dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/mur_MWT.json
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{
"Murphy bed":{
"as in bunk bed , couch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"shakedown",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murder":{
"a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"this weather is murder on my sinuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"agony",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"horror",
"misery",
"nightmare",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affliction",
"calvary",
"cross",
"curse",
"ordeal",
"trial",
"tribulation",
"calamity",
"misfortune",
"tragedy",
"gall",
"thorn",
"bummer",
"downer",
"drag"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"joy",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"lark",
"picnic",
"riot"
],
"antonyms":[
"heaven",
"paradise"
]
},
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
"examples":[
"arrested for attempting to commit murder"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"foul play",
"homicide",
"rubout",
"slaying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chance-medley",
"killing",
"manslaughter",
"bloodshed",
"butchery",
"carnage",
"decimation",
"destruction",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"assassination",
"execution",
"hit",
"euthanasia",
"mercy killing",
"filicide",
"fratricide",
"matricide",
"parricide",
"patricide",
"regicide",
"uxoricide"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow away",
"shoot",
"shoot down",
"blot out",
"carry off",
"claim",
"cut down",
"destroy",
"fell",
"kill",
"smite",
"zap",
"butcher",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"slaughter",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bugger (up)",
"bumble",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"dub",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"screw up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"murdered":{
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"bumped off",
"croaked",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"got",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"liquidated",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"slew",
"snuffed",
"terminated",
"took out",
"whacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew away",
"shot",
"shot down",
"blotted out",
"carried off",
"claimed",
"cut down",
"destroyed",
"felled",
"killed",
"smote",
"zapped",
"butchered",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"slaughtered",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bumbled",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"screwed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"piffled",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"murderous":{
"difficult to endure":{
"examples":[
"the murderous heat of the desert"
],
"synonyms":[
"bitter",
"brutal",
"burdensome",
"cruel",
"excruciating",
"grievous",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy",
"inhuman",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rugged",
"searing",
"severe",
"stiff",
"tough",
"trying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"austere",
"bleak",
"comfortless",
"discomforting",
"forbidding",
"inhospitable",
"spartan",
"uncomfortable",
"biting",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"wild",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"agonizing",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"painful",
"wretched",
"crushing",
"grinding",
"overwhelming",
"wearing",
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"harrowing",
"tortuous",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"hostile",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"luxurious",
"snug",
"agreeable",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"peaceful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"painless",
"tolerable",
"balmy",
"calm",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate"
],
"antonyms":[
"easy",
"light",
"soft"
]
},
"requiring considerable physical or mental effort":{
"examples":[
"those exams were murderous"
],
"synonyms":[
"arduous",
"Augean",
"backbreaking",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"difficult",
"effortful",
"exacting",
"formidable",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"hard",
"heavy",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"killer",
"laborious",
"moiling",
"pick-and-shovel",
"rigorous",
"rough",
"rugged",
"severe",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"sweaty",
"tall",
"testing",
"toilsome",
"tough",
"uphill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"elusive",
"hairy",
"insoluble",
"intricate",
"involved",
"knotty",
"opaque",
"problematic",
"problematical",
"recondite",
"serious",
"spiny",
"stubborn",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"tricky",
"bruising",
"burdensome",
"exhausting",
"labored",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"stressful",
"taxing",
"tight",
"trying",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"distressing",
"irksome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"grievous",
"grim",
"strict",
"stringent",
"brutal",
"cruel",
"inhuman",
"painful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achievable",
"clear",
"doable",
"elementary",
"manageable",
"uncomplicated",
"comforting",
"gentle",
"painless",
"relaxed",
"smooth",
"soothing",
"accessible",
"friendly",
"idiotproof",
"user-friendly"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheap",
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"light",
"mindless",
"simple",
"soft",
"undemanding"
]
},
"likely to cause or capable of causing death":{
"examples":[
"braved murderous machine-gun fire to capture the hill from the enemy"
],
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fatal",
"fell",
"killer",
"lethal",
"mortal",
"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"
]
},
"eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing":{
"examples":[
"Viking warriors became legendary for the murderous fury they displayed in battle"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodthirsty",
"bloody",
"bloody-minded",
"homicidal",
"murdering",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"antagonistic",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"gladiatorial",
"hostile",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"violent",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"bloodstained",
"fell",
"gory",
"grim",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliatory",
"disarming",
"dovish",
"mollifying",
"pacific",
"pacifying",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"peacemaking",
"placating",
"placative",
"placatory",
"propitiatory",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"benign",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted",
"tender",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"submissive",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"murmur":{
"an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment":{
"examples":[
"finished the tedious job without a murmur"
],
"synonyms":[
"beef",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"complaint",
"fuss",
"grievance",
"gripe",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"grumble",
"holler",
"kvetch",
"lament",
"miserere",
"moan",
"plaint",
"squawk",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"demur",
"expostulation",
"kick",
"niggle",
"objection",
"protest",
"quibble",
"remonstrance",
"stink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendation",
"compliment",
"plaudit",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"praise",
"approval",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"speech that is not clear enough to be understood":{
"examples":[
"could just barely hear the murmurs of the audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"grunt",
"grunting",
"mumble",
"murmuring",
"mutter",
"muttering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rumor",
"undertone",
"whisper",
"babble",
"babbling",
"blab",
"blabbing",
"chatter",
"chattering",
"drivel",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"gabble",
"gabbling",
"jabber",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattle",
"prattling",
"rambling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"no prisoner dared murmur out loud"
],
"synonyms":[
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"inveigh",
"keen",
"kick",
"kvetch",
"maunder",
"moan",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl"
],
"near synonyms":[
"object (to)",
"protest",
"quarrel (with)",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"fret",
"stew",
"worry",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"bemoan",
"bewail",
"deplore",
"lament"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"bear",
"countenance",
"endure",
"take",
"tolerate",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend"
],
"antonyms":[
"crow",
"delight",
"rejoice"
]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"a college professor who tends to murmur"
],
"synonyms":[
"chunter",
"grunt",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"mutter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"maunder",
"prattle",
"ramble",
"breathe",
"gasp",
"pant",
"whisper",
"buzz"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak out",
"speak up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"murmurous":{
"as in low , soft":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"faint",
"low",
"muted",
"smothered",
"soft",
"weak",
"cavernous",
"hollow",
"thin",
"tinny"
],
"near antonyms":[
"golden",
"orotund",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"ringing",
"rotund",
"round",
"sonorous",
"vibrant",
"deep",
"full",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"plummy",
"rich",
"loud",
"powerful",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"murders":{
"a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"this weather is murder on my sinuses"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonies",
"Gehennas",
"hells",
"horrors",
"miseries",
"nightmares",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"afflictions",
"calvaries",
"crosses",
"curses",
"ordeals",
"trials",
"tribulations",
"calamities",
"misfortunes",
"tragedies",
"galls",
"thorns",
"bummers",
"downers",
"drags"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"fun",
"joys",
"pleasures",
"recreations",
"larks",
"picnics",
"riots"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavens",
"paradises"
]
},
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
"examples":[
"arrested for attempting to commit murder"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"foul play",
"homicides",
"rubouts",
"slayings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chance-medleys",
"killings",
"manslaughters",
"bloodsheds",
"butcheries",
"carnages",
"decimations",
"destructions",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"hits",
"euthanasias",
"mercy killings",
"filicides",
"fratricides",
"matricides",
"parricides",
"patricides",
"regicides",
"uxoricides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"bumps off",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"liquidates",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"slays",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"terminates",
"whacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows away",
"shoots",
"shoots down",
"blots out",
"carries off",
"claims",
"cuts down",
"destroys",
"fells",
"kills",
"smites",
"zaps",
"butchers",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"slaughters",
"annihilates",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"murk":{
"a time or place of little or no light":{
"examples":[
"a robber lying unseen in the murk"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloaming",
"gloom",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"shadows",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"near synonyms":[
"midnight",
"blackout",
"brownout",
"dimout",
"shadiness",
"umbrage",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"fogginess",
"haziness",
"mistiness",
"murkiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"gloominess",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"half-light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moonlight",
"starlight",
"sunlight",
"effulgence",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"shine",
"sunshine",
"incandescence",
"luminance",
"luminescence",
"luminosity",
"luminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
]
},
"an atmospheric condition in which suspended particles in the air rob it of its transparency":{
"examples":[
"stuck outside in the murk and the rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"brume",
"fog",
"gauze",
"haze",
"mist",
"reek",
"smog",
"soup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bank",
"cloud",
"fume",
"miasma",
"smoke",
"smother",
"steam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murderer":{
"a person who kills another person":{
"examples":[
"the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassin",
"cutthroat",
"homicide",
"killer",
"manslayer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bravo",
"hit man",
"torpedo",
"triggerman",
"butcher",
"executioner",
"massacrer",
"slaughterer",
"slayer",
"murderess"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murky":{
"being without light or without much light":{
"examples":[
"I didn't like walking around the murky campground without a flashlight"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"caliginous",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dim",
"dimmed",
"dusk",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"pitchy",
"rayless",
"somber",
"sombre",
"stygian",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"unlit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crepuscular",
"twilit",
"moonless",
"starless",
"sunless",
"cloudy",
"dull",
"dulled",
"lackluster",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"foggy",
"fuliginous",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ablaze",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"alight",
"beaming",
"beamy",
"effulgent",
"glaring",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"radiant",
"relucent",
"resplendent",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"ultrabright",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"shiny",
"floodlit",
"floodlighted",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"moonlit",
"moony",
"starlit",
"sunlit"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightened",
"brilliant",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"light",
"lit",
"lighted",
"lightsome",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous"
]
},
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"the murky shadows of the cemetery"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension":{
"examples":[
"skies made murky from the smoke of forest fires that were many miles to the west"
],
"synonyms":[
"beclouded",
"befogged",
"brumous",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"foggy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"misty",
"smoggy",
"soupy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overcast",
"rainy",
"stormy",
"thick",
"dirty",
"miry",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"slimy",
"slushy",
"turbid",
"miasmal",
"miasmatic",
"miasmic",
"smoky",
"smokey",
"smudgy",
"sooty",
"filmy",
"milky",
"opaque"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"clean",
"clement",
"fair",
"sunny",
"sunshiny",
"translucent",
"transparent"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"cloudless",
"limpid",
"pellucid",
"unclouded"
]
},
"having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning":{
"examples":[
"a murky reply to a question about his intentions"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambiguous",
"arcane",
"cryptic",
"dark",
"deep",
"Delphic",
"double-edged",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"equivocal",
"fuliginous",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"occult",
"opaque"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstruse",
"esoteric",
"recondite",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"shrouded",
"beclouded",
"bedimmed",
"befogged",
"clouded",
"cloudy",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"hazy",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"muddy",
"obfuscatory",
"obnubilated",
"obscurant",
"obscurantic",
"shaded",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"sphinxlike",
"indefinite",
"inexact",
"inexplicit",
"noncommittal",
"questionable",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"inexplicable",
"eerie",
"eery",
"uncanny",
"weird",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"unanswerable",
"unknowable",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"unfathomable",
"circuitous",
"indirect",
"roundabout",
"complex",
"complicated",
"difficult",
"obtuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comprehensible",
"fathomable",
"intelligible",
"knowable",
"legible",
"pellucid",
"understandable",
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"self-evident",
"self-explanatory",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure",
"defined",
"determined",
"direct",
"straightforward",
"definite",
"exact",
"explicit",
"appreciable",
"palpable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"blatant",
"patent",
"unmistakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"accessible",
"clear",
"nonambiguous",
"obvious",
"plain",
"unambiguous",
"unequivocal"
]
},
"not seen or understood clearly":{
"examples":[
"a gubernatorial candidate with a murky position on the hot-button issue of capital punishment"
],
"synonyms":[
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"shadowy",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"puzzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure"
],
"antonyms":[
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"murderess":{
"as in murderer , killer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassin",
"cutthroat",
"homicide",
"killer",
"manslayer",
"murderer",
"butcher",
"executioner",
"massacrer",
"slaughterer",
"slayer",
"bravo",
"hit man",
"torpedo",
"triggerman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murderousness":{
"as in bloodlust , bloodthirstiness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloodlust",
"bloodthirstiness",
"sanguineness",
"sanguinity",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"brutality",
"cruelness",
"cruelty",
"fiendishness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"wantonness",
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"unfeelingness",
"fellness",
"ferociousness",
"ferocity",
"fierceness",
"grimness",
"cattiness",
"despitefulness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spitefulness",
"hardhandedness",
"harshness",
"heavy-handedness",
"oppressiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"charitableness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"benignity",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tenderheartedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murderesses":{
"as in murderers , killers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"homicides",
"killers",
"manslayers",
"murderers",
"butchers",
"executioners",
"massacrers",
"slaughterers",
"slayers",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"hit men",
"torpedoes",
"triggermen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murkiness":{
"the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning":{
"examples":[
"we had trouble understanding the passage because of its murkiness"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambiguity",
"ambiguousness",
"darkness",
"equivocalness",
"equivocation",
"inscrutability",
"inscrutableness",
"mysteriousness",
"nebulosity",
"nebulousness",
"obliqueness",
"obliquity",
"obscurity",
"opacity",
"opaqueness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mystery",
"reconditeness",
"cloudiness",
"dimness",
"faintness",
"fogginess",
"fuzziness",
"haziness",
"indefiniteness",
"indistinctness",
"mistiness",
"shade",
"shadow",
"uncertainty",
"vagueness",
"impenetrability",
"incomprehensibility",
"incomprehensibleness",
"circuitousness",
"circuity",
"indirectness",
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness",
"abstruseness",
"abstrusity",
"complexity",
"complication",
"difficulty",
"obtuseness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comprehensibility",
"intelligibility",
"legibility",
"brightness",
"distinctness",
"self-evidence",
"certainty",
"surety",
"definiteness",
"exactness",
"explicitness",
"incision",
"incisiveness",
"lucidity",
"lucidness",
"perspicuity",
"perspicuousness",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"openness",
"straightforwardness",
"palpability",
"tangibility",
"tangibleness",
"visibility",
"readability",
"readableness",
"obviousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"clarity",
"clearness",
"obviousness",
"plainness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murderers":{
"a person who kills another person":{
"examples":[
"the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"homicides",
"killers",
"manslayers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"hit men",
"torpedoes",
"triggermen",
"butchers",
"executioners",
"massacrers",
"slaughterers",
"slayers",
"murderesses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murmurers":{
"an irritable and complaining person":{
"examples":[
"the murmurers among the patients usually got fed last"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"bellyachers",
"complainers",
"crabs",
"cranks",
"croakers",
"crosspatches",
"curmudgeons",
"fussers",
"gripers",
"grouches",
"grousers",
"growlers",
"grumblers",
"grumps",
"mutterers",
"sourpusses",
"whiners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hunks",
"malcontents",
"soreheads",
"grinches",
"killjoys",
"party poopers",
"spoilsports",
"defeatists",
"pessimists",
"faultfinders",
"kickers",
"naggers",
"nitpickers",
"objectors",
"quibblers",
"repiners",
"crocks",
"hypochondriacs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimists",
"Pollyannas",
"happy campers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murrains":{
"as in illnesses , epidemics":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affections",
"afflictions",
"ailments",
"contagions",
"illnesses",
"infections",
"infirmities",
"maladies",
"sicknesses",
"blights",
"curses",
"scourges",
"pestilences",
"pests",
"plagues",
"epidemics",
"pandemics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murmurer":{
"an irritable and complaining person":{
"examples":[
"the murmurers among the patients usually got fed last"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bellyacher",
"complainer",
"crab",
"crank",
"croaker",
"crosspatch",
"curmudgeon",
"fusser",
"griper",
"grouch",
"grouser",
"growler",
"grumbler",
"grump",
"mutterer",
"sourpuss",
"whiner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hunks",
"malcontent",
"sorehead",
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"defeatist",
"pessimist",
"faultfinder",
"kicker",
"nagger",
"nitpicker",
"objector",
"quibbler",
"repiner",
"crock",
"hypochondriac"
],
"near antonyms":[
"optimist",
"Pollyanna",
"happy camper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murrain":{
"as in illness , epidemic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affection",
"affliction",
"ailment",
"contagion",
"illness",
"infection",
"infirmity",
"malady",
"sickness",
"blight",
"curse",
"scourge",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague",
"epidemic",
"pandemic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murals":{
"a usually large painting that is done directly on the surface of a wall":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"frescoes",
"panoramas",
"canvases",
"canvasses",
"oil paintings",
"oils",
"paintings",
"diptychs",
"triptychs",
"acrylics",
"aquarelles",
"gouaches",
"watercolors",
"distempers",
"drawings",
"etchings",
"finger paintings",
"pastels",
"sketches",
"temperas",
"masterpieces",
"pi\u00e8ces de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpieces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murderee":{
"as in victim , collateral damage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casualty",
"fatality",
"loss",
"prey",
"victim",
"martyr",
"sacrifice",
"loser",
"underdog",
"collateral damage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gainer",
"victor",
"winner",
"harmer",
"injurer",
"assassin",
"killer",
"murderer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murderees":{
"as in victims , collateral damages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casualties",
"fatalities",
"losses",
"prey",
"preys",
"victims",
"martyrs",
"sacrifices",
"losers",
"underdogs",
"collateral damages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gainers",
"victors",
"winners",
"harmers",
"injurers",
"assassins",
"killers",
"murderers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murmured":{
"as in whispered , muttered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathed",
"chirped",
"drawled",
"gasped",
"intoned",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"muttered",
"purred",
"shouted",
"spluttered",
"sputtered",
"squeaked",
"whispered",
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced",
"sonant",
"oral",
"spoken",
"uttered",
"vocal",
"voiced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonvocal",
"inarticulate",
"mute",
"quiet",
"silent",
"unexpressed",
"unsaid",
"unspoken",
"unuttered",
"unvoiced",
"surd",
"voiceless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"no prisoner dared murmur out loud"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefed",
"bellyached",
"bitched",
"bleated",
"carped",
"caterwauled",
"complained",
"crabbed",
"croaked",
"fussed",
"griped",
"grizzled",
"grouched",
"groused",
"growled",
"grumbled",
"grumped",
"hollered",
"inveighed",
"keened",
"kicked",
"kvetched",
"maundered",
"moaned",
"muttered",
"nagged",
"repined",
"screamed",
"squawked",
"squealed",
"wailed",
"whimpered",
"whined",
"whinged",
"yammered",
"yawped",
"yauped",
"yowled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objected (to)",
"protested",
"quarreled (with)",
"quarrelled (with)",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"quibbled",
"fretted",
"stewed",
"worried",
"blubbered",
"cried",
"sobbed",
"bemoaned",
"bewailed",
"deplored",
"lamented"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"bore",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"tolerated",
"took",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"commended"
],
"antonyms":[
"crowed",
"delighted",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"a college professor who tends to murmur"
],
"synonyms":[
"chuntered",
"grunted",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"muttered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbled",
"blabbed",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"maundered",
"prattled",
"rambled",
"breathed",
"gasped",
"panted",
"whispered",
"buzzed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated"
],
"antonyms":[
"spoke out",
"spoke up"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"Murphy beds":{
"as in bunk beds , couches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk beds",
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"feather beds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"shakedowns",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bunks",
"dosses",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks",
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murdering":{
"eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing":{
"examples":[
"a vow to bring down the murdering fiend who had destroyed his family"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodthirsty",
"bloody",
"bloody-minded",
"homicidal",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"cold-blooded",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"antagonistic",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"gladiatorial",
"hostile",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"violent",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"bloodstained",
"fell",
"gory",
"grim",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliatory",
"disarming",
"dovish",
"mollifying",
"pacific",
"pacifying",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"peacemaking",
"placating",
"placative",
"placatory",
"propitiatory",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"benign",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted",
"tender",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"affable",
"amiable",
"amicable",
"benevolent",
"gentle",
"kindly",
"submissive",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"bumping off",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"liquidating",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"slaying",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"terminating",
"whacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing away",
"shooting",
"shooting down",
"blotting out",
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"cutting down",
"destroying",
"felling",
"killing",
"smiting",
"zapping",
"butchering",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"slaughtering",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"murkily":{
"as in darkly , somberly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"darkly",
"duskily",
"gloomily",
"obscurely",
"somberly",
"dimly",
"dully",
"cloudily",
"shadily",
"shadowily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"dazzlingly",
"fulgently",
"glowingly",
"incandescently",
"lambently",
"luminously",
"lustrously",
"radiantly",
"splendidly",
"blazingly",
"burningly",
"flamingly",
"blindingly",
"flaringly",
"flickeringly",
"glaringly",
"glitteringly",
"opalescently"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"murks":{
"an atmospheric condition in which suspended particles in the air rob it of its transparency":{
"examples":[
"stuck outside in the murk and the rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"brumes",
"fogs",
"gauzes",
"hazes",
"mists",
"reeks",
"smogs",
"soups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banks",
"clouds",
"fumes",
"miasmas",
"miasmata",
"smokes",
"smothers",
"steams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"mural":{
"a usually large painting that is done directly on the surface of a wall":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fresco",
"panorama",
"canvas",
"canvass",
"oil",
"oil painting",
"painting",
"diptych",
"triptych",
"acrylic",
"aquarelle",
"gouache",
"watercolor",
"distemper",
"drawing",
"etching",
"finger painting",
"pastel",
"sketch",
"tempera",
"masterpiece",
"pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpiece"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"murmurs":{
"an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment":{
"examples":[
"finished the tedious job without a murmur"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"complaints",
"fusses",
"grievances",
"gripes",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"grumbles",
"hollers",
"kvetches",
"laments",
"misereres",
"moans",
"plaints",
"squawks",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenges",
"demurs",
"expostulations",
"kicks",
"niggles",
"objections",
"protests",
"quibbles",
"remonstrances",
"stinks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliments",
"plaudits",
"acclaim",
"applauses",
"praises",
"approvals",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"speech that is not clear enough to be understood":{
"examples":[
"could just barely hear the murmurs of the audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"grunts",
"mumbles",
"mutters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rumors",
"undertones",
"whispers",
"babbles",
"babblings",
"blabs",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabbles",
"jabberings",
"jabbers",
"prattles",
"ramblings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"no prisoner dared murmur out loud"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"caterwauls",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grizzles",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"grumps",
"hollers",
"inveighs",
"keens",
"kicks",
"kvetches",
"maunders",
"moans",
"mutters",
"nags",
"repines",
"screams",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objects (to)",
"protests",
"quarrels (with)",
"cavils",
"quibbles",
"frets",
"stews",
"worries",
"blubbers",
"cries",
"sobs",
"bemoans",
"bewails",
"deplores",
"laments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"bears",
"countenances",
"endures",
"takes",
"tolerates",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends"
],
"antonyms":[
"crows",
"delights",
"rejoices"
]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"a college professor who tends to murmur"
],
"synonyms":[
"chunters",
"grunts",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"mutters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbles",
"blabs",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"gabbles",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"maunders",
"prattles",
"rambles",
"breathes",
"gasps",
"pants",
"whispers",
"buzzes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulates",
"enunciates"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaks out",
"speaks up"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"murmuring":{
"speech that is not clear enough to be understood":{
"examples":[
"his surprising announcement brought murmurings from the crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"grunt",
"grunting",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"muttering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rumor",
"undertone",
"whisper",
"babble",
"babbling",
"blab",
"blabbing",
"chatter",
"chattering",
"drivel",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"gabble",
"gabbling",
"jabber",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattle",
"prattling",
"rambling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in buzzing , humming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buzzing",
"humming",
"resonant",
"sonorous",
"blustery",
"boisterous",
"raucous",
"rip-roaring",
"roaring",
"roistering",
"romping",
"rowdy",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"clattering",
"clattery",
"noisy",
"rackety",
"resounding",
"uproarious",
"tumultuous",
"woolly",
"wooly",
"obstreperous",
"vociferous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"quiet",
"silent",
"soundless",
"stilled",
"stilly",
"calm",
"peaceful",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely":{
"examples":[
"no prisoner dared murmur out loud"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefing",
"bellyaching",
"bitching",
"bleating",
"carping",
"caterwauling",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grizzling",
"grouching",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"grumping",
"hollering",
"inveighing",
"keening",
"kicking",
"kvetching",
"maundering",
"moaning",
"muttering",
"nagging",
"repining",
"screaming",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whinging",
"whingeing",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"objecting (to)",
"protesting",
"quarreling (with)",
"quarrelling (with)",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"worrying",
"blubbering",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"deploring",
"lamenting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"bearing",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"taking",
"tolerating",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending"
],
"antonyms":[
"crowing",
"delighting",
"rejoicing"
]
},
"to speak softly and unclearly":{
"examples":[
"a college professor who tends to murmur"
],
"synonyms":[
"chuntering",
"grunting",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"muttering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbling",
"blabbing",
"chattering",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattling",
"rambling",
"breathing",
"gasping",
"panting",
"whispering",
"buzzing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking out",
"speaking up"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}