dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/see_MWT.json
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{
"see after":{
"to take charge of especially on behalf of another":{
"examples":[
"Please see after the cat while I'm away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attend",
"care (for)",
"mind",
"oversee",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"tend",
"watch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"administrate",
"conduct",
"control",
"direct",
"govern",
"guide",
"manage",
"operate",
"preside (over)",
"regulate",
"run",
"steward",
"guard",
"patrol",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"shield",
"baby",
"babysit",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"mother",
"shepherd"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"pass over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seedy":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a seedy but historic neighborhood that's just waiting for some new homeowners to come in and rehabilitate it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"related":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"worn or torn into or as if into rags":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"chose old, seedy clothes to wear while painting the bathroom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"new",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"unused"
],
"related":[
"dowdy",
"scruffy",
"tatterdemalion",
"dingy",
"faded",
"lacerate",
"lacerated",
"shredded",
"holey",
"patchy",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"moth-eaten",
"run-down",
"scuzzy",
"tacky"
],
"synonyms":[
"frayed",
"ragged",
"raggedy",
"ratty",
"shabby",
"tattered",
"threadbare",
"worn-out"
]
}
},
"seek (out)":{
"as in look up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"look up",
"call (on or upon)",
"drop in (on)",
"see",
"visit",
"drop by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulder",
"ignore",
"snub"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in look , reach":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cast about",
"hunt",
"look",
"reach",
"grabble",
"capture",
"clutch",
"corral",
"get",
"grab",
"nab",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"feel",
"fish",
"fumble",
"grope",
"scrabble",
"comb",
"dig (through)",
"dredge",
"rake",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"rummage",
"scour"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeks (out)":{
"as in looks up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"looks up",
"calls (on or upon)",
"drops in (on)",
"sees",
"visits",
"drops by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulders",
"ignores",
"snubs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in looks , reaches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casts about",
"hunts",
"looks",
"reaches",
"grabbles",
"captures",
"clutches",
"corrals",
"gets",
"grabs",
"nabs",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"feels",
"fishes",
"fumbles",
"gropes",
"scrabbles",
"combs",
"digs (through)",
"dredges",
"rakes",
"ransacks",
"rifles",
"rummages",
"scours"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seemed":{
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"appeared",
"came across (as)",
"came off (as)",
"felt",
"looked",
"made",
"sounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissembled",
"pretended",
"recalled",
"resembled",
"suggested",
"hinted",
"implied",
"insinuated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeps":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water seeping through the basement walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeds",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"percolates",
"strains",
"sweats",
"transudes",
"weeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbles",
"drips",
"trickles",
"discharges",
"emits",
"gives off",
"vents",
"emanates",
"flows",
"springs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floods",
"gushes",
"pours",
"streams",
"surges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seepy":{
"as in sloppy , miry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boggy",
"miry",
"sloppy",
"squashy",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"steeped",
"aqueous",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"hydrated",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless",
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sees":{
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a writer who saw World War II through the eyes of a common soldier"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"encounters",
"meets",
"accepts",
"receives",
"assimilates",
"digests"
],
"synonyms":[
"endures",
"experiences",
"feels",
"has",
"knows",
"passes",
"suffers",
"sustains",
"tastes",
"undergoes",
"witnesses"
]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I bought the best seller just to see what all the fuss was about"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"forgets",
"unlearns",
"blankets",
"blots out",
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"masks",
"occults",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"veils"
],
"related":[
"hits (on or upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"descries",
"detects",
"encounters",
"espies",
"spots",
"calculates",
"dopes (out)",
"figures out",
"finds",
"puzzles (out)",
"discerns",
"minds",
"notes",
"observes",
"perceives",
"divines"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"catches on (to)",
"discovers",
"finds out",
"gets on (to)",
"hears",
"learns",
"realizes",
"wises (up)"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I can't see that spoiled brat as a soldier at all"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"dreams",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"visions",
"visualizes"
]
},
"to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"thanks for coming, and I'll see you to the door"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"deserts",
"ditches",
"dumps",
"forsakes"
],
"related":[
"walks",
"associates",
"consorts",
"pals (around)",
"teams (up)",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"brings",
"conducts",
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots",
"steers",
"ushers",
"follows",
"shadows",
"tags",
"tags along",
"tails",
"hangs (around)",
"hovers (over)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"attends",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"companies",
"companions",
"convoys",
"escorts",
"squires"
]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"antonyms":[
"misses"
],
"examples":[
"I see your point"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehends",
"misconceives",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misperceives",
"misreads",
"mistakes",
"misunderstands"
],
"related":[
"absorbs",
"digests",
"takes in",
"realizes",
"fathoms",
"penetrates",
"pierces"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciates",
"apprehends",
"assimilates",
"beholds",
"catches",
"catches on (to)",
"cognizes",
"compasses",
"comprehends",
"conceives",
"cottons (to or on to)",
"deciphers",
"decodes",
"digs",
"discerns",
"gets",
"grasps",
"groks",
"intuits",
"knows",
"makes",
"makes out",
"perceives",
"recognizes",
"registers",
"savvies",
"seizes",
"senses",
"tumbles (to)",
"twigs",
"understands"
]
},
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I see a certain sadness in his letters to his relatives back home"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beholds",
"descries",
"discerns",
"distinguishes",
"espies",
"eyes",
"looks (at)",
"notes",
"notices",
"observes",
"regards",
"remarks",
"sights",
"spies",
"views",
"witnesses",
"ascertains",
"catches on (to)",
"discovers",
"finds out",
"hears",
"learns",
"realizes",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"expects",
"foreknows",
"foresees",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"speculates",
"supposes",
"surmises",
"suspects"
],
"synonyms":[
"feels",
"perceives",
"scents",
"senses",
"smells",
"tastes"
]
},
"to make a social call upon":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you should go and see Father at the hospital this afternoon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulders",
"ignores",
"snubs"
],
"related":[
"looks up",
"seeks (out)",
"drops by"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls (on or upon)",
"drops in (on)",
"visits"
]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"out of the corner of my eye I saw the deer run into the woods"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"misses",
"overlooks"
],
"related":[
"identifies",
"makes out",
"picks out",
"picks up",
"attends (to)",
"considers",
"heeds",
"marks",
"minds",
"studies",
"watches",
"examines",
"inspects",
"scans",
"scrutinizes",
"surveys",
"glances (at)",
"glimpses",
"peers (at)"
],
"synonyms":[
"beholds",
"catches",
"descries",
"discerns",
"distinguishes",
"espies",
"eyes",
"looks (at)",
"notes",
"notices",
"observes",
"perceives",
"regards",
"remarks",
"sights",
"spies",
"spots",
"views",
"witnesses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seesaw":{
"as in photo finish , dead heat":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"as their boat seesawed in the rough water, the rescue team tried to get the passengers off the sinking ship"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blunder",
"buck",
"dodder",
"falter",
"flounder",
"halt",
"hitch",
"hobble",
"jerk",
"jolt",
"reel",
"shake",
"stagger",
"stumble",
"teeter",
"toddle",
"totter",
"tumble",
"vacillate",
"vibrate",
"waddle",
"waver",
"weave",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wag",
"waggle"
],
"synonyms":[
"careen",
"lurch",
"pitch",
"rock",
"roll",
"sway",
"toss",
"wobble",
"wabble"
]
},
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the price of the stock has been seesawing all week"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"shake",
"wiggle",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"oscillate",
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"undulate",
"drop",
"duck"
],
"synonyms":[
"bob",
"bobble",
"jog",
"jounce",
"nod",
"pump",
"wag"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"seething":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fulminating",
"ranting",
"raving",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"bristling",
"flaring (up)",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"chafing",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"agitating",
"convulsing",
"roiling",
"shaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"burning",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"raging",
"rankling",
"sizzling",
"steaming",
"storming"
]
},
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"calming",
"subsiding"
],
"related":[
"reeling",
"spinning",
"swirling",
"whirling",
"agitating",
"stirring"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"churning",
"moiling",
"roiling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"sees red":{
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"The rival team saw red when they realized they had been pranked."
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"burns",
"foams",
"fumes",
"rages",
"rankles",
"seethes",
"sizzles",
"steams",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminates",
"rants",
"raves",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"bristles",
"flares (up)",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews",
"agitates",
"convulses",
"roils",
"shakes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seeds":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"seeded grass in the backyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"plants",
"puts in",
"sows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beds",
"replants",
"transplants",
"broadcasts",
"scatters",
"pots",
"overseeds",
"reseeds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathers",
"harvests",
"reaps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sees after":{
"to take charge of especially on behalf of another":{
"examples":[
"Please see after the cat while I'm away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"minds",
"oversees",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"tends",
"watches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"administrates",
"conducts",
"controls",
"directs",
"governs",
"guides",
"manages",
"operates",
"presides (over)",
"regulates",
"runs",
"stewards",
"guards",
"patrols",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"shields",
"babies",
"babysits",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"mothers",
"shepherds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"passes over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"see red":{
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"The rival team saw red when they realized they had been pranked."
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"burn",
"foam",
"fume",
"rage",
"rankle",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"steam",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminate",
"rant",
"rave",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"bristle",
"flare (up)",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew",
"agitate",
"convulse",
"roil",
"shake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"see":{
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"out of the corner of my eye I saw the deer run into the woods"
],
"synonyms":[
"behold",
"catch",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"perceive",
"regard",
"remark",
"sight",
"spot",
"spy",
"view",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identify",
"make out",
"pick out",
"pick up",
"attend (to)",
"consider",
"heed",
"mark",
"mind",
"study",
"watch",
"examine",
"inspect",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"glance (at)",
"glimpse",
"peer (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"miss",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"a writer who saw World War II through the eyes of a common soldier"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive",
"assimilate",
"digest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I bought the best seller just to see what all the fuss was about"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"get on (to)",
"hear",
"learn",
"realize",
"wise (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"descry",
"detect",
"encounter",
"espy",
"spot",
"calculate",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"find",
"puzzle (out)",
"discern",
"mind",
"note",
"observe",
"perceive",
"divine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"forget",
"unlearn",
"blanket",
"blot out",
"cloak",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"mask",
"occult",
"screen",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I see a certain sadness in his letters to his relatives back home"
],
"synonyms":[
"feel",
"perceive",
"scent",
"sense",
"smell",
"taste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behold",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"regard",
"remark",
"sight",
"spy",
"view",
"witness",
"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"hear",
"learn",
"realize",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"expect",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a social call upon":{
"examples":[
"you should go and see Father at the hospital this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"call (on or upon)",
"drop in (on)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"look up",
"seek (out)",
"drop by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulder",
"ignore",
"snub"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I see your point"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciate",
"apprehend",
"assimilate",
"behold",
"catch",
"catch on (to)",
"cognize",
"compass",
"comprehend",
"conceive",
"cotton (to or on to)",
"decipher",
"decode",
"dig",
"discern",
"get",
"grasp",
"grok",
"intuit",
"know",
"make",
"make out",
"perceive",
"recognize",
"register",
"savvy",
"seize",
"sense",
"tumble (to)",
"twig",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorb",
"digest",
"take in",
"realize",
"fathom",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehend",
"misconceive",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misperceive",
"misread",
"mistake",
"misunderstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss"
]
},
"to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship":{
"examples":[
"thanks for coming, and I'll see you to the door"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompany",
"attend",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"companion",
"company",
"convoy",
"escort",
"squire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"walk",
"associate",
"consort",
"pal (around)",
"team (up)",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"bring",
"conduct",
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot",
"steer",
"usher",
"follow",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tag along",
"tail",
"hang (around)",
"hover (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"desert",
"ditch",
"dump",
"forsake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I can't see that spoiled brat as a soldier at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"dream",
"envisage",
"envision",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
"image",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydream",
"stargaze",
"hallucinate",
"re-create",
"reflect",
"relive",
"reminisce",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"muse",
"ponder",
"ruminate",
"concoct",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"plan",
"project",
"foresee",
"prefigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeing after":{
"to take charge of especially on behalf of another":{
"examples":[
"Please see after the cat while I'm away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"minding",
"overseeing",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"tending",
"watching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"administrating",
"conducting",
"controlling",
"directing",
"governing",
"guiding",
"managing",
"operating",
"presiding (over)",
"regulating",
"running",
"stewarding",
"guarding",
"patrolling",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"shielding",
"babying",
"babysitting",
"chaperoning",
"mothering",
"shepherding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"passing over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seedbeds":{
"a place or environment that favors the development of something":{
"examples":[
"a social and political environment that would later become a seedbed of the abolition movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding grounds",
"hotbeds",
"hothouses",
"nests",
"nidi",
"niduses",
"nurseries",
"seminaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crucibles",
"bases",
"capitals",
"centers",
"cores",
"cynosures",
"eyes",
"foci",
"focuses",
"hearts",
"hubs",
"meccas",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"seats",
"foci",
"focuses",
"headquarters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the source from which something grows or develops":{
"examples":[
"that think tank has served as a seedbed for American conservatism since the Cold War era"
],
"synonyms":[
"fountainheads",
"germs",
"origins",
"roots",
"seed",
"seeds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fonts",
"fountains",
"springs",
"wellheads",
"wells",
"wellsprings",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"geneses",
"inceptions",
"incipiencies",
"launches",
"mornings",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"creations",
"inaugurations",
"originations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a point or place at which something is invented or provided":{
"examples":[
"the historic role of the Middle East as a seedbed for new religions"
],
"synonyms":[
"cradles",
"fonts",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"origins",
"roots",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginnings",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"baselines",
"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"seeable":{
"capable of being seen":{
"examples":[
"a seeable flaw in the windowpane"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"observable",
"visible",
"visual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"viewable",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"noticeable",
"perceptible",
"clear",
"conspicuous",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"overt",
"patent",
"perceivable",
"plain",
"prominent",
"striking",
"exposed",
"external",
"outer",
"outward",
"superficial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"melted",
"vanished",
"vaporized",
"imperceptible",
"indiscernible",
"indistinct",
"unnoticeable",
"unobservable",
"faint",
"inconspicuous",
"insignificant",
"slight",
"unobtrusive",
"vague",
"buried",
"concealed",
"covert",
"disguised",
"hidden",
"latent",
"obscure",
"shrouded"
],
"antonyms":[
"invisible",
"sightless",
"viewless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"seeker":{
"one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award":{
"examples":[
"predicted a tough year for summer job seekers"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicant",
"applier",
"aspirant",
"campaigner",
"candidate",
"contender",
"expectant",
"hopeful",
"prospect"
],
"near synonyms":[
"competitor",
"contestant",
"entrant",
"entry",
"favorite",
"qualifier",
"dark horse",
"spoiler",
"stalking horse",
"crown prince",
"favorite son",
"claimant",
"pretender",
"nominee",
"running mate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incumbent",
"officeholder",
"awardee",
"honoree",
"inductee",
"dropout"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncandidate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"seemingly":{
"to all outward appearances":{
"examples":[
"a seemingly contented baby who was fast asleep in his crib"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparently",
"evidently",
"ostensibly",
"ostensively",
"presumably",
"putatively",
"supposedly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"externally",
"outwardly",
"visibly",
"believably",
"credibly",
"assumably",
"likely",
"presumedly",
"probably",
"conceivably",
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"professedly",
"supposably",
"allegedly",
"purportedly",
"reportedly",
"reputedly",
"clearly",
"distinctly",
"manifestly",
"obviously",
"plainly",
"self-evidently",
"assuredly",
"positively",
"surely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibly",
"impossibly",
"improbably",
"incredibly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"seemly":{
"following the established traditions of refined society and good taste":{
"examples":[
"it would not be seemly to use the memorial service as a forum for your political views"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitting",
"correct",
"de rigueur",
"decent",
"decorous",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"proper",
"respectable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"dress",
"dressy",
"formal",
"dignified",
"elegant",
"gracious",
"priggish",
"prim",
"stiff",
"stuffy",
"apt",
"material",
"relevant",
"compatible",
"congenial",
"harmonious",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"kosher",
"permitted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"casual",
"grungy",
"informal",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"banned",
"barred",
"disallowed",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"awkward",
"gauche",
"ungraceful"
],
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"unbecoming",
"ungenteel",
"unseemly"
]
},
"very pleasing to look at":{
"examples":[
"a young man of seemly appearance, robust health, and keen intelligence"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"charming",
"cunning",
"delightful",
"engaging",
"fascinating",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"prepossessing",
"elegant",
"exquisite",
"glorious",
"Junoesque",
"magnificent",
"resplendent",
"splendid",
"statuesque",
"sublime",
"superb",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"radiant",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"personable",
"pleasant",
"presentable",
"chocolate-box",
"prettyish",
"desirable",
"dishy",
"dollish",
"foxy",
"hot",
"luscious",
"nubile",
"pulchritudinous",
"seductive",
"sexy",
"toothsome",
"hunky",
"studly",
"arresting",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"glossy",
"showstopping",
"showy",
"slick",
"snazzy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"zingy",
"photogenic",
"telegenic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"horrible",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"terrible",
"vile",
"unappealing",
"unappetizing",
"unimposing",
"unpleasant",
"unprepossessing",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"antonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
]
},
"as in appropriately , fittingly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appropriately",
"aptly",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"happily",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"suitably",
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"alright",
"creditably",
"decently",
"fine",
"good",
"middlingly",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"passably",
"respectably",
"satisfactorily",
"serviceably",
"so-so",
"sufficiently",
"tolerably",
"well",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly",
"effectively",
"effectually",
"efficiently",
"neatly",
"tidily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"ill",
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"intolerably",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"unbearably",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"unsuitably",
"awfully",
"deplorably",
"disastrously",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"miserably",
"terribly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"seen":{
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"out of the corner of my eye I saw the deer run into the woods"
],
"synonyms":[
"beheld",
"caught",
"descried",
"discerned",
"distinguished",
"espied",
"eyed",
"looked (at)",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"perceived",
"regarded",
"remarked",
"sighted",
"spied",
"spotted",
"viewed",
"witnessed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identified",
"made out",
"picked out",
"picked up",
"attended (to)",
"considered",
"heeded",
"marked",
"minded",
"studied",
"watched",
"examined",
"inspected",
"scanned",
"scrutinized",
"surveyed",
"glanced (at)",
"glimpsed",
"peered (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"missed",
"overlooked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"a writer who saw World War II through the eyes of a common soldier"
],
"synonyms":[
"endured",
"experienced",
"felt",
"had",
"known",
"passed",
"suffered",
"sustained",
"tasted",
"undergone",
"witnessed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountered",
"met",
"accepted",
"received",
"assimilated",
"digested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I bought the best seller just to see what all the fuss was about"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"got on (to)",
"gotten on (to)",
"heard",
"learned",
"realized",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hit (on or upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"descried",
"detected",
"encountered",
"espied",
"spotted",
"calculated",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"found",
"puzzled (out)",
"discerned",
"minded",
"noted",
"observed",
"perceived",
"divined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"forgotten",
"forgot",
"unlearned",
"blanketed",
"blotted out",
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hidden",
"hid",
"masked",
"occulted",
"screened",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I see a certain sadness in his letters to his relatives back home"
],
"synonyms":[
"felt",
"perceived",
"scented",
"sensed",
"smelled",
"smelt",
"tasted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beheld",
"descried",
"discerned",
"distinguished",
"espied",
"eyed",
"looked (at)",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"regarded",
"remarked",
"sighted",
"spied",
"viewed",
"witnessed",
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"heard",
"learned",
"realized",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"expected",
"foreknown",
"foreseen",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a social call upon":{
"examples":[
"you should go and see Father at the hospital this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"called (on or upon)",
"dropped in (on)",
"visited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"looked up",
"sought (out)",
"dropped by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushed (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldered",
"ignored",
"snubbed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I see your point"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciated",
"apprehended",
"assimilated",
"beheld",
"caught",
"caught on (to)",
"cognized",
"compassed",
"comprehended",
"conceived",
"cottoned (to or on to)",
"deciphered",
"decoded",
"discerned",
"dug",
"got",
"gotten",
"grasped",
"grokked",
"intuited",
"known",
"made",
"made out",
"perceived",
"recognized",
"registered",
"savvied",
"seized",
"sensed",
"tumbled (to)",
"twigged",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"digested",
"taken in",
"realized",
"fathomed",
"penetrated",
"pierced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehended",
"misconceived",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misperceived",
"misread",
"mistaken",
"misunderstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed"
]
},
"to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship":{
"examples":[
"thanks for coming, and I'll see you to the door"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompanied",
"attended",
"chaperoned",
"companied",
"companioned",
"convoyed",
"escorted",
"squired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"walked",
"associated",
"consorted",
"palled (around)",
"teamed (up)",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"brought",
"conducted",
"guided",
"led",
"piloted",
"steered",
"ushered",
"followed",
"shadowed",
"tagged",
"tagged along",
"tailed",
"hovered (over)",
"hung (around)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"ditched",
"dumped",
"forsaken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I can't see that spoiled brat as a soldier at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasied",
"fantasized",
"featured",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visioned",
"visualized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamed",
"stargazed",
"hallucinated",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"relived",
"reminisced",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foreseen",
"prefigured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seesawing":{
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"as their boat seesawed in the rough water, the rescue team tried to get the passengers off the sinking ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"careening",
"lurching",
"pitching",
"rocking",
"rolling",
"swaying",
"tossing",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"bucking",
"doddering",
"faltering",
"floundering",
"halting",
"hitching",
"hobbling",
"jerking",
"jolting",
"reeling",
"shaking",
"staggering",
"stumbling",
"teetering",
"toddling",
"tottering",
"tumbling",
"vacillating",
"vibrating",
"waddling",
"wavering",
"weaving",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"wagging",
"waggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the price of the stock has been seesawing all week"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbing",
"bobbling",
"jogging",
"jouncing",
"nodding",
"pumping",
"wagging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"shaking",
"wiggling",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"oscillating",
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"undulating",
"dropping",
"ducking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seemings":{
"outward and often deceptive indication":{
"examples":[
"her altruism is all seeming \u2014she cares only about herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearances",
"faces",
"guises",
"names",
"outwards",
"semblances",
"shows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airs",
"effects",
"impressions",
"hints",
"implications",
"insinuations",
"resemblances",
"suggestions",
"affectations",
"demonstrations",
"displays",
"fictions",
"images",
"imitations",
"impostures",
"likenesses",
"make-believe",
"make-belief",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"representations",
"simulations",
"cloaks",
"disguises",
"exteriors",
"facades",
"fa\u00e7ades",
"fronts",
"glosses",
"masks",
"masquerades",
"patinas",
"patinae",
"Potemkin villages",
"shapes",
"shells",
"surfaces",
"veneers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"seethes":{
"to be in a state of violent rolling motion":{
"examples":[
"the water seethed with schools of feeding piranha"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"churns",
"moils",
"roils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reels",
"spins",
"swirls",
"whirls",
"agitates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"calms",
"subsides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"she seethed at the very thought of the staff's staggering incompetence"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"burns",
"foams",
"fumes",
"rages",
"rankles",
"sizzles",
"steams",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminates",
"rants",
"raves",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"bristles",
"flares (up)",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews",
"agitates",
"convulses",
"roils",
"shakes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seems":{
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"appears",
"comes across (as)",
"comes off (as)",
"feels",
"looks",
"makes",
"sounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"pretends",
"recalls",
"resembles",
"suggests",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeing red":{
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"The rival team saw red when they realized they had been pranked."
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"burning",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"raging",
"rankling",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"steaming",
"storming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminating",
"ranting",
"raving",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"bristling",
"flaring (up)",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"chafing",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"agitating",
"convulsing",
"roiling",
"shaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seers":{
"one who predicts future events or developments":{
"examples":[
"several leading Wall Street seers have cautioned investors to prepare for a downturn in the economy"
],
"synonyms":[
"augurs",
"diviners",
"forecasters",
"foreseers",
"foretellers",
"fortune-tellers",
"futurists",
"prognosticators",
"prophesiers",
"prophets",
"soothsayers",
"visionaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prophetesses",
"sibyls",
"wisewomen",
"mystics",
"oracles",
"astrologers",
"crystal gazers",
"palmists",
"rhabdomancers",
"Cassandras",
"doomsayers",
"doomsdayers",
"Jeremiahs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"seeded":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"seeded grass in the backyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilled",
"planted",
"put in",
"sowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedded",
"replanted",
"transplanted",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"scattered",
"potted",
"overseeded",
"reseeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathered",
"harvested",
"reaped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeing":{
"as in sighted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sighted",
"ocular",
"optic",
"optical",
"visual",
"focusing",
"focussing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"for the reason that":{
"examples":[
"seeing as we're already running late, there's no reason to waste any more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"'cause",
"as",
"as long as",
"because",
"being (as or as how or that)",
"considering",
"for",
"inasmuch as",
"now",
"since",
"whereas"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes":{
"examples":[
"out of the corner of my eye I saw the deer run into the woods"
],
"synonyms":[
"beholding",
"catching",
"descrying",
"discerning",
"distinguishing",
"espying",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"looking (at)",
"noticing",
"noting",
"observing",
"perceiving",
"regarding",
"remarking",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"spying",
"viewing",
"witnessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"identifying",
"making out",
"picking out",
"picking up",
"attending (to)",
"considering",
"heeding",
"marking",
"minding",
"studying",
"watching",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"scanning",
"scrutinizing",
"surveying",
"glancing (at)",
"glimpsing",
"peering (at)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"missing",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"a writer who saw World War II through the eyes of a common soldier"
],
"synonyms":[
"enduring",
"experiencing",
"feeling",
"having",
"knowing",
"passing",
"suffering",
"sustaining",
"tasting",
"undergoing",
"witnessing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"assimilating",
"digesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to an awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I bought the best seller just to see what all the fuss was about"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"catching on (to)",
"discovering",
"finding out",
"getting on (to)",
"hearing",
"learning",
"realizing",
"wising (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hitting (on or upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"encountering",
"espying",
"spotting",
"calculating",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"finding",
"puzzling (out)",
"discerning",
"minding",
"noting",
"observing",
"perceiving",
"divining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"forgetting",
"unlearning",
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"masking",
"occulting",
"screening",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I see a certain sadness in his letters to his relatives back home"
],
"synonyms":[
"feeling",
"perceiving",
"scenting",
"sensing",
"smelling",
"tasting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beholding",
"descrying",
"discerning",
"distinguishing",
"espying",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"looking (at)",
"noticing",
"noting",
"observing",
"regarding",
"remarking",
"sighting",
"spying",
"viewing",
"witnessing",
"ascertaining",
"catching on (to)",
"discovering",
"finding out",
"hearing",
"learning",
"realizing",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"expecting",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"supposing",
"surmising",
"suspecting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a social call upon":{
"examples":[
"you should go and see Father at the hospital this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling (on or upon)",
"dropping in (on)",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"looking up",
"seeking (out)",
"dropping by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldering",
"ignoring",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a clear idea of":{
"examples":[
"I see your point"
],
"synonyms":[
"appreciating",
"apprehending",
"assimilating",
"beholding",
"catching",
"catching on (to)",
"cognizing",
"compassing",
"comprehending",
"conceiving",
"cottoning (to or on to)",
"deciphering",
"decoding",
"digging",
"discerning",
"getting",
"grasping",
"grokking",
"intuiting",
"knowing",
"making",
"making out",
"perceiving",
"recognizing",
"registering",
"savvying",
"seizing",
"sensing",
"tumbling (to)",
"twigging",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"digesting",
"taking in",
"realizing",
"fathoming",
"penetrating",
"piercing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misapprehending",
"misconceiving",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misperceiving",
"misreading",
"mistaking",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing"
]
},
"to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship":{
"examples":[
"thanks for coming, and I'll see you to the door"
],
"synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"attending",
"chaperoning",
"companioning",
"companying",
"convoying",
"escorting",
"squiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"walking",
"associating",
"consorting",
"palling (around)",
"teaming (up)",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"bringing",
"conducting",
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"ushering",
"following",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tagging along",
"tailing",
"hanging (around)",
"hovering (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"forsaking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I can't see that spoiled brat as a soldier at all"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasizing",
"fantasying",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"conjunction",
"verb"
]
},
"seem":{
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"appear",
"come across (as)",
"come off (as)",
"feel",
"look",
"make",
"sound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"pretend",
"recall",
"resemble",
"suggest",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"see eye to eye":{
"to have or come to the same opinion or point of view":{
"examples":[
"The two did not see eye to eye on on certain political issues."
],
"synonyms":[
"agree",
"coincide",
"concur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accede (to)",
"accept",
"acquiesce",
"assent (to)",
"comply (with)",
"consent (to)",
"go (by)",
"subscribe",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"unite",
"collaborate",
"cooperate",
"get along",
"get on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clash",
"collide",
"conflict",
"bicker",
"counter",
"dispute",
"dissent",
"diverge",
"fall out",
"object",
"oppose",
"protest",
"quarrel",
"resist",
"rival",
"dissociate",
"separate",
"split"
],
"antonyms":[
"differ",
"disagree"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seeding":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"seeded grass in the backyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilling",
"planting",
"putting in",
"sowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedding",
"replanting",
"transplanting",
"broadcasting",
"scattering",
"potting",
"overseeding",
"reseeding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathering",
"harvesting",
"reaping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seer":{
"one who predicts future events or developments":{
"examples":[
"several leading Wall Street seers have cautioned investors to prepare for a downturn in the economy"
],
"synonyms":[
"augur",
"diviner",
"forecaster",
"foreseer",
"foreteller",
"fortune-teller",
"futurist",
"prognosticator",
"prophesier",
"prophet",
"soothsayer",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prophetess",
"sibyl",
"wisewoman",
"mystic",
"oracle",
"astrologer",
"crystal gazer",
"palmist",
"rhabdomancer",
"Cassandra",
"doomsayer",
"doomsdayer",
"Jeremiah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"seen eye to eye":{
"to have or come to the same opinion or point of view":{
"examples":[
"The two did not see eye to eye on on certain political issues."
],
"synonyms":[
"agreed",
"coincided",
"concurred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceded (to)",
"accepted",
"acquiesced",
"assented (to)",
"complied (with)",
"consented (to)",
"gone (by)",
"subscribed",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"united",
"collaborated",
"cooperated",
"got along",
"gotten along",
"got on",
"gotten on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clashed",
"collided",
"conflicted",
"bickered",
"countered",
"disputed",
"dissented",
"diverged",
"fallen out",
"objected",
"opposed",
"protested",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"resisted",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"dissociated",
"separated",
"split"
],
"antonyms":[
"differed",
"disagreed"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seen after":{
"to take charge of especially on behalf of another":{
"examples":[
"Please see after the cat while I'm away."
],
"synonyms":[
"attended",
"cared (for)",
"minded",
"overseen",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"tended",
"watched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"administrated",
"conducted",
"controlled",
"directed",
"governed",
"guided",
"managed",
"operated",
"presided (over)",
"regulated",
"run",
"stewarded",
"guarded",
"patrolled",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"shielded",
"babied",
"babysat",
"chaperoned",
"mothered",
"shepherded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoned",
"disregarded",
"forgotten",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"passed over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"seep":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water seeping through the basement walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"exude",
"ooze",
"percolate",
"strain",
"sweat",
"transude",
"weep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle",
"discharge",
"emit",
"give off",
"vent",
"emanate",
"flow",
"spring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flood",
"gush",
"pour",
"stream",
"surge"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeping":{
"to flow forth slowly through small openings":{
"examples":[
"water seeping through the basement walls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"percolating",
"straining",
"sweating",
"transuding",
"weeping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"trickling",
"discharging",
"emitting",
"giving off",
"venting",
"emanating",
"flowing",
"springing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flooding",
"gushing",
"pouring",
"streaming",
"surging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"seeming":{
"appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed":{
"examples":[
"a seeming contradiction that disappeared upon closer analysis of the text"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparent",
"assumed",
"evident",
"ostensible",
"ostensive",
"presumed",
"prima facie",
"putative",
"reputed",
"supposed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrable",
"external",
"outward",
"superficial",
"visible",
"conceivable",
"plausible",
"possible",
"supposable",
"likely",
"probable",
"clear",
"distinct",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"plain",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"illusive",
"illusory",
"imaginary",
"misleading",
"specious",
"fake",
"faked",
"feigned",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"alleged",
"claimed",
"professed",
"purported",
"so-called"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hidden",
"inapparent",
"implausible",
"impossible",
"improbable",
"inconceivable",
"unlikely",
"actual",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"established",
"genuine",
"real",
"substantiated",
"sure",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"outward and often deceptive indication":{
"examples":[
"her altruism is all seeming \u2014she cares only about herself"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearance",
"face",
"guise",
"name",
"outward",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"air",
"effect",
"impression",
"hint",
"implication",
"insinuation",
"resemblance",
"suggestion",
"affectation",
"demonstration",
"display",
"fiction",
"image",
"imitation",
"imposture",
"likeness",
"make-believe",
"make-belief",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"representation",
"simulation",
"cloak",
"disguise",
"exterior",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"gloss",
"mask",
"masquerade",
"patina",
"Potemkin village",
"shape",
"shell",
"surface",
"veneer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"I tried to cheer them up because they seemed depressed"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"appearing",
"coming across (as)",
"coming off (as)",
"feeling",
"looking",
"making",
"sounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"pretending",
"recalling",
"resembling",
"suggesting",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"seesawed":{
"to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions":{
"examples":[
"as their boat seesawed in the rough water, the rescue team tried to get the passengers off the sinking ship"
],
"synonyms":[
"careened",
"lurched",
"pitched",
"rocked",
"rolled",
"swayed",
"tossed",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"bucked",
"doddered",
"faltered",
"floundered",
"halted",
"hitched",
"hobbled",
"jerked",
"jolted",
"reeled",
"shook",
"staggered",
"stumbled",
"teetered",
"toddled",
"tottered",
"tumbled",
"vacillated",
"vibrated",
"waddled",
"wavered",
"weaved",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"wagged",
"waggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the price of the stock has been seesawing all week"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"bobbled",
"jogged",
"jounced",
"nodded",
"pumped",
"wagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"shook",
"wiggled",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"oscillated",
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"undulated",
"dropped",
"ducked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}