dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/tru_MWT.json
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{
"truculence":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"examples":[
"a congenital truculence that resulted in his spending a significant amount of time in the principal's office"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
]
},
"disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others":{
"examples":[
"the sergeant's truculence was revealed when she made the recruits run even further in the heat"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"brutality",
"cruelness",
"cruelty",
"fiendishness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"viciousness",
"wantonness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"unfeelingness",
"fellness",
"ferociousness",
"ferocity",
"fierceness",
"grimness",
"bloodlust",
"bloodthirstiness",
"murderousness",
"sanguineness",
"sanguinity",
"cattiness",
"despitefulness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spitefulness",
"hardhandedness",
"harshness",
"heavy-handedness",
"oppressiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"charitableness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"pity"
],
"antonyms":[
"benignity",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tenderheartedness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trudge":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"antonyms":[
"breeze",
"coast",
"glide",
"slide",
"waltz",
"whisk"
],
"examples":[
"flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"waft"
],
"related":[
"drag",
"flop",
"haul",
"blunder",
"careen",
"dodder",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"waddle",
"weave",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"synonyms":[
"barge",
"clump",
"flog",
"flounder",
"galumph",
"lumber",
"lump",
"plod",
"pound",
"scuff",
"scuffle",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"slog",
"slough",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stumble",
"stump",
"tramp",
"tromp"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coast",
"fly",
"glide",
"kilt",
"sail",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"related":[
"jog",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"wallow",
"welter",
"falter",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"fumble",
"muddle"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bumble",
"flog",
"flounder",
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"struggle",
"stumble"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"truism":{
"an idea or expression that has been used by many people":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"ended his letter with the overused truism , \"You can't win them all!\""
],
"near antonyms":[
"profundity"
],
"related":[
"conventional wisdom",
"party line",
"routine",
"inanity",
"generality",
"generalization",
"simplification",
"adage",
"proverb",
"saw",
"saying",
"old wives' tale",
"stereotype"
],
"synonyms":[
"banality",
"bromide",
"chestnut",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"commonplace",
"groaner",
"homily",
"platitude",
"shibboleth",
"trope"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trump up":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"concoct",
"construct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"drum up",
"excogitate",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"vamp (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coin",
"design",
"hatch",
"produce",
"daydream",
"dream",
"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"envision",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trumped up":{
"as in made-up , fabricated":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
],
"related":[
"coined",
"designed",
"hatched",
"produced",
"daydreamed",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"fantasized",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"ad-libbed",
"extemporized",
"improvised"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocted",
"constructed",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"drummed up",
"excogitated",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"thought (up)",
"vamped (up)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"trumpery":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"trumpery knickknacks from some souvenir shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a lot of the news pertaining to the war effort was loaded with so much trumpery that no one knew how it was really proceeding"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"trumpetlike":{
"as in clear , clarion":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clarion",
"clear",
"grating",
"harsh",
"shrill",
"squealing",
"strident",
"brazen",
"crashing",
"dinning",
"discordant",
"noisy",
"obstreperous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"vociferous",
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"overloud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"roaring",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dull",
"gentle",
"low",
"quiet",
"soft",
"dead",
"silent",
"still",
"calm",
"dreamy",
"hushed",
"peaceful",
"restful",
"serene",
"soothing",
"stilly",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"trumpets":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the company trumpeted the launch of the new phone that had none of the bugs the old one was known for"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"critics trumpeted the band's latest album as the best of the decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoos",
"blows up",
"cracks up",
"cries up",
"glorifies",
"touts",
"tub-thumps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"magnifies",
"commends",
"compliments",
"eulogizes",
"advances",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"boosts",
"heralds",
"offers",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"asserts",
"avers",
"claims",
"declares",
"lays down",
"makes out",
"proclaims",
"pronounces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in roars , howls":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barks",
"bays",
"bellows",
"blats",
"bleats",
"brays",
"cackles",
"callings",
"caterwauls",
"caws",
"cheeps",
"chirps",
"clucks",
"coos",
"crakes",
"croaks",
"crows",
"grunts",
"honks",
"hoots",
"howls",
"lows",
"meows",
"miaows",
"mews",
"moos",
"neighs",
"oinks",
"peeps",
"quacks",
"roars",
"screeches",
"squalls",
"squawks",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"tu-whit tu-whoos",
"twitters",
"whinnies",
"yaps",
"yelps",
"yips",
"yowls",
"calls",
"cries",
"notes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"truncated":{
"to make less in extent or duration":{
"examples":[
"some of the quotations from the movie had to be truncated to fit on tie-in products"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut back",
"docked",
"elided",
"shortened",
"syncopated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstracted",
"digested",
"encapsulated",
"epitomized",
"recapitulated",
"summarized",
"summed up",
"abated",
"compressed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut",
"cut down",
"pared",
"pruned",
"trimmed",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"deflated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"modified",
"reduced",
"retrenched",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"slashed",
"subtracted (from)",
"tapered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"added",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"ballooned",
"boosted",
"dilated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"increased",
"maximized",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"blew up",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled"
],
"antonyms":[
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"truncating":{
"to make less in extent or duration":{
"examples":[
"some of the quotations from the movie had to be truncated to fit on tie-in products"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting back",
"docking",
"eliding",
"shortening",
"syncopating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstracting",
"digesting",
"encapsulating",
"epitomizing",
"recapitulating",
"summarizing",
"summing up",
"abating",
"compressing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting",
"cutting down",
"paring",
"pruning",
"trimming",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"reducing",
"retrenching",
"shrinking",
"slashing",
"subtracting (from)",
"tapering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"supplementing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"dilating",
"escalating",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trundles":{
"as in drives , rides":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buses",
"busses",
"cabs",
"coaches",
"cruises",
"drives",
"flies",
"gigs",
"jets",
"motors",
"navigates",
"rides",
"rolls",
"sails",
"migrates",
"road-trips",
"barnstorms",
"gallivants",
"galavants",
"hops",
"jaunts",
"knocks (about)",
"perambulates",
"rambles",
"roams",
"roves",
"traipses",
"wanders",
"journeys",
"peregrinates",
"pilgrimages",
"tours",
"travels",
"treks",
"trips",
"voyages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trunk":{
"a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"threw the rest of her books and tapes in the trunk and closed the lid"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"carton",
"crate",
"footlocker",
"sea chest",
"coffer",
"lockbox",
"safe",
"safe-deposit box",
"strongbox",
"coffin",
"compartment",
"vault",
"canteen",
"caisson",
"hope chest",
"minaudi\u00e8re",
"bandbox",
"hatbox",
"jewel box",
"snuffbox",
"tinderbox"
],
"synonyms":[
"bin",
"box",
"caddy",
"case",
"casket",
"chest",
"locker"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trunks":{
"a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"threw the rest of her books and tapes in the trunk and closed the lid"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cartons",
"crates",
"footlockers",
"sea chests",
"coffers",
"lockboxes",
"safe-deposit boxes",
"safes",
"strongboxes",
"coffins",
"compartments",
"vaults",
"canteens",
"caissons",
"hope chests",
"minaudi\u00e8res",
"bandboxes",
"hatboxes",
"jewel boxes",
"snuffboxes",
"tinderboxes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bins",
"boxes",
"caddies",
"cases",
"caskets",
"chests",
"lockers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trustability":{
"worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence":{
"examples":[
"the ethical journalist should not publish if there is any uncertainty regarding the trustability of his anonymous source"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truth":{
"agreement with fact or reality":{
"examples":[
"there is no truth to the rumor that the couple is getting a divorce"
],
"synonyms":[
"facticity",
"factuality",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"verity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"dependability",
"reliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truthfulness":{
"devotion to telling the truth":{
"antonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
],
"examples":[
"because I privately questioned the truthfulness of the seller, I had an independent mechanic check out the vehicle before I agreed to purchase it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy"
],
"related":[
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"synonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"veracity",
"verity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trumpeted":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the company trumpeted the launch of the new phone that had none of the bugs the old one was known for"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"critics trumpeted the band's latest album as the best of the decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"blew up",
"cracked up",
"cried up",
"glorified",
"touted",
"tub-thumped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"magnified",
"commended",
"complimented",
"eulogized",
"advanced",
"advertised",
"announced",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"boosted",
"heralded",
"offered",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"asserted",
"averred",
"claimed",
"declared",
"laid down",
"made out",
"proclaimed",
"pronounced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"truces":{
"a temporary stopping of fighting":{
"examples":[
"both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve"
],
"synonyms":[
"armistices",
"cease-fires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accords",
"reconcilements",
"reconciliations",
"d\u00e9tentes",
"detentes",
"peaces",
"peacetimes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conflicts",
"hostilities",
"hot wars",
"wars"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trundle bed":{
"as in bunk bed , couch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"shakedown",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truckloads":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"the guy who sent that e-mail is in for a truckload of misery"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truncheon":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"police officers kept their hands on their truncheons"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"rung",
"sap",
"shillelagh",
"shillalah",
"staff",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truckled":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"the kind of guy who truckles to anyone who might present a lucrative opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polished",
"bootlicked",
"fawned",
"fussed",
"kowtowed",
"sucked (up)",
"toadied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drooled",
"gushed",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"courted",
"wooed",
"adulated",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"cowered",
"cringed",
"groveled",
"grovelled",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"deferred",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"scoffed",
"braved",
"challenged",
"defied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trusteeship":{
"as in guardianship , protection":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aegis",
"egis",
"auspices",
"guardianship",
"protection",
"tutelage",
"government",
"reign",
"rule",
"leadership",
"piloting",
"shepherding",
"steering",
"administration",
"control",
"direction",
"generalship",
"hand(s)",
"management",
"running",
"monitoring",
"observance",
"observation",
"observing",
"policing",
"care",
"charge",
"guidance",
"headship",
"oversight",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision",
"surveillance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trudged":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water"
],
"synonyms":[
"barged",
"clumped",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"galumphed",
"lumbered",
"lumped",
"plodded",
"pounded",
"scuffed",
"scuffled",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"slogged",
"sloughed",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumbled",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"tromped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragged",
"flopped",
"hauled",
"blundered",
"careened",
"doddered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"waddled",
"weaved",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"wafted"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezed",
"coasted",
"glided",
"slid",
"waltzed",
"whisked"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bumbled",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"struggled",
"stumbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"wallowed",
"weltered",
"faltered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"fumbled",
"muddled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasted",
"flew",
"glided",
"kilted",
"sailed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trumpet":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the company trumpeted the launch of the new phone that had none of the bugs the old one was known for"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"critics trumpeted the band's latest album as the best of the decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"blow up",
"crack up",
"cry up",
"glorify",
"tout",
"tub-thump"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"magnify",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize",
"advance",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"boost",
"herald",
"offer",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"assert",
"aver",
"claim",
"declare",
"lay down",
"make out",
"proclaim",
"pronounce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in howl , roar":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"bay",
"bellow",
"blat",
"bleat",
"bray",
"cackle",
"calling",
"caterwaul",
"caw",
"cheep",
"chirp",
"cluck",
"coo",
"crake",
"croak",
"crow",
"grunt",
"honk",
"hoot",
"howl",
"low",
"meow",
"miaow",
"mew",
"moo",
"neigh",
"oink",
"peep",
"quack",
"roar",
"screech",
"squall",
"squawk",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"tu-whit tu-whoo",
"twitter",
"whinny",
"yap",
"yelp",
"yip",
"yowl",
"call",
"cry",
"note"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"trumps":{
"as in overshadows , outweighs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"overbears",
"overshadows",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"outcompetes",
"outperforms",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"shames",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"one-ups",
"outpaces",
"outraces",
"outruns",
"overpasses",
"beats",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outclasses",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outguns",
"outmatches",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"towers (over)",
"transcends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trusts":{
"to give a task, duty, or responsibility to":{
"examples":[
"trusted the eldest child with walking the dog every morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"assigns",
"charges",
"commissions",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"tasks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confers",
"imposes",
"commits",
"confides",
"consigns",
"delegates",
"recommends",
"relegates",
"reposes",
"allocates",
"allots",
"authorizes",
"empowers",
"invests"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another":{
"examples":[
"I wouldn't trust my wallet with a complete stranger if I were you"
],
"synonyms":[
"commends",
"commits",
"confides",
"consigns",
"delegates",
"delivers",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"gives",
"gives over",
"hands",
"hands over",
"leaves",
"passes",
"recommends",
"reposes",
"transfers",
"transmits",
"turns over",
"vests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confers",
"grants",
"assigns",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"disperses",
"distributes",
"divides",
"hands in",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"submits",
"surrenders",
"turns in",
"yields",
"bequeaths",
"hands down",
"hands on",
"wills",
"advances",
"lends",
"loans",
"furnishes",
"supplies",
"recommits",
"redelivers",
"retransfers",
"retransmits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detains",
"holds back",
"reserves",
"withholds",
"owns",
"possesses",
"accepts",
"receives",
"takes in",
"occupies",
"takes",
"takes over"
],
"antonyms":[
"holds",
"keeps",
"retains"
]
},
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"don't trust everything you read in the newspaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"believes",
"buys",
"credits",
"swallows",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accounts",
"accredits",
"understands",
"assumes",
"presumes",
"supposes",
"concludes",
"deduces",
"infers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusts",
"doubts",
"misdoubts",
"mistrusts",
"questions",
"suspects",
"challenges",
"disputes"
],
"antonyms":[
"disbelieves",
"discredits",
"rejects"
]
},
"a number of businesses or enterprises united for commercial advantage":{
"examples":[
"government lawyers argued against allowing the telephone companies to merge, asserting that such a merger would result in a trust that would stifle competition"
],
"synonyms":[
"cartels",
"combinations",
"combines",
"syndicates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chains",
"conglomerates",
"megacorporations",
"multinationals",
"associations",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"organizations",
"partnerships",
"pools",
"unions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"left her cat in the trust of her neighbors while she was on vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"care",
"custodianships",
"custodies",
"guardianships",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"controls",
"governorships",
"hands",
"managements",
"superintendences",
"supervisions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
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"the neighborhood grocer will occasionally sell on trust to his regular customers when they don't have the cash on hand"
],
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"credits"
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"installment plans",
"layaways",
"charge accounts",
"credit lines"
],
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"noun",
"verb"
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"some of the quotations from the movie had to be truncated to fit on tie-in products"
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"curtails",
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"docks",
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"syncopates"
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"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts",
"cuts down",
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"prunes",
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"shrinks",
"slashes",
"subtracts (from)",
"tapers"
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"enlarges",
"expands",
"supplements",
"adds",
"aggrandizes",
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"augments",
"balloons",
"boosts",
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"escalates",
"heightens",
"increases",
"maximizes",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"blows up",
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"inflates",
"swells"
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"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts"
]
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"verb"
]
},
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"not merely this but also":{
"examples":[
"he is a kind, truly generous man"
],
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"even",
"indeed",
"nay",
"verily",
"yea"
],
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"assuredly",
"certainly",
"decidedly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indisputably",
"positively",
"really",
"surely",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
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"examples":[
"truly , I had no idea you were throwing me a party"
],
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"actually",
"admittedly",
"forsooth",
"frankly",
"honestly",
"indeed",
"really",
"truthfully",
"verily"
],
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"absolutely",
"certainly",
"indisputably",
"indubitably",
"positively",
"realistically",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably",
"veritably"
],
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},
"without any question":{
"examples":[
"I very much appreciate your gift\u2014 truly , I can't thank you enough!"
],
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"all right",
"alright",
"assuredly",
"certainly",
"clearly",
"definitely",
"doubtless",
"easily",
"forsooth",
"hands down",
"inarguably",
"incontestably",
"incontrovertibly",
"indeed",
"indisputably",
"plainly",
"really",
"so",
"sure",
"surely",
"unarguably",
"undeniably",
"undoubtedly",
"unquestionably"
],
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"conceivably",
"likely",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"probably",
"obviously",
"unmistakably"
],
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"examples":[
"this is truly the nicest thing anyone has done for me"
],
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"actually",
"authentically",
"certifiably",
"genuinely",
"really",
"veritably",
"very"
],
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"accurately",
"exactly",
"just",
"precisely",
"right",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely",
"almost",
"nearly",
"practically",
"virtually",
"literally",
"positively",
"simply"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apparently",
"ostensibly",
"outwardly",
"plausibly",
"seemingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"professedly",
"supposedly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"trustable":{
"worthy of one's trust":{
"examples":[
"a well-researched book that is a trustable source of biographical information"
],
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"calculable",
"dependable",
"good",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"safe",
"secure",
"solid",
"steady",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
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"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"true-blue",
"honest",
"sincere",
"single-minded",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"bedrock",
"firm",
"sound",
"strong",
"effective",
"telling",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"proven",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"blameless",
"faultless",
"guiltless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable",
"unquestionable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"uncertain",
"unsound",
"hazardous",
"risky",
"unconfirmed",
"untried"
],
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"dodgy",
"uncertain",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"unsafe",
"untrustworthy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"true believer":{
"one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause":{
"examples":[
"they were true believers in an antimaterialist lifestyle, as evidenced by their lack of possessions"
],
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"crusader",
"fanatic",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"red hot",
"zealot"
],
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"activist",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"idolizer",
"votary",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"stalwart",
"supporter",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmilitant"
]
},
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"true believers who fought the good fight even when it was out of fashion"
],
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"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trusties":{
"as in lifers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lifers",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"parolees",
"probationers",
"captives",
"captures",
"inmates",
"internees",
"prisoners"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trumpeters":{
"as in pianists , saxophonists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionists",
"bassoonists",
"clarinetists",
"clarinettists",
"cornetists",
"cornettists",
"drummers",
"fiddlers",
"flautists",
"flutists",
"guitarists",
"harpists",
"hornists",
"keyboardists",
"oboists",
"organ-grinders",
"organists",
"percussionists",
"pianists",
"pickers",
"pipers",
"reedmen",
"saxophonists",
"trombonists",
"violinists",
"violists",
"accompanists",
"recitalists",
"soloists",
"symphonists",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"artists",
"performers",
"minstrels",
"instrumentalists",
"musicians",
"players"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truanted":{
"as in furloughed , goldbricked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"furloughed",
"goldbricked",
"malingered",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"droned",
"footled",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"hung about",
"idled",
"kicked around",
"kicked back",
"lazed",
"lazied",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"vegged out",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled",
"messed",
"monkeyed",
"mucked",
"piddled",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"dozed",
"estivated",
"aestivated",
"hibernated",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"moseyed",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"swanned",
"deceived",
"faked",
"feigned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"ground",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"worked",
"wrought",
"applied",
"buckled (down)",
"exerted",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trust territories":{
"as in settlements , client states":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"client states",
"colonies",
"condominiums",
"condominia",
"dependencies",
"mandates",
"provinces",
"settlements",
"soil",
"democracies",
"dictatorships",
"monarchies",
"monocracies",
"oligarchies",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"theocracies",
"fatherlands",
"homelands",
"motherlands",
"duchies",
"dukedoms",
"emirates",
"principalities",
"seigniories",
"seignories",
"sultanates",
"great powers",
"powers",
"sea powers",
"superpowers",
"world powers",
"domains",
"dominions",
"empires",
"kingdoms",
"realms",
"republics",
"welfare states",
"city-states",
"microstates",
"ministates",
"nation-states",
"commonwealths",
"countries",
"lands",
"nations",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"states"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truck":{
"a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another":{
"examples":[
"in medieval Europe, furs and forest products from the north were sold in truck for luxury products from the south"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-and-forth",
"barter",
"commutation",
"dicker",
"exchange",
"quid pro quo",
"swap",
"trade",
"trade-off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"replacement",
"substitution",
"reciprocation",
"recompense",
"requital",
"bargain",
"deal",
"horse trade",
"negotiation",
"transaction",
"bargaining",
"dealing",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse trading",
"logrolling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"discarded or useless material":{
"examples":[
"filled a dozen large garbage bags with all the truck we collected when we cleaned the place out"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trusteeships":{
"as in guardianships , auspices":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aegises",
"egises",
"auspices",
"guardianships",
"protections",
"tutelages",
"governments",
"reigns",
"rules",
"leaderships",
"administrations",
"controls",
"directions",
"generalships",
"hands",
"managements",
"observances",
"observations",
"care",
"charges",
"guidance",
"headships",
"oversights",
"regulations",
"stewardships",
"superintendences",
"superintendencies",
"supervisions",
"surveillances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trudging":{
"to move heavily or clumsily":{
"examples":[
"flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water"
],
"synonyms":[
"barging",
"clumping",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"galumphing",
"lumbering",
"lumping",
"plodding",
"pounding",
"scuffing",
"scuffling",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"slogging",
"sloughing",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumbling",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"tromping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragging",
"flopping",
"hauling",
"blundering",
"careening",
"doddering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"waddling",
"weaving",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drifting",
"floating",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"wafting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breezing",
"coasting",
"gliding",
"sliding",
"waltzing",
"whisking"
]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"bumbling",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"struggling",
"stumbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"wallowing",
"weltering",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasting",
"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trumped-up":{
"as in made-up , fabricated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made-up",
"unconfirmed",
"unproven",
"untested",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"fraudulent",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"amiss",
"askew",
"awry",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"distorted",
"fallacious",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"misleading",
"specious",
"spurious",
"counterfactual",
"erroneous",
"false",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"untruthful",
"wrong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accurate",
"correct",
"errorless",
"exact",
"factual",
"precise",
"proper",
"right",
"sound",
"true",
"valid",
"veracious",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"tested",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocted",
"constructed",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"drummed up",
"excogitated",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"thought (up)",
"vamped (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coined",
"designed",
"hatched",
"produced",
"daydreamed",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"fantasized",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"ad-libbed",
"extemporized",
"improvised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"truncheons":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"police officers kept their hands on their truncheons"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"shillelaghs",
"shillalahs",
"staffs",
"staves",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trumperies":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"trumpery knickknacks from some souvenir shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a lot of the news pertaining to the war effort was loaded with so much trumpery that no one knew how it was really proceeding"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"trussing":{
"to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord":{
"examples":[
"after stuffing the turkey, the chef quickly trussed it so the forcemeat wouldn't fall out during roasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"banding",
"binding",
"tying",
"tieing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinching",
"cording",
"roping",
"strapping",
"threading",
"wiring",
"girding",
"girting",
"lashing",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"interlacing",
"intertwining",
"interweaving",
"lacing",
"entangling",
"knotting",
"snarling",
"tangling",
"twisting",
"coiling",
"winding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undoing",
"unfastening",
"unlacing",
"unlashing",
"unloosening",
"unloosing",
"unstrapping",
"unstringing",
"unthreading",
"unleashing",
"untethering",
"disentangling",
"unraveling",
"unsnarling",
"untangling",
"untwining",
"untwisting",
"uncoiling",
"unspooling",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinding",
"untying",
"untieing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trust fund":{
"as in fund , benefit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advance",
"allowance",
"benefit",
"bequest",
"endowment",
"fund",
"legacy",
"stipend",
"trust",
"foreign aid",
"relief",
"state aid",
"aid",
"assistance",
"block grant",
"grant-in-aid",
"set-aside",
"allocation",
"allotment",
"annuity",
"appropriation",
"entitlement",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"subvention"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truanting":{
"as in furloughing , goldbricking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"furloughing",
"goldbricking",
"malingering",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"droning",
"footling",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hanging about",
"idling",
"kicking around",
"kicking back",
"lazing",
"lazying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"vegging out",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"messing",
"monkeying",
"mucking",
"piddling",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"dozing",
"estivating",
"aestivating",
"hibernating",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"moseying",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"swanning",
"deceiving",
"faking",
"feigning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grinding",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"applying",
"buckling (down)",
"exerting",
"putting out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"truss":{
"to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord":{
"examples":[
"after stuffing the turkey, the chef quickly trussed it so the forcemeat wouldn't fall out during roasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"bind",
"tie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinch",
"cord",
"rope",
"strap",
"thread",
"wire",
"gird",
"girt",
"lash",
"leash",
"tether",
"interlace",
"intertwine",
"interweave",
"lace",
"entangle",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"twist",
"coil",
"wind"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undo",
"unfasten",
"unlace",
"unlash",
"unloose",
"unloosen",
"unstrap",
"unstring",
"unthread",
"unleash",
"untether",
"disentangle",
"unravel",
"unsnarl",
"untangle",
"untwine",
"untwist",
"uncoil",
"unspool",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbind",
"untie"
]
},
"as in peg , strut":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"bearing",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"shoring",
"brace",
"buttress",
"mount",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"support",
"underpinning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"trustworthiness":{
"worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence":{
"examples":[
"you have to prove your trustworthiness before I will tell you my secrets"
],
"synonyms":[
"dependability",
"dependableness",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"responsibility",
"solidity",
"solidness",
"sureness",
"trustability"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inerrancy",
"infallibility",
"credibility",
"creditability",
"creditableness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"questionableness",
"shakiness",
"uncertainness"
],
"antonyms":[
"dodginess",
"unreliability"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truthful":{
"being in the habit of telling the truth":{
"examples":[
"a truthful youngster who wouldn't just make up a story like that"
],
"synonyms":[
"honest",
"veracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"candid",
"direct",
"forthcoming",
"forthright",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"freehearted",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"openhearted",
"out-front",
"outspoken",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"believable",
"credible",
"true",
"veritable",
"artless",
"earnest",
"genuine",
"guileless",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"conscientious",
"moral",
"principled",
"scrupulous",
"aboveboard",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fallacious",
"false",
"untrue",
"unbelievable",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"unscrupulous",
"untrustworthy",
"bluffing",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"duplicitous",
"equivocating",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"posing",
"pretending",
"artful",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"evasive",
"slick",
"slippery",
"sly",
"sneaky",
"treacherous",
"tricky",
"underhanded",
"wily"
],
"antonyms":[
"dishonest",
"fibbing",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"prevaricating",
"untruthful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"trustful":{
"having or showing trust in another":{
"examples":[
"a trustful child quietly sleeping, sure in the knowledge that his parents would be there when he woke"
],
"synonyms":[
"confiding",
"trusting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artless",
"childlike",
"credulous",
"guileless",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"unsophisticated",
"dependent",
"hopeful",
"reliant",
"accepting",
"believing",
"certain",
"confident",
"convinced",
"overconfident",
"secure",
"sure",
"unquestioning",
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspicious",
"unwary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disbelieving",
"incredulous",
"unbelieving",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unpersuaded",
"dubious",
"hesitant",
"leery",
"leary",
"oversuspicious",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"wary"
],
"antonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"doubting",
"mistrustful",
"trustless",
"untrusting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"trustfully":{
"as in trustingly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trustingly",
"approvingly",
"favorably",
"positively",
"confidently",
"sanguinely",
"credulously",
"uncritically",
"unquestioningly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"askance",
"askant",
"distrustfully",
"doubtfully",
"doubtingly",
"dubiously",
"mistrustfully",
"sideways",
"skeptically",
"suspiciously",
"hesitantly",
"hesitatingly",
"incredulously",
"questioningly",
"quizzically",
"unbelievingly",
"charily",
"guardedly",
"warily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"trussed":{
"to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord":{
"examples":[
"after stuffing the turkey, the chef quickly trussed it so the forcemeat wouldn't fall out during roasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"banded",
"bound",
"tied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinched",
"corded",
"roped",
"strapped",
"threaded",
"wired",
"girded",
"girt",
"girted",
"lashed",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"interlaced",
"intertwined",
"interwove",
"interweaved",
"laced",
"entangled",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"twisted",
"coiled",
"wound",
"winded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undid",
"unfastened",
"unlaced",
"unlashed",
"unloosed",
"unloosened",
"unstrapped",
"unstrung",
"unthreaded",
"unleashed",
"untethered",
"disentangled",
"unraveled",
"unsnarled",
"untangled",
"untwined",
"untwisted",
"uncoiled",
"unspooled",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbound",
"untied"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trumps up":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocts",
"constructs",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"drums up",
"excogitates",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"thinks (up)",
"vamps (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coins",
"designs",
"hatches",
"produces",
"daydreams",
"dreams",
"fantasizes",
"conceives",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"visions",
"visualizes",
"ad-libs",
"extemporizes",
"improvises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clones",
"copies",
"copycats",
"duplicates",
"imitates",
"mimics",
"reduplicates",
"replicates",
"reproduces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"true":{
"being exactly as appears or as claimed":{
"examples":[
"his claim that he's the heir to the throne of Greece can't be true"
],
"synonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"certifiable",
"certified",
"dinkum",
"echt",
"genuine",
"honest",
"pukka",
"pucka",
"real",
"right",
"sure-enough"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"historical",
"original",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"identifiable",
"recognizable",
"verifiable",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unmistakable",
"unquestionable",
"veritable",
"very",
"accurate",
"correct",
"proper",
"pure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"simulated",
"synthetic",
"unnatural",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"misleading"
],
"antonyms":[
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"false",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pseudo",
"sham",
"spurious",
"suppositious",
"supposititious",
"unauthentic",
"unreal"
]
},
"being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard":{
"examples":[
"if that is true , then we can't get in without a key"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"bang on",
"correct",
"dead-on",
"exact",
"good",
"on-target",
"precise",
"proper",
"right",
"so",
"spot-on",
"veracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"legitimate",
"logical",
"sound",
"valid",
"errorless",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect"
],
"antonyms":[
"false",
"improper",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"off",
"untrue",
"wrong"
]
},
"existing in fact and not merely as a possibility":{
"examples":[
"the true scope of this environmental problem is far greater than anyone imagined"
],
"synonyms":[
"actual",
"concrete",
"de facto",
"effective",
"existent",
"factual",
"genuine",
"real",
"sure-enough",
"very"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"inescapable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"believable",
"convincing",
"literal",
"realistic",
"unmistakable",
"verifiable",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real-life",
"real-world",
"absolute",
"certain",
"final",
"hard",
"objective",
"palpable",
"positive",
"substantial",
"tangible",
"authoritative",
"certifiable",
"certified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleged",
"assumed",
"reputed",
"supposed",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabled",
"fanciful",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"legendary",
"fabricated",
"fake",
"imaginary",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"pretend",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"symbolic",
"unreal",
"virtual"
],
"antonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"ideal",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent",
"platonic",
"possible",
"potential",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
]
},
"firm in one's allegiance to someone or something":{
"examples":[
"he will be true to his word"
],
"synonyms":[
"constant",
"dedicated",
"devoted",
"devout",
"down-the-line",
"faithful",
"fast",
"good",
"loyal",
"pious",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true-blue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dependable",
"dutiful",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"solid",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unwavering",
"determined",
"intent",
"resolute",
"confirmed",
"dyed-in-the-wool",
"inveterate",
"sworn",
"ardent",
"avid",
"enthusiastic",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"gung ho",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"serious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irresponsible",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"dubious",
"irresolute",
"shaky",
"uncertain",
"apathetic",
"dispassionate",
"uninterested"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue"
]
},
"following an original exactly":{
"examples":[
"it's not a true reproduction of the painting because the original is much larger"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"authentic",
"exact",
"faithful",
"precise",
"right",
"strict",
"veracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lifelike",
"realistic",
"careful",
"conscientious",
"meticulous",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"authoritative",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"veridical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careless",
"slack",
"slipshod",
"slovenly",
"erroneous",
"incorrect",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"untruthful",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[
"corrupt",
"corrupted",
"false",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inauthentic",
"inexact",
"loose",
"unfaithful"
]
},
"free from any intent to deceive or impress others":{
"examples":[
"may our love for one another always be true"
],
"synonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"guileless",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"natural",
"real",
"simple",
"sincere",
"unaffected",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childlike",
"dewy-eyed",
"gee-whiz",
"impressionable",
"inexperienced",
"malleable",
"persuadable",
"persuasible",
"simpleminded",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"spontaneous",
"unforced",
"unstudied",
"candid",
"direct",
"frank",
"free",
"free-spoken",
"open",
"openhearted",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"single-minded",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"unguarded",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"susceptible",
"unwary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"critical",
"cynical",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"wary",
"cosmopolitan",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"polished",
"refined",
"crooked",
"deceitful",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"double-dealing",
"hypocritical",
"manipulative",
"two-faced",
"arch",
"calculating",
"canny",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"designing",
"foxy",
"knavish",
"scheming",
"sharp",
"shifty",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"slippery",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"underhanded",
"wily",
"flattering",
"mealymouthed",
"smooth",
"sycophantic",
"unctuous",
"feigned",
"forced",
"strained"
],
"antonyms":[
"affected",
"artful",
"artificial",
"assuming",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"fake",
"false",
"guileful",
"insincere",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretentious"
]
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"that news story is completely true , for the station released a list of its sources to back it up"
],
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"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"historical",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective"
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"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"documented",
"established",
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"reliable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"plain",
"simple",
"certain",
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"hypothetical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"apocryphal",
"unauthentic",
"undocumented",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabulous",
"fanciful",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"imaginary",
"imagined",
"invented",
"legendary",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"mythical",
"mythic",
"pretend",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"insupportable",
"unsupportable"
],
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"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical"
]
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"examples":[
"a true friend when you need one"
],
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"calculable",
"dependable",
"good",
"reliable",
"responsible",
"safe",
"secure",
"solid",
"steady",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"trustable",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
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"constant",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"fast",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"true-blue",
"honest",
"sincere",
"single-minded",
"infallible",
"unerring",
"bedrock",
"firm",
"sound",
"strong",
"effective",
"telling",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"proven",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"blameless",
"faultless",
"guiltless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"irreproachable",
"unimpeachable",
"unquestionable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disloyal",
"faithless",
"false",
"fickle",
"inconstant",
"perfidious",
"recreant",
"traitorous",
"treacherous",
"unfaithful",
"untrue",
"deceitful",
"dishonest",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untruthful",
"debatable",
"disputable",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fishy",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"uncertain",
"unsound",
"hazardous",
"risky",
"unconfirmed",
"untried"
],
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"dodgy",
"uncertain",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"unsafe",
"untrustworthy"
]
},
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"examples":[
"paleontologists are still debating whether the fossil is that of a true dinosaur or a precursor"
],
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"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"average",
"characteristic",
"normal",
"regular",
"representative",
"standard",
"typical"
],
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"common",
"commonplace",
"conventional",
"customary",
"everyday",
"ordinary",
"usual",
"wonted",
"workaday",
"classic",
"textbook",
"vintage",
"expected",
"familiar",
"habitual",
"predictable",
"routine",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"predominant",
"preponderant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncommon",
"unconventional",
"uncustomary",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"distinctive",
"especial",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"infrequent",
"noteworthy",
"rare",
"remarkable",
"singular",
"special",
"unexpected",
"unfamiliar",
"unique",
"unpredictable",
"eccentric",
"idiosyncratic",
"nonconformist",
"peculiar",
"unknown",
"unorthodox",
"curious",
"erratic",
"funky",
"funny",
"odd",
"oddball",
"offbeat",
"outlandish",
"quirky",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"bizarre",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"far-out",
"freak",
"freakish",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"out-of-the-way",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"rare",
"singular",
"unnatural",
"weird",
"wild"
],
"antonyms":[
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"deviant",
"irregular",
"nonrepresentative",
"nontypical",
"untypical"
]
},
"conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue":{
"examples":[
"a person of great integrity, he was the truest person I've ever met"
],
"synonyms":[
"all right",
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"just",
"moral",
"nice",
"right",
"right-minded",
"righteous",
"straight",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"correct",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"high-minded",
"noble",
"principled",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"exemplary",
"legitimate",
"esteemed",
"law-abiding",
"menschy",
"reputable",
"respected",
"upstanding",
"worthy",
"blameless",
"clean",
"guiltless",
"immaculate",
"incorrupt",
"incorrupted",
"incorruptible",
"innocent",
"inoffensive",
"irreproachable",
"unobjectionable",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"lily-white",
"pure",
"scrupulous",
"spotless",
"uncorrupted",
"unerring",
"goody-goody",
"moralistic",
"pharisaical",
"rectitudinous",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"naughty",
"unbecoming",
"unseemly",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"libertine",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"atrocious",
"infamous",
"villainous",
"base",
"low",
"mean",
"vicious",
"vile",
"blameworthy",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"errant",
"erring",
"fallen"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"dishonest",
"dishonorable",
"evil",
"evil-minded",
"immoral",
"indecent",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"unrighteous",
"wicked",
"wrong"
]
},
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"even",
"indeed",
"nay",
"truly",
"verily",
"yea"
],
"near antonyms":[
"again",
"contrarily",
"contrariwise",
"conversely",
"if anything",
"on the contrary",
"to the contrary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"trumping up":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocting",
"constructing",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"drumming up",
"excogitating",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"thinking (up)",
"vamping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coining",
"designing",
"hatching",
"producing",
"daydreaming",
"dreaming",
"fantasizing",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"visioning",
"visualizing",
"ad-libbing",
"extemporizing",
"improvising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloning",
"copycatting",
"copying",
"duplicating",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"reduplicating",
"replicating",
"reproducing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trustiness":{
"as in credibility , honesty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"facticity",
"factuality",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"truth",
"verity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth",
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truths":{
"agreement with fact or reality":{
"examples":[
"there is no truth to the rumor that the couple is getting a divorce"
],
"synonyms":[
"facticity",
"factuality",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"verity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"dependability",
"reliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"trumpeting":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the company trumpeted the launch of the new phone that had none of the bugs the old one was known for"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"billboarding",
"billing",
"bulletining",
"gazetting",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"blurbing",
"featuring",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"puffing",
"disseminating",
"spreading",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"introducing",
"kithing",
"kything",
"manifesting",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"showing",
"advising",
"apprising",
"handing down",
"informing",
"notifying",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"intimating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively":{
"examples":[
"critics trumpeted the band's latest album as the best of the decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooing",
"blowing up",
"cracking up",
"crying up",
"glorifying",
"touting",
"tub-thumping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing",
"advancing",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"boosting",
"heralding",
"offering",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"asserting",
"averring",
"claiming",
"declaring",
"laying down",
"making out",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trustless":{
"not feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"with time the missionary doctor won the trust of even the most trustless villagers"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"hinky",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"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"
]
},
"trucks":{
"a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another":{
"examples":[
"in medieval Europe, furs and forest products from the north were sold in truck for luxury products from the south"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-and-forths",
"barters",
"commutations",
"dickers",
"exchanges",
"quid pro quos",
"swaps",
"trade-offs",
"trades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"replacements",
"substitutions",
"reciprocations",
"recompenses",
"requitals",
"bargains",
"deals",
"horse trades",
"negotiations",
"transactions",
"dealings",
"logrollings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truckle":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"the kind of guy who truckles to anyone who might present a lucrative opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polish",
"bootlick",
"fawn",
"fuss",
"kowtow",
"suck (up)",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"woo",
"adulate",
"idolize",
"worship",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"cower",
"cringe",
"grovel",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"defer",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"scoff",
"brave",
"challenge",
"defy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trump":{
"as in overshadow , outweigh":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outbalance",
"outweigh",
"overbear",
"overshadow",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"outcompete",
"outperform",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"shame",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"one-up",
"outpace",
"outrace",
"outrun",
"overpass",
"beat",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outclass",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outgun",
"outmatch",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"tower (over)",
"transcend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"trusses":{
"to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord":{
"examples":[
"after stuffing the turkey, the chef quickly trussed it so the forcemeat wouldn't fall out during roasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bands",
"binds",
"ties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cinches",
"cords",
"ropes",
"straps",
"threads",
"wires",
"girds",
"girts",
"lashes",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"interlaces",
"intertwines",
"interweaves",
"laces",
"entangles",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles",
"twists",
"coils",
"winds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"unlaces",
"unlashes",
"unloosens",
"unlooses",
"unstraps",
"unstrings",
"unthreads",
"unleashes",
"untethers",
"disentangles",
"unravels",
"unsnarls",
"untangles",
"untwines",
"untwists",
"uncoils",
"unspools",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unties"
]
},
"as in pegs , struts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crutches",
"pegs",
"posts",
"stakes",
"stanchions",
"stands",
"stilts",
"struts",
"bearings",
"bases",
"foundations",
"frames",
"arches",
"bolsters",
"brackets",
"cantilevers",
"girders",
"columns",
"pedestals",
"pilasters",
"pillars",
"shorings",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"mountings",
"mounts",
"props",
"reinforcements",
"shores",
"spurs",
"stays",
"supports",
"underpinnings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"truculency":{
"as in pugnaciousness , disputatiousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"pugnaciousness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence",
"cantankerousness",
"crustiness",
"curmudgeonliness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"sulkiness",
"surliness",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"testiness",
"waspishness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"touchiness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"unfriendliness",
"anger",
"exasperation",
"fury",
"indignation",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"hot-bloodedness",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"long-suffering",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"sociability",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"coolness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"easygoingness",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"truckling":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"the kind of guy who truckles to anyone who might present a lucrative opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishing",
"bootlicking",
"fawning",
"fussing",
"kowtowing",
"sucking (up)",
"toadying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drooling",
"gushing",
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"courting",
"wooing",
"adulating",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"soft-soaping",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"demeaning",
"deferring",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despising",
"disdaining",
"scorning",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"scoffing",
"braving",
"challenging",
"defying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"truncate":{
"to make less in extent or duration":{
"examples":[
"some of the quotations from the movie had to be truncated to fit on tie-in products"
],
"synonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut back",
"dock",
"elide",
"shorten",
"syncopate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"digest",
"encapsulate",
"epitomize",
"recapitulate",
"summarize",
"sum up",
"abate",
"compress",
"constrict",
"contract",
"cut",
"cut down",
"pare",
"prune",
"trim",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"moderate",
"modify",
"reduce",
"retrench",
"shrink",
"slash",
"subtract (from)",
"taper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlarge",
"expand",
"supplement",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"dilate",
"escalate",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"pump up",
"raise",
"blow up",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell"
],
"antonyms":[
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"truckles":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"the kind of guy who truckles to anyone who might present a lucrative opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishes",
"bootlicks",
"fawns",
"fusses",
"kowtows",
"sucks (up)",
"toadies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drools",
"gushes",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"endears",
"ingratiates",
"courts",
"woos",
"adulates",
"idolizes",
"worships",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"soft-soaps",
"cowers",
"cringes",
"grovels",
"abases",
"debases",
"demeans",
"defers",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despises",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"scoffs",
"braves",
"challenges",
"defies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"true believers":{
"one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause":{
"examples":[
"they were true believers in an antimaterialist lifestyle, as evidenced by their lack of possessions"
],
"synonyms":[
"crusaders",
"fanatics",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"militants",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"red hots",
"zealots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activists",
"dreamers",
"idealists",
"visionaries",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"idolizers",
"votaries",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"stalwarts",
"supporters",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmilitants"
]
},
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"true believers who fought the good fight even when it was out of fashion"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"expounders",
"friends",
"gospelers",
"gospellers",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}