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{
"Himalayan":{
"unusually large":{
"examples":[
"as military blunders go, the disastrous Pickett's Charge was of Himalayan proportions"
],
"synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantesque",
"gigantic",
"grand",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"mega",
"mighty",
"monster",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"oceanic",
"pharaonic",
"planetary",
"prodigious",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersize",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"big",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"good",
"goodly",
"great",
"gross",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"largish",
"major",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overgrown",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"august",
"formidable",
"grandiose",
"imposing",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"cavernous",
"monolithic",
"overwhelming",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"towering",
"boundless",
"immeasurable",
"infinite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"little",
"mini",
"petite",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"half-pint"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"bitty",
"diminutive",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"midget",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pocket",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hide":{
"the hairless natural covering of an animal prepared for use":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"boots made of shiny alligator hide"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"alligator",
"antelope",
"buckskin",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede"
],
"synonyms":[
"leather",
"skin"
]
},
"the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"seal hides are used by Eskimos to make footwear, boats, shelters, bags, and clothing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"badger",
"beaver",
"chamois",
"chinchilla",
"ermine",
"fisher",
"fox",
"marten",
"mink",
"muskrat",
"otter",
"Persian lamb",
"rabbit",
"raccoon",
"racoon",
"sable",
"seal",
"bearskin",
"buckskin",
"calfskin",
"coonskin",
"cowhide",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"karakul",
"kidskin",
"kolinsky",
"lambskin",
"pigskin",
"rawhide",
"sealskin",
"sharkskin",
"sheep",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"fleece",
"mouton",
"alligator",
"crocodile",
"cordovan",
"morocco",
"patent leather",
"suede"
],
"synonyms":[
"fur",
"leather",
"pelt",
"skin"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"disclose",
"display",
"divulge",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil"
],
"examples":[
"he tried to hide his criminal past",
"she hid the cat's litter box behind a screen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bring out",
"present",
"clarify",
"illuminate",
"advertise",
"air",
"broadcast",
"get out",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"spread"
],
"related":[
"bury",
"camouflage",
"cover (up)",
"smother",
"gild",
"gloss (over)",
"varnish",
"whitewash",
"becloud",
"bedim",
"befog",
"block",
"cloud",
"darken",
"eclipse",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"overcast",
"overshadow",
"shade"
],
"synonyms":[
"belie",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"disguise",
"enshroud",
"mask",
"obscure",
"occult",
"paper over",
"screen",
"shroud",
"suppress",
"veil"
]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"antonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit"
],
"examples":[
"the thief had hidden the stolen jewelry under the floorboards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil",
"unwrap",
"flaunt",
"parade",
"show off",
"disinter",
"unearth"
],
"related":[
"hoard",
"squirrel (away)",
"stash",
"entomb",
"inter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bury",
"cache",
"conceal",
"ensconce",
"secrete"
]
},
"to remain out of sight":{
"antonyms":[
"appear"
],
"examples":[
"he hid in the closet while his roommate lied to the probation officer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come out",
"materialize",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"related":[
"slink",
"sneak",
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade"
],
"synonyms":[
"hole up",
"lie",
"lurk",
"repose",
"skulk"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the grizzled quartermaster threatened to hide any soldier caught stealing provisions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"box",
"bust",
"chop",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cudgel",
"cuff",
"descend (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jump (on)",
"knock",
"lam",
"lay on",
"paste",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"punch",
"raid",
"rush",
"slam",
"slap",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"storm",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"whack",
"wham",
"whomp",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"fustigate",
"horsewhip",
"leather",
"pistol-whip",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"strap",
"gore",
"lacerate",
"wound",
"maim",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"threatened to hide the boys with his cane if he ever found them on his property again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"knout",
"quirt",
"strap",
"cut",
"flick",
"touch up",
"blackjack",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"fustigate",
"pistol-whip",
"bang",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"hit",
"knock",
"lam",
"paste",
"punch",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"spank",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung",
"drub",
"fib",
"hammer",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lather",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"rough",
"slate",
"slog",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"synonyms":[
"birch",
"cowhide",
"flagellate",
"flail",
"flog",
"horsewhip",
"lash",
"leather",
"rawhide",
"scourge",
"slash",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"whale",
"whip"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hideouts":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"police found the stolen jewels under the floorboards in the thief's hideout , a cabin deep in the woods"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealments",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hidey-holes",
"hidy-holes",
"lairs",
"nests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blinds",
"covers",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"hangouts",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"haunts",
"havens",
"redoubts",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hiding":{
"the placing of something out of sight":{
"antonyms":[
"display",
"exhibition",
"exposure",
"parading",
"showing"
],
"examples":[
"fearing that the enemy would soon be upon them, the museum director oversaw the hiding of the most valuable works of art"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disinterment",
"unearthing"
],
"related":[
"burial",
"burying",
"entombment",
"interment",
"interring"
],
"synonyms":[
"caching",
"concealment",
"secretion",
"stashing"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"antonyms":[
"baring",
"disclosing",
"displaying",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling"
],
"examples":[
"he tried to hide his criminal past",
"she hid the cat's litter box behind a screen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bringing out",
"presenting",
"clarifying",
"illuminating",
"advertising",
"airing",
"broadcasting",
"getting out",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"spreading"
],
"related":[
"burying",
"camouflaging",
"covering (up)",
"smothering",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing",
"beclouding",
"bedimming",
"befogging",
"blocking",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"eclipsing",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"overcasting",
"overshadowing",
"shading"
],
"synonyms":[
"belying",
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"disguising",
"enshrouding",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"occulting",
"papering over",
"screening",
"shrouding",
"suppressing",
"veiling"
]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"antonyms":[
"displaying",
"exhibiting"
],
"examples":[
"the thief had hidden the stolen jewelry under the floorboards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling",
"unwrapping",
"flaunting",
"parading",
"showing off",
"disinterring",
"unearthing"
],
"related":[
"hoarding",
"squirreling (away)",
"squirrelling (away)",
"stashing",
"entombing",
"interring"
],
"synonyms":[
"burying",
"caching",
"concealing",
"ensconcing",
"secreting"
]
},
"to remain out of sight":{
"antonyms":[
"appearing"
],
"examples":[
"he hid in the closet while his roommate lied to the probation officer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming out",
"materializing",
"showing up",
"turning up"
],
"related":[
"slinking",
"sneaking",
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"evading"
],
"synonyms":[
"holing up",
"lurking",
"lying",
"reposing",
"skulking"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the grizzled quartermaster threatened to hide any soldier caught stealing provisions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"threatened to hide the boys with his cane if he ever found them on his property again"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"knouting",
"quirting",
"strapping",
"cutting",
"flicking",
"touching up",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"fustigating",
"pistol-whipping",
"banging",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cuffing",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"pasting",
"punching",
"slapping",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"spanking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"hammering",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"slating",
"slogging",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"synonyms":[
"birching",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"horsewhipping",
"lashing",
"leathering",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"slashing",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"whaling",
"whipping"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hie":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we had best hie home before the snow gets worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hied":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we had best hie home before the snow gets worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hierarchizes":{
"as in prioritizes , sequences":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prioritizes",
"sequences",
"alphabetizes",
"files",
"grades",
"ranks",
"rates",
"arranges",
"arrays",
"categorizes",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"disposes",
"draws up",
"lays out",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"ranges",
"sorts",
"systematizes",
"isolates",
"separates",
"unscrambles",
"aligns",
"alines",
"cues",
"lines",
"lines up",
"queues",
"displays",
"maps (out)",
"sets out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deranges",
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"messes (up)",
"musses (up)",
"rumples",
"upsets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hieroglyph":{
"a pictorial character used in hieroglyphics":{
"examples":[
"A tomb inscribed with hieroglyphs ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hieroglyphic",
"ideogram",
"ideograph",
"icon",
"ikon",
"illustration",
"image",
"likeness",
"picture",
"delineation",
"depiction",
"representation",
"resemblance",
"view",
"portrait",
"daub",
"drawing",
"finger painting",
"etching",
"silhouette",
"sketch",
"watercolor",
"caricature",
"cartoon",
"doodle",
"collage",
"montage",
"photograph",
"pictograph",
"diagram"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hieroglyphical":{
"a pictorial character used in hieroglyphics":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The statue had an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphics ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in iconographic , pictographic":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in mysterious , indecipherable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"high roads":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high street":{
"as in Main Street":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Main Street",
"through street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"causeway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-flown":{
"full of fine words and fancy expressions":{
"examples":[
"gave a high-flown reply instead of a simple \"yes\" or \"no\" answer"
],
"synonyms":[
"aureate",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"high-sounding",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"magnific",
"ornate",
"purple",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bloated",
"fancy-pants",
"grandiose",
"inflated",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"excessive",
"flattering",
"fulsome",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"lofty",
"bookish",
"inkhorn",
"learned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prosaic",
"unpoetic",
"bald",
"direct",
"lean",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"spare",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"natural",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"very dignified in form, tone, or style":{
"examples":[
"high-flown speeches about the nobleness of their cause"
],
"synonyms":[
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"formal",
"lofty",
"majestic",
"stately",
"towering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bombastic",
"declamatory",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"oratorical",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"stilted",
"Attic",
"cultured",
"refined",
"classy",
"courtly",
"fine",
"graceful",
"tasteful",
"aristocratic",
"genteel",
"patrician",
"correct",
"educated",
"grammatical",
"proper",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"learned",
"literary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"informal",
"nonformal",
"slangy",
"unbookish",
"unliterary",
"vernacular",
"coarse",
"common",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"indecent",
"lowbred",
"lowbrow",
"rough",
"rough-hewn",
"rude",
"tasteless",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"vulgar",
"incorrect",
"substandard",
"uneducated",
"ungrammatical",
"unlearned"
],
"antonyms":[
"ineloquent",
"low",
"undignified"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-handed":{
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"the manager displayed a high-handed demeanor that increasingly demoralized the members of his staff"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessity":{
"examples":[
"that country club tends to be rather high-handed about whom they let in and whom they shut out"
],
"synonyms":[
"arbitrary",
"dictatorial",
"imperious",
"peremptory",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"commanding",
"demanding",
"dominant",
"domineering",
"haughty",
"imperative",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overbearing",
"presumptuous",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"totalitarian",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"tyrannous",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"erratic",
"inconsistent",
"mercurial",
"whimsical",
"biased",
"inequitable",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"unequal",
"unfair",
"unjust",
"unrealistic",
"unreasonable",
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"disinterested",
"dispassionate",
"equal",
"equitable",
"evenhanded",
"fair",
"impartial",
"just",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"understanding",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"irreproachable",
"law-abiding",
"moral",
"principled",
"unimpeachable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-handedness":{
"as in bossiness , dominance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritativeness",
"bossiness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness",
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-hatted":{
"to show contempt for":{
"examples":[
"one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemned",
"disdained",
"disrespected",
"dissed",
"looked down (on or upon)",
"scorned",
"slighted",
"sniffed (at)",
"snooted",
"snubbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scouted",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"despised",
"detested",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"belittled",
"deplored",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"disapproved (of)",
"discountenanced",
"disfavored",
"frowned (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherished",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"admired",
"esteemed",
"lionized",
"hallowed",
"revered",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"accepted",
"appreciated",
"approved (of)",
"cared (for)",
"countenanced",
"favored",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"subscribed (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"honored",
"respected"
]
},
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"examples":[
"was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-shouldered",
"cut",
"slighted",
"snubbed",
"stiff-armed",
"stiffed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"isolated",
"ostracized",
"brushed (aside or off)",
"disdained",
"rebuffed",
"rejected",
"repelled",
"repulsed",
"scorned",
"spurned",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"shrugged off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high-muck-a-mucks":{
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"examples":[
"failed to pass muster with the country club's high-muck-a-mucks"
],
"synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big leaguers",
"bigs",
"big shots",
"big-timers",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"heavies",
"heavy hitters",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"kingfish",
"kingpins",
"major leaguers",
"muckety-mucks",
"muck-a-mucks",
"mucky-mucks",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"nibs",
"nobs",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barons",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"tycoons",
"VIPs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"mediocrities",
"obscurities"
],
"antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"nobodies",
"nonentities",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-pressures":{
"as in distributes , markets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deals (in)",
"distributes",
"hustles",
"markets",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"trades (in)",
"vends",
"retails",
"wholesales",
"hawks",
"peddles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in threatens , blackmails":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blackmails",
"menaces",
"shames",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"drags",
"blackjacks",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"drives",
"forces",
"impels",
"impresses",
"makes",
"muscles",
"obligates",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"sandbags",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"argues",
"convinces",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high-strung":{
"easily excited by nature":{
"examples":[
"a dog that tends to be high-strung is not the best pet for young children"
],
"synonyms":[
"excitable",
"fiddle-footed",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"hyper",
"hyperactive",
"hyperexcitable",
"hyperkinetic",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittery",
"skittish",
"spasmodic",
"spooky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hot-blooded",
"mercurial",
"temperamental",
"unstable",
"volatile",
"volcanic",
"anxious",
"edgy",
"flibbertigibbety",
"nervy",
"tense",
"uptight",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"hypersensitive",
"intense",
"sensitive",
"soulful",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"perturbable",
"prickly",
"testy",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed"
],
"antonyms":[
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unexcitable",
"unflappable",
"unshakable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"highballed":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"trying to make up for lost time, the train just highballed through the station without stopping"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"highballing":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"trying to make up for lost time, the train just highballed through the station without stopping"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
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"zipping",
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"streaking",
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"jogging",
"sprinting",
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"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
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"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
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"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
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"decelerating",
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],
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"skyjack",
"appropriate",
"confiscate",
"expropriate",
"seize"
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"playing down"
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"underemphasizing",
"understating",
"belittling",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing"
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"spotlighting",
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"playing up",
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"punctuating",
"stressing"
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"foregrounds",
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"points (up)",
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"understates",
"belittles",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes"
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"climaxes",
"corners",
"landmarks",
"mileposts",
"milestones",
"turning points",
"watersheds",
"conversions",
"metamorphoses",
"transfigurations",
"transformations",
"turnabouts",
"turnarounds",
"boiling points",
"breaking points",
"clutches",
"conjunctures",
"crises",
"crossroads",
"crunches",
"crunch times",
"Dunkirks",
"emergencies",
"exigencies",
"extremities",
"flash points",
"heads",
"junctures",
"zero hours"
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"attractions",
"features",
"pi\u00e8ces de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpieces",
"distinctions",
"excellences",
"merits",
"values",
"virtues",
"boasts",
"credits",
"crown jewels",
"glories",
"honors",
"jewels",
"prides",
"treasures",
"trophies"
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"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"blemishes",
"blots",
"defects",
"shames",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"stains",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"eyesores",
"frights",
"horrors",
"messes"
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"verb"
]
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"though she didn't win, she was highly satisfied with her personal results for the marathon"
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"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
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"blisteringly",
"bone",
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"corking",
"cracking",
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"especially",
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"extra",
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"far",
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"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
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"really",
"right",
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"sorely",
"spanking",
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"stinking",
"such",
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"supremely",
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"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
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"very",
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"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
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"downright",
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"flat-out",
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"markedly",
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"obviously",
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"visibly",
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"grandly",
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"monumentally",
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"staggeringly"
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"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
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"minimally",
"scarcely"
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"extensively",
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"invisibly",
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"hardly",
"just",
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"as in highs , highlights":{
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"highs",
"extremes",
"extremities",
"tips",
"vertices",
"vertexes",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"roofs",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flood tides",
"flowers",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"apogees",
"capstones",
"climaxes",
"crescendos",
"crescendoes",
"crescendi",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heads",
"heights",
"high noons",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"ne plus ultras",
"noons",
"noontimes",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"sums",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths"
],
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"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"rock bottoms",
"abysses",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"minima",
"minimums"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"examples":[
"when a fight broke out, we hightailed it out of the bar"
],
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"bearded",
"braved",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"hung around",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried"
],
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"cleared out",
"decamped",
"eloped",
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"got (away)",
"got out",
"lammed",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"made off",
"mizzled",
"scarpered",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped (out)",
"skirred"
],
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"broke",
"bugged out",
"fled",
"flew",
"ran",
"run",
"ran away",
"ran off",
"retreated",
"skedaddled"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"to take control of (a vehicle) by force":{
"examples":[
"some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun"
],
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"commandeers"
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"skyjacks",
"appropriates",
"confiscates",
"expropriates",
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],
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"type":[
"verb"
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"as in increase , raise":{
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"drop",
"lower"
],
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"with a determined look, he hiked his trousers up and buckled down to work"
],
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"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"pitch",
"plunge",
"slip",
"bear",
"depress",
"press",
"push",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"related":[
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"mount",
"rise",
"rear",
"upend"
],
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"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"perk (up)",
"pick up",
"raise",
"take up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift",
"upraise"
]
},
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"examples":[
"she hiked along the trail around the pond"
],
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"rove",
"wander",
"peregrinate",
"traipse",
"traverse",
"trek",
"walk",
"march",
"promenade",
"power walk"
],
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"amble",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"tramp",
"tromp"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hills":{
"a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another":{
"examples":[
"the ants made little hills of dirt"
],
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"cocks",
"heaps",
"mounds",
"mountains",
"piles",
"stacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"bars",
"drifts",
"embankments",
"beds",
"layers",
"mows",
"pyramids",
"ricks",
"barrows",
"cairns",
"pyres",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"conglomerations",
"gatherings",
"groupings",
"hoards",
"huddles",
"jumbles",
"knots",
"pileups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an area of high ground":{
"examples":[
"a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills"
],
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"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"humps",
"mounds",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands"
],
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"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters"
],
"antonyms":[
"lowlands"
]
},
"an upward slope":{
"examples":[
"I got stuck behind a truck going up a hill in a no-passing zone"
],
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"acclivities",
"ascents",
"rises",
"upgrades",
"uphills",
"uprises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cants",
"diagonals",
"glacis",
"grades",
"gradients",
"inclinations",
"inclines",
"leans",
"pitches",
"rakes",
"tilts",
"climbs",
"humps",
"mounds",
"ridges",
"swells"
],
"near antonyms":[
"basins",
"depressions",
"hollows"
],
"antonyms":[
"declensions",
"declines",
"declivities",
"descents",
"dips",
"downgrades",
"downhills",
"drop-offs",
"falls",
"hangings",
"hangs"
]
},
"to form into a pile or ridge of earth":{
"examples":[
"hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"banks",
"mounds"
],
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"heaps",
"piles",
"pyramids",
"stacks",
"embanks",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"masses",
"wads",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"conglomerates",
"gathers",
"groups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"hindered":{
"as in blocked , impeded":{
"examples":[],
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"blocked",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"excluded",
"ruled out",
"shut out",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"stopped",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"revoked",
"unsanctioned",
"vetoed",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"discouraged",
"objectionable",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"ineffable",
"unmentionable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowable",
"permissible",
"permissive",
"sufferable",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"accepted",
"accredited",
"allowed",
"appropriate",
"approved",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
"permitted",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"granted",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed",
"brooked",
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"commanded",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"proper",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"tolerated",
"unobjectionable"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"was not hindered by a lack of money because she could use what food she had on hand"
],
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"clogged",
"cramped",
"embarrassed",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"held up",
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"shackled",
"short-circuited",
"stymied",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"reined",
"restrained",
"bound",
"chained",
"haltered",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"tied",
"arrested",
"braked",
"delayed",
"retained",
"retarded",
"barricaded",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"roadblocked",
"bogged (down)",
"mired",
"choked",
"smothered",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suffocated",
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"stumped",
"thwarted",
"derailed",
"disrupted",
"sabotaged",
"muzzled",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"confined",
"hedged (in)",
"hemmed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared",
"made way",
"opened",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"untied",
"loosened",
"smoothed",
"encouraged",
"furthered",
"promoted"
],
"antonyms":[
"aided",
"assisted",
"facilitated",
"helped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hindering":{
"as in blocking , impeding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blocking",
"hampering",
"impeding",
"retardant",
"stalling",
"baffling",
"balking",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"thwarting",
"negating",
"neutralizing",
"nullifying",
"deterrent",
"deterring",
"precautionary",
"preventative",
"preventive",
"prophylactic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nurturing",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"was not hindered by a lack of money because she could use what food she had on hand"
],
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"clogging",
"cramping",
"embarrassing",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"handicapping",
"hobbling",
"hog-tying",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"shackling",
"short-circuiting",
"stymieing",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"reining",
"restraining",
"binding",
"chaining",
"haltering",
"leashing",
"tethering",
"tying",
"tieing",
"arresting",
"braking",
"delaying",
"retaining",
"retarding",
"barricading",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"roadblocking",
"bogging (down)",
"miring",
"choking",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suffocating",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"stumping",
"thwarting",
"derailing",
"disrupting",
"sabotaging",
"muzzling",
"repressing",
"suppressing",
"confining",
"hedging (in)",
"hemming (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"making way",
"opening",
"unclogging",
"unplugging",
"unstopping",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"releasing",
"untying",
"untieing",
"loosening",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"furthering",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[
"aiding",
"assisting",
"facilitating",
"helping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hinky":{
"not feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or something":{
"examples":[
"the cop was feeling hinky about the whole situation and was starting to think that it was a setup"
],
"synonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
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"outlands",
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"drudge",
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"grub",
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"wage earner",
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"coworker",
"temp",
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"worker"
]
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"whishes",
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"applauses"
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"snickers",
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"put-downs",
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"boos",
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"to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \\s\\":{
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"cheer",
"cheering",
"ovation",
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"rave(s)",
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"hail",
"hallelujah",
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"hurrah",
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"huzzah",
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"verb"
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"furore",
"fury",
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"scene",
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"type":[
"noun"
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"an account of important events in the order in which they happened":{
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"annals",
"chronicle",
"record"
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"blog",
"commentary",
"diary",
"journal",
"memoir",
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"autobiography",
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"life",
"epic",
"legend",
"narrative",
"saga",
"story",
"tale",
"archives",
"documentation",
"log",
"register",
"report",
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"genealogy"
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"a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened":{
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"chronology",
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"commentaries",
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"record",
"report",
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"deposition",
"documentation",
"testament",
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"testimony",
"witness",
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"blog",
"diary",
"journal",
"log",
"logbook",
"memoir",
"minutes",
"proc\u00e8s-verbal",
"anecdote",
"tale",
"yarn",
"epic",
"saga",
"gest",
"geste",
"romance",
"recital",
"recitation",
"case history",
"case study"
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"antonyms":[]
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"the events or experience of former times":{
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],
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"past",
"yesterday",
"yesteryear",
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],
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"flashback",
"annals",
"chronicle",
"record",
"memoir",
"antiquity",
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"future",
"futurity",
"hereafter",
"offing",
"tomorrow",
"moment",
"now",
"present",
"today"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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},
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"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
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"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hunt (down or up)",
"learn",
"locate",
"nose out",
"root (out)",
"rout (out)",
"rummage",
"run down",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"to leave a place often for another":{
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"When the sun started to set they knew it was time to hit the road ."
],
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"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bugger off",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
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"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
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"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
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"phrase"
]
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"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
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"It's been a great evening, but I'm ready to hit the hay ."
],
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"bedding",
"crashing",
"dossing (down)",
"retiring",
"turning in"
],
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"bunking",
"perching",
"roosting",
"settling",
"dozing",
"dropping off",
"napping",
"nodding",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"couching",
"lying (down)",
"reclining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"awaking",
"rousing",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bestirring",
"stirring",
"reawakening",
"reawaking",
"shifting",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"getting up",
"rising",
"uprising"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hit men":{
"as in torpedoes , bravos":{
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"bravos",
"bravoes",
"torpedoes",
"triggermen",
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"homicides",
"killers",
"manslayers",
"murderers",
"butchers",
"executioners",
"massacrers",
"slaughterers",
"slayers",
"murderesses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hatchet men , hired guns":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hatchet men",
"hired guns",
"polemicists",
"polemists",
"barracuda",
"barracudas",
"sharks",
"attack dogs",
"mudslingers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
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"when a fight broke out, we hightailed it out of the bar"
],
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"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"retreating",
"running",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
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"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature":{
"examples":[
"high-minded efforts to improve the lives of people who are less fortunate"
],
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"big",
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"gallant",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"natural",
"noble",
"sublime"
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"exalted",
"glorified",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"honorable",
"valiant",
"venerable",
"worthy",
"knightly",
"princely",
"regal",
"inspiring",
"moving",
"numinous",
"uplifting",
"august",
"magnificent",
"majestic"
],
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"sordid",
"squalid",
"vile",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"ugly",
"vicious",
"dastardly",
"dirty",
"lousy",
"sorry",
"little",
"mean",
"narrow",
"small-minded",
"degrading",
"discreditable",
"humiliating",
"ignominious",
"coarse",
"crude",
"vulgar"
],
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"base",
"debased",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"ignoble",
"low"
]
},
"self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance":{
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"she was too high-minded to admit publicly to watching trashy movies, but privately she loved them"
],
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"affected",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"la-di-da",
"la-de-da",
"lah-de-dah",
"lah-dee-dah",
"lah-di-dah",
"ostentatious",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"snippy"
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"related":[
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"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"high-toned",
"sententious",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
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"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"antonyms":[
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"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"being at a point or level higher than all others":{
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"the highest flag on the pole"
],
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"loftiest",
"top",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"uppermost"
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"higher",
"loftier",
"upper",
"consummate",
"maximal",
"maximized",
"maximum",
"peaked",
"supreme",
"utmost",
"uttermost",
"chief",
"dominant",
"first",
"foremost",
"head",
"leading",
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"preeminent",
"premier",
"principal",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"eminent",
"prominent",
"towering",
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upraised"
],
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"below",
"lower",
"nether",
"under",
"underneath",
"low",
"lowered",
"low-lying",
"sunken"
],
"antonyms":[
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"lowermost",
"lowest",
"nethermost",
"rock-bottom",
"undermost"
]
},
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"examples":[
"turned to the highest authority for answers",
"the highest official in the land"
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"arch",
"big",
"capital",
"cardinal",
"central",
"chief",
"dominant",
"first",
"foremost",
"grand",
"great",
"greatest",
"key",
"leading",
"main",
"master",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"paramount",
"predominant",
"preeminent",
"premier",
"primal",
"primary",
"principal",
"prior",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"supreme"
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"eminent",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"prestigious",
"signal",
"star",
"stellar",
"superior",
"high-level",
"senior",
"top",
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"influential",
"major",
"mighty",
"momentous",
"significant",
"incomparable",
"matchless",
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"renowned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"collateral",
"inferior",
"secondary",
"subordinate",
"subsidiary"
],
"antonyms":[
"last",
"least"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-water mark":{
"the highest part or point":{
"examples":[
"he hit the high-water mark of his acting career when he played Tiny Tim in a school play"
],
"synonyms":[
"acme",
"apex",
"apogee",
"capstone",
"climax",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high noon",
"meridian",
"ne plus ultra",
"noon",
"noontime",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"sum",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"roof",
"extreme",
"extremity",
"tip",
"vertex",
"high",
"highlight",
"highspot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abyss",
"base",
"foot",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottom",
"nadir",
"rock bottom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hidy-holes":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"commandos captured the deposed dictator in a carefully camouflaged cellar that he had been using as a hidey-hole"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealments",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"lairs",
"nests"
],
"related":[
"blinds",
"covers",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"hangouts",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"haunts",
"havens",
"redoubts",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hither":{
"being the less far of two":{
"examples":[
"we began to explore the hither bank while our companions crossed the creek to explore the yonder bank"
],
"synonyms":[
"closer",
"near",
"nigher",
"this"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fore",
"forward",
"front",
"inside"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distant",
"remote",
"remoter",
"back",
"outside"
],
"antonyms":[
"far",
"farther",
"further",
"opposite",
"other",
"that"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-pressuring":{
"as in distributing , marketing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dealing (in)",
"distributing",
"hustling",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"trading (in)",
"vending",
"retailing",
"wholesaling",
"hawking",
"peddling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in threatening , blackmailing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blackmailing",
"menacing",
"shaming",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"dragging",
"blackjacking",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"driving",
"forcing",
"impelling",
"impressing",
"making",
"muscling",
"obligating",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"sandbagging",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"arguing",
"convincing",
"inducing",
"moving",
"persuading",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"higgledy-piggledy":{
"lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness":{
"examples":[
"the quilt was a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of odd-shaped fabric scraps, each of which held a fond memory for the family"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"hugger-mugger",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"pell-mell",
"rumpled",
"sloppy",
"topsy-turvy",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"upside-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"shaggy",
"slatternly",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"uncombed",
"wrinkled",
"adulterated",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"sordid",
"neglected",
"neglectful",
"negligent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"hygienic",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"manicured",
"well-groomed",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"kempt",
"neat",
"neatened",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"shipshape",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-ordered"
]
},
"as in topsy-turvy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"topsy-turvy",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"hit or miss",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically",
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"hiked":{
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"she hiked along the trail around the pond"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambled",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"tramped",
"tromped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roamed",
"roved",
"wandered",
"peregrinated",
"traipsed",
"traversed",
"trekked",
"walked",
"marched",
"promenaded",
"power walked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"with a determined look, he hiked his trousers up and buckled down to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosted",
"craned",
"elevated",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hefted",
"heightened",
"hoisted",
"jacked (up)",
"lifted",
"perked (up)",
"picked up",
"raised",
"took up",
"upheld",
"uplifted",
"upped",
"upraised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascended",
"mounted",
"rose",
"reared",
"upended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descended",
"dipped",
"fell",
"pitched",
"plunged",
"slipped",
"bore",
"depressed",
"pressed",
"pushed",
"sank",
"sunk",
"submerged"
],
"antonyms":[
"dropped",
"lowered"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hickories":{
"as in birches , rattans":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birches",
"blacksnakes",
"bullwhips",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhides",
"crops",
"knouts",
"quirts",
"rattans",
"rawhides",
"straps",
"floggers",
"lashes",
"scourges",
"switches",
"whips",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"nightsticks",
"staffs",
"staves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hirelings":{
"one who works for another for wages or a salary":{
"examples":[
"demanded to speak to the store's owner and not one of his hirelings"
],
"synonyms":[
"employees",
"employes",
"hands",
"jobholders",
"retainers",
"workers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assistants",
"cogs",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"yes-men",
"drudges",
"gandy dancers",
"grubs",
"hacks",
"jobbers",
"laborers",
"navvies",
"toilers",
"nine-to-fivers",
"wage earners",
"wage slaves",
"wageworkers",
"workingmen",
"workingwomen",
"workmen",
"workwomen",
"associates",
"colleagues",
"coworkers",
"co-workers",
"temporaries",
"temps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bosses",
"superiors",
"supervisors"
],
"antonyms":[
"employers",
"gaffers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highball":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"trying to make up for lost time, the train just highballed through the station without stopping"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high-powered":{
"as in dynamic , robust":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"forceful",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"celebrated",
"distinguished",
"dominant",
"eminent",
"famed",
"famous",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"notorious",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"magisterial",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"effective",
"efficient",
"high-level",
"senior",
"top",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"important",
"influential",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"significant",
"strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"insignificant",
"little",
"powerless",
"unimportant",
"weak",
"feeble",
"flimsy",
"frail",
"infirm",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"ineffective",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unfit",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hid":{
"to put into a hiding place":{
"examples":[
"the thief had hidden the stolen jewelry under the floorboards"
],
"synonyms":[
"buried",
"cached",
"concealed",
"ensconced",
"secreted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoarded",
"squirreled (away)",
"squirrelled (away)",
"stashed",
"entombed",
"interred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled",
"unwrapped",
"flaunted",
"paraded",
"showed off",
"disinterred",
"unearthed"
],
"antonyms":[
"displayed",
"exhibited"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"he tried to hide his criminal past",
"she hid the cat's litter box behind a screen"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"enshrouded",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occulted",
"papered over",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"suppressed",
"veiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buried",
"camouflaged",
"covered (up)",
"smothered",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blocked",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brought out",
"presented",
"clarified",
"illuminated",
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"got out",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spread"
],
"antonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"displayed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
]
},
"to remain out of sight":{
"examples":[
"he hid in the closet while his roommate lied to the probation officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"holed up",
"lay",
"lurked",
"reposed",
"skulked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slunk",
"slinked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"avoided",
"eluded",
"evaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came out",
"materialized",
"showed up",
"turned up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appeared"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hinny":{
"as in mule":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mule",
"jack",
"jennet",
"jenny",
"pack animal",
"ass",
"burro",
"donkey",
"jackass",
"moke"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hitherto":{
"up to this or that time":{
"examples":[
"at the talent show Kyle revealed his hitherto unknown gift for doing impressions"
],
"synonyms":[
"heretofore",
"theretofore",
"yet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"before",
"formerly",
"previously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"afterward",
"afterwards",
"later",
"subsequently",
"hereupon",
"thereupon"
],
"antonyms":[
"henceforth",
"henceforward",
"hereafter",
"thenceforth",
"thenceforward",
"thenceforwards",
"thereafter"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"hickory":{
"as in birch , rattan":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birch",
"blacksnake",
"bullwhip",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhide",
"crop",
"knout",
"quirt",
"rattan",
"rawhide",
"strap",
"flogger",
"lash",
"scourge",
"switch",
"whip",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"nightstick",
"staff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highlight":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"according to the TV schedule, this week's \"Astronomy Today\" highlights the accomplishments of Maria Mitchell"
],
"synonyms":[
"accent",
"accentuate",
"emphasize",
"feature",
"foreground",
"illuminate",
"play up",
"point (up)",
"press",
"punctuate",
"stress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focus",
"identify",
"pinpoint",
"spotlight",
"advertise",
"boost",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"overplay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tone (down)",
"underemphasize",
"understate",
"belittle",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasize",
"play down"
]
},
"as in break , clincher":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"capper",
"clincher",
"crusher",
"topper",
"climacteric",
"climax",
"corner",
"landmark",
"milepost",
"milestone",
"turning point",
"watershed",
"conversion",
"metamorphosis",
"transfiguration",
"transformation",
"turnabout",
"turnaround",
"boiling point",
"breaking point",
"clutch",
"conjuncture",
"crisis",
"crossroad(s)",
"crunch",
"crunch time",
"Dunkirk",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"extremity",
"flash point",
"head",
"juncture",
"zero hour"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in feature , attraction":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attraction",
"feature",
"pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpiece",
"distinction",
"excellence",
"merit",
"value",
"virtue",
"boast",
"credit",
"crown jewel",
"glory",
"honor",
"jewel",
"pride",
"treasure",
"trophy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"blemish",
"blot",
"defect",
"shame",
"slur",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"stain",
"stigma",
"eyesore",
"fright",
"horror",
"mess"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hiring":{
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"the Youngs hired a limousine for their daughter's wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"chartering",
"engaging",
"leasing",
"renting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subleasing",
"subletting",
"checking out",
"arranging (for)",
"bespeaking",
"booking",
"contracting (for)",
"ordering",
"reserving",
"signing up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with a paying job":{
"examples":[
"the farm hires teenagers to pick blueberries in the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"assuming",
"employing",
"engaging",
"feeing",
"laying on",
"paying",
"placing",
"recruiting",
"retaining",
"signing (up or on)",
"taking on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reemploying",
"re-employing",
"reengaging",
"re-engaging",
"rehiring",
"apprenticing",
"contracting",
"jobbing",
"partnering",
"subcontracting",
"enlisting",
"advancing",
"promoting",
"upgrading",
"keeping (on)",
"headhunting",
"scouting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"furloughing",
"laying off",
"locking out"
],
"antonyms":[
"axing",
"canning",
"discharging",
"dismissing",
"firing",
"sacking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high roller":{
"someone who spends money freely or foolishly":{
"examples":[
"in the carefree environment of a vacation, even a person of modest means has the urge to play the high roller"
],
"synonyms":[
"fritterer",
"prodigal",
"profligate",
"spender",
"spendthrift",
"squanderer",
"waster",
"wastrel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissipate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheapskate",
"miser",
"niggard",
"piker",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad",
"conserver",
"saver"
],
"antonyms":[
"economizer",
"penny-pincher"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-hatting":{
"to show contempt for":{
"examples":[
"one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemning",
"disdaining",
"disrespecting",
"dissing",
"looking down (on or upon)",
"scorning",
"slighting",
"sniffing (at)",
"snooting",
"snubbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scouting",
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"despising",
"detesting",
"execrating",
"hating",
"loathing",
"belittling",
"deploring",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"disapproving (of)",
"discountenancing",
"disfavoring",
"frowning (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherishing",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"admiring",
"esteeming",
"lionizing",
"hallowing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"accepting",
"appreciating",
"approving (of)",
"caring (for)",
"countenancing",
"favoring",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"subscribing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"honoring",
"respecting"
]
},
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"examples":[
"was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-shouldering",
"cutting",
"slighting",
"snubbing",
"stiff-arming",
"stiffing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"isolating",
"ostracizing",
"brushing (aside or off)",
"disdaining",
"rebuffing",
"rejecting",
"repelling",
"repulsing",
"scorning",
"spurning",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"shrugging off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"highjackings":{
"the unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal":{
"examples":[
"a country in which hijackings of foreign executives has become commonplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"abductions",
"kidnappings",
"kidnapings",
"rapes",
"snatches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressments",
"seizures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-grade":{
"as in fine , valuable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"costly",
"fancy",
"fine",
"precious",
"premium",
"prime",
"valuable",
"commercial",
"profitable",
"dear",
"expensive",
"extravagant",
"marketable",
"merchantable",
"salable",
"saleable",
"sellable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonsalable",
"unmarketable",
"unsalable",
"unsellable",
"damaged",
"shopworn",
"cheap",
"useless",
"worthless",
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hit or miss":{
"lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern":{
"examples":[
"your hit-or-miss schedule for taking your medication is going to land you in the hospital again"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"catch-as-catch-can",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"helter-skelter",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"chancy",
"contingent",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"lucky",
"unconsidered",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"scattershot",
"shotgun",
"irregular",
"odd",
"sporadic",
"spot",
"directionless",
"objectless",
"purposeless",
"indiscriminate",
"unsystematic",
"undirected",
"disorderly",
"disorganized",
"undiscriminating",
"unselective"
],
"near antonyms":[
"established",
"fixed",
"regular",
"set",
"stable",
"steady",
"constant",
"continuous",
"even",
"arranged",
"managed",
"orchestrated",
"ordered",
"planned",
"aware",
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"thoughtful",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"nonrandom",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized"
]
},
"without definite aim, direction, rule, or method":{
"examples":[
"I was learning Spanish hit or miss , mostly just by hearing my friends speak it"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"high road":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hires":{
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"the Youngs hired a limousine for their daughter's wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"charters",
"engages",
"leases",
"rents"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subleases",
"sublets",
"checks out",
"arranges (for)",
"bespeaks",
"books",
"contracts (for)",
"orders",
"reserves",
"signs up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with a paying job":{
"examples":[
"the farm hires teenagers to pick blueberries in the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"assumes",
"employs",
"engages",
"fees",
"lays on",
"pays",
"places",
"recruits",
"retains",
"signs (up or on)",
"takes on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reemploys",
"reengages",
"rehires",
"apprentices",
"contracts",
"jobs",
"partners",
"subcontracts",
"enlists",
"advances",
"promotes",
"upgrades",
"keeps (on)",
"headhunts",
"scouts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"furloughs",
"lays off",
"locks out"
],
"antonyms":[
"axes",
"cans",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"sacks"
]
},
"the state of being provided with a paying job":{
"examples":[
"he spent most of his career in the hire of high-paying defense contractors"
],
"synonyms":[
"employments",
"employs",
"engagements"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appointments",
"assignments",
"conscriptions",
"enlistments",
"recruitments",
"incumbencies",
"tenures",
"occupations",
"places",
"positions",
"posts",
"situations",
"works"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boots",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"firings",
"removals",
"sacks",
"severances",
"demotions",
"suspensions",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"leaves",
"liberties",
"retirements"
],
"antonyms":[
"unemployments"
]
},
"the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services":{
"examples":[
"used to mow lawns for hire"
],
"synonyms":[
"emoluments",
"packets",
"paychecks",
"pay envelopes",
"payments",
"pays",
"salaries",
"stipends",
"wages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"living wages",
"minimum wages",
"nominal wages",
"take-home pays",
"double times",
"overtimes",
"time and a halfs",
"compensations",
"recompenses",
"remittances",
"remunerations",
"requitals",
"returns",
"recoupments",
"redresses",
"reparations",
"restitutions",
"reimbursements",
"repayments",
"earnings",
"profits",
"takings",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"high-speed":{
"as in fast , rapid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blistering",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"flying",
"galloping",
"hasty",
"hot",
"lightning",
"nippy",
"quick",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"splitting",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"zippy",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"rushed",
"energetic",
"strenuous",
"strong",
"vigorous",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"ultrafast",
"ultrarapid",
"breathtaking",
"rush"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slow",
"crawling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"languid",
"lingering",
"plodding",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"leisurely",
"measured",
"dilatory",
"late",
"tardy",
"ultraslow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hilariousness":{
"the amusing quality or element in something":{
"examples":[
"the hilariousness of the situation only struck us later, and we had a good laugh"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comic",
"comicality",
"drollery",
"drollness",
"funniness",
"humor",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"wryness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[
"pathos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"histories":{
"an account of important events in the order in which they happened":{
"examples":[
"a history of the American civil rights movement during the 1960s"
],
"synonyms":[
"annals",
"chronicles",
"records"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blogs",
"commentaries",
"diaries",
"journals",
"memoirs",
"reminiscences",
"autobiographies",
"biographies",
"lives",
"epics",
"legends",
"narratives",
"sagas",
"stories",
"tales",
"archives",
"documentations",
"logs",
"registers",
"reports",
"chronologies",
"genealogies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened":{
"examples":[
"we heard the whole history of her illness in excruciating detail"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"chronicles",
"chronologies",
"commentaries",
"narrations",
"narratives",
"records",
"reports",
"stories"
],
"near synonyms":[
"versions",
"depositions",
"documentations",
"testaments",
"testimonials",
"testimonies",
"witnesses",
"annals",
"blogs",
"diaries",
"journals",
"logbooks",
"logs",
"memoirs",
"minutes",
"proc\u00e8s-verbaux",
"anecdotes",
"anecdota",
"tales",
"yarns",
"epics",
"sagas",
"gests",
"gestes",
"romances",
"recitals",
"recitations",
"case histories",
"case studies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the events or experience of former times":{
"examples":[
"history has many lessons to teach us, if only we would listen"
],
"synonyms":[
"auld lang synes",
"pasts",
"yesterdays",
"yesteryears",
"yores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bygones",
"flashbacks",
"annals",
"chronicles",
"records",
"memoirs",
"antiquities",
"long agos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"by-and-bys",
"futures",
"futurities",
"hereafters",
"offings",
"tomorrows",
"moments",
"nows",
"presents",
"todays"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hilly":{
"having many hills":{
"examples":[
"hilly terrain",
"hilly roads"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"craggy",
"hillocky",
"mountainous",
"scarped",
"abrupt",
"bold",
"precipitous",
"sheer",
"steep",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"angled",
"canted",
"cocked",
"heeled",
"inclined",
"listed",
"slanted",
"sloped",
"tilted",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"unruffled",
"unwrinkled",
"gentle",
"gradual",
"moderate",
"soft",
"easy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"highfalutin":{
"full of fine words and fancy expressions":{
"examples":[
"his highfalutin paean to the working class failed to win over a crowd that wanted to hear down-to-earth proposals for economic relief"
],
"synonyms":[
"aureate",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"magnific",
"ornate",
"purple",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bloated",
"fancy-pants",
"grandiose",
"inflated",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"excessive",
"flattering",
"fulsome",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"lofty",
"bookish",
"inkhorn",
"learned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prosaic",
"unpoetic",
"bald",
"direct",
"lean",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"spare",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"natural",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"her highfalutin relatives from New York made the snide remark that her little house \"has that lived-in look\""
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself":{
"examples":[
"refused to be intimidated by the highfalutin manner of the sales staff in the fashionable boutique"
],
"synonyms":[
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"prideful",
"proud",
"superior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"self-assertive",
"self-conceited",
"self-contented",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"arrogant",
"pretentious",
"sniffy",
"snobbish",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"cavalier",
"overbearing",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"swaggering",
"high-sounding",
"pompous",
"condescending",
"patronizing",
"cocky",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"bloated",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"self-glorifying",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"confident",
"presuming",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"bossy",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"egocentric",
"self-centered",
"selfish",
"dominating",
"magisterial",
"masterful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"homely",
"meek",
"unassuming",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid",
"diffident",
"self-doubting",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"ingratiating",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"apologetic",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"subdued",
"unobtrusive"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest"
]
},
"self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance":{
"examples":[
"\"fine Southern cuisine\" sounds a bit highfalutin for a barbecue shack"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"grandiose",
"high-minded",
"la-di-da",
"la-de-da",
"lah-de-dah",
"lah-dee-dah",
"lah-di-dah",
"ostentatious",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"snippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airy",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"high-toned",
"sententious",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hit":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"a good carpenter hits a nail just two or three times to drive it in"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"when she fell on the ice, she hit hard and badly bruised her elbow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bump",
"collide",
"crash",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"ram",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"swipe",
"thud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounce",
"carom",
"clunk",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skim",
"skip",
"contact",
"land",
"touch",
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"scrape",
"shave",
"sweep",
"bulldoze",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"the rock band hit \"the big time\" with their third album"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieve",
"attain",
"bag",
"chalk up",
"clock (up)",
"gain",
"log",
"make",
"notch (up)",
"rack up",
"ring up",
"score",
"win"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquire",
"capture",
"carry",
"draw",
"garner",
"get",
"land",
"obtain",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"amount (to)",
"approach",
"equal",
"match",
"measure up (to)",
"meet",
"rival",
"tie",
"touch",
"beat",
"excel",
"outdo",
"surpass",
"top"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fall short (of)",
"miss",
"fail (at)",
"lose"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"examples":[
"the new babysitter turned out to be a hit with the kids"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"megahit",
"smash",
"success",
"supernova",
"winner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue chip",
"blue chipper",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"pip",
"prizewinner",
"gem",
"jewel",
"treasure",
"marvel",
"natural",
"phenomenon",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"coup",
"triumph",
"victory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointment",
"fizzle",
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"flop",
"misfire",
"turkey",
"washout"
]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback can't take too many more hits like that and escape permanent injury"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hibernations":{
"as in sleeps , rests":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comas",
"hypnoses",
"reposes",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"torpors",
"impasses",
"standstills",
"recesses",
"recessions",
"remissions",
"inactions",
"inertias",
"downtimes",
"layoffs",
"abeyances",
"cold storages",
"deep freezes",
"doldrums",
"dormancies",
"holding patterns",
"latencies",
"moratoriums",
"moratoria",
"quiescences",
"suspended animations",
"suspenses",
"suspensions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuances",
"continuations",
"recommencements",
"renewals",
"resumptions",
"resuscitations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-spirited":{
"joyously unrestrained":{
"examples":[
"a high-spirited crowd loudly cheering the basketball team on"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncy",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"crank",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"frolic",
"frolicsome",
"gamesome",
"gay",
"vivacious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"carefree",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"boisterous",
"raucous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"giddy",
"light-headed",
"overexuberant",
"silly",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"lyric",
"rapturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brazen",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"saucy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constrained",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"surly"
],
"antonyms":[
"low-spirited",
"sullen"
]
},
"marked by a lively display of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"the band struck up a high-spirited march as the President's motorcade approached"
],
"synonyms":[
"fiery",
"gingery",
"mettlesome",
"peppery",
"spirited",
"spunky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"ambitious",
"assertive",
"high-pressure",
"in-your-face",
"militant",
"pushy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"bouncy",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"feisty",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"racy",
"scrappy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"ardent",
"fervent",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"emphatic",
"obtrusive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloodless",
"boring",
"dull",
"lifeless",
"dead",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"limp",
"listless",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"tired",
"torpid",
"low-pressure",
"nonassertive",
"unaggressive",
"unambitious",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising"
],
"antonyms":[
"halfhearted",
"leaden",
"spiritless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"highland":{
"an area of high ground":{
"examples":[
"there are permanent glaciers in the cool, humid highlands of the Pacific Northwest"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitude(s)",
"elevation",
"eminence",
"height",
"hill",
"hump",
"mound",
"prominence",
"rise",
"upland"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alp",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak",
"butte",
"mesa",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"precipice",
"steep",
"tor",
"ridge",
"sierra",
"dome",
"sugarloaf",
"foothill",
"hillock",
"hummock",
"knob",
"knoll",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dale",
"dell",
"depression",
"dingle",
"glen",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley",
"basin",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"fen",
"flat",
"floodplain",
"plain",
"tidewater"
],
"antonyms":[
"lowland"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-mindedly":{
"in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals":{
"examples":[
"high-mindedly gave his colleagues all the credit for the successful completion of the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"gallantly",
"grandly",
"greatheartedly",
"greatly",
"heroically",
"honorably",
"magnanimously",
"nobly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loftily",
"venerably",
"magnificently",
"majestically",
"bravely",
"chivalrously",
"courageously",
"valiantly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominably",
"contemptibly",
"despicably",
"detestably",
"hatefully",
"nastily",
"pitiably",
"sorrily",
"wretchedly",
"degenerately"
],
"antonyms":[
"basely",
"currishly",
"dishonorably",
"ignobly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"hits (on or upon)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the doctor finally hit on what was wrong with the pain-wracked woman"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs out",
"digs up",
"discovers",
"dredges (up)",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hunts (down or up)",
"learns",
"locates",
"noses out",
"roots (out)",
"routs (out)",
"rummages",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"scouts (up)",
"tracks (down)",
"turns up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espies",
"sights",
"spots",
"looks for",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses",
"mislays",
"misplaces",
"missets"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"passes over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"highflier":{
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"one of New York's largest law firms, it attracts highfliers looking for a big-time legal career"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"live wire",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beaver",
"achiever",
"comer",
"doer",
"enterpriser",
"he-man",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"putterer",
"trifler",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"procrastinator",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"drone",
"lazybones",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"ignorer",
"ne'er-do-well",
"neglecter",
"daydreamer",
"dreamer",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hilarity":{
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"examples":[
"hilarity is the last thing you expect to find at a funeral, but we were there to celebrate his life rather than to dwell on his death"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hifalutin":{
"full of fine words and fancy expressions":{
"examples":[
"his highfalutin paean to the working class failed to win over a crowd that wanted to hear down-to-earth proposals for economic relief"
],
"synonyms":[
"aureate",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"magnific",
"ornate",
"purple",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bloated",
"fancy-pants",
"grandiose",
"inflated",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"excessive",
"flattering",
"fulsome",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"lofty",
"bookish",
"inkhorn",
"learned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prosaic",
"unpoetic",
"bald",
"direct",
"lean",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"spare",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"natural",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"her highfalutin relatives from New York made the snide remark that her little house \"has that lived-in look\""
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself":{
"examples":[
"refused to be intimidated by the highfalutin manner of the sales staff in the fashionable boutique"
],
"synonyms":[
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"prideful",
"proud",
"superior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"self-assertive",
"self-conceited",
"self-contented",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"arrogant",
"pretentious",
"sniffy",
"snobbish",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"cavalier",
"overbearing",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"swaggering",
"high-sounding",
"pompous",
"condescending",
"patronizing",
"cocky",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"bloated",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"self-glorifying",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"confident",
"presuming",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"bossy",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"egocentric",
"self-centered",
"selfish",
"dominating",
"magisterial",
"masterful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"homely",
"meek",
"unassuming",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid",
"diffident",
"self-doubting",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"ingratiating",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"apologetic",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"subdued",
"unobtrusive"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest"
]
},
"self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance":{
"examples":[
"\"fine Southern cuisine\" sounds a bit highfalutin for a barbecue shack"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"grandiose",
"high-minded",
"la-di-da",
"la-de-da",
"lah-de-dah",
"lah-dee-dah",
"lah-di-dah",
"ostentatious",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"snippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airy",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"high-toned",
"sententious",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"antonyms":[
"modest",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hippy":{
"as in potbellied , paunchy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"flabby",
"soft",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"endomorphic",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin",
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hinting":{
"as in suggestive , implying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"connoting",
"implying",
"insinuating",
"suggestive",
"symbolic",
"symbolical",
"demonstrative",
"exhibiting",
"expressive",
"characteristic",
"symptomatic",
"alluding",
"allusive",
"referring",
"denotative",
"denoting",
"indicative",
"reflective",
"significant",
"signifying",
"telltale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey an idea indirectly":{
"examples":[
"kept hinting that she wouldn't mind an invitation to spend the weekend at their beach house"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluding",
"implying",
"indicating",
"inferring",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverting",
"mentioning",
"pointing",
"referring",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"signalizing",
"signifying",
"smacking (of)",
"smelling (of)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announcing",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"spelling out",
"delineating",
"describing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hit it big":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"After years of obscurity, the writer finally hit it big with her latest novel."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hijinks":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"despite the team's dismal record, the players have won over many fans with their exuberant high jinks"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"hilled":{
"to form into a pile or ridge of earth":{
"examples":[
"hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"banked",
"mounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heaped",
"piled",
"pyramided",
"stacked",
"embanked",
"bunched",
"bundled",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"massed",
"wadded",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"assembled",
"collected",
"conglomerated",
"gathered",
"grouped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hijack":{
"to take control of (a vehicle) by force":{
"examples":[
"some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun"
],
"synonyms":[
"commandeer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carjack",
"skyjack",
"appropriate",
"confiscate",
"expropriate",
"seize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high":{
"extending to a great distance upward":{
"examples":[
"as the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest is mountaineering's holy grail"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitudinous",
"lofty",
"tall",
"towering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dominant",
"dominating",
"eminent",
"prominent",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upswept",
"high-rise",
"statuesque"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flat",
"stubby",
"stumpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"low",
"low-lying",
"short",
"squat"
]
},
"being at a higher level than average":{
"examples":[
"gasoline prices are high right now",
"a high fever",
"people with high incomes"
],
"synonyms":[
"elevated",
"escalated",
"heightened",
"increased",
"jacked (up)",
"raised",
"up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extreme",
"full",
"maximized",
"maximum",
"peaked",
"sky-high",
"utmost",
"inflated",
"over",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overlarge",
"overloaded",
"oversize",
"oversized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"depressed",
"dropped",
"knockdown",
"receded",
"under"
],
"antonyms":[
"down",
"low"
]
},
"located at a greater height than average or usual":{
"examples":[
"an eagle's nest high on the cliff",
"an old house with high ceilings"
],
"synonyms":[
"airy",
"elevated",
"nosebleed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascendant",
"ascendent",
"ascending",
"soaring",
"overhead",
"overlooking",
"raised",
"upheld",
"uplifted",
"upraised",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"upper",
"uppermost",
"upward"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depressed",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"descending",
"down",
"dropped",
"fallen",
"grounded",
"lowered",
"sunken",
"lowermost",
"nethermost",
"undermost",
"abreast",
"even",
"level"
],
"antonyms":[
"low",
"low-lying"
]
},
"being far along in development":{
"examples":[
"a cabal of self-proclaimed Luddites who argued that the evils of high technology far outweighed its virtues"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"developed",
"evolved",
"forward",
"higher",
"improved",
"late",
"progressive",
"refined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precocious",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"full-scale",
"aged",
"grown",
"mature",
"matured",
"perfected",
"ripe",
"ripened",
"civilized",
"educated",
"enhanced",
"enlightened",
"contemporary",
"current",
"cutting-edge",
"latest",
"leading-edge",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newest",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"novel",
"now",
"present-day",
"recent",
"space-age",
"supermodern",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
],
"near antonyms":[
"green",
"immature",
"underdeveloped",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"underweight",
"unripe",
"unripened",
"savage",
"uncivilized",
"uneducated",
"early",
"embryonic",
"germinal",
"primeval",
"primordial",
"antediluvian",
"antiquated",
"antique",
"dated",
"fusty",
"hoary",
"musty",
"Neanderthal",
"Neandertal",
"obsolete",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"past"
],
"antonyms":[
"backward",
"low",
"lower",
"nonprogressive",
"primitive",
"retarded",
"rude",
"rudimentary",
"undeveloped"
]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"not only has he never been high , he has never even tasted alcohol"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"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"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"commanding a large price":{
"examples":[
"the concert tickets weren't cheap\u2014you don't even want to know how high they were"
],
"synonyms":[
"big-ticket",
"costly",
"dear",
"expensive",
"extravagant",
"high-end",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"priceless",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"ultraexpensive",
"valuable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exorbitant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"sky-high",
"steep",
"stiff",
"unaffordable",
"uneconomic",
"uneconomical",
"unreasonable",
"inestimable",
"invaluable",
"deluxe",
"luxurious",
"sumptuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"discounted"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive"
]
},
"having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature":{
"examples":[
"she had the highest intentions, but her \"help\" turned out to be a disaster"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"gallant",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"natural",
"noble",
"sublime"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ennobled",
"exalted",
"glorified",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"honorable",
"valiant",
"venerable",
"worthy",
"knightly",
"princely",
"regal",
"inspiring",
"moving",
"numinous",
"uplifting",
"august",
"magnificent",
"majestic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sordid",
"squalid",
"vile",
"wretched",
"abominable",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"ugly",
"vicious",
"dastardly",
"dirty",
"lousy",
"sorry",
"little",
"mean",
"narrow",
"small-minded",
"degrading",
"discreditable",
"humiliating",
"ignominious",
"coarse",
"crude",
"vulgar"
],
"antonyms":[
"base",
"debased",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"ignoble",
"low"
]
},
"highest in rank or authority":{
"examples":[
"high government officials",
"lord high executioner"
],
"synonyms":[
"chief",
"commanding",
"first",
"foremost",
"head",
"lead",
"leading",
"preeminent",
"premier",
"presiding",
"primary",
"prime",
"principal",
"supereminent",
"supreme",
"top"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-level",
"senior",
"controlling",
"directing",
"managing",
"officiating",
"overseeing",
"regnant",
"reigning",
"ruling",
"supervisory",
"main",
"major",
"paramount",
"predominant",
"predominate",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"ascendant",
"ascendent",
"dominant",
"grand",
"superior",
"topmost",
"upmost",
"upper",
"uppermost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancillary",
"inferior",
"last",
"less",
"lesser",
"lower",
"lowly",
"second",
"secondary",
"subordinate",
"subsidiary",
"assistant",
"assisting",
"coadjutor",
"deputy",
"junior",
"under"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being under the influence of a recreational drug":{
"examples":[
"he's clean now, but when he was younger he used to get high every day"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blitzed",
"bombed",
"hopped-up",
"loaded",
"ripped",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"stoned",
"strung out",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addicted",
"hooked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"clean",
"temperate",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion":{
"examples":[
"it took days for the high of the World Series win to wear off"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloud nine",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"paradise",
"rapture",
"rhapsody",
"seventh heaven",
"swoon",
"transport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaltation",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"delight",
"enchantment",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"pleasure",
"reverie",
"trance",
"inspiration",
"fervor",
"frenzy",
"madness",
"passion",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jubilance",
"jubilation",
"lightheartedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"blues",
"dejection",
"desolation",
"despair",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"disheartenment",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dreariness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"heartsickness",
"melancholy",
"mopes"
],
"antonyms":[
"depression"
]
},
"the expanse of air surrounding the earth":{
"examples":[
"V formations of honking geese on high mean winter will soon be here"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue",
"firmament",
"heaven(s)",
"sky",
"welkin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midair",
"horizon",
"skyline"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"in a luxurious manner":{
"examples":[
"after he had won the lottery Philip lived pretty high \u2014until all the money was gone"
],
"synonyms":[
"expensively",
"extravagantly",
"fatly",
"grandly",
"large",
"lavishly",
"luxuriously",
"opulently",
"palatially",
"plushly",
"richly",
"sumptuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"imposingly",
"impressively",
"magnificently",
"splendidly",
"grandiosely",
"ostentatiously",
"pompously",
"pretentiously",
"affluently",
"comfortably",
"fine",
"wealthily",
"immoderately",
"indulgently",
"intemperately",
"prodigally",
"wantonly",
"wastefully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unpretentiously",
"cheaply",
"economically",
"frugally",
"inexpensively",
"meagerly",
"poorly",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"sparingly",
"thriftily",
"conservatively",
"moderately",
"prudently",
"reasonably",
"restrainedly",
"sensibly",
"temperately"
],
"antonyms":[
"austerely",
"humbly",
"modestly",
"plainly",
"simply"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"highspot":{
"as in high , highlight":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"high",
"highlight",
"extreme",
"extremity",
"tip",
"vertex",
"cap",
"ceiling",
"roof",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"acme",
"apex",
"apogee",
"capstone",
"climax",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high noon",
"high-water mark",
"meridian",
"ne plus ultra",
"noon",
"noontime",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"sum",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bottom",
"nadir",
"rock bottom",
"abyss",
"base",
"foot",
"minimum"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-muckety-mucks":{
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"examples":[
"failed to pass muster with the country club's high-muck-a-mucks"
],
"synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big leaguers",
"bigs",
"big shots",
"big-timers",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"heavies",
"heavy hitters",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"kingfish",
"kingpins",
"major leaguers",
"muckety-mucks",
"muck-a-mucks",
"mucky-mucks",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"nibs",
"nobs",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barons",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"tycoons",
"VIPs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"mediocrities",
"obscurities"
],
"antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"nobodies",
"nonentities",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers",
"zeros",
"zeroes",
"zilches"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highlands":{
"an area of high ground":{
"examples":[
"there are permanent glaciers in the cool, humid highlands of the Pacific Northwest"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"hills",
"humps",
"mounds",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters"
],
"antonyms":[
"lowlands"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highways":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"drives",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hitting the bottle":{
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"He told others in the group about how he used to immediately hit the bottle after work."
],
"synonyms":[
"bibbing",
"boozing",
"drinking",
"guzzling",
"liquoring (up)",
"lushing (up)",
"soaking",
"tippling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"imbibing",
"nipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"high-test":{
"as in high-grade , premium":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional",
"A1",
"A-OK",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"topflight",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"topping",
"top-shelf",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched",
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in high-octane":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"high-octane",
"straight",
"undiluted",
"unmixed",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"heavy",
"big",
"concentrated",
"full",
"full-bodied",
"heady",
"lusty",
"muscular",
"plush",
"potent",
"rich",
"robust",
"strong"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicate",
"light",
"mild",
"thin",
"thinned",
"weak",
"weakened",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"watered-down",
"watery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-hat":{
"being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior":{
"examples":[
"at the wedding reception the bride's high-hat relatives did their considerable best to ignore us"
],
"synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"elitist",
"persnickety",
"potty",
"ritzy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"snotty",
"toffee-nosed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aloof",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-handed",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppity",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"prideful",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"swellheaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democratic",
"egalitarian",
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"unpretentious",
"antielitist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"several high-hat society types arrived after we did, but they got seated first"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"to show contempt for":{
"examples":[
"one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemn",
"dis",
"diss",
"disdain",
"disrespect",
"look down (on or upon)",
"scorn",
"slight",
"sniff (at)",
"snoot",
"snub"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scout",
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe",
"belittle",
"deplore",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"disapprove (of)",
"discountenance",
"disfavor",
"frown (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"admire",
"esteem",
"lionize",
"hallow",
"revere",
"venerate",
"worship",
"accept",
"appreciate",
"approve (of)",
"care (for)",
"countenance",
"favor",
"OK",
"okay",
"subscribe (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"honor",
"respect"
]
},
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"examples":[
"was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-shoulder",
"cut",
"slight",
"snub",
"stiff",
"stiff-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"isolate",
"ostracize",
"brush (aside or off)",
"disdain",
"rebuff",
"reject",
"repel",
"repulse",
"scorn",
"spurn",
"disregard",
"forget",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"shrug off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cowboy hat , baseball cap":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball cap",
"beret",
"billycock",
"biretta",
"boater",
"bonnet",
"bowler",
"calotte",
"capuche",
"casque",
"castor",
"cloche",
"cocked hat",
"cowboy hat",
"cowl",
"derby",
"fedora",
"fez",
"garrison cap",
"hard hat",
"helm",
"helmet",
"homburg",
"hood",
"kepi",
"k\u00e9pi",
"kufi",
"leghorn",
"miter",
"mitre",
"nightcap",
"opera hat",
"overseas cap",
"panama",
"picture hat",
"pillbox",
"plug hat",
"porkpie hat",
"service cap",
"shako",
"silk hat",
"skimmer",
"skullcap",
"sombrero",
"sou'wester",
"Stetson",
"stocking cap",
"stovepipe",
"sunbonnet",
"tam",
"tam-o'-shanter",
"ten-gallon hat",
"top hat",
"topper",
"toque",
"tricorne",
"tricorn",
"turban",
"zucchetto",
"cap",
"chapeau",
"hat",
"headdress",
"headgear",
"headpiece",
"lid",
"warbonnet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hints (at)":{
"as in suggests , indicates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alludes (to)",
"implies",
"indicates",
"infers",
"intends",
"intimates",
"suggests",
"adverts (to)",
"cites",
"drops",
"instances",
"mentions",
"names",
"notes",
"notices",
"quotes",
"refers (to)",
"specifies",
"touches (on or upon)",
"points (out)",
"signals",
"signifies",
"denominates",
"designates",
"indicates",
"brings up",
"broaches",
"interjects",
"interpolates",
"interposes",
"introduces",
"infiltrates",
"insinuates",
"worms",
"advertises",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"pronounces",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"sounds",
"clarifies",
"clears (up)",
"elucidates",
"explains",
"explicates",
"spells out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hijacking":{
"the unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal":{
"examples":[
"a country in which hijackings of foreign executives has become commonplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"abduction",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"rape",
"snatch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressment",
"seizure",
"shanghaiing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take control of (a vehicle) by force":{
"examples":[
"some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun"
],
"synonyms":[
"commandeering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carjacking",
"skyjacking",
"appropriating",
"confiscating",
"expropriating",
"seizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"histrionic":{
"given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting":{
"examples":[
"a penchant for dish throwing, door slamming, and other histrionic displays of temper"
],
"synonyms":[
"dramatic",
"hammy",
"melodramatic",
"stagy",
"stagey",
"theatrical",
"theatric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"sensational",
"staged",
"conspicuous",
"elaborate",
"flamboyant",
"grandiose",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"affected",
"artificial",
"exaggerated",
"mannered",
"pretentious",
"self-conscious",
"studied",
"unnatural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondramatic",
"nontheatrical",
"unaffected",
"underplayed",
"unpretentious",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"conservative",
"discreet",
"inconspicuous",
"modest",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple"
],
"antonyms":[
"undramatic"
]
},
"having the general quality or effect of a stage performance":{
"examples":[
"we never tired of his histrionic reenactment of how he found money under the floorboards of a house he was renovating"
],
"synonyms":[
"dramatic",
"melodramatic",
"operatic",
"stagy",
"stagey",
"theatrical",
"theatric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"sensational",
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"dramaturgic",
"dramaturgical",
"ham",
"hammy",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"exciting",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"overdramatic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"matter-of-fact",
"monotonous",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"stale",
"unexceptional"
],
"antonyms":[
"undramatic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-hats":{
"to show contempt for":{
"examples":[
"one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemns",
"disdains",
"disrespects",
"disses",
"looks down (on or upon)",
"scorns",
"slights",
"sniffs (at)",
"snoots",
"snubs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scouts",
"abhors",
"abominates",
"despises",
"detests",
"execrates",
"hates",
"loathes",
"belittles",
"deplores",
"deprecates",
"disparages",
"disapproves (of)",
"discountenances",
"disfavors",
"frowns (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"admires",
"esteems",
"lionizes",
"hallows",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"accepts",
"appreciates",
"approves (of)",
"cares (for)",
"countenances",
"favors",
"OKs",
"okays",
"subscribes (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"honors",
"respects"
]
},
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"examples":[
"was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-shoulders",
"cuts",
"slights",
"snubs",
"stiff-arms",
"stiffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"isolates",
"ostracizes",
"brushes (aside or off)",
"disdains",
"rebuffs",
"rejects",
"repels",
"repulses",
"scorns",
"spurns",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"shrugs off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cowboy hats , baseball caps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"high-end":{
"appealing to affluent consumers":{
"examples":[
"a high-end haberdashery that serves its clients by appointment only"
],
"synonyms":[
"exclusive",
"upmarket",
"upscale"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elegant",
"fashionable",
"posh",
"extravagant",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"deluxe",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"plush",
"sumptuous",
"costly",
"expensive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive"
],
"antonyms":[
"dime-store",
"discount",
"down-market",
"downscale",
"low-end"
]
},
"commanding a large price":{
"examples":[
"high-end digital cameras intended for professionals and serious amateurs"
],
"synonyms":[
"big-ticket",
"costly",
"dear",
"expensive",
"extravagant",
"high",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"priceless",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"ultraexpensive",
"valuable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exorbitant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"sky-high",
"steep",
"stiff",
"unaffordable",
"uneconomic",
"uneconomical",
"unreasonable",
"inestimable",
"invaluable",
"deluxe",
"luxurious",
"sumptuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"discounted"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hired":{
"to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum":{
"examples":[
"the Youngs hired a limousine for their daughter's wedding"
],
"synonyms":[
"chartered",
"engaged",
"leased",
"rented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subleased",
"sublet",
"checked out",
"arranged (for)",
"bespoke",
"booked",
"contracted (for)",
"ordered",
"reserved",
"signed up (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with a paying job":{
"examples":[
"the farm hires teenagers to pick blueberries in the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"assumed",
"employed",
"engaged",
"feed",
"laid on",
"paid",
"placed",
"recruited",
"retained",
"signed (up or on)",
"took on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reemployed",
"re-employed",
"reengaged",
"re-engaged",
"rehired",
"apprenticed",
"contracted",
"jobbed",
"partnered",
"subcontracted",
"enlisted",
"advanced",
"promoted",
"upgraded",
"kept (on)",
"headhunted",
"scouted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"furloughed",
"laid off",
"locked out"
],
"antonyms":[
"axed",
"canned",
"discharged",
"dismissed",
"fired",
"sacked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"highballs":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"trying to make up for lost time, the train just highballed through the station without stopping"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hidey-holes":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"commandos captured the deposed dictator in a carefully camouflaged cellar that he had been using as a hidey-hole"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealments",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideaways",
"hideouts",
"lairs",
"nests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blinds",
"covers",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"hangouts",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"haunts",
"havens",
"redoubts",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-pressured":{
"as in intense , intensive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concentrated",
"intense",
"intensive",
"vehement",
"delirious",
"ferocious",
"feverish",
"fierce",
"frantic",
"frenetic",
"frenzied",
"furious",
"mad",
"rabid",
"violent",
"wild",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"lavish",
"overmuch",
"overweening",
"unconscionable",
"undue",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"demented",
"deranged",
"insane",
"irrational",
"lunatic",
"maniacal",
"maniac"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxed",
"calm",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"subdued",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"untroubled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"low-pressure",
"balanced",
"sane",
"sound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in distributed , marketed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dealt (in)",
"distributed",
"hustled",
"marketed",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"traded (in)",
"vended",
"retailed",
"wholesaled",
"hawked",
"peddled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in threatened , blackmailed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blackmailed",
"menaced",
"shamed",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"dragged",
"blackjacked",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"drove",
"forced",
"impelled",
"impressed",
"made",
"muscled",
"obligated",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"sandbagged",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"argued",
"convinced",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hinder":{
"being at or in the part of something opposite the front part":{
"examples":[
"the animal's case of mange was especially bad in its hinder parts"
],
"synonyms":[
"aft",
"after",
"back",
"hind",
"hindmost",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rearward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dorsal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ventral"
],
"antonyms":[
"anterior",
"fore",
"forward",
"front",
"frontal"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"was not hindered by a lack of money because she could use what food she had on hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie",
"arrest",
"brake",
"delay",
"retain",
"retard",
"barricade",
"block",
"blockade",
"roadblock",
"bog (down)",
"mire",
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suffocate",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"stump",
"thwart",
"derail",
"disrupt",
"sabotage",
"muzzle",
"repress",
"suppress",
"confine",
"hedge (in)",
"hem (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"make way",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"higher-ups":{
"as in directors , executives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"administrators",
"commanders",
"directors",
"employers",
"executives",
"generals",
"governors",
"hierarchs",
"bosses",
"boss men",
"captains",
"chiefs",
"foremen",
"forewomen",
"headmen",
"heads",
"helmsmen",
"honchos",
"jefes",
"kingpins",
"leaders",
"masters",
"mistresses",
"taskmasters",
"taskmistresses",
"leadmen",
"managers",
"overseers",
"principals",
"skippers",
"standard-bearers",
"stewards",
"straw bosses",
"superintendents",
"superiors",
"supervisors",
"gaffers",
"gangers",
"overlords",
"potentates",
"rulers",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans",
"figureheads",
"barons",
"czarinas",
"tsarinas",
"tzarinas",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"presidents",
"princes",
"princesses",
"queens",
"big cheeses",
"big guns",
"bigwigs",
"top dogs",
"top guns",
"coheads",
"co-heads",
"coleaders",
"co-leaders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hieroglyphs":{
"a pictorial character used in hieroglyphics":{
"examples":[
"A tomb inscribed with hieroglyphs ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hieroglyphics",
"ideograms",
"ideographs",
"icons",
"ikons",
"illustrations",
"images",
"likenesses",
"pictures",
"delineations",
"depictions",
"representations",
"resemblances",
"views",
"portraits",
"daubs",
"drawings",
"finger paintings",
"etchings",
"silhouettes",
"sketches",
"watercolors",
"caricatures",
"cartoons",
"doodles",
"collages",
"montages",
"photographs",
"pictographs",
"diagrams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hieing":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we had best hie home before the snow gets worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high seas":{
"as in waters , blue water":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blue water",
"main",
"waters",
"blue",
"brine",
"deep",
"Neptune",
"ocean",
"sea",
"seven seas",
"basin",
"Davy Jones's locker",
"depths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"high-and-mighty":{
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"a boss so high-and-mighty that no one could reason with him about anything"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"highway":{
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"the four-lane highway narrows to two lanes once you leave the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hibernates":{
"to be in an inactive state":{
"examples":[
"bears hibernating in their dens"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dozes",
"estivates",
"aestivates",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drones",
"footles",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs about",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"kicks around",
"kicks back",
"lazes",
"lazies",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools",
"messes",
"monkeys",
"mucks",
"piddles",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"tarries",
"furloughs",
"goldbricks",
"malingers",
"truants"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"grinds",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"works",
"applies",
"buckles (down)",
"exerts",
"puts out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hidalgo":{
"as in don , seigneur":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"don",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"seigneur",
"seignior",
"sheikh",
"sheik",
"cavalier",
"chevalier",
"knight",
"baron",
"baronet",
"count",
"duke",
"earl",
"esquire",
"marchese",
"margrave",
"marquess",
"marquis",
"master",
"prince",
"princelet",
"princeling",
"raja",
"viscount",
"country gentleman",
"squire",
"lordship",
"sire",
"gentleman",
"grandee",
"lord",
"milord",
"nobleman",
"peer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boor",
"churl",
"cottar",
"cotter",
"fellah",
"peasant",
"peon",
"commoner",
"pleb",
"plebeian",
"proletarian",
"toiler"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hidy-hole":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"commandos captured the deposed dictator in a carefully camouflaged cellar that he had been using as a hidey-hole"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealment",
"covert",
"den",
"hermitage",
"hideaway",
"hideout",
"lair",
"nest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blind",
"cover",
"nook",
"recess",
"hangout",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haunt",
"haven",
"redoubt",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"shelter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high hats":{
"to show contempt for":{
"examples":[
"one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemns",
"disdains",
"disrespects",
"disses",
"looks down (on or upon)",
"scorns",
"slights",
"sniffs (at)",
"snoots",
"snubs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scouts",
"abhors",
"abominates",
"despises",
"detests",
"execrates",
"hates",
"loathes",
"belittles",
"deplores",
"deprecates",
"disparages",
"disapproves (of)",
"discountenances",
"disfavors",
"frowns (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherishes",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"admires",
"esteems",
"lionizes",
"hallows",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"accepts",
"appreciates",
"approves (of)",
"cares (for)",
"countenances",
"favors",
"OKs",
"okays",
"subscribes (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"honors",
"respects"
]
},
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"examples":[
"was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-shoulders",
"cuts",
"slights",
"snubs",
"stiff-arms",
"stiffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"isolates",
"ostracizes",
"brushes (aside or off)",
"disdains",
"rebuffs",
"rejects",
"repels",
"repulses",
"scorns",
"spurns",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"shrugs off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cowboy hats , baseball caps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hinders":{
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"was not hindered by a lack of money because she could use what food she had on hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hit-or-miss":{
"lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern":{
"examples":[
"your hit-or-miss schedule for taking your medication is going to land you in the hospital again"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"catch-as-catch-can",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"helter-skelter",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidental",
"casual",
"chance",
"chancy",
"contingent",
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"inadvertent",
"incidental",
"lucky",
"unconsidered",
"unintended",
"unintentional",
"unplanned",
"unpremeditated",
"scattershot",
"shotgun",
"irregular",
"odd",
"sporadic",
"spot",
"directionless",
"objectless",
"purposeless",
"indiscriminate",
"unsystematic",
"undirected",
"disorderly",
"disorganized",
"undiscriminating",
"unselective"
],
"near antonyms":[
"established",
"fixed",
"regular",
"set",
"stable",
"steady",
"constant",
"continuous",
"even",
"arranged",
"managed",
"orchestrated",
"ordered",
"planned",
"aware",
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"purposeful",
"thoughtful",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodical",
"methodic",
"nonrandom",
"orderly",
"organized",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized"
]
},
"without definite aim, direction, rule, or method":{
"examples":[
"I was learning Spanish hit or miss , mostly just by hearing my friends speak it"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly",
"disconnectedly",
"disjointedly",
"fitfully",
"intermittently",
"spottily",
"unpredictably",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"punctiliously",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"antonyms":[
"methodically",
"systematically"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"highbrows":{
"a person with strong intellectual interests":{
"examples":[
"guests at her elegant dinner parties are a mix of the city's highbrows and captains of industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"double-domes",
"geeks",
"intellectualists",
"intellectuals",
"longhairs",
"nerds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blues",
"bluestockings",
"Brahmins",
"mandarins",
"sages",
"intellectualizers",
"pseuds",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"intellects",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"half-wits",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"nitwits",
"pinheads",
"simpletons"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectuals",
"lowbrows",
"philistines"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hit (upon)":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"the popular belief that Sir Isaac Newton hit upon his understanding of gravity at the sight of an apple falling from a tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hindmost":{
"being at or in the part of something opposite the front part":{
"examples":[
"the dance teacher had to keep reminding us to kick our hindmost foot when we reversed direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"aft",
"after",
"back",
"hind",
"hinder",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rearward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dorsal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ventral"
],
"antonyms":[
"anterior",
"fore",
"forward",
"front",
"frontal"
]
},
"following all others of the same kind in order or time":{
"examples":[
"the hindmost wagon in the caravan had the roughest ride because of the deep ruts and dust created by the others"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottommost",
"closing",
"concluding",
"final",
"lag",
"last",
"latest",
"latter",
"rearmost",
"terminal",
"terminating",
"ultimate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consequent",
"ensuing",
"eventual",
"following",
"succeeding",
"conclusive",
"crowning",
"decisive",
"definitive",
"farthermost",
"farthest",
"furthermost",
"furthest",
"remotest",
"lowermost",
"lowest",
"nethermost",
"endmost",
"extreme",
"outermost",
"outmost",
"utmost",
"penultimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"premier",
"superior"
],
"antonyms":[
"beginning",
"earliest",
"first",
"foremost",
"headmost",
"inaugural",
"initial",
"leadoff",
"maiden",
"opening",
"original",
"pioneer",
"primary",
"starting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hillock":{
"as in foothill , knoll":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foothill",
"hummock",
"knob",
"knoll",
"altitude(s)",
"elevation",
"eminence",
"height",
"highland",
"hump",
"mound",
"prominence",
"rise",
"upland",
"alp",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak",
"butte",
"mesa",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"precipice",
"steep",
"tor",
"ridge",
"sierra",
"dome",
"sugarloaf",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dale",
"dell",
"depression",
"dingle",
"glen",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley",
"canyon",
"gorge",
"ravine",
"basin",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"fen",
"flat",
"floodplain",
"plain",
"tidewater",
"lowland"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hits":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"a good carpenter hits a nail just two or three times to drive it in"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"scuffs",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"when she fell on the ice, she hit hard and badly bruised her elbow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bumps",
"collides",
"crashes",
"impacts",
"impinges",
"knocks",
"rams",
"slams",
"smashes",
"strikes",
"swipes",
"thuds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounces",
"caroms",
"clunks",
"glances",
"rebounds",
"ricochets",
"skims",
"skips",
"contacts",
"lands",
"touches",
"brushes",
"grazes",
"kisses",
"nudges",
"scrapes",
"shaves",
"sweeps",
"bulldozes",
"jostles",
"muscles",
"presses",
"pushes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"skirts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"the rock band hit \"the big time\" with their third album"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieves",
"attains",
"bags",
"chalks up",
"clocks (up)",
"gains",
"logs",
"makes",
"notches (up)",
"racks up",
"rings up",
"scores",
"wins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquires",
"captures",
"carries",
"draws",
"garners",
"gets",
"lands",
"obtains",
"procures",
"realizes",
"secures",
"amounts (to)",
"approaches",
"equals",
"matches",
"measures up (to)",
"meets",
"rivals",
"ties",
"touches",
"beats",
"excels",
"outdoes",
"surpasses",
"tops"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falls short (of)",
"misses",
"fails (at)",
"loses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"examples":[
"the new babysitter turned out to be a hit with the kids"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"megahits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"winners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue chippers",
"blue chips",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"pips",
"prizewinners",
"gems",
"jewels",
"treasures",
"marvels",
"naturals",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"coups",
"triumphs",
"victories"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointments",
"fizzles",
"lemons",
"losers"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"flops",
"misfires",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback can't take too many more hits like that and escape permanent injury"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"high school":{
"as in public school , middle school":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"common school",
"elementary school",
"grammar school",
"junior high school",
"kindergarten",
"middle school",
"primary school",
"public school",
"secondary school",
"senior high school",
"trade school",
"training school",
"academe",
"academy",
"school",
"seminary",
"boarding school",
"prep",
"preparatory school",
"prep school",
"charter school",
"magnet school",
"minischool",
"madrassa",
"madrasa",
"madrassah",
"madrasah",
"Sunday school",
"yeshiva",
"yeshivah"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-ticket":{
"commanding a large price":{
"examples":[
"a specialty store selling high-ticket goods to a well-heeled clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"big-ticket",
"costly",
"dear",
"expensive",
"extravagant",
"high",
"high-end",
"precious",
"premium",
"priceless",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"ultraexpensive",
"valuable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exorbitant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"sky-high",
"steep",
"stiff",
"unaffordable",
"uneconomic",
"uneconomical",
"unreasonable",
"inestimable",
"invaluable",
"deluxe",
"luxurious",
"sumptuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"discounted"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hilarities":{
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"examples":[
"hilarity is the last thing you expect to find at a funeral, but we were there to celebrate his life rather than to dwell on his death"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hits it off":{
"to form a close personal relationship":{
"examples":[
"She really hit it off with the new hire at work."
],
"synonyms":[
"bonds",
"clicks",
"communes",
"relates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befriends",
"empathizes",
"identifies",
"sympathizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hiking":{
"to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"she hiked along the trail around the pond"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambling",
"perambulating",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"tramping",
"tromping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roaming",
"roving",
"wandering",
"peregrinating",
"traipsing",
"traversing",
"trekking",
"walking",
"marching",
"promenading",
"power walking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move from a lower to a higher place or position":{
"examples":[
"with a determined look, he hiked his trousers up and buckled down to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boosting",
"craning",
"elevating",
"heaving",
"hefting",
"heightening",
"hoisting",
"jacking (up)",
"lifting",
"perking (up)",
"picking up",
"raising",
"taking up",
"upholding",
"uplifting",
"upping",
"upraising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ascending",
"mounting",
"rising",
"rearing",
"upending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"descending",
"dipping",
"falling",
"pitching",
"plunging",
"slipping",
"bearing",
"depressing",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"sinking",
"submerging"
],
"antonyms":[
"dropping",
"lowering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high priestess":{
"as in priestess":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"priestess",
"diva",
"goddess",
"princess",
"queen",
"prima donna"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high priestesses":{
"as in priestesses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"priestesses",
"divas",
"dive",
"goddesses",
"princesses",
"queens",
"prima donnas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hippodrome":{
"as in arena , dome":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arena",
"dome",
"gym",
"gymnasium",
"spa",
"ballpark",
"park",
"bowl",
"circus",
"coliseum",
"colosseum",
"stadium"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highbrowed":{
"much given to learning and thinking":{
"examples":[
"highbrowed readers were not bothered by the novel's lack of a conventional plot"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue",
"cerebral",
"eggheaded",
"geeky",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"intellectualistic",
"long-haired",
"longhair",
"nerdish",
"nerdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"erudite",
"learned",
"literate",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"professorial",
"didactic",
"high-toned",
"hyperintellectual",
"pedantic",
"high-hat",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"educated",
"schooled",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"quick-witted",
"smart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"dumb",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"slow",
"stupid",
"unintelligent",
"benighted",
"unenlightened"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectual",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"philistine"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hilts":{
"as in shafts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shafts",
"bails",
"bows",
"loops",
"crops",
"whipstocks",
"bars",
"handlebars",
"broomsticks",
"grips",
"hafts",
"handgrips",
"handles",
"helves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hirsute":{
"covered with or as if with hair":{
"examples":[
"wore a hirsute mask as part of his werewolf costume"
],
"synonyms":[
"bristly",
"brushy",
"cottony",
"fleecy",
"furred",
"furry",
"hairy",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"silky",
"unshorn",
"woolly",
"wooly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearded",
"bewhiskered",
"mustachioed",
"moustachioed",
"whiskered",
"stubbled",
"stubbly",
"downy",
"fluffy",
"fuzzy",
"linty",
"nappy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beardless",
"shaved",
"shaven"
],
"antonyms":[
"bald",
"furless",
"glabrous",
"hairless",
"shorn",
"smooth"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hideous":{
"causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment":{
"examples":[
"the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"dreadful",
"evil",
"foul",
"fulsome",
"gross",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"noxious",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"odious",
"offensive",
"rancid",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"ugly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish",
"sick",
"sickish",
"sickly",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"off-putting",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
]
},
"extremely disturbing or repellent":{
"examples":[
"a hideous crime that could not be fully described in the newspapers"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"dreadful",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmare",
"nightmarish",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarming",
"bloodcurdling",
"dire",
"direful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"gut-wrenching",
"hair-raising",
"heart-stopping",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"terrifying",
"abhorrent",
"deplorable",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"abominable",
"evil",
"foul",
"heinous",
"noxious",
"odious",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"grotesque",
"ugly",
"unsightly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"enticing",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"unpleasant to look at":{
"examples":[
"wearing a hideous Halloween mask that made the kids all jump with fright"
],
"synonyms":[
"grotesque",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"monstrous",
"ugly",
"unappealing",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly",
"vile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"dreadful",
"gross",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"plain",
"unaesthetic",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shapely",
"imposing",
"impressive",
"prepossessing"
],
"antonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"lovely",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hidden":{
"screened or sequestered from view":{
"examples":[
"a hidden beach that very few know how to get to"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloistered",
"covert",
"isolated",
"quiet",
"remote",
"retired",
"secluded",
"secret",
"sheltered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lone",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"reclusive",
"solitary",
"private"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obvious",
"visible",
"exposed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"examples":[
"the thief had hidden the stolen jewelry under the floorboards"
],
"synonyms":[
"buried",
"cached",
"concealed",
"ensconced",
"secreted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoarded",
"squirreled (away)",
"squirrelled (away)",
"stashed",
"entombed",
"interred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"shown",
"showed",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled",
"unwrapped",
"flaunted",
"paraded",
"shown off",
"showed off",
"disinterred",
"unearthed"
],
"antonyms":[
"displayed",
"exhibited"
]
},
"to keep secret or shut off from view":{
"examples":[
"he tried to hide his criminal past",
"she hid the cat's litter box behind a screen"
],
"synonyms":[
"belied",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"disguised",
"enshrouded",
"masked",
"obscured",
"occulted",
"papered over",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"suppressed",
"veiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buried",
"camouflaged",
"covered (up)",
"smothered",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"glossed (over)",
"varnished",
"whitewashed",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"blocked",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"eclipsed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"overcast",
"overshadowed",
"shaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brought out",
"presented",
"clarified",
"illuminated",
"advertised",
"aired",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"got out",
"gotten out",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spread"
],
"antonyms":[
"bared",
"disclosed",
"displayed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"shown",
"showed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
]
},
"to remain out of sight":{
"examples":[
"he hid in the closet while his roommate lied to the probation officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"holed up",
"lain",
"lurked",
"reposed",
"skulked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slunk",
"slinked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"avoided",
"eluded",
"evaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come out",
"materialized",
"shown up",
"showed up",
"turned up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appeared"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"hiatuses":{
"an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)":{
"examples":[
"steam was rising from a hiatus in the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"discontinuities",
"gaps",
"gulfs",
"holes",
"interstices",
"intervals",
"openings",
"rents",
"rifts",
"separations",
"voids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chinks",
"clefts",
"cracks",
"crannies",
"crevices",
"fissures",
"notches",
"slits",
"slots",
"splits",
"interspaces",
"pores",
"abysses",
"apertures",
"cavities",
"chasms",
"gapes",
"orifices",
"fractures",
"ruptures",
"severances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a break in continuity":{
"examples":[
"a three-year hiatus before the fifth book in the series appeared"
],
"synonyms":[
"discontinuities",
"gaps",
"hiccups",
"hiccoughs",
"interims",
"interludes",
"intermissions",
"interregnums",
"interregna",
"interruptions",
"interstices",
"intervals",
"parentheses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caesuras",
"caesurae",
"commas",
"interspaces",
"lags",
"pauses",
"spaces",
"time lags",
"windows",
"entr'actes",
"bumpers",
"adjournments",
"discontinuances",
"lapses",
"suspensions",
"lulls",
"recesses",
"respites",
"rests",
"subintervals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continua",
"continuums",
"runs",
"stretches",
"processions",
"progressions"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuations",
"continuities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hissies":{
"an outburst or display of excited anger":{
"examples":[
"she throws a royal hissy whenever her food is late"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowups",
"explosions",
"fireworks",
"fits",
"hissy fits",
"huffs",
"scenes",
"tantrums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"outbursts",
"storms",
"uproars",
"agitations",
"deliriums",
"distractions",
"frenzies",
"furies",
"furores",
"furors",
"hysterias",
"rages",
"rampages",
"convulsions",
"paroxysms",
"seizures",
"spasms",
"upheavals",
"cholers",
"indignations",
"ires",
"lividities",
"spleens",
"wraths",
"reactions",
"rises",
"danders",
"tempers",
"grouches",
"humps",
"pets",
"pouts",
"snits",
"sulks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highs":{
"a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion":{
"examples":[
"it took days for the high of the World Series win to wear off"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloud nine",
"ecstasies",
"elations",
"euphorias",
"exhilarations",
"heavens",
"intoxications",
"paradises",
"raptures",
"rhapsodies",
"seventh heaven",
"swoons",
"transports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exaltations",
"blisses",
"delights",
"enchantments",
"felicities",
"joys",
"pleasures",
"reveries",
"trances",
"inspirations",
"fervors",
"frenzies",
"passions",
"cheers",
"exuberances",
"gaieties",
"gayeties",
"glees",
"jubilances",
"jubilations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miseries",
"woes",
"blues",
"dejections",
"desolations",
"despairs",
"despondencies",
"disheartenments",
"doldrums",
"dumps",
"glooms",
"melancholies",
"mopes"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressions"
]
},
"the expanse of air surrounding the earth":{
"examples":[
"V formations of honking geese on high mean winter will soon be here"
],
"synonyms":[
"blues",
"firmaments",
"heavens",
"skies",
"welkins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midairs",
"horizons",
"skylines"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highjacking":{
"the unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal":{
"examples":[
"a country in which hijackings of foreign executives has become commonplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"abduction",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"rape",
"snatch"
],
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"impressment",
"seizure",
"shanghaiing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take control of (a vehicle) by force":{
"examples":[
"some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun"
],
"synonyms":[
"commandeering"
],
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"carjacking",
"skyjacking",
"appropriating",
"confiscating",
"expropriating",
"seizing"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hitting the roof":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"She hit the roof when her son was more than an hour late coming home."
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"flaring (up)",
"flipping (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angering",
"fulminating",
"raging",
"ranting",
"raving",
"snapping",
"snarling",
"sputtering",
"storming",
"teeing off",
"venting",
"vituperating",
"bristling",
"burning",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"glaring",
"glowering",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"steaming",
"warming",
"bursting",
"exploding",
"flaring (out)",
"flashing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"maddening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilling out",
"cooling (off or down)",
"relaxing",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"simmering down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"high-tech":{
"relating to or using new electronic devices and technology":{
"examples":[
"high-tech devices",
"The methods they use are very high-tech ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"futuristic",
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute",
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"latter-day",
"recent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anachronistic",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"hoary",
"old",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"former",
"late",
"olden",
"past",
"antique",
"historic",
"historical",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"unmodernized",
"old-world",
"discarded",
"disused",
"moth-eaten",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless",
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hiatus":{
"an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)":{
"examples":[
"steam was rising from a hiatus in the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"gulf",
"hole",
"interstice",
"interval",
"opening",
"rent",
"rift",
"separation",
"void"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"fissure",
"notch",
"slit",
"slot",
"split",
"interspace",
"pore",
"abyss",
"aperture",
"cavity",
"chasm",
"gape",
"orifice",
"fracture",
"rupture",
"severance",
"sundering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an incomplete or deficient area":{
"examples":[
"a hiatus in the law which prevented the district attorney from prosecuting the offenders"
],
"synonyms":[
"gap",
"hole",
"lacuna",
"space",
"void"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defectiveness",
"detriment",
"disability",
"failing",
"fault",
"impairment",
"weakness",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"imperfection",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"incompleteness",
"insufficience",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"need",
"shortcoming",
"shortfall",
"want"
],
"near antonyms":[
"completeness",
"fullness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a break in continuity":{
"examples":[
"a three-year hiatus before the fifth book in the series appeared"
],
"synonyms":[
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiccup",
"hiccough",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interregnum",
"interruption",
"interstice",
"interval",
"parenthesis"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caesura",
"comma",
"interspace",
"lag",
"pause",
"space",
"time lag",
"window",
"entr'acte",
"bumper",
"adjournment",
"discontinuance",
"lapse",
"suspension",
"lull",
"recess",
"respite",
"rest",
"subinterval"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuum",
"run",
"stretch",
"procession",
"progression"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuation",
"continuity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hit-and-run":{
"as in quick , fast":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fast",
"prompt",
"quick",
"rapid",
"speedy",
"swift",
"summary",
"immediate",
"instant",
"instantaneous",
"split-second",
"straightaway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilatory",
"tardy",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"deferred",
"delayed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hideaway":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"the novelist has a little hideaway in the country where he goes whenever he wants to do some serious writing"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealment",
"covert",
"den",
"hermitage",
"hideout",
"hidey-hole",
"hidy-hole",
"lair",
"nest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blind",
"cover",
"nook",
"recess",
"hangout",
"harbor",
"harborage",
"haunt",
"haven",
"redoubt",
"refuge",
"retreat",
"shelter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high hat":{
"being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior":{
"examples":[
"at the wedding reception the bride's high-hat relatives did their considerable best to ignore us"
],
"synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"elitist",
"persnickety",
"potty",
"ritzy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"snotty",
"toffee-nosed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aloof",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-handed",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppity",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"prideful",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"swellheaded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"democratic",
"egalitarian",
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"unpretentious",
"antielitist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"several high-hat society types arrived after we did, but they got seated first"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"to show contempt for":{
"examples":[
"one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemn",
"dis",
"diss",
"disdain",
"disrespect",
"look down (on or upon)",
"scorn",
"slight",
"sniff (at)",
"snoot",
"snub"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scout",
"abhor",
"abominate",
"despise",
"detest",
"execrate",
"hate",
"loathe",
"belittle",
"deplore",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"disapprove (of)",
"discountenance",
"disfavor",
"frown (on or upon)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cherish",
"prize",
"treasure",
"value",
"admire",
"esteem",
"lionize",
"hallow",
"revere",
"venerate",
"worship",
"accept",
"appreciate",
"approve (of)",
"care (for)",
"countenance",
"favor",
"OK",
"okay",
"subscribe (to)"
],
"antonyms":[
"honor",
"respect"
]
},
"to deliberately ignore or treat rudely":{
"examples":[
"was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street"
],
"synonyms":[
"cold-shoulder",
"cut",
"slight",
"snub",
"stiff",
"stiff-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"isolate",
"ostracize",
"brush (aside or off)",
"disdain",
"rebuff",
"reject",
"repel",
"repulse",
"scorn",
"spurn",
"disregard",
"forget",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"shrug off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cowboy hat , baseball cap":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball cap",
"beret",
"billycock",
"biretta",
"boater",
"bonnet",
"bowler",
"calotte",
"capuche",
"casque",
"castor",
"cloche",
"cocked hat",
"cowboy hat",
"cowl",
"derby",
"fedora",
"fez",
"garrison cap",
"hard hat",
"helm",
"helmet",
"homburg",
"hood",
"kepi",
"k\u00e9pi",
"kufi",
"leghorn",
"miter",
"mitre",
"nightcap",
"opera hat",
"overseas cap",
"panama",
"picture hat",
"pillbox",
"plug hat",
"porkpie hat",
"service cap",
"shako",
"silk hat",
"skimmer",
"skullcap",
"sombrero",
"sou'wester",
"Stetson",
"stocking cap",
"stovepipe",
"sunbonnet",
"tam",
"tam-o'-shanter",
"ten-gallon hat",
"top hat",
"topper",
"toque",
"tricorne",
"tricorn",
"turban",
"zucchetto",
"cap",
"chapeau",
"hat",
"headdress",
"headgear",
"headpiece",
"lid",
"warbonnet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"highwayman":{
"a man especially in the past who stopped travelers on roads and robbed them":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo",
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high court":{
"as in supreme court":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"supreme court",
"bar",
"bench",
"forum",
"tribunal",
"judicatory",
"judicature",
"judiciary",
"civil court",
"criminal court",
"trial court",
"court-martial",
"drumhead court-martial",
"inquisition",
"kangaroo court"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hit the ceiling":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The sellers hit the ceiling when they heard the low offer on the house."
],
"synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anger",
"fulminate",
"rage",
"rant",
"rave",
"snap",
"snarl",
"sputter",
"storm",
"tee off",
"vent",
"vituperate",
"bristle",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"glare",
"glower",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"warm",
"burst",
"explode",
"flare (out)",
"flash",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"madden"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill out",
"cool (off or down)",
"relax",
"hush",
"quiet (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"simmer down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hinge":{
"to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)":{
"examples":[
"the outcome of the game hinged on a single play"
],
"synonyms":[
"depend",
"hang",
"ride",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"base",
"establish",
"found",
"rest",
"stay",
"ground"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hissy fits":{
"an outburst or display of excited anger":{
"examples":[
"the demanding diva had a major hissy fit when she had to wait for her trailer to be ready"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowups",
"explosions",
"fireworks",
"fits",
"hissies",
"huffs",
"scenes",
"tantrums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"outbursts",
"storms",
"uproars",
"agitations",
"deliriums",
"distractions",
"frenzies",
"furies",
"furores",
"furors",
"hysterias",
"rages",
"rampages",
"convulsions",
"paroxysms",
"seizures",
"spasms",
"upheavals",
"cholers",
"indignations",
"ires",
"lividities",
"spleens",
"wraths",
"reactions",
"rises",
"danders",
"tempers",
"grouches",
"humps",
"pets",
"pouts",
"snits",
"sulks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hierarchy":{
"a scheme of rank or order":{
"examples":[
"honesty sits at the top of my hierarchy of values"
],
"synonyms":[
"graduation",
"ladder",
"ordering",
"ranking",
"scale"
],
"near synonyms":[
"food chain",
"pecking order",
"peck order",
"arrangement",
"array",
"disposal",
"disposition",
"distribution",
"sequence",
"series",
"setup",
"degree",
"echelon",
"footing",
"level",
"place",
"position",
"reaches",
"rung",
"situation",
"spot",
"standing",
"station",
"status"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hiccough":{
"a break in continuity":{
"examples":[
"the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups"
],
"synonyms":[
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiatus",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interregnum",
"interruption",
"interstice",
"interval",
"parenthesis"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caesura",
"comma",
"interspace",
"lag",
"pause",
"space",
"time lag",
"window",
"entr'acte",
"bumper",
"adjournment",
"discontinuance",
"lapse",
"suspension",
"lull",
"recess",
"respite",
"rest",
"subinterval"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuum",
"run",
"stretch",
"procession",
"progression"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuation",
"continuity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hijackings":{
"the unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal":{
"examples":[
"a country in which hijackings of foreign executives has become commonplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"abductions",
"kidnappings",
"kidnapings",
"rapes",
"snatches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressments",
"seizures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hiccup":{
"a break in continuity":{
"examples":[
"the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups"
],
"synonyms":[
"discontinuity",
"gap",
"hiatus",
"interim",
"interlude",
"intermission",
"interregnum",
"interruption",
"interstice",
"interval",
"parenthesis"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caesura",
"comma",
"interspace",
"lag",
"pause",
"space",
"time lag",
"window",
"entr'acte",
"bumper",
"adjournment",
"discontinuance",
"lapse",
"suspension",
"lull",
"recess",
"respite",
"rest",
"subinterval"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continuum",
"run",
"stretch",
"procession",
"progression"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuation",
"continuity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hierophant":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"as an early hierophant of birth control, Margaret Sanger had to face down often vehement opposition"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"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"
]
},
"hitting (on or upon)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hunting (down or up)",
"learning",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"rooting (out)",
"routing (out)",
"rummaging",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"hissed":{
"to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \\s\\":{
"examples":[
"the frightened kitten hissed at us when we tried to pick it up"
],
"synonyms":[
"fizzed",
"fizzled",
"sizzled",
"swished",
"whished",
"whizzed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swooshed",
"wheezed",
"whistled",
"whooshed",
"zipped",
"bubbled",
"effervesced",
"buzzed",
"droned",
"hummed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"historic":{
"having great meaning or lasting effect":{
"examples":[
"a historic peace agreement between the two nations"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"earth-shattering",
"earthshaking",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"monumental",
"much",
"significant",
"substantial",
"tectonic",
"weighty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"strategic",
"earnest",
"grave",
"heavy",
"serious",
"sincere",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"central",
"critical",
"crucial",
"essential",
"key",
"pivotal",
"seminal",
"vital"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paltry",
"petty",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"higher learning":{
"as in higher education":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"higher education",
"education",
"instruction",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tuition",
"tutelage",
"tutoring",
"didactics",
"pedagogics",
"pedagogy",
"coaching",
"conditioning",
"cultivation",
"preparation",
"readying",
"development",
"direction",
"guidance",
"nurturance",
"nurturing",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"improvement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hipness":{
"the quality or state of being fashionable":{
"examples":[
"such hipness does not come cheap, and his clothes budget is out of sight"
],
"synonyms":[
"cool",
"coolness",
"fashionableness",
"hip",
"hipsterism",
"modishness",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chic",
"chicness",
"dapperness",
"elegance",
"poshness",
"smartness",
"style",
"swank",
"swankiness",
"class",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"majesty",
"stateliness",
"artfulness",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"gracelessness",
"grotesqueness",
"tackiness",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness"
],
"antonyms":[
"unfashionableness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hierarchies":{
"a scheme of rank or order":{
"examples":[
"honesty sits at the top of my hierarchy of values"
],
"synonyms":[
"graduations",
"ladders",
"orderings",
"rankings",
"scales"
],
"near synonyms":[
"food chains",
"pecking orders",
"peck orders",
"arrangements",
"arrays",
"disposals",
"dispositions",
"distributions",
"sequences",
"series",
"setups",
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"reaches",
"rungs",
"situations",
"spots",
"standings",
"stations",
"statuses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hilling":{
"to form into a pile or ridge of earth":{
"examples":[
"hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze"
],
"synonyms":[
"banking",
"mounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heaping",
"piling",
"pyramiding",
"stacking",
"embanking",
"bunching",
"bundling",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"massing",
"wadding",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"conglomerating",
"gathering",
"grouping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"highfliers":{
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"one of New York's largest law firms, it attracts highfliers looking for a big-time legal career"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrappers",
"go-aheads",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"live wires",
"powerhouses",
"self-starters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beavers",
"achievers",
"comers",
"doers",
"enterprisers",
"he-men",
"individualists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdlers",
"idlers",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"putterers",
"triflers",
"goldbricks",
"malingerers",
"procrastinators",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"drones",
"lazybones",
"sluggards",
"dalliers",
"laggards",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"slowpokes",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"ignorers",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"neglecters",
"daydreamers",
"dreamers",
"dropouts",
"quitters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-spiritedness":{
"as in festivity , cheer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"facetiousness",
"flightiness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"frivolousness",
"frothiness",
"levity",
"light-headedness",
"light-mindedness",
"lightness",
"silliness",
"childishness",
"goofiness",
"puerility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnestness",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondency",
"dispiritedness",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"heartsickness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"mopes",
"moroseness",
"sadness",
"sullenness",
"unhappiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hideousness":{
"the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay":{
"examples":[
"the indescribable hideousness of the squalor in which the villagers are forced to live"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"awfulness",
"dreadfulness",
"frightfulness",
"ghastliness",
"grisliness",
"gruesomeness",
"horridness",
"horror",
"monstrosity",
"repulsiveness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badness",
"baseness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"evil",
"evilness",
"foulness",
"heinousness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"invidiousness",
"sinfulness",
"ungodliness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"accursedness",
"cursedness",
"deplorableness",
"despicableness",
"detestableness",
"execrableness",
"hatefulness",
"loathsomeness",
"reprehensibleness",
"creepiness",
"eeriness",
"fearfulness",
"fearsomeness",
"ghostliness",
"ghoulishness",
"scariness",
"agony",
"anguish",
"hellishness",
"misery",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"delightfulness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasurableness",
"allurement",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"attractiveness",
"desirability",
"desirableness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or quality of being utterly evil":{
"examples":[
"the hideousness of the defendant's alleged crimes should not prevent him from getting a fair trial"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"badness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"enormity",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"monstrosity",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"wickedness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accursedness",
"baseness",
"cursedness",
"devilishness",
"execrableness",
"fiendishness",
"hellishness",
"corruption",
"decadence",
"degeneracy",
"pervertedness",
"immorality",
"infamy",
"notoriety"
],
"near antonyms":[
"morality",
"chasteness",
"innocence",
"purity"
],
"antonyms":[
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high and low":{
"in every place or in all places":{
"examples":[
"I've been looking high and low for my glasses"
],
"synonyms":[
"all over",
"everyplace",
"everywhere",
"far and wide",
"throughout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"every which way",
"right and left"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nowhere"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"highborn":{
"of high birth, rank, or station":{
"examples":[
"skeptics have argued that these dramatic masterpieces must have been written by someone more highborn than one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon"
],
"synonyms":[
"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"highbred",
"noble",
"patrician",
"silk-stocking",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high",
"lofty",
"superior",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"exalted",
"gentlemanly",
"kingly",
"knightly",
"ladylike",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"regal",
"royal",
"high-level",
"senior"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferior",
"knavish",
"bastard",
"illegitimate",
"ordinary",
"plain",
"abased",
"degraded",
"junior",
"subordinate"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"low",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"mean",
"nonaristocratic",
"plebeian",
"ungenteel"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hinnies":{
"as in mules":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mules",
"jacks",
"jennets",
"jennies",
"pack animals",
"asses",
"burros",
"donkeys",
"jackasses",
"mokes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hives":{
"as in playgrounds , hotbeds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"happy hunting grounds",
"hotbeds",
"hot spots",
"playgrounds",
"playlands",
"headquarters",
"kernels",
"nubs",
"piths",
"axes",
"bases",
"capitals",
"centers",
"centrals",
"cores",
"cynosures",
"epicenters",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"ground zeros",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"loci",
"meccas",
"navels",
"nerve centers",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"omphali",
"seats",
"deeps",
"thicks",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"souls",
"attractions",
"lodestones",
"loadstones",
"magnets",
"polestars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in swarms , flocks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flocks",
"herds",
"packs",
"presses",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"bands",
"brigades",
"musters",
"raises",
"rallies",
"combines",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"merges",
"pools",
"unites",
"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks",
"archives",
"arranges",
"collates",
"compiles",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"balls",
"batches",
"bunches",
"clusters",
"huddles",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"bulks (up)",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"congregates",
"constellates",
"corrals",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"lumps",
"picks up",
"rounds up",
"re-collects",
"regathers",
"regroups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters",
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits (up)",
"dismisses",
"sends"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hitcher":{
"one who hitchhikes":{
"examples":[
"never stops for hitchers on interstates, where hitchhiking is illegal"
],
"synonyms":[
"hitchhiker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stowaway",
"carjacker",
"hijacker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hindrance":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"made a survey of all the hindrances to wheelchair access, such as curbs and stairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hipped":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"if you want to get hipped on what goes on behind the scenes at a television network, you should read this book"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"caught up",
"cleared",
"clued (in)",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"informed",
"instructed",
"told",
"versed",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"alerted",
"notified",
"announced (to)",
"disclosed (to)",
"assured",
"certified",
"convinced",
"reassured",
"warranted",
"educated",
"lectured",
"schooled",
"taught",
"tutored",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"undeceived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinformed",
"misled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hinted (at)":{
"as in suggested , indicated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluded (to)",
"implied",
"indicated",
"inferred",
"intended",
"intimated",
"suggested",
"adverted (to)",
"cited",
"dropped",
"instanced",
"mentioned",
"named",
"noted",
"noticed",
"quoted",
"referred (to)",
"specified",
"touched (on or upon)",
"pointed (out)",
"signaled",
"signalled",
"signified",
"denominated",
"designated",
"indicated",
"broached",
"brought up",
"interjected",
"interpolated",
"interposed",
"introduced",
"infiltrated",
"insinuated",
"wormed",
"advertised",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
"pronounced",
"publicized",
"published",
"sounded",
"clarified",
"cleared (up)",
"elucidated",
"explained",
"explicated",
"spelled out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high-class":{
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"had some surprisingly high-class food at the church supper"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bully",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hibernating":{
"to be in an inactive state":{
"examples":[
"bears hibernating in their dens"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dozing",
"estivating",
"aestivating",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"droning",
"footling",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging about",
"hanging (around or out)",
"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",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"tarrying",
"furloughing",
"goldbricking",
"malingering",
"truanting"
],
"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"
]
},
"hiss":{
"a sound similar to the speech sound \\s\\ stretched out":{
"examples":[
"the hiss of air escaping from a balloon"
],
"synonyms":[
"fizz",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swoosh",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh",
"zip",
"sibilance",
"sibilant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval":{
"examples":[
"there was a chorus of boos and hisses from the fans when the umpire called the runner out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird",
"boo",
"Bronx cheer",
"catcall",
"hoot",
"jeer",
"raspberry",
"razz",
"snort"
],
"near synonyms":[
"smirk",
"sneer",
"snicker",
"snigger",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"put-down",
"taunt",
"whistle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applause",
"clapping"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheer"
]
},
"to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \\s\\":{
"examples":[
"the frightened kitten hissed at us when we tried to pick it up"
],
"synonyms":[
"fizz",
"fizzle",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swoosh",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh",
"zip",
"bubble",
"effervesce",
"buzz",
"drone",
"hum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hiving":{
"as in swarming , flocking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flocking",
"herding",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"scraping (up or together)",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"bulking (up)",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"picking up",
"rounding up",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hickish":{
"as in hick":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hick",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"down-home",
"folksy",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"cornball",
"corn-fed",
"cornpone",
"corny",
"hokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"smart",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"hip",
"trendy",
"with-it"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high-water marks":{
"the highest part or point":{
"examples":[
"he hit the high-water mark of his acting career when he played Tiny Tim in a school play"
],
"synonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"apogees",
"capstones",
"climaxes",
"crescendos",
"crescendoes",
"crescendi",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heads",
"heights",
"high noons",
"meridians",
"ne plus ultras",
"noons",
"noontimes",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"sums",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flood tides",
"flowers",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"roofs",
"extremes",
"extremities",
"tips",
"vertices",
"vertexes",
"highlights",
"highs",
"highspots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abysses",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"minima",
"minimums"
],
"antonyms":[
"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"rock bottoms"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hits it big":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"After years of obscurity, the writer finally hit it big with her latest novel."
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hierarchize":{
"as in prioritize , sequence":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prioritize",
"sequence",
"alphabetize",
"file",
"grade",
"rank",
"rate",
"arrange",
"array",
"categorize",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"lay out",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"sort",
"systematize",
"isolate",
"separate",
"unscramble",
"align",
"aline",
"cue",
"line",
"line up",
"queue",
"display",
"map (out)",
"set out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"derange",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"mess (up)",
"muss (up)",
"rumple",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"highwaymen":{
"a man especially in the past who stopped travelers on roads and robbed them":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs",
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high horse":{
"an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims":{
"examples":[
"I won't deal with you until you get off your high horse and stop patronizing me"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritativeness",
"bossiness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"high-handedness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hijacker":{
"as in carjacker , stowaway":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"carjacker",
"stowaway",
"hitcher",
"hitchhiker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hitched":{
"as in married , wedded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attached",
"espoused",
"married",
"wedded",
"wed",
"mated",
"paired",
"affianced",
"betrothed",
"committed",
"engaged",
"pledged",
"promised",
"remarried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"single",
"unattached",
"unmarried",
"unwed",
"fancy-free",
"footloose",
"marriageable",
"unpaired"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion":{
"examples":[
"kept hitching up his pants because they were too big in the waist"
],
"synonyms":[
"bucked",
"hoicked",
"jerked",
"jolted",
"twitched",
"yanked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumped",
"jounced",
"lurched",
"pitched",
"staggered",
"jigged",
"jiggled",
"jogged",
"joggled",
"shook",
"dragged",
"lugged",
"pulled",
"tugged",
"plucked",
"tweaked",
"grabbed",
"ripped",
"snapped (up)",
"snatched",
"tore",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole":{
"examples":[
"she escaped out the window by using a makeshift rope of bedsheets and clothing she'd hitched together"
],
"synonyms":[
"catenated",
"chained",
"compounded",
"concatenated",
"conjugated",
"connected",
"coupled",
"hooked",
"interconnected",
"interlinked",
"joined",
"linked",
"yoked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"articulated",
"dovetailed",
"integrated",
"interlocked",
"intermeshed",
"corded",
"strung",
"wired",
"cemented",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"fused",
"united",
"welded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"divided",
"parted",
"split",
"cleaved",
"cleft",
"ruptured",
"severed",
"sundered"
],
"antonyms":[
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disjointed",
"dissevered",
"disunited",
"separated",
"unchained",
"uncoupled",
"unhitched",
"unlinked",
"unyoked"
]
},
"to put securely in place or in a desired position":{
"examples":[
"hitched the trailer to the back of the car"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchored",
"caught",
"clamped",
"fastened",
"fixed",
"moored",
"secured",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extracted",
"pried",
"prized",
"pulled",
"rooted (out)",
"tore (out)",
"uprooted",
"wrested",
"yanked"
],
"antonyms":[
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unfastened",
"unfixed",
"unloosed",
"unloosened"
]
},
"to travel by securing free rides":{
"examples":[
"her brother hitched across the country after he graduated from college"
],
"synonyms":[
"hitchhiked",
"thumbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bummed",
"stowed away",
"carjacked",
"hijacked",
"highjacked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"high-toned":{
"as in intellectual , highbrow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"intellectualistic",
"accomplished",
"civilized",
"couth",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"bourgeois",
"educated",
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"civil",
"courteous",
"mannerly",
"polite",
"well-bred",
"cosmopolitan",
"sophisticated",
"urbane",
"hypercivilized",
"overcivilized",
"oversophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"philistine",
"uncivilized",
"uncultured",
"ungenteel",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlettered",
"lowbrow",
"unintelligent",
"coarse",
"ill-bred",
"ill-mannered",
"backwoods",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"inelegant",
"polyester",
"unsophisticated",
"boorish",
"churlish",
"cloddish",
"clownish",
"crude",
"uncouth",
"vulgar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in airy , high-flown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airy",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"sententious",
"affected",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-minded",
"la-di-da",
"la-de-da",
"lah-de-dah",
"lah-dee-dah",
"lah-di-dah",
"ostentatious",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"snippy",
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"imperious",
"important",
"overweening",
"presumptuous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"self-aggrandizing",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"cavalier",
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"lordly",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"boastful",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"flaunting",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"showy",
"splashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"modest",
"unpretentious",
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"homely",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"retiring",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"shy",
"timid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hit the sack":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"examples":[
"It's been a great evening, but I'm ready to hit the hay ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"crash",
"doss (down)",
"retire",
"turn in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"couch",
"lie (down)",
"recline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"rouse",
"wake",
"waken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"uprise"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hindrances":{
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"made a survey of all the hindrances to wheelchair access, such as curbs and stairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"balks",
"bars",
"blocks",
"chains",
"clogs",
"cramps",
"crimps",
"deterrents",
"drags",
"embarrassments",
"encumbrances",
"fetters",
"handicaps",
"holdbacks",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"shackles",
"stops",
"stumbling blocks",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches",
"hitches",
"rubs",
"snags",
"barriers",
"blockades",
"blockages",
"brick walls",
"stone walls",
"arrests",
"bits",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"hobbles",
"reins",
"restraints",
"embargoes",
"stoppages",
"delays",
"holdups",
"stalls",
"burdens",
"cumbers",
"loads",
"dangers",
"hazards",
"perils",
"reefs",
"adversities",
"difficulties",
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"hardships"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalysts",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"advantages",
"breaks",
"edges",
"aids",
"assistances",
"benefits",
"boosts",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hinges":{
"to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)":{
"examples":[
"the outcome of the game hinged on a single play"
],
"synonyms":[
"depends",
"hangs",
"rides",
"turns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bases",
"establishes",
"founds",
"rests",
"stays",
"grounds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high-sounding":{
"full of fine words and fancy expressions":{
"examples":[
"high-sounding speeches full of promises that the candidates would never keep"
],
"synonyms":[
"aureate",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"magnific",
"ornate",
"purple",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bloated",
"fancy-pants",
"grandiose",
"inflated",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"excessive",
"flattering",
"fulsome",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"lofty",
"bookish",
"inkhorn",
"learned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prosaic",
"unpoetic",
"bald",
"direct",
"lean",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"spare",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"natural",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hilarious":{
"causing or intended to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"hilarious cartoons that the whole family can enjoy",
"the clown's hilarious antics"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"mad",
"merry",
"mirthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[
"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hinged":{
"to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)":{
"examples":[
"the outcome of the game hinged on a single play"
],
"synonyms":[
"depended",
"hung",
"hanged",
"rode",
"rid",
"turned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"based",
"established",
"founded",
"rested",
"stayed",
"grounded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high comedy":{
"as in low comedy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"low comedy",
"comedy",
"farce",
"humor",
"slapstick",
"burlesque",
"parody",
"satire",
"improv",
"stand-up",
"banter",
"drollery",
"persiflage",
"wit",
"foolery",
"fun",
"horseplay",
"knockabout",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high and dry":{
"unable to act or achieve one's purpose":{
"examples":[
"the inadequate supplies of vaccine left many people high and dry when the flu season arrived"
],
"synonyms":[
"hamstrung",
"handcuffed",
"helpless",
"hog-tied",
"impotent",
"impuissant",
"paralyzed",
"powerless",
"weak"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inept",
"unfit",
"useless",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"passive",
"spineless",
"supine",
"unaggressive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"effective",
"efficient",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"magisterial",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"dominant",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"forceful",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"vigorous",
"important",
"major",
"significant",
"high-level",
"senior",
"top"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"strong"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high rollers":{
"someone who spends money freely or foolishly":{
"examples":[
"in the carefree environment of a vacation, even a person of modest means has the urge to play the high roller"
],
"synonyms":[
"fritterers",
"prodigals",
"profligates",
"spenders",
"spendthrifts",
"squanderers",
"wasters",
"wastrels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissipates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheapskates",
"misers",
"niggards",
"pikers",
"scrooges",
"skinflints",
"tightwads",
"conservers",
"savers"
],
"antonyms":[
"economizers",
"penny-pinchers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hiccups":{
"a break in continuity":{
"examples":[
"the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups"
],
"synonyms":[
"discontinuities",
"gaps",
"hiatuses",
"interims",
"interludes",
"intermissions",
"interregnums",
"interregna",
"interruptions",
"interstices",
"intervals",
"parentheses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caesuras",
"caesurae",
"commas",
"interspaces",
"lags",
"pauses",
"spaces",
"time lags",
"windows",
"entr'actes",
"bumpers",
"adjournments",
"discontinuances",
"lapses",
"suspensions",
"lulls",
"recesses",
"respites",
"rests",
"subintervals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"continua",
"continuums",
"runs",
"stretches",
"processions",
"progressions"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuations",
"continuities"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hierophants":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"as an early hierophant of birth control, Margaret Sanger had to face down often vehement opposition"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"expounders",
"friends",
"gospelers",
"gospellers",
"heralds",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"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"
]
},
"hits the hay":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"examples":[
"It's been a great evening, but I'm ready to hit the hay ."
],
"synonyms":[
"beds",
"crashes",
"dosses (down)",
"retires",
"turns in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunks",
"perches",
"roosts",
"settles",
"dozes",
"drops off",
"naps",
"nods",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes",
"couches",
"lies (down)",
"reclines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arouses",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"rouses",
"wakens",
"wakes",
"bestirs",
"stirs",
"reawakens",
"reawakes",
"shifts",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[
"arises",
"gets up",
"rises",
"uprises"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hideosity":{
"something unpleasant to look at":{
"examples":[
"residents of the historic district have protested that a fast-food joint would be a hideosity and totally out of character with the rest of the neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"eyesore",
"fright",
"horror",
"mess",
"monstrosity",
"sight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eye-catcher",
"blot",
"smear",
"smudge",
"spot",
"stain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"vision"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high commands":{
"as in homes , centers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"commands",
"headquarters",
"seats",
"centers",
"homes",
"capitals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-pressure":{
"having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal":{
"examples":[
"a high-pressure salesman who wouldn't take \"no\" for an answer",
"\"for a limited time only\" and other standbys of high-pressure advertising"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"ambitious",
"assertive",
"enterprising",
"fierce",
"go-getting",
"in-your-face",
"militant",
"pushy",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"gladiatorial",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"trigger-happy",
"truculent",
"warlike",
"hyperaggressive",
"overambitious",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"gung ho",
"hustling",
"strenuous",
"vigorous",
"emphatic",
"obtrusive",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"daring",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"gutsy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"bumptious",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"determined",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"overconfident",
"presumptuous",
"unapologetic",
"unsubdued",
"unyielding",
"bare-knuckle",
"bare-knuckled",
"bare-knuckles",
"feisty",
"scrappy",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"overbearing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed",
"acquiescent",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"docile",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"shrinking",
"bashful",
"demure",
"diffident",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"mild",
"modest",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambitionless",
"low-pressure",
"nonassertive",
"unaggressive",
"unambitious",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising"
]
},
"as in distribute , market":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"distribute",
"hustle",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"trade (in)",
"vend",
"retail",
"wholesale",
"hawk",
"peddle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in threaten , blackmail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blackmail",
"menace",
"shame",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"drag",
"blackjack",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"drive",
"force",
"impel",
"impress",
"make",
"muscle",
"obligate",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"sandbag",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"argue",
"convince",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"highjacked":{
"to take control of (a vehicle) by force":{
"examples":[
"some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun"
],
"synonyms":[
"commandeered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carjacked",
"skyjacked",
"appropriated",
"confiscated",
"expropriated",
"seized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hits the ceiling":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The sellers hit the ceiling when they heard the low offer on the house."
],
"synonyms":[
"blows up",
"flares (up)",
"flips (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angers",
"fulminates",
"rages",
"rants",
"raves",
"snaps",
"snarls",
"sputters",
"storms",
"tees off",
"vents",
"vituperates",
"bristles",
"burns",
"foams",
"fumes",
"glares",
"glowers",
"seethes",
"sizzles",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"steams",
"warms",
"bursts",
"explodes",
"flares (out)",
"flashes",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"maddens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chills out",
"cools (off or down)",
"relaxes",
"hushes",
"quiets (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calms (down)",
"simmers down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hies":{
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we had best hie home before the snow gets worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"higher education":{
"attendance as a student at a college or university":{
"examples":[
"Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"higher learning",
"education",
"instruction",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tuition",
"tutelage",
"tutoring",
"didactics",
"pedagogics",
"pedagogy",
"coaching",
"conditioning",
"cultivation",
"preparation",
"readying",
"development",
"direction",
"guidance",
"nurturance",
"nurturing",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"improvement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hickey":{
"a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember":{
"examples":[
"I lost the hickey that locks and unlocks the car's doors by remote control"
],
"synonyms":[
"dingus",
"doodad",
"doohickey",
"thingamabob",
"thingamajig",
"thingumajig",
"thingummy",
"whatchamacallit",
"whatnot",
"whatsit",
"whatsis",
"what-is-it"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small, inflamed swelling of the skin":{
"examples":[
"the last thing she needed on her wedding day was a hickey for her radiant face"
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"fester",
"papule",
"pimple",
"pock",
"pustule",
"whelk",
"zit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackhead",
"blister",
"milium",
"whitehead",
"bump",
"lump",
"protuberance",
"sore",
"wart",
"weal",
"welt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-level":{
"of great importance or high rank":{
"examples":[
"These military secrets are known only to a few high-level government officials."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"senior",
"top",
"arch",
"big",
"capital",
"cardinal",
"central",
"chief",
"dominant",
"first",
"foremost",
"grand",
"great",
"greatest",
"highest",
"key",
"leading",
"main",
"master",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"paramount",
"predominant",
"preeminent",
"premier",
"primal",
"primary",
"principal",
"prior",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"supreme",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"prestigious",
"signal",
"star",
"stellar",
"superior",
"important",
"influential",
"major",
"mighty",
"momentous",
"significant",
"incomparable",
"matchless",
"unequaled",
"unequalled",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"renowned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"collateral",
"inferior",
"secondary",
"subordinate",
"subsidiary",
"last",
"least"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high schooler":{
"as in middle schooler , kindergartner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"middler",
"middle schooler",
"coed",
"collegian",
"postgraduate",
"undergraduate",
"freshman",
"junior",
"senior",
"sophomore",
"schoolfellow",
"schoolmate",
"underclassman",
"undergrad",
"upperclassman",
"day student",
"preppy",
"preppie",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"exchange student",
"reader",
"studier",
"pupil",
"scholar",
"student"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hidden tax":{
"as in property tax , income tax":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capitation",
"custom(s)",
"excise",
"income tax",
"poll tax",
"property tax",
"sales tax",
"single tax",
"sin tax",
"tariff",
"toll",
"tribute",
"value-added tax",
"withholding tax",
"assessment",
"duty",
"imposition",
"impost",
"levy",
"tax",
"direct tax",
"personal tax",
"supertax",
"surcharge",
"surtax",
"death tax",
"estate tax",
"inheritance tax",
"flat tax",
"proportional tax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hikers":{
"a person who travels by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"the hikers set out before dawn in order to have the trail to themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"amblers",
"perambulators",
"ramblers",
"trampers",
"walkers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pedestrians",
"roamers",
"rovers",
"trekkers",
"wanderers",
"wayfarers",
"alpinists",
"Alpinists",
"backpackers",
"climbers",
"mountaineers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hints":{
"a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)":{
"examples":[
"can't you give me some hint as to where you're taking me?"
],
"synonyms":[
"clues",
"cues",
"indications",
"inklings",
"intimations",
"leads",
"suggestions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaths",
"flickers",
"glimmers",
"glimpses",
"mentions",
"scents",
"whiffs",
"winds",
"hunches",
"ideas",
"inspirations",
"notions",
"allusions",
"implications",
"inferences",
"innuendos",
"innuendoes",
"insinuations",
"denotations",
"evidences",
"guideposts",
"keys",
"marks",
"overtones",
"pointers",
"signals",
"signs",
"telltales",
"tokens",
"assistances",
"nods",
"prompts",
"tip-offs",
"tips",
"winks",
"feelings",
"forebodings",
"intuitions",
"premonitions",
"presentiments",
"suspicions",
"auguries",
"foreshadowers",
"foretastes",
"harbingers",
"omens",
"portents",
"prefigurements",
"presages",
"symptoms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answers",
"solutions"
],
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},
"an almost imperceptible sign of something":{
"examples":[
"there was the slightest hint of scorn in her voice"
],
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"breaths",
"flickers",
"glimmers",
"suggestions",
"tangs",
"touches",
"traces",
"whiffs"
],
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"inklings",
"intimations",
"scents",
"winds",
"evidences",
"indications",
"marks",
"signs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"permeations",
"pervasions",
"saturations"
],
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},
"a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert":{
"examples":[
"some helpful hints for cleaning carpet stains"
],
"synonyms":[
"leads",
"pointers",
"tips"
],
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"advice",
"advisements",
"assistances",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"cautions",
"signals",
"signs",
"telltales",
"tip-offs",
"warnings",
"briefs",
"directions",
"feedback",
"instructions",
"observations",
"prompts",
"reminders",
"urgings",
"answers",
"clues",
"solutions"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"I detect just a hint of mint in the sauce"
],
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"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
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"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey an idea indirectly":{
"examples":[
"kept hinting that she wouldn't mind an invitation to spend the weekend at their beach house"
],
"synonyms":[
"alludes",
"implies",
"indicates",
"infers",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adverts",
"mentions",
"points",
"refers",
"signalizes",
"signals",
"signifies",
"smacks (of)",
"smells (of)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announces",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"elucidates",
"explains",
"spells out",
"delineates",
"describes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"high-flying":{
"as in aggressive , opportunistic":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"opportunistic",
"overambitious",
"pretentious",
"pushy",
"self-assertive",
"determined",
"diligent",
"driving",
"dynamic",
"enterprising",
"gung ho",
"hungry",
"hustling",
"industrious",
"motivated",
"scrappy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"ambitious",
"aspiring",
"go-getting",
"hard-driving",
"pushing",
"self-seeking",
"animated",
"lively",
"spirited",
"ardent",
"avid",
"eager",
"energetic",
"impassioned",
"keen",
"raring",
"vigorous",
"competing",
"competitive",
"rival",
"rivalrous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"ambitionless",
"unambitious",
"apathetic",
"disinterested",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic",
"unexcited",
"uninterested",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"lackadaisical",
"lazyish",
"halfhearted",
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"lazy",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"shiftless",
"sluggish",
"spiritless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hitchhiker":{
"one who hitchhikes":{
"examples":[
"police have issued warnings about a serial killer who is believed to be preying upon hitchhikers"
],
"synonyms":[
"hitcher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stowaway",
"carjacker",
"hijacker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highflyer":{
"an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired":{
"examples":[
"one of New York's largest law firms, it attracts highfliers looking for a big-time legal career"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootstrapper",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"live wire",
"powerhouse",
"self-starter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eager beaver",
"achiever",
"comer",
"doer",
"enterpriser",
"he-man",
"individualist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dawdler",
"idler",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"putterer",
"trifler",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"procrastinator",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"drone",
"lazybones",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"laggard",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"slowpoke",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"ignorer",
"ne'er-do-well",
"neglecter",
"daydreamer",
"dreamer",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hits the road":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"When the sun started to set they knew it was time to hit the road ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hit man":{
"as in torpedo , bravo":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bravo",
"torpedo",
"triggerman",
"assassin",
"cutthroat",
"homicide",
"killer",
"manslayer",
"murderer",
"butcher",
"executioner",
"massacrer",
"slaughterer",
"slayer",
"murderess"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hatchet man , hired gun":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hatchet man",
"hired gun",
"polemicist",
"polemist",
"barracuda",
"shark",
"attack dog",
"mudslinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high jinks":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"despite the team's dismal record, the players have won over many fans with their exuberant high jinks"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"hits the bottle":{
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"He told others in the group about how he used to immediately hit the bottle after work."
],
"synonyms":[
"bibs",
"boozes",
"drinks",
"guzzles",
"liquors (up)",
"lushes (up)",
"soaks",
"tipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouses",
"revels",
"imbibes",
"nips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hick":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpkin",
"chawbacon",
"churl",
"clodhopper",
"cornball",
"countryman",
"hayseed",
"provincial",
"rube",
"rustic",
"yokel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boor",
"clod",
"clown",
"gawk",
"lout",
"oaf",
"greenhorn",
"tenderfoot",
"peasant",
"peon",
"backwoodsman",
"mountaineer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slicker",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"metropolitan",
"suburbanite",
"urbanite"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"cosmopolite",
"sophisticate"
]
},
"as in hickish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hickish",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"down-home",
"folksy",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"cornball",
"corn-fed",
"cornpone",
"corny",
"hokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"smart",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"hip",
"trendy",
"with-it"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in unsophisticated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"unsophisticated",
"limited",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant",
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"high ground":{
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"one would have thought that having the superior product would have given the company the high ground in the video format war"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"bulge",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"edge",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"stead",
"upper hand",
"vantage",
"whip hand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"head start",
"lead",
"leg up",
"margin",
"odds",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"command",
"dominance",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"transcendency",
"precedence",
"preference",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"seniority",
"break",
"foothold",
"opportunity",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detriment",
"stranglehold",
"disparity",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"unevenness",
"disability",
"failing",
"impairment",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hinting (at)":{
"as in suggesting , indicating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluding (to)",
"implying",
"indicating",
"inferring",
"intending",
"intimating",
"suggesting",
"adverting (to)",
"citing",
"dropping",
"instancing",
"mentioning",
"naming",
"noticing",
"noting",
"quoting",
"referring (to)",
"specifying",
"touching (on or upon)",
"pointing (out)",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"signifying",
"denominating",
"designating",
"indicating",
"bringing up",
"broaching",
"interjecting",
"interpolating",
"interposing",
"introducing",
"infiltrating",
"insinuating",
"worming",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"sounding",
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"explicating",
"spelling out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hic jacet":{
"as in inscription , epitaph":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"epitaph",
"inscription",
"necrology",
"obit",
"obituary",
"eulogy",
"memorial",
"testimonial",
"tribute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"highbrow":{
"much given to learning and thinking":{
"examples":[
"finally, a TV series that appeals to a highbrow audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue",
"cerebral",
"eggheaded",
"geeky",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"intellectualistic",
"long-haired",
"longhair",
"nerdish",
"nerdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"erudite",
"learned",
"literate",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"professorial",
"didactic",
"high-toned",
"hyperintellectual",
"pedantic",
"high-hat",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"educated",
"schooled",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"quick-witted",
"smart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlettered",
"unread",
"dumb",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"moronic",
"slow",
"stupid",
"unintelligent",
"benighted",
"unenlightened"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectual",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"philistine"
]
},
"a person with strong intellectual interests":{
"examples":[
"guests at her elegant dinner parties are a mix of the city's highbrows and captains of industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"double-dome",
"geek",
"intellectual",
"intellectualist",
"longhair",
"nerd"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"bluestocking",
"Brahmin",
"mandarin",
"sage",
"intellectualizer",
"pseud",
"brain",
"genius",
"intellect",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blockhead",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dumbbell",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"fathead",
"half-wit",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"nitwit",
"pinhead",
"simpleton"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-intellectual",
"lowbrow",
"philistine"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"hillocks":{
"as in foothills , knolls":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foothills",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"humps",
"mounds",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands",
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"canyons",
"gorges",
"ravines",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters",
"lowlands"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hiker":{
"a person who travels by foot for exercise or pleasure":{
"examples":[
"the hikers set out before dawn in order to have the trail to themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambler",
"perambulator",
"rambler",
"tramper",
"walker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pedestrian",
"roamer",
"rover",
"trekker",
"wanderer",
"wayfarer",
"alpinist",
"backpacker",
"climber",
"mountaineer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hideaways":{
"a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others":{
"examples":[
"the novelist has a little hideaway in the country where he goes whenever he wants to do some serious writing"
],
"synonyms":[
"concealments",
"coverts",
"dens",
"hermitages",
"hideouts",
"hidey-holes",
"hidy-holes",
"lairs",
"nests"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blinds",
"covers",
"nooks",
"recesses",
"hangouts",
"harborages",
"harbors",
"haunts",
"havens",
"redoubts",
"refuges",
"retreats",
"shelters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"historical":{
"restricted to or based on fact":{
"examples":[
"a historical novel that tells the story of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps through the eyes of a young boy"
],
"synonyms":[
"documentary",
"factual",
"hard",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"nonfictional",
"objective",
"true"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"right",
"documented",
"established",
"confirmable",
"reliable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable",
"demonstrable",
"provable",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"plain",
"simple",
"certain",
"undoubted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"fictional",
"fictionalized",
"fictitious",
"nondocumentary",
"nonfactual",
"nonhistorical",
"unhistorical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hits (up)":{
"to make a request of":{
"examples":[
"she's always hitting me up for money"
],
"synonyms":[
"asks",
"requests",
"solicits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeals (to)",
"begs",
"beseeches",
"conjures",
"entreats",
"implores",
"importunes",
"invites",
"invokes",
"petitions",
"pleads (to)",
"prays",
"supplicates",
"demands",
"enjoins",
"exacts",
"presses",
"requires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"forces",
"obliges",
"requires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"hierarch":{
"as in administrator , director":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"administrator",
"commander",
"director",
"employer",
"executive",
"general",
"governor",
"higher-up",
"boss",
"boss man",
"captain",
"chief",
"foreman",
"forewoman",
"head",
"headman",
"helmsman",
"honcho",
"jefe",
"kingpin",
"leader",
"master",
"mistress",
"taskmaster",
"taskmistress",
"leadman",
"manager",
"overseer",
"principal",
"skipper",
"standard-bearer",
"steward",
"straw boss",
"superintendent",
"superior",
"supervisor",
"gaffer",
"ganger",
"overlord",
"potentate",
"ruler",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"figurehead",
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"czarina",
"tsarina",
"tzarina",
"king",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"president",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"bigwig",
"top dog",
"top gun",
"cohead",
"coleader"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-muck-a-muck":{
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"examples":[
"failed to pass muster with the country club's high-muck-a-mucks"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"fat cat",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"wheel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lion",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"tycoon",
"VIP"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity"
],
"antonyms":[
"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hitting the ceiling":{
"to become very angry":{
"examples":[
"The sellers hit the ceiling when they heard the low offer on the house."
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"flaring (up)",
"flipping (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angering",
"fulminating",
"raging",
"ranting",
"raving",
"snapping",
"snarling",
"sputtering",
"storming",
"teeing off",
"venting",
"vituperating",
"bristling",
"burning",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"glaring",
"glowering",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"steaming",
"warming",
"bursting",
"exploding",
"flaring (out)",
"flashing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"maddening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chilling out",
"cooling (off or down)",
"relaxing",
"hushing",
"quieting (down)"
],
"antonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"simmering down"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hippodromes":{
"as in arenas , domes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arenas",
"domes",
"gymnasiums",
"gymnasia",
"gyms",
"spas",
"ballparks",
"parks",
"bowls",
"circuses",
"coliseums",
"colosseums",
"stadiums",
"stadia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hipping":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"if you want to get hipped on what goes on behind the scenes at a television network, you should read this book"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainting",
"advising",
"apprising",
"briefing",
"catching up",
"clearing",
"clueing (in)",
"cluing (in)",
"enlightening",
"familiarizing",
"filling in",
"informing",
"instructing",
"telling",
"versing",
"wising (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"alerting",
"notifying",
"announcing (to)",
"disclosing (to)",
"assuring",
"certifying",
"convincing",
"reassuring",
"warranting",
"educating",
"lecturing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"tutoring",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning",
"undeceiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"high courts":{
"as in supreme courts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"supreme courts",
"bars",
"benches",
"forums",
"fora",
"tribunals",
"judicatories",
"judicatures",
"judiciaries",
"civil courts",
"criminal courts",
"trial courts",
"courts-martial",
"court-martials",
"drumhead court-martials",
"inquisitions",
"kangaroo courts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high-mindedness":{
"as in blamelessness , scrupulousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blamelessness",
"character",
"conscientiousness",
"decency",
"fairness",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"justice",
"morality",
"nobility",
"reputability",
"respectability",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baseness",
"dishonor",
"lowness",
"corruptibility",
"corruption",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"debauchery",
"decadence",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"disgrace",
"disgracefulness",
"disreputableness",
"dissipatedness",
"dissipation",
"dissoluteness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"profligacy",
"shamelessness",
"venality",
"blameworthiness",
"criminality",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"immorality",
"unrighteousness",
"unscrupulousness",
"knavery",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"meanness",
"reprehensibleness",
"rottenness",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"high schools":{
"as in public schools , middle schools":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"common schools",
"elementary schools",
"grammar schools",
"junior high schools",
"kindergartens",
"middle schools",
"primary schools",
"public schools",
"secondary schools",
"senior high schools",
"trade schools",
"training schools",
"academes",
"academies",
"schools",
"seminaries",
"boarding schools",
"preparatory schools",
"preps",
"prep schools",
"charter schools",
"magnet schools",
"minischools",
"madrassas",
"madrasas",
"madrassahs",
"madrasahs",
"Sunday schools",
"yeshivas",
"yeshivot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hipsters":{
"as in moderns , trendies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"moderns",
"trendies",
"liberals",
"progressives",
"radicals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"fuds",
"mossbacks",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds",
"stuffed shirts",
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"Tories",
"mandarins",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hit the hay":{
"to go to one's bed in order to sleep":{
"examples":[
"It's been a great evening, but I'm ready to hit the hay ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"crash",
"doss (down)",
"retire",
"turn in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle",
"doze",
"drop off",
"nap",
"nod",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"couch",
"lie (down)",
"recline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"rouse",
"wake",
"waken",
"bestir",
"stir",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"shift",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"get up",
"rise",
"uprise"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hitting it big":{
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"After years of obscurity, the writer finally hit it big with her latest novel."
],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"hitting the road":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"When the sun started to set they knew it was time to hit the road ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"high-rise":{
"as in statuesque":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"statuesque",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"raised",
"uplifted",
"upswept",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"eminent",
"prominent",
"altitudinous",
"high",
"lofty",
"tall",
"towering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"low",
"low-lying",
"short",
"squat",
"flat",
"stubby",
"stumpy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hipster":{
"as in modern , trendy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"modern",
"trendy",
"liberal",
"progressive",
"radical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antediluvian",
"Colonel Blimp",
"dodo",
"fogy",
"fogey",
"fossil",
"fud",
"fuddy-duddy",
"mossback",
"reactionary",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"stuffed shirt",
"conservative",
"rightist",
"Tory",
"mandarin",
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"veteran"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hierarchically":{
"as in increasingly , progressively":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gradationally",
"gradually",
"inchmeal",
"little by little",
"piece by piece",
"piecemeal",
"crescively",
"increasingly",
"progressively",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"slowly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abruptly",
"suddenly",
"acutely",
"sharply",
"steeply",
"hastily",
"precipitously"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"hit (up)":{
"to make a request of":{
"examples":[
"she's always hitting me up for money"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask",
"request",
"solicit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeal (to)",
"beg",
"beseech",
"conjure",
"entreat",
"implore",
"importune",
"invite",
"invoke",
"petition",
"plead (to)",
"pray",
"supplicate",
"demand",
"enjoin",
"exact",
"press",
"require"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"force",
"oblige",
"require"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"higher":{
"being far along in development":{
"examples":[
"an institute of higher learning",
"higher primates, such as the apes"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"developed",
"evolved",
"forward",
"high",
"improved",
"late",
"progressive",
"refined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precocious",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"full-scale",
"aged",
"grown",
"mature",
"matured",
"perfected",
"ripe",
"ripened",
"civilized",
"educated",
"enhanced",
"enlightened",
"contemporary",
"current",
"cutting-edge",
"latest",
"leading-edge",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"newest",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"novel",
"now",
"present-day",
"recent",
"space-age",
"supermodern",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
],
"near antonyms":[
"green",
"immature",
"underdeveloped",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"underweight",
"unripe",
"unripened",
"savage",
"uncivilized",
"uneducated",
"early",
"embryonic",
"germinal",
"primeval",
"primordial",
"antediluvian",
"antiquated",
"antique",
"dated",
"fusty",
"hoary",
"musty",
"Neanderthal",
"Neandertal",
"obsolete",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"past"
],
"antonyms":[
"backward",
"low",
"lower",
"nonprogressive",
"primitive",
"retarded",
"rude",
"rudimentary",
"undeveloped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"high priest":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"the high priest of tax relief for the state's property owners"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"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"
]
},
"one who brings an art or science to full realization":{
"examples":[
"as the high priest of nouvelle cuisine, he was enormously influential in the food world"
],
"synonyms":[
"exponent",
"expounder",
"guru",
"interpreter",
"practitioner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dean",
"doyen",
"grand old man",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"philosopher",
"theorist",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hibernate":{
"to be in an inactive state":{
"examples":[
"bears hibernating in their dens"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doze",
"estivate",
"aestivate",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"hang about",
"idle",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"piddle",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"sleep",
"tarry",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grind",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
"exert",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}
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