dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/fat_MWT.json
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{
"fat cat":{
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"the economy was in recession, but the fat-cat financiers on Wall Street didn't seem to be suffering"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"a wealthy person":{
"examples":[
"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
"antonyms":[
"have-not",
"pauper"
]
},
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"examples":[
"a candidate that has the backing of most of the party's fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"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":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fatalist":{
"as in pessimist , defeatist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"handwringer",
"nervous Nellie",
"nervous Nelly",
"worrier",
"worrywart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fated":{
"as in destined , predestined":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"destined",
"foreordained",
"predestined",
"predetermined",
"preordained",
"likely",
"possible",
"probable",
"inexorable",
"relentless",
"unremitting",
"unstoppable",
"decided",
"definite",
"settled",
"certain",
"ineluctable",
"ineludible",
"inescapable",
"inevitable",
"necessary",
"sure",
"unavoidable",
"unescapable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoidable",
"evadable",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"preventable",
"preventible",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"questionable",
"shaky",
"unclear",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"improbable",
"unlikely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"destined",
"doomed",
"foredoomed",
"foreordained",
"ordained",
"predestined",
"predetermined",
"preordained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinated",
"augured",
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prognosticated",
"prophesied",
"preconceived",
"prejudged",
"condemned",
"sentenced",
"boded",
"foreboded",
"forboded",
"portended",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"foreknew",
"foresaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fateful":{
"bringing about ruin or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"a fateful encounter with a confidence man that they would long regret"
],
"synonyms":[
"calamitous",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"catastrophic",
"damning",
"destructive",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"ruinous",
"unfortunate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"adverse",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fates":{
"a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand":{
"examples":[
"the belief that it was this country's fate to extend from sea to sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumstances",
"destinies",
"dooms",
"fortunes",
"kismets",
"lots",
"portions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidents",
"casualties",
"chances",
"happenchances",
"happenstances",
"haps",
"hazards",
"luck",
"predestinations",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause":{
"examples":[
"the fate of the presidential election hinged on a few thousand votes in a single state"
],
"synonyms":[
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"backwashes",
"children",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"corollaries",
"developments",
"effects",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"precipitates",
"products",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramifications",
"denouements",
"d\u00e9nouements",
"echoes",
"echos",
"implications",
"repercussions",
"afterclaps",
"afterglows",
"aftershocks",
"blowbacks",
"by-products",
"byproducts",
"fallouts",
"offshoots",
"ripples",
"side effects",
"side reactions",
"spin-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"considerations",
"determinants",
"factors",
"bases",
"bases",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"inspirations",
"instigations",
"stimuli",
"mothers",
"origins",
"roots",
"sources",
"springs"
],
"antonyms":[
"antecedents",
"causations",
"causes",
"occasions",
"reasons"
]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"he met his fate in a tragic highway accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"deaths",
"deceases",
"demises",
"dissolutions",
"dooms",
"ends",
"exits",
"expirations",
"expiries",
"graves",
"great divides",
"passages",
"passings",
"quietuses",
"sleeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"martyrdoms",
"self-destructions",
"self-murders",
"self-slaughters",
"suicides",
"annihilations",
"destructions",
"endings",
"exterminations",
"ruins",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existences",
"lives",
"creations",
"geneses",
"originations",
"rises"
],
"antonyms":[
"births",
"nativities"
]
},
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"destines",
"dooms",
"foredooms",
"foreordains",
"ordains",
"predestines",
"predetermines",
"preordains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinates",
"augurs",
"forecasts",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"presages",
"prognosticates",
"prophesies",
"preconceives",
"prejudges",
"condemns",
"sentences",
"bodes",
"forebodes",
"forbodes",
"portends",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"foreknows",
"foresees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"father images":{
"as in father figures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"father figures",
"daddies",
"dads",
"fathers",
"old men",
"papas",
"poppas",
"pas",
"paters",
"pops",
"sires",
"patresfamilias",
"patriarchs",
"stepfathers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fathered":{
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"got",
"sired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiplied",
"procreated",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"produced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fathers":{
"a male human parent":{
"examples":[
"the special relationship that exists between fathers and sons"
],
"synonyms":[
"daddies",
"dads",
"old men",
"papas",
"poppas",
"pas",
"paters",
"pops",
"sires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patresfamilias",
"patriarchs",
"father figures",
"father images",
"stepfathers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"Sir Isaac Newton is regarded by many as the father of modern science"
],
"synonyms":[
"authors",
"begetters",
"creators",
"establishers",
"founders",
"founding fathers",
"generators",
"inaugurators",
"initiators",
"instituters",
"institutors",
"originators",
"sires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cocreators",
"co-creators",
"cofounders",
"co-founders",
"conceivers",
"contrivers",
"designers",
"devisers",
"formulators",
"innovators",
"introducers",
"inventors",
"spawners",
"builders",
"makers",
"producers",
"developers",
"pioneers",
"researchers",
"researchists",
"organizers",
"promoters",
"encouragers",
"galvanizers",
"inspirations",
"inspirers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disciples",
"followers",
"pupils",
"students",
"supporters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestors",
"forebearers",
"forebears",
"forbears",
"forefathers",
"grandfathers",
"primogenitors",
"progenitors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecessors",
"predecessors",
"ancestresses",
"foremothers",
"grandmothers",
"matriarchs",
"grandsires",
"patriarchs",
"sires",
"ancestries",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"families",
"issues",
"lineages",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds",
"stocks",
"daughters",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"scions",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendants",
"descendents"
]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
"synonyms":[
"begets",
"gets",
"sires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiplies",
"procreates",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"bears",
"engenders",
"genders",
"generates",
"produces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fathers (on)":{
"as in charges , blames":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blames",
"charges",
"imputes (to)",
"pins (on)",
"accredits",
"ascribes",
"attributes",
"chalks up",
"credits",
"imputes",
"lays",
"puts down",
"assigns",
"refers",
"associates",
"attaches",
"connects",
"links"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fathomable":{
"capable of being understood":{
"examples":[
"acts of vandalism that were committed for no fathomable reason"
],
"synonyms":[
"accessible",
"apprehensible",
"coherent",
"comprehendible",
"comprehensible",
"graspable",
"intelligible",
"legible",
"scrutable",
"understandable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decipherable",
"plain",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"articulate",
"fluent",
"well-spoken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inarticulate",
"cryptic",
"esoteric",
"mysterious",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[
"incoherent",
"incomprehensible",
"inscrutable",
"insensible"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fathoming":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumbing",
"sounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gauging",
"gaging",
"scaling",
"spanning",
"remeasuring",
"replumbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatigues":{
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"although he had joined the army for action and adventure, much of his day seemed to be devoted to mindless fatigues"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeyworks",
"drudgeries",
"drudges",
"grinds",
"labors",
"moils",
"slaveries",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadeworks",
"efforts",
"exertions",
"pains",
"struggles",
"troubles",
"chores",
"duties",
"jobs",
"obligations",
"responsibilities",
"routines",
"tediums",
"treadmills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompressions",
"eases",
"leisures",
"relaxations",
"reposes",
"rests",
"amusements",
"dalliances",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"recreations",
"sports",
"dormancies",
"inactivities",
"inertias"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"plays"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fatty":{
"containing animal fat especially in unusual amounts":{
"examples":[
"fatty ground beef that was the cheapest available"
],
"synonyms":[
"adipose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"greasy",
"oily",
"lardy",
"rich"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fibrous",
"gristly",
"stringy",
"tough",
"nonfat"
],
"antonyms":[
"defatted",
"lean"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fatuity":{
"a foolish act or idea":{
"examples":[
"opening another auto dealership in an area that already has a surplus of them seems like a gross fatuity"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"b\u00eatise",
"folly",
"foolery",
"foppery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"stupidity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"foolishness",
"inaneness",
"madness",
"senselessness",
"witlessness",
"buffoonery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"drivel",
"humbug",
"nonsense",
"twaddle",
"blunder",
"bungle",
"flub",
"goof",
"howler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discretion",
"forethought",
"prudence",
"sagacity",
"wisdom",
"brainstorm",
"inspiration"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"local morning DJs lambasted the fatuity of the homeowner who used gasoline to burn a pile of brushwood"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"brainlessness",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"unwisdom",
"wackiness",
"witlessness",
"zaniness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"denseness",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"feeblemindedness",
"gormlessness",
"idiocy",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"kookiness",
"weirdness",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"validity",
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"percipience"
],
"antonyms":[
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sanity",
"sapience",
"sensibleness",
"soundness",
"wisdom"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"the fatuity of the characters on that TV sitcom actually gets laughs"
],
"synonyms":[
"boneheadedness",
"brainlessness",
"denseness",
"density",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dorkiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"foolishness",
"gormlessness",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"senselessness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"thickness",
"vacuity",
"weak-mindedness",
"witlessness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"feeblemindedness",
"simplemindedness",
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuousness",
"folly",
"idiocy",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nincompoopery",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"wackiness",
"zaniness",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"mental deficiency",
"mental retardation"
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"acumen",
"alertness",
"astuteness",
"discernment",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perception",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonableness",
"soundness",
"validity"
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"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"cleverness",
"intelligence",
"keenness",
"quickness",
"quick-wittedness",
"sharpness",
"smartness"
]
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"noun"
]
},
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"a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed":{
"examples":[
"the grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities"
],
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"casualty",
"loss",
"prey",
"victim"
],
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"loser",
"underdog",
"martyr",
"sacrifice",
"collateral damage",
"murderee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gainer",
"victor",
"winner",
"harmer",
"injurer",
"assassin",
"killer",
"murderer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"as in motherless":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"motherless",
"baseborn",
"bastard",
"illegitimate",
"misbegotten",
"natural",
"spurious",
"supposititious",
"unfathered",
"nameless",
"adopted",
"orphaned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"legitimate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fatiguing":{
"as in exhausting , enervating":{
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"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"wearing",
"palling",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"longsome",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey",
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless"
],
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"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
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"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fatheads":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"bubbleheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fating":{
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"destining",
"dooming",
"foredooming",
"foreordaining",
"ordaining",
"predestining",
"predetermining",
"preordaining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinating",
"auguring",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"preconceiving",
"prejudging",
"condemning",
"sentencing",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"portending",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatigue":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a complete depletion of energy or strength":{
"examples":[
"the day-long battle against the blaze left firefighters in a state of utter fatigue"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnout",
"collapse",
"exhaustion",
"frazzle",
"lassitude",
"prostration",
"tiredness",
"weariness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitation",
"debility",
"disablement",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"infirmity",
"weakness",
"overfatigue",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"slumber",
"stupor",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"apathy",
"inertia",
"passiveness",
"passivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bounce",
"dash",
"drive",
"energy",
"ginger",
"go",
"liveliness",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"strength",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"refreshment",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence",
"revitalization"
]
},
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"although he had joined the army for action and adventure, much of his day seemed to be devoted to mindless fatigues"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeywork",
"drudge",
"drudgery",
"grind",
"labor",
"moil",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fatuousness":{
"lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"the sheer fatuousness of the theory precludes any serious discussion"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"balminess",
"brainlessness",
"craziness",
"daftness",
"dippiness",
"dottiness",
"fatuity",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"imbecility",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"lunacy",
"madness",
"nonsensicalness",
"nuttiness",
"preposterousness",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"simplicity",
"unwisdom",
"wackiness",
"witlessness",
"zaniness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"denseness",
"dim-wittedness",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"feeblemindedness",
"gormlessness",
"idiocy",
"mindlessness",
"oafishness",
"obtuseness",
"simplemindedness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity",
"stupidness",
"vacuity",
"fallacy",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"kookiness",
"weirdness",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"logicality",
"logicalness",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"validity",
"discernment",
"insight",
"perception",
"percipience"
],
"antonyms":[
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sanity",
"sapience",
"sensibleness",
"soundness",
"wisdom"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatness":{
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"advises his patients that fatness is not good for health"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fattening":{
"as in caloric , calorific":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caloric",
"calorific",
"buttery",
"fat",
"fatty",
"greasy",
"oily",
"cloying",
"oversweet",
"heavy",
"rich",
"filling",
"overfilling",
"satiating",
"sating",
"spicy",
"sugary",
"sweet",
"creamy",
"sauced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"light",
"lite",
"natural",
"plain",
"simple",
"unseasoned",
"diet",
"nonfattening",
"slimming",
"nonfat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in filling , battening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battening",
"filling",
"messing",
"force-feeding",
"overfeeding",
"surfeiting",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"underfeeding",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"sustaining",
"hand-feeding",
"spoon-feeding",
"serving",
"waiting",
"refeeding",
"reprovisioning",
"boarding",
"catering",
"feeding",
"provisioning",
"victualing",
"victualling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"father figures":{
"an older man who acts in a paternal role to younger people":{
"examples":[
"The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"father images",
"daddies",
"dads",
"fathers",
"old men",
"papas",
"poppas",
"pas",
"paters",
"pops",
"sires",
"patresfamilias",
"patriarchs",
"stepfathers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatherhood":{
"as in paternity , fathering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fathering",
"paternity",
"raising",
"rearing",
"upbringing",
"maternity",
"motherhood",
"mothering",
"parenthood",
"parenting",
"caregiving",
"caretaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatless":{
"having a noticeably small amount of body fat":{
"examples":[
"a lineup of competitive body builders with fatless bodies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bony",
"boney",
"lean",
"lithe",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"svelte",
"thin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clean-limbed",
"trim",
"sylphlike",
"willowy",
"angular",
"rawboned",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"sinewy",
"wiry",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"anorectic",
"anoretic",
"anorexic",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"gaunt",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"wizened",
"meager",
"meagre",
"puny",
"slight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"fleshy",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"squat",
"stubby",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"buxom",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"full",
"hippy",
"round"
],
"antonyms":[
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"gross",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"portly",
"rotund",
"tubby"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"father (on)":{
"as in charge , blame":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blame",
"charge",
"impute (to)",
"pin (on)",
"accredit",
"ascribe",
"attribute",
"chalk up",
"credit",
"impute",
"lay",
"put down",
"assign",
"refer",
"associate",
"attach",
"connect",
"link"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatalists":{
"as in pessimists , defeatists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"handwringers",
"nervous Nellies",
"worriers",
"worrywarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatigued":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"the fatigued hikers paused for some much-needed rest beside the woodland stream"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the rescue workers pressed on, though their efforts to reach the miners had almost completely fatigued them"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"busted",
"bust",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fathomed":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumbed",
"sounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gauged",
"gaged",
"scaled",
"spanned",
"remeasured",
"replumbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fathomless":{
"being or seeming to be without limits":{
"examples":[
"impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"endless",
"horizonless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
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"abysmal",
"countless",
"incalculable",
"incomputable",
"inestimable",
"innumerable",
"unmeasured",
"exhaustless",
"inexhaustible",
"extensive",
"far-flung",
"immense",
"vast"
],
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"fathomable",
"measurable",
"depthless",
"shallow",
"superficial"
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"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"as in fills , battens":{
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"battens",
"fills",
"messes",
"force-feeds",
"overfeeds",
"surfeits",
"banquets",
"dines",
"feasts",
"regales",
"underfeeds",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"sustains",
"hand-feeds",
"spoon-feeds",
"serves",
"waits",
"refeeds",
"reprovisions",
"boards",
"caters",
"feeds",
"provisions",
"victuals"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatal":{
"bringing about ruin or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"I made the fatal mistake of sharing my secret with the office's biggest blabbermouth"
],
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"calamitous",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"catastrophic",
"damning",
"destructive",
"disastrous",
"fateful",
"ruinous",
"unfortunate"
],
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"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"adverse",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
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},
"likely to cause or capable of causing death":{
"examples":[
"that snake's venom is fatal unless the victim is given the antidote almost immediately"
],
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"baleful",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fell",
"killer",
"lethal",
"mortal",
"murderous",
"pestilent",
"terminal",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"destructive",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"truculent",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"sublethal",
"toxic",
"virulent",
"dangerous",
"grave",
"grievous",
"hazardous",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"serious",
"threatening",
"ugly",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"bloody",
"internecine",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficial",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"alleviative",
"corrective",
"curative",
"remedial",
"tonic",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"safe"
],
"antonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal",
"wholesome"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fathoms":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumbs",
"sounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gauges",
"gages",
"scales",
"spans",
"remeasures",
"replumbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatalistic":{
"having or showing a belief that the future is determined and cannot be changed":{
"examples":[
"His fatalistic outlook resulted in a lack of motivation to pursue a career."
],
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"defeatist",
"nihilist",
"nihilistic",
"cynical",
"misanthropic",
"pessimistic",
"grim",
"distrustful",
"mistrustful",
"negative",
"negativist",
"negativistic",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"contrary",
"hostile",
"derisive",
"mocking",
"sardonic",
"scornful",
"dry",
"ironic",
"wry",
"bearish",
"despairing",
"downbeat",
"hopeless",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"inauspicious",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"jaded",
"sophisticated",
"worldly-wise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerful",
"optimistic",
"positive",
"positivist",
"positivistic",
"rose-colored",
"hopeful",
"Panglossian",
"Pollyanna",
"Pollyannaish",
"Pollyannish",
"rosy",
"upbeat",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"sunny",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"romantic",
"uncynical",
"idealist",
"utopian",
"visionary",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"favorable",
"good",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"likely",
"promising",
"propitious"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fathead":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"so who's the fathead who messed around with my movie collection?"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"bubblehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fat":{
"individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class":{
"examples":[
"makers of fine wine will pay very high prices for grapes that are the fat of the harvest"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me",
"elect",
"elite",
"flower",
"illuminati",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"priesthood",
"prime",
"royalty",
"upper crust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"establishment",
"gentry",
"nobility",
"quality",
"society",
"top",
"top drawer",
"upper class",
"caviar",
"caviare",
"who's who"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commoners",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"rank and file",
"unwashed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"claimed that there was absolutely no fat in the military's budget"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyful",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"overplus",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"plus",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"surplusage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abundance",
"bounty",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"sufficiency",
"overproduction",
"overstock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dearth",
"lack",
"scarcity",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
]
},
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"there's a definite predisposition for fat on his wife's side of the family"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"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":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
]
},
"containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible":{
"examples":[
"the lake is so fat with trout that you probably could catch fish with a bare hook"
],
"synonyms":[
"brimful",
"brimming",
"bursting",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"chockablock",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"filled",
"full",
"jam-packed",
"jammed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"stuffed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"abounding",
"flush",
"fraught",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short",
"shortish",
"shy",
"wanting",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void"
]
},
"having a greater than usual measure across":{
"examples":[
"a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"broad",
"thick",
"wide"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expansive",
"extensive",
"sweeping",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fine",
"hairlike",
"reedlike",
"elongate",
"elongated",
"needlelike",
"bottleneck",
"close",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"squeezed",
"tight",
"tightened",
"attenuate",
"attenuated",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"antonyms":[
"hairline",
"narrow",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"slim-jim",
"thin"
]
},
"having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite":{
"examples":[
"the splendid sight of a fat , juicy steak cooked to perfection"
],
"synonyms":[
"chunky",
"thick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blockish",
"blocky",
"bulky",
"dense",
"hefty",
"thickish",
"broad",
"deep",
"wide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"narrow",
"shallow"
],
"antonyms":[
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"thin"
]
},
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"the fat soil in the river's delta"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"yielding a profit":{
"examples":[
"the highly sought-after baseball player signed a fat contract that set a record for the major leagues"
],
"synonyms":[
"economic",
"gainful",
"juicy",
"lucrative",
"money-spinning",
"moneymaking",
"paying",
"profitable",
"remunerative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"rewarding",
"useful",
"worthwhile",
"bankable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unprofitable"
]
},
"having goods, property, or money in abundance":{
"examples":[
"while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fattiness":{
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"the fattiness of the cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatherland":{
"the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship":{
"examples":[
"though they had lived in their adopted country for many years, the immigrant families never broke their ties with the fatherland entirely"
],
"synonyms":[
"country",
"home",
"homeland",
"mother country",
"motherland",
"sod"
],
"near synonyms":[
"old country",
"community",
"neighborhood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatherly":{
"as in motherly , brotherly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brotherly",
"motherly",
"sisterly",
"lovey-dovey",
"mushy",
"romantic",
"sappy",
"sentimental",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"lovesick",
"amatory",
"amorous",
"erotic",
"erotical",
"ardent",
"fervent",
"impassioned",
"passionate",
"warm",
"caring",
"compassionate",
"considerate",
"cordial",
"doting",
"forgiving",
"friendly",
"humane",
"kind",
"understanding",
"warmhearted",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"fond",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unloving",
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"hard-hearted",
"indifferent",
"offish",
"pitiless",
"remote",
"reserved",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"uncaring",
"unfeeling",
"disaffected",
"unconcerned",
"uninvolved",
"cold",
"frigid",
"unfriendly",
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"hard-boiled",
"heartless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"soulless",
"unromantic",
"unsentimental"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"father figure":{
"an older man who acts in a paternal role to younger people":{
"examples":[
"The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"father image",
"dad",
"daddy",
"father",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire",
"paterfamilias",
"patriarch",
"stepfather"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatuous":{
"not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily":{
"examples":[
"the fatuous questions that the audience members asked after the lecture suggested to the oceanographer that they had understood little"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
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"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
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"kookie",
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"looney",
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"screwball",
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"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
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"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
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"savvy",
"wise",
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"intellectual",
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"learned",
"literate",
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"informed",
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"brainy",
"bright",
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"clever",
"fast",
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"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
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"ignoring the avalanche warnings, the fatuous skiers continued on their way down the trail"
],
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"asinine",
"balmy",
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"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"foolish",
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"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
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"screwball",
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"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
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"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
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"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
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"thoughtless",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
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"illogical",
"invalid",
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"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
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"weak",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"notional",
"buffoonish",
"clownish",
"ill-advised",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned"
],
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"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"well-advised"
],
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"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise"
]
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"adjective"
]
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"the economy was in recession, but the fat-cat financiers on Wall Street didn't seem to be suffering"
],
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"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
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"better-off",
"comfortable",
"propertied",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
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"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
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"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken"
]
},
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"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts"
],
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"capitalist",
"Croesus",
"deep pocket",
"have",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrat",
"silk stocking"
],
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"moneymaker",
"money-spinner",
"magnate",
"nabob",
"tycoon",
"billionaire",
"gazillionaire",
"millionaire",
"multibillionaire",
"multimillionaire",
"multimillionairess",
"zillionaire",
"heir",
"heiress",
"jet-setter",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
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"bankrupt",
"beggar"
],
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"have-not",
"pauper"
]
},
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"a candidate that has the backing of most of the party's fat cats"
],
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"big",
"big boy",
"big cheese",
"big gun",
"big leaguer",
"big shot",
"big wheel",
"big-timer",
"bigfoot",
"biggie",
"bigwig",
"heavy",
"heavy hitter",
"heavyweight",
"high-muck-a-muck",
"high-muckety-muck",
"honcho",
"kahuna",
"kingfish",
"kingpin",
"major leaguer",
"muckety-muck",
"muck-a-muck",
"mucky-muck",
"nabob",
"nawab",
"nibs",
"nob",
"pooh-bah",
"poo-bah",
"wheel"
],
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"baron",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"king",
"lion",
"magnate",
"mogul",
"prince",
"princess",
"queen",
"tycoon",
"VIP"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"underling",
"mediocrity",
"obscurity"
],
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"lightweight",
"nobody",
"nonentity",
"nothing",
"shrimp",
"twerp",
"whippersnapper",
"zero",
"zilch"
]
},
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"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fathering":{
"as in paternity , fatherhood":{
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"fatherhood",
"paternity",
"raising",
"rearing",
"upbringing",
"maternity",
"motherhood",
"mothering",
"parenthood",
"parenting",
"caregiving",
"caretaking"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
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"begetting",
"getting",
"siring"
],
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"multiplying",
"procreating",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"bearing",
"engendering",
"gendering",
"generating",
"producing"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"as in father figure":{
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"father figure",
"dad",
"daddy",
"father",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire",
"paterfamilias",
"patriarch",
"stepfather"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Father":{
"a male human parent":{
"examples":[
"the special relationship that exists between fathers and sons"
],
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"dad",
"daddy",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire"
],
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"patriarch",
"father figure",
"father image",
"stepfather"
],
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"a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"Sir Isaac Newton is regarded by many as the father of modern science"
],
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"author",
"begetter",
"creator",
"establisher",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire"
],
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"cocreator",
"cofounder",
"conceiver",
"contriver",
"designer",
"deviser",
"formulator",
"innovator",
"introducer",
"inventor",
"spawner",
"builder",
"maker",
"producer",
"developer",
"pioneer",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"organizer",
"promoter",
"encourager",
"galvanizer",
"inspiration",
"inspirer"
],
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"disciple",
"follower",
"pupil",
"student",
"supporter"
],
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},
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right"
],
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"ancestor",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecessor",
"predecessor",
"ancestress",
"foremother",
"grandmother",
"matriarch",
"grandsire",
"patriarch",
"sire",
"ancestry",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"family",
"issue",
"lineage",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"stock",
"daughter",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"scion",
"son",
"successor"
],
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"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us ask humbly for the blessings of our Father in heaven"
],
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"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
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"beget",
"get",
"sire"
],
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"multiply",
"procreate",
"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"bear",
"engender",
"gender",
"generate",
"produce"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fathom":{
"to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line":{
"examples":[
"the pilot had to continually fathom the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"plumb",
"sound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gauge",
"gage",
"scale",
"span",
"remeasure",
"replumb"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatherhoods":{
"as in motherhoods , parenthoods":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"maternities",
"motherhoods",
"parenthoods",
"paternities",
"breedings",
"generations",
"parentings",
"reproductions",
"accouchements",
"bearings",
"childbearings",
"labors",
"parturitions",
"creations",
"geneses",
"nascencies",
"originations",
"rises",
"births",
"genitures",
"nativities"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abortions",
"miscarriages",
"stillbirths"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fathered (on)":{
"as in charged , blamed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blamed",
"charged",
"imputed (to)",
"pinned (on)",
"accredited",
"ascribed",
"attributed",
"chalked up",
"credited",
"imputed",
"laid",
"put down",
"assigned",
"referred",
"associated",
"attached",
"connected",
"linked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatuities":{
"a foolish act or idea":{
"examples":[
"opening another auto dealership in an area that already has a surplus of them seems like a gross fatuity"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurdities",
"asininities",
"b\u00eatises",
"follies",
"fooleries",
"fopperies",
"idiocies",
"imbecilities",
"inanities",
"insanities",
"lunacies",
"stupidities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buffooneries",
"monkeyshines",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"drivel",
"humbug",
"nonsense",
"twaddles",
"blunders",
"bungles",
"flubs",
"goofs",
"howlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discretions",
"forethoughts",
"prudences",
"sagacities",
"wisdoms",
"brainstorms",
"inspirations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fathering (on)":{
"as in charging , blaming":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"blaming",
"charging",
"imputing (to)",
"pinning (on)",
"accrediting",
"ascribing",
"attributing",
"chalking up",
"crediting",
"imputing",
"laying",
"putting down",
"assigning",
"referring",
"associating",
"attaching",
"connecting",
"linking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"father":{
"a male human parent":{
"examples":[
"the special relationship that exists between fathers and sons"
],
"synonyms":[
"dad",
"daddy",
"old man",
"pa",
"papa",
"poppa",
"pater",
"pop",
"sire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"paterfamilias",
"patriarch",
"father figure",
"father image",
"stepfather"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"Sir Isaac Newton is regarded by many as the father of modern science"
],
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"author",
"begetter",
"creator",
"establisher",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cocreator",
"cofounder",
"conceiver",
"contriver",
"designer",
"deviser",
"formulator",
"innovator",
"introducer",
"inventor",
"spawner",
"builder",
"maker",
"producer",
"developer",
"pioneer",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"organizer",
"promoter",
"encourager",
"galvanizer",
"inspiration",
"inspirer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disciple",
"follower",
"pupil",
"student",
"supporter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"our fathers founded this nation on the fundamental belief that no person is entitled to rule by divine right"
],
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"ancestor",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecessor",
"predecessor",
"ancestress",
"foremother",
"grandmother",
"matriarch",
"grandsire",
"patriarch",
"sire",
"ancestry",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"family",
"issue",
"lineage",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"stock",
"daughter",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"scion",
"son",
"successor"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"let us ask humbly for the blessings of our Father in heaven"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Providence",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become the father of":{
"examples":[
"Paul Revere somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"get",
"sire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"multiply",
"procreate",
"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"bear",
"engender",
"gender",
"generate",
"produce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fate":{
"a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand":{
"examples":[
"the belief that it was this country's fate to extend from sea to sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumstance",
"destiny",
"doom",
"fortune",
"kismet",
"lot",
"portion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accident",
"casualty",
"chance",
"hap",
"happenchance",
"happenstance",
"hazard",
"luck",
"predestination",
"aftereffect",
"aftermath",
"conclusion",
"consequence",
"development",
"effect",
"fruit",
"issue",
"outcome",
"outgrowth",
"result",
"resultant",
"sequel",
"sequence",
"upshot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause":{
"examples":[
"the fate of the presidential election hinged on a few thousand votes in a single state"
],
"synonyms":[
"aftereffect",
"aftermath",
"backwash",
"child",
"conclusion",
"consequence",
"corollary",
"development",
"effect",
"fruit",
"issue",
"outcome",
"outgrowth",
"precipitate",
"product",
"result",
"resultant",
"sequel",
"sequence",
"upshot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramification",
"denouement",
"d\u00e9nouement",
"echo",
"implication",
"repercussion",
"afterclap",
"afterglow",
"aftershock",
"blowback",
"by-product",
"fallout",
"offshoot",
"ripple",
"side effect",
"side reaction",
"spin-off"
],
"near antonyms":[
"consideration",
"determinant",
"factor",
"base",
"basis",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"inspiration",
"instigation",
"stimulus",
"mother",
"origin",
"root",
"source",
"spring"
],
"antonyms":[
"antecedent",
"causation",
"cause",
"occasion",
"reason"
]
},
"the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities":{
"examples":[
"he met his fate in a tragic highway accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"death",
"decease",
"demise",
"dissolution",
"doom",
"end",
"exit",
"expiration",
"expiry",
"grave",
"great divide",
"passage",
"passing",
"quietus",
"sleep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"casualty",
"fatality",
"martyrdom",
"self-destruction",
"self-murder",
"self-slaughter",
"suicide",
"annihilation",
"destruction",
"ending",
"extermination",
"ruin",
"assassination",
"execution",
"killing",
"massacre",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"existence",
"life",
"creation",
"genesis",
"origination",
"rise"
],
"antonyms":[
"birth",
"nativity"
]
},
"to determine the fate of in advance":{
"examples":[
"the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings"
],
"synonyms":[
"destine",
"doom",
"foredoom",
"foreordain",
"ordain",
"predestine",
"predetermine",
"preordain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predestinate",
"augur",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"prophesy",
"preconceive",
"prejudge",
"condemn",
"sentence",
"bode",
"forebode",
"forbode",
"portend",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"foreknow",
"foresee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fatten":{
"as in fill , batten":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"batten",
"fill",
"mess",
"force-feed",
"overfeed",
"surfeit",
"banquet",
"dine",
"feast",
"regale",
"underfeed",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"sustain",
"hand-feed",
"spoon-feed",
"serve",
"wait",
"refeed",
"reprovision",
"board",
"cater",
"feed",
"provision",
"victual"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fat cats":{
"a wealthy person":{
"examples":[
"that last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitalists",
"Croesuses",
"deep pockets",
"haves",
"money",
"moneybags",
"plutocrats",
"silk stockings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moneymakers",
"money-spinners",
"magnates",
"nabobs",
"tycoons",
"billionaires",
"gazillionaires",
"millionaires",
"multibillionaires",
"multimillionaires",
"multi-millionaires",
"multimillionairesses",
"multi-millionairesses",
"zillionaires",
"heiresses",
"heirs",
"jet-setters",
"jeunesse dor\u00e9e"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"beggars"
],
"antonyms":[
"have-nots",
"paupers"
]
},
"one of high position or importance within a group":{
"examples":[
"a candidate that has the backing of most of the party's fat cats"
],
"synonyms":[
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big leaguers",
"bigs",
"big shots",
"big-timers",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"heavies",
"heavy hitters",
"heavyweights",
"high-muck-a-mucks",
"high-muckety-mucks",
"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"
]
},
"fatherlands":{
"the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship":{
"examples":[
"though they had lived in their adopted country for many years, the immigrant families never broke their ties with the fatherland entirely"
],
"synonyms":[
"countries",
"homelands",
"homes",
"mother countries",
"motherlands",
"sods"
],
"near synonyms":[
"old countries",
"communities",
"neighborhoods"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fatly":{
"in a luxurious manner":{
"examples":[
"a television evangelist who lives fatly on a steady stream of donations from viewers of moderate means and immoderate gullibility"
],
"synonyms":[
"expensively",
"extravagantly",
"grandly",
"high",
"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":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fattened":{
"as in filled , battened":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battened",
"filled",
"messed",
"force-fed",
"overfed",
"surfeited",
"banqueted",
"dined",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"underfed",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"sustained",
"hand-fed",
"spoon-fed",
"served",
"waited",
"refed",
"reprovisioned",
"boarded",
"catered",
"fed",
"provisioned",
"victualed",
"victualled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fatalities":{
"a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed":{
"examples":[
"the grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities"
],
"synonyms":[
"casualties",
"losses",
"prey",
"preys",
"victims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"losers",
"underdogs",
"martyrs",
"sacrifices",
"collateral damages",
"murderees"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gainers",
"victors",
"winners",
"harmers",
"injurers",
"assassins",
"killers",
"murderers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}