dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/sma_MWT.json
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{
"smack-dab":{
"as stated or indicated without the slightest difference":{
"examples":[
"made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town"
],
"synonyms":[
"due",
"exactly",
"full",
"just",
"precisely",
"right",
"sharp",
"squarely"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"smacking":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"he smacked the punching bag one final time before heading to the showers"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"scuffing",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"small":{
"lacking importance":{
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"significant",
"substantial",
"unfrivolous",
"weighty"
],
"examples":[
"reluctant to bring such a small matter to the boss's attention"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"chief",
"dominant",
"overbearing",
"overmastering",
"overriding",
"principal",
"distinctive",
"exceptional",
"impressive",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"valuable",
"worthwhile",
"worthy",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"great",
"illustrious",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"famous",
"notorious",
"renowned",
"all-important",
"basic",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"key"
],
"related":[
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"nickel-and-dime",
"paltry",
"petty",
"small-time",
"worthless",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown"
],
"synonyms":[
"fiddling",
"foolish",
"frivolous",
"incidental",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minor",
"minute",
"negligible",
"nugatory",
"slight",
"small-fry",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
]
},
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
],
"examples":[
"townspeople who were helpful to one another but who also could be small and intolerant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"related":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
"synonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small-minded"
]
},
"of a size that is less than average":{
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
],
"examples":[
"a small cat who never weighed more than five pounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"related":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"small in degree":{
"antonyms":[
"good"
],
"examples":[
"your chances of winning the lottery are so small that it's best not to count on it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"great",
"large",
"distinct",
"significant",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"healthy",
"largish",
"respectable",
"significant",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy"
],
"related":[
"marginal",
"minimal",
"minor",
"little",
"tiny"
],
"synonyms":[
"fragile",
"frail",
"negligible",
"off",
"outside",
"remote",
"slight",
"slim"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"small talk":{
"friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this":{
"examples":[
"at the corporate get-together we made the obligatory small talk with some people from the home office"
],
"synonyms":[
"backchat",
"cackle",
"causerie",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin music",
"chin-wag",
"chitchat",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"gab",
"gabfest",
"gossip",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"rap",
"schmooze",
"table talk",
"talk",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquy",
"conference",
"discourse",
"parley",
"symposium",
"debate",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"exchange",
"give-and-take",
"crosstalk",
"happy talk",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smart alec":{
"making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred":{
"examples":[
"a talk show host who's known for his quick quips and smart-aleck observations on current events"
],
"synonyms":[
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-ass",
"smart-assed",
"smarty-pants",
"wise",
"wiseass"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impish",
"impudent",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"roguish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"waggish",
"disrespectful",
"rude",
"breezy",
"casual",
"glib",
"inappropriate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"serious",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"sincere"
]
},
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"a smart-aleck reply that was met with a slap in the face"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way":{
"examples":[
"some smart aleck in the audience kept shouting clever insults at the nervous speaker"
],
"synonyms":[
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wiseass",
"wise guy",
"wisenheimer",
"weisenheimer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"know-all",
"know-it-all",
"wisecracker",
"hotshot",
"show-off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"smart aleck":{
"a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"some smart aleck in the audience kept shouting clever insults at the nervous speaker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"know-all",
"know-it-all",
"wisecracker",
"hotshot",
"show-off"
],
"synonyms":[
"smarty",
"smartie",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacre",
"wiseass",
"wise guy",
"wisenheimer",
"weisenheimer"
]
},
"making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred":{
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"sincere"
],
"examples":[
"a talk show host who's known for his quick quips and smart-aleck observations on current events"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"serious",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"related":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impish",
"impudent",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"roguish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"waggish",
"disrespectful",
"rude",
"breezy",
"casual",
"glib",
"inappropriate",
"thoughtless"
],
"synonyms":[
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-ass",
"smart-assed",
"smarty-pants",
"wise",
"wiseass"
]
},
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a smart-aleck reply that was met with a slap in the face"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"related":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"smart-mouthed":{
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"your smart-mouthed remarks aren't at all helping the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"smarty":{
"a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"think so, smarty ? Well, you're wrong, and I can prove it!"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"know-all",
"know-it-all",
"wisecracker",
"hotshot",
"show-off"
],
"synonyms":[
"smart aleck",
"smart alec",
"smarty-pants",
"wise guy",
"wiseacre",
"wiseass",
"wisenheimer",
"weisenheimer"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smashes":{
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the awful smash when his dreams got hit by reality"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blows",
"buffets",
"hits",
"knocks",
"punches",
"raps",
"slaps",
"thumps",
"bashings",
"batterings",
"lickings",
"thrashings",
"contacts",
"encounters",
"meetings",
"touches"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumps",
"collisions",
"concussions",
"crashes",
"impacts",
"impingements",
"jars",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"kicks",
"shocks",
"slams",
"strikes",
"wallops"
]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she gave the tennis ball a smash and sent it flying over the other side of the net"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
]
},
"a loud explosive sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the bikes collided with a huge smash"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"thunks",
"whams",
"clangors",
"clangs",
"clanks",
"clashes",
"knocks",
"raps",
"taps",
"blares",
"clamors",
"howls",
"hubbubs",
"hue and cries",
"hullabaloos",
"outcries",
"roars",
"tumults",
"uproars"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"blasts",
"booms",
"claps",
"cracks",
"crashes",
"pops",
"reports",
"slams",
"snaps",
"thunderclaps",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whomps",
"whumps"
]
},
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"flops",
"misfires",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"examples":[
"the new Broadway musical is a smash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointments",
"fizzles",
"lemons",
"losers"
],
"related":[
"blue chippers",
"blue chips",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"pips",
"prizewinners",
"gems",
"jewels",
"treasures",
"marvels",
"naturals",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"coups",
"triumphs",
"victories"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"megahits",
"successes",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"winners"
]
},
"the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact":{
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"examples":[
"the sound of the smash made all of the bystanders immediately whip their heads around"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"accidents",
"pileups",
"demolishments",
"destructions",
"ruins"
],
"synonyms":[
"collisions",
"concussions",
"crack-ups",
"crashes",
"smashups",
"wrecks"
]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"examples":[
"the invading troops smashed the resistance and went on to conquer the country"
],
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"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"related":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the firecracker smashed the clay pot"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"implodes"
],
"related":[
"dynamites",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks",
"detonates",
"discharges",
"fragments",
"splinters"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"demolishes",
"explodes",
"pops",
"shatters"
]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the drunken guest deliberately smashed a glass against the brick fireplace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"busts",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"annihilates",
"bashes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"nukes",
"pulverizes",
"ruins",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks",
"shivers",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crunches",
"crushes",
"snaps"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"crashes",
"shatters"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we nearly smashed into each other on the skating rink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"skirts"
],
"related":[
"bounces",
"caroms",
"clunks",
"glances",
"rebounds",
"ricochets",
"skims",
"skips",
"contacts",
"lands",
"touches",
"brushes",
"grazes",
"kisses",
"nudges",
"scrapes",
"shaves",
"sweeps",
"bulldozes",
"jostles",
"muscles",
"presses",
"pushes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bumps",
"collides",
"crashes",
"hits",
"impacts",
"impinges",
"knocks",
"rams",
"slams",
"strikes",
"swipes",
"thuds"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smatter":{
"a small number":{
"examples":[
"we received only a smatter of complaints about the book"
],
"synonyms":[
"couple",
"few",
"handful",
"scatter",
"scattering",
"smattering",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"minority",
"atom",
"crumb",
"fragment",
"grain",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"particle",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"majority",
"most",
"abundance",
"excess",
"plenty",
"surplus",
"deal",
"gobs",
"heap",
"lot",
"mass",
"much",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"slather",
"slew",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth"
],
"antonyms":[
"army",
"crowd",
"flock",
"gazillion",
"horde",
"host",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"legion",
"loads",
"many",
"mountain",
"multitude",
"oodles",
"scads",
"thousands",
"zillion"
]
},
"as in blabber , prate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabber",
"blather",
"bleat",
"blither",
"gab",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"patter",
"prate",
"rattle",
"run on",
"tittle-tattle",
"troll",
"yak",
"yack",
"babble",
"bumble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"sputter",
"chunter",
"maunder",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"stammer",
"stutter",
"screech",
"shout",
"shriek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate",
"pronounce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smartens":{
"as in brightens , freshens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brightens",
"freshens",
"spruces (up)",
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"bosses",
"chases",
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"fancifies",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"redecorates",
"redoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils",
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smart alecks":{
"a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way":{
"examples":[
"some smart aleck in the audience kept shouting clever insults at the nervous speaker"
],
"synonyms":[
"smarties",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacres",
"wiseasses",
"wise guys",
"wisenheimers",
"weisenheimers"
],
"related":[
"know-alls",
"know-it-alls",
"wisecrackers",
"hotshots",
"show-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smacks (of)":{
"as in smells (of)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"smells (of)",
"adverts",
"mentions",
"points",
"refers",
"signalizes",
"signals",
"signifies",
"alludes",
"hints",
"implies",
"indicates",
"infers",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announces",
"declares",
"proclaims",
"elucidates",
"explains",
"spells out",
"delineates",
"describes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smarted":{
"to feel or cause physical pain":{
"examples":[
"the injection only smarted for a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"ached",
"hurt",
"pained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bit",
"bled",
"burned",
"burnt",
"chafed",
"cramped",
"festered",
"itched",
"nagged",
"pinched",
"pounded",
"racked",
"stung",
"swelled",
"throbbed",
"tingled",
"twinged",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"suffered",
"afflicted",
"harrowed",
"tormented",
"tortured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smack":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"add just a smack of vanilla to the whipped cream and the dessert will be perfect"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"the cook gave him a smack on the wrist when he tried to sneak an early taste of the sauce"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"he smacked the punching bag one final time before heading to the showers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"scuff",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smallholding":{
"as in station , croft":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"croft",
"station",
"steading",
"farmhouse",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"manor",
"plantation",
"spread",
"garden",
"orchard",
"cropland",
"farmland",
"farmyard",
"estate",
"farm",
"farmstead",
"grange",
"ranch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smallish":{
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"a smallish row of bushes lining the yard"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
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"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
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"adjective"
]
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"blathered",
"bleated",
"blithered",
"gabbed",
"jangled",
"jawed",
"pattered",
"prated",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"tittle-tattled",
"trolled",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"babbled",
"bumbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
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"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"prattled",
"sputtered",
"chuntered",
"maundered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"stammered",
"stuttered",
"screeched",
"shouted",
"shrieked"
],
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"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smacks":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"add just a smack of vanilla to the whipped cream and the dessert will be perfect"
],
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"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
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"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
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},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"the cook gave him a smack on the wrist when he tried to sneak an early taste of the sauce"
],
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"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"sucker punches",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"he smacked the punching bag one final time before heading to the showers"
],
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"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"scuffs",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smashed":{
"forcibly separated into many pieces":{
"examples":[
"the smashed figurine left bits of china all over the rug"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"busted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blasted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"cracked",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"collapsed",
"imploded",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"pulverized",
"ruinate",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disintegrated",
"dynamited",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"obliterated",
"wiped out",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"frangible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"repaired",
"infrangible",
"unbreakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbroken"
]
},
"being under the influence of alcohol":{
"examples":[
"on his 21st birthday, he went out and got smashed \u2014before wrapping his car around a tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"sloshed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"maudlin",
"beery",
"befuddled",
"bleary-eyed",
"crapulous",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"rocky",
"strung out",
"stupefied",
"debauched",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"alcoholic",
"bibulous",
"dipsomaniacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstemious",
"abstinent",
"dry",
"temperate",
"teetotal",
"clearheaded",
"cool",
"level",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"the drunken guest deliberately smashed a glass against the brick fireplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"crashed",
"shattered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busted",
"bust",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"annihilated",
"bashed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"nuked",
"pulverized",
"ruined",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked",
"shivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crunched",
"crushed",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"the firecracker smashed the clay pot"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasted",
"blew",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"demolished",
"exploded",
"popped",
"shattered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamited",
"annihilated",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"detonated",
"discharged",
"fragmented",
"splintered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"imploded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the invading troops smashed the resistance and went on to conquer the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"we nearly smashed into each other on the skating rink"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"bumped",
"collided",
"crashed",
"hit",
"impacted",
"impinged",
"knocked",
"rammed",
"slammed",
"struck",
"swiped",
"thudded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounced",
"caromed",
"clunked",
"glanced",
"rebounded",
"ricocheted",
"ricochetted",
"skimmed",
"skipped",
"contacted",
"landed",
"touched",
"brushed",
"grazed",
"kissed",
"nudged",
"scraped",
"shaved",
"swept",
"bulldozed",
"jostled",
"muscled",
"pressed",
"pushed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missed",
"skirted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"smarts":{
"the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems":{
"examples":[
"she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity"
],
"synonyms":[
"brainpower",
"brain(s)",
"gray matter",
"headpiece",
"intellect",
"intellectuality",
"intelligence",
"mentality",
"reason",
"sense"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eggheadedness",
"highbrowism",
"intellectualism",
"braininess",
"brilliance",
"acumen",
"alertness",
"apprehension",
"astuteness",
"discernment",
"discriminability",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perception",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"mother wit",
"aptitude",
"talent",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"head",
"mind",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denseness",
"density",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"feeblemindedness",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"senselessness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel or cause physical pain":{
"examples":[
"the injection only smarted for a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"aches",
"hurts",
"pains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bites",
"bleeds",
"burns",
"chafes",
"cramps",
"festers",
"itches",
"nags",
"pinches",
"pounds",
"racks",
"stings",
"swells",
"throbs",
"tingles",
"twinges",
"agonizes",
"anguishes",
"suffers",
"afflicts",
"harrows",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"small change":{
"something of little importance":{
"examples":[
"he rightfully dismissed his woes as small change compared to the life-threatening problems faced by others"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelle",
"child's play",
"frippery",
"nonproblem",
"nothing",
"picayune",
"shuck(s)",
"small beer",
"trifle",
"triviality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"naught",
"nought",
"nothingness",
"smoke",
"zero",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"song",
"straw",
"two bits",
"bunk",
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"folly",
"fribble",
"fudge",
"hogwash",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"nonsense",
"piffle",
"rot",
"trash",
"trivia",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"lick",
"mite",
"ounce",
"particle",
"pinhead",
"scintilla",
"shred",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"soup\u00e7on",
"speck",
"spot",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smacking (of)":{
"as in smelling (of)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"smelling (of)",
"adverting",
"mentioning",
"pointing",
"referring",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"signalizing",
"signifying",
"alluding",
"hinting",
"implying",
"indicating",
"inferring",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announcing",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"spelling out",
"delineating",
"describing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smallholdings":{
"as in stations , crofts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crofts",
"stations",
"steadings",
"farmhouses",
"haciendas",
"homesteads",
"manors",
"plantations",
"spreads",
"gardens",
"orchards",
"croplands",
"farmlands",
"farmyards",
"estates",
"farms",
"farmsteads",
"granges",
"ranches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smart-alecky":{
"making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred":{
"examples":[
"you wouldn't be so smart-alecky if you were the one having the surgery"
],
"synonyms":[
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-ass",
"smart-assed",
"smarty-pants",
"wise",
"wiseass"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impish",
"impudent",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"roguish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"waggish",
"disrespectful",
"rude",
"breezy",
"casual",
"glib",
"inappropriate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"serious",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"sincere"
]
},
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"smart-alecky comments from a coworker about her new clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"pungent",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
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"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
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},
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"adjective"
]
},
"smartened":{
"as in brightened , freshened":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"brightened",
"freshened",
"spruced (up)",
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smashups":{
"the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact":{
"examples":[
"three cars were involved in a smashup on my street last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"collisions",
"concussions",
"crack-ups",
"crashes",
"smashes",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accidents",
"pileups",
"demolishments",
"destructions",
"ruins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smacker":{
"a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents":{
"examples":[
"tipped fifteen smackers for the excellent service"
],
"synonyms":[
"bone",
"buck",
"clam",
"dollar",
"one"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greenback",
"dead presidents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smart":{
"being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance":{
"examples":[
"dressed in their smart new uniforms, the cadets proudly paraded around the grounds of the military school"
],
"synonyms":[
"dapper",
"natty",
"sharp",
"snappy",
"spruce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dolled up",
"dressy",
"elegant",
"formal",
"spiffed-up",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"chic",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"stylish",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"clean",
"immaculate",
"pristine",
"spotless",
"squeaky-clean"
],
"near antonyms":[
"messy",
"mussed",
"rumpled",
"uncombed",
"untidy",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grubby",
"nasty",
"scroungy",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"scuzzy",
"smirched",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"dowdy",
"inelegant",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish"
],
"antonyms":[
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt"
]
},
"being in the latest or current fashion":{
"examples":[
"boutiques specializing in smart clothes for cosmopolitan women"
],
"synonyms":[
"\u00e0 la mode",
"a la mode",
"au courant",
"chic",
"cool",
"exclusive",
"fashionable",
"fresh",
"happening",
"hip",
"in",
"modish",
"sharp",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"supercool",
"swell",
"swish",
"trendy",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downtown",
"edgy",
"funky",
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dressy",
"kicky",
"natty",
"rakish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"spiffy",
"spruce",
"chichi",
"classy",
"flossy",
"haute",
"haut",
"nobby",
"posh",
"ritzy",
"soign\u00e9",
"soign\u00e9e",
"swank",
"swanky",
"elegant",
"graceful",
"handsome",
"majestic",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"stately",
"tasteful",
"understated",
"doggish",
"doggy",
"flashy",
"gallant",
"dandyish",
"dudish",
"foppish",
"ultrachic",
"ultracool",
"ultrahip",
"ultraposh",
"ultrasmart",
"ultrasophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheesy",
"tacky",
"unattractive",
"unbecoming",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"tasteless",
"trashy",
"unhandsome",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled",
"shabby",
"sleazy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dowdy",
"out",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unchic",
"uncool",
"unfashionable",
"unmodish",
"unstylish"
]
},
"given to or marked by mature intelligent humor":{
"examples":[
"something one sees so rarely on TV: a smart sitcom"
],
"synonyms":[
"clever",
"facetious",
"humorous",
"jocular",
"witty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"bantering",
"frivolous",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"teasing",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hysterical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"rollicking",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"prankish",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny",
"scintillating",
"sparkling",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"waggish",
"whimsical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainless",
"lowbrow",
"stupid",
"witless",
"corny",
"hackney",
"hackneyed",
"lame",
"humorless",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"plaintive",
"sorry",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred":{
"examples":[
"just joked and made smart comments during the ceremony"
],
"synonyms":[
"cute",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-ass",
"smart-assed",
"smarty-pants",
"wise",
"wiseass"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"cheeky",
"cocky",
"fresh",
"impertinent",
"impish",
"impudent",
"mischievous",
"playful",
"roguish",
"sassy",
"saucy",
"waggish",
"disrespectful",
"rude",
"breezy",
"casual",
"glib",
"inappropriate",
"thoughtless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"serious",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"sincere"
]
},
"having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment":{
"examples":[
"a smart investment that has really paid off"
],
"synonyms":[
"astute",
"canny",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"hard-boiled",
"hardheaded",
"heady",
"knowing",
"savvy",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"shrewd"
],
"near synonyms":[
"artful",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"pawky",
"slick",
"sly",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise",
"experienced",
"veteran",
"discriminating",
"discriminative",
"agile",
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp-eyed",
"sharp-sighted",
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"calculating",
"scheming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"exploitable",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"unperceptive",
"unwise",
"dense",
"dull",
"obtuse",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"dim-witted",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dumb",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unintelligent",
"weak-minded",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"ignorant",
"uninformed"
],
"antonyms":[
"unknowing"
]
},
"having or showing quickness of mind":{
"examples":[
"a smart child who will do well in school"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"exceptional",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"heady",
"insightful",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"genial",
"highbrow",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"creative",
"inventive",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feebleminded",
"simpleminded",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"silly",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"nonintellectual",
"unacademic",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany"
],
"antonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unbrilliant",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless"
]
},
"having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience":{
"examples":[
"a novelist who got much of the material for his works by hanging out with the smart set"
],
"synonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"suave",
"urbane",
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"polished",
"refined",
"experienced",
"knowing",
"practiced",
"schooled",
"seasoned",
"bored",
"cynical",
"jaded",
"skeptical",
"down-to-earth",
"pragmatic",
"pragmatical",
"realistic",
"sober"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"parochial",
"provincial",
"rustic",
"rustical",
"philistine",
"uncivilized",
"uncultured",
"unrefined",
"childlike",
"simple",
"simpleminded",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"uncritical",
"unknowing"
],
"antonyms":[
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"unsophisticated",
"untutored",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed"
]
},
"a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body":{
"examples":[
"the toddler was whining over the smart from the cut"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache",
"pain",
"pang",
"prick",
"shoot",
"sting",
"stitch",
"throe",
"tingle",
"twinge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomfort",
"distress",
"soreness",
"tenderness",
"affliction",
"agony",
"anguish",
"misery",
"sufferance",
"suffering",
"torment",
"torture",
"inflammation",
"sore",
"swelling",
"damage",
"detriment",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injury",
"backache",
"bellyache",
"charley horse",
"colic",
"complaint",
"earache",
"gripe",
"headache",
"stomachache",
"toothache"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfort",
"ease",
"easiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems":{
"examples":[
"she had the smarts to start college at age 16, but perhaps not the emotional maturity"
],
"synonyms":[
"brain(s)",
"brainpower",
"gray matter",
"headpiece",
"intellect",
"intellectuality",
"intelligence",
"mentality",
"reason",
"sense"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eggheadedness",
"highbrowism",
"intellectualism",
"braininess",
"brilliance",
"acumen",
"alertness",
"apprehension",
"astuteness",
"discernment",
"discriminability",
"insight",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perception",
"percipience",
"perspicacity",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"mother wit",
"aptitude",
"talent",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"wisdom",
"wit",
"head",
"mind",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denseness",
"density",
"doltishness",
"dopiness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"dumbness",
"fatuity",
"feeblemindedness",
"foolishness",
"half-wittedness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"senselessness",
"simpleness",
"slowness",
"stupidity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feel or cause physical pain":{
"examples":[
"the injection only smarted for a moment"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache",
"hurt",
"pain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bite",
"bleed",
"burn",
"chafe",
"cramp",
"fester",
"itch",
"nag",
"pinch",
"pound",
"rack",
"sting",
"swell",
"throb",
"tingle",
"twinge",
"agonize",
"anguish",
"suffer",
"afflict",
"harrow",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in smartly , sharply":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nattily",
"sharply",
"smartly",
"sprucely",
"neatly",
"orderly",
"tidily",
"fashionably",
"modishly",
"carefully",
"fastidiously",
"fussily",
"meticulously",
"cleanly",
"immaculately",
"spotlessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dowdily",
"sloppily",
"slovenly",
"slatternly",
"chaotically",
"messily",
"untidily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smartens (up)":{
"as in preens , primps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"preens",
"primps",
"prinks",
"dolls up",
"dresses",
"dresses up",
"accessorizes",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks",
"dudes (up)",
"garbs",
"garments",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smarten (up)":{
"as in preen , primp":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"preen",
"primp",
"prink",
"doll up",
"dress",
"dress up",
"accessorize",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"costume",
"deck",
"dude (up)",
"garb",
"garment",
"invest",
"rig (out)",
"robe",
"suit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smallsword":{
"as in saber , rapier":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broadsword",
"cutlass",
"rapier",
"saber",
"sabre",
"scimitar",
"blade",
"brand",
"steel",
"sword"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smallest":{
"being the least in amount, number, or size possible":{
"examples":[
"severely reprimanded employees even for the smallest mistakes"
],
"synonyms":[
"fewest",
"littlest",
"lowest",
"minimal",
"minimum",
"minutest",
"slightest",
"tiniest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fewer",
"lesser",
"low",
"minor",
"modest",
"slight",
"small",
"smaller",
"infinitesimal",
"micro",
"subminimal",
"ultramicro",
"irreducible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"highest"
],
"antonyms":[
"biggest",
"full",
"greatest",
"hugest",
"largest",
"maximum",
"most",
"top",
"topmost",
"utmost"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"smash":{
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"the drunken guest deliberately smashed a glass against the brick fireplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"crash",
"shatter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bust",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"annihilate",
"bash",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"pulverize",
"ruin",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck",
"shiver",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crunch",
"crush",
"snap"
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},
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"examples":[
"the firecracker smashed the clay pot"
],
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"blast",
"blow",
"blow up",
"burst",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"shatter"
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"dynamite",
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"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the invading troops smashed the resistance and went on to conquer the country"
],
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"annihilate",
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"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
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"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
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"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
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"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
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"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"we nearly smashed into each other on the skating rink"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bump",
"collide",
"crash",
"hit",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"ram",
"slam",
"strike",
"swipe",
"thud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounce",
"carom",
"clunk",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skim",
"skip",
"contact",
"land",
"touch",
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"scrape",
"shave",
"sweep",
"bulldoze",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"examples":[
"the awful smash when his dreams got hit by reality"
],
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"bump",
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact":{
"examples":[
"the sound of the smash made all of the bystanders immediately whip their heads around"
],
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"collision",
"concussion",
"crack-up",
"crash",
"smashup",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accident",
"pileup",
"demolishment",
"destruction",
"ruin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"she gave the tennis ball a smash and sent it flying over the other side of the net"
],
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"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"sucker punch",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a loud explosive sound":{
"examples":[
"the bikes collided with a huge smash"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"blast",
"boom",
"clap",
"crack",
"crash",
"pop",
"report",
"slam",
"snap",
"thunderclap",
"thwack",
"whack",
"whomp",
"whump"
],
"near synonyms":[
"thunk",
"wham",
"clang",
"clangor",
"clank",
"clash",
"knock",
"rap",
"tap",
"blare",
"clamor",
"howl",
"hubbub",
"hue and cry",
"hullabaloo",
"outcry",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"examples":[
"the new Broadway musical is a smash"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"megahit",
"success",
"supernova",
"winner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue chip",
"blue chipper",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"pip",
"prizewinner",
"gem",
"jewel",
"treasure",
"marvel",
"natural",
"phenomenon",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"coup",
"triumph",
"victory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointment",
"fizzle",
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"flop",
"misfire",
"turkey",
"washout"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smacked":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"he smacked the punching bag one final time before heading to the showers"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"biffed",
"bludgeoned",
"bobbed",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clipped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"hammered",
"hit",
"knocked",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"tagged",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"zapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"scuffed",
"bunted",
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"bumped",
"butted",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"rabbit-punched",
"sucker punched",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"lashed",
"sapped",
"slashed",
"sledged",
"sledgehammered",
"speared",
"stabbed",
"switched",
"thrashed",
"whipped",
"beaned",
"brained",
"conked",
"skulled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smallswords":{
"as in sabers , rapiers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broadswords",
"cutlasses",
"rapiers",
"sabers",
"sabres",
"scimitars",
"blades",
"brands",
"steels",
"swords"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smacked (of)":{
"as in smelled (of)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"smelled (of)",
"smelt (of)",
"adverted",
"mentioned",
"pointed",
"referred",
"signaled",
"signalled",
"signalized",
"signified",
"alluded",
"hinted",
"implied",
"indicated",
"inferred",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"suggested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"announced",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
"elucidated",
"explained",
"spelled out",
"delineated",
"described"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smallness":{
"the quality or state of being little in size":{
"examples":[
"my grandmother was surprised by the smallness of the latest electronic devices"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"fineness",
"littleness",
"puniness",
"slightness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"petiteness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"grossness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"mountainousness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"extensiveness",
"vastness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"healthiness",
"liberality",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"weightiness",
"bulkiness",
"massiveness",
"voluminousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"largeness",
"magnitude"
]
},
"the quality or state of being unimportant":{
"examples":[
"regardless of its smallness , each act of kindness is ultimately rewarded"
],
"synonyms":[
"immateriality",
"inconsequence",
"inconsequentiality",
"inconsiderableness",
"insignificance",
"insignificancy",
"littleness",
"negligibility",
"nullity",
"pettiness",
"slightness",
"triviality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"emptiness",
"valuelessness",
"worthlessness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"substance",
"value",
"worth"
],
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"consequence",
"import",
"importance",
"magnitude",
"moment",
"significance",
"weight",
"weightiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smartly":{
"in a strikingly neat and trim manner":{
"examples":[
"the smartly dressed scouts marched at the head of the Memorial Day parade"
],
"synonyms":[
"dashingly",
"nattily",
"sharply",
"snappily",
"sprucely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"neatly",
"orderly",
"tidily",
"trimly",
"elegantly",
"fashionably",
"modishly",
"stylishly",
"swankily",
"carefully",
"fastidiously",
"fussily",
"meticulously",
"cleanly",
"immaculately",
"pristinely",
"spotlessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dowdily",
"inelegantly",
"slatternly",
"messily",
"mussily",
"untidily",
"scruffily",
"shabbily",
"sleazily",
"dingily",
"dirtily",
"filthily",
"foully",
"grubbily",
"nastily"
],
"antonyms":[
"sloppily",
"slovenly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"small-timers":{
"as in lightweights , half-pints":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"half-pints",
"lightweights",
"inferiors",
"subordinates",
"underlings",
"nobodies",
"zeros",
"zeroes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barons",
"captains",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"kings",
"lions",
"lords",
"magnates",
"moguls",
"monarchs",
"Napoleons",
"princes",
"tycoons",
"big boys",
"big cheeses",
"bigfeet",
"bigfoots",
"biggies",
"big guns",
"big shots",
"big wheels",
"bigwigs",
"fat cats",
"figures",
"heavies",
"heavyweights",
"honchos",
"kahunas",
"main men",
"movers and shakers",
"nabobs",
"nawabs",
"notables",
"personages",
"pooh-bahs",
"poo-bahs",
"supremos",
"VIPs",
"celebrities",
"personalities",
"stars",
"superstars"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"small-minded":{
"unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints":{
"examples":[
"a small-minded man only concerned with his own well-being"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigoted",
"illiberal",
"intolerant",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"prejudiced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservative",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"blindfolded",
"blinkered",
"insular",
"parochial",
"provincial",
"biased",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extreme",
"progressive",
"radical",
"impartial",
"objective",
"unbiased"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"liberal",
"open-minded",
"tolerant",
"unprejudiced"
]
},
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"examples":[
"resented the small-minded people who automatically opposed every new idea"
],
"synonyms":[
"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"provincial",
"sectarian",
"small"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"smartness":{
"as in style , elegance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chic",
"chicness",
"dapperness",
"elegance",
"poshness",
"style",
"swank",
"swankiness",
"cool",
"coolness",
"fashionableness",
"hip",
"hipness",
"hipsterism",
"modishness",
"stylishness",
"trendiness",
"voguishness",
"class",
"grace",
"gracefulness",
"majesty",
"stateliness",
"artfulness",
"polish",
"sophistication",
"taste",
"tastefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unfashionableness",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"gracelessness",
"grotesqueness",
"tackiness",
"tastelessness",
"tawdriness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sense , intellect":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"reason",
"sense",
"wit",
"discernment",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"sense",
"sensibility",
"wisdom",
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"perspicacity",
"sensitivity",
"sharpness",
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness",
"profundity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shallowness",
"superficiality",
"brainlessness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"small arms":{
"a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder":{
"examples":[
"the soldiers keep their small arms securely in their holsters when not on patrol"
],
"synonyms":[
"arms",
"firearms",
"guns",
"heat",
"pieces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"derringers",
"forty-fives",
".45s",
"gats",
"handguns",
"pistols",
"revolvers",
"rods",
"roscoes",
"sidearms",
"six-guns",
"six-shooters",
"zip guns",
"self-loaders",
"semiautomatics",
"blunderbusses",
"breechloaders",
"culverins",
"fieldpieces",
"firelocks",
"flintlocks",
"harquebuses",
"arquebuses",
"matchlocks",
"muskets",
"rifles",
"shotguns",
"smoothbores",
"twenty-twos",
".22s",
"AK-47s",
"assault rifles",
"assault weapons",
"automatics",
"carbines",
"machine guns",
"machine pistols",
"repeaters",
"submachine guns",
"tommy guns",
"spearguns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smattering":{
"a small number":{
"examples":[
"a smattering of guests at the art exhibit"
],
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"couple",
"few",
"handful",
"scatter",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling"
],
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"minority",
"atom",
"crumb",
"fragment",
"grain",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"particle",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit"
],
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"majority",
"most",
"abundance",
"excess",
"plenty",
"surplus",
"deal",
"gobs",
"heap",
"lot",
"mass",
"much",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"slather",
"slew",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth"
],
"antonyms":[
"army",
"crowd",
"flock",
"gazillion",
"horde",
"host",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"legion",
"loads",
"many",
"mountain",
"multitude",
"oodles",
"scads",
"thousands",
"zillion"
]
},
"as in blabbering , prating":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"babbling",
"bumbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"stammering",
"stuttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"small beer":{
"something of little importance":{
"examples":[
"the money we spend on cable is small beer compared to the mortgage payment we have to come up with every month"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagatelle",
"child's play",
"frippery",
"nonproblem",
"nothing",
"picayune",
"shuck(s)",
"small change",
"trifle",
"triviality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"naught",
"nought",
"nothingness",
"smoke",
"zero",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"song",
"straw",
"two bits",
"bunk",
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"folly",
"fribble",
"fudge",
"hogwash",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"nonsense",
"piffle",
"rot",
"trash",
"trivia",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"lick",
"mite",
"ounce",
"particle",
"pinhead",
"scintilla",
"shred",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"soup\u00e7on",
"speck",
"spot",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smashup":{
"the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact":{
"examples":[
"three cars were involved in a smashup on my street last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"collision",
"concussion",
"crack-up",
"crash",
"smash",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accident",
"pileup",
"demolishment",
"destruction",
"ruin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smarm":{
"as in ingratiation , cajolery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"ingratiation",
"fawning",
"sycophancy",
"toadying",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"adoration",
"idolatry",
"worship",
"caresses",
"compliments",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects",
"allurements",
"blandishments",
"endearments",
"adulation",
"blarney",
"butter",
"flannel",
"flattery",
"incense",
"overpraise",
"soft soap",
"sweet talk",
"taffy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittlement",
"depreciation",
"detraction",
"disparagement",
"put-down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smartening":{
"as in brightening , freshening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brightening",
"freshening",
"sprucing (up)",
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling",
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"smaller":{
"having not so great importance or rank as another":{
"examples":[
"a smaller task but one that needs to be done nevertheless"
],
"synonyms":[
"inferior",
"junior",
"less",
"lesser",
"lower",
"minor",
"subordinate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little",
"mean",
"small",
"minute",
"petty",
"jerkwater",
"one-horse",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"two-bit",
"associate",
"auxiliary",
"secondary",
"subsidiary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choice",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"greater",
"higher",
"major",
"more",
"primary",
"prime",
"senior",
"superior",
"superordinate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"small arm":{
"a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder":{
"examples":[
"the soldiers keep their small arms securely in their holsters when not on patrol"
],
"synonyms":[
"arm",
"firearm",
"gun",
"heat",
"piece"
],
"near synonyms":[
"derringer",
"forty-five",
".45",
"gat",
"handgun",
"pistol",
"revolver",
"rod",
"roscoe",
"sidearm",
"six-gun",
"six-shooter",
"zip gun",
"self-loader",
"semiautomatic",
"blunderbuss",
"breechloader",
"culverin",
"fieldpiece",
"firelock",
"flintlock",
"harquebus",
"arquebus",
"matchlock",
"musket",
"rifle",
"shotgun",
"smoothbore",
"twenty-two",
".22",
"AK-47",
"assault rifle",
"assault weapon",
"automatic",
"carbine",
"machine gun",
"machine pistol",
"repeater",
"submachine gun",
"tommy gun",
"speargun"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smatters":{
"a small number":{
"examples":[
"we received only a smatter of complaints about the book"
],
"synonyms":[
"couples",
"fews",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"scatters",
"smatterings",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"minorities",
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"fragments",
"grains",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"particles",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"majorities",
"mosts",
"abundances",
"excesses",
"plenties",
"surpluses",
"deals",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lots",
"masses",
"much",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"slathers",
"slews",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths"
],
"antonyms":[
"armies",
"crowds",
"flocks",
"gazillions",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"legions",
"loads",
"many",
"mountains",
"multitudes",
"oodles",
"scads",
"thousands",
"zillions"
]
},
"as in blabbers , prates":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbers",
"blathers",
"bleats",
"blithers",
"gabs",
"jangles",
"jaws",
"patters",
"prates",
"rattles",
"runs on",
"tittle-tattles",
"trolls",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"babbles",
"bumbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"prattles",
"sputters",
"chunters",
"maunders",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"stammers",
"stutters",
"screeches",
"shouts",
"shrieks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulates",
"enunciates",
"pronounces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"smart alecs":{
"a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way":{
"examples":[
"some smart aleck in the audience kept shouting clever insults at the nervous speaker"
],
"synonyms":[
"smarties",
"smarty-pants",
"wiseacres",
"wiseasses",
"wise guys",
"wisenheimers",
"weisenheimers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"know-alls",
"know-it-alls",
"wisecrackers",
"hotshots",
"show-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"smashing":{
"as in impressive , striking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impressive",
"striking",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"remarkable",
"mind-bending",
"mind-blowing",
"mind-boggling",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlightening",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"extraordinary",
"phenomenal",
"rare",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"entertaining",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting",
"incomprehensible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"awful",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressive",
"uninspiring",
"unremarkable",
"boring",
"dull",
"jading",
"monotonous",
"tedious",
"tiring",
"uninspired",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying",
"common",
"customary",
"mundane",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"usual",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in attack , thrashing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assault",
"attack",
"bashing",
"battering",
"battery",
"batting",
"beating",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"lacing",
"licking",
"mauling",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"socking",
"thrashing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"damage",
"detriment",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury",
"frenzy",
"fury",
"onslaught",
"outbreak",
"outrage",
"paroxysm",
"rage",
"rampage",
"revolt",
"riot",
"rupture",
"shock",
"storm",
"terror",
"threat",
"tumult",
"turbulence",
"upheaval",
"uproar",
"barbarity",
"brutality",
"savagery",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"hectoring",
"strong-arming",
"force",
"foul play",
"violence",
"crippling",
"maiming",
"mayhem",
"mutilation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pacificism",
"pacifism",
"nonviolence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break with violence and much noise":{
"examples":[
"the drunken guest deliberately smashed a glass against the brick fireplace"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"crashing",
"shattering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"busting",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"annihilating",
"bashing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"nuking",
"pulverizing",
"ruining",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking",
"shivering",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crunching",
"crushing",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"the firecracker smashed the clay pot"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"demolishing",
"exploding",
"popping",
"shattering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"the invading troops smashed the resistance and went on to conquer the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"we nearly smashed into each other on the skating rink"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"bumping",
"colliding",
"crashing",
"hitting",
"impacting",
"impinging",
"knocking",
"ramming",
"slamming",
"striking",
"swiping",
"thudding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bouncing",
"caroming",
"clunking",
"glancing",
"rebounding",
"ricocheting",
"ricochetting",
"skimming",
"skipping",
"contacting",
"landing",
"touching",
"brushing",
"grazing",
"kissing",
"nudging",
"scraping",
"shaving",
"sweeping",
"bulldozing",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"missing",
"skirting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}