dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/shi_MWT.json
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{
"shied (from or away from)":{
"as in objected (to) , disapproved (of)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cringed (at)",
"disapproved (of)",
"frowned (on or upon)",
"minded",
"objected (to)",
"condemned",
"despised",
"scorned",
"abhorred",
"abominated",
"detested",
"execrated",
"hated",
"loathed",
"resented",
"disfavored",
"disliked",
"disrelished",
"misliked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adored",
"cottoned (to)",
"delighted (in)",
"dug",
"enjoyed",
"fancied",
"grooved (on)",
"liked",
"loved",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"admired",
"appreciated",
"cherished",
"esteemed",
"regarded",
"respected",
"adored",
"deified",
"idolized",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"prized",
"treasured",
"valued",
"drank (in)",
"savored",
"savoured",
"doted (on)",
"idolized",
"favored",
"preferred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"shielding":{
"as in protecting , safeguarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"sheltering",
"safe",
"secure",
"snug",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"impregnable",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unconquerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dangerous",
"hazardous",
"insecure",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"threatening",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"vulnerable",
"precarious",
"treacherous",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in protection , safeguarding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"protection",
"safeguarding",
"sheltering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposure",
"liability",
"openness",
"vulnerability",
"predisposition",
"susceptibility",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarking",
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"warding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"preventing",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"buffering",
"palisading",
"picketing",
"walling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"covering",
"screening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaking",
"clothing",
"veiling",
"draping",
"palling",
"canopying",
"capping",
"crowning",
"disguising",
"masking",
"obscuring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"exposing",
"uncovering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shifting":{
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"the shifting of the toys to the front of the display was a direct result of their sudden popularity"
],
"synonyms":[
"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shift",
"stir",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motivity",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"motionlessness"
]
},
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"budging",
"dislocating",
"displacing",
"disturbing",
"moving",
"relocating",
"removing",
"repositioning",
"transferring",
"transposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"carrying",
"carting",
"conveying",
"driving",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"toting",
"transmitting",
"transplanting",
"transporting",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"supplanting",
"altering",
"making over",
"modifying",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchoring",
"fixing",
"freezing",
"mooring",
"securing",
"setting",
"stabilizing",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"rooting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"budging",
"locomoting",
"moving",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"jiggling",
"squiggling",
"squirming",
"tossing",
"twitching",
"wiggling",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"rousing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hanging around",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"stabilizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"freezing",
"stilling"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"changing",
"fluctuating",
"mutating",
"snapping",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosing",
"morphing",
"transmuting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"deteriorating",
"worsening",
"turning around",
"seesawing",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateauing",
"stabilizing"
]
},
"to give up (something) and take something else in return":{
"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"changing",
"commuting",
"exchanging",
"substituting",
"swapping",
"switching",
"trading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interchanging",
"displacing",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"ceding",
"handing over",
"surrendering",
"yielding",
"reciprocating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"coping",
"doing",
"faring",
"getting along",
"getting by",
"getting on",
"making out",
"managing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carrying on",
"contriving",
"scraping (by or through)",
"scrounging",
"lasting",
"surviving",
"eking out",
"scraping (out)",
"squeezing",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"affording",
"swinging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"failing",
"falling short",
"fizzling",
"floundering",
"declining",
"petering (out)",
"slumping",
"waning",
"giving up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shiftlessness":{
"an inclination not to do work or engage in activities":{
"examples":[
"with the start of the warm weather, combating the students' shiftlessness was a constant ordeal"
],
"synonyms":[
"idleness",
"indolence",
"inertia",
"laziness",
"sloth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathy",
"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"supineness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambition",
"enterprise",
"go",
"hustle",
"initiative",
"assiduity",
"assiduousness",
"diligence",
"perseverance",
"animation",
"briskness",
"energy",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"pep",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrancy",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"industriousness",
"industry"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shimmery":{
"as in shimmering , sparkling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant",
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shine":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beam",
"radiate",
"ray"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blaze",
"burn",
"fire",
"flame",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"glow",
"luminesce",
"sheen",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"coruscate",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle",
"beat (down)",
"glare",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"light",
"lighten",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacken",
"darken",
"lower",
"lour"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"dress",
"furbish",
"gloss",
"grind",
"polish",
"rub",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleek",
"slick",
"coat",
"glaze",
"japan",
"lacquer",
"varnish",
"face",
"finish",
"veneer",
"brighten",
"file",
"rasp",
"sand",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scrub",
"bob",
"bone",
"lap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"ruffle",
"scuff (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"brightness created by light reflected from a surface":{
"examples":[
"the troop inspector insisted on nothing less than a dazzling shine from every pair of shoes in the line of review"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnish",
"gloss",
"luminance",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"sheen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glow",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"flicker",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"illumination",
"irradiation",
"iridescence",
"luminescence",
"brilliance",
"luminosity",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"refulgence",
"finish",
"glaze"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"flatness",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"cloudiness",
"gloom",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible":{
"examples":[
"by the shine of the full moon we could see the rabbit helping himself to our garden vegetables"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flash",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"daylight",
"moonlight",
"sunlight",
"sunshine",
"afterglow",
"aureole",
"aureola",
"aurora",
"beam",
"halo",
"ray",
"shaft",
"streak",
"stream",
"sunbeam",
"glisten",
"gloss",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"reflection",
"sheen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dimness",
"dusk",
"duskiness",
"gloom",
"night",
"shadow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"positive regard for something":{
"examples":[
"took quite a shine to the new neighbors"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetite",
"fancy",
"favor",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"love",
"love affair",
"partiality",
"preference",
"relish",
"taste",
"use"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"longing",
"thirst",
"yen",
"enthusiasm",
"gusto",
"interest",
"passion",
"bias",
"prejudice",
"bent",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"tooth",
"palate",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinclination",
"indifference",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"dislike",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"mislike"
]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"the shines they pulled at summer camp have become embellished with each retelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shingling":{
"as in overlap , overlaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"imbrication",
"lapping",
"overlap",
"overlaying",
"overlying",
"overspreading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overlapping , overlaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lapping",
"overlapping",
"overlaying",
"overlying",
"overspreading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shininess":{
"as in polish , sheen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"sheen",
"shine",
"fluorescence",
"incandescence",
"luminescence",
"fire",
"flame",
"glare",
"glow",
"blaze",
"flare",
"flash",
"flicker",
"light",
"flash",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"scintillation",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"brilliancy",
"candor",
"dazzle",
"effulgence",
"illumination",
"lambency",
"lightness",
"luminance",
"luminosity",
"luminousness",
"luster",
"lustre",
"lustrousness",
"radiance",
"refulgence",
"splendor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"duskiness",
"dimness",
"gloominess",
"somberness",
"cloudiness",
"haziness",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"colorlessness",
"grayness",
"lackluster",
"paleness",
"shadiness",
"shadowiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipload":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"it must have taken a shipload of money to build that mansion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
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"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipping":{
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we shipped those books out yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigning",
"dispatching",
"packing (off)",
"sending",
"shooting",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"transporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveying",
"delivering",
"handing over",
"passing",
"rendering",
"advancing",
"dropping",
"launching",
"addressing",
"forwarding",
"exporting",
"importing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"presenting",
"resending",
"returning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquiring",
"drawing",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepting",
"receiving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipyard":{
"as in marina , dockyard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dockyard",
"marina",
"quayage",
"wharfage",
"embarcadero",
"berth",
"mooring",
"slip",
"dock",
"float",
"jetty",
"landing",
"levee",
"pier",
"quai",
"quay",
"wharf"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirkers":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"even before we weighed anchor, the captain forcefully served notice that there would be no shirkers on his ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"slackers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerers",
"dropouts",
"quitters",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wires",
"pistols",
"powerhouses",
"doers",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirks":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"finesses",
"gets around",
"scapes",
"shakes",
"shuffles (out of)",
"shuns",
"weasels (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misses",
"averts",
"deflects",
"diverts",
"obviates",
"parries",
"prevents",
"wards (off)",
"bans",
"bars",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"precludes",
"rules out",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"skirts",
"foils",
"foxes",
"frustrates",
"outfoxes",
"outsmarts",
"outwits",
"overreaches",
"thwarts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"courts",
"embraces",
"pursues",
"seeks",
"welcomes",
"catches",
"contracts",
"incurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgets",
"neglects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slacks (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries out",
"does",
"executes",
"performs",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"keeps up",
"maintains"
],
"antonyms":[
"attends (to)",
"remembers"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurks",
"mooches",
"mouses",
"pussyfoots",
"skulks",
"slides",
"slinks",
"slips",
"snakes",
"sneaks",
"steals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"edges",
"inches",
"worms",
"ghosts",
"pads",
"tiptoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirty":{
"feeling or showing anger":{
"examples":[
"the visiting businessman was beginning to feel as though he had encountered every shirty bloke in London"
],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"angry",
"apoplectic",
"ballistic",
"cheesed off",
"choleric",
"enraged",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"furious",
"hopping",
"horn-mad",
"hot",
"incensed",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriate",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"livid",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rabid",
"rankled",
"riled",
"riley",
"roiled",
"sore",
"steamed up",
"steaming",
"teed off",
"ticked",
"wrathful",
"wroth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ranting",
"raving",
"stormy",
"boiling",
"bristling",
"bristly",
"burning",
"cross",
"huffy",
"passionate",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"worked up",
"wrought (up)",
"acrid",
"acrimonious",
"antagonistic",
"antipathetic",
"bitter",
"embittered",
"inimical",
"malevolent",
"piqued",
"rancorous",
"resentful",
"spiteful",
"vengeful",
"vindictive",
"virulent",
"vitriolic",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"disagreeable",
"disapproving",
"distant",
"frigid",
"icy",
"ill-tempered",
"sorehead",
"soreheaded",
"sulky",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"exasperated",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"inflammable",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"perturbed",
"petulant",
"put out",
"quick-tempered",
"snappish",
"testy",
"touchy",
"argumentative",
"belligerent",
"contentious",
"contrary",
"disputatious",
"ornery",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"querulous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"accommodating",
"obliging",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"amicable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"empathetic",
"sympathetic",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"unembittered",
"affable",
"amiable",
"easygoing",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"kind",
"pleasant",
"sweet"
],
"antonyms":[
"angerless",
"delighted",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shivered":{
"as in shook , shuddered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"trembled",
"flitted",
"fluttered",
"twittered",
"paced",
"fiddled",
"fidgeted",
"jerked",
"jigged",
"jiggled",
"squiggled",
"squirmed",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"tossed",
"twisted",
"twitched",
"wiggled",
"wriggled",
"writhed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"calmed (down)",
"stilled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in split , splintered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"splintered",
"split",
"annihilated",
"bashed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"nuked",
"pulverized",
"ruined",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked",
"cracked",
"crunched",
"crushed",
"snapped",
"busted",
"bust",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"broke down",
"crashed",
"shattered",
"smashed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shivering":{
"a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side":{
"examples":[
"the shivering of the crystal chandeliers while there was construction work next door"
],
"synonyms":[
"jiggling",
"oscillation",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"vibration"
],
"near synonyms":[
"juddering",
"quaking",
"rocking",
"jiggle",
"palpitation",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shiver",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"tremor",
"twitch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shivery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shivery",
"convulsive",
"rocky",
"staggery",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"wavering",
"wavery",
"aquiver",
"atremble",
"quaking",
"quavery",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shaky",
"shuddering",
"shuddery",
"tottering",
"tottery",
"trembling",
"trembly",
"tremulous",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"wobbly",
"wabbly",
"palpitating",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"firm",
"settled",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shaking , shuddering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quaking",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"trembling",
"flitting",
"fluttering",
"twittering",
"pacing",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"jerking",
"jigging",
"jiggling",
"squiggling",
"squirming",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"tossing",
"twisting",
"twitching",
"wiggling",
"wriggling",
"writhing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"calming (down)",
"stilling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in splitting , splintering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"splintering",
"splitting",
"annihilating",
"bashing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"nuking",
"pulverizing",
"ruining",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking",
"cracking",
"crunching",
"crushing",
"snapping",
"busting",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"breaking down",
"crashing",
"shattering",
"smashing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shin":{
"as in thigh , calf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calf",
"drumstick",
"ham",
"shank",
"thigh",
"pin",
"member",
"foreleg",
"forelimb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skin , shimmy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmy",
"shinny",
"skin",
"clamber",
"climb",
"scrabble",
"scramble",
"swarm",
"ascend",
"breast",
"free-climb",
"get up",
"mount",
"scale",
"summit",
"surmount",
"claw",
"sprawl",
"struggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shipmate":{
"as in crewman , deckhand":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"shipman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"lime-juicer",
"limey"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shibboleth":{
"an attention-getting word or phrase used to publicize something (as a campaign or product)":{
"examples":[
"we knew that their claim of giving \"the best deal in town\" was just a shibboleth"
],
"synonyms":[
"banner",
"catchphrase",
"cry",
"slogan",
"tagline",
"watchword"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expression",
"idiom",
"catchword",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"maxim",
"motto",
"battle cry",
"war cry"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idea or expression that has been used by many people":{
"examples":[
"there's a lot of truth in the shibboleth that if you give some people an inch, they'll take a mile"
],
"synonyms":[
"banality",
"bromide",
"chestnut",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"commonplace",
"groaner",
"homily",
"platitude",
"trope",
"truism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conventional wisdom",
"party line",
"routine",
"inanity",
"generality",
"generalization",
"simplification",
"adage",
"proverb",
"saw",
"saying",
"old wives' tale",
"stereotype"
],
"near antonyms":[
"profundity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ships":{
"a large craft for travel by water":{
"examples":[
"a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"boats",
"keels",
"vessels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carriers",
"argosies",
"barges",
"coasters",
"colliers",
"containerships",
"corvettes",
"cruisers",
"cutters",
"destroyers",
"ferryboats",
"flagships",
"freighters",
"icebreakers",
"ironclads",
"lightships",
"liners",
"men-of-war",
"men-o'-war",
"merchantmen",
"merchant ships",
"motor ships",
"packets",
"steamers",
"steamships",
"superliners",
"supertankers",
"tankers",
"traders",
"tramps",
"transports",
"warships",
"watercrafts",
"barks",
"barques",
"brigantines",
"brigs",
"caravels",
"clippers",
"junk",
"ketches",
"sailboats",
"schooners",
"square-riggers",
"tall ships",
"windjammers",
"xebecs",
"yachts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we shipped those books out yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigns",
"dispatches",
"packs (off)",
"sends",
"shoots",
"transfers",
"transmits",
"transports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveys",
"delivers",
"hands over",
"passes",
"renders",
"advances",
"drops",
"launches",
"addresses",
"forwards",
"exports",
"imports",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"presents",
"resends",
"returns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquires",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepts",
"receives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ship (out)":{
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"after college he decide to ship out on a tramp steamer and see the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"boat",
"cruise",
"ferry",
"navigate",
"sail",
"voyage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoe",
"kayak",
"yacht",
"coast"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiploads":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"it must have taken a shipload of money to build that mansion"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shingles":{
"as in sediments , silts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluviums",
"alluvia",
"colluvia",
"colluviums",
"detritus",
"loesses",
"marls",
"sediments",
"silts",
"clods",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"molds",
"blacklands",
"clays",
"gaults",
"gleys",
"gucks",
"gooks",
"gumbos",
"kaolins",
"muck",
"muds",
"dust",
"gravels",
"sands",
"humuses",
"loams",
"topsoils",
"duffs",
"mulls",
"subsoils",
"substrata"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in trims , crops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobs",
"buzz cuts",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"trims",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overlaps , overlays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"laps",
"overlaps",
"overlays",
"overlies",
"overspreads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shilly-shallied":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balanced",
"dithered",
"faltered",
"halted",
"hesitated",
"hung back",
"scrupled",
"staggered",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawed",
"hemmed",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"lingered",
"paused",
"procrastinated",
"waited",
"backed down",
"chickened (out)",
"considered",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"oscillated",
"swayed",
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"waffled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decided",
"budged",
"stirred",
"advanced",
"continued"
],
"antonyms":[
"dived (in)",
"dove (in)",
"plunged (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shigellosis":{
"as in dysentery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dysentery",
"Delhi belly",
"diarrhea",
"flux",
"Montezuma's revenge",
"runs",
"trots",
"turista",
"scour(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipwrecks":{
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"finally admitted that their marriage was a shipwreck and that the time had come to bail out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"frosts",
"lemons",
"losers",
"misses",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"strands",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaches",
"founders",
"scuttles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovers",
"salvages"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shirk":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"eschew",
"evade",
"finesse",
"get around",
"scape",
"shake",
"shuffle (out of)",
"shun",
"weasel (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"miss",
"avert",
"deflect",
"divert",
"obviate",
"parry",
"prevent",
"ward (off)",
"ban",
"bar",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"preclude",
"rule out",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"skirt",
"foil",
"fox",
"frustrate",
"outfox",
"outsmart",
"outwit",
"overreach",
"thwart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"court",
"embrace",
"pursue",
"seek",
"welcome",
"catch",
"contract",
"incur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forget",
"neglect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slack (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry out",
"do",
"execute",
"perform",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"keep up",
"maintain"
],
"antonyms":[
"attend (to)",
"remember"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mooch",
"mouse",
"pussyfoot",
"skulk",
"slide",
"slink",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"edge",
"inch",
"worm",
"ghost",
"pad",
"tiptoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipman":{
"one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel":{
"examples":[
"in the middle of the vasty deep the shipman enjoys a splendid isolation that the landsman will never know"
],
"synonyms":[
"gob",
"hearty",
"jack",
"jack-tar",
"mariner",
"navigator",
"sailor",
"salt",
"sea dog",
"seafarer",
"seaman",
"swab",
"swabbie",
"swabby",
"tar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coxswain",
"crewman",
"deckhand",
"shipmate",
"able-bodied seaman",
"able seaman",
"lubber",
"powerboater",
"sailboater",
"lime-juicer",
"limey"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shilly-shallying":{
"a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"fortunately, during the crisis there was no shilly-shallying on the part of the president"
],
"synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delay",
"hawing",
"procrastination",
"waiting",
"arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e",
"misgiving",
"second thought",
"consideration",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indecisiveness",
"indetermination",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty",
"avoidance",
"equivocation",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness",
"faintheartedness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"readiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in vacillating , wavering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambivalent",
"hesitating",
"shaky",
"shilly-shally",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"irregular",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"dicey",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"flickery",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"skittish",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile",
"adaptable",
"mobile",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certain",
"changeless",
"constant",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"predictable",
"settled",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchangeable",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"equable",
"even",
"uniform",
"abiding",
"durable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"persistent",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balancing",
"dithering",
"faltering",
"halting",
"hanging back",
"hesitating",
"scrupling",
"staggering",
"teetering",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hawing",
"hemming",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"lingering",
"pausing",
"procrastinating",
"waiting",
"backing down",
"chickening (out)",
"considering",
"debating",
"deliberating",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"oscillating",
"swaying",
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deciding",
"budging",
"stirring",
"advancing",
"continuing"
],
"antonyms":[
"diving (in)",
"plunging (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shipments":{
"as in packages , parcels":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bales",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"burdens",
"cargoes",
"cargos",
"drafts",
"freights",
"hauls",
"ladings",
"loadings",
"loads",
"payloads",
"weights",
"consignments",
"boatloads",
"carloads",
"shiploads",
"trainloads",
"truckloads",
"wagonloads",
"ballasts",
"deadweights",
"overloads",
"surcharges",
"manifests",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"masses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirtdresses":{
"as in sundresses , minidresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemises",
"coatdresses",
"granny dresses",
"housedresses",
"jumpers",
"kimonos",
"kirtles",
"minidresses",
"Mother Hubbards",
"muumuus",
"overdresses",
"sacks",
"sheaths",
"shifts",
"shirtwaists",
"sundresses",
"sweaterdresses",
"tea gowns",
"dresses",
"frocks",
"gowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shillelagh":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"rung",
"sap",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shields":{
"means or method of defending":{
"examples":[
"the slightly built boy used his sharp wit as a shield against the school's bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegises",
"egises",
"ammunitions",
"armors",
"bucklers",
"covers",
"defenses",
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"securities",
"walls",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armaments",
"arms",
"munitions",
"weaponries",
"weapons",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"strongholds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressions",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"offenses",
"offences",
"offensives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fences",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"covers",
"screens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaks",
"clothes",
"veils",
"drapes",
"palls",
"canopies",
"caps",
"crowns",
"disguises",
"masks",
"obscures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bares",
"exposes",
"uncovers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shindig":{
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"we're hosting a little shindig this weekend for some friends"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"do",
"event",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefit",
"fund-raiser",
"ball",
"dance",
"formal",
"prom",
"celebration",
"gala",
"occasion",
"bacchanal",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"saturnalia",
"bake",
"clambake",
"cocktail party",
"hen party",
"house party",
"housewarming",
"icebreaker",
"kaffeeklatsch",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"masquerade",
"meet and greet",
"mixer",
"salon",
"shower",
"social",
"soiree",
"soir\u00e9e",
"stag",
"supper",
"symposium",
"tea",
"tea party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shielded":{
"as in secure , protected":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"secure",
"secured",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"tenable",
"bulletproof",
"impregnable",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"untouchable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indefensible",
"untenable",
"vincible",
"vulnerable",
"assailable",
"exposed",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"insecure",
"liable",
"open",
"susceptible",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unsecured",
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"powerless",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarked",
"covered",
"defended",
"fenced",
"fended",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"warded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averted",
"prevented",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"picketed",
"walled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"covered",
"screened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaked",
"clothed",
"clad",
"veiled",
"draped",
"palled",
"canopied",
"capped",
"crowned",
"disguised",
"masked",
"obscured"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"uncovered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shiv":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"watch yourself in Cell Block 8, or you'll end up with a shiv in your back"
],
"synonyms":[
"blade",
"cutter",
"knife",
"shank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleaver",
"hack",
"bayonet",
"bodkin",
"bolo",
"bowie knife",
"cutlass",
"dagger",
"dirk",
"jackknife",
"machete",
"pocketknife",
"poniard",
"sheath knife",
"stiletto",
"stylet",
"switchblade",
"switch knife",
"yataghan",
"rapier",
"saber",
"sabre",
"steel",
"sword",
"scalpel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shirking":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"finessing",
"getting around",
"scaping",
"shaking",
"shuffling (out of)",
"shunning",
"weaseling (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missing",
"averting",
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"obviating",
"parrying",
"preventing",
"warding (off)",
"banning",
"barring",
"debarring",
"eliminating",
"excepting",
"excluding",
"precluding",
"ruling out",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"skirting",
"foiling",
"foxing",
"frustrating",
"outfoxing",
"outsmarting",
"outwitting",
"overreaching",
"thwarting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"courting",
"embracing",
"pursuing",
"seeking",
"welcoming",
"catching",
"contracting",
"incurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgetting",
"neglecting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slacking (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying out",
"doing",
"executing",
"performing",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"keeping up",
"maintaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"attending (to)",
"remembering"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurking",
"mooching",
"mousing",
"pussyfooting",
"skulking",
"sliding",
"slinking",
"slipping",
"snaking",
"sneaking",
"stealing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"edging",
"inching",
"worming",
"ghosting",
"padding",
"tiptoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shillelaghs":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shindies":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the prime minister created a brief shindy with his unexpected appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipyards":{
"as in marinas , dockyards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dockyards",
"marinas",
"quayages",
"wharfages",
"embarcaderos",
"berths",
"moorings",
"slips",
"docks",
"floats",
"jetties",
"landings",
"levees",
"piers",
"quais",
"quays",
"wharves",
"wharfs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shies":{
"as in starts , flinches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blenches",
"flinches",
"quails",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"starts",
"winces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddles",
"nestles",
"nuzzles",
"snoozles",
"snuggles",
"curls up",
"crouches",
"huddles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirker":{
"one who deliberately avoids work or duty":{
"examples":[
"even before we weighed anchor, the captain forcefully served notice that there would be no shirkers on his ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"slacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"malingerer",
"dropout",
"quitter",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shift":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"budge",
"dislocate",
"displace",
"disturb",
"move",
"relocate",
"remove",
"reposition",
"transfer",
"transpose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bear",
"carry",
"cart",
"convey",
"drive",
"haul",
"lug",
"tote",
"transmit",
"transplant",
"transport",
"replace",
"supersede",
"supplant",
"alter",
"make over",
"modify",
"redo",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchor",
"fix",
"freeze",
"moor",
"secure",
"set",
"stabilize",
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"budge",
"locomote",
"move",
"stir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle",
"fidget",
"jiggle",
"squiggle",
"squirm",
"toss",
"twitch",
"wiggle",
"wriggle",
"writhe",
"rouse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hang around",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"stabilize"
],
"antonyms":[
"freeze",
"still"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"fluctuate",
"mutate",
"snap",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphose",
"morph",
"transmute",
"better",
"improve",
"deteriorate",
"worsen",
"turn around",
"seesaw",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateau",
"stabilize"
]
},
"to give up (something) and take something else in return":{
"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"change",
"commute",
"exchange",
"substitute",
"swap",
"switch",
"trade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interchange",
"displace",
"replace",
"supersede",
"cede",
"hand over",
"surrender",
"yield",
"reciprocate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"cope",
"do",
"fare",
"get along",
"get by",
"get on",
"make out",
"manage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carry on",
"contrive",
"scrape (by or through)",
"scrounge",
"last",
"survive",
"eke out",
"scrape (out)",
"squeeze",
"wrest",
"wring",
"afford",
"swing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fail",
"fall short",
"fizzle",
"flounder",
"decline",
"peter (out)",
"slump",
"wane",
"give up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an action planned or taken to achieve a desired result":{
"examples":[
"desperate shifts to stave off financial disaster"
],
"synonyms":[
"expedient",
"means",
"measure",
"move",
"step"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"action",
"deed",
"doing",
"feat",
"thing",
"course",
"procedure",
"proceeding",
"process",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"coup",
"exploit",
"success",
"triumph",
"activity",
"affair",
"business",
"dealing",
"enterprise",
"event",
"attempt",
"crack",
"endeavor",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"initiative",
"operation",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"undertaking",
"whack",
"effort",
"exertion",
"labor",
"pains",
"trouble",
"while",
"work",
"project",
"proposal",
"proposition",
"makeshift",
"resort",
"resource",
"stopgap",
"countermeasure",
"countermove",
"counterstep"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"made a small shift to the left to make more room on the bench"
],
"synonyms":[
"motion",
"move",
"movement",
"shifting",
"stir",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocation",
"migration",
"relocation",
"locomotion",
"mobility",
"motility",
"motivity",
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"squirm",
"squirming",
"twitching",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"flailing",
"flapping",
"waving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobility",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"stillness",
"cessation",
"discontinuance",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"pause",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"motionlessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shindigs":{
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"we're hosting a little shindig this weekend for some friends"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"bashes",
"binges",
"blasts",
"blowouts",
"dos",
"do's",
"events",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"functions",
"get-togethers",
"parties",
"receptions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefits",
"fund-raisers",
"balls",
"dances",
"formals",
"proms",
"celebrations",
"galas",
"occasions",
"bacchanalia",
"bacchanals",
"orgies",
"saturnalias",
"bakes",
"clambakes",
"cocktail parties",
"hen parties",
"house parties",
"housewarmings",
"icebreakers",
"kaffeeklatsches",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"masquerades",
"meet and greets",
"mixers",
"salons",
"showers",
"socials",
"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"stags",
"suppers",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"tea parties",
"teas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinnies":{
"as in skins , shimmies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmies",
"shins",
"skins",
"clambers",
"climbs",
"scrabbles",
"scrambles",
"swarms",
"ascends",
"breasts",
"free-climbs",
"gets up",
"mounts",
"scales",
"summits",
"surmounts",
"claws",
"sprawls",
"struggles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shingle":{
"as in sediment , silt":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alluvium",
"colluvium",
"detritus",
"loess",
"marl",
"sediment",
"silt",
"clod",
"dirt",
"earth",
"ground",
"mold",
"blackland",
"clay",
"gault",
"gley",
"guck",
"gook",
"gumbo",
"kaolin",
"muck",
"mud",
"dust",
"gravel",
"sand",
"humus",
"loam",
"topsoil",
"duff",
"mull",
"subsoil",
"substratum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in trim , crop":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"trim",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overlap , overlay":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lap",
"overlap",
"overlay",
"overlie",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shirtwaists":{
"as in shirtdresses , sundresses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemises",
"coatdresses",
"granny dresses",
"housedresses",
"jumpers",
"kimonos",
"kirtles",
"minidresses",
"Mother Hubbards",
"muumuus",
"overdresses",
"sacks",
"sheaths",
"shifts",
"shirtdresses",
"sundresses",
"sweaterdresses",
"tea gowns",
"dresses",
"frocks",
"gowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinnying":{
"as in skinning , shimmying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmying",
"shinning",
"skinning",
"clambering",
"climbing",
"scrabbling",
"scrambling",
"swarming",
"ascending",
"breasting",
"free-climbing",
"getting up",
"mounting",
"scaling",
"summiting",
"surmounting",
"clawing",
"sprawling",
"struggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiftlessly":{
"as in casually , lazily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously",
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shiftily":{
"as in furtively , slyly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"archly",
"calculatingly",
"craftily",
"cunningly",
"furtively",
"insidiously",
"sharply",
"slickly",
"slyly",
"slily",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"underhandedly",
"artfully",
"cannily",
"deceitfully",
"deceptively",
"deviously",
"dishonestly",
"falsely",
"flatteringly",
"sycophantically",
"unctuously",
"affectedly",
"artificially",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"pretentiously",
"unnaturally"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessly",
"guilelessly",
"ingenuously",
"innocently",
"naively",
"na\u00efvely",
"naturally",
"sincerely",
"unaffectedly",
"unfeignedly",
"unpretentiously",
"genuinely",
"honestly",
"simply",
"truly",
"freely",
"openheartedly",
"openly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"shine(s)":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beams",
"radiates",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"glows",
"luminesces",
"sheens",
"shimmers",
"blinks",
"coruscates",
"flares",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks",
"beats (down)",
"glares",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"burnishes",
"dresses",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"rubs",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"the shines they pulled at summer camp have become embellished with each retelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shillalah":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"rung",
"sap",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shivers":{
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"looking down from the window ledge sent shivers up my spine"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shakes , shudders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quakes",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"shudders",
"trembles",
"flits",
"flutters",
"twitters",
"paces",
"fiddles",
"fidgets",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"jigs",
"squiggles",
"squirms",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"tosses",
"twists",
"twitches",
"wiggles",
"wriggles",
"writhes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"calms (down)",
"stills"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in splits , splinters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"splinters",
"splits",
"annihilates",
"bashes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"nukes",
"pulverizes",
"ruins",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks",
"cracks",
"crunches",
"crushes",
"snaps",
"busts",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"breaks down",
"crashes",
"shatters",
"smashes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shifted":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"budged",
"dislocated",
"displaced",
"disturbed",
"moved",
"relocated",
"removed",
"repositioned",
"transferred",
"transposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bore",
"carried",
"carted",
"conveyed",
"drove",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"toted",
"transmitted",
"transplanted",
"transported",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"supplanted",
"altered",
"made over",
"modified",
"redid",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchored",
"fixed",
"froze",
"moored",
"secured",
"set",
"stabilized",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"budged",
"locomoted",
"moved",
"stirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled",
"fidgeted",
"jiggled",
"squiggled",
"squirmed",
"tossed",
"twitched",
"wiggled",
"wriggled",
"writhed",
"roused"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hung around",
"remained",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried",
"stabilized"
],
"antonyms":[
"froze",
"stilled"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"changed",
"fluctuated",
"mutated",
"snapped",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphosed",
"morphed",
"transmuted",
"bettered",
"improved",
"deteriorated",
"worsened",
"turned around",
"seesawed",
"teetered",
"vacillated",
"wavered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateaued",
"stabilized"
]
},
"to give up (something) and take something else in return":{
"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"changed",
"commuted",
"exchanged",
"substituted",
"swapped",
"switched",
"traded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interchanged",
"displaced",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"ceded",
"handed over",
"surrendered",
"yielded",
"reciprocated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"coped",
"did",
"fared",
"got along",
"got by",
"got on",
"made out",
"managed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried on",
"contrived",
"scraped (by or through)",
"scrounged",
"lasted",
"survived",
"eked out",
"scraped (out)",
"squeezed",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"failed",
"fell short",
"fizzled",
"floundered",
"declined",
"petered (out)",
"slumped",
"waned",
"gave up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shindy":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the prime minister created a brief shindy with his unexpected appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shilly-shally":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"dither",
"falter",
"halt",
"hang back",
"hesitate",
"scruple",
"stagger",
"teeter",
"vacillate",
"waver",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haw",
"hem",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"linger",
"pause",
"procrastinate",
"wait",
"back down",
"chicken (out)",
"consider",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"oscillate",
"sway",
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decide",
"budge",
"stir",
"advance",
"continue"
],
"antonyms":[
"dive (in)",
"plunge (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"the construction project was once again delayed by the bureaucratic shilly-shally of regulatory agencies"
],
"synonyms":[
"faltering",
"fence-sitting",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delay",
"hawing",
"procrastination",
"waiting",
"arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e",
"misgiving",
"second thought",
"consideration",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indecisiveness",
"indetermination",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty",
"avoidance",
"equivocation",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness",
"faintheartedness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"readiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shilly-shallying , wavering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambivalent",
"hesitating",
"shaky",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"aimless",
"arbitrary",
"desultory",
"erratic",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"irregular",
"random",
"scattered",
"slapdash",
"stray",
"dicey",
"undependable",
"unreliable",
"untrustworthy",
"capricious",
"changeable",
"changeful",
"fickle",
"flickery",
"fluctuating",
"fluid",
"inconsistent",
"inconstant",
"mercurial",
"mutable",
"skittish",
"temperamental",
"uncertain",
"unpredictable",
"unsettled",
"unstable",
"unsteady",
"variable",
"volatile",
"adaptable",
"mobile",
"protean",
"versatile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certain",
"changeless",
"constant",
"immutable",
"invariable",
"predictable",
"settled",
"stable",
"stationary",
"steady",
"unchangeable",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"equable",
"even",
"uniform",
"abiding",
"durable",
"lasting",
"permanent",
"persistent",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"sure",
"tried",
"tried-and-true",
"true",
"trustworthy",
"trusty"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shillalahs":{
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the bartender in the Irish pub keeps a shillelagh behind the bar just in case there's trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"rungs",
"saps",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shimmies":{
"as in skins , shins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shinnies",
"shins",
"skins",
"clambers",
"climbs",
"scrabbles",
"scrambles",
"swarms",
"ascends",
"breasts",
"free-climbs",
"gets up",
"mounts",
"scales",
"summits",
"surmounts",
"claws",
"sprawls",
"struggles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shuffles , twists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogies",
"boogeys",
"bops",
"fox-trots",
"gavottes",
"jigs",
"jitterbugs",
"jives",
"mambos",
"polkas",
"shags",
"shuffles",
"tangos",
"tap-dances",
"twists",
"waltzes",
"prances",
"struts",
"trips",
"treads",
"dances",
"foots (it)",
"hoofs (it)",
"steps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shines":{
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beams",
"radiates",
"rays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"burns",
"fires",
"flames",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"glows",
"luminesces",
"sheens",
"shimmers",
"blinks",
"coruscates",
"flares",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks",
"beats (down)",
"glares",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"lights",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackens",
"darkens",
"lowers",
"lours"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"burnishes",
"dresses",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"rubs",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke":{
"examples":[
"the shines they pulled at summer camp have become embellished with each retelling"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"trick",
"waggery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey",
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"ruse",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shingled":{
"as in overlapped , overlaid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lapped",
"overlaid",
"overlapped",
"overlay",
"overspread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirt":{
"as in cash flow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cash flow",
"bankroll",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"fund",
"pocket",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"tender",
"wampum",
"assets",
"capital",
"deep pockets",
"fortune",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"roll",
"substance",
"wealth",
"purse",
"treasury",
"financing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debts",
"liabilities",
"indebtedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipwrecked":{
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"stranded",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beached",
"foundered",
"scuttled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovered",
"salvaged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shindys":{
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the prime minister created a brief shindy with his unexpected appearance"
],
"synonyms":[
"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinned":{
"as in skinned , shimmied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmied",
"shinnied",
"skinned",
"clambered",
"climbed",
"scrabbled",
"scrambled",
"swarmed",
"ascended",
"breasted",
"free-climbed",
"got up",
"mounted",
"scaled",
"summited",
"surmounted",
"clawed",
"sprawled",
"struggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiny":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"examples":[
"we could see our reflections in the shiny surface of the marble walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"splendid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shined":{
"as in polished , brushed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed",
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glossed",
"ground",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"greased",
"greasy",
"lubricated",
"oiled",
"slick",
"slicked",
"slippery",
"slippy",
"slithery",
"coated",
"glazed",
"waxed",
"soapy",
"waxy",
"rasped",
"sandblasted",
"sanded",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scrubbed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsened",
"rough",
"roughened",
"scuffed",
"uneven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shills":{
"as in fronts , promoters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fronts",
"promoters",
"spokesmodels",
"spokeswomen",
"communicators",
"sayers",
"talkers",
"mouthpieces",
"mouths",
"point men",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipwreck":{
"the destruction or loss of a ship":{
"examples":[
"the shipwreck of much of the Spanish Armada ended Spain's plans for invading England"
],
"synonyms":[
"shipwrecking",
"wreck",
"wreckage",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaching",
"grounding",
"stranding",
"foundering",
"sinking",
"scuttling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovery",
"salvage",
"salvaging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"finally admitted that their marriage was a shipwreck and that the time had come to bail out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"lemon",
"loser",
"miss",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
]
},
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"strand",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beach",
"founder",
"scuttle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recover",
"salvage"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shimmered":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"a sequined dress shimmering under the studio lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscated",
"flamed",
"flashed",
"glanced",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"lustered",
"lustred",
"scintillated",
"spangled",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"winked",
"winkled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beamed",
"radiated",
"shone",
"shined",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled",
"blazed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"flared",
"glared",
"glowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shimmy":{
"as in skin , shin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shin",
"shinny",
"skin",
"clamber",
"climb",
"scrabble",
"scramble",
"swarm",
"ascend",
"breast",
"free-climb",
"get up",
"mount",
"scale",
"summit",
"surmount",
"claw",
"sprawl",
"struggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shuffle , twist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogie",
"boogy",
"boogey",
"bop",
"fox-trot",
"gavotte",
"jig",
"jitterbug",
"jive",
"mambo",
"polka",
"shag",
"shuffle",
"tango",
"tap-dance",
"twist",
"waltz",
"prance",
"strut",
"trip",
"tread",
"dance",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"step"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirked":{
"to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery":{
"examples":[
"you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you \"forgot\" your wallet"
],
"synonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"finessed",
"got around",
"scaped",
"shook",
"shuffled (out of)",
"shunned",
"weaseled (out of)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"averted",
"deflected",
"diverted",
"obviated",
"parried",
"prevented",
"warded (off)",
"banned",
"barred",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"precluded",
"ruled out",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"skirted",
"foiled",
"foxed",
"frustrated",
"outfoxed",
"outsmarted",
"outwitted",
"overreached",
"thwarted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"courted",
"embraced",
"pursued",
"sought",
"welcomed",
"caught",
"contracted",
"incurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness":{
"examples":[
"a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"forgot",
"neglected"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slacked (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried out",
"did",
"executed",
"performed",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"kept up",
"maintained"
],
"antonyms":[
"attended (to)",
"remembered"
]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurked",
"mooched",
"moused",
"pussyfooted",
"skulked",
"slid",
"slipped",
"slunk",
"slinked",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"edged",
"inched",
"wormed",
"ghosted",
"padded",
"tiptoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shippable":{
"capable of being taken from one place to another by public carrier":{
"examples":[
"only boxes of five pounds and under are shippable by the postal service"
],
"synonyms":[
"transferable",
"transferrable",
"transmittable",
"transportable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"addressable",
"mailable"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nontransferable",
"receivable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shied":{
"as in started , flinched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blenched",
"flinched",
"quailed",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"started",
"winced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddled",
"nestled",
"nuzzled",
"snoozled",
"snuggled",
"curled up",
"crouched",
"huddled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shivery":{
"having a low or subnormal temperature":{
"examples":[
"those shivery days of January"
],
"synonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"chill",
"chilly",
"cold",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"gelid",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"numbing",
"polar",
"snappy",
"wintry",
"wintery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cryogenic",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"ultracold",
"cutting",
"keen",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"sharp",
"bracing",
"brisk",
"crisp",
"invigorating",
"rigorous",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"frosted",
"frozen",
"iced",
"refrigerated",
"unheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lukewarm",
"tepid",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"equatorial",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"antonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"glowing",
"hot",
"igneous",
"molten",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"warming",
"white-hot"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shipped (out)":{
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"after college he decide to ship out on a tramp steamer and see the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"boated",
"cruised",
"ferried",
"navigated",
"sailed",
"voyaged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoed",
"kayaked",
"yachted",
"coasted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shins":{
"as in thighs , calves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calves",
"calfs",
"drumsticks",
"hams",
"shanks",
"thighs",
"pins",
"members",
"forelegs",
"forelimbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skins , shimmies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmies",
"shinnies",
"skins",
"clambers",
"climbs",
"scrabbles",
"scrambles",
"swarms",
"ascends",
"breasts",
"free-climbs",
"gets up",
"mounts",
"scales",
"summits",
"surmounts",
"claws",
"sprawls",
"struggles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shiftless":{
"not easily aroused to action or work":{
"examples":[
"shiftless spongers who never thought to do anything for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"idle",
"indolent",
"lazy",
"slothful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"drowsy",
"dull",
"inert",
"languorous",
"lazyish",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"supine",
"torpid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambitious",
"diligent",
"enterprising",
"zealous",
"active",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"exuberant",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"snappy",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vigorous",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"antonyms":[
"industrious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shining":{
"giving off or reflecting much light":{
"examples":[
"the shining moon formed a nice backdrop for our outdoor concert"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shiny",
"splendid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant"
]
},
"to emit rays of light":{
"examples":[
"the sun appears to shine particularly brightly in summer because that is when it's closest to the Earth"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaming",
"radiating",
"raying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"burning",
"firing",
"flaming",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"glowing",
"luminescing",
"sheening",
"shimmering",
"blinking",
"coruscating",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"lustering",
"lustring",
"scintillating",
"spangling",
"sparkling",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"winkling",
"beating (down)",
"glaring",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"lighting",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackening",
"darkening",
"lowering",
"louring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the salesman shined his shoes every morning before leaving the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffing",
"burnishing",
"dressing",
"furbishing",
"glossing",
"grinding",
"polishing",
"rubbing",
"smoothening",
"smoothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeking",
"slicking",
"coating",
"glazing",
"japanning",
"lacquering",
"varnishing",
"facing",
"finishing",
"veneering",
"brightening",
"filing",
"rasping",
"sandblasting",
"sanding",
"sandpapering",
"scouring",
"scraping",
"scrubbing",
"bobbing",
"boning",
"lapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughening",
"roughing (up)",
"ruffling",
"scuffing (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shivs":{
"an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting":{
"examples":[
"watch yourself in Cell Block 8, or you'll end up with a shiv in your back"
],
"synonyms":[
"blades",
"cutters",
"knives",
"shanks"
],
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"cleavers",
"hacks",
"bayonets",
"bodkins",
"bolos",
"bowie knifes",
"bowie knives",
"cutlasses",
"daggers",
"dirks",
"jackknives",
"machetes",
"pocketknives",
"poniards",
"sheath knives",
"stilettos",
"stilettoes",
"stylets",
"switchblades",
"switch knives",
"yataghans",
"rapiers",
"sabers",
"sabres",
"steels",
"swords",
"scalpels"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipment":{
"as in package , parcel":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"bale",
"bundle",
"pack",
"package",
"packet",
"parcel",
"burden",
"cargo",
"draft",
"freight",
"haul",
"lading",
"load",
"loading",
"payload",
"weight",
"consignment",
"boatload",
"carload",
"shipload",
"trainload",
"truckload",
"wagonload",
"ballast",
"deadweight",
"overload",
"surcharge",
"manifest",
"body",
"bulk",
"mass"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shimmying":{
"as in skinning , shinning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shinning",
"shinnying",
"skinning",
"clambering",
"climbing",
"scrabbling",
"scrambling",
"swarming",
"ascending",
"breasting",
"free-climbing",
"getting up",
"mounting",
"scaling",
"summiting",
"surmounting",
"clawing",
"sprawling",
"struggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shuffling , twisting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogying",
"boogeying",
"bopping",
"fox-trotting",
"gavotting",
"jigging",
"jitterbugging",
"jiving",
"mamboing",
"polkaing",
"shagging",
"shuffling",
"tangoing",
"tap-dancing",
"twisting",
"waltzing",
"prancing",
"strutting",
"tripping",
"treading",
"dancing",
"footing (it)",
"hoofing (it)",
"stepping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipwrecking":{
"the destruction or loss of a ship":{
"examples":[
"the shipwrecking of the Titanic by an iceberg ranks as one of the greatest disasters in the annals of the sea"
],
"synonyms":[
"shipwreck",
"wreck",
"wreckage",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaching",
"grounding",
"stranding",
"foundering",
"sinking",
"scuttling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovery",
"salvage",
"salvaging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking":{
"examples":[
"the yachtsman fell asleep at the wheel and shipwrecked his ketch on the rocks"
],
"synonyms":[
"stranding",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaching",
"foundering",
"scuttling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recovering",
"salvaging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shimmied":{
"as in skinned , shinned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shinned",
"shinnied",
"skinned",
"clambered",
"climbed",
"scrabbled",
"scrambled",
"swarmed",
"ascended",
"breasted",
"free-climbed",
"got up",
"mounted",
"scaled",
"summited",
"surmounted",
"clawed",
"sprawled",
"struggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shuffled , twisted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boogied",
"boogeyed",
"bopped",
"fox-trotted",
"gavotted",
"jigged",
"jitterbugged",
"jived",
"mamboed",
"polkaed",
"shagged",
"shuffled",
"tangoed",
"tap-danced",
"twisted",
"waltzed",
"pranced",
"strutted",
"tripped",
"trod",
"treaded",
"danced",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"stepped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shirtwaist":{
"as in shirtdress , sundress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemise",
"coatdress",
"granny dress",
"housedress",
"jumper",
"kimono",
"kirtle",
"minidress",
"Mother Hubbard",
"muumuu",
"overdress",
"sack",
"sheath",
"shift",
"shirtdress",
"sundress",
"sweaterdress",
"tea gown",
"dress",
"frock",
"gown"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shill":{
"as in front , promoter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"front",
"promoter",
"spokesmodel",
"spokeswoman",
"communicator",
"sayer",
"talker",
"mouth",
"mouthpiece",
"point man",
"point person",
"prophet",
"speaker",
"spokesman",
"spokesperson",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shipshape":{
"being clean and in good order":{
"examples":[
"made everything shipshape for the inspection"
],
"synonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"groomed",
"kempt",
"neat",
"orderly",
"picked up",
"prim",
"smug",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trig",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-groomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dapper",
"natty",
"saucy",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"rakish",
"sleek",
"streamlined",
"taut",
"organized",
"straight",
"systematic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"slipshod",
"sloppy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"nasty",
"sordid",
"squalid",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"rumpled",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"disorganized",
"unsystematic"
],
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"messy",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shipmates":{
"as in crewmen , deckhands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coxswains",
"crewmen",
"deckhands",
"gobs",
"hearties",
"jacks",
"jack-tars",
"mariners",
"navigators",
"sailors",
"salts",
"sea dogs",
"seafarers",
"seamen",
"shipmen",
"swabbies",
"swabs",
"tars",
"able-bodied seamen",
"able seamen",
"lubbers",
"powerboaters",
"sailboaters",
"lime-juicers",
"limeys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shibboleths":{
"an attention-getting word or phrase used to publicize something (as a campaign or product)":{
"examples":[
"we knew that their claim of giving \"the best deal in town\" was just a shibboleth"
],
"synonyms":[
"banners",
"catchphrases",
"cries",
"slogans",
"taglines",
"watchwords"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expressions",
"idioms",
"catchwords",
"clich\u00e9s",
"cliches",
"maxims",
"mottoes",
"mottos",
"battle cries",
"war cries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idea or expression that has been used by many people":{
"examples":[
"there's a lot of truth in the shibboleth that if you give some people an inch, they'll take a mile"
],
"synonyms":[
"banalities",
"bromides",
"chestnuts",
"clich\u00e9s",
"cliches",
"commonplaces",
"groaners",
"homilies",
"platitudes",
"tropes",
"truisms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conventional wisdoms",
"party lines",
"routines",
"inanities",
"generalities",
"generalizations",
"simplifications",
"adages",
"proverbs",
"saws",
"sayings",
"old wives' tales",
"stereotypes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"profundities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shifty":{
"given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions":{
"examples":[
"shifty politicians making deals to channel federal funds into their districts"
],
"synonyms":[
"furtive",
"shady",
"slippery",
"sly",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealthy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"slick",
"wily",
"close",
"closemouthed",
"reticent",
"secretive",
"clandestine",
"covert",
"dark",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deceptive",
"devious",
"duplicitous",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"cheating",
"crooked",
"defrauding",
"dishonest",
"dissembling",
"double-dealing",
"knavish",
"two-faced",
"lying",
"mendacious",
"untrustworthy",
"untruthful",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"serpentine",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"forthright",
"plainspoken",
"straightforward",
"candid",
"direct",
"foursquare",
"frank",
"open",
"plain",
"honest",
"trustworthy",
"truthful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"given to or marked by cheating and deception":{
"examples":[
"shifty practices such as turning back the odometers on used cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent",
"crooked",
"deceptive",
"dishonest",
"double-dealing",
"duplicitous",
"fast",
"fraudulent",
"guileful",
"rogue",
"shady",
"sharp",
"underhand",
"underhanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unconscionable",
"unethical",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"deceitful",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"false",
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"wily",
"defrauding",
"devious",
"furtive",
"slippery",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"trickish",
"tricky",
"insidious",
"perfidious",
"treacherous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conscientious",
"decent",
"ethical",
"honorable",
"just",
"scrupulous",
"upright",
"forthright",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"aboveboard",
"honest",
"straight"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"shipping (out)":{
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"after college he decide to ship out on a tramp steamer and see the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"boating",
"cruising",
"ferrying",
"navigating",
"sailing",
"voyaging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoeing",
"kayaking",
"yachting",
"coasting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shifts":{
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"he shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over"
],
"synonyms":[
"budges",
"dislocates",
"displaces",
"disturbs",
"moves",
"relocates",
"removes",
"repositions",
"transfers",
"transposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bears",
"carries",
"carts",
"conveys",
"drives",
"hauls",
"lugs",
"totes",
"transmits",
"transplants",
"transports",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"supplants",
"alters",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"redoes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchors",
"fixes",
"freezes",
"moors",
"secures",
"sets",
"stabilizes",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"implants",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"lodges",
"roots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"she shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview"
],
"synonyms":[
"budges",
"locomotes",
"moves",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles",
"fidgets",
"jiggles",
"squiggles",
"squirms",
"tosses",
"twitches",
"wiggles",
"wriggles",
"writhes",
"rouses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hangs around",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"stabilizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"freezes",
"stills"
]
},
"to pass from one form, state, or level to another":{
"examples":[
"she watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue"
],
"synonyms":[
"changes",
"fluctuates",
"mutates",
"snaps",
"varies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"metamorphoses",
"morphs",
"transmutes",
"betters",
"improves",
"deteriorates",
"worsens",
"turns around",
"seesaws",
"teeters",
"vacillates",
"wavers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"plateaus",
"stabilizes"
]
},
"to give up (something) and take something else in return":{
"examples":[
"my brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"changes",
"commutes",
"exchanges",
"substitutes",
"swaps",
"switches",
"trades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interchanges",
"displaces",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"cedes",
"hands over",
"surrenders",
"yields",
"reciprocates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"left the others to shift for themselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an action planned or taken to achieve a desired result":{
"examples":[
"desperate shifts to stave off financial disaster"
],
"synonyms":[
"expedients",
"means",
"measures",
"moves",
"steps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actions",
"acts",
"deeds",
"doings",
"feats",
"things",
"courses",
"procedures",
"proceedings",
"processes",
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"attainments",
"coups",
"exploits",
"successes",
"triumphs",
"activities",
"affairs",
"businesses",
"dealings",
"enterprises",
"events",
"attempts",
"cracks",
"endeavors",
"essays",
"flings",
"goes",
"initiatives",
"operations",
"passes",
"shots",
"stabs",
"trials",
"tries",
"undertakings",
"whacks",
"efforts",
"exertions",
"labors",
"pains",
"troubles",
"whiles",
"works",
"projects",
"proposals",
"propositions",
"makeshifts",
"resorts",
"resources",
"stopgaps",
"countermeasures",
"countermoves",
"counter-moves",
"countersteps",
"counter-steps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of changing position":{
"examples":[
"made a small shift to the left to make more room on the bench"
],
"synonyms":[
"motions",
"movements",
"moves",
"stirrings",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dislocations",
"migrations",
"relocations",
"locomotions",
"mobilities",
"motilities",
"motivities",
"fiddlings",
"squirms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"immobilities",
"inertias",
"cessations",
"discontinuances",
"endings",
"expirations",
"finishes",
"halts",
"lapses",
"pauses",
"shutdowns",
"shutoffs",
"stoppages",
"stops",
"surceases",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shimmering":{
"as in sparkling , glittering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agleam",
"aglitter",
"blinding",
"coruscant",
"flaring",
"flashing",
"flickering",
"gemmy",
"glancing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillant",
"scintillating",
"shimmery",
"sparkling",
"sunny",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"ablaze",
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"red-hot",
"burnished",
"polished",
"shined",
"beaming",
"bedazzling",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"candescent",
"clear",
"dazzling",
"effulgent",
"fulgent",
"glowing",
"incandescent",
"lambent",
"lucent",
"lucid",
"luminous",
"lustrous",
"radiant",
"refulgent",
"sheeny",
"shining",
"shiny",
"splendid",
"superbright",
"ultrabright"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"unbright",
"unbrilliant",
"blackened",
"dark",
"darkened",
"darkish",
"darkling",
"darksome",
"dimmed",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"lightless",
"murky",
"obscure",
"obscured",
"pitch-black",
"pitch-dark",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sunless",
"tenebrous",
"unlit",
"cloudy",
"shadowlike",
"shadowy",
"shady",
"gray",
"grey",
"leaden",
"pale",
"palish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"a sequined dress shimmering under the studio lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscating",
"flaming",
"flashing",
"glancing",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"lustering",
"lustring",
"scintillating",
"spangling",
"sparkling",
"twinkling",
"winking",
"winkling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaming",
"radiating",
"shining",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling",
"blazing",
"burning",
"flaring",
"glaring",
"glowing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shilly-shallies":{
"to show uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"I didn't shilly-shally but instead raced to the hospital as soon as I heard the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"balances",
"dithers",
"falters",
"halts",
"hangs back",
"hesitates",
"scruples",
"staggers",
"teeters",
"vacillates",
"wavers",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"haws",
"hems",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"lingers",
"pauses",
"procrastinates",
"waits",
"backs down",
"chickens (out)",
"considers",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"ponders",
"weighs",
"oscillates",
"sways",
"equivocates",
"hedges",
"pussyfoots",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decides",
"budges",
"stirs",
"advances",
"continues"
],
"antonyms":[
"dives (in)",
"plunges (in)"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"with dinner guests due in two hours, there was no time to shilly-shally in front of the TV set"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiver":{
"an instance of shaking involuntarily with fear or cold":{
"examples":[
"the prisoner experienced a sudden shiver when confronted with the sight of the dark basement"
],
"synonyms":[
"quiver",
"shudder",
"tremble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agitation",
"convulsing",
"jolt",
"quake",
"shake",
"tremor",
"vibration",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"fluctuation",
"flutter",
"oscillation",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitation",
"pulsation",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"looking down from the window ledge sent shivers up my spine"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shake , shudder":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quake",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"tremble",
"flit",
"flutter",
"twitter",
"pace",
"fiddle",
"fidget",
"jerk",
"jig",
"jiggle",
"squiggle",
"squirm",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"toss",
"twist",
"twitch",
"wiggle",
"wriggle",
"writhe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind",
"calm (down)",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in split , splinter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"splinter",
"split",
"annihilate",
"bash",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"pulverize",
"ruin",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck",
"crack",
"crunch",
"crush",
"snap",
"bust",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"break down",
"crash",
"shatter",
"smash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ship":{
"a large craft for travel by water":{
"examples":[
"a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean"
],
"synonyms":[
"boat",
"keel",
"vessel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carrier",
"argosy",
"barge",
"coaster",
"collier",
"containership",
"corvette",
"cruiser",
"cutter",
"destroyer",
"ferryboat",
"flagship",
"freighter",
"icebreaker",
"ironclad",
"lightship",
"liner",
"man-of-war",
"man-o'-war",
"merchantman",
"merchant ship",
"motor ship",
"packet",
"steamer",
"steamship",
"superliner",
"supertanker",
"tanker",
"trader",
"tramp",
"transport",
"warship",
"watercraft",
"bark",
"barque",
"brig",
"brigantine",
"caravel",
"clipper",
"junk",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"square-rigger",
"tall ship",
"windjammer",
"xebec",
"yacht"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we shipped those books out yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"consign",
"dispatch",
"pack (off)",
"send",
"shoot",
"transfer",
"transmit",
"transport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convey",
"deliver",
"hand over",
"pass",
"render",
"advance",
"drop",
"launch",
"address",
"forward",
"export",
"import",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"present",
"resend",
"return"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquire",
"draw",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure"
],
"antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ships (out)":{
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"after college he decide to ship out on a tramp steamer and see the world"
],
"synonyms":[
"boats",
"cruises",
"ferries",
"navigates",
"sails",
"voyages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoes",
"kayaks",
"yachts",
"coasts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shipmen":{
"one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel":{
"examples":[
"in the middle of the vasty deep the shipman enjoys a splendid isolation that the landsman will never know"
],
"synonyms":[
"gobs",
"hearties",
"jacks",
"jack-tars",
"mariners",
"navigators",
"sailors",
"salts",
"sea dogs",
"seafarers",
"seamen",
"swabbies",
"swabs",
"tars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coxswains",
"crewmen",
"deckhands",
"shipmates",
"able-bodied seamen",
"able seamen",
"lubbers",
"powerboaters",
"sailboaters",
"lime-juicers",
"limeys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinning":{
"as in skinning , shimmying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmying",
"shinnying",
"skinning",
"clambering",
"climbing",
"scrabbling",
"scrambling",
"swarming",
"ascending",
"breasting",
"free-climbing",
"getting up",
"mounting",
"scaling",
"summiting",
"surmounting",
"clawing",
"sprawling",
"struggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shiftiness":{
"as in deviousness , shrewdness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"artfulness",
"caginess",
"cageyness",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"deviousness",
"foxiness",
"oiliness",
"shadiness",
"sharpness",
"shrewdness",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"sneakiness",
"treachery",
"underhandedness",
"wiliness",
"artifice",
"chicane",
"chicanery",
"gamesmanship",
"hanky-panky",
"jiggery-pokery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile",
"crookedness",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"deception",
"deceptiveness",
"dishonesty",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"fakery",
"humbuggery",
"imposture",
"quackery",
"dirty pool",
"dirty tricks",
"design",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"secrecy",
"stealth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artlessness",
"forthrightness",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"sincerity",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"openness",
"plainness",
"plainspokenness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinny":{
"as in skin , shimmy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmy",
"shin",
"skin",
"clamber",
"climb",
"scrabble",
"scramble",
"swarm",
"ascend",
"breast",
"free-climb",
"get up",
"mount",
"scale",
"summit",
"surmount",
"claw",
"sprawl",
"struggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shies (from or away from)":{
"as in objects (to) , disapproves (of)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cringes (at)",
"disapproves (of)",
"frowns (on or upon)",
"minds",
"objects (to)",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns",
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"execrates",
"hates",
"loathes",
"resents",
"disfavors",
"dislikes",
"disrelishes",
"mislikes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adores",
"cottons (to)",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"likes",
"loves",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"esteems",
"regards",
"respects",
"adores",
"deifies",
"idolizes",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"drinks (in)",
"savors",
"savours",
"dotes (on)",
"idolizes",
"favors",
"prefers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"shirtdress":{
"as in sundress , minidress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chemise",
"coatdress",
"granny dress",
"housedress",
"jumper",
"kimono",
"kirtle",
"minidress",
"Mother Hubbard",
"muumuu",
"overdress",
"sack",
"sheath",
"shift",
"shirtwaist",
"sundress",
"sweaterdress",
"tea gown",
"dress",
"frock",
"gown"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"shinnied":{
"as in skinned , shimmied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"shimmied",
"shinned",
"skinned",
"clambered",
"climbed",
"scrabbled",
"scrambled",
"swarmed",
"ascended",
"breasted",
"free-climbed",
"got up",
"mounted",
"scaled",
"summited",
"surmounted",
"clawed",
"sprawled",
"struggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shield":{
"means or method of defending":{
"examples":[
"the slightly built boy used his sharp wit as a shield against the school's bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegis",
"egis",
"ammunition",
"armor",
"buckler",
"cover",
"defense",
"guard",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"security",
"wall",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arm",
"armament",
"munitions",
"weapon",
"weaponry",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"stronghold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggression",
"assault",
"attack",
"offense",
"offence",
"offensive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"celebrities who are shielded by a cluster of bodyguards whenever they appear in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwark",
"cover",
"defend",
"fence",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"to place a protective layer over":{
"examples":[
"she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"screen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloak",
"clothe",
"veil",
"drape",
"pall",
"canopy",
"cap",
"crown",
"disguise",
"mask",
"obscure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"expose",
"uncover"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shimmers":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"a sequined dress shimmering under the studio lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscates",
"flames",
"flashes",
"glances",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"scintillates",
"spangles",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"winkles",
"winks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beams",
"radiates",
"shines",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles",
"blazes",
"burns",
"flares",
"glares",
"glows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in glitters , sparkles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flashes",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glitters",
"scintillations",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"blazes",
"flares",
"fluorescences",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glows",
"illuminations",
"incandescences",
"lights",
"luminescences",
"radiances",
"shines",
"daylights",
"moonlights",
"sunlights",
"sunshines",
"afterglows",
"aureoles",
"aureolae",
"auroras",
"aurorae",
"beams",
"halos",
"haloes",
"rays",
"shafts",
"streaks",
"streams",
"sunbeams",
"glistens",
"glosses",
"lusters",
"lustres",
"polishes",
"reflections",
"sheens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darks",
"dusks",
"glooms",
"nights",
"shadows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shipped":{
"to cause to go or be taken from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"we shipped those books out yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"consigned",
"dispatched",
"packed (off)",
"sent",
"shot",
"transferred",
"transmitted",
"transported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conveyed",
"delivered",
"handed over",
"passed",
"rendered",
"advanced",
"dropped",
"launched",
"addressed",
"forwarded",
"exported",
"imported",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"presented",
"resent",
"returned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acquired",
"drew",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured"
],
"antonyms":[
"accepted",
"received"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"shimmer":{
"to shoot forth bursts of light":{
"examples":[
"a sequined dress shimmering under the studio lights"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beam",
"radiate",
"shine",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle",
"blaze",
"burn",
"flare",
"glare",
"glow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in glow , glimmer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glow",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"luminance",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"sheen",
"shine",
"blink",
"flicker",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"illumination",
"irradiation",
"iridescence",
"luminescence",
"brilliance",
"luminosity",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"refulgence",
"finish",
"glaze"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"flatness",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"cloudiness",
"gloom",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"shier":{
"easily frightened":{
"examples":[
"a shy cat who hid under the bed every time she heard any loud noise"
],
"synonyms":[
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"skittish",
"timid",
"timorous",
"tremulous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"spooky",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panicky",
"panic-stricken",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"undeterred",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky"
],
"antonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"dashing",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
]
},
"not comfortable around people":{
"examples":[
"a shy person who finds talking to anyone but a close friend to be an awkward and unpleasant experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"backward",
"bashful",
"coy",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"modest",
"recessive",
"retiring",
"self-effacing",
"sheepish",
"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 coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need":{
"examples":[
"the team is shy a couple of players because of illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"low",
"scarce",
"short",
"wanting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"hand-to-mouth",
"lean",
"light",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimum",
"slight",
"small"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"abounding",
"overflowing",
"teeming",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"rich",
"big",
"considerable",
"hefty",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super"
],
"antonyms":[
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
]
},
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"she was nervous about being left alone in a shy bar in a bad section of town"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shady",
"shameful",
"shoddy",
"unrespectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"as in start , flinch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blench",
"flinch",
"quail",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"start",
"wince"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddle",
"nestle",
"nuzzle",
"snoozle",
"snuggle",
"curl up",
"crouch",
"huddle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"shiest":{
"easily frightened":{
"examples":[
"a shy cat who hid under the bed every time she heard any loud noise"
],
"synonyms":[
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"skittish",
"timid",
"timorous",
"tremulous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"poltroon",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"spooky",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"afraid",
"alarmed",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panicky",
"panic-stricken",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous",
"assured",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"undeterred",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky"
],
"antonyms":[
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"daring",
"dashing",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous"
]
},
"not comfortable around people":{
"examples":[
"a shy person who finds talking to anyone but a close friend to be an awkward and unpleasant experience"
],
"synonyms":[
"backward",
"bashful",
"coy",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"modest",
"recessive",
"retiring",
"self-effacing",
"sheepish",
"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 coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need":{
"examples":[
"the team is shy a couple of players because of illness"
],
"synonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"low",
"scarce",
"short",
"wanting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"hand-to-mouth",
"lean",
"light",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimum",
"slight",
"small"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundant",
"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"abounding",
"overflowing",
"teeming",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"lavish",
"luxuriant",
"rich",
"big",
"considerable",
"hefty",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super"
],
"antonyms":[
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
]
},
"not respectable":{
"examples":[
"she was nervous about being left alone in a shy bar in a bad section of town"
],
"synonyms":[
"discreditable",
"disgraceful",
"dishonorable",
"disreputable",
"ignominious",
"infamous",
"louche",
"notorious",
"opprobrious",
"shady",
"shameful",
"shoddy",
"unrespectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"criminal",
"immoral",
"seamy",
"sordid",
"unethical",
"unsavory",
"wicked",
"base",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"dirty",
"low",
"mean",
"miserable",
"vile",
"wretched",
"evil",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"rotten",
"sinful",
"unrighteous",
"vicious",
"villainous",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"inglorious",
"reprehensible",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"libertine",
"loose",
"perverted",
"reprobate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"just",
"moral",
"noble",
"principled",
"righteous",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"esteemed",
"prestigious",
"reputed",
"respected",
"authorized",
"legal",
"licensed",
"permissible",
"permitted",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"clean",
"correct",
"decorous",
"exemplary",
"proper",
"seemly",
"blameless",
"commendable",
"creditable",
"guiltless"
],
"antonyms":[
"honorable",
"reputable",
"respectable"
]
},
"as in start , flinch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blench",
"flinch",
"quail",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"start",
"wince"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cuddle",
"nestle",
"nuzzle",
"snoozle",
"snuggle",
"curl up",
"crouch",
"huddle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
}
}