dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/mod_MWT.json
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{
"mod":{
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"the young artist's converted loft is decorated in a self-consciously mod style"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"new-fashioned",
"newfangled",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
"keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments especially in fashion and entertainment":{
"examples":[
"a chichi boutique for mod dressers with deep pockets"
],
"synonyms":[
"au courant",
"cool",
"def",
"downtown",
"groovy",
"hep",
"hip",
"in",
"now",
"trendy",
"turned-on",
"with-it"
],
"near synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"modish",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"voguish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"geeky",
"nerdish",
"nerdy",
"dowdy",
"styleless",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"uncool",
"unhip",
"untrendy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"mode":{
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"examples":[
"uses a colloquial mode of expression for his informal essays"
],
"synonyms":[
"fashion",
"locution",
"manner",
"phraseology",
"style",
"tone",
"vein"
],
"near synonyms":[
"address",
"delivery",
"elocution",
"archaism",
"colloquialism",
"regionalism",
"acceptation",
"connotation",
"denotation",
"expression",
"idiom"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"when I'm in my cooking mode , I just have to go into the kitchen and make something"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"feather",
"humor",
"mood",
"spirit",
"temper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"attitude",
"mind-set",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"emotion",
"feeling",
"heart",
"passion",
"sentiment",
"strain",
"belief",
"conviction",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"opinion",
"expression",
"tone",
"vein",
"character",
"disposition",
"identity",
"individuality",
"makeup",
"mettle",
"personality",
"selfhood",
"self-identity",
"temperament",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"slim, tanned bodies are definitely the mode at this beach resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fad",
"fashion",
"flavor",
"go",
"hot ticket",
"last word",
"latest",
"rage",
"sensation",
"style",
"ton",
"trend",
"vogue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonder",
"nine day wonder",
"new wave",
"crush",
"infatuation",
"fervor",
"passion",
"furor",
"fuss",
"hullabaloo",
"to-do",
"uproar",
"bandwagon",
"crusade",
"cult",
"movement",
"novelty",
"wrinkle",
"caprice",
"fancy",
"whim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"standard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modelling":{
"as in matching , patterning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"patterning",
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring",
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"moderated":{
"as in qualified":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"qualified",
"shallow",
"superficial",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"toned (down)",
"feeble",
"weak",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acute",
"almighty",
"blistering",
"deep",
"dreadful",
"excruciating",
"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"vicious",
"violent",
"accentuated",
"aggravated",
"concentrated",
"deepened",
"emphasized",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"modernized":{
"as in updated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"latter-day",
"recent",
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporized",
"streamlined",
"updated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recast",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"modest":{
"being about midway between extremes of amount or size":{
"examples":[
"he was awarded a modest pension when he retired"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"intermediate",
"mean",
"median",
"medium",
"middle",
"middling",
"midsize",
"midsized",
"moderate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reasonable",
"common",
"commonplace",
"conventional",
"normal",
"popular",
"regular",
"routine",
"standard",
"typical",
"usual",
"adequate",
"passable",
"tolerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"extreme",
"exceptional",
"rare",
"strange",
"uncommon",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"idiosyncratic",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"peculiar",
"private"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"free from any trace of the coarse or indecent":{
"examples":[
"tended to wear more modest swimsuits than the thong-clad guests at the resort"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaste",
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"immaculate",
"pure",
"vestal",
"virgin",
"virginal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lily-white",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unsoiled",
"unspotted",
"unstained",
"unsullied",
"untainted",
"untarnished",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"cultivated",
"refined",
"tasteful",
"harmless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defiled",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"improper",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"ribald",
"unseemly",
"crude",
"tacky",
"tasteless",
"unrefined"
],
"antonyms":[
"coarse",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"immodest",
"impure",
"indecent",
"obscene",
"smutty",
"unchaste",
"unclean",
"vulgar"
]
},
"not comfortable around people":{
"examples":[
"a modest winner who said a quick thank-you and promptly left the stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"backward",
"bashful",
"coy",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"recessive",
"retiring",
"self-effacing",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"withdrawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antisocial",
"lone",
"lone-wolf",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"awkward",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"unadventurous",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising",
"inhibited",
"reserved",
"uneasy",
"uptight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social",
"bold",
"dashing",
"forceful",
"brash",
"forward",
"overbold",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing"
]
},
"not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness":{
"examples":[
"appealingly modest about her success in the fashion industry"
],
"synonyms":[
"demure",
"down-to-earth",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"ingenuous",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"plain",
"simple",
"unaffected",
"bashful",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"aw-shucks",
"self-deprecating",
"self-deprecatory",
"self-effacing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"hubristic",
"overconfident",
"self-confident",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"narcissistic",
"prideful",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-engrossed",
"self-important",
"self-obsessed",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swelled-headed",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggy",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"overbearing",
"patronizing",
"pontificating",
"flamboyant",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrogant",
"bumptious",
"chesty",
"conceited",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"hoity-toity",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"modesty":{
"the absence of any feelings of being better than others":{
"examples":[
"his natural modesty makes him reluctant to run for public office"
],
"synonyms":[
"demureness",
"down-to-earthness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"ingenuousness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"directness",
"plainness",
"simpleness",
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"mousiness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"sheepishness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being morally pure":{
"examples":[
"in this day and age, that's very becoming modesty in a teenager"
],
"synonyms":[
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"immaculacy",
"innocence",
"purity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"decency",
"decorum",
"propriety",
"seemliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"sinfulness",
"unrighteousness",
"wickedness",
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"vulgarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"immodesty",
"impurity",
"unchasteness",
"unchastity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modified":{
"as in qualified":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"qualified",
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"defined",
"definite",
"determinate",
"finite",
"limited",
"measured",
"narrow",
"restricted",
"detailed",
"exact",
"precise",
"specific",
"confined",
"constricted",
"moderate",
"modest",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"tiny",
"determined",
"fixed",
"settled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boundless",
"dimensionless",
"endless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"undefined",
"unlimited",
"unmeasured",
"bottomless",
"countless",
"incalculable",
"inestimable",
"inexhaustible",
"innumerable",
"unfathomable",
"unqualified",
"unreserved",
"general",
"indeterminate",
"nebulous",
"vague",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"copious",
"plenitudinous",
"plentiful",
"big",
"bulky",
"bumper",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"respectable",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"vast",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"epic",
"grandiose",
"major",
"ample",
"broad",
"comprehensive",
"cosmopolitan",
"expansive",
"global",
"inclusive",
"sweeping",
"universal",
"whole"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to limit the meaning of (as a noun)":{
"examples":[
"adjectives are words that modify nouns, while adverbs can modify adjectives and verbs"
],
"synonyms":[
"qualified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"colored",
"distorted",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped",
"narrowed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broadened",
"expanded",
"widened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
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"froze",
"set",
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"color",
"distort",
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"misstate",
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"warp",
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"widen"
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"convert",
"exchange",
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"retool"
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"set",
"stabilize"
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"He takes insulin to modulate his blood sugar levels.",
"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
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"corrected",
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"readjusted",
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"redrew",
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"rewrote",
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"debugged",
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"reformed",
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"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
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"worsened",
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"to make changes to (something) in order to keep a desirable balance, proportion, etc.":{
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"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
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"attunes",
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"tweaks",
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"adapts",
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"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors",
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
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"rights",
"ameliorates",
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"polishes",
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"redraws",
"restyles",
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"reworks",
"rewrites",
"blue-pencils",
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"debugs",
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"reforms",
"remedies"
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"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"spoils",
"aggravates",
"worsens",
"misadjusts"
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"alters",
"colors",
"distorts",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"twists",
"warps",
"narrows"
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"broadens",
"expands",
"widens"
],
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"he modified the appliance so that it would run more quietly"
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"changes",
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"redoes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
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"metamorphoses",
"mutates",
"regenerates",
"revolutionizes",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes",
"commutes",
"converts",
"exchanges",
"rejiggers",
"retools"
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"freezes",
"sets",
"stabilizes"
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"verb"
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"abating",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"letting up",
"subsiding",
"waning",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"desisting",
"discontinuing",
"dying",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"lapsing",
"leaving off",
"passing",
"quitting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"winding up"
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"leftover",
"remaining",
"lingering",
"residual",
"abiding",
"biding",
"continuing",
"enduring",
"holding on",
"holding up",
"keeping up",
"lasting",
"perduring",
"persisting",
"running on"
],
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"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
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"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
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"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
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"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
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"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"the moderator should make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak"
],
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"chair",
"chairman",
"chairperson",
"president",
"presider",
"prolocutor",
"speaker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chairwoman",
"cochair",
"cochairman",
"cochairperson",
"cochairwoman",
"copresident"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
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"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
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"contemporizes",
"streamlines",
"updates"
],
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"recasts",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks"
],
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"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"the quality or state of being fashionable":{
"examples":[
"when it comes to clothes, she prefers modesty to modishness"
],
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"cool",
"coolness",
"fashionableness",
"hip",
"hipness",
"hipsterism",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness"
],
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"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"
],
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"unfashionableness"
]
},
"the state of enjoying widespread approval":{
"examples":[
"the modishness of that hairstyle is now so transparent that the really hip people have moved on to something else"
],
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"fashionability",
"fashionableness",
"favor",
"hotness",
"popularity",
"vogue",
"voguishness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craze",
"fad",
"mode",
"rage",
"style",
"trend",
"bandwagon",
"boom",
"fame",
"notoriety",
"prominence",
"renown",
"enthusiasm",
"fervor",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"oblivion",
"obscurity"
],
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"disfavor",
"unpopularity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modes":{
"a distinctive way of putting ideas into words":{
"examples":[
"uses a colloquial mode of expression for his informal essays"
],
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"fashions",
"locutions",
"manners",
"phraseologies",
"styles",
"tones",
"veins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addresses",
"deliveries",
"elocution",
"archaisms",
"colloquialisms",
"regionalisms",
"acceptations",
"connotations",
"denotations",
"expressions",
"idioms"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"when I'm in my cooking mode , I just have to go into the kitchen and make something"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheers",
"feathers",
"humors",
"moods",
"spirits",
"tempers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"attitudes",
"mind-sets",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"emotions",
"feelings",
"hearts",
"passions",
"sentiments",
"strains",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"opinions",
"expressions",
"tones",
"veins",
"characters",
"dispositions",
"identities",
"individualities",
"makeups",
"mettles",
"personalities",
"selfhoods",
"self-identities",
"temperaments",
"sensibilities",
"sensitivities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"slim, tanned bodies are definitely the mode at this beach resort"
],
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"buzzes",
"chics",
"crazes",
"dernier cris",
"enthusiasms",
"fads",
"fashions",
"flavors",
"hot tickets",
"last words",
"rages",
"sensations",
"styles",
"tons",
"trends",
"vogues"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonders",
"nine day wonders",
"new waves",
"crushes",
"infatuations",
"fervors",
"passions",
"furors",
"fusses",
"hullabaloos",
"to-dos",
"uproars",
"bandwagons",
"crusades",
"cults",
"movements",
"novelties",
"wrinkles",
"caprices",
"fancies",
"whims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classics",
"standards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modulate":{
"to make changes to (something) in order to keep a desirable balance, proportion, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He takes insulin to modulate his blood sugar levels.",
"She kept talking during the performance, making no effort to modulate her voice."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adjust",
"regulate",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"rig",
"tweak",
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor",
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"alter",
"change",
"modify",
"redress",
"right",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"perfect",
"polish",
"touch up",
"fix",
"mend",
"repair",
"moderate",
"qualify",
"redraft",
"redraw",
"restyle",
"revise",
"rework",
"rewrite",
"blue-pencil",
"cut",
"shorten",
"amend",
"debug",
"emend",
"rectify",
"red-pencil",
"reform",
"remedy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"aggravate",
"worsen",
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modicum":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"only a modicum of skill is necessary to put the kit together"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bubkes",
"bupkes",
"bupkus",
"continental",
"damn",
"darn",
"durn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modernize":{
"to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporize",
"streamline",
"update"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recast",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"modish":{
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"examples":[
"the strikingly modish gowns that actresses wear to award shows"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
]
},
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"a modish chef who is currently the darling of the restaurant reviewers"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"favorite",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"red-hot",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"model":{
"an exact representation of something in greatly reduced size":{
"examples":[
"the dollhouse was a tiny, perfect model of the family's actual house"
],
"synonyms":[
"miniature"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dummy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
"mock",
"reduplication",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction",
"dwarf",
"midget",
"mini",
"pocket edition",
"pygmy",
"pigmy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archetype",
"original",
"prototype",
"blowup",
"enlargement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising":{
"examples":[
"the most famous models can earn thousands of dollars an hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"manikin",
"mannikin",
"mannequin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"figure",
"form",
"doll",
"dummy",
"spokesmodel",
"supermodel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation":{
"examples":[
"she's the very model of the dedicated teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"beau ideal",
"classic",
"eidolon",
"exemplar",
"idea",
"ideal",
"nonesuch",
"nonpareil",
"paragon",
"patron saint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"role model",
"embodiment",
"epitome",
"incarnation",
"manifestation",
"personification",
"phantom",
"pink",
"archetype",
"example",
"mirror",
"paradigm",
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"verb"
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"inordinate",
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"conventional",
"normal",
"popular",
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"extreme",
"exceptional",
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"strange",
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"unusual",
"distinctive",
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"unique",
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"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"calm",
"halcyon",
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"placid",
"tranquil",
"delightful",
"fine",
"pleasant"
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"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"windy",
"misty",
"rainy",
"showery",
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dismal",
"foggy",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"bitter",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw"
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"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
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"middle-of-the-roader"
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"reformer",
"accommodationist",
"compromiser"
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"reactionary",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"leftist",
"left-winger",
"liberal"
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"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultraist"
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"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
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"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
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"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
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"slow (down)",
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"collapse",
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"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
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"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
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"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
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"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
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"control",
"discipline",
"restraint",
"self-control",
"self-discipline",
"middle-of-the-roadism",
"asceticism",
"austerity",
"frugality",
"mortification",
"sacrifice",
"self-command",
"self-containment",
"self-denial",
"self-mastery",
"abnegation",
"abstention",
"avoidance",
"eschewal",
"forbearance",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibility",
"sensibleness",
"abstinence",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"teetotalism"
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"superfluity",
"extremeness",
"extremity",
"unconstraint",
"unrestraint",
"extremism",
"radicalness",
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"unreasonableness",
"insobriety"
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"immoderateness",
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"intemperance",
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"noun",
"verb"
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"as in currency , freshness":{
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"freshness",
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"novelty",
"recentness",
"newness"
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"agedness",
"ancientness",
"antiquity",
"hoariness",
"antiquation",
"datedness",
"obsolescence",
"obsoleteness",
"old-fashionedness",
"fustiness"
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"noun"
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"coloring",
"distorting",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"twisting",
"warping",
"narrowing"
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"expanding",
"widening"
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"changing",
"making over",
"recasting",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
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"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
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"metamorphosing",
"mutating",
"regenerating",
"revolutionizing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"commuting",
"converting",
"exchanging",
"rejiggering",
"retooling"
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"freezing",
"setting",
"stabilizing"
]
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"amenity",
"comfort",
"convenience",
"creature comfort",
"luxury",
"nicety"
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"extra",
"benefit",
"help",
"service",
"anodyne",
"solace",
"delight",
"indulgence",
"joy",
"pleasure"
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"millstone",
"weight"
]
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"noun"
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"contemporizing",
"streamlining",
"updating"
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"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
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"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
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"adapting",
"adjusting",
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"fitting",
"putting",
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"suiting",
"tailoring",
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"readjusting",
"attuning",
"correcting",
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"establishing",
"rooting",
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"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
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"priming",
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"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
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"redoing",
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"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
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"transforming"
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"architects designed the arena to be easily modifiable for staging a variety of events"
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"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"pliable",
"variable"
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"fluctuating",
"inconstant",
"labile",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"varying",
"versatile"
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"near antonyms":[
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"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvarying"
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"fixed",
"immutable",
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"invariable",
"nonmalleable",
"ramrod",
"set",
"unadaptable",
"unalterable",
"unbudgeable",
"unchangeable"
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],
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"curbed",
"disciplined",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"self-controlled",
"self-denying",
"self-disciplined",
"calculated",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
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"mediocre",
"medium",
"modest",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"so-so",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"regular",
"routine",
"typical",
"usual"
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"extreme",
"inordinate",
"radical",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"extremist",
"fanatic",
"fanatical",
"rabid",
"unbridled",
"unchecked",
"uncontrolled",
"unrestrained"
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"the principal's moderate position on cell phones is that students can use them at school but only for emergencies"
],
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"central",
"centrist",
"middle-of-the-road"
],
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"conventional",
"nonrevolutionary",
"orthodox",
"traditional",
"levelheaded",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"neutral"
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"near antonyms":[
"excessive",
"conservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"leftist",
"liberal",
"progressive",
"fanatic",
"fanatical",
"rabid",
"subversive",
"violent",
"agitating",
"exciting",
"fomenting",
"incendiary",
"inciting",
"inflammatory",
"instigating",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"rabble-rousing",
"dissenting"
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"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultra"
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"intermediate",
"mean",
"median",
"medium",
"middle",
"middling",
"midsize",
"midsized",
"modest"
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"reasonable",
"common",
"commonplace",
"conventional",
"normal",
"popular",
"regular",
"routine",
"standard",
"typical",
"usual",
"adequate",
"passable",
"tolerable"
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"excessive",
"extreme",
"exceptional",
"rare",
"strange",
"uncommon",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"idiosyncratic",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"peculiar",
"private"
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"marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low":{
"examples":[
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"clement",
"equable",
"genial",
"gentle",
"mild",
"soft",
"temperate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"fair",
"rainless",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"calm",
"halcyon",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"tranquil",
"delightful",
"fine",
"pleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blustering",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"rough",
"squally",
"stormy",
"windy",
"misty",
"rainy",
"showery",
"bleak",
"cloudy",
"dismal",
"foggy",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey",
"hazy",
"overcast",
"sunless",
"bitter",
"dirty",
"foul",
"nasty",
"raw"
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"inclement",
"intemperate",
"severe"
]
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"examples":[
"to the community's detriment, moderates were often shouted down at town meetings by the local hotheads"
],
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"middle-of-the-roader"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"reformer",
"accommodationist",
"compromiser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservative",
"reactionary",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"leftist",
"left-winger",
"liberal"
],
"antonyms":[
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"ultraist"
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"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
],
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"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"drop (off)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
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"noun",
"verb"
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"geared",
"matched",
"patterned",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
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"creature comforts",
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"removeable",
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"wedged",
"fast",
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"adverb"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to some degree or extent":{
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"something",
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"halfway",
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"exceeding",
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"mightily",
"mortally",
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"type":[
"adverb"
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"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
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"diddly-squats",
"doodley-squats",
"doodly-squats",
"figs",
"ghosts",
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"licks",
"raps",
"squats",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"whits",
"whoops"
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"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"pins",
"rays",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"semblances",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"the act, process, or result of making different":{
"examples":[
"the rough draft needed only a few modifications before it was ready to hand in"
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"changes",
"differences",
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"revisions",
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"rectifications",
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"conversions",
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"distortions",
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"mutations",
"transfigurations",
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"shifts",
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"replacements",
"substitutions",
"adjustments",
"modulations",
"regulations",
"tweaks",
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"redos"
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"stabilizations"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a usual way of doing something":{
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"fashions",
"forms",
"hows",
"manners",
"methodologies",
"methods",
"recipes",
"strategies",
"styles",
"systems",
"tacks",
"tactics",
"techniques",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"game plans",
"games",
"ground plans",
"intrigues",
"layouts",
"lines",
"models",
"plans",
"plots",
"programs",
"routes",
"schemes",
"expedients",
"moves",
"shifts",
"steps",
"practices",
"practises",
"processes",
"routines",
"policies"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits":{
"examples":[
"the moderateness of their enthusiasm for my proposed outing suggested that they would rather do something else"
],
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"moderation",
"temperance",
"temperateness"
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"constraint",
"control",
"discipline",
"restraint",
"self-control",
"self-discipline",
"middle-of-the-roadism",
"asceticism",
"austerity",
"frugality",
"mortification",
"sacrifice",
"self-command",
"self-containment",
"self-denial",
"self-mastery",
"abnegation",
"abstention",
"avoidance",
"eschewal",
"forbearance",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibility",
"sensibleness",
"abstinence",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"teetotalism"
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"near antonyms":[
"excess",
"superfluity",
"extremeness",
"extremity",
"unconstraint",
"unrestraint",
"extremism",
"radicalness",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"insobriety"
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"antonyms":[
"excessiveness",
"immoderacy",
"immoderateness",
"immoderation",
"intemperance",
"intemperateness"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"in a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertion":{
"examples":[
"spoke modestly about his accomplishments as an entrepreneur"
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"abjectly",
"deferentially",
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"lowly",
"meanly",
"meekly",
"sheepishly",
"submissively"
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"near synonyms":[
"obsequiously",
"servilely",
"subserviently",
"fearfully",
"mousily",
"timidly",
"bashfully",
"diffidently",
"self-deprecatingly",
"shyly",
"timorously",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"politely",
"respectfully",
"suppliantly"
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"near antonyms":[
"fearlessly",
"discourteously",
"disdainfully",
"disrespectfully",
"impertinently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"saucily",
"bitchily",
"impolitely",
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"rudely",
"uncivilly",
"ungraciously"
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"antonyms":[
"arrogantly",
"audaciously",
"boldly",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"contemptuously",
"haughtily",
"huffily",
"imperiously",
"loftily",
"pompously",
"presumptuously",
"pretentiously",
"pridefully",
"proudly",
"scornfully",
"self-importantly",
"superciliously",
"swaggeringly",
"uppishly"
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"examples":[
"dressed modestly to go to church"
],
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"chastely",
"innocently",
"morally",
"purely",
"righteously",
"virtuously"
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"decently",
"decorously",
"properly",
"priggishly",
"primly",
"prudishly"
],
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"indecently",
"obscenely",
"vulgarly",
"lasciviously",
"lewdly",
"lustfully"
],
"antonyms":[
"evilly",
"immorally",
"impurely",
"sinfully",
"wickedly"
]
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"type":[
"adverb"
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"modernness":{
"as in currency , currentness":{
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"near synonyms":[
"currency",
"currentness",
"freshness",
"modernity",
"novelty",
"recentness",
"newness"
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"near antonyms":[
"age",
"agedness",
"ancientness",
"antiquity",
"hoariness",
"antiquation",
"datedness",
"obsolescence",
"obsoleteness",
"old-fashionedness",
"fustiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"modus operandi":{
"a usual way of doing something":{
"examples":[
"the thief's modus operandi"
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"mode",
"approach",
"fashion",
"form",
"how",
"manner",
"method",
"methodology",
"recipe",
"strategy",
"style",
"system",
"tack",
"tactics",
"technique",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"intrigue",
"layout",
"line",
"model",
"plan",
"plot",
"program",
"route",
"scheme",
"expedient",
"move",
"shift",
"step",
"practice",
"practise",
"process",
"routine",
"policy"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"as in regulation , adjustment":{
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"near synonyms":[
"adjustment",
"regulation",
"tweak",
"amendment",
"correction",
"rectification",
"reform",
"changeover",
"conversion",
"deformation",
"distortion",
"metamorphosis",
"mutation",
"reconstruction",
"reconversion",
"transfiguration",
"transformation",
"fluctuation",
"oscillation",
"shift",
"displacement",
"replacement",
"substitution",
"redesign",
"redo",
"alteration",
"change",
"difference",
"modification",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"reformation",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"review",
"revise",
"revision",
"reworking",
"variation"
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"near antonyms":[
"fixation",
"stabilization"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a person who holds moderate views":{
"examples":[
"to the community's detriment, moderates were often shouted down at town meetings by the local hotheads"
],
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"centrists",
"middle-of-the-roaders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"progressives",
"reformers",
"accommodationists",
"compromisers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservatives",
"reactionaries",
"rightists",
"right-wingers",
"leftists",
"left-wingers",
"liberals"
],
"antonyms":[
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"ultraists"
]
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"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"the wind began to moderate as the night wore on"
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"abates",
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"dies (away or down or out)",
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"drains (away)",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
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"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
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"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
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"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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},
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"a person with very modern ideas":{
"examples":[
"a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world"
],
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"modern",
"ultramodernist"
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"neophiliac",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"liberal",
"progressive",
"extremist",
"radical",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"bohemian"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservative",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"standpatter",
"Tory",
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"veteran",
"conformist",
"traditionalist",
"archconservative",
"Bourbon",
"diehard",
"neocon",
"neoconservative",
"paleoconservative",
"Colonel Blimp",
"square",
"stuffed shirt"
],
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"antediluvian",
"dodo",
"fogy",
"fogey",
"fossil",
"fuddy-duddy",
"reactionary",
"stick-in-the-mud"
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},
"as in modern , contemporary":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"fresh",
"new",
"chic",
"designer",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"modernized",
"refurbished",
"remodeled",
"renewed",
"updated",
"last",
"latest",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"nontraditional",
"recent"
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"near antonyms":[
"antique",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-school",
"old-time",
"old-timey",
"old-world",
"quaint",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"vintage",
"antiquated",
"moldy",
"obsolete",
"rinky-dink",
"historic",
"historical",
"olden",
"traditional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"moderators":{
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"examples":[
"the moderator should make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak"
],
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"chairmen",
"chairpersons",
"chairs",
"presidents",
"presiders",
"prolocutors",
"speakers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chairwomen",
"cochairmen",
"cochairpersons",
"cochairs",
"co-chairs",
"cochairwomen",
"copresidents",
"co-presidents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
"his natural modesty makes him reluctant to run for public office"
],
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"demureness",
"down-to-earthness",
"humbleness",
"humility",
"lowliness",
"meekness"
],
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"acquiescence",
"compliance",
"deference",
"passivity",
"resignedness",
"submission",
"submissiveness",
"ingenuousness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9",
"directness",
"plainness",
"simpleness",
"bashfulness",
"diffidence",
"mousiness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"retiringness",
"sheepishness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressiveness",
"assertiveness",
"attitude",
"audaciousness",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"cockiness",
"cocksureness",
"forwardness",
"overconfidence",
"swagger",
"swash",
"temerity",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"insolence",
"nerve",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"chest-thumping",
"self-applause",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-glorification",
"self-importance",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"vaingloriousness",
"vanity",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"flamboyance",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"showiness"
],
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"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being morally pure":{
"examples":[
"in this day and age, that's very becoming modesty in a teenager"
],
"synonyms":[
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"immaculacy",
"innocence",
"purity"
],
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"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"decency",
"decorum",
"propriety",
"seemliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"sinfulness",
"unrighteousness",
"wickedness",
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"vulgarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"immodesty",
"impurity",
"unchasteness",
"unchastity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modern":{
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"this hairstyle is absolutely the most modern fashion out there"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
"a person with very modern ideas":{
"examples":[
"the leaders of the American suffragists were originally regarded by many people as uppity moderns who should have stayed in their place"
],
"synonyms":[
"modernist",
"ultramodernist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neophiliac",
"leftist",
"lefty",
"liberal",
"progressive",
"extremist",
"radical",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"bohemian"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservative",
"rightist",
"right-winger",
"standpatter",
"Tory",
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"veteran",
"conformist",
"traditionalist",
"archconservative",
"Bourbon",
"diehard",
"neocon",
"neoconservative",
"paleoconservative",
"Colonel Blimp",
"square",
"stuffed shirt"
],
"antonyms":[
"antediluvian",
"dodo",
"fogy",
"fogey",
"fossil",
"fuddy-duddy",
"reactionary",
"stick-in-the-mud"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"a person with very modern ideas":{
"examples":[
"a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world"
],
"synonyms":[
"moderns",
"ultramodernists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neophiliacs",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"liberals",
"progressives",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"bohemians"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"right-wingers",
"standpatters",
"Tories",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"conformists",
"traditionalists",
"archconservatives",
"diehards",
"neocons",
"neoconservatives",
"paleoconservatives",
"squares",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"antonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modification":{
"the act, process, or result of making different":{
"examples":[
"the rough draft needed only a few modifications before it was ready to hand in"
],
"synonyms":[
"alteration",
"change",
"difference",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"review",
"revise",
"revision",
"reworking",
"variation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amendment",
"correction",
"rectification",
"reform",
"conversion",
"deformation",
"distortion",
"metamorphosis",
"mutation",
"transfiguration",
"transformation",
"fluctuation",
"oscillation",
"shift",
"displacement",
"replacement",
"substitution",
"adjustment",
"modulation",
"regulation",
"tweak",
"redesign",
"redo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixation",
"stabilization"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modernistic":{
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"a trendy hotel with modernistic room lamps that required some figuring just to turn on"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"new",
"new age",
"new-fashioned",
"newfangled",
"present-day",
"red-hot",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"models":{
"an exact representation of something in greatly reduced size":{
"examples":[
"the dollhouse was a tiny, perfect model of the family's actual house"
],
"synonyms":[
"miniatures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"copies",
"dummies",
"dupes",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"imitations",
"mocks",
"reduplications",
"replicas",
"replications",
"reproductions",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"midgets",
"minis",
"pocket editions",
"pygmies",
"pigmies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archetypes",
"originals",
"prototypes",
"blowups",
"enlargements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising":{
"examples":[
"the most famous models can earn thousands of dollars an hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"manikins",
"mannikins",
"mannequins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"figures",
"forms",
"dolls",
"dummies",
"spokesmodels",
"supermodels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation":{
"examples":[
"she's the very model of the dedicated teacher"
],
"synonyms":[
"beau ideals",
"classics",
"eidolons",
"eidola",
"exemplars",
"ideals",
"ideas",
"nonesuches",
"nonpareils",
"paragons",
"patron saints"
],
"near synonyms":[
"role models",
"embodiments",
"epitomes",
"incarnations",
"manifestations",
"personifications",
"phantoms",
"pinks",
"archetypes",
"examples",
"mirrors",
"paradigms",
"patterns",
"guidelines",
"principles",
"rules",
"gauges",
"gages",
"standards",
"touchstones",
"essences",
"quintessences",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"apotheoses",
"culminations",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"zeniths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in matches , patterns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"patterns",
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors",
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"moderns":{
"a person with very modern ideas":{
"examples":[
"the leaders of the American suffragists were originally regarded by many people as uppity moderns who should have stayed in their place"
],
"synonyms":[
"modernists",
"ultramodernists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neophiliacs",
"lefties",
"leftists",
"liberals",
"progressives",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"bohemians"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservatives",
"rightists",
"right-wingers",
"standpatters",
"Tories",
"old hands",
"old-timers",
"veterans",
"conformists",
"traditionalists",
"archconservatives",
"diehards",
"neocons",
"neoconservatives",
"paleoconservatives",
"squares",
"stuffed shirts"
],
"antonyms":[
"antediluvians",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fogies",
"fogeys",
"fossils",
"fuddy-duddies",
"reactionaries",
"stick-in-the-muds"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"moderation":{
"an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits":{
"examples":[
"the kind of person who does everything in moderation"
],
"synonyms":[
"moderateness",
"temperance",
"temperateness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constraint",
"control",
"discipline",
"restraint",
"self-control",
"self-discipline",
"middle-of-the-roadism",
"asceticism",
"austerity",
"frugality",
"mortification",
"sacrifice",
"self-command",
"self-containment",
"self-denial",
"self-mastery",
"abnegation",
"abstention",
"avoidance",
"eschewal",
"forbearance",
"rationality",
"rationalness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibility",
"sensibleness",
"abstinence",
"soberness",
"sobriety",
"teetotalism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excess",
"superfluity",
"extremeness",
"extremity",
"unconstraint",
"unrestraint",
"extremism",
"radicalness",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"insobriety"
],
"antonyms":[
"excessiveness",
"immoderacy",
"immoderateness",
"immoderation",
"intemperance",
"intemperateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"modeled":{
"as in matched , patterned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"patterned",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored",
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redesigned",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}