",
"holds",
"perceptions",
"percipiences"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorptions",
"assimilations",
"digestions",
"uptakes",
"conceptions",
"visualizations",
"enlightenments",
"realizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehensions",
"miscomprehensions",
"misinterpretations",
"misperceptions",
"misunderstandings"
],
"antonyms":[
"incomprehensions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undershorts":{
"as in pants , undershirt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underdrawers",
"underpants",
"undershirt",
"union suit",
"slip",
"underskirt",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's",
"panties",
"scanties",
"lingerie",
"underclothes",
"underclothing",
"undergarments",
"underwear",
"undies",
"unmentionables"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"undercharges":{
"as in overcharges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overcharges",
"asks",
"charges",
"commands",
"demands",
"brings",
"fetches",
"sells (for)",
"discounts",
"marks down",
"marks up",
"assesses",
"bills",
"invoices",
"prices",
"values"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undies":{
"clothing intended to be worn underneath other clothing":{
"examples":[
"likes to wear silk undies"
],
"synonyms":[
"underclothes",
"underclothing",
"undergarments",
"underwear",
"unmentionables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingerie",
"panties",
"scanties",
"slip",
"underskirt",
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underdrawers",
"underpants",
"undershirt",
"undershorts",
"union suit",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"undercharged":{
"as in overcharged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overcharged",
"asked",
"charged",
"commanded",
"demanded",
"brought",
"fetched",
"sold (for)",
"discounted",
"marked down",
"marked up",
"assessed",
"billed",
"invoiced",
"priced",
"valued"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underwhelming":{
"as in boring , palling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"palling",
"tiring",
"wearying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"affecting",
"impacting",
"impressing",
"influencing",
"moving",
"reaching",
"striking",
"swaying",
"telling (on)",
"touching",
"carrying away",
"dazzling",
"enrapturing",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"ravishing",
"transporting",
"biasing",
"biassing",
"coloring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undertook":{
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepted",
"assumed",
"bore",
"shouldered",
"took over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took up",
"advocated",
"backed",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"espoused",
"stood by",
"supported",
"upheld",
"acceded",
"acquiesced",
"agreed",
"assented",
"consented",
"reaccepted",
"reassumed"
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"abjured",
"recanted",
"renounced",
"retracted",
"took back",
"unsaid",
"withdrew",
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"spurned",
"turned down",
"abstained (from)",
"forbore",
"refrained (from)",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"detoured",
"abandoned",
"abnegated",
"forsook",
"gave up",
"relinquished",
"spurned",
"surrendered",
"backed down",
"backed off",
"backtracked"
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"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"repudiated"
]
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"verb"
]
},
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"the side or part facing downward from something":{
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"the underside of the cat's coat is pure white"
],
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"bottoms",
"underbellies",
"underbodies",
"underparts",
"undersurfaces"
],
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"bellies",
"soles",
"toes",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"floors",
"grounds",
"seats",
"underpinnings",
"undercarriages"
],
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"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"roofs",
"summits",
"cusps",
"heads",
"points",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"faces",
"tops"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undutiful":{
"as in disrespectful":{
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"disrespectful",
"abusive",
"insulting",
"offensive",
"belittling",
"demeaning",
"depreciative",
"depreciatory",
"derogatory",
"disparaging",
"contemptuous",
"impudent",
"irreverent",
"scornful",
"discourteous",
"insolent",
"rude",
"uncivil"
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"deferent",
"deferential",
"dutiful",
"regardful",
"respectful",
"reverent",
"reverential",
"venerating",
"worshipful",
"fawning",
"genuflecting",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"hagiographic",
"hagiographical",
"kowtowing",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"subservient",
"sycophantic",
"toadying"
],
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
"underestimate":{
"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"we had underestimated her ability to raise the start-up money for her own design firm"
],
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"underrate",
"undervalue"
],
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"de-emphasize",
"minimize",
"play down",
"soft-pedal",
"belittle",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn"
],
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"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"admire",
"esteem",
"regard",
"respect",
"adore",
"idolize",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"worship"
],
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"overestimate",
"overrate",
"overvalue"
]
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"verb"
]
},
"undulates":{
"to move or be shaped like waves":{
"examples":[
"undulating hills",
"an undulating surface"
],
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"flickers",
"fluctuates",
"flutters",
"oscillates",
"waves",
"agitates",
"buckets",
"convulses",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"joggles",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"judders",
"quakes",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"shudders",
"vibrates",
"wobbles",
"wabbles",
"rocks",
"sways",
"swings",
"chatters",
"quavers",
"shivers",
"thrills",
"trembles",
"twitches",
"dodders",
"wavers",
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undocumented":{
"as in apocryphal , unauthentic":{
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"apocryphal",
"unauthentic",
"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"legendary",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"pretend",
"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"insupportable",
"unsupportable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"historical",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective",
"true",
"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"documented",
"established"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underdiagnosing":{
"as in misdiagnosing , overdiagnosing":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"misdiagnosing",
"overdiagnosing",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"hiding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diagnosing",
"distinguishing",
"fingering",
"ID'ing",
"IDing",
"identifying",
"pinpointing",
"singling (out)",
"determining",
"finding",
"locating",
"picking out",
"placing",
"recognizing",
"spotting"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undesired":{
"not wanted or desired":{
"examples":[
"The result was an undesired outcome."
],
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"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"unasked",
"unbidden",
"unbid",
"uninvited",
"unsolicited",
"unsought",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"unacceptable",
"undesirable",
"uncalled-for",
"unnecessary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"desired",
"wanted",
"welcome"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undoable":{
"incapable of being solved or accomplished":{
"examples":[
"a combat mission of that type is not only undoable , it's foolish"
],
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"hopeless",
"impossible",
"insoluble",
"insolvable",
"insuperable",
"unattainable",
"unrealizable",
"unsolvable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impracticable",
"impractical",
"infeasible",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"fishy",
"improbable",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"unfeasible",
"unlikely",
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"futile",
"useless",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applicable",
"functional",
"practicable",
"practical",
"reasonable",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"working",
"likely",
"probable",
"acceptable",
"believable",
"conceivable",
"credible",
"plausible"
],
"antonyms":[
"achievable",
"attainable",
"doable",
"feasible",
"possible",
"realizable",
"resolvable",
"soluble",
"workable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underrating":{
"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"it's perhaps the most underrated film of the last decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"underestimating",
"undervaluing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"de-emphasizing",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"soft-pedaling",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"disparaging",
"despising",
"disdaining",
"scorning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"admiring",
"esteeming",
"regarding",
"respecting",
"adoring",
"idolizing",
"reverencing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping"
],
"antonyms":[
"overestimating",
"overrating",
"overvaluing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"under-the-counter":{
"as in under-the-table":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"under-the-table",
"bootleg",
"contraband",
"smuggled",
"unapproved",
"unauthorized",
"unlicensed",
"unsanctioned",
"criminal",
"felonious",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"improper",
"unlawful",
"wrongful",
"banned",
"barred",
"criminalized",
"disallowed",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed",
"permitted",
"authorized",
"licensed",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"suggested",
"supported",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undersupplies":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"an undersupply of affordable office space"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"droughts",
"drouths",
"failures",
"famines",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"pinches",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absences",
"omissions",
"necessities",
"needs",
"privations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"oversupplies",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundances",
"adequacies",
"amplitudes",
"opulences",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"sufficiencies",
"wealths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underbelly":{
"a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream":{
"examples":[
"unable to get work in mainstream films, the actor ended up in Hollywood's underbelly \u2014the porn industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"demimonde",
"demiworld",
"half-world",
"netherworld",
"underworld"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abyss",
"depths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"the underbelly of the old submarine is in bad shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom",
"underbody",
"underpart",
"underside",
"undersurface"
],
"near synonyms":[
"belly",
"sole",
"toe",
"base",
"floor",
"foot",
"ground",
"seat",
"underpinning",
"undercarriage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"roof",
"summit",
"cusp",
"head",
"point",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[
"face",
"top"
]
},
"a vulnerable point":{
"examples":[
"the vast, thinly guarded southern border was obviously the underbelly of the nation's line of defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"Achilles' heel",
"back",
"chink",
"jugular",
"soft spot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downfall",
"ruin",
"undoing",
"hamartia",
"tragic flaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underhand":{
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"willing to stoop to underhand methods in order to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others":{
"examples":[
"the congressman's underhand attempt to slip several pork barrel items into the bill"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstairs",
"behind-the-scenes",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hole-and-corner",
"hugger-mugger",
"hush-hush",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealth",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back-channel",
"closed-door",
"off-the-books",
"off-the-record",
"classified",
"confidential",
"restricted",
"top secret",
"undisclosed",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"secreted",
"subterranean",
"unadvertised",
"unexposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"avowed",
"aboveboard",
"straightforward",
"unconcealed",
"undisguised",
"unclassified",
"unrestricted",
"clear",
"evident",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"patent",
"plain"
],
"antonyms":[
"open",
"overt",
"public"
]
},
"as in underhanded , surreptitiously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"furtively",
"secretively",
"sneakily",
"stealthily",
"surreptitiously",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"clandestinely",
"collusively",
"conspiratorially",
"covertly",
"offscreen",
"offstage",
"inwardly",
"sotto voce",
"\u00e0 deux",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate",
"backstage",
"confidentially",
"in camera",
"intimately",
"privately",
"secretly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"openly",
"publicly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"undisguised":{
"as in overt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overt",
"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",
"appreciable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"sensible",
"tangible",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"observable",
"visible",
"black-and-white",
"explicit",
"trenchant",
"well-defined",
"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"
]
},
"undivided":{
"not divided or scattered among several areas of interest or concern":{
"examples":[
"a teacher who insists on the undivided attention of her students"
],
"synonyms":[
"all",
"concentrated",
"entire",
"exclusive",
"focused",
"focussed",
"whole"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolute",
"complete",
"full",
"lump",
"teetotal",
"thorough",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"comprehensive",
"intact",
"integral",
"perfect",
"unbroken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"fragmental",
"fragmentary",
"halfway",
"incomplete",
"partial"
],
"antonyms":[
"diffuse",
"divided",
"scattered"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undraped":{
"as in exposed , uncovered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bared",
"denuded",
"divested",
"exposed",
"uncovered",
"unveiled",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"barked",
"flayed",
"peeled",
"skinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dressed",
"gowned",
"robed",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
"covered",
"decked",
"dressed",
"feathered",
"garbed",
"garmented",
"invested",
"rigged (out)",
"vested",
"cloaked",
"mantled",
"draped",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"accoutred",
"accoutered",
"equipped",
"furnished",
"outfitted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undercarriage":{
"as in underbody , underside":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"base",
"floor",
"foot",
"ground",
"seat",
"underpinning",
"bottom",
"underbelly",
"underbody",
"underpart",
"underside",
"undersurface",
"belly",
"sole",
"toe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"face",
"top",
"acme",
"apex",
"climax",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"height",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"roof",
"summit",
"cusp",
"head",
"point",
"tip",
"tip-top",
"zenith"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undoubtedly":{
"without any question":{
"examples":[
"we will undoubtedly have to do some editing of our home video"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"unquestionably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conceivably",
"likely",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"probably",
"obviously",
"unmistakably"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"underfeed":{
"as in overfeed , force-feed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"force-feed",
"overfeed",
"surfeit",
"batten",
"fatten",
"fill",
"banquet",
"dine",
"feast",
"regale",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"sustain",
"board",
"cater",
"feed",
"provision",
"victual",
"refeed",
"reprovision",
"hand-feed",
"spoon-feed",
"serve",
"wait",
"mess"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"not varying":{
"examples":[
"an undeviating dedication to duty"
],
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"even",
"invariant",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvarying",
"unwavering"
],
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"fixed",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"set",
"unalterable",
"unchangeable"
],
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"changing",
"deviating",
"nonuniform",
"unsteady",
"varying"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undoings":{
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"examples":[
"an intractable drug habit proved to be her sad undoing"
],
"synonyms":[
"deaths",
"destructions",
"downfalls",
"ruinations",
"ruins"
],
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"banes",
"curses",
"torments",
"Achilles' heels",
"tragic flaws"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underage":{
"as in teenage , preteen":{
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"ephebic",
"minor",
"preteen",
"subadult",
"teenage",
"teenaged",
"adolescent",
"immature",
"juvenile",
"young",
"youngish",
"youthful",
"embryonic",
"emergent",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"puerile",
"raw",
"babyish",
"childish",
"childlike",
"infantile",
"infantine",
"kiddish",
"undeveloped",
"unfinished",
"unfledged",
"unformed",
"unripe",
"unripened",
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"burgeoning",
"flourishing",
"flowering"
],
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"adult",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"matured",
"aged",
"aging",
"ageing",
"ancient",
"elderly",
"geriatric",
"long-lived",
"old",
"older",
"oldish",
"senescent",
"senior",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"golden",
"mellow",
"ripe",
"ripened",
"middle-aged",
"anile",
"decrepit",
"doddering",
"over-the-hill",
"senile",
"spavined",
"tottery"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underwater":{
"living, lying, or occurring below the surface of the water":{
"examples":[
"underwater plants don't require as much light to grow as surface plants",
"a vessel designed for underwater exploration"
],
"synonyms":[
"aquatic",
"submarine",
"submerged",
"sunken"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oceanic",
"undersea",
"abysmal",
"abyssal",
"deep",
"deep-sea",
"deepwater"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underrates":{
"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"it's perhaps the most underrated film of the last decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"underestimates",
"undervalues"
],
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"de-emphasizes",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"soft-pedals",
"belittles",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"disparages",
"despises",
"disdains",
"scorns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"admires",
"esteems",
"regards",
"respects",
"adores",
"idolizes",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships"
],
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"overestimates",
"overrates",
"overvalues"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undesirable":{
"bad, harmful, or unpleasant":{
"examples":[
"The drug has some undesirable side effects.",
"This decision may have undesirable consequences."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"off-putting",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"dreadful",
"evil",
"foul",
"fulsome",
"gross",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"noxious",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"odious",
"offensive",
"rancid",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"ugly",
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"brackish",
"disagreeable",
"dislikable",
"dislikeable",
"unpleasant",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"hard",
"hateful",
"unhealthy",
"unsavory",
"unwholesome",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"atrocious",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grim",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"heinous",
"horrendous",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish",
"shocking",
"sick",
"sickish",
"sickly",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"barbarous",
"unchristian",
"uncivilized",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"agreeable",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"desirable",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"inviting",
"likable",
"likeable",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"welcome",
"unexceptionable",
"unobjectionable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undoer":{
"as in degrader , perverter":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"corrupter",
"corruptor",
"debaser",
"debaucher",
"degrader",
"depraver",
"perverter",
"briber",
"inducer",
"inveigler",
"persuader",
"tantalizer",
"beguiler",
"enchantress",
"siren",
"temptress",
"baiter",
"seducer",
"solicitor",
"tempter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underpasses":{
"as in overpasses , interchanges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cloverleafs",
"cloverleaves",
"interchanges",
"overpasses",
"carrefours",
"corners",
"crossings",
"crossroads",
"crossways",
"intersections",
"junctions",
"circles",
"rotaries",
"roundabouts",
"traffic circles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undercarriages":{
"as in underbodies , undersides":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"floors",
"grounds",
"seats",
"underpinnings",
"bottoms",
"underbellies",
"underbodies",
"underparts",
"undersides",
"undersurfaces",
"bellies",
"soles",
"toes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faces",
"tops",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"roofs",
"summits",
"cusps",
"heads",
"points",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undeceive":{
"to free from mistaken beliefs or foolish hopes":{
"examples":[
"promptly undeceived the young woman about the sincerity of the man's intentions"
],
"synonyms":[
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sophisticate",
"advise",
"apprise",
"clue (in)",
"fill in",
"wise (up)",
"debunk",
"expose",
"refute",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beguile",
"bluff",
"cozen",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"kid",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"misrepresent",
"snow",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undertakes":{
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"assumes",
"bears",
"shoulders",
"takes over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"embraces",
"takes up",
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"espouses",
"stands by",
"supports",
"upholds",
"accedes",
"acquiesces",
"agrees",
"assents",
"consents",
"reaccepts",
"reassumes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjures",
"recants",
"renounces",
"retracts",
"takes back",
"unsays",
"withdraws",
"declines",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"spurns",
"turns down",
"abstains (from)",
"forbears",
"refrains (from)",
"avoids",
"bypasses",
"detours",
"abandons",
"abnegates",
"forsakes",
"gives up",
"relinquishes",
"spurns",
"surrenders",
"backs down",
"backs off",
"backtracks"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"repudiates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undogmatic":{
"as in latitudinarian , undoctrinaire":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"latitudinarian",
"undoctrinaire",
"broadminded",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctrinaire",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"opinioned",
"pontifical",
"self-opinionated",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"unyielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underpass":{
"as in overpass , interchange":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cloverleaf",
"interchange",
"overpass",
"carrefour",
"corner",
"crossing",
"crossroad",
"crossway(s)",
"intersection",
"junction",
"circle",
"rotary",
"roundabout",
"traffic circle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undesirably":{
"as in unsatisfactorily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unsatisfactorily",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"foolishly",
"unwisely",
"extraneously",
"irrelevantly",
"meaninglessly",
"pointlessly",
"senselessly",
"fallibly",
"imperfectly",
"misguidedly",
"amiss",
"erroneously",
"faultily",
"improperly",
"inaccurately",
"inappropriately",
"inaptly",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"unsuitably",
"wrongly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"correctly",
"fittingly",
"properly",
"right",
"rightly",
"suitably",
"well",
"infallibly",
"perfectly",
"germanely",
"meaningfully",
"pertinently",
"relevantly",
"sensibly",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"satisfactorily",
"sufficiently",
"prudently",
"sagely",
"wisely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"understandingly":{
"as in compassionately , humanely":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charitably",
"compassionately",
"humanely",
"mercifully",
"softheartedly",
"sympathetically",
"tolerantly",
"benevolently",
"benignantly",
"considerately",
"cordially",
"graciously",
"kindly",
"lovingly",
"tenderly",
"clemently",
"gently",
"leniently",
"lightly",
"mildly",
"softly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brutally",
"hard",
"hardly",
"harshly",
"ill",
"oppressively",
"roughly",
"severely",
"sternly",
"stiffly",
"callously",
"cold-bloodedly",
"hard-heartedly",
"heartlessly",
"inhumanely",
"inhumanly",
"insensately",
"insensitively",
"mercilessly",
"obdurately",
"pitilessly",
"ruthlessly",
"tyrannically",
"uncharitably",
"unfeelingly",
"unmercifully",
"unsparingly",
"abusively",
"brutishly",
"savagely",
"viciously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"undershirt":{
"as in pants , underpants":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underdrawers",
"underpants",
"undershorts",
"union suit",
"slip",
"underskirt",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's",
"panties",
"scanties",
"lingerie",
"underclothes",
"underclothing",
"undergarments",
"underwear",
"undies",
"unmentionables"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undergarments":{
"clothing intended to be worn underneath other clothing":{
"examples":[
"pack plenty of warm undergarments for the ski vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"underclothes",
"underclothing",
"underwear",
"undies",
"unmentionables"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingerie",
"panties",
"scanties",
"slip",
"underskirt",
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underdrawers",
"underpants",
"undershirt",
"undershorts",
"union suit",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"undertakings":{
"as in struggles , strivings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"strivings",
"struggles",
"throes",
"assays",
"attempts",
"bashes",
"bids",
"cracks",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"flings",
"goes",
"offers",
"passes",
"shots",
"stabs",
"trials",
"tries",
"whacks",
"whirls",
"trial and errors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in guarantees , assurances":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assurances",
"guarantees",
"guaranties",
"agreements",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"bails",
"bonds",
"deposits",
"gages",
"pawns",
"securities",
"tokens",
"warranties",
"appointments",
"arrangements",
"commitments",
"engagements",
"obligations",
"oaths",
"pledges",
"promises",
"troths",
"vows",
"words"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in initiatives , enterprises":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"emprises",
"enterprises",
"initiatives",
"adventures",
"experiences",
"handiworks",
"performances",
"works",
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"attainments",
"stunts",
"tricks",
"actions",
"acts",
"deeds",
"doings",
"exploits",
"feats",
"things",
"activities",
"dealings",
"maneuvers",
"measures",
"moves",
"operations",
"procedures",
"proceedings",
"steps",
"tactics",
"coactions",
"co-actions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undersea":{
"as in underwater":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"underwater",
"admiralty",
"nautical",
"naval",
"hydrographic",
"oceanographic",
"oceanographical",
"benthic",
"abyssal",
"deep-sea",
"deepwater",
"saltwater",
"marine",
"maritime",
"oceanic",
"pelagic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undergoing":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"some people undergo a complete transformation while away at college"
],
"synonyms":[
"enduring",
"experiencing",
"feeling",
"having",
"knowing",
"passing",
"seeing",
"suffering",
"sustaining",
"tasting",
"witnessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"assimilating",
"digesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undauntable":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"the undauntable adventurers who crossed the trackless wilderness in search of El Dorado"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"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",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"understated":{
"not excessively showy":{
"examples":[
"the actor's understated interpretation of the lead role is surprisingly compelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"conservative",
"low-key",
"low-keyed",
"muted",
"quiet",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"sober",
"subdued",
"toned-down",
"unflashy",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"fit",
"fitting",
"proper",
"suitable",
"modest",
"plain",
"simple",
"unadorned",
"undecorated",
"inconspicuous",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"refined",
"tasteful",
"drab",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"practical",
"sensible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meretricious",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tacky",
"tasteless",
"tawdry",
"trashy",
"vulgar",
"baroque",
"fancy",
"frilly",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"ornate",
"rococo",
"overdecorated",
"overdone",
"overwrought"
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"flamboyant",
"flaring",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"loud",
"noisy",
"ostentatious",
"razzle-dazzle",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky"
]
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"He understated his taxable income.",
"She's trying to understate the issue/problem."
],
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"de-emphasized",
"downplayed",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"cried down",
"decried",
"denigrated",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"derogated",
"dismissed",
"disparaged",
"kissed off",
"minimized",
"poor-mouthed",
"put down",
"ran down",
"talked down",
"trashed",
"trash-talked"
],
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"exaggerated",
"overdid",
"overdrew",
"overstated",
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"magnified",
"padded",
"stretched",
"fudged",
"hedged",
"melodramatized",
"overemphasized",
"overplayed",
"sensationalized"
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},
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"as in undercurrents":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"undercurrents",
"countercurrents",
"countertrends",
"counter-trends",
"customs",
"habits",
"propensities",
"tenors",
"ways",
"curves",
"downsides",
"shifts",
"swings",
"turnabouts",
"turns",
"upsides",
"currents",
"directions",
"drifts",
"leanings",
"runs",
"tendencies",
"tides",
"trends",
"winds"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"it's perhaps the most underrated film of the last decade"
],
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"underestimate",
"undervalue"
],
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"de-emphasize",
"minimize",
"play down",
"soft-pedal",
"belittle",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn"
],
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"appreciate",
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"admire",
"esteem",
"regard",
"respect",
"adore",
"idolize",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"worship"
],
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"overestimate",
"overrate",
"overvalue"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in understate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"understate",
"de-emphasize",
"downplay",
"play down",
"soft-pedal",
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"poor-mouth",
"put down",
"run down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk"
],
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"exaggerate",
"overdo",
"overdraw",
"overstate",
"elaborate",
"embellish",
"embroider",
"magnify",
"pad",
"stretch",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"melodramatize",
"overemphasize",
"overplay",
"sensationalize"
],
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},
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"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"overact",
"overplay",
"act out",
"enact",
"pantomime",
"playact",
"role-play",
"take on",
"ape",
"clown",
"ham",
"imitate",
"masquerade",
"mime",
"mimic",
"pose (as)",
"depict",
"dramatize",
"render",
"represent",
"star (in)",
"act",
"do",
"impersonate",
"interpret",
"perform",
"play",
"portray",
"coact",
"costar"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undisputed":{
"as in uncontested , unchallenged":{
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"unchallenged",
"uncontested",
"absolute",
"clear",
"conclusive",
"deciding",
"decisive",
"definitive",
"last",
"determinate",
"determinative",
"dispositive",
"hands-down",
"inarguable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefutable",
"unanswerable",
"undebatable",
"undeniable",
"undisputable",
"unquestionable",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal",
"certain",
"definite",
"positive",
"sure",
"cogent",
"compelling",
"convincing",
"persuasive",
"telling"
],
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"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"moot",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"refutable",
"ambiguous",
"equivocal",
"controversial",
"debated",
"disputed",
"inconclusive",
"indecisive",
"unclear"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"the underbody of the car was starting to rust"
],
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"bottoms",
"underbellies",
"underparts",
"undersides",
"undersurfaces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellies",
"soles",
"toes",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"floors",
"grounds",
"seats",
"underpinnings",
"undercarriages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"roofs",
"summits",
"cusps",
"heads",
"points",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"faces",
"tops"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undiscovered":{
"not having been found or noticed; not discovered":{
"examples":[
"undiscovered territory",
"The team of scientists searched the jungle for previously undiscovered species of insects."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unexplored",
"pathless",
"trackless",
"untraveled",
"untraversed",
"untrodden",
"untrod",
"pristine",
"unspoiled",
"virgin",
"undetected",
"undisclosed",
"unknown",
"unrevealed",
"uncharted",
"unmapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detected",
"discovered",
"identified",
"bustling",
"busy",
"crowded",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trod",
"trodden"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underpinned":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"the central beliefs that underpin a free society"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolstered",
"bore",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"upheld"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"underlay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undecided":{
"not yet settled or decided":{
"examples":[
"a number of undecided matters still before the committee"
],
"synonyms":[
"open",
"pending",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"unsettled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hanging",
"arguable",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"moot",
"uncertain",
"unsure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"certain",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"decided",
"determined",
"resolved",
"settled"
]
},
"not feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"voters still seem to be undecided about that candidate's fitness for the office of president"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"hinky",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"trustless",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"unsettled",
"unsure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambivalent",
"conflicted",
"equivocal",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"halting",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"confident",
"sanguine",
"self-assured",
"decisive",
"determined",
"resolute"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"convinced",
"positive",
"sure"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undersized":{
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, undersized player at the college level"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underwriters":{
"as in angels , benefactors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"angels",
"benefactors",
"advocates",
"champions",
"supporters",
"coaches",
"mentors",
"teachers",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"cosponsors",
"co-sponsors",
"backers",
"guarantors",
"patrons",
"sponsors",
"sureties",
"cosignatories",
"cosigners"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undersexed":{
"as in frigid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"frigid",
"celibate",
"chaste",
"decent",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"moral",
"pure",
"virtuous",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"maidenly",
"virginal",
"innocent",
"lily-white",
"priggish",
"prim",
"prudish",
"puritanical",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concupiscent",
"goatish",
"horny",
"hot",
"hypersexual",
"itchy",
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"licentious",
"lubricious",
"lubricous",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"passionate",
"randy",
"salacious",
"satyric",
"wanton",
"aroused",
"excited",
"easy",
"fast",
"loose",
"promiscuous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undermined":{
"to make (someone or something) weaker or less effective usually in a secret or gradual way":{
"examples":[
"She tried to undermine my authority by complaining about me to my boss.",
"The events of the past year have undermined people's confidence in the government."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deteriorated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"weakened",
"blemished",
"bloodied",
"broke",
"compromised",
"crabbed",
"crippled",
"crossed (up)",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"endamaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"blighted",
"tarnished",
"dented",
"dinged",
"dinted",
"botched",
"gummed (up)",
"queered",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"disabled",
"hamstrung",
"lamed",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"annihilated",
"banged up",
"bashed",
"battered",
"clobbered",
"crushed",
"dashed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruined",
"scourged",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cured",
"healed",
"helped",
"rectified",
"rehabilitated",
"remedied",
"edited",
"remodeled",
"revised",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"refined",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underscoring":{
"a special notice or importance given to something":{
"examples":[
"the underscoring we've given the play's local setting will hopefully increase ticket sales"
],
"synonyms":[
"accent",
"accentuation",
"emphasis",
"stress",
"weight"
],
"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"
]
},
"to make more apparent":{
"examples":[
"a history of the Old West that underscores the role that pioneer women had in bringing order and stability to the wild frontier"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuating",
"bringing out",
"emphasizing",
"italicizing",
"stressing",
"underlining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifying",
"beefing (up)",
"boosting",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"augmenting",
"deepening",
"enhancing",
"enlarging",
"heightening",
"magnifying",
"maximizing",
"supplementing",
"enlivening",
"jazzing (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"minimizing",
"reducing",
"subduing",
"toning (down)",
"understating",
"weakening"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"undersize":{
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, undersized player at the college level"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underclassman":{
"as in upperclassman , undergrad":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"undergrad",
"upperclassman",
"freshman",
"junior",
"senior",
"sophomore",
"exchange student",
"high schooler",
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"middler",
"middle schooler",
"coed",
"collegian",
"postgraduate",
"undergraduate",
"schoolfellow",
"schoolmate",
"day student",
"preppy",
"preppie",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"reader",
"studier",
"pupil",
"scholar",
"student"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underwriter":{
"as in angel , benefactor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"angel",
"benefactor",
"advocate",
"champion",
"supporter",
"coach",
"mentor",
"teacher",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"cosponsor",
"backer",
"guarantor",
"patron",
"sponsor",
"surety",
"cosignatory",
"cosigner"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undetermined":{
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"examples":[
"an undetermined form seen only from a distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"shadowy",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"vague"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
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"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the fate of the prisoners is still undetermined"
],
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"open",
"pending",
"undecided",
"unresolved",
"unsettled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hanging",
"arguable",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"moot",
"uncertain",
"unsure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"certain",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"decided",
"determined",
"resolved",
"settled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"understanding":{
"an arrangement about action to be taken":{
"examples":[
"the tenants came to an understanding with the landlord that they would be able to renew their leases for the same rent"
],
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"accord",
"agreement",
"bargain",
"compact",
"contract",
"convention",
"covenant",
"deal",
"disposition",
"pact",
"settlement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charter",
"treaty",
"binder",
"pledge",
"promise",
"alliance",
"association",
"entente",
"entente cordiale",
"league",
"partnership",
"acceptance",
"approval",
"assent",
"concurrence",
"consent",
"OK",
"okay"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"a social observer with a deep understanding of the problems that the nation's cities face in the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciation",
"apprehension",
"comprehension",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"perception",
"percipience"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorption",
"assimilation",
"digestion",
"uptake",
"conception",
"visualization",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"enlightenment",
"realization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding"
],
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"incomprehension",
"noncomprehension"
]
},
"having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another":{
"examples":[
"a kind and understanding teacher who often helps troubled students"
],
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"commiserative",
"compassionate",
"empathetic",
"empathic",
"humane",
"sympathetic"
],
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"feeling",
"perceptive",
"sensitive",
"considerate",
"gentle",
"softhearted",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"bighearted",
"charitable",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"largehearted",
"magnanimous",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"tolerant",
"pitying",
"ruthful",
"congenial",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"well-disposed",
"affectionate",
"loving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking",
"aloof",
"cool",
"indifferent",
"uncaring",
"uninterested",
"unaffectionate",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"bigoted",
"blinkered",
"narrow-minded",
"small-minded",
"brutal",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"unrelenting",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"hostile",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"unkind",
"virulent"
],
"antonyms":[
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"coldhearted",
"hard",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"obdurate",
"unfeeling",
"unsympathetic"
]
},
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"as I understand it, this is the best plan that we have"
],
"synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"deriving",
"extrapolating",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"making out",
"reasoning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assuming",
"supposing",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"speculating",
"surmising",
"construing",
"interpreting",
"reading",
"contemplating",
"philosophizing",
"rationalizing",
"thinking",
"ascertaining",
"doping (out)",
"finding out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a practical understanding of":{
"examples":[
"I think I understand how an engine works now"
],
"synonyms":[
"comprehending",
"grasping",
"knowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciating",
"apprehending",
"cognizing",
"fathoming",
"following",
"kenning",
"perceiving",
"savvying",
"having",
"possessing",
"catching on (to)",
"picking up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misinterpreting",
"misknowing",
"misperceiving",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"after a few weeks in Russia I began to understand the language a little bit"
],
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"appreciating",
"apprehending",
"assimilating",
"beholding",
"catching",
"catching on (to)",
"cognizing",
"compassing",
"comprehending",
"conceiving",
"cottoning (to or on to)",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"digging",
"discerning",
"getting",
"grasping",
"grokking",
"intuiting",
"knowing",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"recognizing",
"registering",
"savvying",
"seeing",
"seizing",
"sensing",
"tumbling (to)",
"twigging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"underlay":{
"to lie underneath":{
"examples":[
"A layer of rock underlies the topsoil."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"bolstered",
"bore",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form the basis or foundation of (something, such as an idea)":{
"examples":[
"The assumption that underlies their argument is faulty."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"grounded",
"based",
"hung",
"hanged",
"predicated",
"rested",
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"backed",
"bolstered",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"shored (up)",
"substantiated",
"supported",
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"verified",
"affirmed",
"avouched",
"validated",
"established",
"founded",
"assumed",
"postulated",
"premised",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"supposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undertakers":{
"a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation":{
"examples":[
"the undertaker wore black clothes and a solemn expression"
],
"synonyms":[
"funeral directors",
"morticians"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embalmers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undefiled":{
"as in untouched , unsullied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unaltered",
"unblemished",
"unbruised",
"uncontaminated",
"undamaged",
"unharmed",
"unhurt",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unpolluted",
"unsoiled",
"unspoiled",
"unsullied",
"untainted",
"untouched",
"unworn",
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"mint",
"pristine",
"span-new",
"virgin",
"virginal",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stale",
"blemished",
"broken",
"bruised",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"defiled",
"disfigured",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"faded",
"shopworn",
"used",
"well-worn",
"worn",
"contaminated",
"polluted",
"spoiled",
"hand-me-down",
"secondhand"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underfur":{
"as in undercoat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"undercoat",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"hair",
"jacket",
"pelage",
"pile",
"wool",
"hide",
"leather",
"pelt",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undamaged":{
"as in untouched , unharmed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unaltered",
"unblemished",
"unbruised",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unharmed",
"unhurt",
"unimpaired",
"uninjured",
"unmarred",
"unpolluted",
"unsoiled",
"unspoiled",
"unsullied",
"untainted",
"untouched",
"unworn",
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"mint",
"pristine",
"span-new",
"virgin",
"virginal",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stale",
"blemished",
"broken",
"bruised",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"defiled",
"disfigured",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"faded",
"shopworn",
"used",
"well-worn",
"worn",
"contaminated",
"polluted",
"spoiled",
"hand-me-down",
"secondhand"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undisclosed":{
"not made known to the public; not named or identified":{
"examples":[
"an undisclosed sale of stock",
"They settled out of court for an undisclosed amount."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"silent",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"unmentioned",
"unsaid",
"untold",
"behind-the-scenes",
"confidential",
"esoteric",
"hushed",
"hush-hush",
"inside",
"intimate",
"nonpublic",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"classified",
"restricted",
"top secret",
"clandestine",
"closet",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"furtive",
"hugger-mugger",
"occult",
"sneak",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealthy",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underground",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"personal",
"closeted",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"backstage",
"offscreen",
"offstage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"well-known",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"enunciated",
"heralded",
"proclaimed",
"professed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"reported",
"spotlighted",
"general",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"vulgar",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"communal",
"shared",
"common",
"open",
"public"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undigestible":{
"as in indigestible , nondigestible":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"indigestible",
"nondigestible",
"nonnutritious",
"inedible",
"nonedible",
"uneatable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comestible",
"eatable",
"eating",
"edible",
"esculent",
"absorbable",
"chewable",
"digestible",
"ingestible",
"swallowable",
"nourishing",
"nutritious",
"nutritive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underlings":{
"one who is of lower rank and typically under the authority of another":{
"examples":[
"the real estate tycoon has a whole army of underlings to attend to the details"
],
"synonyms":[
"inferiors",
"juniors",
"subordinates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attendants",
"followers",
"retainers",
"domestics",
"menials",
"stewards",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"minions",
"adjutants",
"aides",
"aids",
"assistants",
"coadjutors",
"deputies",
"second fiddles",
"seconds",
"helpmates",
"helpmeets",
"mates",
"sidekicks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"taskmasters"
],
"antonyms":[
"seniors",
"superiors"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underpins":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"the central beliefs that underpin a free society"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"bolsters",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"stays",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadies",
"trusses",
"underlies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underpriced":{
"as in underestimated , undervalued":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"underestimated",
"underrated",
"undervalued",
"debased",
"demonetized",
"abridged",
"compressed",
"contracted",
"de-escalated",
"deflated",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"moderated",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"attenuated",
"broke",
"cheapened",
"depreciated",
"depressed",
"devaluated",
"devalued",
"downgraded",
"lowered",
"marked down",
"reduced",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wrote down",
"wrote off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"enhanced",
"marked up",
"upgraded",
"blew up",
"bloated",
"inflated",
"overestimated",
"overpriced",
"overrated",
"overvalued",
"added",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"ballooned",
"boosted",
"compounded",
"dilated",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"heightened",
"increased",
"maximized",
"multiplied",
"raised",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undefended":{
"lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack":{
"examples":[
"the cowardly soldiers fled, leaving the palace undefended"
],
"synonyms":[
"defenseless",
"exposed",
"helpless",
"susceptible",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indefensible",
"untenable",
"uncovered",
"unsafe",
"overcome",
"preyed (on or upon)",
"disarmed",
"passive",
"resistless",
"unarmed",
"feeble",
"frail",
"weak",
"abandoned",
"high and dry",
"marooned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defensible",
"covered",
"fortified",
"safe",
"screened",
"secure",
"sheltered",
"armed",
"armored",
"immune",
"impenetrable",
"impregnable",
"invincible",
"strong",
"unassailable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"almighty",
"omnipotent"
],
"antonyms":[
"guarded",
"invulnerable",
"protected",
"resistant",
"shielded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undulatory":{
"rising and falling in a wavelike pattern":{
"examples":[
"The animal swims with an undulatory motion."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"undulant",
"undulating",
"wavy",
"rolling",
"billowing",
"swelling",
"surging",
"rippled",
"rippling",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform",
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"unduly":{
"beyond a normal or acceptable limit":{
"examples":[
"unduly upset by the slight delay of our departure"
],
"synonyms":[
"devilishly",
"excessively",
"exorbitantly",
"inordinately",
"intolerably",
"monstrously",
"overly",
"overmuch",
"too",
"unacceptably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extravagantly",
"immoderately",
"intemperately",
"extortionately",
"inexcusably",
"obscenely",
"unbearably",
"unconscionably",
"unreasonably",
"improperly",
"inappropriately",
"abnormally",
"extraordinarily",
"freakishly",
"singularly",
"uncommonly",
"uncustomarily",
"unusually",
"astronomically",
"considerably",
"deadly",
"eminently",
"especially",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"exceptionally",
"extensively",
"extra",
"extremely",
"greatly",
"highly",
"hugely",
"incredibly",
"mightily",
"remarkably",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"super",
"terribly",
"very",
"whacking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptably",
"moderately",
"modestly",
"reasonably",
"temperately",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"meagerly",
"minimally",
"scantily",
"scarcely",
"slightly"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"undergirded":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"the theory of evolution undergirds virtually all of modern biology"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolstered",
"bore",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"underlay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"understatement":{
"as in meiosis":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"meiosis",
"belittlement",
"disparagement",
"minimizing",
"poor-mouthing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caricature",
"coloring",
"elaboration",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"embroidery",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"magnification",
"overstatement",
"padding",
"stretching",
"amplification",
"enhancement",
"fabrication",
"misrepresentation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in restraint , simplicity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conservativeness",
"moderation",
"modesty",
"restraint",
"simplicity",
"austerity",
"plainness",
"severity",
"elegance",
"gracefulness",
"tastefulness",
"minimalism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flamboyance",
"flash",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"glitz",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness",
"swank",
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"pretence",
"\u00e9clat",
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"jiggling",
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"quaking",
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"wobbling",
"wabbling",
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"twitching",
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"wavering",
"beating",
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"pit-a-patting",
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"disparage",
"minimize"
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"feature",
"foreground",
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"illuminate",
"play up",
"point (up)",
"press",
"punctuate",
"stress",
"focus",
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"spotlight",
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"boost",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize"
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"verb"
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"underfeeds":{
"as in overfeeds , force-feeds":{
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"surfeits",
"battens",
"fattens",
"fills",
"banquets",
"dines",
"feasts",
"regales",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"sustains",
"boards",
"caters",
"feeds",
"provisions",
"victuals",
"refeeds",
"reprovisions",
"hand-feeds",
"spoon-feeds",
"serves",
"waits",
"messes"
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"verb"
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"undercoat":{
"as in underfur":{
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"underfur",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"hair",
"jacket",
"pelage",
"pile",
"wool",
"hide",
"leather",
"pelt",
"skin"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"understudies":{
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"alternates",
"backups",
"covers",
"designated hitters",
"fill-ins",
"locum tenentes",
"pinch hitters",
"reliefs",
"replacements",
"reserves",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"apologies",
"makeshifts",
"stopgaps",
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"factors",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps",
"surrogates",
"assistants",
"relievers",
"seconds",
"successors",
"superseders"
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"as in doubles":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"doubles",
"prima donnas",
"scene-stealers",
"comedians",
"farceurs",
"monologuists",
"monologists",
"tragedians",
"tragediennes",
"extras",
"spear-carriers",
"supernumeraries",
"walk-ons",
"apers",
"apes",
"hams",
"imitators",
"impressionists",
"maskers",
"masqueraders",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"pantomimes",
"pantomimists",
"personators",
"posers",
"coactors",
"co-actors",
"costars",
"co-stars",
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"harlequins",
"stooges",
"zanies",
"leading ladies",
"leading men",
"leads",
"stars"
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"antonyms":[]
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"as in substitutes , covers":{
"examples":[],
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"covers",
"fills in",
"pinch-hits",
"stands in",
"steps in",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"takes over",
"relieves",
"spells",
"doubles (as)"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"underdressing":{
"as in dressing down":{
"examples":[],
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"dressing down",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"bedighting",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"habilitating",
"outfitting",
"tailoring",
"uniforming",
"draping",
"enswathing",
"happing",
"huddling",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"wrapping",
"cloaking",
"frocking",
"jacketing",
"mantling",
"vesting",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking (out)",
"doing up",
"dressing",
"dressing up",
"enrobing",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"getting up",
"gowning",
"habiting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"robing",
"suiting",
"togging (up or out)",
"toileting",
"vesturing"
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"near antonyms":[
"disarraying",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"unclothing",
"undressing",
"untrussing",
"denuding",
"divesting",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling"
],
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"type":[
"verb"
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"underclassmen":{
"as in upperclassmen , undergrads":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"undergrads",
"upperclassmen",
"freshmen",
"juniors",
"seniors",
"sophomores",
"exchange students",
"high schoolers",
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"middlers",
"middle schoolers",
"coeds",
"collegians",
"postgraduates",
"undergraduates",
"schoolfellows",
"schoolmates",
"day students",
"preppies",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"readers",
"studiers",
"pupils",
"scholars",
"students"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"under way":{
"in progress":{
"examples":[
"construction of the new shopping mall is under way"
],
"synonyms":[
"afoot",
"under weigh"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"deferred",
"delayed",
"postponed",
"suspended"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
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"undertaken":{
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own"
],
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"accepted",
"assumed",
"borne",
"born",
"shouldered",
"taken over"
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"embraced",
"taken up",
"advocated",
"backed",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"espoused",
"stood by",
"supported",
"upheld",
"acceded",
"acquiesced",
"agreed",
"assented",
"consented",
"reaccepted",
"reassumed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjured",
"recanted",
"renounced",
"retracted",
"taken back",
"unsaid",
"withdrawn",
"declined",
"refused",
"rejected",
"spurned",
"turned down",
"abstained (from)",
"forborne",
"refrained (from)",
"avoided",
"bypassed",
"detoured",
"abandoned",
"abnegated",
"forsaken",
"given up",
"relinquished",
"spurned",
"surrendered",
"backed down",
"backed off",
"backtracked"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"repudiated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underrated":{
"as in underappreciated , unsung":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"uncredited",
"underappreciated",
"undervalued",
"unnoticed",
"unrecognized",
"unrewarded",
"unsung",
"unvalued",
"thankless",
"unappreciated",
"ungrateful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"credited",
"esteemed",
"honored",
"prized",
"recognized",
"regarded",
"rewarded",
"valued",
"creditable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"it's perhaps the most underrated film of the last decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"underestimated",
"undervalued"
],
"near synonyms":[
"de-emphasized",
"minimized",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"belittled",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"admired",
"esteemed",
"regarded",
"respected",
"adored",
"idolized",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"antonyms":[
"overestimated",
"overrated",
"overvalued"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"underachievers":{
"as in slackers , goof-offs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"goof-offs",
"slackers",
"lowbrows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bookworms",
"dinks",
"dorks",
"geeks",
"grinds",
"nerds",
"swots",
"weenies",
"wonks",
"double-domes",
"highbrows",
"intellectuals",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undergrad":{
"as in underclassman , upperclassman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"underclassman",
"upperclassman",
"freshman",
"junior",
"senior",
"sophomore",
"exchange student",
"high schooler",
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"middler",
"middle schooler",
"coed",
"collegian",
"postgraduate",
"undergraduate",
"schoolfellow",
"schoolmate",
"day student",
"preppy",
"preppie",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"reader",
"studier",
"pupil",
"scholar",
"student"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undyed":{
"lacking an addition of color":{
"examples":[
"pieces of undyed leather"
],
"synonyms":[
"colorless",
"tintless",
"uncolored",
"unpainted",
"unstained",
"white"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"liquid",
"lucent",
"pellucid",
"transparent",
"bleached",
"faded",
"palish",
"washed-out",
"washy",
"dull",
"faint",
"gray",
"grey",
"neutral",
"pale",
"pallid",
"snow-white",
"snowy",
"whited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colorful",
"multicolored",
"polychromatic",
"polychrome",
"varicolored",
"variegated"
],
"antonyms":[
"colored",
"colorized",
"dyed",
"hued",
"painted",
"pigmented",
"stained",
"tinct",
"tinctured",
"tinged",
"tinted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underprices":{
"as in underestimates , undervalues":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"underestimates",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"debases",
"demonetizes",
"abridges",
"compresses",
"contracts",
"de-escalates",
"deflates",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"moderates",
"shrinks",
"attenuates",
"breaks",
"cheapens",
"depreciates",
"depresses",
"devaluates",
"devalues",
"downgrades",
"lowers",
"marks down",
"reduces",
"sinks",
"writes down",
"writes off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciates",
"enhances",
"marks up",
"upgrades",
"bloats",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"overestimates",
"overprices",
"overrates",
"overvalues",
"adds",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"balloons",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"dilates",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"heightens",
"increases",
"maximizes",
"multiplies",
"raises",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underwent":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"some people undergo a complete transformation while away at college"
],
"synonyms":[
"endured",
"experienced",
"felt",
"had",
"knew",
"passed",
"saw",
"suffered",
"sustained",
"tasted",
"witnessed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountered",
"met",
"accepted",
"received",
"assimilated",
"digested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underwrites":{
"to provide money for":{
"examples":[
"a university willing to underwrite an archaeological expedition"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrolls",
"capitalizes",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"stakes",
"subsidizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grubstakes",
"cofinances",
"refinances",
"advocates",
"aids",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"sponsors",
"supports",
"maintains",
"nourishes",
"provides (for)",
"clears",
"defrays",
"discharges",
"foots",
"liquidates",
"pays",
"pays off",
"pays up",
"quits",
"recompenses",
"settles",
"springs (for)",
"stands",
"refunds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"defunds"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undefined":{
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"examples":[
"plagued by undefined worries that kept her awake at night"
],
"synonyms":[
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"shadowy",
"unclear",
"undetermined",
"vague"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undersold":{
"as in monopolized , engrossed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cornered",
"engrossed",
"monopolized",
"black-marketed",
"bootlegged",
"fenced",
"smuggled",
"day-traded",
"invested",
"speculated",
"distributed",
"fair-traded",
"marketed",
"peddled",
"retailed",
"sold",
"supplied",
"vended",
"wholesaled",
"bought",
"picked up",
"purchased",
"took",
"auctioned",
"exchanged",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"rebought",
"resold",
"swapped",
"bargained",
"bartered",
"horse-traded",
"negotiated",
"transacted",
"dealt",
"traded",
"trafficked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballed",
"blacked",
"boycotted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undeniably":{
"without any question":{
"examples":[
"undeniably handsome, he's never been conceited about his looks"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"surely",
"truly",
"unarguably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conceivably",
"likely",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"probably",
"obviously",
"unmistakably"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"undraping":{
"as in exposing , uncovering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"uncovering",
"unveiling",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"unclothing",
"undressing",
"barking",
"flaying",
"peeling",
"skinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dressing",
"gowning",
"robing",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"covering",
"decking",
"dressing",
"feathering",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"vesting",
"cloaking",
"mantling",
"draping",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"outfitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undignified":{
"as in silly , frivolous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"silly",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"improper",
"indecent",
"uncouth",
"unseemly",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"august",
"dignified",
"distingu\u00e9",
"distinguished",
"imposing",
"portly",
"solemn",
"staid",
"stately",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"grave",
"grim",
"po-faced",
"sober",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underplaying":{
"as in understating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"understating",
"de-emphasizing",
"downplaying",
"playing down",
"soft-pedaling",
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerating",
"overdoing",
"overdrawing",
"overstating",
"elaborating",
"embellishing",
"embroidering",
"magnifying",
"padding",
"stretching",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"melodramatizing",
"overemphasizing",
"overplaying",
"sensationalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overplaying , overacting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overacting",
"overplaying",
"acting out",
"enacting",
"pantomiming",
"playacting",
"role-playing",
"taking on",
"aping",
"clowning",
"hamming",
"imitating",
"masquerading",
"mimicking",
"miming",
"posing (as)",
"depicting",
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"noun"
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"clean",
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"pure",
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"noun"
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"casualties",
"fatalities",
"losses",
"prey",
"preys",
"victims",
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"murderees"
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"winners",
"harmers",
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"killers",
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"noun"
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"verb"
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"avouch",
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"postulate",
"premise",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"suppose"
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"undermine",
"weaken"
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"verb"
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"cast",
"color",
"hue",
"shade",
"tincture",
"tinge",
"tint",
"tone",
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"chroma",
"chromaticity",
"contrast",
"lightness",
"saturation",
"value",
"coloration",
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"colorway",
"pigmentation"
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"achromatism"
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"whisper",
"grunt",
"grunting",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"murmuring",
"mutter",
"muttering",
"babble",
"babbling",
"blab",
"blabbing",
"chatter",
"chattering",
"drivel",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"gabble",
"gabbling",
"jabber",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattle",
"prattling",
"rambling"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"I feel a little under the weather and I'm just going to stay home."
],
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"ailing",
"bad",
"down",
"ill",
"indisposed",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"poorly",
"punk",
"run-down",
"sick",
"sickened",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
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"symptomatic",
"cruddy",
"lousy",
"seedy",
"sickish",
"nauseated",
"nauseous",
"qualmish",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"airsick",
"carsick",
"seasick",
"dizzy",
"light-headed",
"shaky",
"woozy",
"achy",
"feverish",
"diseased",
"disordered",
"decrepit",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"invalid",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakly",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"challenged",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"hypochondriac",
"hypochondriacal"
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"able-bodied",
"conditioned",
"fit",
"well-conditioned",
"cured",
"better",
"convalescing",
"improved",
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"recovering",
"recuperating",
"rehabilitated",
"hardy",
"hearty",
"lusty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"tough",
"blooming",
"bouncing",
"chipper",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"thriving"
],
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"hale",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"sound",
"well",
"whole",
"wholesome"
]
},
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"examples":[
"When they came home from the party it was obvious they were under the weather ."
],
"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",
"wet",
"wiped out"
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"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"
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"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
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"as in undeniable , indisputable":{
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"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unmistakable",
"unquestionable",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified",
"veritable",
"very",
"identifiable",
"recognizable",
"verifiable",
"accurate",
"correct",
"proper",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"pure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"actual",
"historical",
"original",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"certifiable",
"certified",
"dinkum",
"echt",
"genuine",
"honest",
"pukka",
"pucka",
"real",
"right",
"sure-enough",
"true"
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"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"false",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pseudo",
"sham",
"spurious",
"suppositious",
"supposititious",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"simulated",
"synthetic",
"unnatural",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"misleading"
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"as in understating , toning (down)":{
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"toning (down)",
"understating",
"de-emphasizing",
"playing down",
"belittling",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"featuring",
"foregrounding",
"highlighting",
"illuminating",
"playing up",
"pointing (up)",
"pressing",
"punctuating",
"stressing",
"focusing",
"focussing",
"identifying",
"pinpointing",
"spotlighting",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"underprice":{
"as in underestimate , undervalue":{
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"near synonyms":[
"underestimate",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"debase",
"demonetize",
"abridge",
"compress",
"contract",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"moderate",
"shrink",
"attenuate",
"break",
"cheapen",
"depreciate",
"depress",
"devaluate",
"devalue",
"downgrade",
"lower",
"mark down",
"reduce",
"sink",
"write down",
"write off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciate",
"enhance",
"mark up",
"upgrade",
"bloat",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"overestimate",
"overprice",
"overrate",
"overvalue",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"compound",
"dilate",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"multiply",
"raise",
"swell",
"up"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"understood":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"as I understand it, this is the best plan that we have"
],
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"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"derived",
"extrapolated",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"made out",
"reasoned"
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"near synonyms":[
"assumed",
"supposed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"surmised",
"construed",
"interpreted",
"read",
"contemplated",
"philosophized",
"rationalized",
"thought",
"ascertained",
"doped (out)",
"found out"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"examples":[
"I think I understand how an engine works now"
],
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"comprehended",
"grasped",
"knew"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"cognized",
"fathomed",
"followed",
"kenned",
"perceived",
"savvied",
"had",
"possessed",
"caught on (to)",
"picked up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misinterpreted",
"misknew",
"misperceived",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"after a few weeks in Russia I began to understand the language a little bit"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
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"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"got",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"knew",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"saw",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged"
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"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"took in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistook",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"not appreciated or valued enough":{
"examples":[
"Her work is underappreciated by the critics.",
"an underappreciated talent"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"uncredited",
"underrated",
"undervalued",
"unnoticed",
"unrecognized",
"unrewarded",
"unsung",
"unvalued",
"thankless",
"unappreciated",
"ungrateful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"credited",
"esteemed",
"honored",
"prized",
"recognized",
"regarded",
"rewarded",
"valued",
"creditable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy",
"appreciated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"as in undertows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"undertows",
"countercurrents",
"countertrends",
"counter-trends",
"customs",
"habits",
"propensities",
"tenors",
"ways",
"curves",
"downsides",
"shifts",
"swings",
"turnabouts",
"turns",
"upsides",
"currents",
"directions",
"drifts",
"leanings",
"runs",
"tendencies",
"tides",
"trends",
"winds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underpayments":{
"as in nonpayments":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"nonpayments"
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"near antonyms":[
"compensations",
"disbursements",
"payments",
"remitments",
"remittances",
"remunerations",
"renderings",
"reimbursements",
"repayments"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underdone":{
"as in half-baked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"half-baked",
"rare",
"unheated",
"raw",
"uncooked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooked",
"well-done",
"overdone",
"baked",
"boiled",
"braised",
"broiled",
"fried",
"grilled",
"heated",
"roasted",
"saut\u00e9ed",
"sauteed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"scorched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undergird":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"the theory of evolution undergirds virtually all of modern biology"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"underpin",
"uphold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undertones":{
"as in rumors , whispers":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"rumors",
"whispers",
"grunts",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"babbles",
"babblings",
"blabs",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabbles",
"jabberings",
"jabbers",
"prattles",
"ramblings"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"as in overtones":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overtones",
"casts",
"colors",
"hues",
"shades",
"tinctures",
"tinges",
"tints",
"tones",
"primary colors",
"secondary colors",
"tertiary colors",
"chromas",
"chromaticities",
"contrasts",
"saturations",
"values",
"colorations",
"colorings",
"colorways",
"pigmentations"
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"near antonyms":[
"achromatisms"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undesirableness":{
"as in inauspiciousness , inexpedience":{
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"near synonyms":[
"inauspiciousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"intolerability",
"undesirability",
"unsatisfactoriness",
"uselessness",
"extraneousness",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"inadmissibility",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness",
"senselessness",
"unbecomingness",
"improperness",
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"incorrectness",
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"wrongness"
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"aptness",
"correctness",
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"felicity",
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"fittingness",
"properness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"admissibility",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"pointedness",
"relevance",
"relevancy"
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"noun"
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"overdiagnose",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"hide"
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"distinguish",
"finger",
"ID",
"identify",
"pinpoint",
"single (out)",
"determine",
"find",
"locate",
"pick out",
"place",
"recognize",
"spot"
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"verb"
]
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"She continued to work with undiminished enthusiasm.",
"His interest in the project remains undiminished ."
],
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"uncut",
"compleat",
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"entire",
"full",
"grand",
"intact",
"integral",
"perfect",
"plenary",
"total",
"whole",
"all-out",
"exhaustive",
"extensive",
"maximal",
"full-blooded",
"full-blown",
"full-bore",
"full-fledged",
"full-on",
"full-out",
"full-scale"
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"abridged",
"cut",
"diminished",
"reduced",
"imperfect",
"incomplete",
"partial"
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},
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"adjective"
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"a group of college undergraduates"
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"scholar",
"student",
"reader",
"studier",
"day student",
"preppy",
"preppie",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"schoolfellow",
"schoolmate",
"high schooler",
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"middler",
"middle schooler",
"freshman",
"junior",
"senior",
"sophomore",
"underclassman",
"undergrad",
"upperclassman",
"exchange student"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in exposes , uncovers":{
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"denudes",
"divests",
"exposes",
"uncovers",
"unveils",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes",
"undresses",
"barks",
"flays",
"peels",
"skins"
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"dresses",
"gowns",
"robes",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"covers",
"decks",
"dresses",
"feathers",
"garbs",
"garments",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"vests",
"cloaks",
"mantles",
"drapes",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"outfits"
],
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"verb"
]
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"accoutered",
"bedighted",
"bedight",
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"furnished",
"habilitated",
"outfitted",
"tailored",
"uniformed",
"draped",
"enswathed",
"happed",
"huddled",
"swaddled",
"swathed",
"wrapped",
"cloaked",
"frocked",
"jacketed",
"mantled",
"vested",
"appareled",
"apparelled",
"arrayed",
"attired",
"bedecked",
"caparisoned",
"clothed",
"clad",
"costumed",
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"dressed",
"dressed up",
"enrobed",
"garbed",
"garmented",
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"habited",
"invested",
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"suited",
"togged (up or out)",
"toileted",
"vestured"
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"disarrayed",
"disrobed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"unclothed",
"undressed",
"untrussed",
"denuded",
"divested",
"uncovered",
"undraped",
"unveiled"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in understated , toned (down)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"toned (down)",
"understated",
"de-emphasized",
"played down",
"belittled",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized"
],
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"accented",
"accentuated",
"emphasized",
"featured",
"foregrounded",
"highlighted",
"illuminated",
"played up",
"pointed (up)",
"pressed",
"punctuated",
"stressed",
"focused",
"focussed",
"identified",
"pinpointed",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"advertised",
"boosted",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized"
],
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undoing":{
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"examples":[
"an intractable drug habit proved to be her sad undoing"
],
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"death",
"destruction",
"downfall",
"ruin",
"ruination"
],
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"bane",
"curse",
"torment",
"Achilles' heel",
"tragic flaw"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of courage or confidence":{
"examples":[
"the sudden shriek undid the campers"
],
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"demoralizing",
"emasculating",
"paralyzing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"unstringing"
],
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"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"neutering",
"weakening",
"prostrating",
"sapping",
"softening",
"tiring",
"wasting",
"frightening",
"intimidating",
"psyching (out)",
"scaring",
"terrifying",
"terrorizing",
"daunting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"crazing",
"deranging",
"maddening",
"unbalancing",
"unhinging",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"fazing",
"perturbing",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fortifying",
"strengthening",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening"
],
"antonyms":[
"nerving"
]
},
"to disengage the knotted parts of":{
"examples":[
"undo a tangled shoelace"
],
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"unbinding",
"unfastening",
"unlashing",
"untying",
"untieing"
],
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"unbraiding",
"unlacing",
"disentangling",
"raveling",
"ravelling",
"unraveling",
"unsnarling",
"untangling",
"unwinding",
"loosening",
"loosing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"braiding",
"interlacing",
"interweaving",
"lacing",
"winding",
"entangling",
"snarling",
"tangling"
],
"antonyms":[
"binding",
"fastening",
"knotting",
"lashing",
"tying",
"tieing"
]
},
"to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy":{
"examples":[
"the mere mention of the home invasion still had the power to undo her"
],
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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",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"weirding out",
"worrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming",
"composing",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"undercurrent":{
"as in undertow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"undertow",
"countercurrent",
"countertrend",
"custom",
"habit",
"propensity",
"tenor",
"way",
"curve",
"downside",
"shift",
"swing",
"turn",
"turnabout",
"upside",
"current",
"direction",
"drift",
"leaning",
"run",
"tendency",
"tide",
"trend",
"wind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undercover agents":{
"as in secret agents":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"secret agents",
"agents",
"assets",
"emissaries",
"intelligencers",
"moles",
"operatives",
"spies",
"spooks",
"undercovers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undomesticated":{
"living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans":{
"examples":[
"domesticated rats are more tolerable companions than are their undomesticated cousins"
],
"synonyms":[
"feral",
"savage",
"unbroken",
"untamed",
"wild",
"wilding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uncontrolled",
"undocile",
"unsubdued",
"untrained",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"docile",
"familiar",
"semidomesticated",
"subdued",
"submissive",
"halterbroken",
"housebroken",
"trained",
"civilized",
"semicivilized",
"socialized"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"busted",
"domestic",
"domesticated",
"gentled",
"tame",
"tamed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undirected":{
"as in purposeless , haphazard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"chancy",
"contingent",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"lucky",
"unconsidered",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"catch-as-catch-can",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"helter-skelter",
"hit-or-miss",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"directionless",
"objectless",
"purposeless",
"irregular",
"odd",
"sporadic",
"spot",
"indiscriminate",
"unsystematic",
"disorderly",
"disorganized",
"scattershot",
"shotgun",
"undiscriminating",
"unselective"
],
"near antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"nonrandom",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"established",
"fixed",
"regular",
"set",
"stable",
"steady",
"constant",
"continuous",
"even",
"arranged",
"managed",
"orchestrated",
"ordered",
"planned",
"aware",
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"thoughtful",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underpayment":{
"as in nonpayment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nonpayment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compensation",
"disbursement",
"giving",
"paying",
"payment",
"remitment",
"remittance",
"remuneration",
"rendering",
"tendering",
"reimbursement",
"repayment"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undressing":{
"to remove clothing from":{
"examples":[
"I quickly undressed myself and pulled on a set of dry clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"unclothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baring",
"denuding",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling",
"barking",
"flaying",
"peeling",
"skinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"covering",
"decking",
"dressing",
"feathering",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"vesting",
"cloaking",
"mantling",
"draping",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"outfitting"
],
"antonyms":[
"dressing",
"gowning",
"robing"
]
},
"to reveal the true nature of":{
"examples":[
"a self-styled financial investor who was eventually undressed as a con artist running a pyramid scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"nailing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolishing",
"discrediting",
"disproving",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hiding",
"secreting",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"disguising",
"masking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undialectical":{
"as in standard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"standard",
"bookish",
"formal",
"learned",
"literary",
"correct",
"educated",
"genteel",
"grammatical",
"proper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"informal",
"nonformal",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish",
"unliterary",
"vernacular",
"vulgar",
"dialectal",
"dialectical",
"dialectic",
"nonstandard",
"regional",
"incorrect",
"nongrammatical",
"substandard",
"uneducated",
"ungrammatical",
"unlearned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underpricing":{
"as in underestimating , undervaluing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"underestimating",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"debasing",
"demonetizing",
"abridging",
"compressing",
"contracting",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"moderating",
"shrinking",
"attenuating",
"breaking",
"cheapening",
"depreciating",
"depressing",
"devaluating",
"devaluing",
"downgrading",
"lowering",
"marking down",
"reducing",
"sinking",
"writing down",
"writing off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"enhancing",
"marking up",
"upgrading",
"bloating",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"overestimating",
"overpricing",
"overrating",
"overvaluing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"dilating",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undermine":{
"to make (someone or something) weaker or less effective usually in a secret or gradual way":{
"examples":[
"She tried to undermine my authority by complaining about me to my boss.",
"The events of the past year have undermined people's confidence in the government."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deteriorate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"weaken",
"blemish",
"bloody",
"break",
"compromise",
"crab",
"cripple",
"cross (up)",
"damage",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"endamage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"blight",
"tarnish",
"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":[
"cure",
"heal",
"help",
"rectify",
"rehabilitate",
"remedy",
"edit",
"remodel",
"revise",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"perfect",
"refine",
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undiluted":{
"free from added matter":{
"examples":[
"undiluted cranberry juice would be too strong for anyone to drink"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"fine",
"neat",
"plain",
"pure",
"purified",
"refined",
"straight",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unmixed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"clean",
"fresh",
"taintless",
"uncontaminated",
"uncorrupted",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"rendered",
"tried",
"concentrated",
"full-bodied",
"strong",
"uncombined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befouled",
"besmirched",
"contaminated",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"unclarified",
"amalgamated",
"blended",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"commingled",
"compounded",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"conjoined",
"fused",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"cheapened",
"doctored",
"watered-down"
],
"antonyms":[
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"diluted",
"impure",
"mixed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undecomposed":{
"as in good , fresh":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched",
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"putrid",
"rotten",
"spoiled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underplays":{
"as in understates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"understates",
"de-emphasizes",
"downplays",
"plays down",
"soft-pedals",
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"cries down",
"decries",
"denigrates",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"derogates",
"dismisses",
"disparages",
"kisses off",
"minimizes",
"poor-mouths",
"puts down",
"runs down",
"talks down",
"trashes",
"trash-talks"
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"exaggerates",
"overdoes",
"overdraws",
"overstates",
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"embellishes",
"embroiders",
"magnifies",
"pads",
"stretches",
"fudges",
"hedges",
"melodramatizes",
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"overplays",
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"overacts",
"overplays",
"acts out",
"enacts",
"pantomimes",
"playacts",
"role-plays",
"takes on",
"apes",
"clowns",
"hams",
"imitates",
"masquerades",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"poses (as)",
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"renders",
"represents",
"stars (in)",
"acts",
"does",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays",
"coacts",
"costars"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"as in undeveloped , backward":{
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"backward",
"undeveloped",
"early",
"embryonic",
"primeval",
"primordial",
"aged",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antiquated",
"antique",
"dated",
"fusty",
"hoary",
"musty",
"obsolete",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"past",
"quaint",
"unmodernized",
"homely",
"homespun",
"unsophisticated",
"basic",
"simple",
"uncomplicated",
"crude",
"low",
"primitive",
"rude",
"rudimentary"
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"advanced",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"late",
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"sophisticated",
"full-blown",
"grown",
"mature",
"matured",
"perfected",
"ripe",
"ripened",
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"enlightened",
"refined",
"contemporary",
"current",
"latest",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"novel",
"now",
"present-day",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"supermodern",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"to remove clothing from":{
"examples":[
"I quickly undressed myself and pulled on a set of dry clothes"
],
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"disrobe",
"strip",
"unclothe"
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"bare",
"denude",
"divest",
"expose",
"uncover",
"undrape",
"unveil",
"bark",
"flay",
"peel",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"cover",
"deck",
"dress",
"feather",
"garb",
"garment",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"vest",
"cloak",
"mantle",
"drape",
"swaddle",
"swathe",
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"equip",
"furnish",
"outfit"
],
"antonyms":[
"dress",
"gown",
"robe"
]
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"examples":[
"a self-styled financial investor who was eventually undressed as a con artist running a pyramid scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"nail",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demolish",
"discredit",
"disprove",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hide",
"secrete",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"mask"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underskirt":{
"as in slip":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"slip",
"panties",
"scanties",
"boxers",
"boxer shorts",
"briefs",
"drawers",
"long johns",
"pants",
"shorts",
"underdrawers",
"underpants",
"undershirt",
"undershorts",
"union suit",
"lingerie",
"nightdress",
"nightgown",
"nightshirt",
"pajamas",
"pj's",
"underclothes",
"underclothing",
"undergarments",
"underwear",
"undies",
"unmentionables"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outerwear"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"we had underestimated her ability to raise the start-up money for her own design firm"
],
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"underrates",
"undervalues"
],
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"de-emphasizes",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"soft-pedals",
"belittles",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"disparages",
"despises",
"disdains",
"scorns"
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"near antonyms":[
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"admires",
"esteems",
"regards",
"respects",
"adores",
"idolizes",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships"
],
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"overestimates",
"overrates",
"overvalues"
]
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"type":[
"verb"
]
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"undoctrinaire":{
"as in latitudinarian , undogmatic":{
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"near synonyms":[
"latitudinarian",
"undogmatic",
"broadminded",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive"
],
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"doctrinaire",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"opinioned",
"pontifical",
"self-opinionated",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"unyielding"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undervalued":{
"as in underappreciated , underrated":{
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"uncredited",
"underappreciated",
"underrated",
"unnoticed",
"unrecognized",
"unrewarded",
"unsung",
"unvalued",
"thankless",
"unappreciated",
"ungrateful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"credited",
"esteemed",
"honored",
"prized",
"recognized",
"regarded",
"rewarded",
"valued",
"creditable",
"meritorious",
"praiseworthy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place too low a value on":{
"examples":[
"you shouldn't undervalue your talent\u2014you are a very gifted singer"
],
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"underestimated",
"underrated"
],
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"de-emphasized",
"minimized",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"belittled",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned"
],
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"appreciated",
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"admired",
"esteemed",
"regarded",
"respected",
"adored",
"idolized",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped"
],
"antonyms":[
"overestimated",
"overrated",
"overvalued"
]
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"underdog":{
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"examples":[],
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"loser",
"casualty",
"fatality",
"loss",
"prey",
"victim",
"martyr",
"sacrifice",
"collateral damage",
"murderee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gainer",
"victor",
"winner",
"harmer",
"injurer",
"assassin",
"killer",
"murderer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underlain":{
"to lie underneath":{
"examples":[
"A layer of rock underlies the topsoil."
],
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"steadied",
"trussed",
"bolstered",
"borne",
"born",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to form the basis or foundation of (something, such as an idea)":{
"examples":[
"The assumption that underlies their argument is faulty."
],
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"grounded",
"based",
"hung",
"hanged",
"predicated",
"rested",
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"backed",
"bolstered",
"buttressed",
"corroborated",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"shored (up)",
"substantiated",
"supported",
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"proven",
"verified",
"affirmed",
"avouched",
"validated",
"established",
"founded",
"assumed",
"postulated",
"premised",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"supposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"understudied":{
"as in substituted , covered":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"covered",
"filled in",
"pinch-hit",
"stepped in",
"stood in",
"subbed",
"substituted",
"took over",
"relieved",
"spelled",
"doubled (as)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"undersurfaces":{
"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"painted the undersurface of the plane blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottoms",
"underbellies",
"underbodies",
"underparts",
"undersides"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellies",
"soles",
"toes",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"floors",
"grounds",
"seats",
"underpinnings",
"undercarriages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"roofs",
"summits",
"cusps",
"heads",
"points",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"faces",
"tops"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undersells":{
"as in monopolizes , engrosses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corners",
"engrosses",
"monopolizes",
"black-markets",
"bootlegs",
"fences",
"smuggles",
"day-trades",
"invests",
"speculates",
"distributes",
"fair-trades",
"markets",
"peddles",
"retails",
"sells",
"supplies",
"vends",
"wholesales",
"buys",
"picks up",
"purchases",
"takes",
"auctions",
"exchanges",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"rebuys",
"resells",
"swaps",
"bargains",
"barters",
"horse-trades",
"negotiates",
"transacts",
"deals",
"trades",
"traffics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackballs",
"blacks",
"boycotts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underneath":{
"in or to a lower place":{
"examples":[
"the ball rolled under the porch, so you'll have to crawl underneath to get it"
],
"synonyms":[
"below",
"beneath",
"under"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beside",
"near",
"nearby"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloft",
"overhead"
],
"antonyms":[
"up"
]
},
"as in lower , below":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"below",
"lower",
"nether",
"under",
"bottommost",
"lowermost",
"lowest",
"nethermost",
"rock-bottom",
"undermost",
"low",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest",
"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost",
"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"consummate",
"maximal",
"maximized",
"maximum",
"peaked",
"supreme",
"utmost",
"uttermost"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in under , beneath":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"below",
"beneath",
"under",
"across",
"along",
"alongside",
"beyond",
"near",
"nearby",
"over",
"outside",
"past",
"by",
"through",
"via",
"throughout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"preposition"
]
},
"undergraduates":{
"a person enrolled in a college or university who has not yet earned a degree":{
"examples":[
"a group of college undergraduates"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coeds",
"collegians",
"postgraduates",
"pupils",
"scholars",
"students",
"readers",
"studiers",
"day students",
"preppies",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"schoolfellows",
"schoolmates",
"high schoolers",
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"middlers",
"middle schoolers",
"freshmen",
"juniors",
"seniors",
"sophomores",
"underclassmen",
"undergrads",
"upperclassmen",
"exchange students"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undemocratic":{
"as in nondemocratic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nondemocratic",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"monarchal",
"monarchial",
"monarchical",
"monarchic",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democratic",
"popular",
"republican",
"self-governing",
"self-ruling",
"representative",
"libertarian",
"nontotalitarian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"undertaking":{
"as in struggle , striving":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"striving",
"struggle",
"throes",
"assay",
"attempt",
"bash",
"bid",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"offer",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"whack",
"whirl",
"trial and error"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in guarantee , assurance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assurance",
"guarantee",
"guaranty",
"agreement",
"compact",
"contract",
"covenant",
"bail",
"bond",
"deposit",
"gage",
"pawn",
"security",
"token",
"warranty",
"appointment",
"arrangement",
"commitment",
"engagement",
"obligation",
"oath",
"pledge",
"promise",
"troth",
"vow",
"word"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in initiative , enterprise":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"emprise",
"enterprise",
"initiative",
"adventure",
"experience",
"handiwork",
"performance",
"work",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"stunt",
"trick",
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"exploit",
"feat",
"thing",
"activity",
"dealing",
"maneuver",
"measure",
"move",
"operation",
"procedure",
"proceeding",
"step",
"tactic",
"coaction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take to or upon oneself":{
"examples":[
"undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"assuming",
"bearing",
"shouldering",
"taking over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopting",
"embracing",
"taking up",
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"espousing",
"standing by",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"acceding",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"consenting",
"reaccepting",
"reassuming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjuring",
"recanting",
"renouncing",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"unsaying",
"withdrawing",
"declining",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"spurning",
"turning down",
"abstaining (from)",
"forbearing",
"refraining (from)",
"avoiding",
"bypassing",
"detouring",
"abandoning",
"abnegating",
"forsaking",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"spurning",
"surrendering",
"backing down",
"backing off",
"backtracking"
],
"antonyms":[
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"repudiating"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"undeceiving":{
"to free from mistaken beliefs or foolish hopes":{
"examples":[
"promptly undeceived the young woman about the sincerity of the man's intentions"
],
"synonyms":[
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sophisticating",
"advising",
"apprising",
"clueing (in)",
"cluing (in)",
"filling in",
"wising (up)",
"debunking",
"exposing",
"refuting",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unveiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"cozening",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"kidding",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"misrepresenting",
"snowing",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underparts":{
"the side or part facing downward from something":{
"examples":[
"the bird's underparts were white"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottoms",
"underbellies",
"underbodies",
"undersides",
"undersurfaces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bellies",
"soles",
"toes",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"floors",
"grounds",
"seats",
"underpinnings",
"undercarriages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heights",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"roofs",
"summits",
"cusps",
"heads",
"points",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"faces",
"tops"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"underemployed":{
"as in subemployed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"subemployed",
"jobless",
"unemployed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"employed",
"working",
"self-employed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underhandedness":{
"as in deviousness , sneakiness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"oiliness",
"shadiness",
"sharpness",
"shiftiness",
"shrewdness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"treachery",
"wiliness",
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"fakery",
"humbuggery",
"imposture",
"quackery",
"dirty pool",
"dirty tricks",
"design",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"secrecy",
"stealth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"undulated":{
"to move or be shaped like waves":{
"examples":[
"undulating hills",
"an undulating surface"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"waved",
"agitated",
"bucketed",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"underplayed":{
"as in unpretentious , unaffected":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nondramatic",
"nontheatrical",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious",
"undramatic",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"conservative",
"discreet",
"inconspicuous",
"modest",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dramatic",
"hammy",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"stagy",
"stagey",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"sensational",
"staged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in understated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"understated",
"de-emphasized",
"downplayed",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"cried down",
"decried",
"denigrated",
"deprecated",
"depreciated",
"derogated",
"dismissed",
"disparaged",
"kissed off",
"minimized",
"poor-mouthed",
"put down",
"ran down",
"talked down",
"trashed",
"trash-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exaggerated",
"overdid",
"overdrew",
"overstated",
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"magnified",
"padded",
"stretched",
"fudged",
"hedged",
"melodramatized",
"overemphasized",
"overplayed",
"sensationalized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overplayed , overacted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overacted",
"overplayed",
"acted out",
"enacted",
"pantomimed",
"playacted",
"role-played",
"took on",
"aped",
"clowned",
"hammed",
"imitated",
"masqueraded",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"posed (as)",
"depicted",
"dramatized",
"rendered",
"represented",
"starred (in)",
"acted",
"did",
"impersonated",
"interpreted",
"performed",
"played",
"portrayed",
"coacted",
"co-acted",
"costarred",
"co-starred"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"underprivileged":{
"kept from having the necessities of life or a healthful environment":{
"examples":[
"an organization that distributes free books to underprivileged children"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressed",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggared",
"broke",
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"unprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"displaced",
"dispossessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"fortunate",
"lucky",
"affluent",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"coddled",
"indulged",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"advantaged",
"privileged"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"underfed":{
"as in malnourished , undernourished":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"malnourished",
"undernourished",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"content",
"full",
"glutted",
"overfed",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"stuffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overfed , force-fed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"force-fed",
"overfed",
"surfeited",
"battened",
"fattened",
"filled",
"banqueted",
"dined",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"sustained",
"boarded",
"catered",
"fed",
"provisioned",
"victualed",
"victualled",
"refed",
"reprovisioned",
"hand-fed",
"spoon-fed",
"served",
"waited",
"messed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"undismayed":{
"as in undeterred , resolute":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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",
"weak",
"wimpy",
"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",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}