GRE单词在Webster中的全部同义反义
jest,joke, crack, drollery, gag, jape, quip, waggery, wisecrack, witticis
abandoned, dissolute, profligate, reprobate, self-abandoned, unprincipled
aver aversion avert averse
banish cast out, deport, displace, exile, expatriate, expel, expulse, ||lag, ostracize, oust, relegate, run out, transport; compare EJECT 1
barrage, Synonyms bombardment, broadside, burst, cannonade, drumfire, fusillade, hail, salvo, shower, storm, volley
Related Word burst, eruption, flare, outburst, stream, surge, tornado
banter, Synonyms chaff, fool, fun, jest, ||jive, joke, jolly, josh, kid, rag, razz, rib
Related Word deride, guy, mock, quiz, rally, ridicule, satirize, taunt, tease, twit
Idioms make fun of, make merry with, poke fun at
|| 2
Synonyms FACE 3, beard, brave, challenge, dare, defy, ||double-dog dare, front, outface, venture
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Synonyms COAX, blandish, blarney, cajole, con, soft-soap, sweet-talk, wheedle
bathetic, Synonyms TRITE, clich*, clich*d, commonplace, hack, hackneyed, stale, stereotyped, stereotypical, tired
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Synonyms SENTIMENTAL, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, romantic, slushy, ||soppy, sticky, tear-jerking
besmirch , Synonyms TAINT 1, besmear, defile, discolor, smear, soil, stain, sully, tar,tarnish
bereft, Synonyms BEREAVED
betray, Synonyms DECEIVE, beguile, bluff, delude, double-cross, humbug, illude, juggle, mislead, take in
Related Word ensnare, entrap, snare, trap
2 to prove faithless or treacherous *betrayed his own people by going over to the enemy* Synonyms cross, double-cross, sell, sell out, ||split
Related Word desert, renegade; give away, inform, turn in; collaborate; apostatize Idioms act (or play) the traitor, break faith, round on, sell down the river
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Synonyms REVEAL 1, blab (out), disclose, discover, divulge, give away, spill, tell, uncover, unveil
Related Word demonstrate, evidence, evince, manifest, show; betoken, indicate Contrasted Words defend, guard, protect,
bilk, Synonyms FRUSTRATE 1, baffle, balk, beat, circumvent, dash, disappoint, foil, ruin, thwart Contrasted Words fulfill
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Synonyms CHEAT, beat, chouse, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, flimflam, gyp, overreach
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Synonyms ESCAPE 2, avoid, double, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shun, shy Related Word dodge, shake
blasphemy, Synonyms cursing, cussing, execration, imprecation, profanity, swearing Related Word affront, indignity, insult; abuse, billingsgate, scurrility, vituperation Contrasted Words reverence, veneration, worship
Antonyms adoration
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Synonyms PROFANATION, desecration, sacrilege, violation
Related Word abuse, befouling, shaming
blatant, Synonyms VOCIFEROUS, boisterous, clamorous, ||dinsome, loudmouthed, multivocal, obstreperous, openmouthed, strident, vociferant
Related Word screaming; obtrusive
Contrasted Words modest, soft-spoken
2
Synonyms GAUDY, brazen, chintzy, flashy, garish, glaring, loud, meretricious, tawdry, tinsel
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Synonyms SHAMELESS, arrant, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, impudent, overbold, unabashed, unblushing
bleak, Synonyms GRIM 2, austere, dour, hard, harsh, severe, stringent
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Synonyms GLOOMY 3, depressing, disheartening, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, morne,
oppressive, somber
blotch, Synonyms SPLOTCH, mottle, ||splodge
bombast, Synonyms fustian, highfalutin, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade
Related Word grandiloquence, magniloquence; flatulence, orotundity, tumidity, turgidity; heroics,
pyrotechnics, sesquipedality; Johnsonese; spread-eagleism; nonsense Idioms purple prose
bolt, Synonyms START 1, jump, spring, startle
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Synonyms RUSH 1, boil, charge, chase, dash, fling, lash, race, shoot, tear
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Synonyms RUN 2, flee, fly, make off, scamper, scoot, ||screw, skedaddle, skip, skirr
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Synonyms EXCLAIM, blat, blurt (out), cry out, ejaculate
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Synonyms GULP, cram, englut, gobble, guzzle, ingurgitate, slop, slosh, wolf
brassy, Synonyms SHAMELESS, arrant, barefaced, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, impudent, overbold, unabashed, unblushing
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Synonyms BRAZEN 4, aeneous
brawl, Synonyms QUARREL, altercation, bickering, dispute, dust, dustup, feud, fight, hassle, squabble
2 a rough, noisy, and often prolonged hand-to-hand fight usually involving several people *windows and furniture were broken in the barroom brawl*
Synonyms affray, bobbery, broil, dogfight, donnybrook, fight, fracas, fray, free-for-all, knock-down-and-drag-out, maul, melee, mellay, ||muss, rough-and-tumble, row, rowdydow,
ruction, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to; compare QUARREL
Related Word fistfight, fisticuffs, slugfest; struggle, tussle; conflict, contention, contest, riot;
altercation, embroilment, imbroglio, quarrel, wrangle; commotion, disturbance, eruption,
hubbub, pandemonium, ruckus, rumpus, turn-to, ||turnup, upheaval, uproar; incident, ||rumble Idioms a coming to blows, exchange of blows
bruit, Synonyms DECLARE 1, advertise, announce, annunciate, blaze (abroad), blazon, broadcast, proclaim, promulgate, publish
Related Word hint, intimate, rumor, suggest
bully, an insolent, overbearing person who persists in tormenting another *a big bully who picked on little kids*
Synonyms browbeater, bulldozer, harasser, harrier, hector, intimidator; compare TOUGH Related Word annoyer, antagonizer, heckler, persecutor, pest, tease, tormenter
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Synonyms PIMP 1, ||cadet, ||easy rider, fancy man, ||mack, macquereau, pander
bungle, bungler Synonyms BOTCH, ||blow, bollix, flub, fluff, goof (up), gum (up), louse up, muff, ||screw (up)
burlesque, Synonyms MOCKERY 2, caricature, farce, mock, sham, travesty
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Synonyms CARICATURE 2, parody, takeoff, travesty
cajole, Synonyms COAX, ||banter, blandish, blarney, con, soft-soap, sweet-talk, wheedle Related Word beguile, deceive, delude; tantalize; crowd, push
callow, Synonyms YOUNG 1, green, immature, infant, juvenile, unfledged, unripe, youthful
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Synonyms INEXPERIENCED, fresh, green, raw, unexperienced, unpracticed, unseasoned, untried, unversed, young
candid, Synonyms FAIR 4, dispassionate, equal, equitable, impartial, just, objective, unbiased, uncolored, unprejudiced
Related Word aboveboard, forthright, straightforward; honest, scrupulous, upright
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Synonyms FRANK, open, openhearted, plain, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unreserved
Antonyms evasive
cantankerous, habitually ill-humored, irritable, and disagreeable *one of our more cantankerous fellow workers*
Synonyms bearish, cankered, cranky, cross-grained, crotchety, ornery, rantankerous, vinegarish,
vinegary, waspish, waspy; compare IRASCIBLE, IRRITABLE
Related Word dour, morose, sour; crabbed, cross, crusty, huffy, petulant, prickly, snappish;
dyspeptic, ill-conditioned, ill-natured; liverish
Idioms like a bear with a sore paw
Contrasted Words benign, kindly, mellow, mild; amiable, congenial, friendly, pleasant, well-disposed; benevolent, gracious, kind
caprice, an arbitrary, impulsive, and often illogical notion or change of mind *given to sudden caprices and random fancies*
Synonyms bee, boutade, conceit, crank, crotchet, fancy, freak, humor, maggot, megrim, notion,
vagary, whigmaleerie, whim, whimsy
Related Word mood, temper, vein; contrariety, inconsistency, perversity; characteristic, foible,
habit, mannerism, peculiarity, trait, trick
captious, Synonyms CRITICAL 1, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, critic, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical
Related Word demanding, exacting, finicky; contrary, perverse; irritable, peevish, petulant,
snappish, snappy, testy
Contrasted Words judicious, sensible, wise; rational, reasonable; knowing, knowledgeable Antonyms appreciative
captivate, Synonyms ATTRACT 1, allure, bewitch, charm, draw, enchant, fascinate, magnetize,
take, wile
Related Word delight, gratify, please; enthrall, grip, hold, mesmerize, spellbind Antonyms repulse
categorical, Synonyms ULTIMATE 3, absolute
Contrasted Words conjectural, hypothetical, supposititious; conditional, contingent, dependent, relative
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Synonyms EXPLICIT, clean-cut, clear-cut, definite, definitive, express, specific, unambiguous Related Word certain, positive, sure; direct, downright, forthright Contrasted Words ambiguous; doubtful, dubious, problematic, questionable
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Synonyms POSITIVE 1, decided, definite, unequivocal
catholic, Synonyms UNIVERSAL 2, cosmic, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, global, planetary, worldwide
Related Word comprehensive, inclusive; general, generic, indeterminate; extensive, large-scale Antonyms parochial; provincial
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Synonyms ECLECTIC 2
charlatan, one who pretends unscrupulously to knowledge or skill *the medical establishment called him a charlatan*
Synonyms mountebank, quack, quacksalver, quackster, saltimbanque; compare IMPOSTOR Related Word bluff, four-flusher, sham
chasm, Synonyms GULF 2, abysm, abyss
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Synonyms RAVINE, arroyo, cleft, clough, clove, gap, gorge, gulch
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Synonyms OMISSION, blank, overlook, oversight, preterition, pretermission, skip
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Synonyms SCHISM 3, cleavage, cleft, split
nag, to find fault incessantly *stop nagging her over nothing*
Synonyms carp (at), fuss, henpeck, peck (at)
Related Word annoy, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease, worry; bother, irk, vex; badger, bait, chivy, heckle, hector, hound, ride; egg, goad, needle, prod, urge
Idioms give a bad (or hard) time, pick at (or on), take it out on Contrasted Words commend, compliment, praise; acclaim, applaud, hail
nautical, Synonyms MARINE 2, maritime, navigational
negligent, failing to give proper attention or care * negligent in taking care of the children* *a negligent man, prone to forgetfulness*
Synonyms behindhand, careless, delinquent, derelict, discinct, disregardful, lax, neglectful,
regardless, remiss, slack
Related Word heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unheedful, unthinking; incurious, indifferent, unconcerned; slipshod, slovenly
Contrasted Words rigid, rigorous, strict; attentive, considerate, heedful, thoughtful; careful, exact, fussy, meticulous, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous
Antonyms attentive
nettle, Synonyms IRRITATE, exasperate, get, huff, peeve, pique, provoke, put out, rile, roil
Related Word agitate, discompose, disturb, perturb, upset
nonchalant, Synonyms COOL 2, collected, composed, disimpassioned, imperturbable, unflappable, unruffled
Related Word cheerful, glad, lighthearted; easy, effortless, light, smooth Contrasted Words anxious, careful, concerned, solicitous, worried
nonplus, 1 to cause to be at a total loss as to how to act or decide *was totally nonplussed by the economic problems*
Synonyms beat, buffalo, get, stick, stump; compare PUZZLE
Related Word baffle, frustrate, stymie, thwart; confound, perplex; mystify; dumbfound; overcome, throw; paralyze; confuse, flurry, fluster, muddle, rattle
Idioms put (or drive) to one's wit's end, put up a tree (or stump), throw on one's beam end
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Synonyms STAGGER 5, boggle, dumbfound
Related Word faze, rattle; baffle, balk, frustrate
novice, one who is just entering a field in which he has no previous experience *a novice in the theater --had never even had a walk-on role*
Synonyms apprentice, beginner, boot, colt, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newcomer, novitiate, prentice, punk, recruit, rookie, tenderfoot, tyro
Related Word amateur; cub; postulant, probationer; greenhorn, greeny; learner, student, trainee, undergraduate
Contrasted Words expert, pro, professional
Antonyms doyen, old hand, old-timer, veteran
oblige, Synonyms FORCE 2, coerce, compel, concuss, constrain, make, shotgun
2 to do a service or courtesy *you will oblige me greatly if you will get there on time* Synonyms accommodate, convenience, favor
Related Word gratify, please; avail, benefit, profit; aid, assist, contribute, help Contrasted Words bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, trouble
Antonyms disoblige
oblivious, Synonyms FORGETFUL, unmindful, unwitting
Related Word absorbed, unaware, unconscious
Idioms turned off
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Synonyms IGNORANT 2, incognizant, inconversant, unacquainted, unaware, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unwitting
obsolete, dead, disused, extinct, outmoded, outworn, superseded
obstinate, unwilling to submit (as to reason or control) *he had an obstinate determination to live as he pleased*
Synonyms bullheaded, closed-minded, deaf, hardheaded, headstrong, incompliant, intractable, intransigent, muleheaded, muley, mulish, pertinacious, perverse, pervicacious, pigheaded,
refractory, self-willed, ||sot, stiff, stiff-necked, stubborn, tough, unpliable, unpliant, unyielding, willful, wrongheaded; compare UNRULY 1
Related Word resistant, unsubmissive, withstanding; contrary, crabbed, recalcitrant, renitent;
inexorable, inflexible, obdurate; opinionated; resolute, staunch, steadfast, unbudging Contrasted Words acquiescent, complaisant, compliant; submissive, yielding; agreeable, cooperative, willing
Antonyms pliable, pliant
obtuse, Synonyms DULL 6, blunt
occult, Synonyms RECONDITE, abstruse, acroamatic, deep, esoteric, heavy, hermetic, orphic, profound, secret
Related Word arcane, mysterious; cabalistic, mystical, supernatural; eerie, unearthly, weird
ode
offset, Synonyms COMPENSATE 1, atone (for), balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, make up, outweigh, redeem, set off
Related Word check, stop
officious, Synonyms IMPERTINENT 2, busy, intrusive, meddlesome, ||nebby, obtrusive, polypragmatic
onerous, imposing great hardship or strain *found the care of his old mother an onerous task* Synonyms burdensome, demanding, exacting, exigent, grievous, oppressive, superincumbent, taxing, tough, trying, weighty
Related Word arduous, difficult, hard, laborious; heavy, hefty, ponderous; cumbersome, unruly, unwieldy; driving, heavy-handed
Contrasted Words easy, effortless; facile, light, simple, smooth, unexacting, untaxing
opportune, Synonyms TIMELY 1, auspicious, favorable, propitious, prosperous, seasonable, timeous, well-timed
Related Word appropriate, felicitous, happy
Antonyms inopportune
opprobrious, Synonyms ABUSIVE, contumelious, invective, scurrile, scurrilous, truculent,
vituperative, vituperatory, vituperous
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Synonyms INFAMOUS 1, ill-famed, notorious
outlandish, Synonyms BARBARIC 1, barbarian, barbarous, graceless, tasteless, vulgar, wild Related Word foreign, strange
2
Synonyms STRANGE 4, bizarre, curious, odd, peculiar, queer, singular, uncouth, unusual, weird
Related Word monstrous; outr*
Contrasted Words commonplace, everyday
3 marked by sharp departure from the traditional or usual *men who wear beads, earrings, and other outlandish ornaments*
Synonyms far-out, kinky, outr*, ultra; compare EXTREME 3
Related Word bizarre, extravagant, outrageous, wild; unconventional, unorthodox
Contrasted Words conservative, conventional; compliant, conformable; moderate
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Synonyms BACK 1, frontier, remote, unsettled
outstrip, 1 to go faster than *could outstrip even the fastest horse*
Synonyms distance, outdistance, outpace, outrun, outspeed
Related Word outfly, outsoar, outwing; outfoot, outrace, outride; outsail; outtravel; lose, shake off
Contrasted Words follow, trail; drag, hang back, lag
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Synonyms SURPASS 1, beat, best, better, exceed, excel, outdo, outshine, top, transcend
overture(序曲), Synonyms INTRODUCTION, exordium, foreword, preamble, preface, prelude, prelusion, proem, prolegomenon, prologue
paean, encomium, tribute
pall, bore, ennui, tire, weary
palliate, to give a speciously fine appearance to what is erroneous, base, or evil *did not try to conceal or palliate his errors*
Synonyms blanch (over), extenuate, gloss (over), gloze (over), prettify, sugarcoat, varnish, veneer, white, whiten, whitewash
Related Word alleviate, lighten, mitigate; condone, excuse; moderate, qualify, soften, temper;
camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, mask; hush (up) Idioms paper over the cracks, put a good face on (or upon)
palter, Synonyms LIE, equivocate, falsify, fib, prevaricate
Related Word evade, fence
Idioms play false, play fast and loose
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Synonyms HAGGLE 2, bargain, chaffer, dicker, higgle, huckster
pantry, larder, buttery
sturdy, Synonyms STRONG 2, stalwart, stout, tenacious, tough
Related Word sound, substantial
Antonyms decrepit
stygian, Synonyms INFERNAL 2, avernal, cimmerian, hellish, pandemoniac, plutonian, plutonic
subdue, Synonyms CONQUER 1, bear down, beat down, crush, defeat, overpower, reduce, subjugate, vanquish
Related Word extinguish, put down, quash, quell, quench, squelch, suppress
subliminal
subsume, Synonyms INCLUDE, comprehend, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, have, involve, take in
subterfuge, Synonyms DECEPTION 1, cheat, chicane, chicanery, dishonesty, double-dealing, dupery, fraud, highbinding, trickery
succor, Synonyms HELP 1, aid, assist, assistance, comfort, hand, lift, relief, secours, support
Related Word ministration, ministry; maintenance, nourishment, sustenance
sulky(生气的), Synonyms SULLEN, ||chuffy, crabbed, ||dorty, dour, gloomy, glum, morose,
saturnine, surly
Related Word cranky, testy, touchy; cantankerous, irritable, querulous Idioms having the sulks
sumptuous, Synonyms LUXURIOUS 3, Capuan, deluxe, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial,
plush, upholstered
Related Word gorgeous, resplendent, splendid, superb; lavish, rich
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Synonyms GRAND 2, gorgeous, impressive, lavish, luxurious, splendid Related Word awe-inspiring, grandiose, imposing
superintend, Synonyms SUPERVISE, boss, chaperon, overlook, oversee, quarterback, survey
supple, Synonyms ELASTIC 1, flexible, resilient, springy, stretch, stretchy, whippy Antonyms stiff
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Synonyms PLASTIC, adaptable, ductile, malleable, moldable, pliable, pliant
3 showing freedom and ease of bodily movement (as in bending or twisting) *the light supple spring of a cat*
Synonyms limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome
Related Word agile, graceful, willowy, wiry, withy
Contrasted Words awkward, clumsy, gawky, maladroit, unhandy; ungraceful; arthritic, creaky, decrepit
Antonyms stiff
surfeit, Synonyms EXCESS 1, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plethora, superfluity, surplus, surplusage
surrogate, Synonyms SUBSTITUTE 1, alternate, backup, fill-in, locum tenens, pinch hitter, replacement, stand-in, sub, succedaneum
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Synonyms RESOURCE 3, dernier ressort, expediency, expedient, makeshift, recourse, refuge, resort, stopgap, substitute
suspend, Synonyms EXCLUDE, bar, bate, count out, debar, eliminate, except, rule out
2
Synonyms DEFER, delay, hold off, hold up, intermit, postpone, prorogue, put off, shelve, stay Related Word arrest, check, interrupt; cease, discontinue, stop
Idioms lay on the table, put on the shelf
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Synonyms HANG 1, dangle, depend, sling
swill, Synonyms DRINK 3, booze, guzzle, ||lush (up), soak, swig, swizzle, tank up, tipple, tope
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Synonyms CONSUME 5, polish off, punish, put away, put down, shift
tackle, Synonyms ATTACK 2, bang away (at)
Related Word take on, undertake; plunge into, set about
Idioms get on the job, put one's shoulder to the wheel, start the ball rolling Contrasted Words avoid, delay, hesitate, put off
tame, domestic, domesticated, subdued, submissive
tart, Synonyms SOUR 1, acerb, acerbic, acetose, acid, acidulous, dry
Related Word piquant, pungent
Antonyms flat
taut, Synonyms TIGHT 3, close, tense
Related Word firm, trim; stretched
Contrasted Words flabby; relaxed
Antonyms slack
tawdry, Synonyms GAUDY, blatant, brazen, chintzy, flashy, garish, glaring, loud, meretricious, tinsel
Related Word common, sleazy; flaring, screaming
temerity ,conspicuous or flagrant boldness (as in speech, behavior, or action) *had the temerity to order an attack when hopelessly outnumbered*
Synonyms assurance, audacity, brashness, hardihood, hardiness, nerve
Related Word daring, foolhardiness, heedlessness, rashness, recklessness, venturesomeness; impetuosity, precipitateness; impertinence, intrusiveness
Contrasted Words deliberation, judgment, judiciousness, prudence; heed, heedfulness Antonyms caution
tendentious,Synonyms BIASED 2, colored, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, prepossessed, unindifferent, warped
terse, Synonyms CONCISE, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, curt, laconic, short, succinct, summary
Related Word close, compact; lean, precise; clear-cut, crisp, incisive; taut Contrasted Words circuitous; pleonastic, redundant, repetitious
testy, Synonyms IRASCIBLE, choleric, cranky, cross, quick-tempered, ratty, ||stomachy, temperish, tetchy, touchy
Related Word annoyed, exasperated, grouchy, irritable, *pissed off
tiff, Synonyms QUARREL, altercation, bickering, dispute, falling-out, miff, rhubarb, run-in, spat, squabble
tint, Synonyms COLOR 1, cast, hue, shade, tinge, tone
Related Word tincture, touch; coloration, pigmentation; dye, stain, wash
titular, Synonyms NOMINAL, formal, so-called
toil, Synonyms LABOR 1, drive, moil, strain, strive, tug, work
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Synonyms DRUDGE, grind, grub, ||muck, plod, slave, slog
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Synonyms PLOD 1, footslog, ||plodge, plunther, slog, slop, stodge, ||trash, trudge
tonic tongs, topple torpid torpor
toy, Synonyms KNICKKNACK, bauble, bibelot, curio, gewgaw, gimcrack, novelty, trifle, trinket, whatnot
2 something for a child to play with *games, dolls, and other toys*
Synonyms ||die, ||play-pretty, plaything, ||pretty
tract传单, Synonyms AREA 1, belt, region, territory, zone
Related Word amplitude, spread, stretch; part, portion, section, sector
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Synonyms LOT 3, parcel, plat, plot
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Synonyms FOOTPRINT, footstep, spoor, step, track, vestige
transient, lasting or staying only a short time *features of a transient culture now extinct* Synonyms ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentaneous, momentary, passing, short-lived, transitory, volatile; compare TEMPORARY
Related Word deciduous, flitting, unstable; temporal, temporary; insubstantial Idioms as transient as the clouds, here today and gone tomorrow
Contrasted Words lasting, perdurable, permanent, substantial; durable, stable Antonyms perpetual
travesty歪曲模仿, 曲解, Synonyms CARICATURE 2, burlesque, parody, take off
Related Word mimicry; distortion, exaggeration; ridicule
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Synonyms MOCKERY 2, burlesque, caricature, farce, mock, sham
trenchant, Synonyms INCISIVE, biting, clear-cut, crisp, cutting, ingoing, penetrating Related Word piercing, probing, razor-sharp; sarcastic, sardonic, satiric; acrid; piquant, poignant, pungent
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Synonyms CAUSTIC 1, mordacious, mordant, salty, scathing
Related Word scalding, scorching
trite, used or occurring so often as to have lost interest, freshness, or force *unrequited love has become a trite theme*
Synonyms bathetic, chain, clich*, clich*d, commonplace, corny, hack, hackneyed, musty, old hat, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stereotypical, threadbare, timeworn, tired, twice-told, warmed-over, well-worn, worn-out
Related Word common, ordinary; banal, dull, flat, jejune, mildewed, vapid; bedridden, drained, exhausted, used-up; bromidic, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made, set, stock Contrasted Words first, new, seminal; novel, unique; creative, imaginative; uncopied; memorable;
distinctive
Antonyms fresh, original
turbulent, 1 given to insubordination and disorder *a turbulent and irresponsible group* Synonyms boisterous, disorderly, rambunctious, raucous, rowdy, rowdydowdy, rowdyish, rumbustious, termagant, tumultuous, unruly; compare UNRULY 1
Related Word mutinous; fast, roisterous, uncontrollable, uninhibited, wild; clamorous, loudmouthed; brawling, quarrelsome, rough, roughhouse; hell-for-leather, rip-roaring, tempestuous
Contrasted Words calm, placid, quiet, tranquil; controlled, orderly, peaceful, restrained
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Synonyms WILD 6, blustering, blustery, ||coarse, furious, raging, rough, stormful, stormy, tempestuous
Related Word agitated, convulsed, moiling, stirred up; boiling, roily, ruffled, swirling; howling, riotous, roaring; tempest-tossed
turpitude
unctuous, Synonyms FATTY 2, greasy, oily, oleaginous
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Synonyms FULSOME, oily, oleaginous, slick, smarmy, soapy, unctious
palatable, agreeable or pleasant especially to the sense of taste *a palatable meal* Synonyms aperitive, appetizing, flavorsome, good-tasting, ||gusty, mouth-watering, relishing, sapid, saporous, savorous, savorsome, savory, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, toothy Related Word delectable, delicious, delightful, luscious, scrumptious, yummy; tempting; saporific Contrasted Words bad-tasting, disagreeable, distasteful, ill-flavored, unappetizing Antonyms unpalatable
unpalatable
unqualified 绝对,无限制的, Synonyms UNFIT 2, disqualified, incapable, incompetent,
ineligible, unequipped, unfitted
Related Word unskilled; unsuitable
Antonyms qualified
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Synonyms SURE 2, abiding, enduring, firm, never-failing, steadfast, steady, unfaltering, unquestioning, wholehearted
Related Word unconditional, unlimited, unreserved; clear, explicit, express; entire, perfect, utter Antonyms qualified
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Synonyms UTTER, absolute, blasted, blessed, complete, confounded, gross, infernal, out-and-out, rank
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Synonyms PURE 2, absolute, perfect, sheer, simple, unadulterated, unalloyed, undiluted, unmitigated, unmixed
cliche, Synonyms COMMONPLACE, banality, bromide, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, rubber stamp, shibboleth, tag, truism
chortle, Synonyms LAUGH, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, hee-haw, snicker, ||sniggle, tehee, titter
contumacy, Synonyms DEFIANCE 2, contempt, despite, recalcitrance, stubbornness
decoy, decree, defalcate, defray, defunct
defunct ,Synonyms DEAD 1, asleep, cold, deceased, departed, exanimate, extinct, inanimate, late, lifeless
Related Word inactive, inert
Antonyms alive; live
2
Synonyms EXTINCT 2, bygone, dead, departed, gone, lost, vanished
Antonyms surviving
demure, Synonyms SHY 1, backward, bashful, coy, diffident, modest, retiring, timid, unassertive, unassured
Related Word decent, decorous, nice, proper, seemly; prim; earnest, serious, solemn; close, reserved, reticent, silent
Contrasted Words impertinent, intrusive, meddlesome, obtrusive, officious; brash, forward, unbashful, unretiring
depute, Synonyms DELEGATE, commission, deputize
despoil, Synonyms RAVAGE, depredate, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, pillage, sack, spoliate, waste
disheveled, Synonyms SLOVENLY 1, ill-kempt, messy, raunchy, slipshod, sloppy, uncombed, unfastidious, unkempt, untidy
disport, Synonyms PLAY 1, diversion, fun, recreation, sport
Related Word jollity, merriment
Embitter, Synonyms EXACERBATE, acerbate, envenom
Related Word bitter, sour
Enthrall, Synonyms ENSLAVE, subjugate
Related Word master, subdue
Contrasted Words emancipate
2 to hold spellbound *told mystery stories that enthralled his playmates* Synonyms catch up, fascinate, grip, hold, mesmerize, spellbind
Related Word absorb, engage, preoccupy; charm, enchant, engross, intrigue Contrasted Words bore, ennui, weary
Estuary, delta
Execration, Synonyms BLASPHEMY 1, cursing, cussing, imprecation, profanity, swearing
Fray, Synonyms BRAWL 2, affray, broil, donnybrook, fight, fracas, melee, row, ruction, scuffle Related Word contention, discord, dissension, strife
2
Synonyms CLASH 2, affray, brush, melee, mellay, scrimmage, skirmish
Freak, Synonyms CAPRICE, bee, boutade, conceit, crotchet, fancy, humor, megrim, vagary, whim
2 one that is physically abnormal *pitiful freaks displayed in sideshows* Synonyms abortion, lusus, miscreation, monster, monstrosity
Related Word aberration, chimera, malconformation, malformation, misshape, mosaic, mutation, sport; abnormality, anomaly, curiosity, oddity; rara avis, rarity; androgyne, hermaphrodite Idioms freak of nature
3
Synonyms ENTHUSIAST, bigot, bug, fanatic, fiend, maniac, nut, zealot
Gaunt, Synonyms LEAN, angular, bony, lank, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare
2
Synonyms EMACIATED, cadaverous, skeletal, wasted
Antonyms bloated
Ocular, Synonyms VISUAL 2, seeable, viewable, visible
2
Synonyms VISUAL 1, optic, optical, visional
Perverse, Synonyms VICIOUS 2, corrupt, degenerate, depraved, miscreant, nefarious, putrid, rotten, unhealthy, villainous
2
Synonyms OBSTINATE, headstrong, mulish, pertinacious, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, wrongheaded, unyielding
Related Word cranky, irritable, unreasonable
3
Synonyms CONTRARY 3, balky, cross-grained, froward, ornery, restive, wayward, wrongheaded
Pervert, Synonyms DEBASE 1, animalize, bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, corrupt, debauch,
demoralize, deprave, warp
Related Word abuse, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, outrage; ruin
2
Synonyms ABUSE 2, misapply, misemploy, mishandle, misimprove, misuse, prostitute Related Word ill-treat
3
Synonyms MISREPRESENT, belie, color, distort, falsify, garble, miscolor, misstate, twist, warp
Pillage, Synonyms RAVAGE, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, sack,
spoliate, waste
Related Word encroach, invade, trespass; appropriate, arrogate, confiscate, usurp
Idioms lay waste
2
Synonyms STEAL 1, appropriate, filch, lift, nab, pilfer, pinch, purloin, swipe, thieve
Pilfer, Synonyms STEAL 1, appropriate, ||cop, filch, lift, pinch, purloin, snitch, swipe, thieve
Phony, Synonyms COUNTERFEIT, bogus, brummagen, fake, false, pinchbeck, pseudo, sham, snide, spurious
Pettish, Synonyms IRRITABLE, fractious, fretful, huffy, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, waspish, waspy
Poach
Prance, Synonyms SASHAY, flounce, mince, ||prink, strut
2
Synonyms DANCE 1, foot (it), hoof (it), step, tread
Prehensile, Synonyms COVETOUS, acquisitive, desirous, grabby, grasping, greedy, itchy
Puberty, Synonyms YOUTH 1, adolescence, greenness, juvenility, pubescence, spring, springtide, springtime, youthfulness, youthhood
Puffery, Synonyms PUBLICITY, advertising, buildup, hype, press-agentry, promotion
Putrefy, Synonyms DECAY, break down, crumble, decompose, disintegrate, molder, rot, spoil, taint, turn
Qualm, a misgiving about what one is going to do *had qualms about the secret meeting* Synonyms compunction, conscience, demur, scruple, squeam
Related Word apprehension, foreboding, misgiving, presentiment; doubt, mistrust, suspicion, uncertainty; agitation, insecurity, perturbation; objection, remonstrance; reluctance, unwillingness; impatience, nervousness, unease, uneasiness
Contrasted Words aplomb, assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-possession; certainty, certitude, conviction
Ravish, Synonyms TRANSPORT 2, enrapture, enravish, entrance, trance
2
Synonyms RAPE, defile, deflorate, deflower, force, outrage, spoil, violate
Remit, Synonyms EXCUSE 1, condone, forgive, pardon
2
Synonyms DEFER, delay, hold off, hold up, intermit, postpone, prorogue, put off, shelve, stay
3
Synonyms SEND 1, address, consign, dispatch, forward, route, ship, transmit
Renunciation, voluntary surrender or putting aside of something desired or desirable *led a life of total renunciation as a monk*
Synonyms abnegation, denial, renouncement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation Related Word abjurement, eschewing, forbearing, forgoing, forswearing, sacrifice, self-sacrifice; rejection, repudiation, surrender, yielding
Contrasted Words gripping, holding, keeping
Antonyms retention
Retrench, Synonyms SHORTEN, abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, cut back, slash
Scrape, 1 to rub or slide against something that is often harsh, rough, or sharp *chalk scraping on the blackboard*
Synonyms grate, rasp, scratch
Related Word graze, rub, scuff; abrade, chafe, grind
2
Synonyms SCRIMP, pinch, screw, skimp, ||skinch, spare, stint
3 to make one's way with great difficulty or succeed by a narrow margin *the student barely scraped through the exam*
Synonyms shave
Related Word struggle; get along, get by
Idioms cut it (or the corner) pretty close, have a close shave
Sedition, an offense against official ruling authority (as a government or sovereign) to which one owes allegiance *considered the defense industry strike to be overt sedition* Synonyms seditiousness, treason
Related Word alienation, disaffection, estrangement; action, protest, strike; coup, coup d'etat, putsch; insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, revolution, uprising; quislingism Contrasted Words allegiance, fealty, fidelity, loyalty; duty, respect, responsibility
Shabby, 1 being ill-kept and showing signs of wear and tear *a shabby neighborhood full of depressing tenements*
Synonyms bedraggled, broken-down, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, disreputable, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, moth-eaten, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shoddy, sleazy, slipshod, squalid, tacky, tagrag, tattered, threadbare, tired
Related Word disfigured, dog-eared; decaying, deteriorated, deteriorating; ramshackle, ratty, rickety; bare, miserable, neglected, poor, poverty-stricken; sordid; worm-eaten; outworn, worn-out; abandoned, desolate, ruined, ruinous, wrecked
Idioms gone to seed
Contrasted Words neat, spick-and-span, tidy, trig, trim, well-kept; brand-new, fresh, new; unused Antonyms spruce
2
Synonyms CONTEMPTIBLE, beggarly, cheap, despicable, despisable, mean, pitiable, scummy, scurvy, sorry
3
Synonyms DISREPUTABLE 1, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, ignominious, inglorious, shady, shameful, shoddy, unrespectable
Sinister, seriously threatening disaster *a sinister plot*
Synonyms baleful, malefic, maleficent, malign; compare OMINOUS
Related Word fateful, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, unpropitious; apocalyptic, dire, doomful, ill-boding, threatening; lowering, menacing; evil, malicious Contrasted Words harmless, innocent, innocuous
Skittish, Synonyms GIDDY 1, bird-witted, dizzy, empty-headed, flighty, frivolous, harebrained, light-headed, rattlebrained, scatterbrained
Related Word irresponsible, undependable, unreliable
2
Synonyms EXCITABLE, agitable, alarmable, combustible, edgy, skittery, startlish, volatile Related Word restive; nervous
Slaver, Synonyms DROOL 2, dribble, drivel, salivate, slabber, slobber
2
Synonyms FAWN, apple-polish, bootlick, cower, cringe, grovel, honey (up), kowtow, toady, truckle
Slobber, Synonyms DROOL 2, dribble, drivel, salivate, slabber, slaver
Spoor, Synonyms FOOTPRINT, footstep, step, track, tract, vestige
Sprawl, 1 to lie or sit with arms and legs stretched out carelessly and awkwardly *the dog lay sprawled out on the sofa*
Synonyms drape, ||scamble, ||spelder, spraddle, spread-eagle
Related Word loll, lounge; slouch, slump
2 to grow, develop, or spread irregularly and without apparent design or plan *the city sprawls down the whole coast*
Synonyms ramble, scramble, sprangle, spread-eagle, straddle, straggle
Related Word extend, stretch; spread
Trammel, Synonyms ENTANGLE 3, embrangle, enmesh, ensnarl
2
Synonyms HAMPER, clog, curb, entrammel, fetter, hobble, hog-tie, leash, shackle, tie Related Word circumscribe, confine, limit; bind, enchain, handcuff, manacle
3
Synonyms STULTIFY, constipate, stagnate, stifle
Treachery, betrayal of a trust or confidence *corruption in public office is little short of treachery*
Synonyms disloyalty, faithlessness, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness, treason; compare INFIDELITY
Related Word falseheartedness, falseness; double cross, double-dealing; sellout Idioms dirty pool, dirty work at the crossroads
Contrasted Words incorruptibility, reliability; probity, rectitude, uprightness; constancy, fidelity, loyalty, staunchness
Antonyms dependability; trustworthiness
Clarion, Synonyms FAIR 2, clear, cloudless, fine, pleasant, rainless, sunny, sunshiny, unclouded, undarkened
Collate, Synonyms COMPARE 2, bracket, contrast
Condescend, Synonyms STOOP 1, deign
Confidential, Synonyms PRIVATE 2, closet, hushed, inside
2
Synonyms FAMILIAR 1, chummy, close, intimate, thick
Related Word secret; tried, trustworthy, trusty
Congeal, Synonyms HARDEN 1, cake, concrete, dry, indurate, set, solidify Related Word chill, cool, freeze
2
Synonyms COAGULATE, clot, gel, gelate, gelatinize, jell, jellify, jelly, set
Conjure,变魔术 Synonyms BEG, appeal, beseech, brace, crave, entreat, implore, importune, pray, supplicate
Conspicuous, Synonyms CLEAR 5, apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, obvious, open-and-shut, openhanded, patent, plain
2
Synonyms NOTICEABLE, arresting, arrestive, marked, outstanding, pointed, prominent, remarkable, salient, striking
Related Word celebrated, eminent, illustrious; showy
Contrasted Words common, everyday, ordinary; covert, secret; concealed, hidden Antonyms inconspicuous
Constraint, Synonyms FORCE 4, coercion, compulsion, duress, violence Related Word repression, suppression; driving, impelling, impulsion; goad, motive, spring, spur
2
Synonyms RESTRICTION 2, circumscription, confinement, constrainment, cramp, restraint
Contention, Synonyms DISCORD, conflict, difference, disaccord, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, strife, variance
Related Word altercation, quarrel, squabble, wrangle; argument, controversy, dispute Contrasted Words agreement, coincidence, concurrence
2
Synonyms ARGUMENT 2, controversy, dispute, hurrah, rumpus
3
Synonyms THESIS 1, contestation
Contiguous, Synonyms ADJACENT 3, abutting, adjoining, approximal, bordering, conterminous, juxtaposed, touching
Related Word close, near, nearby, nigh
Contrasted Words apart, separate; distant, remote
2
Synonyms NEIGHBORING, adjacent, close-at-hand, close-by, near-at-hand, nearby
Cosset, Synonyms CARESS, cuddle, dandle, fondle, love, pet
2
Synonyms BABY, cater (to), cocker, coddle, humor, indulge, mollycoddle, ||much, pamper, spoil
Countenance, Synonyms ENCOURAGE 2, advocate, favor
Related Word applaud, commend; back, champion, support, uphold
Contrasted Words deride, ridicule; criticize, reprehend, reprobate; reproach, reprove Antonyms discountenance
2
Synonyms APPROVE 1, accept, approbate, favor, go (for), hold (with
Cringe, Synonyms FAWN, apple-polish, bootlick, ||brownnose, cower, grovel, kowtow, slaver, toady, truckle
Related Word blench, flinch, quail, recoil, wince; ||croodle, crouch, shrink Idioms bow and scrape, eat dirt
Paucity, Synonyms SCARCITY, insufficience, insufficiency, poverty, ||scant, scarceness Related Word fewness
Pauper, a person having no financial resources except those derived from charity Synonyms beggar, down-and-out
Related Word have-not, indigent; ||casual; almsman, lazarus
Contrasted Words have, millionaire, plutocrat
Penchant, Synonyms LEANING 2, bent, disposition, inclination, inclining, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency
Penury, Synonyms POVERTY 1, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, poorness, privation, want
Antonyms luxury
Pertinacious, Synonyms OBSTINATE, bullheaded, headstrong, mulish, perverse, refractory, self-willed, stubborn, willful, unyielding
Related Word fixed, unshakable; dogged, tenacious
Petulant, Synonyms IRRITABLE, fractious, fretful, huffy, peevish, pettish, querulous, snappish, waspish, waspy
Related Word grouchy, sulky
Flax, linen
Malapropism: verbal --gaffe:social
Stream:eddy---trend:anomaly
sober
vernacular 方言
groom, jockey
understudy:star---deputy副警长: sheriff,---curate:vicar
pique, Synonyms IRRITATE, aggravate, exasperate, get, nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rile, roil
2
Synonyms PROVOKE 4, excite, galvanize, innervate, innerve, motivate, move, quicken, rouse, stimulate
Related Word prick, punch; ignite
3
Synonyms PRIDE, plume, preen
Plangent, Synonyms RESONANT, consonant, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, vibrant
Ploy, Synonyms TRICK 1, artifice, device, feint, gambit, maneuver, play, ruse, stratagem, wile
Plunge, Synonyms THRUST 2, dig, drive, ram, run, sink, stab, stick
2 to thrust or cast oneself or something into or as if into deep water *plunged into the crowd*
Synonyms burst, dive, drive, lunge, pitch, ||splunge; compare RUSH 1
Related Word dip, immerse, submerge; plump, plunk; propel, push, shove, thrust; boil, charge, fling, rush, tear
Idioms plunge headlong
Contrasted Words ease, glide, slide, slip
3
Synonyms FALL 2, drop, go down, keel (over), pitch, slump, topple, tumble Idioms take a plunge
4
Synonyms PLUMMET, dip, drop, fall, nose-dive, skid, tumble
Idioms drop like a rock, take a downward plunge
Posit, Synonyms PRESUPPOSE, assume, postulate, premise, presume
Potentate, potential, potentiate,
Prate, Synonyms CHAT 1, babble, chatter, clack, gab, gabble, jaw, prattle, yak, yakety-yak
2
Synonyms BOAST, blow, brag, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, gasconade, mouth, puff, redomontade,
vaunt
3
Synonyms BABBLE 2, blabber, blather, drivel, drool, gabble, prattle, twaddl
Prelude, Synonyms INTRODUCTION, exordium, foreword, overture, preamble, preface, prelusion, proem, prolegomenon, prologue
pristine
profuse, proffered in or characterized by great abundance *profuse apologies* *a profuse flow of blood*
Synonyms exuberant, lavish, lush, luxuriant, opulent, prodigal, profusive, riotous Related Word abundant, copious; abounding, swarming, teeming; excessive, extravagant, immoderate; bounteous, bountiful, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded Contrasted Words exiguous, meager, scrimpy, skimpy, slight, small, sparse Antonyms scant, scanty
Promulgate, Synonyms DECLARE 1, advertise, announce, annunciate, broadcast, disseminate, proclaim, publish, sound, toot
Propitiate讨好,抚慰, Synonyms PACIFY, appease, assuage, conciliate, mollify, placate, sweeten
Related Word adapt, adjust, conform, reconcile; content, satisfy; intercede, mediate
Propitious, Synonyms FAVORABLE 5, auspicious, benign, bright, dexter, fortunate, white Antonyms unpropitious; adverse
2
Synonyms TIMELY 1, auspicious, favorable, opportune, prosperous, seasonable, timeous, well-timed
Antonyms unpropitious
3
Synonyms GOOD 1, advantageous, benefic, beneficial, brave, favorable, favoring, helpful, toward, useful
Antonyms unpropitious; adverse
Reprobate, Synonyms VILLAIN 1, *bastard, blackguard, heel, lowlife, miscreant, roperipe, scoundrel, ||slubberdegullion, *son of a bitch
Evince, Synonyms SHOW 2, demonstrate, evidence, exhibit, illustrate, manifest, mark, ostend, proclaim
Related Word argue, attest, bespeak, betoken, confirm, indicate, prove; display, exhibit, expose, illustrate, signify
Contrasted Words repress, suppress; conceal, hide
2
Synonyms EDUCE 1, elicit, evoke, extort, extract, milk
Related Word bring (about), cause; provoke, stimulate
Submissive, Synonyms TAME, domestic, domesticated, domitae naturae, subdued Related Word complying, conformable, obeying; bowing down, unerect; menial, servile, slavish, subservient
Antonyms rebellious
2
Synonyms PASSIVE 2, acquiescent, nonresistant, nonresisting, resigned, unresistant, unresisting, yielding
permissive
spate, Synonyms FLOOD 2, cataract, deluge, flooding, inundation, niagara, overflow, pour, spate, torrent
2
Synonyms DISASTER, calamity, catastrophe, misadventure, tragedy, woe(s
Factious, Synonyms INSUBORDINATE, contumacious, insurgent, mutinous, rebellious, seditious
Related Word contending, fighting, warring; belligerent, contentious, quarrelsome; alienated, disaffected, estranged
Contrasted Words companionable, gregarious, social; acquiescent, compliant; faithful, loyal, true Antonyms cooperative
Scad, a great number or abundance *scads of opportunities*
Synonyms gob(s), heap, jillion, load(s), million, oodles, quantities, ream(s), ||rimption(s), slather(s), slew, thousand, trillion, wad(s); compare MUCH, MULTITUDE 1
Related Word great deal, lot
Contrasted Words few, handful, scattering, sprinkle, sprinkling
Mandatory, containing or constituting a command *mandatory entrance examinations* Synonyms compulsatory, compulsory, imperative, imperious, obligatory, required Related Word essential, indispensable, irremissible, necessary, needful, requisite; binding, commanding, compelling, de rigueur; forced, involuntary
Contrasted Words discretionary, elective, voluntary
Antonyms optional
Rig, Synonyms FURNISH 1, accouter, appoint, arm, equip, fit out, gear, outfit, turn out
Repudiate, Synonyms DECLINE 4, disapprove, dismiss, refuse, reject, reprobate, spurn, turn
down
Contrasted Words acknowledge, admit, avow, confess, own
Antonyms adopt
2
Synonyms DEFECT, apostatize, desert, rat, renounce, tergiversate, tergiverse, turn
3
Synonyms DISCLAIM, deny, disacknowledge, disallow, disavow, disown Related Word abandon, desert, forsake; cast, discard
Contrasted Words allow, concede, grant
Antonyms own
Lubricant, 1 : a substance (as grease) capable of reducing friction, heat, and wear when introduced as a film between solid surfaces
2 : something that lessens or prevents friction or difficulty *a social lubricant*
杔ubricant adjective
Malleable, 1 : capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers
2 a : capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences b : having a capacity for adaptive change
synonyms see PLASTIC
杕aleaily \*ma-l*-*-*bi-l*-t*, *mal-y*-, *ma-l*-\ noun
Desultory, Synonyms FITFUL, catchy, on-again-off-again, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty Related Word erratic; shifting, vagrant, wavering
Contrasted Words constant, invariable, unchanging, unfailing
Antonyms steady
2
Synonyms RANDOM, aimless, casual, designless, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, purposeless, unconsidered, unplanned
Related Word fitful, spasmodic; disorderly, unmethodical, unsystematic; capricious, fickle, inconstant, mercurial
Contrasted Words orderly, systematic
Antonyms assiduous; methodical
Palpable, Synonyms TANGIBLE 1, tactile, touchable
2
Synonyms PERCEPTIBLE, appreciable, detectable, discernible, observable, sensible, tangible Related Word apparent, ostensible, seeming; believable, colorable, credible, plausible
3
Synonyms CLEAR 5, apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, obvious, patent, plain, straightforward, unequivocal
Related Word certain, positive, sure; arresting, noticeable, remarkable, striking
Contrasted Words doubtful, dubious, problematic, questionable
Antonyms impalpable
Rampart, Synonyms BULWARK, bastion, breastwork, parapet
Levee, Synonyms WHARF, berth, dock, jetty, pier, quay, slip
2
Synonyms RED-LIGHT DISTRICT, stew(s), tenderloin
Pliable, Synonyms PLASTIC, adaptable, ductile, malleable, moldable, pliant, supple Related Word manipulable, manipulatable
Contrasted Words unadaptable, unflexible, unmalleable, unpliant
Antonyms unpliable
Edible, suitable for use as food *edible plant products*
Synonyms comestible, eatable, esculent
Related Word digestible; nourishing, nutritious, nutritive; palatable, savory, succulent, tasty, toothsome
Antonyms inedible
Lament, Synonyms DEPLORE 1, bemoan, bewail, grieve, moan, weep
Antonyms exult; rejoice
Tedious, Synonyms IRKSOME, boresome, boring, drudging, tiresome, tiring
2
Synonyms ARID 2, bromidic, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, insipid, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome
Related Word dragging, mortal, slow, tiresome
Torpor, Synonyms LETHARGY 1, coma, dullness, hebetude, languor, lassitude, sleep, stupor, torpidity, torpidness
Related Word stolidity; passivity
Antonyms activity; animation
Staid, Synonyms SERIOUS 1, earnest, grave, no-nonsense, sedate, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber, weighty
Related Word decorous, formal; collected, composed, cool; priggish, smug; starchy, stuffy Contrasted Words breezy, devil-may-care, easy, frivolous; debonair, jaunty; playful, sportive; hoydenish, rakish; fresh, irreverent; uncontrolled, unrestrained
Antonyms unstaid
Bruit, Synonyms DECLARE 1, advertise, announce, annunciate, blaze (abroad), blazon, broadcast, proclaim, promulgate, publish
Related Word hint, intimate, rumor, suggest
Epilogue, 1 the final part that rounds out or completes the design of a nondramatic literary work *the author wrote an epilogue to his book explaining that some of his earlier impressions were wrong*
Synonyms afterword coda
Related Word postlude; conclusion, ending
Contrasted Words prelude; foreword, introduction, preface
Antonyms prologue
2 something that resembles an epilogue in rounding out or giving point to something else *an incident that can be regarded as an epilogue to the history of Roman Britain* Synonyms sequel
Related Word follow-up, postscript
Antonyms prologue
Ratiocination, Synonyms INFERENCE 1, deduction, illation, judgment
Antonyms intuition
2
Synonyms INFERENCE 2, conclusion, deduction, illation, judgment, sequitur
Fiety, 1 : the quality or state of being pious: as a : fidelity to natural obligations (as to parents) b : dutifulness in religion : DEVOUTNESS
2 : an act inspired by piety
3 : a conventional belief or standard : ORTHODOXY
synonyms see FIDELITY
clout, Synonyms CUFF, box, buffet, chop, ||paste, poke, punch, slap, smack, sock
2
Synonyms PULL 2, ||drag, in, influence
Equanimity, the characteristic quality of one who is self-possessed and not easily disturbed or perturbed *faced disaster with bland equanimity*
Synonyms ataraxy, calmness, composure, coolness, imperturbability, phlegm, sangfroid, self-possession; compare CONFIDENCE 2
Related Word balance, equilibrium, equipoise, poise; aplomb, assurance, confidence, self-assurance; detachment; placidity, serenity, tranquillity
Contrasted Words alarm, anxiety, apprehension; excitability, nervousness; agitation,
discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, perturbation
Counterfeit, being an imitation intended to mislead or deceive *counterfeit money* *counterfeit sympathy*
Synonyms bogus, brummagem, fake, false, phony, pinchbeck, pseudo, sham, snide, spurious;
compare SPURIOUS 3
Related Word feigned, pretended, simulated; deceptive, delusive, delusory, misleading; fraudulent
Contrasted Words authentic, veritable; actual, real, true; unquestionable, valid Antonyms bona fide, genuine
baleful
baleful, Synonyms SINISTER, malefic, maleficent, malign
Related Word deadly, evil, harmful, pernicious; bodeful, foreboding; unfavorable, unpromising Contrasted Words auspicious, benign, favorable, promising, propitious; advantageous, beneficial Antonyms beneficent
2
Synonyms OMINOUS, apocalyptic, baneful, dire, direful, fateful, ill-boding, ill-omened, threatening, unpropitious
Menace, Synonyms THREATEN
Related Word alarm, frighten, scare; endanger, torment; loom, lower
2
Synonyms ENDANGER, compromise, hazard, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, peril, risk
Solicitous, Synonyms EAGER, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, impatient, keen, raring, thirsty
Sturdy, Synonyms STRONG 2, stalwart, stout, tenacious, tough
Related Word sound, substantial
Antonyms decrepit
Flit, Synonyms HURRY 2, fleet, fly, hasten, run, rush, speed, ||tatter, whiz, zip
2 to move briskly, irregularly, and usually intermittently *the hummingbird flitted from flower to flower*
Synonyms dance, flicker, flitter, flutter, hover
Related Word dart, float, fly, scud, skim
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Synonyms FLY 4, fleet, sail, sweep, wing
deploy
relinquish, to let out of one's possession or control completely *few leaders willingly relinquish power*
Synonyms abandon, cede, give up, hand over, lay down, leave, resign, surrender, ||turn up, waive, yield; compare ABDICATE 1
Related Word lay aside; quit, throw up; abdicate, renounce; desert, forsake; abnegate, forbear, forgo, sacrifice; cast, discard, shed
Antonyms keep
Bake, Synonyms BURN 3, broil, cook, melt, roast, scorch, swelter
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Synonyms FIRE 6, burn, kiln
Convert, 1 to induce (another or others) to accept the validity of something (as a belief, course of action, or point of view) *Chinese missionaries converted many Japanese to Buddhism* Synonyms bring, lead, move, persuade
Related Word redeem, reform, save; bend, bias, incline, sway; actuate, budge, impel; proselyte, proselytize
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Synonyms TRANSFORM, change, commute, metamorphose, transfigure, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose, transubstantiate
Related Word fabricate, forge, make, manufacture; apply, employ, use, utilize
Laud, Synonyms PRAISE 2, bless, celebrate, cry up, eulogize, extol, glorify, hymn, magnify, panegyrize
Related Word adore, revere, reverence, venerate, worship; admire; flatter Contrasted Words blame, condemn; anathematize, curse, damn, execrate, objurgate Antonyms revile
Foster, Synonyms NURSE 2, cherish, cultivate, nourish, nursle, nurture
Related Word back, champion, support, uphold; entertain, harbor, house, lodge, shelter; accommodate, assist, favor, help, oblige
Contrasted Words combat, fight, oppose, resist, withstand; curb, inhibit, restrain; ban, forbid, interdict, prohibit; abuse, disregard, neglect
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Synonyms ADVANCE 1, encourage, forward, further, promote, serve
Complimentary, Synonyms FREE 5, chargeless, costless, gratis, gratuitous
Fulsome, too obviously extravagant or ingratiating to be accepted as genuine or sincere *offering sickeningly fulsome praise*
Synonyms oily, oleaginous, slick, smarmy, soapy, unctious, unctuous
Related Word canting, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, sanctimonious; bland, glib, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, ingratiating, mealy-mouthed, oily-tongued, smooth, smooth-tongued, suave; buttery, flattering, wheedling; excessive, extravagant, exuberant, lavish, profuse; cloying, satiating, sating; bombastic, grandiloquent, magniloquent Contrasted Words earnest, genuine, heartfelt, hearty, sincere, true, truthful, unfeigned, wholehearted, whole-souled
Conceit, Synonyms IDEA, apprehension, concept, conception, image, impression, intellection,
notion, perception, thought
2 an attitude of regarding oneself with favor *his constant boasting was an indication of conceit*
Synonyms amour propre, complacence, complacency, conceitedness, consequence, egoism, egotism, narcissism, outrecuidance, pride, self-admiration, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-exaltation, self-glory, self-importance, self-love, self-opinion, self-pride, swelled head, swellheadedness, vainglory, vainness, vanity
Related Word assurance, pomposity, self-partiality, smugness, stuffiness
Contrasted Words humbleness, humility, self-depreciation, unpretentiousness Antonyms modesty
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Synonyms CAPRICE, bee, boutade, crotchet, fancy, freak, humor, megrim, vagary, whim
Soporific, tending to induce sleep *a soporific drug* *soporific prose*
Synonyms hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, sleepy, slumberous, somnifacient, somniferous, somnific, somnolent, somnorific, soporiferous, soporifical
Related Word calming, quietening, sedative, tranquilizing; anesthetic, deadening, numbing Contrasted Words arousing, waking; invigorating, stimulating
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Synonyms SLEEPY 1, dozy, drowsy, nodding, ||peepy, ||sloomy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent
Probity, Synonyms GOODNESS, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue
Fulminate, denounce, condemn, reprehend, rail, inveigh, censure, upbraid, chastise, chide, belabor, lambaste, vituperate, castigate, reprimand, berate, reprove, rebuke, revile, excoriate, reproach, opprobrium, impugn, flay, pan, stricture,
Commend, extol, exalt, acclaim, laud, eulogize, accolade, applaud, glorify, rave=tout, tribite, plaudits, approbation, archid, encomium,
Panegyric, eulogy, hymn, paean, carol, psalm,
Inveigle, Synonyms LURE, allure, bait, decoy, entice, entrap, lead on, seduce, tempt, toll
Supplicate, Synonyms BEG, appeal, beseech, crave, entreat, implore, importune, invoke, plead, pray
Idioms ask on bended knee, ||come down on one's marrowbones
Incipient, ,Synonyms INITIAL 1, beginning, inceptive, initiative, initiatory, introductory, nascent
Arbitrator, Synonyms MODERATOR, mediator
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Synonyms JUDGE 1, arbiter, referee, umpire
Rehabitate, Synonyms RESTORE 3, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, rejuvenate, restitute
Intransigent, Synonyms OBSTINATE, incompliant, intractable, pertinacious, self-willed, tough, stubborn, willful, unpliable, unyielding
Tractable, Synonyms OBEDIENT, amenable, biddable, docile, ||docious
Related Word flexible, pliable, pliant; manageable; subdued
Contrasted Words headstrong, unmanageable, willful; obstinate, refractory, stubborn Antonyms intractable, unruly
Rash, 1 acting, done, or expressed with undue haste or disregard for consequences *don't do anything rash* *that was a very rash statement*
Synonyms brash, hasty, hotheaded, ill-advised, incautious, incogitant, inconsiderate, mad-brained, madcap, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unwary; compare CARELESS 1
Related Word abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate, precipitous, sudden; foolhardy, foolish, impulsive, silly; careless, heedless, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious, unthinking, unwise Contrasted Words careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, wary; advised, considered, deliberate, designed, premeditated, studied; calm, cool, level-headed
Antonyms calculating
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Synonyms ADVENTUROUS, adventuresome, audacious, daredevil, daring, foolhardy, reckless, temerarious, venturesome, venturous
Restless
Fastidious, 1 acting, done, or expressed with undue haste or disregard for consequences *don't do anything rash* *that was a very rash statement*
Synonyms brash, hasty, hotheaded, ill-advised, incautious, incogitant, inconsiderate, mad-brained, madcap, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unwary; compare CARELESS 1
Related Word abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate, precipitous, sudden; foolhardy, foolish, impulsive, silly; careless, heedless, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious, unthinking, unwise Contrasted Words careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, wary; advised, considered, deliberate, designed, premeditated, studied; calm, cool, level-headed
Antonyms calculating indiscriminate
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Synonyms ADVENTUROUS, adventuresome, audacious, daredevil, daring, foolhardy, reckless, temerarious, venturesome, venturous
Brook, Synonyms BEAR 10, abide, endure, go, stand, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, tolerate
Primp, Synonyms DRESS UP 1, deck (out), doll out, doll up, fix up, gussy up, slick, smarten (up), spiff, spruce (up
Vapid, vaporous
Gloat, Synonyms GAZE 1, bore, gape, ||gaup (or gawp), gawk, glare, goggle, peer, stare Contrasted Words begrudge, covet, envy, grudge
Retard, Synonyms DELAY 1, bog (down), decelerate, detain, embog, hang up, mire, set back, slacken, slow (up or down)
Related Word decrease, lessen, reduce; clog, fetter, hamper; baffle, balk Antonyms accelerate; advance
Dispatch, Synonyms HASTE 1, celerity, expedition, expeditiousness, hurry, hustle, rustle, speed, speediness, swiftness
Contrasted Words dawdling, loitering, procrastination
Antonyms delay
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Synonyms ALACRITY, expedition, goodwill, promptitude, readiness
Related Word diligence, industriousness
Serene, Synonyms CALM 2, collected, composed, easy, easygoing, placid, poised, self-composed, self-possessed, tranquil
Related Word noiseless, quiet, still; quiescent, resting; undisturbed Contrasted Words agitated, disquieted, upset
Inspired, brilliant, antonyms, mediocrity, derivative, perfunctory,
Denial, 1 refusal to satisfy a request or desire *denial of his visiting privileges* Synonyms disallowance, refusal, rejection
Related Word declination, nonacceptance
Contrasted Words allowing, conceding, grant, letting; leave, permission, sufferance
2 refusal to admit the truth *his denial that he took the money*
Synonyms contradiction, gainsaying, negation
Related Word controversion, disproof, rebuttal, refutal, refutation; refusal, rejection, repudiation Contrasted Words acknowledgment, avowal, confession; affirmation, assertion, confirmation Antonyms admission
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Synonyms RENUNCIATION, abnegation, renouncement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation
Related Word abstaining, refraining
Contrasted Words indulgence, self-indulgence; overdoing, overindulgence
Rancor, Synonyms ENMITY, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, hostility Related Word bitterness, vindictiveness, virulence
Supple, Synonyms ELASTIC 1, flexible, resilient, springy, stretch, stretchy, whippy Antonyms stiff
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Synonyms PLASTIC, adaptable, ductile, malleable, moldable, pliable, pliant
3 showing freedom and ease of bodily movement (as in bending or twisting) *the light supple spring of a cat*
Synonyms limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome
Related Word agile, graceful, willowy, wiry, withy
Contrasted Words awkward, clumsy, gawky, maladroit, unhandy; ungraceful; arthritic, creaky, decrepit
Antonyms stiff
Curb, Synonyms HAMPER, clog, entrammel, fetter, hobble, hog-tie, leash, shackle, tie, tie up
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Synonyms DENY 3, abstain, constrain, hold back, refrain
Related Word repress, suppress
Antonyms goad
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Synonyms RESTRAIN 1, bit, bridle, check, constrain, hold back, hold down, hold in, inhibit, withhold
Related Word fetter, hamper, hog-tie, manacle, shackle
Idioms hold in leash, keep a tight rein on
Contrasted Words unbridle, unleash
Antonyms spur
Stupor, Synonyms LETHARGY 1, coma, dullness, hebetude, languor, lassitude, sleep, slumber,
torpidity, torpor
Related Word sopor; anesthesia, insensibility
Fondness, Synonyms LOVE 1, affection, attachment, devotion
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Synonyms APPETITE 3, inclination, liking, soft spot, taste, weakness
Related Word partiality, predilection; relish
Contrasted Words disgust; hate
Coalesce, Synonyms JOIN 1, associate, bracket, combine, conjoin, connect, link, relate, unite, wed
Related Word adhere, cleave, cling, stick; blend, fuse, merge, mingle, mix
Colloquial, Synonyms VERNACULAR, vulgar, vulgate
Gimmick, Synonyms GADGET 1, concern, gizmo, jigger, widget
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Synonyms TRICK 1, artifice, feint, gambit, maneuver, ploy, ruse, stratagem, whizzer, wile Related Word cheat, counterfeit, deceit, dodge, fake, humbug, imposture; fun, game, jest, method, sport
Pedestrian, Synonyms DULL 9, banausic, blah, ||dim, dreary, humdrum, monotone, monotonous, plodding, stodgy
Related Word commonplace, platitudinous, truistic; banal, inane, jejune, wishy-washy; heavy
Palliate, to give a speciously fine appearance to what is erroneous, base, or evil *did not try to conceal or palliate his errors*
Synonyms blanch (over), extenuate, gloss (over), gloze (over), prettify, sugarcoat, varnish, veneer, white, whiten, whitewash
Related Word alleviate, lighten, mitigate; condone, excuse; moderate, qualify, soften, temper; camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, mask; hush (up) Idioms paper over the cracks, put a good face on (or upon
Plain, 1 free from all ostentation or superficial embellishment *just give the plain facts* Synonyms discreet, dry, homely, inelaborate, modest, simple, unadorned, unbeautified, undecorated, unelaborate, unembellished, unembroidered, ungarnished, unornamented, unostentatious, unpretentious
Related Word muted, restrained; austere, bald, bare, severe, spartan, stark, unluxurious; homespun
Contrasted Words adorned, beautified, elaborate, embellished, embroidered, exaggerated;
high-flown, ostentatious, pretentious; flamboyant, rococo
Antonyms rich
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Synonyms STRAIGHT 3, neat, pure, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed
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Synonyms CLEAR 5, apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, obvious, palpable, patent, unambiguous, unequivocal
Related Word broad, unmistakable; legible
Antonyms abstruse
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Synonyms FRANK, candid, open, openhearted, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, unvarnished
Related Word unfeigned; abrupt
Idioms plain and open
5 lacking allure without being positively ugly *a plain woman, drably dressed* Synonyms homely, unalluring, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, uncomely, unhandsome, unpretty
Related Word plain-featured; inelegant; ordinary, plain Jane, unremarkable; ill-favored Idioms not much for looks, not much to look at, short on looks
Contrasted Words alluring, attractive, beautiful, comely, handsome; elegant; striking; knockout, sensational
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Synonyms ORDINARY 1, everyday, plain Jane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, usual, workaday
Talkative, given to talk or talking *a talkative, sociable man*
Synonyms babblative, chatty, gabby, garrulous, loose-lipped, loose-tongued, loquacious, mouthy, multiloquent, multiloquious, talky, tonguey; compare GLIB
Related Word articulate, eloquent, fluent; vocal, voluble; buzzy, gossipy Contrasted Words closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative; speechless Antonyms silent
Mete out执行
Relinquish, to let out of one's possession or control completely *few leaders willingly relinquish power*
Synonyms abandon, cede, give up, hand over, lay down, leave, resign, surrender, ||turn up, waive, yield; compare ABDICATE 1
Related Word lay aside; quit, throw up; abdicate, renounce; desert, forsake; abnegate, forbear, forgo, sacrifice; cast, discard, shed
Antonyms keep
stodgy
preclude, Synonyms PREVENT 2, avert, deter, forestall, forfend, obviate, rule out, stave off, ward
Related Word cease, discontinue, quit, stop
Countenance, Synonyms LOOK 2, cast, expression, face, visage
Idioms (the) cut of one's jib
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Synonyms FACE 1, ||dial, features, ||kisser, ||map, mug, ||pan, phiz, ||puss, visage
Rekindle Synonyms REVIVE 3, reactivate, renew, renovate, resurrect, resuscitate, retrieve, revitalize, revivify
Turbid, clouded with or as if with roiled sediment *a turbid stream*
Synonyms muddy, riley, roily
Related Word dark, dense, obscure; mucky, thick; clouded, cloudy, murky, opaque, smoky; dull Contrasted Words translucent; lucid, pellucid, transparent; crystal, crystalline; clean, pure, undefiled
Antonyms clear, limpid
Pungent, sharp and stimulating to the mind or senses *his pungent wit*
Synonyms peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, snappy, spicy, zesty
Related Word acute, keen, salt, salty, sharp; biting, bitter, cutting, hot, incisive, trenchant; exciting, provocative, stimulating; rich
Contrasted Words banal, corny, dull, flat, hackneyed, insipid, old hat, platitudinous, prosaic, prosy, stale, stodgy, tasteless, unimaginative, uninteresting
Antonyms bland
Guzzle, Synonyms DRINK 3, booze, imbibe, liquor (up), soak, swig, swill, swizzle, tank up, tipple
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Synonyms GULP, bolt, cram, englut, gobble, ingurgitate, slop, slosh, wolf
Fatuous, Synonyms SIMPLE 3, asinine, brainless, foolish, sheepheaded, silly, unwitty, weak-headed, weak-minded, witless
Related Word idiotic, imbecile, moronic; besotted, fond, infatuated, insensate; absurd, dumb, silly, stupid
Contrasted Words judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, wise
Antonyms sensible
Ingenuous, Synonyms NATURAL 5, artless, naive, simple, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied
Contrasted Words covert, furtive, stealthy, surreptitious, underhand; artful, crafty, foxy, guileful,
insidious, sly, tricky, wily
Antonyms disingenuous
Guileless, Synonyms NATURAL 5, artless, ingenuous, naive, unaffected, unartful, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, untutored
Antonyms guileful
Imperious, Synonyms MASTERFUL 1, bossy, domineering, high-handed, imperative, imperial, magisterial, overbearing, peremptory
Related Word heavy-handed, oppressive, strict, stringent; absolute, arbitrary Contrasted Words considerate, easy, gentle, kindly
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Synonyms MANDATORY, compulsatory, compulsory, imperative, obligatory, required
Noisome, Synonyms UNWHOLESOME 1, insalubrious, insalutary, noxious, sickly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsalutary
Antonyms wholesome
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Synonyms MALODOROUS 1, fetid, funky, fusty, musty, nidorous, putrid, rancid, rank, stinking Related Word dirty, filthy, squalid; loathsome, revolting
Antonyms balmy
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Synonyms OFFENSIVE, disgusting, foul, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, repulsive, sickening, vile
Abrogate, Synonyms ANNUL 4, discharge, dissolve, quash, vacate, void Related Word abate, extinguish
Contrasted Words establish, found; confirm, ratify
Antonyms institute (as by enacting or decreeing)
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Synonyms ABOLISH 1, abate, annihilate, annul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, undo, vitiate Related Word extinguish; blot out, cancel, obliterate; ruin, wreck Contrasted Words support, uphold
Antonyms establish, fix (as a right, a quality, or a custom)
Extemporaneous, composed, devised, or done at the moment rather than beforehand *made an extemporaneous speech after the dinner*
Synonyms autoschediastic, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, offhand, spur-of-the-moment, unrehearsed, unstudied; compare UNINTENTIONAL Related Word casual, informal; unprepared, unthought-out; impulsive, snap, spontaneous
Idioms off the cuff, on the spur of the moment
Contrasted Words designed, planned, prepared, projected, schemed, thought-out; considered, deliberated, premeditated, studied
Bent, 1 a : a strong inclination or interest : BIAS b : a special inclination or capacity : TALENT
2 : capacity of endurance
3 : a transverse framework (as in a bridge) to carry lateral as well as vertical loads synonyms see GIFT
liability, Synonyms DEBT 3, arrear(s), arrearage, due, indebtedness
Antonyms asset
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Synonyms INDEBTEDNESS 1, arrearage, debt, obligation
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Synonyms EXPOSURE, openness, vulnerability, vulnerableness
Prodigious, Synonyms MARVELOUS 1, amazing, astonishing, astounding, miraculous, spectacular, staggering, stupendous, surprising, wonderful
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Synonyms MONSTROUS 1, cracking, fantastic, massive, monumental, mortal, stupendous, towering, tremendous
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Synonyms HUGE, colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, mammoth, massive, mighty, tremendous, vast
Corroborate, Synonyms CONFIRM 2, authenticate, bear out, justify, substantiate, validate, verify
Contrasted Words invalidate, negate, nullify
Antonyms contradict
Concur, Synonyms UNITE 2, band, coadjute, combine, conjoin, cooperate, league Related Word accord, agree, harmonize, jibe
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Synonyms AGREE 3, coincide, concert, concord, harmonize
Related Word accede, acquiesce, assent, consent
Antonyms contend; altercate
Crass, Synonyms COARSE 3, crude, gross, inelegant, raw, rough, rude, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar
Related Word churlish, loutish
Antonyms refined
Vulgar, Synonyms VERNACULAR, colloquial, vulgate
Related Word conversational, spoken; idiomatic
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Synonyms PUBLIC 4, general, popular
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Synonyms COARSE 3, crass, crude, gross, inelegant, raw, rough, rude, uncouth, unrefined
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Synonyms OBSCENE 2, barnyard, dirty, gross, indecent, nasty, profane, ribald, scatological, smutty
Related Word base, low, vile; loathsome, offensive, repulsive, revolting; indecorous, indelicate, uncouth
Contrasted Words decent, delicate, refined; high-minded, lofty, noble
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Synonyms BARBARIC 1, barbarian, barbarous, graceless, outlandish, tasteless, wild Related Word inelegant, ungraceful; improper, incorrect, unseemly; uncouth, unpolished, unrefined
Idioms in very poor taste
Contrasted Words elegant, graceful, coorect, proper, seemly,
Florid, Synonyms RHETORICAL, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, grandiloquent, magniloquent, overblown, sonorous
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Synonyms ORNATE, baroque, flamboyant, luscious, rich, rococo
Related Word ostentatious, pretentious, showy
Contrasted Words bald, bare, barren; austere, unadorned
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Synonyms RUDDY 1, flush, flushed, full-blooded, glowing, rubicund, sanguine Antonyms pallid
Adjourn, Synonyms DEFER, delay, hold off, hold over, hold up, postpone, put off, shelve, stay, suspend
Related Word curb, hold back, restrain
Contrasted Words advance, expedite, further, promote
2 to bring to a formal close *adjourn the legislature*
Synonyms dissolve, prorogate, prorogue, recess, rise, terminate
Related Word break up, close, disband, discontinue, disperse; stay, suspend Contrasted Words open; mobilize, muster, rally
Antonyms convene, convoke
Commodious, Synonyms SPACIOUS, ample, capacious, roomy, wide
Contrasted Words cramped, narrow, strait
Antonyms incommodious
Cramped, having insufficient size or capacity *a cramped cubbyhole of an office* Synonyms confined, cramp, incommodious, squeezy, ||tucked up
Related Word close, narrow, tight, two-by-four; little, minute, small, tiny Contrasted Words commodious, unconfined
Antonyms spacious
Frustrate, to come between a person and his aim or desire or to defeat another's plan *frustrated their plot*
Synonyms baffle, balk, beat, bilk, buffalo, circumvent, dash, disappoint, foil, ruin, thwart; compare OUTWIT
Related Word annul, cancel, counteract, negative, neutralize, nullify; anticipate, forestall; conquer, defeat, lick, overcome; forbid, inhibit, prohibit; obviate, preclude, prevent; bar, block, hinder, impede, obstruct; arrest, check, halt
Idioms cut the ground from under one, dash one's hope, defeat expectation, throw a monkey wrench into the works, upset one's applecart
Contrasted Words accomplish, achieve, bring about, effect, perform; advance, forward, further, promote; abet, incite, instigate
Antonyms fulfill
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Synonyms NEUTRALIZE, annul, cancel (out), counteract, countercheck, negate, negative,
Abet, Synonyms INCITE, foment, instigate, provoke, raise, set, set on, stir (up), whip (up) Related Word egg, exhort, goad, prod, spur, urge; advocate, countenance, encourage, endorse Contrasted Words forbid, prevent, prohibit; debar, deter, discourage
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Synonyms HELP 1, aid, assist, benefact, do for, help out, stead
Aspersion, Synonyms ANIMADVERSION, obloquy, reflection, slam, slur, stricture Related Word abuse, invective, muck, vituperation; backbiting, calumny, detraction, scandal, slander; lampoon, libel, pasquinade, skit, squib
Contrasted Words eulogy, extolling, laudation, praise; acclaim, acclamation, applause, plaudits; commendation, compliment
Prate, Synonyms CHAT 1, babble, chatter, clack, gab, gabble, jaw, prattle, yak, yakety-yak
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Synonyms BOAST, blow, brag, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, gasconade, mouth, puff, redomontade, vaunt
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Synonyms BABBLE 2, blabber, blather, drivel, drool, gabble, prattle, twaddl
Saunter, to walk slowly in an idle or leisurely manner *sauntered about the streets, stopping in at various shops*
Synonyms amble, bummel, drift, linger, mope, mosey, ||muck, stroll; compare WANDER 1
Related Word meander, ramble, roam, rove, spatiate, ||stravage, wander; loiter, tarry
Contrasted Words bustle, chase, hustle, scurry, tear
Meander, Synonyms WANDER 1, drift, gallivant, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, traipse, vagabond
Related Word snake, turn, twist, wind
Murky, Synonyms DARK 1, caliginous, dim, dun, dusk, dusky, gloomy, obscure, somber, tenebrous
Related Word glooming, glowering, lowering
Contrasted Words bright, brilliant, effulgent, radiant
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Synonyms OBSCURE 3, ambiguous, amphibological, double-edged, double-faced, dusky, equivocal, nubilous, opaque, sibylline
3 having visible material in suspension *a murky liquid*
Synonyms cloudy, mucky
Related Word muddy, roily, turbid
Contrasted Words clear, limpid, lucent, translucent, transparent; clean, fresh, pure, unpolluted
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Synonyms DULL 8, drab, muddy, subfusc
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Synonyms DIRTY 1, black, filthy, foul, grubby, mucky, nasty, sordid, squalid, unclean
Apposite, Synonyms RELEVANT, ad rem, applicable, applicative, applicatory, apropos, germane, material, pertinent, pointful
Related Word felicitous, happy; opportune, pat, seasonable, timely Idioms to the point (or purpose)
Contrasted Words awkward, inept; casual, haphazard, hit-or-miss, random Antonyms inapposite, inapt
Plummet, to decrease suddenly and sharply in financial value or price *the stock plummeted 60 points when the story broke*
Synonyms dip, drop, fall, nose-dive, plunge, skid, tumble
Related Word decline, decrease, descend, sink; dump; precipitate; collapse, crash Idioms take a sudden downturn (or downtrend)
Contrasted Words increase; rise; shoot up
Antonyms skyrocket, soar
Extemporize, Synonyms IMPROVISE, ad-lib, improvisate
Related Word dash off, knock off, toss off
Idioms do offhand, play (it) by ear
Contrasted Words cook up, plan, prepare, think out
Fuss, Synonyms STIR 1, ado, bustle, flurry, furore, pother, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind Related Word fluster, perturbation; bother, flap, stew; racket, rumpus; haste, hurry, speed
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Synonyms COMMOTION 3, ||catouse, coil, furore, hurrah, ruckus, rumpus, shindig, shindy, to-do
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Synonyms QUARREL, altercation, beef, bickering, controversy, dispute, falling-out, fight, hassle, miff
Presumption, Synonyms EFFRONTERY, brashness, brass, cheek, chutzpah, confidence, ||crust, face, gall, nerve
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Synonyms PRESUPPOSITION 1, assumption
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Synonyms ASSUMPTION 2, apriorism, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, supposition, thesis
Sinewy, Synonyms MUSCULAR 1, fibrous, ropy, stringy, wiry
Related Word strong, sturdy, tenacious, tough
Antonyms flabby
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Synonyms MUSCULAR 2, athletic, brawny
Exhaustive, testing all possibilities or considering all the elements of *an exhaustive investigation was soon under way*
Synonyms complete, full-dress, thorough, thoroughgoing, whole-hog
Related Word all-encompassing, all-out, comprehensive, full-blown, full-scale, out-and-out, profound, total; intensive, radical, sweeping
Contrasted Words cursory, shallow; incomplete, partial; slipshod, unthorough Antonyms superficial
Exact, Synonyms EXTORT 1, gouge, pinch, screw, shake down, squeeze, wrench, wrest, wring
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Synonyms LEVY, assess, impose, put (on or upon)
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Synonyms DEMAND 1, call, challenge, claim, postulate, require, requisition, solicit Related Word coerce, compel, constrain, force, oblige; extort, extract, squeeze, wrest, wring
Scurvy, Synonyms CONTEMPTIBLE, beggarly, cheap, despicable, despisable, mean, pitiable, scummy, shabby, sorry
Related Word base, low, vile distinct to scurry
Miserable, Synonyms WOEFUL 1, afflicted, doleful, dolent, dolorous, rueful, ruthful, sorrowful, wretched
Related Word despairing, despondent, forlorn, hopeless; piteous, pitiable, pitiful; melancholy Contrasted Words cheerful, glad, happy, joyful, joyous, lighthearted
Digress, Synonyms SWERVE 2, depart, deviate, diverge
2 to turn aside from the main subject of attention or course of argument *he digressed into too many side issues*
Synonyms depart, divagate, diverge, excurse, ramble, stray, wander
Related Word drift, roam
Idioms get off the subject, go off on a tangent
Contrasted Words advance, proceed, progress
Chicanery, Synonyms DECEPTION 1, chicane, dishonesty, double-dealing, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, highbinding, sharp practice, trickery
Related Word intrigue, machination, plot; furtiveness, surreptitiousness, underhandedness Contrasted Words forthrightness, straightforwardness; honesty, honor, integrity, probity
Tactless, marked by a lack of tact *his tactless remark hurt her*
Synonyms brash, impolitic, maladroit, undiplomatic, unpolitic, untactful Related Word impolite, inconsiderate, indelicate, rude; bungling, inept Contrasted Words diplomatic, polite, tactical
Antonyms tactful
Clever,
Synonyms SKILLFUL 2, adroit, good, pretty, ||skilly, wicked, workmanlike, workmanly
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Synonyms DEXTEROUS 1, adroit, deft, handy, neat-handed, nimble
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Synonyms INTELLIGENT 2, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, knowing, quick-witted, ready-witted, sharp, smart
Related Word apt, prompt, quick, ready; able, capable, competent; all-around, many-sided, versatile
Idioms quick as a flash, sharp (or smart) as a whip
Contrasted Words asinine, fatuous, foolish, simple
Antonyms dull
4 highly skilled in devising or contriving *very clever about getting her own way*
Synonyms adroit, canny, ||coony, cunning, dexterous, ingenious, ||sleighty, slim, sly; compare
SKILLFUL 2
Related Word able, adept, expert, handy, masterly, proficient, skilled, skillful; capable, competent, qualified; crafty, deceitful, slick, tricky
Contrasted Words awkward, clumsy, gauche, inept, maladroit; dilatory, laggard, slow, sluggish; incapable, incompetent, inept, unqualified
5 pleasing because of aptness, sparkle, and usually wit *delighted her audience with a series of clever comparisons*
Synonyms good, scintillating, smart, sprightly
Related Word bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, sparkling; piquant, racy, salty; fanciful, whimsical; amusing, entertaining, pleasing; facetious, funny, humorous, witty; laughable, risible Contrasted Words drab, dull, humdrum, monotonous, stodgy; barren, empty, inane; fatuous, pointless; absurd, foolish, nonsensical, ridiculous
Antonyms stupid
Affable, Synonyms GRACIOUS 1, congenial, cordial, genial, sociable, ||sonsy
Related Word courteous, polite; suave, urbane; loquacious, talkative
Contrasted Words crabbed, glum, surly; reticent, withdrawn; silent, taciturn, uncommunicative Antonyms reserved
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Synonyms GENTLE 2, amiable, genial
Disobedient, refusing or neglecting to obey *the disobedient child refused to come in*
Synonyms naughty, obstreperous, unruly; compare CONTRARY 3, NAUGHTY 1
Related Word headstrong, recalcitrant, willful; contumacious, insubordinate, rebellious
Contrasted Words amenable, biddable, docile, tractable; decorous, good, well-behaved
Antonyms obedient
Miserable, Synonyms WOEFUL 1, afflicted, doleful, dolent, dolorous, rueful, ruthful, sorrowful, wretched
Related Word despairing, despondent, forlorn, hopeless; piteous, pitiable, pitiful; melancholy Contrasted Words cheerful, glad, happy, joyful, joyous, lighthearted
Derision, Synonyms LAUGHINGSTOCK, butt, jest, jestee, joke, mock, mockery, pilgarlic, sport
Shirk, Synonyms SNEAK, creep, gumshoe, lurk, pussyfoot, skulk, slink, slip, ||snake, steal
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Synonyms DODGE 1, duck, fence, parry, sidestep
Related Word bilk, burke; bypass, double, eschew, get around; shuffle off, shun
Dread, Synonyms FEAR 1, alarm, consternation, dismay, fright, horror, panic, terror, trepidation, trepidity
Consolidation, Synonyms UNIFICATION, coadunation, coalition, combination, melding, mergence, merger, merging, union
2 a union of two or more businesses *consolidation is often accompanied by a new corporate name*
Synonyms amalgamation, merger
Antonyms dissolution
Secure, Synonyms CONFIDENT 1, assured, sanguine, self-assured, self-confident, undoubtful
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Synonyms SAFE 2, riskless
Related Word firm, stable, strong
Contrasted Words open, wide-open; assailable, weak; dangerous, precarious Antonyms insecure
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Synonyms RELIABLE 1, dependable, tried, tried and true, trustworthy, trusty
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Synonyms FAST 4, firm, fixed, set, tenacious, tight
Related Word strong; iron
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Synonyms STABLE 4, firm, solid, sound
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Synonyms SURE 1, fast, firm, stable, staunch, strong
Related Word established, settled; balanced
Contrasted Words precarious; unbalanced, unstable, wobbly
Antonyms insecure
Grate, Synonyms SCRAPE 1, rasp, scratch
Related Word abrade, bark, chafe, fray, gall, scuff, skin
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Synonyms IRRITATE, aggravate, burn (up), gall, get, nettle, peeve, pique, provoke, rile
Parch, Synonyms DRY 1, dehydrate, desiccate, exsiccate, sear
Steep, Synonyms SOAK 1, drench, impregnate, insteep, saturate, sodden, ||sog, sop, souse, waterlog
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Synonyms INFUSE 1, imbue, ingrain, inoculate, invest, leaven, suffuse
Recumbent, Synonyms PRONE 4, decumbent, flat, procumbent, prostrate, reclining Antonyms erect, upright
Natty, Synonyms DAPPER, bandbox, doggish, doggy, sassy, sparkish, spiffy, spruce, sprucy, well-groomed
Sloppy, Synonyms SLIPSHOD 3, botchy, careless, messy, slapdash, slovenly, unthorough,
untidy
Related Word amateurish; mediocre; awkward, clumsy; poor
Antonyms exact, precise
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Synonyms SLOVENLY 1, careless, disheveled, ill-kempt, messy, slipshod, unfastidious,
unkempt, unneat, untidy
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Synonyms EFFUSIVE, gushing, gushy, slobbering, slobbery
Related Word soft; oversentimental
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Synonyms INTOXICATED 1, ||boozy, ||canned, disguised, drunk, inebriated, ||lushed,
muddled, pixilated, ||plastered
Exigent, Synonyms PRESSING, burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, imperative, importunate,
insistent, instant, urgent
Related Word acute; necessary; menacing, threatening
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Synonyms ONEROUS, burdensome, demanding, exacting, grievous, oppressive, superincumbent, taxing, tough, weighty
Defer, to delay an action or proceeding *decided to defer voting until the next meeting* Synonyms adjourn, delay, hold off, hold over, hold up, intermit, lay over, postpone, prorogue,
put off, put over, remit, shelve, stand over, stay, suspend, waive
Related Word detain, retard, slow; block, hinder, impede, obstruct; stall; extend, lengthen, prolong, protract
Idioms hold up on, lay to one side, put on ice, set aside
Contrasted Words accelerate, hasten, hurry, speed; expedite, further, promote Antonyms advance
Platitude, Synonyms COMMONPLACE, banality, bromide, clich*, prosaicism, prosaism, rubber stamp, shibboleth, tag, truism
Related Word inanity, insipidity, vapidity; mawkishness, sentimentality
Pompous, 1 characterized by or exhibiting self-importance *a pompous old fool* Synonyms arrogant, bloated, important, magisterial, pontifical, puffy, self-important, stuffy, wiggy; compare EGOCENTRIC 2, PROUD 1
Related Word conceited, narcissistic, self-conceited, stuck-up, vain, vainglorious; affected, highfalutin, hoity-toity, pretentious; presumptuous, self-centered, selfish; flaunting, flossy, ostentatious
Contrasted Words natural, unaffected, unpretentious; humble, meek, plain, simple; modest, unassuming
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Synonyms RHETORICAL, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, grandiloquent, magniloquent, overblown, sonorous
Tirade, a violent, often protracted, and usually denunciatory speech or writing *lashed out with a vicious tirade of angry protest*
Synonyms diatribe, harangue, jeremiad, philippic
Related Word rant, rodomontade, screed; abuse, invective, revilement, vituperation; censure, condemnation, denunciation; berating, tongue-lashing; lecture, sermon
Impassive, 1 unresponsive to what might normally excite interest or emotion *impassive endurance of pain*
Synonyms apathetic, dry, matter-of-fact, phlegmatic, stoic, stolid
Related Word calm, cold, cool; collected, composed, dispassionate, emotionless, imperturbable, inexcitable, unexcitable, unflappable; inexpressive, reserved, reticent, taciturn, unemotional, unexpressive; bovine, passionless, placid, spiritless, unconcerned, wooden; callous, hardened, indurated, insensible; cold-blooded, coldhearted, heartless
Contrasted Words compassionate, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted
Antonyms responsive
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Synonyms INSUSCEPTIBLE, insensitive, insentient, unimpressible, unimpressionable, unresponsive, unsusceptible
Perturb, Synonyms DISCOMPOSE 1, agitate, bother, discombobulate, dismay, disquiet, disturb, flurry, fluster, upset
Related Word trouble; unsettle
Antonyms compose
Alienate, Synonyms TRANSFER 4, abalienate, alien, assign, cede, convey, deed, make over, remise, sign (over)
Related Word give up, hand over, relinquish
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Synonyms ESTRANGE, alien, disaffect, disunify, disunite, wean
Related Word alter, change, convert
Contrasted Words accommodate, adjust, conform, reconcile
Antonyms unite; reunite
Substantial, Synonyms MATERIAL 1, corporeal, gross, objective, phenomenal, physical, sensible, tangible
Contrasted Words airy, ethereal
Antonyms unsubstantial
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Synonyms IMPORTANT 1, big, consequential, considerable, material, meaningful, momentous,
significant, weighty
Related Word key, principal; strong; serious
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Synonyms PROSPEROUS 3, comfortable, easy, ||snug, well, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Related Word solid, solvent
Tenuous, Synonyms THIN 2, attenuate, attenuated, rare, rarefied, subtile, subtle
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Synonyms THIN 1, attenuate, reedy, slender, slight, slim, squinny, stalky, twiggy Related Word aerial, airy, ethereal, fine
Contrasted Words abundant
Antonyms dense
3 having little substance or strength and usually not firmly based *only a tenuous link in the chain of evidence*
Synonyms feeble, insubstantial, unsubstantial; compare IMPLAUSIBLE Related Word flimsy, weak; insignificant
Contrasted Words significant, sound, strong
Antonyms substantial
Gratuitous, Synonyms FREE 5, chargeless, complimentary, costless, gratis Related Word voluntary, willing
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Synonyms SUPEREROGATORY, supererogant, supererogative, unasked, uncalled-for, wanton
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Synonyms BASELESS, bottomless, foundationless, groundless, uncalled-for, unfounded, ungrounded, unwarranted
Related Word indefensible, reasonless, unsupportable
Repellent Synonyms REPUGNANT 1, abhorrent, invidious, obnoxious, revulsive Contrasted Words alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming; enticing, luring, seductive, tempting
Antonyms attractive; pleasing
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Synonyms OFFENSIVE, disgusting, foul, loathsome, nasty, noisome, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, vile
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Synonyms ANTIPATHETIC 2, aversive, kindless, repugnant, uncongenial, ungenial, unsympathetic
Implacable, Synonyms GRIM 3, ironfisted, merciless, mortal, relentless, ruthless, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting, unyielding
Contrasted Words peaceable, tractable; kindly, tolerant
Antonyms placable
Mutter, Synonyms MUMBLE, ||chunter, fumble, muddle, ||mump, murmur, swallow
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Synonyms GRUMBLE 1, croak, grouch, grouse, ||grunt, murmur, scold
Related Word repine, wail
Repugnant, 1 so alien or unlikable as to arouse antagonism and aversion *the idea of moving again became repugnant to her*
Synonyms abhorrent, invidious, obnoxious, repellent, revulsive
Related Word alien, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign; incompatible, incongruous, inconsonant, uncongenial
Contrasted Words acceptable, bearable, tolerable; agreeable, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable
Antonyms congenial
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Synonyms OFFENSIVE, disgusting, foul, loathsome, nasty, noisome, repellent, repulsive, revolting, vile
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Synonyms ANTIPATHETIC 2, aversive, kindless, repellent, uncongenial, ungenial, unsympathetic
Rescind, rescission
Repel, Synonyms FEND (off), hold off, keep off, rebuff, rebut, repulse, stave off, ward (off)
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Synonyms RESIST, buck, combat, contest, dispute, duel, fight, oppose, traverse, withstand
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Synonyms DISGUST, nauseate, reluct, repulse, revolt, sicken
Antonyms allure; attract
Gouge, Synonyms EXTORT 1, exact, pinch, screw, shake down, squeeze, wrench, wrest, wring Related Word cheat, con, swindle; overcharge
Fumble, Synonyms GROPE, feel, grabble
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Synonyms BOTCH, ||blow, bobble, bollix, bungle, flub, goof (up), louse up, mess, muff Related Word flounder, stumble
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Synonyms MUMBLE, ||chunter, muddle, ||mump, murmur, mutter, swallow
Lambaste, Synonyms BEAT 1, baste, drub, hammer, paste, pelt, pound, pummel, thrash, wallop
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Synonyms WHIP 2, beat, ||clobber, drub, lick, shellac, smear, smother, thrash, trim
3 to assail with withering oral or written denunciation *the senator has been publicly lambasted for taking bribes*
Synonyms blister, castigate, ||crawl, drub, excoriate, flay, lash (into), roast, scarify, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slam, slap, slash, ||slate; compare CRITICIZE, REPROVE, SCOLD 1 Related Word censure, criticize, denounce, pan; berate, scold, tongue-lash; assail, attack, squabash
Idioms burn one's ears, ||crawl all over, give (one) a roasting, pin one's ears back, rake (one) over the coals, read the riot act, rip into
Contrasted Words applaud, extol, praise; approve, countenance, endorse
Slick, Synonyms POLISH 2, perfect, refine, round, sleek, smooth
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Synonyms DRESS UP 1, deck (out), doll out, doll up, ||dude up, fix up, gussy up, smarten (up), spiff, spruce (up)
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Synonyms SLIDE 1, glide, glissade, slip, slither
Philistine, a crass, prosaic, often priggish individual guided by material rather than artistic or intellectual values *philistines who opposed everything new and creative in art* Synonyms Babbitt, boeotian, boob, middlebrow
Related Word bourgeois; capitalist; materialist; boor, clown, lout, vulgarian
Antonyms aesthete
Odium, Synonyms DISGRACE, discredit, disesteem, dishonor, disrepute, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, opprobrium, shame
Related Word hate, hatred
Antonyms honor
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Synonyms STIGMA, bar sinister, black eye, blot, blur, brand, onus, slur, spot, stain