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Abandonmen
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3) Abhor
5) Abjure
CESSATION
STOPPAGE, HALT
COMPARE
EXTENTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forsaking
Synonyms: dereliction, desertion, jettison, jilting. Antonyms:
EXTENTION.
LOVE
LIKE, ATTRACT
PLEASE
LOATHE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: regard with contempt or disgust
Synonyms: abominate, be allergic to, be down on, be grossed out
by, despise, detest, hate, have no use for, loathe, scorn
Antonyms: admire, adore, approve, cherish, desire, enjoy, like, love,
relish, ATTRACT.
ACKNOWLEDGE
DISOWN, DENY
HATE
GIVE UP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up
Synonyms: abstain from, forswear, recant, renege, renounce,
retract, take back, withdraw
Notes: abjure is 'swear off' or 'swear away' and adjure is
'command earnestly'; abjure implies a firm and final
rejecting,renounce often equals abjure but may carry the meaning
of disclaim
Antonym: ACKNOWLEDGE.
7) Abominate
PRAISE
ATTRACT, ADORE
ADORN
HORRIFY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detest
Synonyms: abhor, despise, dislike, hate, loathe
Antonym:
ADORE.
9) Abridge
11) Absolute
13)
Abstemious
CONDENSE
REDUCE, LENGTHEN
CONTINUE
SHORTEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shorten
Synonyms: abbreviate, abstract, chop, clip, compress, concentrate,
condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize,
lessen, limit, narrow, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim,
truncate
Antonyms: add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, LENGTHEN
SCARCE
LIMITED, FAULTY
DEFICIENT
PERFECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:without limit
Synonyms: complete, consummate, downright, entire, flat out, free,
full, infinite, outright, plenary, pure, sheer, simple, supreme,
thorough, total, unabridged, unadulterated, unconditional,
unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted, utter
Antonyms: accountable, circumscribed, LIMITED, restricted,
tractable
ABSENT
PRESENT, MISERLY
IRREGULAR
PRODIGAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: restraining behavior or appetite
Synonyms: abstinent, ascetic, austere, continent, frugal, moderate,
moderating, restrained, self-denying, self-restrained, sober, sparing,
temperate
Antonyms: gluttonous, greedy, hungry, PRODIGAL.
15) Absurd
17) Abusive
19)
Accomplice
SCARCITY
ADORN, RATIONAL
FLORISH
RIDICULOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ridiculous, senseless
Synonyms: batty, campy, crazy, daffy, dippy, fooling around,
foolish, freaky, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational,
jokey, joshing, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous,
screwy, silly, stupid, tomfool, unreasonable, wacky
Antonyms: certain, logical, RATIONAL, reasonable, sensible, wise
DECENT, COMPLIMENTATY
WRETCHED
RESPECTFUL
OFFENSIVE
Definition: exhibiting unkind behavior or words
Synonyms: calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious,
defamatory, derisive, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous,
maligning, obloquious, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude,
sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, traducing, upbraiding,
vilifying, vituperative
Antonyms: complimentary, kind, RESPECTFUL
OPPONENT
DESERTION, ESCORT
OBEY
ACCESSORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: helper, especially in committing a crime
Synonyms: abettor, accessory, aid, aide, ally, assistant, associate, coconspirator, collaborator, colleague, confederate, conspirator,
insider, partner.
Antonyms: adversary, enemy, opponent, ACCESSORY
21) Acerbity
23) Acquitted
25)Active
SWEAT
GENTLENESS, TASTY
ACCOUNT
SOURNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bitterness of taste
Synonyms: acidity, asperity, astringency, mordancy, sourness,
tartness
Antonyms: mellowness, mildness, sweetness, GENTLENESS.
CONVICTED, BURDENED
ENTRUSTED
FREED
EXEMPTED
Part of Speech: verb
Def: announce removal of blame
Synonyms: absolve, blink at, clear, deliver, discharge, disculpate,
exculpate, excuse, exonerate, liberate,release,relieve,vindicate,wink
at, wipe off
Notes: one is absolved of blame or responsibility but is acquitted of
a charge, usually a crime
Antonyms: blame, censure, condemn, CONVICTED, damn,
denounce, doom, sentence
ANIMATED
ADJUST, PASSIVE
AGILE
DYNAMIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: having movement
Syn: alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive,
flowing, going, hasty, impelling, mobile, movable, moving,
operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, rustling, shifting,
simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling,
turning, working
Antonyms: abeyant, dormant,PASSIVE, sluggish
OBTUSE
KEEN
27) Acute
29) Adamant
31) Adherent
FIGURE, ASTUTE
SHARP
FLEXIBLE
ABOMINATE, ADHERE
AWKWARD
UNYIELDING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unyielding
Synonyms: determined, firm, fixed, hanging tough, immovable,
inexorable, inflexible, insistent, intransigent, obdurate, pat,
relentless, resolute, rigid, set, standing pat, stiff, stubborn,
unbendable, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unshakable,
unswayable
Antonyms: FLEXIBLE, pliant, submissive,yielding
IRRESPONSIBLE, RIVAL
LOOSE
DETRACTOR
DISCIPLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: supporter or follower
Synonyms: advocate, aficionado, backer, believer, card-carrying
member, devotee, disciple, enthusiast, fan, hanger-on
Antonyms: DETRACTOR
33)Adore
LOVE
HATE, DESPISE
GENTLE
CHERISH
Part of Speech: verb
Def:love intensely
Synonyms: admire, be crazy about, be gone on, be mad for, be nuts
about, be serious about, be smitten with, be stuck on, be sweet on, be
wild about, cherish, esteem, exalt, fall for, flip over, glorify, go for,
honor, idolize, prize, revere, reverence, treasure, venerate, worship
Antonyms:abhor, condemn, DESPISE, detest, hate
INDIRECTLY
HARDLY, SUCCESSFULLY
35) Adroitly
37) Adulation
INGENUOUSLY
ADMITTEDLY
CRITICISM
APPROVAL, FLATTERY
MATURITY
FAVOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overenthusiastic praise
Synonyms: applause, audation, blandishment, bootlicking,
commendation, fawning, flattery, sycophancy, worship
Antonyms: abuse, CRITICISM
39) Adversity
41) Affable
43) Affected
SUFFERING
PROMOTION
CALAMITY, HARDSHIP
SUCCESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: bad luck, situation
Syn: affliction, bad break, bummer, calamity, catastrophe, clutch,
contretemps, crunch, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer, hardship,
hurting, jam, jinx, kiss of death, misery, misfortune, mishap, on the
skids, reverse, sorrow, suffering, the worst, tough luck, trial, trouble
Antonyms: aid, encouragement, SUCCESS, fortune.
COURTEOUS
APPROACHABLE
RUDE, TIMID
NASTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly
Synonyms: amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign,
breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle,
good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite,
sociable, urbane, warm
Antonyms: complaining, disdainful, RUDE, grumbling, impolite,
miserable, surly, unfriendly
INFLUENCED
CHARGED, WEARY
MODIFIED
UNFEIGNED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deeply moved or hurt emotionally
Syn: afflicted, altered, changed, compassionate, concerned,
damaged, distressed, excited, grieved, impaired, influenced, injured,
overwhelmed, stimulated, sympathetic, tender, touched,
Antonyms: calm, unmoved, unperturbed, unswayed, untroubled,
UNFEIGNED
45) Affluence
47) Agile
49)Agony
PROSPERITY
PRIVILEDGE,AILMENT
PERSUATION
POVERTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wealth
Synonyms: abundance, fortune, luxury, opulence, plenty,
prosperity, riches, wealthiness
Antonyms:
POVERTY
SLOW
FEEBLE, SWIFT
HARD
NIMBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: physically or mentally nimble, deft
Synonyms: active, acute, alert, athletic, brisk, buoyant, bustling,
clever, dexterous, energetic, fleet, frisky, limber, lithe, lively,
mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, ready, sharp, spirited, sportive,
spright, sprightly, spry, stirring, supple, swift, vigorous, vivacious,
winged, zippy
Antonyms: brittle, clumsy, stiff, SLOW
SUFFERING
CONMFORT
TORMENT
EMOTION, DISTRESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: suffering, pain
Synonyms: affliction, anguish, distress, dolor, misery, pangs,
passion, throes, torment, torture, woe
Antonyms: COMFORT , happiness, health, peace, success
GATHER
ASSEMBLE, UNITE
51) Alienate
53)Allay
ALERT
VIGILANT, AROUSE
AWAKEN
ENERGETIC
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce something, usually a pain or a problem
Synonyms: abate, alleviate, assuage, calm, compose, cool out,
decrease, ease, lessen, lighten, make nice, mitigate, moderate,
mollify, pacify, play up to, pour oil on, quiet, square.
Antonyms: intensify, provoke, stir, worsen, AROUSE
LESSENING
INTENSITY,AGGRAVATION
55)
Alleviation
IDENTIFY
ESTRAGE
MAGNIFICATION
EXAGGERATION
57)Aloof
DETACHED
GREGARIOUS
RUDDY, HONORABLE
DISTANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: remote
Synonyms: above, apart, casual, chilly, cold, cold fish, cool,
detached, distant, forbidding, haughty, incurious, indifferent, offish,
reserved, secluded, solitary, standoffish, stuck up, supercilious,
unapproachable, unconcerned, unfriendly, uninterested,
unresponsive, unsociable, uppity,
Antonyms: concerned, friendly, GREGARIOUS
SEPARATE
DISFIGURE
59)
Amalgamate
61)
Ambiguous
MIX, ALTERNATE
CONFUSE
VAGUE
CLEAR, EQUIVOCAL
TRANSPARENT
REPRESSED
Def:having more than one meaning
Synonyms: cryptic, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, enigmatical,
equivocal, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, muddy,
multivocal, obscure, opaque, polysemous, puzzling, tenebrous,
uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague
Notes: ambiguous is vague by accident or intent; equivocal is
vague by intent
Antonyms: clear, explicit, lucid, EQUIVOCAL
63)Amble
65)
Ameliorate
67) Amicable
STROLL
RAMBLE, SAUNTER
IMPORT
HASTEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: walk casually
Synonyms: ankle, boogie, dawdle, drift, gander, hoof it, loiter,
meander, mosey, percolate*, ramble, sashay, saunter, stroll, toddle,
wander
Antonyms: run, HASTEN
CHANGE
WORSEN, MODIFY
CONVERT
DECREASE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make, become better
Synonyms: alleviate, amend, help, improve, lighten, meliorate,
mitigate, relieve, step up, upgrade
Antonyms: WORSEN,
UNFRIENDLY
PENETRATABLE
HARMONIOUS
COOPERATIVE,AMAZING
69)
Amorphous
71)Amuse
73) Anarchy
DEFINITE
UNCERTAIN,REGULAR
OBSCENE
CONFIRMED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without definite shape, character
Synonyms: baggy, blobby, characterless, formless, inchoate,
indeterminate, irregular, nebulous, nondescript, shapeless,
unformed, unshaped, unstructured, vague
Antonyms: DEFINITE, distinct, distinctive, shaped, shapely
ENTERTAIN
WEARY, DIVERT
INFORM
RELAX
Def: entertain; make laugh
Synonyms: break one up, charm, cheer, delight, divert, fracture,
gladden, gratify, interest, knock dead, occupy, please, regale, slay,
tickle,
Notes: the first meaning of amuse was 'to divert the attention of in
order to mislead,' 'delude, deceive' and now means 'entertain, make
smile or laugh'; bemuse means 'confuse, bewilder, puzzle'
Antonyms: anger, annoy, bore, dull, tire, WEARY
PEACE
CHAOS, REBELLION
MAYHEM
UNREST
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lawlessness; absence of government
Synonyms: chaos, confusion, disorder, disorganization, disregard,
hostility, misrule, mob rule, nihilism, nongovernment, rebellion,
revolution, riot, turmoil, unrest
Antonyms: lawfulness, order, rule, PEACE
PIONEER
ANCIENT, BACKWARD
75) Ancestor
77)Anger
79) Animosity
FOREFATHER
SUCCESSOR
PARTY
HAPPINESS
APPROVAL, LOVE
JOY
Def: state of being mad, annoyed
Synonyms: acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism,
conniption, dander, disapprobation, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred,
huff, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation,
mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, soreness, stew,
storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage.Antonyms: agreeability,
calmness, contentment, LOVE , joy, peace, pleasantness
ENIMITY
MALICE, FRIENDSHIP
ANTIPATHY
LIKENESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme dislike, hatred
Synonyms: acrimony, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood,
bitterness, displeasure, enmity, hate, hostility, ill will, malevolence,
malice, malignity, rancor, resentment, virulence
Antonyms: good will, love, FRIENDSHIP
81)
Annularity
SMOOTH, REVIVAL
STUBBORN
Synonyms:
Antonyms: VERTICAL
CANCELLATION
VERTICAL
83)
Anonymous
UNKNOWN
PUNCTUAL
SIGNED, VERBAL
DEFINED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unknown, usually by choice
Synonyms: bearding, incognito, innominate, nameless, pseudo,
pseudonymous, secret, unacknowledged, unattested, unavowed,
unclaimed, uncredited, undesignated, undisclosed, unidentified,
unnamed,
Antonyms: identified, known, named, SIGNED
85)
Antediluvian
ISOLATED
CELEBRATION
ANCIENT, MODERN
AUTHORIZED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: out-of-date; prehistoric
Synonyms: ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, hoary, obsolete,
old, old-fashioned, pass, primeval, primitive, primordial, timeworn,
venerable
Antonyms: MODERN, new, up-to-date, young
87) Antiquity
COMMON
RECENT, INNOVATION
YOUTHFULNESS
ANCIENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: old object
Synonyms: antique, relic, ruin, RECENT
SPELL, DEVOTION
NECESSARY
OBJECTION
VOLUBILITY
Synonym
Antonyms: VOLUBILITY
89) Aphasia
FALSE, GENUINE
91)
Apocrypha
LOUD-CRY
PORTRAIT
APPROVAL
Antonyms: GENUINE
93) Appease
95)
Appropriate
97)Arid
DISPLEASURE
AGITATE, RIVALRY
ANIMOSITY
DELIGHT
Part of Speech: verb
Def: satisfy, pacify
Synonyms: allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, calm, compose,
conciliate, content, diminish, ease, gratify, lessen, lull, mitigate,
mollify, patch things up, placate, propitiate, quell, quench, quiet,
serve, soften, soothe, subdue, sweeten, tranquilize
Antonyms: aggravate, annoy, incite, irritate, provoke, tease,
AGITATE
UNSKILLED
UNSUITABLE
UNQUALIFIED
UNABLE,FAVOURABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: suitable
Synonyms: adapted, applicable, appurtenant, apropos, apt,
becoming, befitting, belonging, congruous, convenient, correct,
deserved, desired, due, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, opportune,
pertinent, proper, relevant, right, rightful, seemly, true, useful.
Antonyms: improper, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable,
UNSUITABLE
DRY
WET, HUMID
PLEASANT
PARCHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dry
Synonyms: barren, bone-dry, desert, dry as a bone, dry as dust,
dusty, moistureless, parched, thirsty, waterless
Antonyms: damp, HUMID, moist, wet
VEIN
CREATIVE
99) Artery
101)
Asceticism
103) Assume
ARTEFACT, INFANTRY
ARROGANCE
WONDER
SURPRISE, PLEASURE
JOY
DEPRESSION
Synonyms:
asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism; cynicism, austerity; total
abstinence; nephalism., mortification, aceration, sackcloth and
ashes, flagellation; penance; fasting; martyrdom., ascetic; anchoret,
sanyasi, yogi.
ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over.
,Antonyms: sensualist, PLEASURE
CONSUME
PRESUME, SUPPOSE
HANDOVER
POSTULATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: believe, take for granted
Synonyms: accept, ascertain, conclude,conjecture, consider, deduce,
deem, divine, estimate,expect, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess,
hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate,
presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize,
understand
Antonyms: doubt, HANDOVER
105) Atrophy
107)
Audacious
109)
Austerity
SHRINK, FLOURISH
EXTRAVAGANT
RECOMPOSE
DELINE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wasting away, disintegration
Synonyms: decline, degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration,
diminution, downfall, downgrade
Antonym: FLOURISH
ACCOUNTABLE
VULNERABLE
DARING, COWARDLY
VIGILANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reckless, daring
Synonyms: adventurous, aweless, bold, brassy, brave, courageous,
daredevil, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty,
intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, unafraid, uncurbed,
undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome
Antonyms: cautious, gentle, humble, meek, mild, modest, reserved,
timid, yielding, COWARDLY
EXTREME
HARSH, LENIENCE
ASCETIC
RIGIDITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: severity
Synonyms: acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness,
exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness,hardness,
harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor,
solemnity, sternness, stiffness, strictness.
Antonyms: blandness, calmness, gentility, meekness, mildness,
LENIENCE
111)
Autonomy
SLAVERY
DEPENDENCY
COLONIAL, NATURAL
SOVEREIGNTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: independence
Synonyms: freedom, liberty, self-determination, self-government,
self-rule, sovereignty
Antonyms: dependence , DEPENDENCY
WILLING
REFUSAL, REJECTION
113) Averse
Definition: opposing
Synonyms: afraid, allergic, antagonistic, antipathetic, contrary, hostile,
indisposed, inimical, loath, nasty, perverse, reluctant, uneager.
Notes: aversion is something that originates from within, whereas adversity is
something that originates from without; adverse is usually applied to situations
while averse is used to describe a person's attitude
averse means reluctant or disinclined; adverse means hostile and antagonistic
Antonyms: caring, liking, loving, WILLING
SKILFUL
FAME
115)
Awkward
UNWILLING
CONTRARY
SMOOTH, PENALTY
CLUMSY
117) Badger
119) Bashful
121) Balk
HARASS
TORMENT, COMBAT
IRRITATE
COMFORT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nag, bother
Synonyms: annoy, bait, bug, bully, give the business, goad, harass,
harry, hassle, heckle, hound, importune, insist on, needle, nudge,
pester, plague, ride, tease, torment.
Antonym:
COMFORT
TIMIT, DEMURE
SHAMEFUL
BRAZEN
RESERVE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: expel from place or situation
Synonyms: ban, deport, discard, discharge, dislodge, dismiss,
dispel, eject, eliminate, eradicate, evict, exclude, excommunicate,
exile, expatriate, expulse, extradict, isolate, ostracize, oust, outlaw,
proscribe, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, shut out, transport
Antonyms: allow, keep, welcome, BRAZEN
HUGE
YELL, SUPPORT
SIDE-TRACK
DEVOUR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stop short
Synonyms: cramp, crimp, demur, desist, dodge, evade, flinch,
hesitate, recoil, refuse, resist, shirk, shrink from, shy.
Antonym: SUPPORT
PROHIBIT
INANE
123) Bane
125)
Barbarous
127) Barren
CURSE, BLESS
MIEN
BLOATED
CIVILIZED, DEEADFUL
CONSCIOUS
COARSE
Definition: crude, savage
Synonyms: atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse,
cruel, ferocious, heartless, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude,
ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth,uncultured,
unsophisticated, vicious
Notes: barbaric pertains to crudeness; barbarous pertains to
cruelty, harshness, and immorality
Antonyms: CIVILISED, cultured, educated, kind
RADIANT
FERTILE, BESIEGE
REDUCE
DEPLETED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to support growth
Synonyms: arid, depleted, desert, desolate, dry, effete, empty,
fallow, fruitless, impotent, impoverished, infecund, infertile,
parched, sterile, unbearing, uncultivable, unfertile, unfruitful,
unproductive, waste
Antonyms: developing, fecund, FERTILE, filled, full, growing,
productive, useful
129) Battle
131) Bawdy
133) Beatific
ELABORATE
CONFLICT, EXPLAIN
CONFRONTATION
CLARIFY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military fight
Synonyms: action, assault, attack, barrage, blitzkreig, bloodshed,
bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict,
contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc,
hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, skirmish,
sortie, strife, struggle, war,
Antonyms: truce, CLARIFY
DECENT
INDECENT, DIRTY
INFLEXIBLE
UGLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vulgar, dirty
Synonyms: blue, cheap, coarse, erotic, gross, indecent, indecorous,
indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful,
obscene, off-color, prurient, ribald, risqu, rude, salacious,
suggestive
Antonyms: chaste, clean, decent, proper, virginal, DECENT
DREADFUL
PRACTICAL, TACTFUL
HANDSOME
GORGEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blissful
Synonyms: delightful, elated, euphoric, happy, joyful, rapturous
Antonyms: miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, DREADFUL
135) Belittle
137)
Benediction
139)
Benevolent
EXTOL
DISGRACE,PROFOUND
ENLARGE
DISOWN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detract
Synonyms: blister, criticize, decry, deprecate, depreciate, deride,
derogate, diminish, discount, discredit, disparage, dispraise,
downgrade, downplay, lower, minimize, pan, roast, scorn, smear,
squash, squelch, tear down, underestimate, underrate, undervalue.
Antonyms: build up, exaggerate, praise, EXTOL
APPROVAL
THANKS
MALEDICTION, GRANT
BLESSING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: closing prayer
Synonyms: amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus,
benison, blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation,
laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: anathema, execration, MALEDICTION
MALEVOLENT
HARD, FEEBLE
PHILANTHROPIST
GENEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: charitable, kind
Synonyms: all heart, altruistic, beneficent, benign, big, big-hearted,
bounteous, bountiful, caring, chivalrous, compassionate,
considerate, generous, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kindhearted,
liberal, magnanimous, philanthropic
Antonyms: greedy, MALEVOLENT, mean, selfish, spiteful, unkind
141) Benison
143) Berate
145) Bestial
TERRITORY
CEREMONY
BLESSING, COMEDY
CURSE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: closing prayer
Synonyms: amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus,
benison , blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation,
laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: anathema, execration, CURSE
EXPEL
POINT OUT, CONFIRM
CONFESS
PRAISE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: criticize hatefully
Synonyms: bawl out, blister, call down, castigate, censure, chew
out, chide, cuss out, eat out, jaw, jump all over, rail at, rake over the
coals, rate, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, scold,
scorch, tell off, upbraid, vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, hail, PRAISE
CRAZY, THEORETICAL
UNMARRIED
RASCAL
NOBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brutal
Synonyms: barbarous, beastly, boorish, brutish, cruel, depraved,
feral, inhuman, savage
Antonyms: generous, gentle, humane, kind, nice, NOBLE
BROAD-MINDED
GROTESQUE
147) Bigoted
149) Bitter
151) Blanch
EMPTY, FANATIC
NARROW-MINDED
BITING
STINGING
UNFAVOURABLE
HARSH, MILD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pungent, sharp
Synonyms: absinthal, absinthian, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid,
amaroidal, astringent, harsh, sour, tart, unsweetened, vinegary
Antonyms: bland, MILD, pleasant, sweet
CLUMSY
DARKEN, ENUMERATE
SCHEDULE
MODIFY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become afraid
Synonyms: flinch, pale, recoil, shrink, start, wince
Antonyms: be brave , DARKEN
153)
Blandiloquen
ce
155) Blatant
157) Blight
BLUNTNESS
POWER
A
SOOTHING, NEW
SEARCH
CLAMOROUS
CAPTIVATE
ECCENTRIC, GENTLE
ENTHUSIASTIC
Def:obvious;brazen
Synonyms: arrant, bald, barefaced, brassy, clear, conspicuous, flagrant,
flashy, flaunting, garish, glaring, glitzy, impudent, meretricious, naked,
obtrusive, ostentatious, overbold, overt, prominent, screaming, sheer,
snazzy Notes: flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant
is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term
than blatant. Antonyms: inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, GENTLE
BLESS
SHRINK, AVAIL
WEEP
DECAY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease; plague
Synonyms: affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker,
contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore,
fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge,
sight, withering, woe
Antonyms: blessing, boon, health, prosperity , BLESS
159) Blithe
161) Blush
SAD
ALOOF, CHEERLESS
GLOOMY
DESERTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chirpy,
gay, gladsome, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful,
lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sprightly, sunny, vivacious
Antonyms: heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy,
CHEERLESS
BLOOM
TOLERATE
EFFRONTERY
BEAT, DEPRESSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pink coloring
Synonyms: bloom, blossom, burning, color, flush, flushing, glow,
glowing, mantling, pink tinge, reddening, redness, rosiness, rosy
tint, ruddiness, scarlet
Antonyms: paleness, pallidity, whiteness , EFFRONTERY
DUPE
VIRTUE
163) Boon
NICKNAME, CURSE
BLAST
165) Boost
167) Brazen
169) Bridge
HINDER
OBSTRUCT
DISCOURAGE
REBUKE, ELEVATE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: increase
Synonyms: addition, advance, breakthrough, expansion, hike,
improvement, increment, jump, lift, raise, rise, step-up, up, upgrade,
wax
Antonyms: blow, decrease, hindrance, setback , HINDER
REGARD
ELEVATE, SHAMEFUL
EXALTED
INSOLENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brash, unashamed
Synonyms: audacious, barefaced, blatant, bold, brassy, cheeky,
cocky, contumelious,defiant,flashy, gritty, gutsy, hotshot,
impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, loud, meretricious, nervy,
pert, saucy, smart-ass, spunky, tawdry, unabashed,
Antonyms: humble, meek, shamed, shamefaced, shy, timid ,
SHAMEFUL
DIVIDE
BIND, RELEASE
OPEN
SPAN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: structure or something that makes connection
Synonyms: arch, bond, branch, catwalk, connection, extension,
gangplank, link, overpass, platform, pontoon, scaffold, span, tie,
transit, trestle, viaduct, wing
Antonym: SPAN
171) Brunette
173) Brutal
175) Bull
BROWN
BLAND, BLONDE
KITCHENETTE
THORNY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dark hair and/or skin
Synonyms: bistered, brown, dusky, pigmented, swart, swarthy,
tanned, tawny
Antonyms: blond/BLONDE
KINDLY
HUMANE, SAVAGE
RESPECTED
VICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: cruel, remorseless
Synonyms: barbarous, bloodthirsty, callous, ferocious, gruff, hard,
harsh, heartless, impolite, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, pitiless,
remorseless, rough, rude, ruthless, savage, severe, uncivil,
uncivilized, unfeeling, unmannerly, unmerciful, vicious
Antonyms: generous, humane, kind, SAVAGE
BILE
OX, BEAR
GOAT
PUSH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nonsense
Synonyms: balderdash, baloney, bilge, bunkum, claptrap, crap,
hogwash, rubbish, trash
Antonyms: fact, truth , BEAR
177) Buskin
HARD-SKIN
LONG-COAT, SOCKS
NAKED
DRIED
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military boot
Synonyms: army boot, buskin , chukka boot, jackboot, top boot
Antonym: SOCKS
CACOEPY,ORTHOGRAPHY
LITHOGRAPHY
CARDIOGRAPHY
NONE OF THESE
179)
Cacography
181)
Calamity
CATASTROPHE
CONDITION, DISASTER
MISFORTUNE
BLESSING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disaster; tragedy
Synonyms: adversity, affliction, blue ruin, cataclysm, catastrophe,
collapse, cross, curtains, distress, downfall, hardship, holy mess,
misadventure, mishap, reverse, ruin, scourge, the worst, trial,
tribulation, unholy mess, visitation, waterloo, woe, wreck,
wretchedness
Antonyms: advantage, blessing, boon, comfort, fortune, good
fortune, good luck, happiness, joy, profit
183) Callous
HARDENED
SOFT, SENSITIVE
COMPACT
INDIFFERENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cruel, insensitive
Synonyms: apathetic, careless, cold, deaf to, hard, hardhearted,
heartless, impassive, impenitent, indurated, inflexible, insensate,
insensitive,
Notes: callus is a hard patch of skin; callous is an adjective
meaning 'indifferent to suffering' or 'hardened'Antonyms:
compassionate, feeling, kind, nice, sensitive, sympathetic, tender,
SOFT
SLANDER
FACILITATE
PRAISE, LIBEL
INSULT
185) Calum
187) Candid
ANXIOUS
VAGUE, SECRETIVE
SHALLOW
FRANK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: honest
Synonyms: aboveboard, bluff, blunt, equal, equitable, fair,
forthright, frank, free, frontal, genuine, guileless, impartial,
ingenuous, just, objective, open, outspoken, plain, scrupulous,
sincere, truthful, unbiased, uncolored, unequivocal, unprejudiced,
unpretended, upright
Ant: artful, deceitful, devious, lying, SECRETIVE
189)
Capacious
191) Captious
193)
Caricature
CONFINING
FEROCIOUS,MILITANT
EXTROVERT
SPACIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ample, extensive
Synonyms: abundant, broad, comfortable, commodious,
comprehensive, dilatable, distensible, expandable, expansive,
extended, generous, liberal, plentiful, roomy, sizable, spacious,
substantial, vast, voluminous, wide
Antonyms: cramped, small, squeezed, tiny , CONFINING
PIONEER
SOBER
AGGRESSIVE
CUNNING, TOLERANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very critical
Synonyms: acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling,
censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating,
disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky,
hypercritical,irritable,nagging, peevish, perverse, petulant,
sarcastic, severe, testy,
Antonyms: commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering,
laudatory, TOLERANT
PAINTING
PRIM, GLORY
FIDELITY
DEVOTE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated description in writing, drawing
Synonyms: burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation,
lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche,
put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty
Antonym: FIDELITY
195) Carnal
197) Carping
199)
Cashiered
SENSUAL
PHYSICAL, OPENING
FINAL
SPIRITUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: erotic, sensual
Synonyms: animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly,
genital, impure, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful,
physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, temporal, unchaste,
venereal, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, worldly
Antonyms: chaste, clean, intellectual, pure, spiritual , SPIRITUAL
COMPLAINING
LAYER, CRAVING
CRITICAL
UNCRITICAL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nag
Synonyms: bother, cavil, censure, complain, criticize, find fault,
fuss, grumble, knock, nitpick, objurgate, pan, peck, pick at, quibble,
reproach
Antonyms: ignore, let go , UNCRITICAL
DISMISSED
CANCELLED, SPENT
PROMOTED
SUBMITTED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: discard, expel
Synonyms: ax, boot, bounce, break, discharge, dismiss, displace,
drum out, fire, give a pink slip, give the heave ho, heave, remove,
sack, terminate
Antonym: PROMOTED
201)
Castigation
203)
Casuistry
205)
Catastrophe
CRITICISM
SCOLD, OBJECTION
AUTHORITY
COMMENDATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: punishment
Synonyms: chastisement, chewing out, discipline, penalty, reproof,
retribution, scolding
Antonym: COMMENDATION
CASUAL, VERITY
MENDACITY
LITIGATION
POLEMIC
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overgeneral reasoning
Synonyms: chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion,
equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism,
sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick
Antonym : VERITY
TRAGEDY
BLESSING, DISASTER
DEVASTATION
CONFUSION
Def:calamity;unhappy conclusion
Synonyms: accident, adversity,affliction,alluvion, blow, calamity,
casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains,
debacle, desolation, devastation, disaster, failure, fatality, fiasco,
havoc, misadventure, misery, misfortune, mishap, stroke, tragedy,
trial, trouble, upshot, wreck
Antonyms: benefit, BLESSING, favor, good fortune, good luck,
miracle, success, wonder
207) Catholic
209)
Celebrity
211) Celibate
NARROW
MUNDANE, RELIGIOUS
WESTERN
RIDICULOUS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: all-embracing, general
Synonyms: broad-minded, charitable, comprehensive, cosmic,
cosmopolitan, diffuse, eclectic, ecumenical, extensive, generic,
global, inclusive, indeterminate, liberal, open-minded, planetary,
receptive, tolerant, unbigoted, universal, unprejudiced, unsectarian,
whole, wide.
Antonyms: NARROW, narrow-minded, specific,
CELEBRATION
SOLEMNITY
OBSCURITY, HAZY
PERSONAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dignitary
Synonyms: VIP, ace, big cheese, big name, big shot, big stuff,
bigwig, celeb, cynosure, famous person, figure, heavyweight, hero,
hotshot, immortal, luminary, magnate, mahatma, major leaguer,
name, notable, personage, personality, somebody, someone, star,
superstar, worthy
Antonyms: nobody , OBSCURITY
BACHELOR
RETIRED, NOTABLE
ADORN
MARRIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abstaining from sexual activity
Synonyms: chaste, continent, pure, virgin, virginal, virtuous
Antonyms: active, promiscuous , MARRIED
213) Censure
215)
Cessation
217)
Challenge
PRAISE
REBUKE, INVESTIGATE
IMPARTIAL
DISAPPROVAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: severe criticism
Synonyms: admonishment, admonition, blame, castigation,
condemnation, disapproval, objection, obloquy, rebuke,
remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof,
stricture
Notes: to censor is to disallow portions or the entireties of books; to
censure is to criticize
Antonyms: approval, PRAISE, endorsement,
STARTING
BEGINNING
OUTRIGHT, HURRY
END
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ending
Synonyms: abeyance, arrest, break, breather, cease, ceasing, close,
conclusion, cutoff, desistance, discontinuance, downtime, end, finish,
halt, halting, hiatus, intermission, interruption, interval, pause,
recess, remission, respite, rest, stay, stop, stoppage, suspension,
termination,
Antonyms: BEGINNING, commencement, start
ADMIRE
ACCEPT, FAVOUR
PRAISE
REJECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dispute, question
Synonyms: claiming, confrontation, dare, defiance, demanding,
demur, interrogation, objection, protest, provocation, remonstrance,
summons to contest, test, threat, trial, ultimatum
Antonyms: agree, answer, decide, win , REJECT
219)
Cheerless
JOYOUS
PRIDE, CAREFULLY
DELIGHTED
FOOLISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: depressing, unhappy
Syn: austere, black, bleak, blue,comfortless, dark, dejected,
dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal,
drab, draggy, dreary, gloomy, grim,jarring, joyless,melancholy,
miserable, mopey, oppressive, sad, somber, sullen, tenebrific,
uncomfortable, wintry, woeful
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, JOYOUS
DISAPPOINTED
HOPEFUL, SEPARATE
C
DISCONTINUE
DEMOLISH
221) Cheesed
Off
223) Cherish
ADORE
RESPECT, DETEST
HONOUR
GROW
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: care about deeply
Synonyms: admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, clasp, coddle,
comfort, cosset, defend, embrace, fancy, fondle, foster, guard,
harbor, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet,
prize, revere, reverence, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure,
value, venerate, worship
Antonyms: abandon, denounce, forsake, DETEST
225) Chest
227) Chickenhearted
229) Chide
BOSOM
BACK, LOCKER
CONTAINER
FRONT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: box for storage
Synonyms: bin, bureau, cabinet, carton, case, casket, chiffonier,
coffer, commode, crate, exchequer, pyxis, receptacle, reliquary,
strongbox, treasury, trunk
Antonym: BACK,
BRAVE
FRIGHTENED
DELICATE, FAMOUS
UNKNOWN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, cowering,
cowhearted, craven, dastardly, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted,
gutless, jittery,nervous, panicky,pigeonhearted, pusillanimous,
recreant, retiring, running scared, scared, shy, spineless, timid,
timorous, weak,
Antonyms: bold, BRAVE, courageous, daring
FLATTER
PRAISE, HIGH TALK
BOAST
REBUKE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize, lecture
Synonyms: admonish, berate, blame, call down, call on the carpet,
castigate, censure, check, condemn, exprobate, find fault, flay, give a
hard time, lesson, monish, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand,
reproach, reprove, scold, slap on the wrist, speak to, talk to, tell off,
tick off, upbraid
Ant: compliment, laud, praise , HIGH TALK
231) Choice
233) Cipher
235)
Circumscribe
d
REFUSAL
DILEMMA, HARM
APPROVAL
FORCE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: best, superior
Synonyms: elite, excellent, exceptional, exclusive, exquisite, fine,
nice, popular, precious, preferential, preferred, prime, prize, rare,
select, solid gold, special, uncommon, unusual, valuable, winner
Antonyms: inferior, poor, sad, worst , DILEMMA
HUNDRED
NOTHING, DECIPHER
DECRY
ROB
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: zero; nothingness
Synonyms: blank, diddly squat, goose egg, insignificancy, nada,
naught, nil, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nought, nullity, squat, zilch,
zip, zippo, zot
Antonyms :
DECIPHER
UNRESTRICTED
UNCONFINED
OPEN, FREE
CONFINED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mark off, delimit
Synonyms: bar, bound, confine, define, delineate, demarcate,
encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hamper, hem in, limit,
nail down, outline, prelimit, restrain, restrict, surround, trammel
Antonyms: free, loose, open, UNCONFINED
237) Clarity
239)
Coagulate
241)
Cohesion
EXAGGERATION
CANDOUR
CONFUSION
RESERVE, OBVIOUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clearness
Synonyms: accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty,
cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability,
definition, directness, manifestness, overtness, palpability,
penetrability,perceptibility,perspicuity, salience, simplicity,
tangibility, transparency, unambiguity
Antonyms: dirtiness, obscurity, CONFUSION
CULMINATION
AMITY, DISSIPATE
SLOPPY
COARSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clot
Synonyms: clabber, coalesce, compact, concentrate, concrete,
condense, congeal, consolidate, curdle, dry, gel, gelate, gelatinize,
glop up, harden, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, lopper, set, solidify,
thicken
Antonyms: dilute, dissolve, melt, open, thin, unclot, DISSIPATE
DISINTEGRATION
ANOMALY, DISUNITY
INTERNAL
RESEMBLANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: union
Synonyms: adherence, attachment, coherence
Antonym:
DISUNITY
PAINFUL
EMOTIONAL
243) Comic
245)
Compendious
247)
Compliance
FEARFUL, TRAGIC
WITTY
CONDONE, CLAMOUR
RESISTANCE
CONDENSE
APPRECIATION
Part of Speech: noun
Def: agreement
Synonyms: acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance,
concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility,
obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission,
submissiveness, tractability, yielding
Ant: defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension,
dissent, fight, RESISTANCE
249) Conceal
251) Concord
253)
Confiscate
UNFOLD
REVEAL, OPEN
DISCOVER
CAMOUFLAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: hide, disguise
Synonyms: beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch,
cover, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up,
lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk,
slink, sneak, stash, stow, veil, wrap
Antonyms: disclose, divulge, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal,
show, tell, uncover, OPEN
CONSOLIDATE
BESTOW, OUTLINE
DISCORD
CONNECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unity, harmony
Synonyms: accord, agreement, amity, calmness, chime, comity,
concert, concordance, consensus, consonance, friendship, goodwill,
peace, placidity, rapport, serenity, tranquility, tune, unanimity,
understanding, unison
Antonyms: DISCORD, disunity
RELEASE
ALLOW, USE
CONFER
IMPOUND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: steal; seize
Synonyms: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume,
commandeer, confisticate, expropriate, glom on to, grab, hijack,
impound, liberate, preempt, sequester, sequestrate, swipe, take,
usurp
Antonyms: give, offer, CONFER
255)
Conservative
257)
Consolidate
259)
Constrict
REACTIONARY
ORTHODOX, SAVING
ICONOCLAST
DUUMVIR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, moderate.
Synonyms: Constant, controlled, conventional, fearful, firm,
fogyish, guarded, hidebound, illiberal, inflexible, obstinate,
orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, sober, stable, timid,
traditional, unchangeable, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative,
unprogressive, Ant: exaggerated, liberal, progressive, radical,
DUUMVIR
WEAKEN
AUGMENT, ISOLATE
SEPARATE
CONCENTRATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: combine;make firm
Synonyms: amalgamate, amass, band, bind, blend, cement,
centralize, compact, compound, concatenate, concentrate, condense,
conjoin, connect, densen, develop, federate, fortify, fuse, harden,
hitch, incorporate, join, mass, meld, mix, pool, reinforce Ant:
disjoin, disperse, divide, part, separate , WEAKEN
SQUEEZE
EXPAND, BLOW UP
DETAILED
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inhibit
Synonyms: astringe, choke, circumscribe, clench, compress,
concentrate, condense, confine, constringe, contract, cramp, curb,
limit, narrow, pinch, restrain, restrict, shrink, squeeze, strangle,
strangulate, tauten, tense, tighten, tuck
Antonyms: expand, free, loosen, open, release, BLOW UP
261)
Contusion
PERPLEXITY
INJURY, HEALING
PRESSURE
PULL-TOGETHER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bruise, injury
Synonyms: bang, bump, cut, discoloration, knock, mouse, swelling,
wale, wound
Antonym: HEALING
DEBARRED
DETHRONED
Antonym: DETHRONED
DISGRACED
DEJECTED, ELEVATED
263)
Coronated
265) Cosset
FORGET, REMEMBER
NEGLECT
REJECT
AGREE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: care for lovingly
Synonyms: caress, cuddle, fondle, lamb, love, pamper, pet, spoil
Antonym: NEGLECT
RASH
GLOOMY
267)
Contented
NARROW-MINDED
DISAPPOINTED, CALM
DOCILE
INCORRIGIBLE
Antonym: INCORRIGIBLE
COVETOUS, OBSERVE
VALIDATE
269)
Corrigible
271) Covert
OPEN
BOLD, OVERT
OVERWHELM
ENVY
Def: clandestine, underhanded
Synonyms: buried, camouflaged, cloaked, concealed, disguised,
dissembled, furtive, hidden, incog, incognito, masked, obscured,
private, privy, shrouded, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior.
Notes: covert (concealed, covered, hidden) is the opposite of overt
(apparent, open to view, plain, public) Antonyms: aboveboard,
candid, frank, honest, open, OVERT, public, unconcealed
273) Cozen
TREAT HONESTLY
DECEIT, TREACHERY
FALSEHOOD
COMFORTABLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deceive
Synonyms: bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chisel, con, defraud,
dupe, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hoodwink, swindle, trick
Antonyms: TREAT HONESTLY
APPEAR
BLACK
275) Cream
277) Crux
CREAT, DREGS
HARD
WAIL
OPINION, SUMMARY
IMPORTANT ISSUE
TRIVIAL POINT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: most important part
Synonyms: body, bottom line, core, decisive point, essence, gist,
heart, kernel, matter, meat and potatoes, nub, pith, purport,
substance, thrust
Antonyms: TRIVIAL POINT
279)
Culminate
281) Culprit
283) Cursory
FINALIZE
ABORT, FIX
BEGINNING
CONCLUDE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: come to a climax
Synonyms: cap, climax, close, come to a head, conclude, crown,
end, end up, finish, go the route, rise to crescendo, round off, shoot
one's wad, terminate, top off, wind up
Antonyms: begin, commence, open, start, ABORT,
VICTIM
TYRRANT, INNOCENT
IGNORANT
OFFENDER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person responsible for wrongdoing
Synonyms: con, convict, criminal, delinquent, evildoer, felon,
fugitive, guilty party, jailbird, malefactor, miscreant, offender,
rascal, sinner, transgressor, wrongdoer, yardbird
Antonym: VICTIM
PROFOUND
CUPIDITY, CUDGEL
ESCAPE
WEAK
Def: casual, hasty
Synonyms: brief, careless, depthless, desultory, fast, haphazard,
hurried, offhand, passing, perfunctory, quick, random, rapid,
shallow, short, sketchy, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary,
superficial, swift, uncritical
Notes: cursory means 'superficial'; cursorial is 'pertaining or
adapted to running'
Antonyms: complete, meticulous, PROFOUND
285) Cynical
287) Damage
289) Dank
SAFE, MINDFUL
TRUSTING
VALUABLE
SKEPTICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nonbelieving; doubtful
Synonyms: contemptuous, derisive, ironic, misanthropic,
misanthropical, mocking, pessimistic, sarcastic, sardonic, scoffing,
scornful, skeptical, sneering, suspicious, unbelieving, wry
Antonyms: believing, hopeful, optimistic, trusting, undoubting,
TRUSTING
WOUND
RANSOM, CRIPPLE
FINE
REPAIR
Definition: injury, loss
Synonyms: accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane,
blemish, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, corruption,
debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, detriment,
devastation, disservice, infliction, knockout, marring, mutilation,
outrage, ravage, reverse,ruin,
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement,
profit, REPAIR
CLAMMY
DROOP, MUGGY
DRY
BELOVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clammy
Synonyms: chilly, close, damp, dewy, dripping, humid, moist,
muggy, slimy, soggy, steamy, sticky, wet, wettish
Antonyms: DRY, parched
291) Daring
293) Dawdle
295) Dear
BOLD
CONFRONTING
TIMID
CLEAR, GALLANT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: challenge, defy someone
Synonyms: beard, brave, bully, confront, cope, denounce,
disregard, face, front, goad, insult, meet, mock, oppose, outdare,
provoke, resist, scorn, spurn, taunt, threaten.
Antonym: TIMID
FIDDLE
POKE
HURRY
IDLE, PITCH
Part of Speech: verb
Def: delay; waste time
Synonyms: amble, bum around, dally, drag, idle, lag, laze, lazy,
loaf, loiter, loll, lounge, mosey, procrastinate, saunter, stay, stroll,
tarry, toddle, trifle, wait, warm a chair
Antonyms: forward, hasten, hurry, push, rush, speed, HURRY
CHEAP
WORTHLESS
FREE
PRICELESS, COSTLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beloved, favorite
Synonyms: cherished, close, darling, doll face, endeared, esteemed,
familiar, intimate, loved, pet, precious, prized, respected, treasured
Antonyms: common, despised, hateful, unimportant, valueless,
worthless, CHEAP
297) Debacle
299)
Debilitate
301)
Debonair
CATASTROPHE
DISASTER, TIMIDITY
WEAK
PROGRESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: catastrophe
Synonyms: beating, breakdown, collapse, crash, defeasance, defeat,
devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, drubbing, failure, fiasco,
havoc, licking, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, ruination,
shellacking, smash, smashup, trouncing, vanquishment, washout,
wreck
Antonyms: boon, miracle, wonder, PROGRESS
STRENGTHEN
REHABILITATE
TORTURE
SOOTH, CORNER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: incapacitate
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate,
enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar,
prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unstrengthen,
weaken, wear out
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend,
STRENGTHEN
UGLY
BAD-SHAPED
AWKWARD, ROUGH
SOPHISTICATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: charming, elegant
Synonyms: affable, buoyant, casual, cheerful, courteous, dashing,
detached, happy, jaunty, lighthearted, nonchalant, pleasant, refined,
smooth, sprightly, suave, urbane
Antonyms: AWKWARD, clumsy, inelegant, uncharming,
undebonair
303) Deep
305) Deflated
SUPERFICIAL,SHALLOW
ELEMENTARY
PERFUNCTORY
EXTENSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extending very far, usually down
Synonyms: abysmal, abyssal, below, beneath, bottomless, broad,
buried, distant, downreaching, far, fathomless, immersed, profound,
rooted, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, subterranean, sunk,
underground, unfathomable, wide, yawning
Antonyms: SHALLOW
EMPTY
UPRIGHT, TURGID
TURBID
LIE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce or cause to contract
Synonyms: collapse, decrease, depreciate, depress, devalue,
diminish, empty, exhaust, flatten, puncture, shrink, squash, void
Antonyms: blow up, expand, inflate, TURGID
SHINE
CLEAR
307) Defile
CLEANSE, PURE
DAMAGE
309) Delete
311) Delicacy
313)
Demented
IMPOUND
INSERT, INSPIRE
INJURE
IGNORE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: erase, remove
Synonyms: annul, black out, bleep, cancel, clean, cut,
decontaminate, destroy, drop, edit, efface, eliminate, exclude,
expunge, obliterate, omit, pass up, rub, sanitize, snip, squash,
squelch, sterilize, strike out, trim, wipe out
Antonyms: add, put in, INSERT,
COARSENESS
DISPARAGE, AFFIRM
DERELICTION
FRAGILITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: daintiness, fineness
Synonyms: airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness,
exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity,
lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness,
tenuity, translucency
Antonyms: COARSENESS, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance,
robustness, roughness
ENRAGED
CALM, ANGRY
ORIGINAL
UNSTABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: crazy, insane
Synonyms: bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious,
deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied,
fruity, hysterical, idiotic, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic,
psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced,
unglued, unhinged, unsound, whacko
Ant: rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, CALM
DEPRAVE
315) Demur
APPROVE, EMBELLISH
FORSAKE
DEMOLISH
Definition: disagree
Synonyms: balk, cavil, challenge, combat, complain, deprecate,
disapprove, dispute, doubt, fight, hesitate, object, oppose, pause,
protest, pussyfoot, refuse, remonstrate, resist, scruple, shy, stick,
stickle, strain, vacillate Notes: demur is the verb 'to object or voice
opposition' while demure is the adjective meaning 'modest, shy'
Antonyms: accept, agree, consent, APPROVE,
BRIGHTNESS
INTELLIGENCE,RARITY
317) Density
319)
Deranged
CLARITY
THICKNESS
CRAZY
INSANE, CRIMINAL
RATIONAL
ARMED
Part of Speech: verb
Def:make crazy;confuse
Synonyms: confound, dement, disarrange, disarray, discommode,
discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, displace, distract,
disturb, frenzy, madden, make insane, misplace, muss, perplex,
ruffle, rummage, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset
Antonyms: calm, comfort, RATIONAL
321)
Derogatory
323)
Desecrate
325) Designed
DISPARAGING
BELITTLING,PRAISING
AUTHORIZED
FAMILIAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: offensive, uncomplimentary
Syn: aspersing, belittling, calumnious, censorious, contumelious,
decrying, defamatory, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory,
depreciative, malevolent, malicious, maligning, opprobrious,
reproachful, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, unfavorable,
Antonyms: appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering,
PRAISING
PROFANE
CONSECRATE,DEBASE
DISRESPECT
CONFUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abuse, violate
Synonyms: befoul, blaspheme, commit sacrilege, contaminate,
defile, depredate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, dishonor,
pervert, pillage, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, sack, spoil,
spoliate, waste
Antonyms: honor, praise, sanctify, CONSECRATE
RESIGNED
PLANNED
FATUOUS, FORTUITOUS
DISAPPROVED
Part of Speech: verb
Def: plan, outline
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, arrange, block out, blueprint, cast,
chart, construct, contrive, create, delineate, describe, devise,
diagram, dope out, draft, draw, effect, execute, fashion, form, frame,
fulfill, invent, perform, produce, project, sketch, trace.
Antonyms: disorder, disorganize, FORTUITOUS
327) Destitute
329) Deviate
331) Devoid
IMPOVERISHED
BROKE, SYMPATHY
SHINING
AFFLUENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: down and out; wanting
Synonyms: bankrupt, beggared, bereft, busted, dead broke,
deficient, depleted, dirt poor, divested, drained, empty, exhausted,
flat broke, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, lacking,
moneyless, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, pinched, poor,
stony, strapped, stripped
Antonyms: prosperous, rich, AFFLUENT, wealthy
OBLIVIATE
BREAK, LOCATE
FOLLOW
CONCENTRATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stray from normal path
Synonyms: aberrate, avert, bend, circumlocate, contrast, deflect,
depart, differ, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, err, not conform,
part, shy, swerve, swim against stream, take a turn, turn, turn aside,
vary, veer, wander
Antonyms: go straight, keep, stay, FOLLOW
EMPTY
INSPIRING, HANDICAP
POWERFUL
FULL OF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: empty, wanting
Syn: bare, barren, bereft, deficient, denuded, destitute, free from,
innocent, lacking, needed, sans, unprovided with, vacant, void,
without
Notes: void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only
after something has been taken away
Antonyms: complete, filled, FULL OF
333) Devout
335)
Diabolical
337) Diatribe
EARNEST
REVERENT
CONSUME, CALM
IMPIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sincerely believing; devoted
Synonyms: adherent, adoring, ardent, deep, earnest, faithful,
fervent, fervid, genuine, godly, heartfelt, holy, intense, orthodox,
passionate, pietistic, pious, prayerful, profound, religious, reverent,
revering, serious, sincere, worshiping,
Antonyms: insincere, irreligious, IMPIOUS
SERAPHIC
DEVILISH, CRUEL
WICKED
DISTINGUISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: devilish
Synonyms: cruel, demoniac, evil, fiendish, heinous, hellish, infernal,
satanic, serpentine, vicious, vile, wicked
Antonym: SERAPHIC
BITTER
VIOLENT
AGAINST
GROUP, EULOGY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harangue, criticism
Synonyms: abuse, castigation, denunciation, disputation, invective,
jeremiad, objection, onslaught, philippic, reviling, screed, stricture,
tirade, vituperation
Antonyms: praise, recommendation, EULOGY
DISORGANIZED
DISRESPECTFUL
RESPECTFUL,PROMINENT
DISTINGUISHABLE
Antonym: DISRESPECTFUL:
339)
Differential
341)
Dilapidated
343) Dilatory
DECAYING
CRUMBLING
CONFUSED, SOUND
DEPARTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: falling apart; in ruins
Syn: battered, crumbling, crumbly, crummy, damaged, decayed,
decaying, decrepit, derelict, dingy, faded, impaired, injured, old,
ramshackle, ratty, raunchy, rickety, seedy, shabby, shaky, slummy,
tacky, threadbare, unimproved, unkempt,
Antonyms: in good repair, rebuilt, SOUND
PROMPT
DELAYED, TACTFUL
PARTICIPANT
BITTER
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: procrastinating
Synonyms: backward, behindhand, dallying, delaying, deliberate,
laggard, late, lax, lazy, leisurely, lingering, loitering, moratory,
neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, tardy, tarrying,
unhasty, unhurried
Antonyms: diligent, eager, enthusiastic, hard-working, ready,
zealous, PROMPT
345) Diligent
347)
Diminution
349)
Diplomatic
LAZY, IGNOMINIOUS
DECEITFUL
UMBRAGE
VIGILANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: persevering, hard-working
Synonyms: active, assiduous, attentive, busy, careful, conscientious,
constant, eager beaver, indefatigable, industrious, laborious,
occupied, operose, painstaking, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
plugging, sedulous, steadfast, studious, tireless, unflagging,
unrelenting,untiring
Ant: inactive, indifferent, languid, LAZY,
APPRECIATION
REDUCTION
ACCEPTANCE,REQUEST
REJECTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lessening, reduction
Synonyms: abatement, alleviation, contraction, curtailment, cut,
cutback, decay, decline, decrease, deduction, retrenchment,
weakening
Antonyms: development, enlargement, expansion, growth, increase,
APPRECIATION
RUDE
STUPID
SHARP
TACTFUL, PRUDENT
Definition: politic, tactful
Synonyms: adept, arch, artful, astute, bland, brainy, cagey,
calculating, capable, clever, conciliatory, conniving, contriving,
courteous, crafty, cunning, deft, delicate, dexterous, discreet,
gracious, guileful, intriguing, opportunistic, polite, prudent, savvy,
scheming, sensitive, sharp
Antonyms: artless, impolite, RUDE, tactless
351) Discard
353) Discord
355) Discreet
ABANDON
DISPOSE
RETAIN, REFRAIN
AGREEMENT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get rid of
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, abjure, adios, banish, cancel,
cashier, chuck, desert, dispatch, dispossess, ditch, divorce, drop,
dump, eject, eliminate, expel, forsake, jettison, oust, protest, reject,
relinquish, remove, renounce, repeal, throw overboard, toss aside,
write off
Antonyms: embrace, keep, RETAIN
AGREEMENT
CONCORD
ACCEPTANCE
YIELDING, CONFLICT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: noise
Synonyms: cacophony, clamor, clinker, din, disharmony,
dissonance, harshness, jangle, jarring, racket, sour note, tumult
Antonyms: harmoniousness, harmony , CONCORD
DEBATE
RECKLESS
HOARD
PERPLEX, CAUTIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, sensible
Synonyms: alert, attentive, awake, cagey, calculating, careful,
chary, circumspect, civil, conservative, discerning,
discriminating,gingerly, heedful, judicious, politic, precautious,
prudent, safe, sagacious,thoughtful, vigilant, wary, wise,
Ant: careless, foolish, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless,
thoughtless, uncareful, RECKLESS
357)
Disparage
359) Dissect
361) Divine
PARE, PARAGRAPH
JUMP
EJECT
APPRECIATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize; detract from
Synonyms: abuse, belittle, decry, defame, degrade, deject,
denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derogate, dis, discourage,
discredit, disdain, dishearten, dispirit, dispraise, malign, pan, rap,
ridicule, roast, scorch, scorn, slander, smear, traduce,
underestimate, underrate,
Ant:approve,commend,flatter, laud, APPRECIATE
DIVISION
DISAGREE
VIVISECT
VISUALIZE, VILE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cut up; take apart
Synonyms: anatomize, break up, cut, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint,
dislimb, dismember, dissever, divide, exscind, exsect, lay open,
operate, part, prosect, quarter, section, sever, slice, sunder
Antonyms: connect, join, mend, sew, VIVISECT
UNGODLY
FAITHFUL, ATHEIST
IRRELIGIOUS
SACRED
Definition: godlike, perfect
Syn: all-powerful, almighty, ambrosial, angelic, anointed, beatific,
beautiful, blissful, celestial, deific, deistic, eternal,
exalted,glorious,hallowed, heavenly, immaculate, magnificent,
marvelous, omniscient, rapturous, religious, sacramental, sacred,
sacrosanct, sanctified, spiritual, splendid, superlative, supernatural,
theistic, transcendent, transcendental. Ant: UNGODLY
DOGMA
IMPERIOUS, DOCILE
DISMAL
TENACIOUS
Antonym: DOCILE
363) Dogged
365) Dormant
367) Ductile
JUBILANT
ACTIVE, LIVE
MODERN
INACTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inactive; sleeping
Synonyms: abeyant, asleep, closed down, comatose, down, fallow,
hibernating, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, passive,
potential, prepatent, quiescent, sidelined, slack, sluggish,
slumbering, smoldering, suspended, torpid
Antonyms: active, lively, LIVE
INDISTINCT
VAGUE, INELASTIC
QUIESCENT
WAEK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pliant, flexible
Synonyms: adaptable, amenable, biddable, docile, extensile,
malleable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliable, responsive,
submitting, supple, tractable, yielding
Antonyms: hard, inflexible, intractable, stiff, unyielding,
INELASTIC
369) Dumb
371)
Duplicity
373) Dusky
SLOW
IGNORANT, STUPID
SMART
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to speak
Synonyms: inarticulate, incoherent, mousy, mum, mute, quiet,
silent, soundless, speechless, uncommunicative, voiceless, wordless
Antonyms: speaking, SMART
LOYALTY
DECEPTION
ARTIFICE, DEALING
REPEAT
Def: deception
Syn: artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dishonesty,
dissemblance, dissimulation, dualism, duality, faithlessness,
falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, perfidy,
skullduggery, treacherousness, treachery, twoness
Notes: duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests
trickery and wiliness
Ant: forthrightness, honesty, LOYALTY
LIGHT
BRIGHT, SHINING
FAIR
DARK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dark-hued; murky
Synonyms: adusk, bistered, bleak, brunette, caliginous, cheerless,
cloudy, crepuscular, dark, darkish, desolate, dim, dismal, dull,
funereal, gloomy, joyless, lightless, obscure, overcast, sable,
shadowy, shady, swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilit,
unilluminated, veiled
Antonyms: bright, clear, light , FAIR
LIVE ALONE
PROMOTE
Antonym: COMBINED
FOLLOW, SEPARATE
COMBINED
375) Dwell
Apart
377) Dynamic
379) Eager
VIGOROUS
LIVELY, INACTIVE
EXPLOSIVE
UNEDUCATED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: active, vital
Syn: activating, aggressive, changing,charismatic, compelling,
driving, effective, electric, energetic, energizing, enterprising,
forceful, forcible, influential, intense, lusty, magnetic, productive,
strenuous, vehement, vigorous, vitalizing, zippy
Antonyms: apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting,
INACTIVE
RELUCTANT
ENTHUSIASTIC
INTENT, EARLY
FAMILIAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: anxious, enthusiastic
Syn: acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst,
avid, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, earnest, fervent, fervid,
hankering, impatient, longing, pining, restless, solicitous, thirsty,
vehement, voracious, yearning, zealous
Antonyms: apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned,
uneager, RELUCTANT
381) Ebb
383) Ecstasy
385) Effete
RISE, EFFERVESCENT
ENERVATE
ETERNAL
RECEDE
Part of Speech: noun Def: regression; decline
Synonyms: abatement, backflow, decay, decrease, degeneration,
depreciation, deterioration, diminution, drop, dwindling, flagging,
lessening, recession, refluence, reflux, retreat, retrocession,
retroflux, shrinkage, sinking, slackening, subsidence, sweep, wane,
waning, withdrawal
Antonyms: flow, incline, increase, RISE,
RAPTURE
BEAUTIFUL
EXALTATION
OILY, MISERY
Definition: bliss
Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness, delectation, delight, delirium,
ebullience, enchantment, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness,
happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness,
paradise, rapture, ravishment, trance,
Notes: enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to
stand outside the ordinary self'
Antonyms: despair, sorrow, torment, MISERY
COURAGEOUS
BOLD, STRONG
LARGE
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: spoiled, exhausted
Synonyms: corrupt, debased, decadent, decayed, declining, decrepit,
degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, drained, enervated, enfeebled, fargone, feeble, immoral, obsolete, overrefined, overripe, played out,
soft, spent, vitiated, wasted, weak,
Antonyms: capable, tireless, STRONG
387)
Embellish
389) Embrace
391) Endemic
GARNISH
DISFIGURE, ADORN
DISARM
PERISH
Part of Speech: verb Def: make beautiful; decorate
Synonyms: add bells and whistles, adorn, amplify, array, beautify,
bedeck, color, deck, elaborate, emblaze, embroider, enhance, enrich,
exaggerate, festoon, fix up, fudge, garnish, gild, give details, grace,
gussy up, magnify, ornament, overstate, trim
Antonyms: deface, disfigure, mar, simplify, spoil, uglify,
DISFIGURE
REFUSE
REJECT, HARM
HUG
CLASP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold tightly in one's arms
Synonyms: bear hug, clasp, clinch, cling, clutch, cradle, cuddle,
encircle, enfold, entwine, envelop, fold, fondle, grab, grasp, grip,
hug, lock, nuzzle, press, seize, snuggle, squeeze, take in arms, wrap
Antonyms: let go, release, REJECT,
EPIDEMIC
ENDING, HATEFUL
ASSAULTING
LETHARGIC
Definition: native
Synonyms: local, regional Notes: an endemic is a disease that is
constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain
class or in people living in a particular location;an epidemic is a
outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the
same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is occurring a region or
even throughout the world Ant: EPIDEMIC
393) Endow
SNATCH
BORROW, ASK
STEAL
CONTRIBUTE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: give large gift
Synonyms: accord, award, back, bequeath, bestow, come through
with, confer, contribute, donate, empower, enable,
endue,enhance,enrich,establish, favor, finance, found, fund, furnish,
grant, invest, leave, promote, provide, settle on, sponsor, subscribe,
subsidize, supply, support, vest in, will
Antonyms: receive, take, BORROW,
WEAKENED
ENTERED
Antonym: ENERGETIC
NERVOUS, ENERGETIC
EXTERNED
395)
Enervated
397) Enhance
ENRICH
INTENSIFY
INSULT
BEAUTIFY, DEGRADE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improve, embellish
Synonyms: add to, adorn, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate,
augment, beautify, boom, boost, build up, complement, elevate,
embroider, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, increase, intensify, lift,
magnify, pyramid, raise, reinforce, strengthen, swell.
Ant: decrease, fix, lower, minimize, DEGRADE
399) Ennui
401)
Enunciate
403) Epilogue
INTRODUCE
NEWNESS
EXCITEMENT
DULL, POWERLESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boredom
Synonyms: apathy, blahs, blues, dejection, depression,
dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps, fatigue, ho hums, lack of interest,
languidness, languor, lassitude, listlessness,melancholy,satiety,
spiritlessness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn
Antonyms: energy, enthusiasm, EXCITEMENT, liveliness, vigor
ARTICULATE
PRONOUNCE,PROVIDE
ACCUMULATE
MUMBLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: speak clearly
Synonyms: affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop,
enounce, express, intone, modulate, outline, phonate, postulate,
proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, show,
sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice
Antonyms: mispronounce, muffle, MUMBLE
DRAMATIC
DIALOGUE
MONOLOGUE
PROLOGUE, PRELUDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: afterword
Synonyms: coda, concluding speech, conclusion, ending, finale,
follow-up, peroration, postlude, postscript, sequel, summation, swan
song
Antonyms: foreword, introduction, preface, PROLOGUE,
405)
Equanimity
407)
Equitable
409) Erratic
IDENTIFICATION
LIKENESS, LUSTER
QUANTITY
AGITATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: levelheadedness
Synonyms: aplomb, assurance, ataraxia, ataraxy, calm, calmness,
composure, confidence, cool, coolness,
detachment,equability,imperturbability, patience, peace, phlegm,
placidity, poise, presence of mind, sangfroid, serenity, steadiness,
Antonyms: agitation, alarm, anxiety, discomposure, excitableness,
upset, AGITATION
UNFAIR
IMPARTIAL
EJECTIVE, UNBIASED
EQUALITY
Definition: impartial
Syn: candid, cricket, decent, disinterested, dispassionate, due,
ethical, fair, honest, impersonal, just, level,
nonpartisan,proportionate, right, rightful, square, square deal,
stable, unbiased, uncolored. Notes: equable means steady or
unvarying and far from extremes; equitable means fair and
impartial Antonyms: biased, disproportionate, partial, prejudiced,
UNFAIR
IRREGULAR
STEADY, ROMANTIC
ECCENTRIC
FAMOUS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: unpredictable; wandering
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre,
capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dubious, eccentric,
fluctuant, iffy, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, spasmodic,
strange, stray, vagarious, variable, volatile. Ant:certain, consistent,
definite, dependable,predictable,regular,reliable, STEADY,
411) Erudite
413) Escalate
415) Ethereal
UNKNOWN, ILLITERATE
IGNORANT
UNFAMILIAR
ERADICATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: well-educated, cultured
Synonyms: brainy, cultivated, educated, highbrow, in the know,
knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly,
scholastic, studious, wise up
Antonyms: common, ignorant, uncultured, uneducated,
IGNORANT
DECREASE
SUBSIDE, LESSEN
REDUCE
ENHANCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: increase, be increased
Synonyms: amplify, ascend, broaden, climb, enlarge, expand,
extend, grow, heighten, intensify, magnify, make worse, mount,
raise, rise, scale, step up, widen
Antonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, weaken, SUBSIDE
EARTHY
CLUMSY, CRITICAL
IMITATION
PERMANENT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: delicate, heavenly
Synonyms: aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal,
empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer,
impalpable, insubstantial, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime,
subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly,
vaporous, vapory
Antonyms: EARTHY, indelicate, worldly
PRETTY
STERN
417)
Eulogistic
Definition: flattering
Synonyms: adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory,
approving, commendatory, courtly, encomiastic, eulogistic, fawning,
laudatory, plauditory, praiseful, respectful, sycophantic, Notes:
something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such
an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces
completeness in something
Antonyms: blaming, censuring, CRITICAL, denouncing, disparaging,
insulting, reproachful, unflattering
STRIDENT,SIGNIFICANT
DISTASTEFUL
419)
Euphonious
421)
Evacuate
CRITICAL, BRIEF
FREE
LETHARGIC
TEMPORARY
ADMIT
EMERGE, ABANDON
INVADE
OCCUPY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clear an area; empty
Synonyms: abandon, bail out, cut out, decamp, depart, desert,
discharge, displace, eject, expel, forsake, hightail, leave, move out,
pack up, pull out, quit, relinquish, remove, run for the hills,
skidaddle, vacate, withdraw
Antonyms: come in, enter, fill, load, OCCUPY
CLEAR
QUICK, PROTRACTED
423) Evasive
425)
Exasperate
IRRITABLE
INSTANCE, EXPAND
BETRAY
TRANQUILIZE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: upset, provoke
Syns: aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, disturb, drive up the wall,
embitter, enrage, exacerbate, excite, gall, incense, inflame, infuriate,
irk, irritate, madden, needle, nettle, peeve, pique, rankle, rile, roil,
rouse, vex,
Ant:calm, comfort, placate, please, TRANQUILIZE
PROHIBIT
DEMOLISH
427) Exclude
STRAIGHTFORWARD
DODGING
EXHIBIT, PRECLUDE
PERMIT
429)
Excruciating
PAINFUL, TORTUROUS
TROUBLING
ESSENTIAL
SOOTHING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: torturous, painful )(
Syn: acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, exquisite, extreme,
grueling, harrowing, insufferable, piercing, punishing,
racking,rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing,
tormenting, unbearable, unendurable, violent
Ant: bearable, endurable, helpful, SOOTHING
SPIRITUAL,EXCELLENT
431)
Execrable
433)
Exemplary
MEDITATIVE
DESERVING
CRUSHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: horrible, sickening
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious,
confounded, cursed,damnable,defective, deplorable, despicable,
detestable, disgusting, foul, hateful, heinous, horrific, loathsome,
low, monstrous, nauseous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repulsive,
revolting, vile, wretched
Antonyms: nice, pleasant, EXCELLENT
HATEFUL
REPREHENSIBLE
TORMENT
UNDUE, SUPERB
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ideal
Synonyms: admirable, blameless, bueno, characteristic, classical,
commendable, estimable, excellent, guiltless, illustrative, inculpable,
innocent, irreprehensible, neato, paradigmatic, praiseworthy,
prototypical, punctilious, pure, quintessential, sterling, typical,
virtuous, worthy
Ant:erring, incorrect, unideal, REPREHENSIBLE
435)
Exhilarate
437) Exigent
439)
Exonerate
GLADDEN
INVIGORATE
SHABBILY
INSPIRING, DEPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make very happy
Synonyms: animate, boost, buoy, cheer, commove, delight, elate,
enliven, exalt, excite, gladden, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, lift,
quicken, rejoice, send, snap up, stimulate, thrill, turn on, uplift,
vitalize
Antonyms: agitate, DEPRESS, discourage, sadden, upset, worry
CRISIS
OUTSIDE, URGENT
ORDINARY
EXERCISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: urgent, pressing
Synonyms: acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, constraining,
critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant,
menacing, necessary, needful, threatening
Antonyms: ORDINARY, unpressured, usual
REJECT
CONTRACT
ACCUSE, ADMIT
PROCLAIM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: excuse, clear of responsibility or blame
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, disburden, discharge, dismiss,
exculpate, exempt, free, justify, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize,
vindicate, whitewash.
Notes: to exculpate is 'to free from accusation or blame' while
exonerate is literally 'to free from a burden' Ant: ACCUSE,
blame, charge, sentence
441) Exoteric
443) Expunge
445) Extant
ECSTATIC
ESOTERIC
DEVELOPED
MONASTIC, FOREIGN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: outside
Synonyms: exoteric , external, extraneous, extraterrestrial,
extraterritorial, extrinsic, foreign, marginal, outdoor, outer,
outermost, outlying, outmost, outward, over, peripheral, superficial,
surface
Antonyms: central, interior, middle, ESOTERIC
ERASE
DILATE, ENTITY
IMPRINT
EXTRIPATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: destroy, obliterate
Synonyms: abolish, annihilate, annul, black, black out, blot out, blue
pencil, cancel, cut, delete, discard, drop, efface, eradicate, erase,
exclude, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, kayo, kill, launder,
omit, raze, remove, scrub, trim, zap
Antonyms: bear, build, construct, create, IMPRINT
DESTROYED
EXTINGUISHED
FORGOTTEN
UNHEEDED, EXIST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: in existence
Synonyms: actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current,
existent, existing, immediate, in current use, instant, living, not lost,
present, real, remaining, subsisting, surviving, undestroyed
Antonyms: dead, extinct, gone, DESTROYED
447)
Extenuate
449) Extinct
451)
Extravagant
PALLIATE
QUALITY, ENHANCE
OFFHAND
REDUCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lessen, mitigate
Synonyms: decrease, diminish, downplay, excuse, justify, make
allowances, minimize, moderate, palliate, qualify, reduce, soften
Antonyms: ENHANCE
GONE, ARRIVING
EXISTING
USED
VANISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dead, obsolete
Syn: abolished, archaic, asleep, bygone, deceased, defunct,
departed, disappeared, doused, ended, exanimate, exterminated,
extinguished, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, out, outmoded,
superseded, terminated, unknown, vanished, vanquished, void
Antonyms: alive, EXISTING, extant, living
DEVELOPING
WONDERFUL
DISAPPEARING
ECONOMICAL, REAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: indulgent, wasteful
Syn: absurd, bizarre, costly, crazy, exaggerated, excessive,
exorbitant, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, garish, gaudy,
grandiose,immoderate,implausible, lavish, ornate, ostentatious,
pretentious, prodigal, profligate, reckless, ridiculous,
showy,spendthrift.
Ant: close, ECONOMICAL, moderate, provident, reasonable,
saving, stingy, thrifty, unpretentious
453) Extrinsic
455)
Exultation
457)
Fabricate
REPULSIVE
OUTSIDE, EFFECTIVE
EXPRESSIVE
INHERENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foreign
Synonyms: acquired, alien, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous,
gained, imported, outer, outside, outward, superficial
Antonyms: essential, integral, interior, intrinsic, necessary,
INHERENT
ECSTASY, FRUGALITY
MOURNING
SEVERE
INTERFERENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: celebration, reveling
Synonyms: crowing, delight, elation, glee, gloating, glory,
happiness, high spirits, joy, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation,
merriment, rejoicing, satisfaction, transport, triumph
Antonyms: discouragement, MOURNING
DAMAGE, DESTROY
DISINTEGRATE
IMPLICATE
ASSEMBLE
Part of Speech: verb Def: manufacture
Synonyms: assemble, brainstorm, build, compose, concoct,
construct, contrive, create, devise, dream up, erect, fashion, form,
formulate, frame, invent, join, make, mix, organize, prefab,
produce, put together, shape, structure, think up.
Antonyms: break, demolish, DESTROY, ruin, wreck
459)
Facsimile
REPRODUCTION
SINCERE, ORIGINAL
FACT-FINDING
ENGINEERED
Part of Speech: noun
Def: reproduction
Synonyms: carbon, carbon copy, clone, copy, copycat, dead ringer,
double, duplicate, likeness, miniature, mirror, photocopy, photostat,
print, reduplication, replica, replication, repro, ringer, spitting
image, stat, transcript, twin
Antonyms: ORIGINAL
461)
Factitious
ORIGINAL
GENUINE
ARTIFICIAL
MANUAL, REAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unnatural
Synonyms: artificial, false, sham
Notes: factitious refers to 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what
is genuine, while fictitious is 'made up, contrived' as opposed to
what is real; a factitious story might be designed to serve a purpose,
but a fictitious story is intended to deceive Antonym: GENUINE
463) Fallacy
BLUNDER
ERROR, ABANDON
TRUTH
ELUSION
Def: illusion, misconception
Synonyms: aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil,
deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion,
equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, flaw, heresy, illogicality,
inconsistency, inexactness, misapprehension, mistake, notion,
paradox, perversion, preconception, quibbling, quirk,
Ant:certainty, fact, honesty, reality, right, TRUTH
465) False
467) Fatigue
469) Feasible
TRUE, GENUINE
CORRECT
PROPER
ERRONEOUS
Definition: wrong, made up
Synonyms:apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, deceitful, fake,
fallacious, faulty, fictitious, fishy,
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable
to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not
in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
Antonyms: accurate, actual, correct, TRUE
VITALITY, WEARINESS
SOLEMN
ENCHANT
BURDEN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tiredness
Synonyms: brain fag, burnout, debility, dullness, enervation, ennui,
exhaustion, faintness, fatigation, feebleness, heaviness, languor,
lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, overtiredness, weakness, weariness
Antonyms: energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor, VITALITY
IMPOSSIBLE
IRRATIONAL
IMPRACTICABLE
OBVIOUS,ATTAINABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: possible, doable
Synonyms: achievable, advantageous, appropriate, attainable,
beneficial, breeze, cinch, expedient, fit, fitting, likely, performable,
pie, practicable, practical, probable, profitable, pushover, realizable,
reasonable, snap, suitable, viable.
Antonyms: impossible, inconceivable, unfeasible, unlikely,
unpractical, IMPRACTICABLE
471) Fecund
HARD, UNPLOUGHED
SOLID
BARREN
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: productive
Synonyms: breeding, fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, generating,
pregnant, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rich,
spawning, teeming
Antonyms: impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive,
BARREN
473)
Felicitous
SAD
HAPPY, FRIGID
COLD
AMBITIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: appropriate, suitable
Synonyms: applicable, apposite, apropos, apt, convincing, fit,
fitting, germane, happy, inspired, just, meet, neat, opportune, pat,
pertinent, proper, propitious, relevant, seasonable, telling, timely.
Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, infelicitous, inopportune,
unfitting, unsuitable, SAD
475) Fend
HOSTILITY
LAXITY, FRIENDSHIP
NATIVE
COMPENSATION
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defend
Synonyms: bulwark, cover, dodge, guard, oppose, parry, protect,
repel, resist, safeguard, screen, secure, shield
Antonyms: surrender, yield , FRIENDSHIP
477) Fervent
479) Fetid
481) Fiasco
FIERY
ARDOUR, POISONOUS
APATHETIC
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: enthusiastic, excited
Synonyms: animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager,
earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, glowing, heartfelt, hearty,
impassioned, intense, passionate, perfervid, pious, religious,
responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm,
warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous
Ant: cool, discouraged, impassive, APATHETIC
STINKY
FOUL, PUTRID
FORWARD
FRESH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foul, rancid
Synonyms: corrupt, fusty, grody, icky, loathsome, lousy,
malodorous, mephitic, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rank,
reeking, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, smelly, stenchy,
stinking, stinky, strong, yecchy, yucky
Antonyms: aromatic, clean, fragrant, pure, sweet, FRESH
CAMEO, MANSION
POLLUTION
SUCCESS
GAMBLE
Part of Speech: noun Def: catastrophe
Synonyms: abortion, blunder, botched situation, breakdown,
debacle, disaster, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, embarrassment,
error, failure, farce, flap, flop, mess, miscarriage, route, ruin,
screwup, stunt, washout
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, SUCCESS,
wonder
WILD
483) Fierce
485) Flaccid
487)
Flamboyant
DOCILE, CALM
TIMID
VIOLENT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: violent, menacing
Syn: angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous,blustery, boisterous,
brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral,
ferocious, fiery, flipped, furious, malevolent, malign, murderous,
passionate, powerful, raging, raving, relentless
Antonyms: calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame,
tender, unthreatening, CALM
FLABBY
LAX, FIRM
OBSOLETE
SLOPPY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: drooping
Synonyms: debilitated, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, flabby,
flimsy, inelastic, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, nerveless, quaggy,
sapped, slack, soft, weak, weakened
Antonyms: FIRM, taut, tight
EXCITED
QUIET, ANGRY
MULTI-COLOURED
AGGRESSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: extravagant, theatrical
Synonyms: baroque, bombastic, brilliant, camp, colorful, dashing,
dazzling, elaborate, exciting, flaming, flashy, florid, gassy, gaudy,
glamorous, jazzy, luscious, ornate, ostentatious, pretentious, rich,
rococo, showy, splashy, sporty, swank,
Ant: calm, moderate, modest, restrained, QUIET
489) Flicker
QUIVER
GLOW, DEFORMITY
PRESAGE
QUIET
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spark, glimmer
Synonyms: beam, flare, flash, gleam, oscillation, quivering, ray,
scintillation, twinkle, vibration
Antonym: GLOW
TIED
HIGH
491) Flow
493) Fluster
ACCESS, EBB
FLY
UPSET, DISCONCERT
ARRANGE
DISOBEY
ACCLAIM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: perturbation, upset
495)
Foreigner
497) Forlorn
499) Fragile
NATIONAL
STRANGER, NATIVE
ALIEN
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person from another country
Synonyms: alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer,
newcomer, outlander, outsider, stranger
Antonyms: citizen, local, national, NATIVE
HAPPY, GLOOMY
JOYOUS
CREDIBLE
DEJECTED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: hopeless, inconsolable
Syn: abandoned, alone, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, depressed,
deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate. Notes: lonely adds to
solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome
heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even
more isolated and sad Ant: cheerful, comforted, consolable,
JOYOUS
BRITTLE
STRONG, ABRASION
HORRID
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: breakable, dainty
Synonyms: brittle, crisp, crumbly, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fine,
flimsy, fracturable, frail, frangible, friable, infirm, insubstantial,
shatterable, shivery, slight, unsound, weak, weakly
Antonyms: durable, firm, STRONG, tough, unbreakable
SANE
CANDID
501) Frantic
503) Frigid
505) Fructify
OPEN, MAD
CONFUSED
SEXY
FRIED, BORDER
COOLING-MACHINE
LOVABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extremely cold
Synonyms: Siberian, antarctic, arctic, chill, chilly, cool, freezing,
frost-bound, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, hyperboreal, ice-cold,
icebox, icy, refrigerated, snappy, three-dog night, wintry
Antonyms: hot, warm, SEXY
ENRICH, FRUITFUL
HACK
UPGRADE
STERILIZE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fertilize
Synonyms: fecundate, impregnate, pollinate
Antonyms:
STERILIZE
507)
Frugality
509)
Fulminate
511) Fungible
SHOWY, EXHIBITION
EXTRAVAGANCE
VISAGE
ECONOMY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: economizing
Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation,
economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness,
moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony,
penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess,
thrift, thriftiness
Ant: generosity, lavishness, EXTRAVAGANCE
MURMUR
CLAMOUR
EFFICACIOUS
VAIN, COOPERATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize harshly
Synonyms: animadvert, berate, blow up, bluster, castigate, censure,
condemn, curse, declaim, denounce, denunciate, execrate, explode,
fume, intimidate, inveigh against, menace, protest, rage, rail,
reprobate, thunder, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, defend, flatter, praise, support, MURMUR
CORROSIVE
IRIDESCENT, UNIQUE
RETROGRADE
DISCURSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: identical, transposable
Synonyms: changeable, commutable, compatible, converse,
convertible, correspondent, equivalent, exchangeable, fungible ,
interconvertible, mutual, reciprocal, reciprocative, same,
substitutable, synonymous, workalike
Antonyms: different, dissimilar, UNIQUE
513) Gainsay
515) Gallant
517)
Garrulity
LOOSE
HARD, FIX
AFFIRM
RELIABLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: contradict
Synonyms: combat, contravene, controvert, cross, deny, disaffirm,
disagree, disclaim, disprove, dispute, fight, impugn, negate,
negative, oppose, refute, repudiate, resist, traverse, withstand
Antonyms: agree, concur, go along, HARD
BOLD
FINE, FROLIC
COWARD
VALIANT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: brave, splendid
Syn: attentive, bold, considerate, courageous, courteous, courtly,
daring, dashing, dauntless, dignified, doughty, fearless, glorious,
gracious, grand, gritty, honorable, intrepid, lofty, magnanimous,
noble, plucky, quixotic, stately, stouthearted, suave, urbane, valiant,
valorous
Antonyms: afraid, COWARD, fearful, timid,
RETICENCE
GAUDY, SUPERB
ABETTOR
ORNATE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: loquacity
Synonyms: chattiness, garrulousness, glibness, grandiloquence,
logorrhea, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness,
verbosity, volubility, wordiness
Antonyms: RETICENCE
519) Gauche
521)
Generous
523)
Germane
MISTAKE
ABUSIVE
ATTRACTIVE
GUILE, GAUNT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tactless, unsophisticated
Synonyms: awkward, bumbling, clumsy, crude, graceless, green,
halting, ignorant, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit,
oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, wooden
Antonyms: elegant, graceful, mannerly, polished, refined,
sophisticated, tactful, tasteful, ATTRACTIVE
MAGNANIMOUS
VISUAL, VIVID
STINGY
KINDLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: giving, big-hearted
Synonyms: acceptable, altruistic, benevolent, big, bounteous,
bountiful, charitable, considerate,easy, equitable, greathearted,
helpful, honest,honorable, kindly, lavish, liberal, lofty, loose,
magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, prodigal, profuse,
reasonable, thoughtful, tolerant, ungrudging.
Ant: greedy, mean, miserly, selfish, STINGY
TOTAL, RELATED
UNRELANTED
BRAVE
COWARDLY
Def: appropriate
Syn: akin, allied, applicable, applicative, applicatory, apposite,
apropos, apt, cognate, kindred, legit, material, pertinent,
proper,related, relating, relevant, Notes: germane and relevant
indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material
means pertinent and necessary
Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, irrelevant, unfitting,
UNRELANTED, unsuitable
525) Giddy
527) Gist
529) Glib
DIZZY
SILLY, CONFUSED
STRONG
SERIOUS
Def: silly, impulsive
Syn: bemused, brainless, bubbleheaded, capricious, careless,
changeable, ditzy, dizzy, erratic, fickle, flighty, flustered, frivolous,
gaga, heedless, inconstant, irresolute, punchy, reckless, reeling,
scatterbrained, skittish, slaphappy, unsettled, unstable, unsteady,
vacillating, volatile, whimsical, whirling, wild, woozy
Ant:calm, careful, level-headed,sensible, SERIOUS
CIRCUMLOCUTION
PITH, FORCE
EXPEDITE
ESSENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: meaning, essence
Syn: basis, bearing, bottom line, burden, core, drift, force, heart,
idea, import, kernel, keynote, marrow, matter, nitty gritty, nuts and
bolts, pith, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short,
significance, soul, spirit, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme,
thrust, topic, upshot
Antonym: CIRCUMLOCUTION
DEAF
HANDICAPPED
DUMB, HESITANT
FACILE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: slick, smooth-talking
Synonyms: artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip,
fluent, garrulous, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready,
suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble
Antonyms: inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, tongue-tied,
uncommunicative, DUMB
531) Glut
533) Gnome
535)
Grandiloque
nce
LIMIT
SUPPLY, DEARTH
DEMAND
SURPLUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overabundance
Synonyms: excess, nimiety, oversupply, plenitude, saturation,
superfluity, surfeit, surplus.
Antonyms: insufficiency, lack, need, want, DEARTH
GLOOM
CASUAL
SMALL
GIANT, FAIRY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: troll
Synonyms: elf, fairy
GIANT
Antonym:
CIVIL, POMPOSITY
JARRING
SIMPLICITY
COMPLEXITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bombast
Synonyms: boastful, claptrap, eloquence, fustian, grandiosity,
magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity
Notes: magniloquence refers to a language that is lofty and
extravagant, whereas grandiloquence refers to a language that is
pompous or bombastic Antonym: SIMPLICITY
537) Gratify
539)
Gratuitous
541) Greedy
DEFEAT, DISTRESS
FRUSTRATE
DISCOURAGE
DELIGHT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give pleasure; satisfy
Synonyms: appease, arride, coddle, content, delectate, delight, do
one proud, do the trick, enchant, favor, gladden, humor, indulge,
make happy, oblige, pamper, please, recompense, requite, thrill
Antonyms: annoy, disappoint, disturb, FRUSTRATE, offend, pain,
upset
NEEDLESS
GRATEFULLNESS
FILTHY, IMPURITY
WARRANTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: free
Syn: chargeless, complimentary, costless, gratis, spontaneous,
unpaid, voluntary, Notes: grateful means feeling or showing
gratitude or feeling thankful; gratified means having received what
was desired; gratuitous means costing nothing or free - unnecessary
or unwarranted - without cause
Antonyms: costly, expensive, WARRANTED
RAVENOUS
VORACIOUS
DULL, LAVISH
GRASPING
Def: desiring excessively
Syn: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, covetous, eager,
edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby,
grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, itchy,
miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, piggish, prehensile,
ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, voracious
Ant: abstemious, benevolent, LAVISH
543) Grim
545)
Grotesque
547)
Gruesome
SERIOUS
SATISFYING
DELIGHTFUL
PAINFUL, HARSH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
Syn: austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed,
cruel, crusty, dogged,ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding,
formidable, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, gruesome,
merciless, morose, ominous, relentless,
Ant:bright, cheerful, hopeful, DELIGHTFUL
ARCHAIC
WHIMSICAL
GRACEFUL
MILD, BIZARRE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: ugly, misshapen
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, absurd, antic, bizarre, deformed,
distorted, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fantastic,
flamboyant, freakish, grody, incongruous, ludicrous, malformed,
monstrous, odd, outlandish, preposterous, queer, ridiculous, strange,
surrealistic, uncanny, weird.
Antonyms: beautiful, nice, pretty, GRACEFUL
DISGUSTING
ATTRACTIVE
GRISLY, STERN
HIDEOUS
Definition: horrible, awful
Syn: abominable, appalling, daunting, fearful, frightful, ghastly,
grim, grisly, grody, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific,
horrifying, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid
Notes: grueling means characterized by physical effort to the point
of exhaustion; gruesome means shockingly repellent, inspiring
horror
Ant: beautiful, pleasant, pretty , ATTRACTIVE
549) Guile
551) Gullible
553) Gusto
INGRATITUDE
INGENUOUSNESS
INCORRECT, ARTLESS
CUNNING
Part of Speech: noun
Def: slyness, cleverness
Synonyms: artfulness, artifice, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning,
deceit, deception, dirty dealing, dishonesty, dissemblance,
dissimulation, duplicity, foul play, jive, ruse, sellout, sharp practice,
treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness
Antonyms: artlessness, frankness, honesty, naivety, openness,
sincerity, ARTLESS
FISH
CREDULOUS
SHREWD, TRAVELLER
BIRD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: naive, trusting
Syn: believing, biting, credulous, foolish, innocent, silly, simple,
sucker, susceptible, swallowing whole, taken in, trustful,
unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed
Antonyms: astute, discerning, SHREWD perceptive, suspicious,
unbelieving, untrusting.
SADNESS, DISTASTE
DISCOLOUR
GLOOM
DELICIOUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: great enthusiasm
Synonyms: appetite, appreciation, ardor, brio, delectation, delight,
enjoyment, exhilaration, fervor, heart, liking, palate, passion,
pleasure, relish, savor, taste, verve, zeal, zest
Antonyms: apathy, reluctance, unenthusiasm, DISTASTE
555) Habitual
557) Haggard
559) Halcyon
IRREGULAR
CUSTOMARY, DEBAR
SCHISM
NORMAL
Definition: usual, established
Synonyms: accepted, accustomed, addicted, addicting, automatic,
chronic, confirmed, cyclic.
Notes: habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed
practice; customary means in accordance with convention or
custom; usual means normally experienced, or observed
Ant: infrequent, inhabitual, intermittent, occasional, rare,
unestablished, IRREGULAR
PLUMP
VAST, MAIDENLY
SHREWD
GAUNT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: worn, weakened
Synonyms: ashen, careworn, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded,
fagged, fatigued, fretted, gaunt, ghastly, lank, lean, pale, pallid,
pinched, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin,
tired, wan, wasted, weak, wearied, wrinkled
Antonyms: fresh, healthy, hearty, strong, unworn, PLUMP
MARTIAL
SERENE, TRANQUIL
BRAVE
RELAXED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: calm, peaceful
Synonyms: at peace, balmy, bucolic, gentle, golden, happy,
harmonious, palmy, pastoral, quiet, serene, soothing, still, sunny,
tranquil, untroubled Antonym: MARTIAL
561)
Haphazard
DELIBERATE
CARELESS, RANDOM
CASUAL
IMMEDIATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without plan or organization
Syn: accidental, aimless, arbitrary, careless, casual, chance,
designless, desultory, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, fluke,
incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, loose, offhand, purposeless,
random, reckless, slapdash, slipshod.
Antonyms: careful, designed, intentional, methodical, organized,
planned, DELIBERATE
RANT, EROSION
CALLOUS
563)
Harangue
565) Hard
SILENCE
UPROAR
SOFT, SMOOTH
DELICATE
EASY
LESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rocklike
Synonyms: adamantine, callous, compact, compacted, compressed,
concentrated, consolidated, dense, firm, hardened, impenetrable,
indurate, indurated, inflexible, iron, packed, rigid, rocky, set, solid,
stiff, stony, strong, thick, tough.
Antonyms: flexible, malleable, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding, SOFT
567)
Harmony
569) Hawk
SUCCESS
CONFLICT, JOY
SOLACE
ACCORD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social agreement
Synonyms: accord, affinity, amicability, amity, compatibility,
concord, conformity, consensus, consistency, cooperation,
correspondence, empathy, friendship, good will, kinship, sympathy,
tranquility, unanimity, understanding, unity
Antonyms: clash, disagreement, discord, fighting, CONFLICT
PEACEFUL
PIGEON, FIGHTER
DOVE
BRAVE
Definition: a warlike person
Synonyms: belligerent, chauvin, chauvinist, jingo, jingoist,
militarist, war hawk, warmonger
Notes: falcon probably comes ultimately from Germanic falkon; a
falcon's wings are longer and more pointed than hawk wings and
they are fast, frenzied fliers as opposed to hawks which have a flapsoar pattern of flying
Antonyms: DOVE
FOOT
TOES
571) Head
BOTTOM, TOIL
APTITUDE
573) Hearsay
GOSSIP
ROBUST, SOBERING
FACT
INFORMATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unsubstantiated information
Synonyms: clothesline, comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, mere talk,
report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk.
Antonyms: evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth, FACT
SOCIALISM,INTOXICATION
575)
Hedonism
577) Hefty
ASCETICISM
SURREALISM
REVIVALISM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sensualism
Synonyms: debauchery, enjoyment, epicureanism, gratification,
indulgence, pleasure, ASCETICISM
MASSIVE
LIGHT, TIGHT
AMPLE
STUBBORN
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: big, bulky
Synonyms: ample, awkward, beefy, brawny, burly, colossal,
cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large,
major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable,
strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, thumping, tremendous,
unwieldy, vigorous, weighty
Antonyms: slight, small, thin, LIGHT
579) Heinous
581) Heretic
583) Hibernal
ODIOUS, ATROCIOUS
EXCUSABLE
COAX
WICKED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying, monstrous
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, bad, beastly,
crying, cursed, evil, flagitious, flagrant, godawful, grave, hateful,
hideous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive,
outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking,
unspeakable, vicious,villainous
Ant: glorious, lovely, magnificent, EXCUSABLE
HERESY
HERMIT, PIOUS
DEVOTED
INDULGENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: schismatic
Synonyms: apostate, cynic, pagan, sectarian, skeptic
Antonym: PIOUS
SUMMER-LIKE
NATURAL
PERMANENT, PURE
CASUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cold, snowy
Synonyms: biting, bleak, brumal, chilly, cutting, desolate, dismal,
freezing, frigid, frosty, frozen, harsh, hibernal , hiemal, icebox, icy,
raw, snappy, three-dog night
Antonyms: hot, summery, SUMMER-LIKE
585) Hide
SEARCH
SHOW, SEEK
FIND
CLOAK
Def: conceal; remain unseen
Syn: adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage,
cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, Notes: skin is the
general term for an animal's outer covering; hide is the tough skin
of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is
untanned skin of fur-bearing animals Antonyms: bare, disclose,
divulge, exhibit, expose, open, SEEK
LAUGHER, HUMOUR
GLOOM
587) Hilarity
589) Hirsute
RAMBLE
SHORTCOMING
WIDE
CALM, SIMPLE
STRONG
BALD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hairy
Synonyms: bearded, furry, shaggy, woolly
Antonym:
BALD
591) Hoard
593) Homage
DEPOSIT
SUPPLY, SATISFY
ACCUMULATE
SAVE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stockpile
Syn: abundance, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation,
amassment, backlog, cache, collection, conglomeration, cumulation,
fund, garner, heap, mass, pile, reserve, reservoir, stock,
Notes: a hoard is a collection or the action that creates one; a horde
is a crowd, sometimes unfriendly Antonyms: debt, SUPPLY
CONTRACT
CONTEMPT
WASTE, WORSHIP
TRIBUTE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: devotion, admiration
Synonyms: adoration, adulation, allegiance, awe, deference, duty,
esteem, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, genuflection, honor, kneeling,
loyalty, obeisance, praise, respect, reverence, service, tribute,
worship
Antonyms: dishonor, disloyalty, disrespect, faithlessness, scorn,
CONTEMPT
FRANTIC, DISSUADING
COMPULSORY
NO RESULTS
595)
Hortatory
RESIDENCE
UNFRIENDLY
597) Hostile
599) Hubbub
FRIENDLY
OPPOSED
HUMID, CRUEL
AGGRESSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: antagonistic, mean
Syn: adverse, alien, allergic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent,
bitter, catty, competitive, contentious, contrary, disapproving, dour,
hateful, ill-disposed, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious,
malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, oppugnant,
pugnacious, scrappy,spiteful,
Ant: agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, FRIENDLY
COMMOTION
UPROAR
GREAT, CLAMOR
CALM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: commotion, disorder
Synonyms: babel, bedlam, clamor, confusion, din, disturbance, fuss,
hassle, hell broke loose, hue and cry, hurly-burly, jangle, noise,
pandemonium, racket, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, todo, tumult, turmoil, uproar, whirl
Antonyms: CALM, order, peace
VALE
SCORN
NDR
601)
Hummock
FURY, WICKEDNESS
STOCK
603) Hunch
605)
Husbandry
607)
Hyperbole
HINDRANCE
SLAVERY, KINGLY
EMPIRICAL
FOOD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feeling, idea
Syn: anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue,
expectation, forecast, foreknowledge,
forewarning,glimmer,impression, inkling, instinct, intuition,
misgiving, notion, portent, preapprehension, precognition,
presagement, prescience, presentiment, suspicion,
Antonyms: proof, reality, truth, EMPIRICAL
TIMIDNESS
COURAGE, THRIFTY
MATRIMONIAL
WASTEFULNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: farming
Synonyms: agriculture, land management, tillage Antonym:
WASTEFULNESS
DOWNTRODDEN
UNDERESTIMATE
CONTEMPT, CUPIDITY
EXAGGERATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggeration
Synonyms: amplification, big talk, coloring, distortion,
embellishment, embroidering, enlargement, magnification,
metaphor, overstatement.
Antonyms: understatement, UNDERESTIMATE
609)
Hypocrisy
611)
Hypothetical
613)
Hysterical
BUSY
NAVE, CANDOUR
AWARE
FRAUD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense
Syn:affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception,
dishonesty, display,dissembling, dissimulation, duplicity, falsity,
fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, mockery,
pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, quackery,
sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness
Ant: honesty, righteousness, sincerity, CANDOUR
THEORETICAL
AXIOMATIC
ACCURATE,IMAGINARY
CONJECTUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: guessed, assumed
Syn: academic, assumptive, casual, concocted, conditional,
conjecturable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, debatable,
disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite,
indeterminate, postulated,presumptive,
Ant: calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, proven, real,
reliable, AXIOMATIC
CONTROLLED
EMOTIONAL
RAVING, WILD
INSINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: very upset, excited
Syn:agitated, berserk, blazing, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious,
distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming,
furious, impassioned, impetuous, in a fit, incensed, irrepressible,
mad, maddened, nervous,passionate, possessed, rabid, raging,
rampant, raving,seething.
Antonyms: calm, CONTROLLED, serene
615) Ignoble
617)
Ignominy
619) Illicit
MEAN
DISHONOURABLE
FAMILIAR
TRANQUIL, WORTHY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowly, unworthy
Syn: abject, base, baseborn, coarse, common, corrupt, craven,
dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful,
dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean,
menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, poor, rotten, scurvy,
servile, shabby, shameful
Ant: dignified, grand, high, honorable, WORTHY
DISTINCTION
SHAME, INDISPOSE
LOGIC
DISHONOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offensive behavior
Synonyms: baseness, disgrace, lowness, meanness, sordidness
Antonym: DISTINCTION
LEGAL, LAWFUL
DELUSIVE
LEGITIMATE
SHAMEFUL
Def: not legal; forbidden
Syn: adulterous, bootleg, clandestine, contraband, furtive, guilty,
illegal, illegitimate, immoral.
Notes: elicit means to call forth emotions, feelings, and responses
or to bring out or draw out, while illicit means contrary to or
forbidden by law - unlawful; literally, illegitimate is 'not lawful' and
illicit is 'not allowed'
Ant: blessed, legal, legitimate, licit, LAWFUL
621) Imbecile
623) Imp
625)
Impartial
IDIOTIC
CLEAR, HERETIC
BEWITCHED
FOOL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid, foolish
Synonyms: asinine, backward, deranged, dim-witted, dull, fatuous,
feeble-minded, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, ludicrous, moronic, simple,
simple-minded, slow, thick, witless
Antonyms: brainy, intelligent, smart, CLEAR
DEMON
ROGUE
ANGEL, PEDESTRIAN
IDIOT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mischievous child, small person
Synonyms: brat, demon, devil, deviling, devilkin, elf, fiend, gamin,
gnome, gremlin, hellion, minx, pixie, puck, rascal, rogue, scamp,
sprite, troll, tyke, urchin, villain
Antonym: ANGEL
UNBIASED
SLUGGISH, ABSURD
BIASED
FAIR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: fair, unprejudiced
Syn:candid, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable,
evenhanded, impersonal, just, neutral, nondiscriminating,
nondiscriminatory, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unbigoted,
uncolored, unslanted, without favor
Antonyms: biased, discriminating, favoring, partial, prejudiced,
unfair, unjust, BIASED
627)
Impecunious
629)
Imperceptible
631)
Implicate
HARSH, POLITE
WEALTHY
POOR
FAULTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: poverty-stricken
Synonyms: beggared, destitute, dirt poor, homeless, impoverished,
indigent, insolvent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor,
strapped, unprosperous
Antonyms: moneyed, rich, WEALTHY
SUBTLE
NOTICEABLE
EXPLICIT, SOLICIT
IGNORABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hard to sense; faint
Synonyms: ephemeral, evanescent, fine, gradual, impalpable,
imponderable, inappreciable, inaudible, inconsiderable,
indiscernible, indistinct, insensible, insignificant, invisible,
microscopic, minute, momentary, shadowy, slight,
Ant: apparent, conspicuous, distinct, evident, noticeable, obvious,
perceptible, NOTICEABLE
INVOLVE
HINTED, EXTRICATE
LAZY
ENTANGLE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: imply, involve
Syn: accuse, affect, associate, blame, charge, cite, compromise,
concern, connect, embroil, entangle, frame, hint, impute, include,
incriminate, inculpate, insinuate, link, mean, mire, name, suggest,
Antonyms: defend, pardon, support, EXTRICATE
633)
Impudent
635)
Incarcerate
637)
Inclement
DISCOURTEOUS
COURTEOUS
KIND, HELPFUL
OFFENSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold, shameless
Synonyms: arrant, audacious, barefaced, blatant, boldfaced, brassy,
brazen, bumptious, contumelious, forward, fresh, immodest,
impertinent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presumptuous,
procacious, rude, unabashed, unblushing.
Antonyms: humble, modest, polite, COURTEOUS
MOBILIZE
IMPERSONATE
TREAT, LIBERATE
IMPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put in jail, confinement
Synonyms: bastille, commit, confine, constrain, coop up, detain,
hold, immure, impound, imprison, intern, jail, lock up, put away,
railroad, restrain, restrict, send up the river, settle, slough.
Antonyms: free, let go, release, LIBERATE
PLEASANT
SERENE, BEAUTIFUL
ATTRACTIVE
GLOOMY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bitter, nasty (weather)
Synonyms: brutal, cold, foul, hard, harsh, intemperate, raw,
rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stormy, tempestuous, violent,
wintry
Antonyms: clear, mild, nice, sunny, PLEASANT
REDUCTION,DEDUCTION
639)
Induction
641)
Inevitable
643)
Inflexible
PRODUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
SEDUCTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taking in, initiation
Synonyms: consecration, draft, entrance, greetings, inaugural,
inauguration, installation, instatement, institution, introduction,
investiture, ordination, selection
Antonyms: blackballing, expulsion, rejection, DEDUCTION
UNAVOIDABLE
EATABLE
UNCERTAIN,MUTILATED
HALF-BAKED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: certain; cannot be avoided
Syn: assured, binding, compulsory, decided, decreed, destined,
determined, doomed, fated, fateful, fixed, foreordained, imminent,
impending, in the bag, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable,
inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable,
Ant: avoidable, doubtful, escapable, fortuitous, preventable,
UNCERTAIN, unlikely, unsure
SOFT, TENDER
YIELDING
OBEDIENT
RIGID
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: stubborn
Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, determined, dogged, firm, fixed,
immovable, immutable, implacable, indomitable, inexorable,
intractable, iron, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, resolute, rigid,
rigorous, set, staunch, steadfast, steely, stiff, strict, stringent,
unadaptable, unbending
Ant: flexible, reasonable, willing, YIELDING
645)
Ingenuous
647) Inimical
649) Iniquity
FRANK
INSINCERE
WANDERING
ANNOY, ARTLESS
Def: honest, trustful
Syn: artless, candid, childlike, frank, guileless, innocent, naive,
natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square,
straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial,
undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated,
Notes: ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid'
or 'nave'
Antonyms: deceitful, dishonest, sly, INSINCERE
RELATED
FRIENDLY, NEUTRAL
CHEERFUL
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: antagonistic, contrary
Synonyms: adverse, antipathetic, destructive, disaffected, harmful,
hostile, hurtful, inimicable, injurious, noxious, opposed, oppugnant,
pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, unwelcoming
Antonyms: FRIENDLY, hospitable, kind
CRUELTY
INJUSTICE
EQUITABLE
INTENSITY, QUAIL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sin, evil
Synonyms: abomination, baseness, crime, evildoing, heinousness,
immorality, infamy, injustice, miscreancy, misdeed, offense,
sinfulness, unfairness, unrighteousness, wickedness, wrong.
Notes: inequity is 'injustice, unfairness'; iniquity refers to
'immorality, sin, wickedness'
Antonyms: good, goodness, virtue, EQUITABLE
651) Innocent
653) Insanity
655) Insipid
SINFUL
GUILTY, DEADLY
CORRUPTION
SINLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blameless
Syn: above suspicion, angelic, chaste, clean, cleanhanded, clear,
crimeless,exemplary,faultless, free of, good, guiltless, honest,
immaculate, impeccable, impeccant, in the clear, inculpable,
irreproachable, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit,
Antonyms: bad, blamable, corrupt, evil, GUILTY, sinful
SANITY
NORMALITY
LUCIDITY, SOBRIETY
CRAZINESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: mental illness; foolishness
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, alienation, craziness, delirium,
delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy,
hallucination, hysteria, inanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy,
madness, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance,
witlessness
Antonyms: balance, SANITY, soundness, wellness
STUPID
TASTY, DISCREET
FEAST
INHALE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: dull, uninteresting
Synonyms: anemic, arid, banal, beige, bland, characterless,
colorless, commonplace, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, inane,
innocuous,jejune, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, nebbish, nothing,
ordinary, prosaic, prosy, slight, spiritless, stale,
Antonyms: exciting, exhilarating, interesting, pleasing, TASTY
BANKRUPT
INTUITION
XXXXX
WEALTHY
TRANSLATE, POOR
657) Insovent
659) Inspired
OVERWHELMED
DISPIRITED
SKEPTICAL,MOTIVATED
DISILLUSIONED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: encourage, stimulate
Syn: affect, animate, carry, cause, commove, elate, embolden,
endue, enkindle, exalt,excite,exhilarate, galvanize, hearten, imbue,
impress, infect, inflame, influence, inform, infuse, inspirit, instill,
invigorate, motivate, occasion, produce, provoke
Antonyms: discourage, dissuade, DISPIRITED
WATER-COLOUR
JOINING
NDR
661) Intaglio
CAMEO, APPENDIX
SILLY
663)
Intransigent
665) Inundate
667)
Inveterate
SURRENDERING
CORRIGIBLE,URGENT
NON-TRANSFERABLE
POROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncompromising
Synonyms: adamant, inflexible, obstinate, resolute, stubborn,
tenacious
Notes: intractable means stubborn or obstinate; intransigent is
this, but implies being more intense and refusing to compromise or
change
Antonyms: SURRENDERING
DRAIN
FLOOD, CABAL
FLOW
SWAMP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: drown, overwhelm
Synonyms: deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow,
overrun, submerge, swamp, whelm
Antonyms: DRAIN
STUPID, UNEDUCATED
IGNORANT
INEXPERIENCED
SPINELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: long-standing, established
Syn: abiding, accustomed, addicted, chronic, confirmed,
continuing, customary, enduring, entrenched, fixed, habitual,
habituated, hardened, inbred, incorrigible, incurable, indurated,
ineradicable, ingrained, innate, lifelong,obstinate, old, perennial,
permanent, persistent, persisting.
Antonyms: short-lived, INEXPERIENCED
ENRAGED,UNCIVILIZED
669) Iracible
671) Irksome
673)
Irrelevant
MODERATE
EVEN-TEMPERED
ILL-TEMPERED
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms: angry, cantankerous, crabby, cranky, huffy, ornery,
surly
Antonym: EVENTEMPERED
BORING
IRRITATING, TRAGIC
HUMOROUS
INTERESTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: annoying
Synonyms: aggravating, boring, bothersome, burdensome,
irritating, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, troubling, vexing
Antonyms: INTERESTING
IMMATERIAL
PERTINENT
UNCONNECTED
FRAGILE, BORING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beside the point
Syn: extraneous, foreign, garbage, immaterial, impertinent,
inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inappurtenant, inapropos,
inapt, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, outside,
pointless, remote, trivial, unapt, unconnected, unimportant,
unnecessary, unrelated
Ant: appropriate, necessary, PERTINENT, related,
675)
Irrepressible
677) Isolation
679) Jaded
SUBDUABLE
HOSTILE, BORE
ALLURING
UNRELIABLE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: effervescent, vivacious
Synonyms: boisterous, bubbling, buoyant, ebullient, enthusiastic,
insuppressible, rebellious,
rhapsodical,tumultous/tumultuous,unconstrained, uncontainable,
uncontrollable, unmanageable, unquenchable, unrestrainable,
unrestrained.
Ant: depressed, despondent, grave, hopeless, serious, SUBDUABLE
SECLUSION
SEGREGATION
HARDIHOOD,HARDNES
ASSOCIATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seclusion
Synonyms: aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, concealment,
confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, monkhood,
privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness,
remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, segregation, sequestration,
solitude, withdrawal
Antonym: ASSOCIATION
BARDED, DECORATED
DULLED
STIMULATED
INDIFFERENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exhausted, indifferent
Synonyms: been around, blas, bored, dulled, fagged, fatigued, had
it, mellow, sated, satiated, sick of, spent, surfeited, tired, tired-out,
up to here, wearied, weary, worn.
Antonyms: fresh, unused, STIMULATED
681) Jargon
683) Jaunty
685) Jejune
LANGUAGE
TERMINOLOGY
SLANG, SILLY
VERNACULAR
Part of Speech: noun Def: specialized language; dialect
Syn: abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk,
buzzwords, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian,
gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo
jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver,
parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole.
Antonyms: standard, LANGUAGE
SEDATE
AIRY, SPRIGHTLY
AGED
SELF-SATISFIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lively
Synonyms: airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree,
careless, cocky, dapper,dashing, debonair, devilish, easy, exhilarated,
flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, gamesome, gay, hilarious,
impetuous, impish, impudent, jocose, joking, jolly, jovial, light,
natty, nervy, perky.
Antonyms: depressed, lethargic, lifeless, SEDATE
PLENTIFUL
SCANTY, MOURN
VENOM
STICKY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: immature
Synonyms: arid, banal, barren, bland, childish, dull, empty, flat,
inane, innocuous, insipid, juvenile, meager, sterile, trite, unexciting,
vapid Antonym: PLENTIFUL
687) Jettison
689) Jocular
OVERBOARD
WASHED, DISCLOSE
SALVAGE
INEVITABLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: eject; throw overboard
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, cashier, cast, cast off, deep-six,
discard, dump, expel, heave, hurl, maroon, reject, shed, slough,
throw away, unload
Antonyms: take in, take on, SALVAGE
HUMOROUS
PROFESSIONAL
SERIOUS, COMBINED
CHEERFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: funny, playful
Syn: amusing, blithe, camp, cheerful, comic, comical, crazy, daffy,
droll, facetious, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jesting,
jokey, joking, jolly, joshing, jovial, joyous, laughable, lighthearted,
lively, ludicrous,merry,mischievous, pleasant, roguish, sportive,
teasing, wacky,
Antonyms: morose, SERIOUS, unfunny
SAD, UNHAPPY
ALOOF
691) Jubilant
GLOOMY
ECSTATIC
693)
Jurisdiction
695) Juvenile
697) Kernel
INDEPENDENCE
YOUNG, NUCLEUS
HARD
AUTHORITY
Part of Speech: noun Def: area of authority
Syn: administration, arbitration, area, authority, bounds, circuit,
command, compass, confines, control, discretion, district, dominion,
empire, extent, field, influence, judicature, limits, magistracy, might,
orbit, power, prerogative, province, purview, range, reach, reign,
right, rule, Antonym: INDEPENDENCE
YOUTHFUL
CONTROL, MATURE
BLIND
JOVIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: childish
Syn: adolescent, babyish, beardless, blooming, boyish, budding,
callow, childlike, developing, formative, fresh, girlish, green,
growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior,
pubescent, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe,
unweaned.
Antonyms: adult, grown-up, MATURE
NUCLEUS, CORE
SURROUNDINGS
ANNOY
BELL-SOUND
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seed, essence
Syn:atom, bit, center, core, crux, fruit, germ, gist, grain, heart, hub,
keynote, marrow, matter, meat, morsel, nub, nubbin, nut, part,
piece, pith, root.
Notes: a kernel is the inner and usually edible part of a seed or
grain, while a colonel is a commissioned military rank
Antonym: SURROUNDINGS
699) Kindle
701) Knotty
703) Kudos
EXTINGUISH
IGNITE
SOFT, ROUSE
EXCITE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start a fire
Synonyms: blaze, burn, fire, flame, flare, glow, ignite, inflame, light,
set alight, set fire
Antonyms: EXTINGUISH, put out
TOUGH
EASY, CARE
QUESTION
DIFFICULT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: troublesome
Synonyms: baffling, complex, complicated, difficult, effortful,
elaborate, formidable, hard, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy,
mystifying, nodulous, perplexing, problematical, puzzling, ramified,
reticular, rough, rugged, sophisticated, terrible, thorny, tough,
tricky, uphill
Antonyms: simple, uncomplicated, EASY
PRAISE
ESTEEM, APPLAUSE
UNKIND
CRITICISM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: praise, acclaim
Synonyms: PR, applause, credit, distinction, eminence, esteem,
fame, flattery, glory, honor, illustriousness, laudation, notability,
plaudits, plum, preeminence, prestige, prominence, puff, raves,
regard, renown, repute, strokes
Antonyms: blame, CRITICISM
705)
Labyrinthine
STRAIGHTFORWARD
TORTUOUS
COMPLEX
LIGHT, ENTANGLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mazelike
Synonyms: complex, convoluted, elaborate, intricate, mazy,
meandering, serpentine, sinuous, tangled, tortuous, twisting,
wandering, winding, zigzag
Antonyms: simple, straight, STRAIGHTFORWARD
INSENSITIVITY,ARMOUR
707)
Laceration
709)
Lackadaisical
PREOCCUPATION
HEALING
PALPITATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cut, wound
Synonyms: gash, injury, lesion, pierce, rip, slash, slice, slit, stab,
tear
Antonym: HEALING
INTELLIGENT, DULL
AMBITIOUS
MONTHLY
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: careless, indifferent
Syn: abstracted, apathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy,
dull, energyless, enervated, faineant, halfhearted, idle, inattentive,
incurious, indolent, inert, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy,
lethargic, limp, listless, moony, passive
Antonyms: active, careful, caring, energetic, enthusiastic, hardworking , AMBITIOUS
HIGH, PRECURSOR
NATURAL
NO RESULTS
FOLLOWER
PRETENTIOUS
711) Ladida
713)
Lampoon
715)
Languish
RIDICULE
SATIRIZE, PIERCE
PRAISE
ENFORCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: parody, satire
Synonyms: burlesque, caricature, invective, pasquil, pasquinade,
pastiche, ridicule, roast, skit, squib, takedown, takeoff
Antonym: PRAISE
SINK
THRIVE, VISAGE
CONGEALED
WEAKEN
Part of Speech: verb Def: droop; become dull, listless
Syn: brood, conk out, decline, desire, despond, deteriorate, die on
vine, dwindle, ebb, fade, fag, fag out, fail, faint, grieve, hanker,
hunger, knock out, long, pine, repine, rot, sicken, sigh, snivel,
sorrow, suffer, tucker, waste, waste away, weaken, wilt, wither,
yearn
Antonyms: flourish, grow, improve, THRIVE
717)
Languorous
719) Latent
721)
Laudation
STILLNESS,LABORIOUS
WEAKNESS
EXHAUSTION
FRENETIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: languid
Syn: apathetic, blahs, comatose, dopey, easy, energyless, enervated,
faint, feeble, flagging, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, infirm,
leaden, leisurely, lethargic, limp, listless, lymphatic, moony, nebbish,
phlegmatic, pining, sluggish, snoozy, spiritless, supine, torpid,
Antonym: FRENETIC
HIDDEN
FORBIDDING
OBVIOUS, ARTIFICIAL
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dormant, hidden
Syn: abeyant, concealed, contained, covert, idle, immature, implied,
in abeyance, inactive, inert, inferential, inferred, inherent, intrinsic,
invisible, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, secret,
sleeping, smoldering, suppressed, tacit, torpid, underlying,
unexposed, unrealized, veiled,
Ant:active, apparent, clear, manifest, OBVIOUS
REDUCTION
PASSIVE, CRITICISM
SIMPLIFICATION
TRANSLATE, POOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: praise
Syn: acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation,
approbation, approval, boost, bravo, celebration, cheer, cheering,
citation, commendation, cry, devotion, encomium, esteem, eulogy,
exaltation, extolment, flattery, glorification, glory, homage, ovation
Antonym: CRITICISM
723) Laish??
725) Laxity
727) Leeward
STINGY
EXTRAVAGANT
GLOOM, CRUDE
WASTE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: profuse; splendid
Syn: abundant, bountiful, copious, excessive, extravagant,
exuberant, free, generous, gorgeous, grand, immoderate, impressive,
inordinate, intemperate, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, opulent,
plush, posh, prodigal, profligate, profusive, prolific, riotous,
sumptuous, thriftless,
Ant: economical, scanty, scarce, small, STINGY
HARSH, STRICTNESS
POLITE
HARDNESS
SHYNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: looseness
Synonyms: indecision, indifference, indulgence, laxness, leniency
Antonym: STRICTNESS,
WINDWARD
TOWARDS
GUARDIAN, PATRON
DOWNWARD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lee
Synonyms: calm, leeside, peaceful, protected, quiet, safe, screened,
secure, serene, sheltered, shielded, smooth, still, undisturbed
Antonyms: downwind, stormy, WINDWARD, windy
729) Lend
731)
Lethargy
HIRE, PAWN
CHEAT
BORROW
DONATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: loan, accommodate
Synonyms: add, advance, afford, allow, bestow, confer, contribute,
entrust, extend, furnish, give, grant, impart, lay on one, let, oblige,
permit, present, provide, shark, stake, supply, trust
Antonyms: BORROW
DROWNSINESS
TORPOR, TEDIOUS
VIGILANCE
LISTLESSNESS
Part of Speech: noun Def: laziness, sluggishness
Syn: apathy, coma, disinterest, disregard, drowsiness, hebetude,
heedlessness, idleness, impassivity, inaction, inanition, indifference,
indolence, inertia, inertness, insouciance,languor, lassitude,
listlessness, passiveness, phlegm, sleep
Ant: activity, busyness, energy, life, liveliness, vigor, vitality,
vivaciousness, VIGILANCE
EXEMPTION, CREDIBILITY
733) Liability
ACCOUNTABILITY
RESPONSIBILITY
ASSUMPTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: answerability, responsibility
Synonyms: accountability, accountableness, amenability,
amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability,
debt, duty, indebtedness, obligation, onus, owing, subjection,
susceptibility
Antonyms: irresponsibility, CREDIBILITY
735)
Lilliputian
737) Limpid
739) Listless
IMPROPER
DWARF, HEALTHY
SOCIALIZED
GIGANTIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tiny
Synonyms: bitsy, bitty, diminutive, dwarf, infinitesimal,
insignificant, little, microscopic, midget, mini, miniature, minikin,
minimum, minuscular, minuscule, minute, negligible, petite, pintsized, pocket, puny, pygmy, slight, teensy, teeny, trifling,
Antonym: GIGANTIC
CLEAR, STRAIGHT
TRANSPARENT
COWARD
TURBID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clear, comprehensible
Syn: bright, comprehensible, crystalline, definite, distinct, filmy,
intelligible, lucid, luculent, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, pure,
thin, translucent, transparent, transpicuous,
Notes: languid is limp or listless; limpid means clear or calm
Ant: incomprehensible, muddy, obscure, TURBID
LANGUID, APATHETIC
ACTIVE
GOBBLE
TIRED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: spiritless, without energy
Syn: absent, abstracted, apathetic, bored, careless, dormant,
dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, energyless, enervated, faint, heavy,
heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent,
inert, lackadaisical, lagging, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless,
limp, lymphatic, passive,
Ant: ACTIVE, alert, attentive, energetic, lively.
SIMILE, METAPHOR
HYPERBOLE
NDR
UNDERSTATEMENT
FLOWER
741) Litotes
743) Livid
745) Loiter
FADED
SHINING
UNDISCOLOURED
POLISHED, BLUISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pale, ashen
Synonyms: ashy, blanched, bloodless, colorless, discolored, dusky,
gloomy, greyish, grisly, leaden, lurid, murky, pallid, pasty, wan,
waxen
Notes: lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly
graphic, while livid means very angry or furious
Ant: blushing, brilliant, flushed, radiant, FADED
HURRY, BUSY
DELAY
LINGER
WANDERER
Part of Speech: verb Def: hang around; stroll
Synonyms: amble, dabble, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, drag, flag,
fritter away, halt, hover, idle, lag, linger, loaf, loll, lounge, pass time,
pause, poke, procrastinate, ramble, saunter, shamble, shuffle,
slacken, slough, tarry, trail, traipse, wait,
Antonyms: HURRY, leave, rush, vamoose
747) Loom
749)
Loquacious
751) Loved
CLEAR, BOOM
LOOSE
MALAISE
REB
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: appear, often imposingly
Syn: approach, await, brew, bulk, dawn, dominate, emanate,
emerge, figure, gather, hover, impend, impress, issue, lower, menace,
mount, near, overhang, overshadow, overtop, portend, rear, rise,
show, soar, threaten, top, tower
Antonym: CLEAR
GABBY, GARRULOUS
BITTER
LIQUID
TACITURN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: talkative
Syn: babbling, chattering, chatty, fluent, gabby, garrulous, gossipy,
jabbering, motormouth, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble,
wordy.
Note: loquacious means very talkative, full of trivial conversation;
articulate means expressing yourself easily, characterized by clear
expressive language Ant: quiet, restrained, TACITURN
REFUSED
DEFAMED
DISTRACTED
AVERTED, HATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: desired
Synonyms: adored, beloved, cherished, precious Antonym:
HATED
753) Lucid
DISTINCT, GLORY
NOISY
OBSCURE
ACCURATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evident, obvious
Synonyms: apprehensible, clear, comprehendible, comprehensible,
distinct, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable,
limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent,
transpicuous, unambiguous, unblurred, understandable
Antonyms: clouded, OBSCURE, unclear, vague
SWEET, TASTELESS
SOUR
755) Luscious
757) Luxury
BITTER
DELICIOUS
POVERTY, DUBLICITY
AUSTERITY
SADNESS
EXTRAVAGANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: great pleasure, indulgence
Syn: affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance,
extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, immoderation,
intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness,
satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat.
Antonyms: AUSTERITY, economy, frugality
759)
Machiavellia
n
761)
Magnanimou
s
763) Magnify
LEARNED
DOUBTFUL, ASIAN
RULER
NAVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scheming
Synonyms: artful, astute, calculating, conniving, contriving, crafty,
cunning, deceitful, devious, expedient, opportunist, plotting, shrewd,
sly, underhanded, unscrupulous, wily
Antonym:
NAVE
MEAN, NOBLE
SCANTY
SWALLOW
VAST
Definition: giving and kind
Syn: altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, bountiful, charitable,
considerate, forgiving, free, generous, great, handsome, kindly,
knightly, liberal, lofty, loose, munificent, noble, selfless, ungrudging.
Notes: magnanimous means noble and generous in spirit;
munificent means very liberal in giving or bestowing - very
generous - lavish
Antonyms: petty, stingy, suspicious, MEAN
INDUCE, DIMINISH
DESTROY
SHRINK
INTENSITY
Part of Speech: verb
Def: enlarge, intensify
Syn: aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, bless, boost, deepen,
dignify, dilate, distend, enhance, ennoble, eulogize, exalt, expand,
extend, glorify, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, intensate, jack up,
jump up, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, redouble, rise, rouse,
sweeten, swell
Ant: decrease, DIMINISH, lessen, weaken
765) Malady
767)
Malevolent
769) Malign
WELL-BEING
DISEASE, RETAIN
FALLACIOUS
INADEQUACY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease
Synonyms: ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, cancer,
complaint, condition, contagion, debility,
disability,disorder,distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, illness, infection,
infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus
Antonym: WELL-BEING
KINDLY, VACUOUS
AMBIVALENT
PRIMITIVE
VINDICTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hateful
Syn: baleful, catty, despiteful, dirty, evil, hellish, hostile, lousy,
malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous,
pernicious,poison,rancorous, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough,
vengeful, vicious.
Notes:while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious
usually means petty and spiteful
Ant: amiable, harmless, KINDLY, liking, loving
DENY, LETHAL
ANSWER
RESPONSE
PRAISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hurtful, injurious
Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic, bad, baleful, baneful,
deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful,
hateful, hostile, inimical, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malignant,
noxious, pernicious, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked
Antonyms: aiding, benign, helpful, nice, PRAISE
GUIDANCE, MISGUIDANCE
CONDUCTION
NO RESULTS
HAND-WRITTEN
CONVECTION
Antonyms:
771)
Manduction
773)
Manumission
LIBERTY, RELEASE
SECRET
TERMINATION
ENSLAVEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom
Synonyms: emancipation, liberation, release, rescue
Antonym: ENSLAVEMENT
REFRESHING
OVERWHELMING
NO RESULTS
775)
Marcescence
DEFEATING
WILTING, ORBITING
Antonym:
KIOSK, FORT-WALL
SLOW
NO RESULTS
MARKET
SWEET
Antonym:
777) Martlet
779)
Masticate
781)
Mawkish
CONCEAL, GOBBLE
REVIEW
REFUSE
REMEMBER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: chew
Synonyms: chomp, crunch, crush, gnash, grind, knead
Antonym: GOBBLE
CLEVER, SHREWD
INTELLIGENT
WHISH
SATIATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sentimental, emotional
Synonyms: bathetic, cloying, feeble, gooey, gushing, gushy,
maudlin, mushy, nauseating, romantic, schmaltzy, sickening, teary
Antonyms: calm, serious, unemotional, INTELLIGENT
783)
Mediocre
785)
Melancholy
787)
Mendacity
AVERAGE
CONTEMPLATE
OUTSTANDING
CONGEAL, INFERIOR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: average, commonplace
Synonyms: characterless, colorless, common, conventional, decent,
dull, fairish, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate,
mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary,
passable, pedestrian, standard, tolerable, undistinguished,
unexceptional, uninspired,vanilla
Ant:exceptional, OUTSTANDING, superior,
CHEERFULNESS
SADNESS, MILD
MATURE
DEJECTION
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressed, sad
Syn:dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal,
dispirited, doleful, dolorous, downbeat, downcast, downhearted,
dragged, droopy,funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, joyless, lachrymose,
lugubrious, moody, moony, mournful, pensive, saddened, saddening,
somber, wistful, woebegone
Ant: cheerful, happy, joyful, CHEERFULNESS
DECEPTION, GIST
RESTORE
TRUSTFULNESS
REPAIR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insincerity
Synonyms: deceit, deception, falsehood, falsification, fraud, lie,
lying, prevarication, untruth, untruthfulness
Antonyms: sincerity, TRUSTFULNESS
789)
Meticulous
SLOVENLY
MERETRICIOUS
SHAGGY, MUTUAL
COMPLEX
Def: detailed, perfectionist
Syn: accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, exact,
fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking,
particular, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous.
Notes: meticulous first meant 'fearful' or 'timid' and now means
'exact, finicky, or precise'; scrupulous means 'conscientious or
principled'
Antonyms: careless, messy, sloppy, SLOVENLY
DESTRUCTIVE-GROWTH
791) Mildew
793) Minor
HEALTHY-GROWTH
MILL-NOISE
MORNING-DEW
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fungus
Synonyms: blight, mold, mould, must, mustiness
HEALTHY-GROWTH
Antonym:
HEAVY, TALL
MAJOR
BIG
NEGLIGIBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: insignificant, small
Synonyms: accessory, below the mark, bush-league, casual,
dependent, dinky, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inferior, junior,
lesser, light, low, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, secondary,
slight, smaller, subordinate,subsidiary, tacky, trifling, trivial,
unimportant, younger
Ant: adult, greater, large, MAJOR, significant
795)
Misdemeanou
r
797) Mitigate
799) Modesty
MISDEED, MERIT
CORRUPT
RECIPROCAL
DEMERIT
NO RESULTS
Antonym:
APPEASE, AGGRAVATE
EXCLUSION
OCCASION
DIMINISH
Part of Speech: verb Def: check, diminish, lighten
Synonyms: abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm,
dull, ease, extenuate, lessen, meet halfway, moderate, modify,
mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, reduce, relieve, remit, soften,
soothe, subdue, temper, tranquilize, weaken
Antonyms: AGGRAVATE, incite, increase, intensify, irritate,
worsen
RELEGATION
COYNESS, DECOY
OSTENTATION
PEERING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shyness
Syn: bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency,
delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness,
inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness,
unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue
Antonyms: arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego,
pride, OSTENTATION
801) Moist
803)
Momentous
DRY, CRISP
WET
BRITTLE
MUGGY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wet, wettish
Synonyms: clammy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, dripping, drippy,
drizzly, humid, irriguous, muggy, not dry, oozy, rainy, soggy, teary,
watery
Antonyms: DRY
SHORT-LIVED
HEAVY, MOMENTUM
FRIVOLOUS
TIMELY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: important; serious
Syn: big, consequential, considerable, critical, crucial, decisive,
epochal, eventful, fateful, grave, heavy, historic, material,
meaningful, memorable, notable, vital, weighty Notes: momentary
means fleeting, brief; momentous means significant and having
great consequence
Ant: immaterial, insignificant, FRIVOLOUS
BARBAROUS
UNEVENNESS
NO RESULTS
805) Monism
POSSESSION
TRANQUILLITY,DUALITY
Antonym:
807) Moot
809) Morose
811) Motile
STRICT, DIFFICULT
NOT DISPUTABLE
DISPUTABLE
ARGUABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, arguable
Synonyms: contestable, controversial, debatable, disputable,
dubious, open, problematic, questionable, suspect, uncertain,
undecided, unresolved, unsettled
Antonyms: decided, definite, proven, resolved, NOT DISPUTABLE
HARMLESS
DECENT, CHEERFUL
UNUSUAL
SULLEN
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: depressed, pessimistic
Syn: acrimonious, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish,
crabbed, crabby, cross, dolorous, dour, down, frowning, gloomy,
glum, grouchy, gruff, melancholy, moody, moping, perverse,
perversive, saturnine, snappish, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly,
taciturn, testy
Ant: CHEERFUL, friendly, optimistic, uplifted
COMPLEX
UNKNOWN
AFRAID, MORAL
IMMOBILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: movable, travelling
Synonyms: adaptable, ambulatory, changeable, fluid, free,
itinerant, liquid, locomotive, loose, migrant, migratory, motile ,
motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, peripatetic, portable,
roaming, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile, wandering
Ant:fixed, IMMOBILE, stationary, unmovable
813)
Mutinous
815) Myth
817) Nag
REBELLIOUS
HOSTILE,REGRETFUL
HARMFUL
OBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rebellious
Synonyms: anarchistic, contumacious, defiant, disloyal,
disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic,
insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, radical, rebel,
revolutionary, rioting, riotous, subversive, traitorous, treasonable,
ungovernable, unmanageable
Antonym: OBEDIENT
PARABLE
STORY, FACT
INNATE
FABLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictitious story, often ancient
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication,
fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, imagination,
invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale,
tradition
Antonyms: fact, non-fiction, truth, FACT
HARASS
ANNY, GROUCH
REST
SOOTHE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: harass, bother
Synonyms: annoy, badger, bait, berate, egg, find fault, fuss, goad,
harry, heckle, hector, hound, importune, irk, irritate, needle, pester,
pick at, plague, prod, provoke, ride, scold, tease, torment, upbraid,
urge,
Antonyms: assuage, please, SOOTHE
NASTY, FAVOURABLE
MATURE
NDR
MIGRATORY
ODOURLESS
Antonym:
819) Nascent
821) Native
823)
Nefarious
ALIEN, FOREIGNER
NEWCOMER
STRANGER
DWELLER
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: innate, inherent
Synonyms: congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional, endemic,
essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, implanted, inborn,
inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherited, instinctive, intrinsic,
inveterate, inwrought, natal, natural
Antonyms: ALIEN, foreign, outside
LACKING, IMPERIOUS
BENIGN
NEGLECTED
CRUEL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, sinful
Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, base, corrupt, degenerate,
depraved, detestable, dreadful, evil, execrable, flagitious, foul,
glaring, gross, heinous, horrible, infernal, iniquitous, monstrous,
odious, opprobrious, outrageous, perverse, putrid, rank, rotten,
shameful, treacherous, vicious, vile,
Ant: honorable, respectable, virtuous, BENIGN
825)
Neophyte
827)
Niggardly
829) Noble
VETERAN
NOVICE, UNKNOWN
NEWLY BORN
AMATEUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginner
Synonyms: abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, colt, fledgling,
freshman, greenhorn, new boy/girl, new kid on the block, newcomer,
novice, recruit, tenderfoot, trainee.
Antonym: VETERAN
PARSIMONIOUS
GENEROUS
NOURISH, NOTION
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stingy
Synonyms: chintzy, closefisted, illiberal, mean, mingy, miserly,
narrow, niggardly , parsimonious, penurious, skimpy, skinflint,
tight, ungenerous
Antonyms: GENEROUS, giving
EXALTED
HARD, COMMON
GRAND
ARISTOCRATIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dexterous, smart
Synonyms: active, adept, adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, clever,
deft, handy, light, lissome, lithe, lively, proficient, prompt, quick,
ready, skillful, sprightly, spry, swift, vigilant.
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, lumbering, slow, undexterous,
unhandy, COMMON
831) Noisome
833)
Nominate
835)
Nostalgic
SONOROUS
DISTURBING
SWEET-SMELLING
VOCIFEROUS, UNTRUE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: immoral, bad, offensive
Syn: baneful, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, disgusting, fetid, foul,
harmful, horrid, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, insalutary,
loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, mischievous, nauseating, noxious,
pernicious, poisonous, putrid, repulsive, stinking, unhealthy,
unwholesome, vile, yucky
Ant: good, moral, upright, SWEET-SMELLING
DEFINE, EXCLUSION
WITHDRAW
NEGLECT
PROPOSE
Def:designate,select
Syn: appoint, assign, call, choose, cognominate, commission, decide,
denominate, draft, elect, elevate, empower, intend, make, mean,
name,offer, present, proffer, propose, purpose, recommend, slate,
slot, specify, submit, suggest, tab, tap, tender
Note nominate means 'call the name of',while denominate means'to
give a name to'
Antonyms: ignore, pass over, WITHDRAW
WILFUL, AIRY
FORGETFUL
AMBITIOUS
LONGING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: longingly remembering
Synonyms: cornball, down memory lane, drippy, homesick, like
yesterday, lonesome, longing, mushy, regretful, sentimental, sloppy,
syrupy, wistful, yearning
Antonym: AIRY
837)
Notorious
839) Novice
841) Nuptials
UGLY, DETESTFUL
FAMOUS
INACTIVE
RENOWNED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: known for a trait, often an
Synonyms: blatant, dishonorable, disreputable, flagrant, glaring,
infamous, leading, noted, obvious, opprobrious, overt, patent,
popular, prominent, questionable, scandalous, shady, shameful,
unadmirable one belled, undisputed, wanted, wicked
Antonym: RENOWNED
PIONEER
EXPERT, OLD
ORIGINAL
ROOKIE
Part of Speech: noun Def: person just learning something
Syn: amateur, apprentice, beginner, colt, cub, fledgling, greenhorn,
gremlin, learner, neophyte, newcomer, novitiate, plebe, postulant,
prentice.
Notes: an amateur is someone who pursues a study or sport as a
pastime; a novice is someone who is new to a field or activity
Antonyms: EXPERT, professional
DIFFERENT
DIVORCE, MARRIAGE
DIVERT
WEDDING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: marriage ceremony
Synonyms: bridal, espousal, marriage, matrimony, spousal,
wedding
Antonyms: DIVORCE
843)
Obdurate
845) Obesity
847)
Objective
RECALCITRANT
OBTUSE, YIELDING
NEGLECT
OPTIMIST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: pigheaded, stubborn
Syn: adamant, bullhead, callous, cold fish, dogged, firm, fixed,
hanging tough, hard, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable,
indurate, inexorable, inflexible, iron, mean, mulish, obstinate,
perverse, relentless, rigid, tough, unbending, uncooperative,
unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible,
Ant: amenable, gentle, submissive, YIELDING
FATNESS, LEANNESS
TALLNESS
ARISTOCRACY
CORPULENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: corpulence
Synonyms: bulk, chubbiness, chunkiness, fatness, overweight,
paunchiness, plumpness, portliness, rotundness, stoutness
Antonym: LEANNESS
PERSONAL, FAMILIAR
DELETED
INTIMATE
IMPARTIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fair, impartial
Synonyms: cold, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate,
equitable, evenhanded, impersonal, judicial, just,
nondiscriminatory, nonpartisan, straight, strictly business,
unbiased, uncolored, unemotional, uninvolved, unprejudiced,
unprepossessed
Ant: partial, prejudiced, subjective, PERSONAL
849) Oblation
GIFT, OPTION
REJECTION
FEED
ACCEPTANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Eucharist offering
Synonyms: gift, offering, presentation, sacrifice Antonyms:
REJECTION
FORCE, COERCE
ACQUIT
NO RESULTS
ALLURE
CONSTRAIN
851) Obligue
853) Oblivion
FORGETFULNESS
DECEIT, CHEAT
REMEMBRANCE
DUTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental blankness
Syn: abeyance, amnesia, carelessness, disregard, forgetfulness,
inadvertence, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, neglect,
obliviousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness,
unmindfulness
Antonyms: awareness, consciousness, understanding,
FORGETFULNESS
855)
Obnoxious
857)
Obsequious
859)
Obsession
OFFENSIVE
PLEASANT, RETAIN
CONTAIN
OBVIOUS
Def: offensive, repulsive
Syn: abhorrent, abominable, annoying, awful, beastly, big mouth,
detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, foul,
hateable, hateful, heel, horrid, insufferable, invidious,
Notes: noxious means injurious to physical or mental health;
obnoxious means very offensive, objectionable, or unpleasant
Ant: agreeable, delightful, kind, PLEASANT
OBEDIENT
FUNERALS, BOLD
SEQUENCE
PROFILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: groveling, submissive
Syn: abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable,
compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning,
ingratiating, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate,respectful,servile,
slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subordinate,
subservient, sycophantic, toadying,
Ant: arrogant, BOLD, brazen, presumptuous
PASSION
COMPULSION
OCCUPATION
LIBERTY, WHIM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fixation; consumption with belief, desire
Synonyms: attraction, complex, compulsion, concrete idea, crush,
delusion, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, fetish, infatuation, mania,
must, neurosis, passion, phantom, phobia, preoccupation
Antonyms: indifference, WHIM
861)
Obstreperous
863) Obtuse
865) Occlude
UNRULY, NOISE
QUIET
PLAIN
THUNDEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: noisy
Synonyms: blusterous, boisterous, booming, clamorous, disorderly,
loud, piercing, rambunctious, riotous, rowdy, screaming, strepitous,
tumultous, unmanageable, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild
Antonym: QUIET
FAIR, SHREWD
DIFFICULT
COMPLEX
RANDOM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slow to understand
Synonyms: dense, dopey, dull*, dumb, imperceptive, insensitive,
opaque, slow on uptake, stolid, thick, uncomprehending,
unintelligent
Notes: acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of
more than 90 degrees
Antonyms: bright, intelligent, quick, SHREWD
CONCLUDE
INTRODUCE, SHUT
OPEN
OUTWARD
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: block, prevent
Synonyms: choke, clog, close, close out, congest, curb, fill, hinder,
impede, leave out, lock out, obstruct, plug, seal, shut, stop up,
stopper, throttle
Antonyms: allow, help, permit, OPEN
867) Odd
869) Odium
871) Ominous
STRANGE
SIMPLE, WISE
EVEN
WEIRD
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:unusual, abnormal
Syn: atypical, bizarre, character, crazy, curious, deviant, different,
eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fantastic, freakish, freaky, funny,
idiosyncratic, irregular, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer,
rare, remarkable, singular, strange, uncanny, uncommon,
unconventional, unique,
Ant: common, conventional, EVEN, ordinary.
HATRED, SWIFT
CONTAMINATED
CRUX
LIKING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shame, dishonor
Syn: abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, blame, blot, blur, brand,
censure, condemnation, detestation, disapproval, discredit,
disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dislike, dispprobation,
disrepute,enmity, hate, malice, obloquy, onus, opprobrium, rebuke,
reprobation, resentment, slur, spot, stain, stigma
Antonyms: approval, honor, regard, LIKING
THREATENING
PROMISING
GUEST, SENSE
SINISTER
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: menacing, foreboding
Syn: apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous,
dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful,
forbidding, gloomy, grim, hostile, impending, inhospitable, malefic,
malificent, malign, minatory, perilous, portentous, precursive,
prescient, prophetic,
Ant: auspicious, happy, lucky, PROMISING
873)
Omnipotent
POWERFUL
AUTHENTIC
GENUINE, STRONG
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all-powerful
Synonyms: almighty, divine, godlike, mighty, supreme, unlimited,
unrestricted
Notes: omnipresent means present in all places at the same time;
omniscient means infinitely wise or all-knowing; omnipotent means
having unlimited power
Antonyms: impotent, WEAK
STRAIGHTFORWARD
PLAIN
875) Onerous
877) Opaque
EASY, COMPLEX
ARDUOUS
MISTY, COVERED
CLEAR
TRANSPARENT
ABSTRUSE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: clouded, muddy
Syn: blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy,
foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless,
misty, muddied, murky, nontranslucent, nubilous, obfuscated,
shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid
Antonyms: clear, lucid, translucent, TRANSPARENT, unclouded
879)
Opponent
881)
Opportunist
883) Opposite
COLLEAGUE
FOE, RIVAL
CONTESTANT
ENEMY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person with whom one competes
Syn: adversary, antagonist, aspirant, assailant, bidder, candidate,
challenger, competitor, con, contestant, counteragent, dark horse,
disputant, dissentient, enemy, entrant, foe, litigant, match, opposer,
opposition, oppugnant, player, rival
Antonyms: ally, associate, COLLEAGUE, helper
MAN OF VISION
DETERMINED,LOOSER
MAN OF PRINCIPLE
TIMESERVER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vacillator
Synonyms: bounder, carpetbagger, ingrate, timeserver, trimmer
Antonym: MAN OF PRINCIPLE
AGREEING
CONTRARY, PLAIN
RARELY
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unlike, conflicting; completely different
Syn: adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetical,
contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, contrasted, corresponding,
counter, crosswise, diametric, fronting, hostile, inconsistent,
independent, inimical
Antonyms: compatible, like, similar, AGREEING
885)
Optimistic
887) Optional
889) Ordeal
UNFAVOURABLE
FAVOURABLE
PROMISING, ASSURED
EXPECTANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believing positively
Syn: assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident,
encouraged, expectant, happy, high, hopeful, hoping, idealistic,
merry, positive
Notes: hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means
expecting the best
Antonyms: dejected, depressed, doubtful, gloomy, hopeless,
pessimistic, UNFAVOURABLE
COMPULSORY
DESIRE, WILL
LIKING
VOLUNTARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: possible; available as choice
Synonyms: alternative, arbitrary, discretional, discretionary,
elective, extra, facultative, noncompulsory, nonobligatory, open,
unforced, unrestricted, volitional, voluntary
Antonyms: COMPULSORY, forced, required
TRIAL, TEST
DELIGHT
PROVOKE
MISERY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trouble, suffering
Synonyms: affliction, agony, anguish, calamity, calvary, cross,
crucible, difficulty, distress, nightmare, test, torment, torture, trial,
tribulation, visitation
Antonyms: happiness, pleasure, DELIGHT
VACILLATE,DESICCATE
ATTENTION
NO RESULTS
NEGLIGENCE
EMERGENCE
891)
Oscitation
893) Outstrip
895)
Overbearing
COOPERATE
COMPLETE, FOLLOW
COVER
DIVERSION
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: surpass
Synonyms: best, defeat, exceed, excel, outdo, overtake, pass, top,
transcend, win
Antonym: FOLLOW
OBSEQUIOUS
IMPRUDENT
PRUDENT, FECUND
HIGH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant, domineering
Syn: ascendant, autocratic, bossy, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful,
dogmatic, egotistic, haughty, imperative,
imperial,imperious,insolent, magisterial, officious, oppressive,
overweening, paramount, peremptory, preponderant, prevalent,
proud, regnant, sniffy, snotty, sovereign, stuffy.
Antonyms: kind, modest, nice, OBSEQUIOUS
EXCESSIVE,CONCEITED
897)
Overweening
899) Pacify
901)
Palatable
ABUNDANCE
HUMBLE
SHORTAGE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant
Synonyms: brash, cavalier, conceited, egotistical, haughty,
highhanded, insolent, lordly, pompous, presumptuous, pushy,
supercilious, vain
Antonyms: modest, unassuming, HUMBLE
INSULT, INJURE
OFFEND
AGGRAVATE
SOOTHE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: make peaceful; appease
Syn: allay, ameliorate, assuage, calm, chasten, compose, con,
conciliate, cool, dulcify, grease, moderate, mollify, pacificate,
placate, propitiate, qualify, quell, quiet, relieve, repress, silence,
soften, soothe, square, still, stroke, subdue, tame, temper, tranquilize
Antonyms: agitate, incite, irritate, OFFEND
DELICIOUS
DISTASTEFUL
PLAN, DEVICE
SAVORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: delicious, agreeable
Syn: acceptable, aperitive, appetizing, attractive, cool, copacetic,
delectable, delightful, divine, enjoyable, fair, heavenly, luscious,
mellow, peachy, pleasant, relishing, sapid, saporific, saporous,
satisfactory, savory, scrumptious, sweetened, tasteful, tasty,
tempting, toothsome
Ant: disagreeable, distasteful, DISTASTEFUL
TO AND FRO
THREAT
NO RESULTS
COVER, AREA
PARSIMONY
903)
Palladium
905) Palpitate
907) Parallel
CENSURE
CEASE, ENLIGHTEN
CROOKED
CONTINUE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: beat at a rapid pace, like a heart
Synonyms: flutter, pitpat, pitter-patter, pound, pulsate, pulse,
quiver, shiver, throb, tremble, vibrate
Antonyms: be still, CEASE
DILATED, DIAGONAL
DIVERGENT
STRAIGHT
OPPOSITE
Def (adj): aligned, side-by-side
Syn: alongside, coextending, running alongside
Antonym: crooked, separate, skewed, zigzag
Def( noun) : complement, correlation
Syn: analogy, comparison, correlate,
Antonyms: difference, divergence, opposite.
Def (verb): be alike
Syn: agree, assimilate, collimate, collocate.
Antonyms: differ, distort, diverge, DIVERGENT
909) Pariah
OUTCAST, FATHER
IDOL
OROTUND
PROLOGUE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social outcast
Synonyms: castaway, deportee, derelict, displaced person, exile,
expatriate, fugitive, leper, outsider, persona non grata, rascal,
refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif
Antonym: IDOL
FRUGALITY
SPENDING,ASSOCIATION
911)
Parsimony
MOTHERLY
YOUNGSTER, INFANT
NO RESULTS
913)
Peternity
EXPENDITURE
GENEROSITY
OFFSPRING
ELDERLY
915)
Peccadillo
917) Peer
919) Pellucid
BLUNDER, SALOON
TAIL-LESS
CRITICAL
SUDDEN-FIGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: small fault
Synonyms: bad habit, impropriety, indiscretion, minor fault, minor
infraction, minor sin, misdemeanor, petty offense, small infraction,
venial sin, vice
Antonym:
BLUNDER
EQUIVALENT
EQUAL, CERTAIN
UNEQUAL
EXAMINE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is another's equal
Synonyms: associate, coequal, companion, compeer, like, match,
rival
Antonyms: inferior, superior, UNEQUAL
TRANSPARENT
EXTEMPORE
LIMPID, FOGGY
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clear
Synonyms: bright, comprehensible, crystalling, explicit, limpid,
luminous, plain, simple, translucent, transparent
Antonym: FOGGY
921)
Penurious
923) Percuss
925)
Peremptory
MISERLY, POOR
TIMID
OPPORTUNIST
GENEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stingy
Synonyms: avaricious, cheap, chintzy, close-fisted, costive,
curmudgeonly, economical, frugal,greedy, hoarding, miserly,
parsimonious, pennywise, pinchpenny, saving, scrimping, sparing,
thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving
Antonym: GENEROUS
CRASS, COUNTERFOIL
SIMILAR
RESEMBLING
BANG
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: strike
Syn: bang, bash, bat, batter, beat, belt, blast, blitz, buffet, bump,
clap, clip, clobber, clout, club, crack, cudgel, cuff, dab, ding, flail,
flax, flog, hook, jab, kick, knock, lace, lambaste, lather, lob, nail,
pellet, pelt, percuss, pop, pound, punch, rap, slap, smack, sock,
stone, swat, tap, thrash, thump, thwack.
Antonym: BANG
FINAL, DEBATABLE
CARRIAGE
ENDING
INTRODUCTORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overbearing, authoritative
Syn: absolute, arbitrary, assertive, autocratic, binding, bossy,
categorical, certain, commanding, decided, dictatorial, dogmatic,
domineering, final, finished, firm, fixed, imperative, imperial,
imperious, intolerant, obstinate, positive.
Ant: easy-going, indulgent, lax, DEBATABLE
927)
Perfunctory
PERFECTION
NEGLECTFUL
PERFUMED
THOROUGH,OFFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:automatic, unthinking
Synonyms: apathetic, careless, cool, cursory, disinterested, heedless,
impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical,
mechanical, negligent, offhand, routine, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly,
standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware,
Antonyms: careful, precise, THOROUGH
APOGEE, STATUS
HOSTILITY
NO RESULTS
NATIVE
OBJECTIONABLE
929) Parigee
931)
Peripatetic
MOVABLE
MOBILE, GLOBAL
MUNDANE
STATIONARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: constantly traveling
Synonyms: ambulant, itinerant, itinerate, migrant, mobile,
nomadic, perambulant, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant,
wandering, wayfaring
Antonyms: fixed, settled, STATIONARY
933)
Permissible
935)
Perpetual
937)
Perspicuity
APPROVED
PROHIBITED
LAWFUL, OFFICIAL
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: allowable, legal
Synonyms: acceptable, admissible, approved, authorized, bearable,
endorsed, lawful, legalized, legit, legitimate, licit, permitted, proper,
sanctioned, tolerable, tolerated, unforbidden, unprohibited
Antonyms: illegal, PROHIBITED, unpermissible
JUST, DISCONTINUE
MOMENTARY
ORDINARY
CONTINUING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: continual, lasting
Syn: abiding, ceaseless, constant, continued, continuous, endless,
enduring, eternal, going on, immortal, imperishable, incessant,
perennial, permanent, persistent, recurrent, recurring, reoccurring,
repeated, repeating, unchanging, undying, unending, unfailing,
Ant:, fleeting, MOMENTARY, temporary
COMPLEXITY
VAGUENESS,LUCIDITY
SMOOTHNESS
AWARENESS
Definition: clarity
Syn: accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness,
cognizability,decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness,
evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, limpidness.
Notes: perspicacity means shrewdness and applies to people;
perspicuity means easily understood and applies to things
Antonym: VAGUENESS
939) Pert
941)
Pertinent
943) Petulant
IMPUDENT, BOLD
FAVOURABLE
STUBBORN
POLITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lively, bold
Synonyms: animated, audacious, brash, brazen, breezy, bright,
brisk, dapper, daring, dashing, disrespectful, flippant, forward,
fresh, gay, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jaunty, keen, nervy,
perky, presumptuous, smart, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, wise
Antonyms: dull, humble, lifeless, POLITE
INDIFFERENT
IRRELEVANT
UNCONCERNED
AFFILIATE, RELATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: relevant, suitable
Syn: admissible, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt,
connected, fit, fitting, germane, legit, material, opportune, pat,
pertaining, proper
Notes: relevant means 'worthy of raising in the context of
discussion'; pertinent means 'applicable to the point at issue'
Ant: inappropriate, IRRELEVANTt, unsuitable
UPCOMPLAINING
PEEVISH, DECAYING
AESTHETIC
PROMINENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crabby, moody
Synonyms: captious, caviling, complaining, cross, crybaby,
displeased, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, impatient,
irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, pouting, querulous, snappish,
sour, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ungracious, waspish, whining,
whiny
Ant: good-natured, happy, UPCOMPLAINING
945)
Phlegmatic
947) Placate
COUGHING
HONOURABLE
EXCITABLE
LEARNED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unemotional
Synonyms: along for the ride, apathetic, cold, cool, deadpan,
desensitized, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, flat,
frigid, groggy, indifferent, lethargic, lifeless, listless, passionless,
passive, sluggish, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable,
unfeeling, uninvolved, unresponsive Antonym: LEARNED
APPEASE
QUIET, APPLICABLE
PLEASED
ENRAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: soothe, pacify
Synonyms: appease, assuage, calm, cheer, comfort, conciliate,
humor, make peace, mollify, pacify, play up to, pour oil on,
propitiate, reconcile, satisfy, soothe, sweeten, tranquilize, win over
Antonyms: agitate, upset, worry, ENRAGE
NEO-PLATONISM
ADVERSITY,DIRECTNESS
949)
Pleonasm
SUCCINCTNESS
OPPOSITION
951) Polemic
FRIENDSHIP
AGREEMENT, AMITY
COOPERATION
DELICATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: argumentative
Synonyms: belligerent, combative, contentious, contrary,
controversial, disputatious, eristic, factious, litigious, opinionated,
polemical, pugnacious, quarrelsome, salty, scrappy, spiky,
Antonym: AGREEMENT
MONOTHEISM
POLYGLOT, POLYGYNY
953)
Polygamy
955)
Portentous
POLYANDRY
MONOTONY
Antonym:
ENCOURAGING
PRESERVE, FLOURISH
BLUNT
DISCOURAGING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:exciting;foreboding
Synonyms: alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, augural,
destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful,
impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous,
phenomenal, premonitory, prophetic, remarkable, suggestive,
threatening
Antonym: ENCOURAGING
957)
Precarious
959)
Precipitate
961)
Precocious
DANGEROUS
SAFE, CAUTIOUS
EASY
FAVOURITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: tricky, doubtful
Syn: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous,
delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hazardous, iffy,
impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, perilous, problematic,
risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touchy, uncertain,
unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled
Ant: certain, definite, firm, stable, SAFE
EXPEDITE, CAUTIOUS
FOREWARN
DISSOLVE
REVERSE
Defi: hurry, speed
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, cast, dispatch, expedite, fling,
further, hasten, hurl, launch, let fly, press, push forward, quicken,
throw, trigger
Notes: precipitous 'hasty, sudden and dramatic' is used in relation
to physical or natural objects; precipitate 'done with great haste'
relates to human actions or processes
Antonyms: check, slow, wait, CAUTIOUS
SENSIBLE
INTELLIGENT
RETARDED, BUSY
OVERBURDENED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exceptionally smart, ahead of age in understanding
Synonyms: advanced, aggressive, ahead of time, beforehand, bold,
brassy, bright, developed, early, flippant, forward, fresh, intelligent,
mature, nervy, premature, presumptuous, pushy, quick.
Antonyms: stupid, RETARDED
963)
Predilection
965)
Prefatory
967) Prelude
PROPOSAL, PREVIOUS
ANTAGONISM
BOISTEROUS
DIALECTICAL
Definition: inclination, preference toward something
Synonyms: bias, druthers, fancy, flash, fondness, groove, inclining,
leaning, liking, love, mindset, partiality, penchant, predisposition,
proclivity, proneness, propensity, tendency, type, weakness
Notes: a propensity is a tendency while a predilection is a
partiality
Ant: antipathy, disinterest, dislike, ANTAGONISM
CONCLUSION
IN PROGRESS
CONVINCING
SUMMARY, WISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: opening
Synonyms: beginning, initiative, introductory, preliminary
Antonym: CONCLUSION
AFTERMATH
CONCLUSION
CRUX, TRAGIC
ESSENTIAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning of event
Synonyms: commencement, exordium, foreword, intro,
introduction, overture, preamble, preface, preliminary, prelusion,
preparation, proem, prolegomenon, prologue.
Antonyms: ending, epilogue, postlude, AFTERMATH
969)
Preposterous
LUDICROUS
MONSTROUS, TIMID
REASONABLE
UNREASONABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ridiculous, bizarre
Syn: absurd, asinine, crazy, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant,
extreme, fantastic, foolish, impossible, incredible, insane, irrational,
laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, outrageous, senseless,
shocking, silly
Antonyms: REASONABLE, sensible
HUMILITY, FORWARDNESS
971)
Presumption
973)
Prevalent
RESERVATION
FRANKNESS
DETERMINATION
Part of Speech: noun
Def: belief, hypothesis
Synonyms: anticipation, apriorism, assumption, basis, chance,
conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, plausibility, posit,
postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, probability, reason,
shot, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis
Antonyms: reality, truth, HUMILITY
COMMON
EXTENSIVE, SCARCE
FASHION
ANCIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: accepted, widespread
Syn: accustomed, common, commonplace, current, customary,
established, everyday, extensive, faddy, frequent, general, habitual,
latest, natural, new, normal, ongoing, popular, prevailing, rampant,
regnant, regular, rife, stylish, swinging, trendy, typic, typical,
ubiquitous, universal, wonted
Antonyms: isolated, limited, SCARCE
975) Prim
977) Prissy
979) Probity
RATIONAL, PRUDISH
CORRECT
FORMAL
INFORMAL
Part of Speech: adjective Def: particular, fussy
Syn: ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional,
correct, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, nice,
orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper,
prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spruce, stickling, stiff,
straight, stuffy, tidy.
Antonyms: INFORMAL, rumpled
PROPER
PURITANICAL
CASUAL, GREAT
NORMAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: particular and fussy
Syn: epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, overnice, pansified,
persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish,
puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, stuffy.
Antonyms: informal, unconcerned , CASUAL
CORRUPTIBILITY
SEARCH, CAUTION
DIFFICULTY
CHANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fairness, honesty
Synonyms: equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice,
morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, sincerity,
trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth
Antonyms: deceit, dishonesty, unfairness, CORRUPTIBILITY
981)
Procrastinati
on
983)
Prodigious
985) Progress
DEFERMENT
INVITE, CANCEL
NDR
PROMPTNESS
SHYNESS
ENORMOUS
STUPENDOUS
EXTENT, DIFFICULT
TRIVIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: huge, enormous
Syn: big, fantastic, giant, gigantic, gross, immeasurable, immense,
inordinate, jumbo, large, mammoth, massive, mighty, monstrous,
monumental, mortal, stupendous, towering, tremendous, vast
Antonyms: little, small, tiny, TRIVIAL
REVERSION, ADVANCE
MOVEMENT
SILENCE
CONFORMITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: advancement, gain
Syn: advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break,
breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution,
evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus,
improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march,
Ant: decrease, deterioration, REVERSION
987) Prohibit
ACCEPT, PERMIT
AGREE
GRANT
FORBID
Part of Speech: verb Def: make impossible; stop
Syn: ban, block, constrain, cork, debar, disallow, enjoin, forbid,
forfend, gridlock, halt, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, interdict,
kill, nix, obstruct, outlaw, pass on, preclude, prevent, proscribe,
restrain, restrict, veto, zing
Antonyms: allow, favor, PERMIT, push
989) Prolong
CONTRACT
QUICKEN, SHORTEN
ACCELERATE
EXTEND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: extend, draw out
Synonyms: carry on, continue, delay, drag out, hold, hold up,
increase, lengthen, make longer, pad, perpetuate, protract, spin out,
stall, stretch. Antonyms: abbreviate, SHORTEN
991)
Promiscuous
INDISCRIMINATE
SELECTIVE, SHARP
PERPLEX
ALTERNATIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indiscriminately sexually active
Synonyms: abandoned, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, immoral,
indiscriminate, lax, libertine, licentious, oversexed, profligate,
pushover, unbridled, unchaste, undiscriminating, unrestricted,
wanton, wild
Antonyms: chaste, cold, cool, frigid, SELECTIVE
993)
Prophylactic
995)
Propitious
997) Prosaic
CAUSING DISEASE
CAUSING HEALTH
DANGEROUS
USEFUL, DIVINE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: protective
Synonyms: contraceptive, preventative, preventive Antonym:
CAUSING DISEASE
FAVOURABLE
UNFAVOURABLE
TIMELY, IMPORTANT
VITAL
Part of Speech: adjective Def: full of promise; favorable
Syn: advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, brave, bright,
dexter, encouraging, favoring, fortunate, happy, hopeful, lucky,
opportune, pat, promising, prosperous, rosy, seasonable, timely,
Notes: auspicious implies success in the future while propitious
means favorable conditions are present; Ant: inauspicious,
UNFAVOURABLE
IMAGINATIVE
REAL, PICTURE
BORING
EXALTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unimaginative
Syn: actual, banal, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace,
diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, hackneyed, irksome,
lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, monotonous, mundane,
nothing, ordinary, platitudinous, practicable, practical, prose, prosy,
routine,
Ant: creative, IMAGINATIVE, interesting.
999) Protean
1001)
Prototype
1003) Provide
AMATEUR, CATHOLIC
UNCHANGING
RAPID
UNFAVOURABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: versatile
Synonyms: able, accomplished, adaptable, adroit, ambidextrous,
conversant, dexterous, elastic, facile, functional, gifted, handy,
ingenuous, many-sided, mobile, multifaceted, plastic, pliable,
puttylike, ready, resourceful, skilled, skillful, talented, variable,
varied, various
Antonym: UNCHANGING
FAVOUR
CANVASS, REPEAT
DUPLICATE
OUTLANDISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: original, example
Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, archetype, criterion,
first, forerunner, ideal, mock-up, model, norm, paradigm, pattern,
precedent, precursor, predecessor, standard, type
OFFER, DELIVER
ASSIST
SUPPLY
DEPRIVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: supply, support
Synonyms: accommodate, add, administer, afford, arrange, bestow,
bring, care, cater, contribute, dispense, equip, favor, feather, feed,
fit, fit out, fix up, fix up with, furnish, give, grant, hand over, heel,
impart, implement, indulge, keep, lend, line, look after, maintain,
minister, outfit, prepare, present, procure, produce, proffer,
provision, ration, ready, render, replenish, serve, stake, stock, stock
up, store, sustain, take care of, transfer, turn out, yield
Antonyms: deprive, remove, take
1005)
Provincial
1007)
Proximity
1009) Prudish
SOPHISTICATED
OFFICIAL
PAROCHIAL
PRIVATE, NARROW
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: countrified; limited
Synonyms: bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown,
homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded,
parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, smallminded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated
Antonyms: citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern
QUICK, REMOTENESS
SLOWLY
LAZY
KINSHIP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nearness to something
Synonyms: adjacency, appropinquity, closeness, concurrence,
contiguity, contiguousness, immediacy, juxtaposition, propinquity,
togetherness
Antonyms: distance, remoteness
PRISSY, PRIM
FORMAL
MORAL
TOLERANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy and strict in behavior
Synonyms: Victorian, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted,
conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal,
mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest,
overnice, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, proper,
puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, simpering, square,
squeamish, starchy, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound
judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in
speech, conduct or dress
Antonyms: bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing
1011) Pudgy
1013)
Pugnacious
1015)
Pulchritude
CHUBBY, THIN
PLUMP
MENTAL
DIFFICULT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slightly fat
Synonyms: chubby, hefty, plump, plumpish, rotund, round, stout,
thick-bodied, tubby
Antonyms: skinny, slight, thin
HOSTILE
PATIVE
AGGRESSIVE
PUNCHING, PACIFIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: belligerent
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, bellicose,
brawling, cantankerous, chip on shoulder, choleric, combative,
contentious, defiant, disputatious, have a bone to pick, hottempered, irascible, irritable, itching to fight, militant, petulant,
pushing, pushy*, quarrelsome, ready to fight, rebellious, salty,
scrappy, self-assertive, truculent, warlike
Antonyms: easy-going, kind, laid-back, nice
BEAUTY
BEHAVIOUR
DISCIPLINE,UGLINESS
FAIRESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beauty
Synonyms: adorableness, allure, allurement, attraction, elegance,
exquisiteness, glamor, good looks, handsomeness, loveliness,
physical attractiveness, prettiness, shapeliness
1017)
Pungent
1019)
Pusillanimity
1021) Pushy
SPICY, MILD
CRAZY
IRREGULAR
STRAIGHT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: highly flavored
Synonyms: acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, effluvious, hot, nosey,
odoriferous, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned,
sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking, strong, tangy, tart,
whiffy, zesty
Notes: having a sharp taste is pungent and having a pleasingly
sharp taste is piquant; pungent first meant 'keenly painful or
distressing'
Antonyms: blah, bland, dull, flavorless, tasteless
MAGNANIMITY
TIMIDITY, BLUNT
RESTORE
LOVE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cowardice
Synonyms: chickenheartedness, cold feet, cowardliness, cravenness,
dastardliness, faint-heartedness, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness,
funk, gutlessness, mousiness, unmanliness, wimpiness
SUBMISSIVE
AGGRESSIVE
BOSSY, RUDE
MILITANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, offensive
Synonyms: ambitious, assertive, bold, brash, bumptious, forceful,
loud, militant, obnoxious, obtrusive, officious, presumptuous,
pushful, pushing, self-assertive
Antonyms: modest, quiet, shy, unassuming
1023) Putrefy
1025)
Quandary
1027) Queasy
DECAY, DRIFT
PRESERVE
MYSTIFY
SPOIL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rot
Synonyms: break down, corrupt, crumble, decay, decompose,
deteriorate, disintegrate, go bad, molder, putresce, spoil, stink, taint,
turn
DIFFICULTY
DILEMMA
CONFIDENCE
GULL, PLIGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delicate situation
Synonyms: Catch-22, bewilderment, bind, clutch, corner*,
difficulty, dilemma, double trouble, doubt, embarrassment, hangup, impasse, mire, perplexity, pickle, plight, predicament, puzzle,
spot*, strait, uncertainty, up a tree
Antonyms: advantage, certainty, solution
QUEER
SQUEAMISH
EASY, DIFFICULT
VOMIT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not feeling well; not comfortable
Synonyms: anxious, bilious, concerned, fidgety, green around gills,
groggy, ill, ill at ease, indisposed, nauseated, pukish, qualmish,
queer, restless, rocky, sick, sick as a dog, sickly, squeamish, troubled,
uncertain, uncomfortable, under the weather, uneasy, unwell, upset,
worried
Antonyms: comfortable, healthy, satisfied
1029)
Querulous
1031)
Quiescent
1033) Rabid
COMPLAINING
CONTENDED
ALLAY, LITIGIOUS
QUITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grouchy, hard to please
Synonyms: bearish, bemoaning, cantankerous, captious, carping,
censorious, complaining, critical, cross, crying, deploring,
discontented, dissatisfied, edgy, fault-finding, fretful, grousing,
grumbling, grumbly, huffy irascible, irritable, lamenting, out of
sorts peevish, petulant, plaintive, scrappy, snappy, sour, testy, thinskinned touchy, uptight, wailing, waspish, waspy, whimpering,
whining, whiny
Antonyms: cheerful, easy-going, happy
QUIET, DEPARTURE
TURBULENT
QUARTERLY
ODOROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inactive
Synonyms: asleep, at rest, deactivated, dormant, fallow, idle,
immobile, in abeyance, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive,
quiet, slumbering, stagnant, still
Antonyms: active
MAD, ALLIED
SANE
PARDON
WISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very angry; maniacal
Synonyms: berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy,
delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical,
fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic,
frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant,
irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed,
overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling,
smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous
Antonyms: delighted, happy, pleased
* = informal/non-formal usage
CONTINUAL, HARD
DURABLE
NO RESULTS
STURDY
EASY
1035)
Ramshakle
1037)
Ratification
1039)
Receded
NEGATION
CONSTRAINT, LACK
DISTRUST
ACCEPTANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: acceptance
Synonyms: approval, authorization, confirmation, enactment,
permission, sanction
BLOOMED,ADVANCED
INCREASED
DIMINISHED
REBUILT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: withdraw; diminish
Synonyms: abate, back, close, decline, decrease, depart, die off,
diminish, drain away, draw back, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall
back, flow back, go away, go back, lessen, reduce, regress, retire,
retract, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return, shrink,
sink, subside, taper, wane
Antonyms: advance, forge, forward, increase
1041)
Reckless
1043)
Recreant
1045)
Rectitude
HEEDLESS, CARELESS
CAUTIOUS
DEPRAVE
RASH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irresponsible in thought, deed
Synonyms: adventuresome, adventurous, any which way,
audacious, brash, breakneck, carefree, careless, daredevil, daring,
desperate, devil-may-care, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy,
harebrained, hasty, headlong, heedless, helter-skelter, hopeless,
hotheaded, ill-advised, imprudent, inattentive, incautious,
inconsiderate, indiscreet, kooky, madcap, mindless, negligent,
overventuresome, playing with fire, precipitate, rash, regardless,
temerarious, thoughtless, uncareful, venturesome, venturous, wild
Notes: feckless means ineffective or having no real worth or
RECENT,reckless
LATE means marked by
LOYAL
purpose;
unthinking boldness or with
defiant
disregard for danger or consequences
MISCREANT
HALF-CREATED
rash
(the
adjective)
suggests imprudence and lack of forethought;
Part of
Speech:
adjective
reckless
implies
disregard
ofpossible
Definition: cowardly
consequences
Antonyms:
cautious,arrant,
responsible,
wary
Synonyms: careful,
afraid, apostate,
base, cowering,
craven,
dastardly, defecting, disloyal, faithless, false, falsehearted, fearful,
frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious,
pigeonhearted, scared, skulking, sneaking, spiritless, timid,
timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*,
yielding
Antonyms: brave, courageous, loyal
FIRMNESS
DECEPTION
SMOOTHNESS
ATHEISM, REALITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uprightness
Synonyms: decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, probity,
righteousness, virtue
Antonyms: dishonesty, infamy
1047) Refrain
1049)
Releases
1051)
Relinquish
REACT, FEIGN
AVOID
BURDEN
INDULGENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chorus of musical piece
Synonyms: burden, melody, music, song, strain, theme, tune,
undersong
Notes: refrain means to choose not to do something or partake of
something; restrain means to immobilize by force or to forbid an
action
LIBERATES
CLOSES, CONFINES
PROVIDES
STRENGTHENS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delivery; dispensation
Synonyms: absolution, acquittal, acquittance, charge, clemency,
commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption,
exoneration, floater, freedom, freeing, let-off, liberation, liberty,
lifeboat, lifesaver, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, walkout
Antonyms: check, collection, gathering, hold
KEEP, POSSESS
CLAIM
PERSIST
STICK
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up, let go
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast, cast off,
cede, cut loose, desert, discard, ditch*, drop, drop like hot potato,
drop out, dump*, forbear, forgo, forsake, forswear, hand over, kick,
kiss good-bye, lay aside, leave, opt out, quit, quit cold turkey,
release, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire from, sacrifice, shed,
stand down, surrender, swear off, take the oath, take the pledge,
vacate, waive, withdraw, yield
Antonyms: hold, keep, take
UNGREATFUL
WRETCHED,ARROGANT
1053)
Remorseful
1055)
Renown
1057) Repress
UNREPLENTENT
SHAMELESS
STARDOM, REMODEL
CELEBRATED
EMINENCE
ANONYMITY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fame
Synonyms: acclaim, celebrity, distinction, eminence, glory, honor,
illustriousness, kudos, luster, mark, note, notoriety, preeminence,
prestige, prominence, prominency, rep, reputation, repute, stardom,
clat
Antonyms: anonymity, obscurity, unimportance
QUELL, CRUSH
CENSURE
RAISE
SUPPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep back, hold in
Synonyms: black out, bottle, chasten, check, collect, compose,
control, cool*, cork, crush, curb, gridlock, hinder, hold back, inhibit,
jam up, keep in, keep in check, keep under wraps, kill*, lock,
master, muffle, overcome, overpower, quash, quelch, quell, rein,
restrain, shush, silence, simmer down, smother, squelch, stifle,
subdue, subjugate, suppress, swallow, throw cold water on, tie up
Antonyms: allow, let go, permit
1059)
Reprisal
1061)
Repugnance
1063)
Reserved
EXEMPTION
FORGIVENESS
FORGET, PARDON
REVENGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: revenge
Synonyms: avengement, avenging, counterblow, counterstroke, eye
for an eye, paying back, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance
Antonyms: kindness, sympathy
REBUKE, RE-CAST
COMPATIBLE
NUANCE
OGRE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aversion
Synonyms: abhorrence, antipathy, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred,
hostility, objection, revulsion
LIKEABLE, TALKATIVE
POPULAR
COMPANIONABLE
TACITURN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep, hold back
Synonyms: conserve, defer, delay, duck*, have, hoard, hold, keep
back, keep out, lay up, maintain, plant, possess, postpone, preserve,
put away, put by, put off, retain, save, set aside, squirrel, squirrel
away, stash, stockpile, store, store up, stow away, withhold
Antonyms: distribute, give, let go, offer
1065)
Resilient
1067) Restive
UNYIELDING
FLEXIBLE, TIMID
PLIABLE
IRREPRESSIBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bouncy, flexible
Synonyms: airy, buoyant, effervescent, elastic, expansive, hardy,
irrepressible, plastic, pliable, quick to recover, rebounding, rolling
with punches, rubbery, snapping back, springy, stretchy, strong,
supple, tough, volatile
Antonyms: hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff
PLACID, WAYWARD
IMPATIENT
DEPENDANT
MOTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: impatient, nervous
Synonyms: agitated, balky, contrary, edgy, fidgety, fractious,
fretful, froward, ill at ease, jittery, jumpy, nervy, obstinate, on edge,
ornery*, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, restless, stubborn, tense,
uneasy, unruly, unyielding, uptight
Notes: restive means impatient or fidgety under pressure or
restraint; restless is being uneasy, unquiet, or unable to relax or rest
Antonyms: calm, collected, patient, relaxed
REVIVE, EXHAUST
EXAMINE
NO RESULTS
1069)
Resusciate
DEFEND
RELAXED
RETAINABLE, GRASP
SPOILED
AMAZING
FORGETFUL
NDR
1071)
Retentive
1073) Retract
1075)
Retrogressive
CONFIRM, WITHDRAW
RETREAT
RECALL
DISOBEY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take back; renege on
Synonyms: abjure, back, back down, back off, back out of, call off,
cancel, change one's mind, countermand, deny, disavow, disclaim,
disown, draw in, eat one's words, eliminate, exclude, fall back,
forget it, forswear, go back on, have change of heart, nig, pull back,
pull in, recall, recant, recede, reel in, renege, renounce, repeal,
repudiate, rescind, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, reverse, revoke,
rule out, sheathe, suspend, take back, take in, unsay, welsh,
withdraw
PROGRESSIVE
ADVANCING
Notes:
recant means to formally reject
or disavow a formerly held
belief, while retract means to takeFORWARDING,BACKWARD
back or to draw back or in
FURTHERING
Antonyms:
corroborate,
Part of Speech:
adjectiveemphasize, reaffirm, repeat
Definition: backward
Synonyms: astern, behind, inverted, rearward, regressive,
retrograde
1077) Revere
1079) Revile
1081) Rigid
AWAKENING
PROGRESS, RESPECT
EPOCH
DISHONOUR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: have a high opinion of
Synonyms: admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, be in awe of,
cherish, defer to, deify, enjoy, esteem, exalt, hold in awe, honor, look
up to, love, magnify, pay homage, prize, put on pedestal, regard,
respect, think highly of, treasure, value, venerate, worship
Antonyms: despise, disregard
PRAISE, INSULT
SCOLD
DISPARAGE
LAMBASTE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: scold
Synonyms: abuse, admonish, berate, blame, castigate, censure,
chide, criticize, denigrate, denounce, disparage, give a talking to,
lambaste, lay down the law, lecture, rake over the coals, ream,
reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, scorn, tongue-lash, vilify,
vituperate
FLEXIBLE
SOFT, BRITTLE
SILKY
STIFF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stiff, strict, severe
Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, austere, bullheaded, changeless,
chiseled, dead set, definite, determined, exact, firm, fixed, hard,
hard-line, harsh, incompliant, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible,
intransigent, invariable, locked in, obdurate, rigorous, set, set in
stone, single-minded, solid, static, stern, strait-laced, stringent,
tough nut to crack, unalterable, unbending, unbreakable,
unchanging, uncompromising, undeviating, unmoving,
unpermissive, unrelenting, unyielding
Antonyms: bending, flexible, lenient, limber, pliable, pliant, soft,
yielding
EXACTLY,COMPLETELY
1083)
Roughly
1085)
Rotundity
1087) Rubble
POINTEDLY
COARSELY
LARGELY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: about
Synonyms: approximately, around, in the ball park, in the
neighborhood, more or less, practically, pretty near, somewhere
around
PLUMP, HEALTH
CHARMING
FATNESS
SLIMNESS
Synonyms:
-nouns
rotundity; roundness; cylindricity; sphericity, spheroidity;
globosity., cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll,
roller; rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle., cone, conoid; pear
shape, egg shape, bell shape., sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder;
spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid; drop,
spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill,
marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution).
-verbs
render spherical; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a ball; give
UNBROKEN
STONE
GARBAGE
rotundity; round.
FAIR SKIN
UGLY LOOK, GUILT
-adjectives
rotund;
round (circular);
cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid;
Part
of Speech:
noun
columnar,
lumbriciform;
conic,
spheroidal;
Definition: remains conical;
spherical,
globular,
globated,
globous,fill,
globose;
Synonyms:
brash, debris,
scree egg shaped, bell shaped, pear
shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform; campaniform,
campanulate, campaniliform; fungiform, bead-like, moniliform,
pyriform, bulbous; tres atque rotundus; round as an orange, round
as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a
cannon ball.
1089) Ruddy
1091)
Rudimentary
1093)
Rupture
WAN, HEALTHY
BEAUTIFUL
IMAGINATIVE
POWERFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pinkish, blushing
Synonyms: blooming, blowsy, bronzed, crimson, florid, flush,
flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, redcomplexioned, reddish, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, sanguine,
scarlet
Antonyms: pale
DEVELOPED
QUIESCENT
ELEMENTARY
BASIC, CRUDE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, fundamental
Synonyms: abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental,
elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, larval, nutsand-bolts, primary, primitive, simple, simplest, uncompleted,
undeveloped, vestigial
Antonyms: additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra,
nonessential
UNITE, SPLIT
CRACK
FISSURE
DESPAIR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, split
Synonyms: breach, burst, cleavage, cleft, crack, division, fissure,
fracture, hernia, herniation, parting, rent, schism, tear
Antonyms: closing, closure
1095)
Ruthless
1097)
Sacrilegious
COLD, BRUTAL
USELESS
MERCIFUL
UNFEELING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mean, heartless
Synonyms: adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded,
cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard,
hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, ironfisted,
killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, rancorous,
relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern,
stony, surly, unappeasable, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful,
unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, without
pity
Antonyms: compassionate, considerate, gentle, giving, kind, nice,
PIOUS
IMPIOUS, PROFANE
sympathetic
UNHOLY
DANGEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: profane
Synonyms: atheistic, blasphemous, desecrating, dirty*, filthy*, foul,
godless, heathen, impious, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent,
irreverential, obscene, pagan, sinful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy,
violating
CRUEL
GLOOMY
1099) Sadistic
SEVERE, NASTY
HAPPINESS
1101)
Sagacious
1103)
Salacious
1105) Salient
WISE, SHREWD
SMART
HARMLESS
STUPID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: smart, judicious
Synonyms: acute, apt, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted,
clever, cool*, discerning, discriminating, far-sighted, foxy*, gnostic,
heady, hip*, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, knowledgeable,
perceptive, perspicacious, prudent, rational, sage, sapient, savvy*,
sensible, sharp, shrewd, smooth, sophic, wise, witty
Antonyms: careless, foolish, ignorant, stupid
FRIGID, LUSTFUL
LECHEROUS
SUCCEED
SYMPATHETIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lascivious
Synonyms: bawdy, carnal, erotic, fast*, horny, hot*, indecent,
lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lubricious, lustful,
nasty, obscene, orgiastic, prurient, raunchy, sensual, smutty, steamy,
suggestive, voluptuous, wanton
Notes: salacious means characterized by lust or suggestive of or
tending to moral looseness, while salubrious means favorable to
health or promoting health
INSIGNIFICANT
CLIMATIC
WORRISOME
AWESOME, RADICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: noticeable, important
Synonyms: arresting, arrestive, conspicuous, famous, impressive,
intrusive, jutting, marked, moving, notable, obtrusive, obvious,
outstanding, pertinent, projecting, prominent, pronounced,
protruding, remarkable, signal, significant, striking, weighty
Antonyms: inconspicuous, unimportant, unnoticeable
1107)
Saltation
1109) Salvage
1111)
Sanctimoniou
s
PUNGENT, SWEET
GREETING
NDR
CHANGELESS
ODDITY
PREACHY, PIOUS
HYPOCRITICAL
UNCTUOUS
DETESTFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: self-righteous
Synonyms: Pecksniffian, bigoted, canting, deceiving, false, goodygoody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, pharisaical,
pietistic, pious, preachy, self-satisfied, smug, stuffy, unctuous
Antonyms: humble, meek, modest
1113)
Sarcastic
1115) Satiety
1117) Scarcity
INSULTING
MILD, HAPPY
MOCKING
PLEASANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, mocking in speech
Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere,
backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic,
chaffing, contemptuous, contumelious, corrosive, cussed, cutting,
cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil,
hostile, irascible, ironical, mean, mordant, needling, offensive,
ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful,
scurrilous, severe, sharp, smart-alecky, snarling, sneering, taunting,
trenchant, twitting, weisenheiming
Notes: sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while
COOLNESS,
PLEASURE
sardonic
means
'bitterly scornful, EMPTINESS
cynically disdainful'
Antonyms:
WARMTH kind, nice
CONFUSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: satiation
Synonyms: engorgement, feeding, filling, glut, gratification,
indulgence, overfilling, repletion, saturation, slaking, surfeit
DEFICIENCY
DESSERT, AVIDITY
DECLENSION
PLETHORA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deficiency
Synonyms: dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy,
infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness,
shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want
Antonyms: abundance, commonness, excess, surplus
1119) Scoff
1121) Scowl
1123)
Scurrility
SNEER, SOOTHE
RESPECT
ASSIST
SUPPORT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make fun of; despise
Synonyms: belittle, boo, contemn, deride, dig at, disbelieve,
discount, discredit, disdain, flout, gibe, jeer, knock*, laugh at, make
light of, mock, pan, poke fun at, pooh-pooh, rag, rally, reject, revile,
ride, ridicule, scorn, show contempt, sneer, tease
Antonyms: be nice, praise
FROWN, SMILE
ATTACK
DISCOURAGE
ENCOURAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: frown
Synonyms: black look, dirty look, evil eye, glower, grimace
Antonyms: grin, smile
VITUPERATION
POLITENESS
BRIGHT, PHYSICAL
RUDENESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obscenity
Synonyms: X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness,
blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word,
evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty,
impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness,
licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography,
profaneness, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrilousness,
sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness,
vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong
1125) Secular
1127)
Sedentary
1129) Seldom
RELIGIOUS, ATHEIST
COMMUNIST
CAPITALIST
MUNDANE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not spiritual or religious
Synonyms: civil, earthly, laic, laical, lay, material, materialistic,
nonclerical, nonreligious, of this world, profane, temporal,
unsacred, worldly
Notes: sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect
or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or
to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature
Antonyms: godly, holy, religious, spiritual
MIGRATORY
SETTLED, PREYING
INQUISITIVE
SMUG
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: motionless, lazy
Synonyms: desk, desk-bound, idle, inactive, seated, settled, sitting,
sluggish, stationary, torpid
Antonyms: activated, active, energetic, mobile, moving
RARELY, DAILY
OFTEN
NEVER
SCARCELY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: infrequently
Synonyms: a few times, every now and then, from time to time,
hardly, hardly ever, in a few cases, inhabitually, irregularly, little,
not often, not very often, occasionally, on and off, once in a blue
moon, once in a while, rarely, scarcely, scarcely ever,
semioccasionally, sometimes, sporadically, uncommonly, unoften,
unusually, whimsically
Antonyms: frequently, often, usually
1131) Senility
1133) Serene
1135) Shrewd
YOUTH, CONFUSION
PUNCTUALITY
FEEBLENESS
OLD AGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: old age
Synonyms: age, anility, decline, dotage, feebleness, second
childhood, senectitude, senescence
Antonyms: adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth
IMPURE, AGITATED
SHOWY
COMPLICATED
CALMNESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: calm, undisturbed
Synonyms: at peace, clear, collected, comfortable, composed,
content, cool as a cucumber, cool*, dispassionate, easy, easygoing,
fair, halcyon, imperturbable, laid-back*, limpid, patient, peaceful,
pellucid, phlegmatic, placid, poised, quiescent, quiet, reconciled,
resting, satisfied, sedate, self-possessed, smooth, still, stoical,
tranquil, unflappable, unruffled, untroubled
Antonyms: agitated, disturbed, excited, troubled
TURBID
NAVE, MUFFLED
MUMDANE
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, intelligent
Synonyms: acute, argute, artful, astucious, astute, brainy, cagey,
calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, cutting*, deep*, discerning,
discriminating, farsighted, foxy*, heady, in the know, ingenious,
inside, judicious, keen, knowing, on the inside, on top of,
penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, piercing, probing, profound,
prudent, quick-witted, sagacious, savvy*, sensible, shark, sharp,
slick*, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, streetwise, tricky, underhand,
up on, wily, wise, wised up
Antonyms: foolish, frivolous, naive, stupid, unthinking
1137) Shy
1139)
Simulated
1141)
Sluggish
BOLD, IMPUDENT
COURAGEOUS
OUTSPOKEN
BASHFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: quiet and self-conscious
Synonyms: afraid, apprehensive, averse, backward, bashful,
cautious, chary, circumspect, conscious, coy, demure, diffident,
disinclined, distrustful, fearful, hesitant, humble, indisposed,
introvert, introverted, loath, loner, modest, nervous, recessive,
reluctant, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-effacing, shamefaced,
sheepish, shrinking, skittish, suspicious, timid, unassertive,
unassured, uneager, uneffusive, unresponsive, unsocial, unwilling,
wary
Antonyms: confident, extroverted, unashamed, unreserved, unshy
FEIGN
GENUINE, WIRE
IMITATE
SEPARATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend, imitate
Synonyms: act, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, borrow, cheat,
concoct, copy, counterfeit, crib*, deceive, disguise, dissemble, do, do
a take-off, do like, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, favor,
feature, feign, fence, gloss over, invent, knock off, lie, lift, make
believe, mimic, mirror, misrepresent, phony, pirate, play, playact,
pose, prevaricate, put on an act, put on*, replicate, reproduce,
resemble, steal
Antonyms: be real
QUICK, SHARP
ALERT
VIGILANT
LISTLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, slow-moving
Synonyms: apathetic, blah*, comatose, dopey, down, dragging,
draggy, drippy, heavy, hebetudinous, inactive, indolent, inert, laidback*, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless,
lumpish, mooney, off, phlegmatic, pokey, slack, sleepyheaded,
slothful, slow, sluggard, slumberous, stagnant, stiff, sullen, torpid,
unresponsive
Antonyms: active, alert, energetic, fast, lively, spirited
1143) Smear
1145) Smooth
1147)
Sophisticated
PLASTER, DAUB
MEDIATE
POLISH
SPREAD
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rub on, spread over
Synonyms: apply, bedaub, besmirch, blur, coat, cover, dab, daub,
defile, dirty, discolor, overlay, overspread, patch, plaster, slop,
smudge, soil, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish
UGLY
AWKWARD, HARD
ROUGH
GLASSY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: level, unwrinkled; flowing
Synonyms: bland, continuous, creamy, easy, effortless, equable,
even, flat, fluent, fluid, flush, frictionless, gentle, glassy, glossy,
hairless, horizontal, invariable, lustrous, mild, mirrorlike,
monotonous, peaceful, plain, planate, plane, polished, quiet, regular,
rhythmic, rippleless, serene, shaven, shiny, silky, sleek, soft,
soothing, stable, steady, still, tranquil, unbroken, undeviating,
undisturbed, uneventful, uniform, uninterrupted, unruffled,
untroubled, unvarying, velvety
RUSTIC, RURAL
CIVIL irregular, rough, uneven,
Antonyms:
broken, coarse, intermittent,
wrinkled
DOMESTIC
URBANE
1149) Sordid
1151)
Spasmodic
MISERLY, GENEROUS
HELPFUL
OPEN
VULGAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cosmopolitan, cultured
Synonyms: adult, artificial, been around, blas, bored, citified,
cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned,
experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laidback*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined,
schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise,
studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise
to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise
TOGETHER
FREQUENT,
MODEL
Antonyms: naive, uncultivated, uncultured,
unrefined,
NATURE
PASSIVE
unsophisticated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: twitching, erratic
Synonyms: bits and pieces, changeable, choppy, convulsive,
desultory, fitful, fits and starts, intermittent, irregular, jerky, onagain-off-again, periodic, shaky, spastic, sporadic, spotty, spurtive,
uncertain
Antonyms: resting, uninterrupted
INFLAMMATION
ENERGETIC,SLUGGISH
1153)
Splenetic
ILL-TEMPERED
COMPLACENT
1155)
Stagnant
EFFERVESCENCE
MOBILITY, PROGRESS
INERTIA
STATIONARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: motionless, dirty
Synonyms: brackish, dead, dormant, filthy, foul, idle, immobile,
inactive, inert, lifeless, listless, passive, putrid, quiet, sluggish, stale,
standing, static, stationary, still, unmoving
Antonyms: moving
SUMPTUOUS
STORE
NDR
HEAVY, SATIATE
HUNGRY
1157) Starve
1159) Stigma
STAIN, BLOT
SMELLY
DISTINCTION
DISGRACE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shame
Synonyms: bar sinister, besmirchment, black mark, blame, blemish,
blot, brand, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, imputation, lost face,
mark, odium, onus, reproach, scar, slur, spot, stain, taint
Antonyms: credit, pride
1161) Stout
1163)
Stringent
1165) SubRosa
IMITATIVE
MODERATE, HUMID
EMACIATED
STOCKY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overweight
Synonyms: big, bulky, burly, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavy, obese,
plenitudinous, plump, porcine, portly, rotund, substantial, thickbodied, tubby, upholstered, weighty, zaftig
Antonyms: skinny, thin, underweight
MAGNANIMOUS
LENIENT
VEHEMENT, GENERAL
PIERCING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rigid, tight
Synonyms: acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the
numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on,
demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting,
forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad,
picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict,
tough, unpermissive, valid
Notes: stringent often means simply ' strict , strictly regulated' and
also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is
permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which
SWEET-SMELLING
FOUL-SMELLING
something
is enforced
Antonyms:
PRIVATELYflexible, inexact, tolerant
PUBLICLY, LEGALLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sneaky, secretive
Synonyms: artful, calculating, cautious, circumspect, clandestine,
cloaked, conspiratorial, covert, crafty*, creepy*, cunning, disguised,
elusive, evasive, foxy, guileful, hidden, hush-hush, insidious, masked,
scheming, shifty, skulking, slinking, sly, stealthy, sub-rosa ,
surreptitious, tricky*, under wraps, under-the-table, undercover,
underhand, underhanded, wily
Antonyms: aboveboard, forthright, honest, open, truthful
1167)
Succinct
1169)
Supercilious
1171)
Supervise
CONCISE, BRIEF
WORDY
ENTIRE
CONCLUSION
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brief, to the point
Synonyms: blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compact,
compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, curt, cut to the
bone, in a nutshell, in few words, laconic, pithy, short, summary,
terse
Antonyms: lengthy, long-winded, wordy
HAUGHTY, ARROGANT
COURTEOUS
LAVISH
EXTRANEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant, stuck-up
Synonyms: bossy, cavalier, cocky*, condescending, contemptuous,
disdainful, egotistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, imperious, insolent,
lofty, nervy, overbearing, patronizing, proud, putting on airs,
scornful, snobby, superior, uppity, vainglorious
Antonyms: humble, modest
IGNORE, SHYAWAY
MISDIRECT
CONCEAL
MANAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: manage people, project
Synonyms: administer, be in charge, be in driver's seat, be in the
saddle, be on duty, be responsible for, boss, call the play, call the
shots, chaperon, conduct, control, crack the whip, deal with, direct,
handle, inspect, keep an eye on, look after, overlook, oversee,
preside over, quarterback, ride herd on, run, run the show, run
things, sit on top of, superintend, survey, take care of
Antonyms: serve
OPEN, BRAVE
INNOCENT
NO RESULTS
CONCISE
FEARFUL
1173)
Subreptitious
1175) Swear
1177)
Synchronized
SUPPORT, REJECT
DENY
PRAISE
PLEDGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: declare under oath
Synonyms: affirm, assert, attest, avow, covenant, cross one's heart,
depend on, depose, give one's word, give witness, have confidence in,
maintain, make an affidavit, pledge oneself, plight, promise, rely on,
say so, state, state under oath, swear by, swear to God, swear up and
down, take an oath, testify, trust, vouch, vow, warrant
NOISY, DISCORDANT
CONSEQUENT
FOLLOWING
CONNECTED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: coordinate
Synonyms: adjust, agree, atune, harmonize, integrate, keep time
with, match, mesh, organize, pool, proportion, pull together, put in
sync, set
1179) Taboo
PROHIBITED
ILLICIT, MUSICAL
LIMITATION
APPROVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not allowed, permitted
Synonyms: anathema, banned, beyond the pale, disapproved,
forbidden, frowned on, illegal, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed,
prohibited, proscribed, reserved, restricted, ruled out, unacceptable,
unmentionable, unthinkable
Antonyms: acceptable, allowed, mentionable, ok
RECIPROCITY
TALKATIVE,FLAMBOYANCE
ENDORSEMENT
TRANQUILLITY
1181)
Taciturnity
1183) Tame
HAUGHTY, WILD
NAUGHTY
NAVE
BLAND
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domesticated, compliant
Synonyms: acclimatized, amenable, biddable, bridled, broken,
busted, civilized, cultivated, disciplined, docile, domestic, fearless,
gentle, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harmless, harnessed,
housebroken, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient,
overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained,
unafraid, unresisting, yoked
Antonyms: unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild
1185) Tedious
NAUGHTY, LIVELY
HAUGHTY
HEARTY
DEADLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, monotonous
Synonyms: annoying, arid, banal, boring, bromidic, drab, dragging,
draggy, dreary, drudging, dry, dull as dishwater, dusty, endless,
enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid,
irksome, laborious, lifeless, long-drawn-out, mortal, pabulum, poky,
prosaic, prosy, slow, snooze, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting,
uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome
Antonyms: entertaining, exciting, interesting
STUBBORN
GRIPING
1187)
Tenacious
1189)
Tenderness
YIELDING, FIRM
CLINGING
1191)
Tentative
1193)
Testimony
1195) Tome
PERMANENT, FINAL
SUCCESSIVE
INTERVAL
CONDITIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conditional, experimental
Synonyms: acting, ad interim, conjectural, contingent, dependent,
iffy, indefinite, makeshift, not final, not settled, on trial, open for
consideration, probationary, provisional, provisionary, provisory,
speculative, subject to change, temporary, test, trial, unconfirmed,
undecided, unsettled
Antonyms: certain, decisive, definite, final, sure
REFUTATION, PROOF
EVIDENCE
SILENCE
DECLARATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: declaration about truth; proof
Synonyms: affidavit, affirmation, attestation, avowal, confirmation,
corroboration, data, demonstration, deposition, documentation,
evidence, facts, grounds, illustration, indication, information,
manifestation, profession, statement, submission, substantiation,
support, testament, verification, witness
TOMB, TRACT
PLAYTHING
ALIVE
DEAD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large, scholarly book
1197)
Tortuous
1199)
Traduce
1201)
Traitorous
ILLEGAL
PAINFUL, ZIGZAG
INDIRECT
DIRECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very twisted
Synonyms: anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked,
curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering,
meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting,
vermiculate, winding, zigzag
Notes: tortuous is 'winding, crooked, full of twists and turns' and
torturous (based on 'torture') is 'painful, characterized by
suffering'
Antonyms: direct, straight, untwisted
EXTOL, SLANDER
ACCOMMODATE
PURCHASE
EXHAUST
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: violate
Synonyms: calumniate, defame, denigrate, disgrace, malign,
slander, slur, smear, vilify
BACKSTABBING
TREASONOUS
BELOVED,NOTORIOUS
LOYAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disloyal
Synonyms: apostate, betraying, double-crossing, faithless,
perfidious, recreant, subversive, treacherous, treasonable,
treasonous, two-faced, two-timing, undutiful, unfaithful, unpatriotic,
untrue, wormlike
1203)
Transient
1205)
Traverse
1207)
Tremulous
PERMANENT, PASSING
TRUTHFUL
FORCEFUL
MOMENTARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: temporary, brief
Synonyms: changeable, deciduous, emigrating, ephemeral,
evanescent, flash, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fugacious,
fugitive, going by, impermanent, insubstantial, migrating,
momentary, moving, passing, provisional, short, short-lived, shortterm, temporal, transmigratory, unstable, vacating, volatile
Antonyms: enduring, incessant, lasting, long-lasting, neverending,
permanent, persistent, undying
ASSIST, CROSS
NEGOTIATE
HINDER
END
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cross over; travel
Synonyms: bisect, bridge, cover, crisscross, cross, cut across,
decussate, do, go across, go over, intersect, move over, negotiate,
pace, pass over, pass through, perambulate, peregrinate, ply,
quarter, range, roam, span, track, transverse, travel over, tread,
walk, wander
NERVOUS, TIMID
TREMBLING
ORDINARY
STEADY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shaking
Synonyms: palpitating, quavering, quivering, shaky, shivering,
shivery, trembling, wobbly
Antonyms: stable, steady, unwavering
1209)
Trepidation
1211) Trite
1213) Truant
FEARLESSNESS
ANXIETY, FEAR
UNEASINESS
QUICKNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anxiety, worry
Synonyms: agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, butterflies,
cold feet, cold sweat, consternation, creeps, dismay, disquiet,
disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps,
horror, jitters, nervousness, palpitation, panic, perturbation, shock,
terror, trepidity, uneasiness, worriment
Antonyms: calm, contentment, happiness
ROUTINE, DULL
COMMON
CHEAP
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly, commonplace
Synonyms: banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, clich, clichd,
common, cornball, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, familiar tune,
flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, old
hat, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made,
routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock,
threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, used-up, vapid,
warmed-over, well-worn, worn, worn-out
Antonyms: desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent,
relevant, uncommon
SEDULOUS, BEND
TENTATIVE
DELINQUENT
TALKATIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: absent
Synonyms: AWOL, absent without leave, astray, away, cutting
class, gone, hooky, missing, no-show, not present, playing hooky,
skipping school
1215)
Trumpery
1217) Tumult
1219)
Turbulence
WASTEAGE, TREASURY
DEFEAT
VAGUE
WORTHLESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception
Synonyms: falsehood, malarky, nonsense, rubbish, trash, trickery
SERENITY
TURMOIL, CLAMOUR
CONFUSION
COMMOTATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uproar, confusion
Synonyms: ado, affray, agitation, altercation, babel, bedlam, brawl,
clamor, commotion, convulsion, din, disorder, disturbance, dither,
excitement, ferment, fight, fracas, fuss, hassle*, jangle, lather,
maelstrom, noise, outbreak, outcry, pandemonium, paroxysm,
pother, quarrel, racket, riot, row, ruction, seething, stir, strife,
turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unsettlement, upheaval, upturn,
wildness
Notes: tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion
AGITATION,
CALM
TURMOIL
and
agitation for
people and things;
tumultuous can describe things
and
people
ROUGHNESS
SEPARATION
Antonyms:
calmness,
order,
peace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disorder
Synonyms: agitation, commotion, conflict, confusion, disturbance,
frenzy, instability, tempestuousness, tumult, turmoil, unrest,
unruliness
Antonyms: calm, calmness, quietness, stillness, tranquility
1221) Turgid
1223)
Turpitude
1225)
Ubiquity
BOMBASTIC
SWOLLEN, THRIFTY
SHRUNKEN
PUNCTUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: swollen
Synonyms: bloated, distended, inflated, puffy, tumescent, tumid
Notes: turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid
means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical
bodies
VIRTUE, WICKEDNESS
GENEROSITY
GRATITUDE
FOOLISHNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depravity
Synonyms: baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement,
debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness,
licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness,
wickedness
ABSENCE
OMNIPRESENCE
AMAZING, REST
PERVASIVENSES
Definition: ever-present
Synonyms: all-over, everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive,
ubiquitary, universal, wall-to-wall
Antonyms: rare, scarce
1227)
Ulterior
1229)
Uncouth
1231)
Undulating
TIPPED, SPARKLING
STATED
RAMPAGING
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; pertaining to a hidden goal
Synonyms: ambiguous, buried, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark,
enigmatic, equivocal, guarded, hidden, implied, obscure, obscured,
personal, privy, remote, secondary, selfish, shrouded, under cover,
under wraps, undisclosed, undivulged, unexpressed, unsaid
Antonyms: expressed, known, overt, public
RUDE, ROUDY
AWKWARD
UGLY
DELICATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, uncultivated
Synonyms: awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, clownish, coarse,
crass, crude, discourteous, disgracious, gawky, graceless, gross,
heavy-handed, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite,
inelegant, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, oafish, raunchy, raw, rough,
rude, rustic, strange, tacky*, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized,
ungainly, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, unpolished, unrefined,
unseemly, vulgar
Antonyms: agile, couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated
SMOOTH, UNEVEN
ADULATION
RESPECT
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rise and fall
Synonyms: billow, flow, heave, oscillate, ripple, roll, surge, swell,
swing, wave, wobble
1233)
Unfeigned
1235)
Unimpeachab
le
1237)
Unkempt
ORIGINAL, CLEAR
MORTAL
MODERN
PRETENDED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sincere
Synonyms: genuine, heartfelt, honest, natural, real, true,
unaffected, unassumed
Antonyms: insincere, pretended
FAULTY, FRUITFUL
DEVASTATING
FLEXIBLE
STRAIGHT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blameless
Synonyms: clean, faultless, impeccable, inculpable, irreproachable,
spotless, unassailable, unblemished, uncorrupted, unquestionable,
untainted, untarnished
Antonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable,
impeachable, reproachable
SLOVENLY, SLOPPY
NEGLECTED
APPROVED
NEAT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shabby, sloppy
Synonyms: bedraggled, coarse, crude, dilapidated, dirty,
disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled, disordered, grubby, grungy,
messed up, messy, mussed up, neglected, rough, rumpled, scruffy,
shaggy, slipshod, slovenly, tousled, unclean, uncombed, unfastidious,
ungroomed, unimproved, unneat, unpolished, untidy, vulgar
Antonyms: kempt, neat, tidy, trim
1239)
Unrealistic
1241)
Unseemly
1243)
Untenable
NATURAL, VISIONARY
REASONABLE
ACTUAL
IMAGINATIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not believable or practical
Synonyms: blue sky, floating, gone*, half-baked, impossible,
impracticable, impractical, improbable, ivory-tower, nonrealistic,
nonsensical, not applicable, not sensible, on cloud nine, quixotic,
reachy, romantic, silly, starry-eyed, theoretical, unreal, unworkable
Antonyms: believable, practical, pragmatic, realistic, reasonable,
sensible
IMPROPER
POLITELY
CONCLUSIVE,PROPER
RECOGNIZED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: improper; in bad taste
Synonyms: cheap, coarse, crude, discreditable, disreputable, in
poor taste, inappropriate, inapt, incorrect, indecent, indecorous,
indelicate, inelegant, inept, malapropos, malodorous, out of keeping,
out of place, poor, raffish, rough, rowdy, rude, ruffian, tawdry,
unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undignified, ungodly, unrefined,
unsuitable, untoward, vulgar, wrong
Antonyms: appropriate, due, fitting, proper, seemly, suited
UNSTABLE, WEAK
INVERTED
SUPPORTABLE
DELICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indefensible
Synonyms: flawed, illogical, unsound, unsupportable
1245) Urban
1247)
Urbanity
1249) Utterly
RUSTIC, RURAL
CIVIL
DOMESTIC
CIVIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: city
Synonyms: burghal, central, citified, civic, civil, downtown, innercity, metropolitan, municipal, nonrural, oppidan, popular, public,
town, village
Notes: urban refers to a city; urbane means polished and smooth,
as in a person's demeanor
Antonyms: country, rural, suburban
RUSTIC, CRUDENESS
CRUELTY
SOCIABILITY
CIVILITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: elegance
Synonyms: breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture,
delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, elegancy, exquisiteness,
felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur,
lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness,
polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint,
rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry,
tastefulness
COMPLETELY
ENTIRELY
ABSOLUTELY, EMPTY
PARTIALLY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: completely
Synonyms: absolutely, all, all in all, altogether, entirely, exactly,
extremely, fully, in toto, just, perfectly, plumb, purely, quite,
thoroughly, to the core, to the nth degree, totally, well, wholly
Antonyms: incompletely, uncertain
1251)
Vacillation
1253)
Vainglorious
1255)
Valetudinaria
n
STEADFASTNESS
HESITATION
DEPRESSION
BEGINNING, HONOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irresolution
Synonyms: doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, inconstancy, indecision,
indecisiveness, irresoluteness, tentativeness, uncertainty
MAJESTIC, USELESS
VICTORY
MODEST
BOASTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boastful, proud
Synonyms: arrogant, blowing one's own horn, boasting, bragging,
cavalier, cocky*, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-andmighty, high-handed, huffy, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous,
pretentious, puffed up, self-important, snobbish, snooty, strutting,
stuck-up, swaggering, vain
FAREWELL, VALID
FREEDOM-FIGHTER
ROBUST
WELCOME
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypochondriac
Synonyms: morbid person, neurotic, obsessive person, valetudinary
1257) Valor
1259) Vanity
1261)
Vaunted
BRAVERY, HEROISM
VALUABLE
CHEAP
COWARDICE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bravery
Synonyms: backbone*, boldness, courage, dash*, defiance, derringdo, determination, fearlessness, fight, firmness, fortitude, gallantry,
grit, guts*, hardihood, heart, heroism, indomitableness, intestinal
fortitude, intrepidity, invincibility, mettle, moxie*, nerve, pluck,
prowess, resolution, sand*, spirit, spunk, starch, stomach*, tenacity,
valiance, valiancy
CHASTITY
KINDNESS, MODESTY
VULGARITY
ARROGANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: conceit, egotism
Synonyms: affectation, airs, arrogance, big-headedness,
conceitedness, display, ego trip, narcissism, ostentation, pretension,
pride, self-admiration, self-love, self-worship, show*, showing off,
smugness, vainglory
Antonyms: modesty
BOASTING
BRAGGING, UGLY
DISTORTED
BELITTLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: exhibit
Synonyms: boast, brag, crow, display, flaunt, gasconade, prate,
strut
1263)
Vengeance
1265)
Veracious
1267) Vex
RETALIATION, GRAZE
FORGIVENESS
REVEAL
REVENGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation for another's act
Synonyms: avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score,
eye for an eye, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital,
retribution, return, revenge, settling of score, tit for tat,
vengefulness, wrath
Antonyms: forgiveness, pardon
HONEST, TIMID
ANTIDOTE
REVEAL
ACCURATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: true
Synonyms: accurate, credible, dependable, direct, ethical, factual,
faithful, frank, genuine, high-principled, honest, just, kosher*, legit,
like it is, on the level, on the line, on the up and up, open, reliable,
right, righteous, straight-arrow, straightforward, strict, true-blue,
trustworthy, truthful, undeceptive, up front, valid, veridical
Antonyms: false, untrue
CAJOLE, CONSOLE
SOOTHE
SPROUT
PROVOKE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: distress, bother
Synonyms: abrade, afflict, aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, be at,
chafe, depress, displease, disquiet, disturb, eat*, embarrass,
exasperate, fret, gall*, get in one's hair, get under one's skin, give a
bad time, give a hard time, grate on, harass, harry, hassle, infuriate,
irk, irritate, molest, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, perplex, pester,
pique, plague, provoke, put out, rasp, ride, rile, tease, tick off,
torment, trouble, turn off, upset, worry
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, please, soothe
1269) Vim
1271) Violent
1273)
Virtuous
WITLESS
VIGORLESS
COLOURFUL
AIMLESS, ENDLESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: life
Synonyms: activity, dash, drive, energy, enthusiasm, fire, force,
kick, oomph, passion, pep, pepper, push, spirit, strength, vigor,
vinegar, vitality, zeal, zing
Antonyms: languor, lifelessness
TAME, HUMBLE
GENTLE
HARMLESS
SEVERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: destructive
Synonyms: agitated, aroused, berserk, bloodthirsty, brutal,
coercive, crazy, cruel, demoniac, desperate, distraught, disturbed,
enraged, fierce, fiery, forceful, forcible, frantic, fuming, furious,
great, headstrong, homicidal, hotheaded, hysterical, impassioned,
impetuous, inflamed, intemperate, mad, maddened, maniacal,
mighty, murderous, passionate, potent, powerful, raging, riotous,
rough, savage, strong, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained,
urgent, vehement, vicious, wild
Antonyms: gentle, passive, peaceful
VICIOUS, VULGAR
MISERLY
INSINCERE
MORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: good, ethical; innocent
Synonyms: blameless, celibate, chaste, clean-living, effective,
effectual, efficient, excellent, exemplary, faithful, guiltless, highprincipled, honest, honorable, in the clear, incorruptible, inculpable,
irreprehensible, kosher*, legit, moral, moralistic, noble, on the level,
on the up and up, praiseworthy, principled, pure, regular, rightminded, righteous, spotless, straight, true-blue, unsullied, untainted,
untarnished, up front, upright, wholesome, without reproach,
worthy
Antonyms: bad, sinful, unethical, vile, wicked
1275)
Vivacious
1277)
Vocation
1279)
Voluntary
DULL, LIVELY
QUICKNESS
NICE
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lively, spirited
Synonyms: active, alert, animate, animated, bouncy, brash, breezy,
bubbling, cheerful, ebullient, effervescent, exuberant, frolicsome,
full of life, gay, happy, high-spirited, jolly, jumping, keen,
lighthearted, merry, playful, rocking, scintillating, sparkling,
sportive, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, vibrant, vital, zesty
Antonyms: boring, dispirited, dull, unattractive, unhappy
WILDERNESS
IDLENESS, REST
DROWSY
OCCUPATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: life's work
Synonyms: art, business, calling, career, craft, do*, dodge*, duty,
employment, field, game, handicraft, job, lifework, line of business,
line*, mission, mtier, nine-to-five, occupation, office, post,
profession, pursuit, racket, role, thing*, trade, undertaking
Antonyms: entertainment, fun, pastime
INVOLUNTARY
INSTINCTIVE
COMPELLED
COERCIVE, OPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: willing
Synonyms: autonomous, chosen, deliberate, designful, discretional,
elected, free, free-willed, freely, gratuitous, honorary, independent,
intended, intentional, opted, optional, spontaneous, unasked,
unbidden, uncompelled, unconstrained, unforced, unpaid,
unprescribed, volitional, volunteer, willed, willful, wished, witting
Antonyms: forced, involuntary, obligatory, unwilling
1281) Vomit
SWALLOW, INGEST
DEPLORE
ENDURE
DISGORGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disgorge
Synonyms: be seasick, be sick, bring up*, dry heave, eject, emit,
expel, gag, heave, hurl, puke, regurgitate, retch, ruminate, spew, spit
up, throw up, upchuck
1283)
Vulnerable
EXPOSED,UNGUARDED
DELICIOUS
SUSCEPTIBLE
INVINCIBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open to attack
Synonyms: accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable,
naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting
duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded,
unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open
Antonyms: closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure
1285) Wallow
GROVEL, TUMBLE
GRUMBLE
FLOUNDER
ABSTAIN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: slosh around in
Synonyms: bathe in, be immersed, blunder, flounder, get stuck,
immerse, lie, loll, lurch, move around in, reel, roll, roll about, roll
around in, splash around, sprawl, stagger, stumble, sway, toss,
totter, tumble, wade, welter
1287) Wanton
1289)
Wavering
1291)
Wealthy
DISCREET
ENTIRE, TOTAL
REVOLVE
MALICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extravagant, lustful
Synonyms: X-rated, abandoned, fast*, lax, lewd, libertine,
libidinous, licentious, outrageous, profligate, promiscuous,
shameless, speedy*, unprincipled, unscrupulous, wayward
Antonyms: clean, decent, moral, righteous
STRAIGHT, TIGHT
STRONG
POOR
OSCILLATING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shift back and forth; be indecisive
Synonyms: be irresolute, be unable to decide, blow hot and cold,
change, deliberate, dilly-dally, dither, falter, flicker, fluctuate, halt,
hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, oscillate, palter, pause, pussyfoot
around, quiver, reel, run hot and cold, seesaw, shake, stagger, sway,
teeter, totter, tremble, trim, undulate, vacillate, vary, waffle, wave,
weave, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo
Notes: waver is a verb meaning to vacillate or be indecisive; a
waiver is a relinquishment of a claim, privilege, or right
WICKED
FAMOUS, ILL
POOR
HARMFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rich; having a lot of money
Synonyms: affluent, booming, comfortable, having it made, in the
money, independent, loaded, made of money, moneyed, of
independent means, opulent, pecunious, prosperous, rolling in it,
substantial, upscale, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Antonyms: deprived, lacking, needy, poor, poverty-stricken,
wanting
1293)
Whimsical
1295)
Wholesome
1297) Wile
ERRATIC, IMPULSIVE
RUMOUR
ECCENTRIC
PREDICTABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: playful, fanciful
Synonyms: amusing, arbitrary, capricious, chancy, chimerical,
comical, curious, dicey, droll, eccentric, erratic, fantastic, flaky*,
freakish, funny, kinky*, mischievous, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer*,
quizzical, singular, uncertain, unpredictable, unusual, waggish,
wayward, weird*
Antonyms: behaving, reasonable, sensible
ROBUST, ROUGH
WEAK
COMPLETE
POWERFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy, decent
Synonyms: all there, beneficial, clean, edifying, ethical, exemplary,
fit, good, hale, health-giving, healthful, helpful, honorable, hygienic,
in fine feather, in the pink, innocent, invigorating, moral, nice,
normal, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, pure, respectable,
restorative, right, righteous, safe, salubrious, salutary, sane,
sanitary, sound, strengthening, together, virtuous, well, worthy
Antonyms: bad, impure, indecent, unhealthy, unwholesome
ART, GUILE
RESIGN
ARTLESSNESS
CUNNING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cunning
Synonyms: angle, artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery,
con*, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, deception, device,
dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, feint, flimflam, fraud, gambit,
game, gimmick, guile, hoax, horseplay, imposition, little game, lure,
maneuver, monkey business, monkeyshines, plot, ploy, racket, ruse,
scam*, scheming, setup, shenanigans*, skullduggery, slant, slyness,
stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist
Antonyms: naivety, stupidity
1299)
Wizened
1301)
Wonder
1303) Yank
SHREWD, FOOLISH
SMOOTH
WISEACRE
ZOOMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dried, shriveled up
Synonyms: diminished, gnarled, lean, macerated, mummified, old,
reduced, shrunk, shrunken, wilted, withered, worn, wrinkled
Antonyms: moist, smooth, unwrinkled
EXPECTATION
SURPRISE,POSSIBILITY
PROBABILITY
AMAZEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amazement
Synonyms: admiration, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, concern,
confusion, consternation, curiosity, doubt, fascination, fear,
incredulity, jar, jolt, marveling, perplexity, perturbation,
puzzlement, reverence, shock, skepticism, start, stupefaction, stupor,
surprise, suspicion, uncertainty, wondering, wonderment
Antonyms: expectation
JERK, JOGGLE
SNATCH
PULL
PUSH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pull hard and fast
Synonyms: draw, evulse, extract, hitch, jerk, lug, snap, snatch, tear,
tug, twitch, vellicate, wrench
Antonyms: push
1305) Yield
1307) Yonder
1309) Zeal
SUSTAIN, PRODUCE
SUBMIT
COLLAPSE
EARNINGS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: production of labor
Synonyms: crop, earnings, harvest, income, output, outturn,
produce, profit, return, revenue, takings, turnout
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give in, surrender
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, admit defeat, back down, bend, bow,
break, buy, call it quits, capitulate, cave in, cede, collapse, come to
terms, crumple, defer, fold, fold up, give oneself over, give up, give
way, go, hand over, knuckle, knuckle under, lay down arms, leave,
let go, part with, relax, relent, relinquish, resign, sag, submit,
REMOTE,suffer
FATHER
NATIVE
succumb,
defeat, throw in the
towel
Antonyms:
refuse, reject
Part of
DISTANT deny, oppose, prevent,CLOSE
Speech:
verb adverb
Part of Speech:
Definition:
allow
Definition: grant,
faraway
Synonyms:
accept,distant,
acknowledge,
admit, agree,
Synonyms: accede,
away, beyond,
farther,acquiesce,
further, remote,
yon
assent,
bow,
break,
comply,
concede,
concur,
consent,
defer,
fail, fit
Antonyms: close, near, nearby
in, go along with, go with the flow, permit, play the game, surrender,
toe the line, toe the mark, waive
Antonyms: counter, disallow, disapprove, veto
LITHE, APATHY
VERBATIM
APATHY
EAGERNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiasm
Synonyms: alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion,
diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise,
fanaticism, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination,
initiative, intensity, intentness, keenness, mania, passion,
perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, stick-to-itiveness,
urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, what-it-takes, yen, zest
Notes: zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment
or added interest
Antonyms: apathy, indifference, lethargy
1311) Zealous
1313) Zest
ARDENT, EAGER
ENTHUSIASTIC
DEVOTED
APATHETIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: enthusiastic
Synonyms: afire, antsy*, ardent, avid, burning, coming on strong,
dedicated, devoted, eager, earnest, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid,
fireball, fired, frenetic, gung-ho, hot*, impassioned, itchy, keen,
obsessed, passionate, possessed, pushy*, rabid, ripe, self-starting,
spirited, wild-eyed
Notes: jealous means envious or fearful of being replaced by a
rival; zealous means marked by active interest and enthusiasm
Antonyms: apathetic, indifferent, lethargic, unenthusiastic
RELUCTANCE
RELISH
PLEASURE
GUEST, FERVOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taste, flavor
Synonyms: bite, body, charm, flavoring, get-up-and-go, ginger,
guts*, interest, kick*, nip, piquancy, punch*, pungency, relish, salt,
savor, seasoning, smack*, snap*, spice, tang, zap, zip
Notes: zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment
or added interest
Antonyms: blandness, dullness
2) Abbreviate
4) Abject
6) Abolish
ABBRIDGE
EXPAND, ACHIVE
ACCEPT
CONDENSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shorten
Synonyms: abridge, abstract, boil down, clip, compress, condense,
contract, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut out, digest,
encapsulate, get to the meat, pare, prune, put in a nutshell, reduce,
summarize, take out, trim
Antonyms: amplify, enlarge, EXPAND, extend, increase, lengthen
WRETCHED
MISERABLE, EXACT
SERVILE
DIGNIFIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, downtrodden
Synonyms: base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable,
dishonorable, fawning, forlorn, groveling, hangdog, humiliated, low,
miserable, outcast, pitiable, servile, submissive, worthless, wretched
Antonyms: commendable, exalted, excellent, magnificent, noble,
proud, worthy, DIGNIFIED.
REPEAL
ELIMINATE, NULLIFY
NEGATE
CONSERVE
Definition: do away with or put an end to (VERB)
Synonyms: abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, disestablish,
eradicate, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, nix, obliterate, overthrow,
overturn, prohibit, quash, repeal, repudiate, scrub, squelch, subvert,
supersede, void, zap
Antonyms: confirm, continue, enact, CONSERVE, institute,
legalize, promote, ratify, support, uphold
8) Aborigine
SETTLER
INDIGENE, NATIVE
BELOVED
IMMIGRANT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: first inhabitant
Synonyms: aboriginal, autochthon, bushman, indigene, native,
primitive
Antonym: IMMIGRANT.
10) Abrupt
12) Absolve
14) Abstruse
GRUFF
RUDE, BLUNT
HURT
GRADUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rude or brief in manner
Synonyms: blunt, brusque, crude, crusty, curt, direct, discourteous,
gruff, impetuous, impolite, matter-of-fact, rough, short, snappy,
snippy, uncivil, ungracious
Antonyms: calm, kind, nice, GRADUAL
FREE
TOTAL, ABSORB
SOLUTION
BLAME
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: free from responsibility, duty
Synonyms: acquit, bleach,clear,exculpate, excuse, exempt,
exonerate, forgive, free, go easy on, launder, liberate, lifeboat, loose,
pardon, release, relieve, sanitize, spare, vindicate.
Antonyms: bind, blame, charge, condemn, convict, impeach,
incriminate, obligate, punish, ABSORB
PROFOUND
SUMMARY, ABSTRACT
THEORETICAL
SUPERFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: difficult to understand
Synonyms: Greek to me, abstract, clear as dishwater, complex,
complicated, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, hidden, incomprehensible,
intricate, involved, muddy, obscure, perplexing, profound, puzzling,
recondite, subtle, unfathomable, vague
Antonyms: clear, concrete, easy, lucid, obvious, plain, simple,
SUPERFICIAL.
16) Abundant
18) Accepted
20) Accord
AMPLE
ENOUGH, GREAT
SCANT
COPIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ridiculous, senseless
Synonyms: batty, campy, crazy, daffy, dippy,fooling around, foolish,
freaky, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational, jokey,
joshing, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty,
preposterous, screwy, silly, stupid, tomfool, unreasonable, wacky
Antonyms: certain, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, wise,
SCANT
FOLLOWED
NOTED, PROVIDED
CONSIDERED
REJECTED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: receive something given physically
Synonyms: acquire, gain, get, obtain, secure, take, welcome
Notes: accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave
out'
Antonyms: deny, discard, refuse, REJECTED.
SOLUTION
ACT, DISSENT
CONCORD
AGREEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement, mutual understanding (often written)
Synonyms: accordance, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity,
congruence, correspondence, deal, harmony, okay, pact, rapport,
reconciliation, sympathy, treaty.
Antonyms: antagonism, denial, disagreement, DISSENT,
opposition, refusal
22) Acme
24) Acrid
ACUTE
EATABLE, TOP
NADIR
ACE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pinnacle of achievement or physical object
Synonyms: apogee, capstone, climax, culmination, height, high
point, highest point, meridian, optimum, peak, summit, top,
ultimate, vertex, zenith
Antonyms: NADIR
SOUR
FGURE, ACQUIT
SMOOTH
COMPLEX
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bitter, sour to taste
Synonyms: acid, amaroidal, astringent, biting, burning, caustic,
harsh, irritating, pungent, sharp, stinging
Antonyms: delicious, savory, sweet, SMOOTH
INTELLIGENCE
UNFAMILIARITY
26) Acumen
IMBECILITY, POTENTIALITY
ENERGY
28) Adage
30) Addition
32) Adipose
MOTTO
HARANGUE, PROVERB
ZENITH
MAXIM
Definition: saying or proverb
Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm, axiom, byword, dictum, maxim,
motto, precept, saw
Antonyms: HARANGUE
SUBTRACTION, ENUMERATION
MULTIPLICATION
DIVISION
INCREASE
Def: process of conjoining, adding
Synonyms: accession, adding, adjoining, affixing,
annexation,attachment,augmentation, enlargement, extension,
inclusion, increasingNotes: an addition is something that, when
added, an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of
the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added' Antonyms:
decrease, reduction, shrinkage, SUBTRACTION, withdrawal
FAITHFUL
RECREATED
MISCREANT, CRAVEN
EMACIATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fatty
Synonyms: adipocerous, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous
Antonyms: EMACIATED
34)Adroit
36)Adrift
38) Advent
SKILFUL
CLEVER, LOVE
UNSKILFUL
EXPERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very able or skilled
Syn: adept, apt, artful, clean, clever, cunning, cute, deft, dexterous,
expert, good, handy, hot tamale, ingenious, masterful, nimble, on the
ball, proficient, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, savvy, sharp,
skillful, slick, smart, wizard
Ant: awkward, clumsy, dense, inept, UNSKILFUL
RUDDERLESS
AIMLESS, ASTRAY
DETACHED
ANCHORED
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: floating out of control
Synonyms: afloat, drifting, loose, unanchored, unmoored
Antonyms: ANCHORED, stable, tied down
ARRIVAL
FESTIVAL, OCCASION
FORTHCOMING
DEPARTURE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning or arrival of something anticipated
Synonyms: appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance,
occurrence, onset, visitation
Antonyms: DEPARTURE, end
40) Advocate
42)
Affectation
44) Affiliate
SUPPORT
INQUIRE, ENDORSE
OPPOSE
DEFEND
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person supporting an idea or cause publicly
Synonyms: apostle, attorney, backer, campaigner, champion,
counsel, defender, exponent, expounder, lawyer, pleader, promoter,
proponent, proposer, speaker, spokesperson, supporter, upholder
Antonyms: antagonist, assailant, enemy, OPPOSE, opposition,
protestor
SELECTION
PRETENTION
PERSONAL, LOVE
NATURAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression
Synonyms: air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front,
front,imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension,
pretentiousness, show, showing off, simulation
Antonyms: NATURAL, simplicity
SPURN
INCORPORATE
ASSOCIATE, UNITE
LOVING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: organization that is associated with another
Synonyms: affil, associate, branch, offshoot, partner, sibling,
Antonyms: SPURN
46) Aggravate
ASSUAGE
TOTAL, GRIEVOUS
COLLECT
DISSIPATE
Def: annoy
Synonyms: be at, be on the back of, bother, bug, dog, exasperate,
gall, get, grate, hack, irk, irritate, nag, needle, nettle, peeve, pester,
pick on, pique, provoke, tease, vex, wig
Notes: to aggravate is to make something worse, while to
exacerbate is to increase something's bitterness or harshness
Ant: appease, gladden, ASSUAGE, mollify, soften
QUICKNESS
AFFILIATION,ATHLETIC
48)Agility
50) Alacrity
ACTIVENESS
AWKWARDNESS
EAGERNESS
QUICKNESS, CUSTOM
ASSOCIATION
SLOWNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: liveliness; promptness
Synonyms: alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, dispatch,
eagerness, enthusiasm, expedition, fervor, gaiety, hilarity,
promptitude, quickness, readiness, speed, sprightliness, zeal
Antonyms: apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference,
reluctance, SLOWNESS, unwillingness
52)Alive
54) Alleviate
56)Allure
PASSIVE
DEAD, ASLEEP
DROWSY
ANIMATE
Definition: being animately existent
Synonyms: animate, around, awake, breathing, cognizant,
conscious, dynamic, existing, extant, functioning, growing, knowing,
live, living, mortal, operative, running, subsisting, viable, vital,
working, zoetic
Antonyms: DEAD , deceased, inanimate, lifeless
DIMINISH
RELIEVE, HUMILIATE
REDUCE
WORSEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: relieve; lessen
Synonyms: allay, assuage, ease, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify,
pour oil on, soft-pedal, take the edge off, take the sting out
Antonyms: aggravate, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify,
WORSEN.
CAPTIVATIVE
FASCINATE
CHANT, ADORN
REPEL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appeal
Synonyms: attraction, bedroom eyes, charisma, charm, come-hither
look, come-on, enchantment, enticement, glamor, inveiglement, lure,
magnetism, seductiveness, temptation, the jazz
Antonyms:
REPEL
58) Altruism
60) Amateur
62)
Ambivalent
ALTOGETHER
FALSEHOOD,IMPURE
SELF-CENTERED
TRYST
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unselfish concern
Synonyms: benevolence, charity, humanitarianism, kindness,
magnanimity, philanthropy, public spirit, selflessness, social
conscience
Antonyms: SELFCENTERED
NOVICE, APPRENTICE
INEVITABLE
CONFUSED
PROFESSIONAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: casual participant
Syn: Sunday driver, abecedarian, apprentice, aspirant, beginner,
dabbler, dilettante, greenhorn, ham, hopeful, layperson, learner,
neophyte, novice, probationer, putterer, recruit, tenderfoot, tyro.
Notes: an amateur is someone who pursues a study or sport as a
pastime; a novice is someone who is new to a field. Antonyms:
PROFESSIONAL
WAVERING
CONTRADICTORY
MIXED, DECISIVE
MODEST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: conflicting
Synonyms: clashing, contradictory, debatable, doubtful, equivocal,
fluctuating, hesitant, inconclusive, irresolute, mixed, opposed,
uncertain, undecided, unresolved, unsure, vacillating, warring,
wavering
Antonyms: certain, definite, resolved, settled, sure, unequivocal,
DECISIVE
64)
Ambulatory
66) Amiably
68) Amoral
BEDRIDDEN
RESCUE, PRIMARY
CONGENIAL
ESSENTIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: changing position; able to move under own power
Synonyms: ambulant, itinerant, nomadic, perambulant,
perambulatory, peripatetic, roving, vagabond, vagrant
Antonyms: steady, stiff, unchanging, BEDRIDDEN
SOFT
ADDICTED, HATEFUL
LOVABLE
CORDIALLY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: willingly, assenting; pleasantly; in keeping
Syn: affably, affirmatively, amiably , amicably, benevolently,
charmingly, cheerfully, convivially, favorably, genially, graciously,
happily, kindly, obligingly, peacefully, pleasingly, politely,
satisfactorily, well, wonderfully
Antonyms: dissenting, unpleasantly, HATEFUL
ELEVATED
UNFAITHFUL
IMMORAL, FORMAL
ETHICAL
Definition: immoral, uncontrolled
Syn: abandoned, amoral , animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched,
depraved, desirous, disorderly, dissolute, fast, fleshly, impure,
incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,
lickerish, lubricious, lustful, profligate, reprobate, salacious, satyric,
scabrous.
Antonyms: chaste, controlled, good, ETHICAL
70) Amplify
72)
Analogous
74)
Anathematize
EXPLAINED
DECREASE,IDENTIFY
INTENSIFY
SUPPLY
Part of Speech: verb
Def:increase in size or effect
Synonyms: add, augment, beef up, boost, build up, deepen,
elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, heighten,
hike up, inflate, intensify,lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise,
strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen. Antonyms:
abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, DECREASE,
lessen,shorten,
DIVERSED
SIMILAR, COMPLEX
IMMORAL
DOMINEERING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: agreeing, similar
Synonyms: akin, alike, comparable, consonant, convertible,
correspondent, corresponding, equivalent, homologous,
interchangeable, kindred, like, parallel, related, resembling.
Antonyms: disagreeing, disparate, dissimilar, unalike, unlike,
unrelated, DIVERSED
INDICATE
IRRITATE, REGULATE
FEEBLE
BLESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: curse
Synonyms: accurse, anathemize, comminate, damn,
excommunicate, execrate, imprecate, maledict
Antonyms: BLESS.
76) Anemic
78) Animate
80) Animus
ENERGETIC
LISTLESS
HAZARDOUS, POLITE
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak and pale
Synonyms: bloodless, feeble, frail, infirm, pallid, sickly, wan,
watery
Antonyms: flushed, strong, ENERGETIC
SPIRITED
VIGOROUS
BORING, DYNAMIC
EXCITING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring to life
Synonyms: activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize,
enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform,
inspirit, instigate, invigorate, kindle, revive, revivify, rouse, spark,
spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vitalize, vivify
Antonyms: deaden, discourage, kill, BORING
FAVOUR
HATRED, GRUDGE
CLOSE
CRUEL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hostility
Synonyms: bile, mind, spirit, temper
Notes: anima is the source of the female part of personality and
animus is the source of the male part
Antonym: FAVOUR
82) Anomaly
84)
Antecedent
86) Antipathy
IRREGULARITY
REGULARITY
DEVIATION, ASSOCIATION
DEPRESSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deviation from normal, usual
Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation,
eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity,
oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy
Antonyms: conformity, normality, REGULARITY, standard, usual,
usualness
PRECEDING,ATTACHED
CONSEQUENT
ANTE-CHAMBER
INNERMOST
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: prior
Synonyms: anterior, earlier, foregoing, former, past, precedent,
preceding, precursory, preliminary, previous
Antonyms: after, following, CONSEQUENT
FONDNESS, AVERSION
LOATHING
REPUGNANCE
ANTICIPATORY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: strong dislike, disgust
Synonyms: abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism,
aversion, avoidance, contrariety, distaste, dyspathy, enmity, escape,
eschewal, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, rancor, repellency,
repugnance, repulsion
Antonyms: admiration, appreciation, approval, esteem, rapport,
regard, respect, FONDNESS
88) Antithesis
90)
Apocalyptic
92) Apogee
SIMILARITY
QUITE, DIFFERENT
REGULAR
CONTRARY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exact opposite
Synonyms: antipode, antipole, contra, contradictory, contrary,
contrast, converse, counter, flip side, inverse, other side, reverse
Antonyms: same, SIMILARITY
HIGH-SOUNDING
TREE, APPEALING
POETIC
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fateful
Synonyms: ominous, oracular, predictive, prophetic, revealing,
CONCEALED
ELEVATION
PERIGEE, POSTING
TURBAN
PEDIGREE
Definition: pinnacle
Synonyms: acme, apex, climax, crest, peak, summit, zenith
Notes: apogee is the point where an orbiting body is at its farthest
from the Earth (from Greek meaning 'far from the Earth' (apo'away' and ge 'earth')); perigee is the point where the orbiting body
is closest to Earth
Antonyms:
PERIGEE
94) Apposite
96) Arduous
98) Aromatic
INAPPROPRIATE
INTEMPERATE
IRREGULAR,CHAMPION
INCONSISTENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pertinent
Synonyms: germane, relevant, suitable, timely
Antonyms: INAPPROPRIATE
DIFFICULT
EASY, GLUTTONY
EXERTION
EXHAUSTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: difficult, hard to endure
Synonyms: backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing,
formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, no
picnic, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe,
strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill
Antonyms: EASY, facile, motivating
BITTER
ODOURLESS
SWEAT, PUNGENT
CHARMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: distinctive smelling
Synonyms: ambrosial, balmy, fragrant, odoriferous, perfumed,
pungent, redolent, savory, scented, spicy, sweet, sweet-smelling
Antonyms: acrid, bland, unsavory, ODOURLESS
100) Artificial
102) Asperity
104) Astute
SOLID, TRUTHFUL
AUTHENTHIC
NATURAL
BEAUTIFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake; imitation
Synonyms: bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked,
false, falsie, hyped up, manufactured, mock, plastic, sham,
simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural,
unreal
Antonyms: genuine, NATURAL, real
SEVERITY,POLITENESS
ROUGHNESS
COMPLEXITY
SMOOTHNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: harshness; bad temper
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, churlishness, crabbiness,
crossness, difficulty, disagreeableness, irascibility, irritability,
meanness, moroseness, peevishness, roughness, sharpness, sourness,
sullenness, tartness
Antonyms: calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness, SMOTHNESS
ORDINARY
SIMPLE, ROUGH
COARSE
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: perceptive
Synonyms: adroit, brainy, bright, calculating, canny, clever, crafty,
discerning, foxy, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, not born
yesterday, on the ball, perspicacious, sagacious, savvy, sharp, sharp
as a tack, shrewd, sly
Antonyms: asinine, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, obtuse, shallow,
stupid, unintelligent, SIMPLE
106) Attract
REPULSE
REJECT, REPEL
DISTRACT
ABSORB
Definition: draw attention
Synonyms: allure, appeal to, bait, beckon, beguile, bewitch, bring,
captivate, charm, court, drag, draw, enchant, endear, engage,
enthrall, entice, entrance, exert influence, fascinate, freak out, grab,
hook, induce, intrigue, inveigle, invite, kill, knock out, lure,
magnetize, mousetrap, pull, score, seduce, slay, solicit, spellbind,
steer, vamp, wile
Antonyms: REPEL, repulse,
CONDEMN
UNFAVOURABLE
CONSPICUOUS
SPICY, BLESSED
MAGNANIMOUS
AMBIGUOUS
OPERATIONAL
108)
Auspicious
EXIGUOUS,DEPENDENT
110)
Autonomous
112) Avantgarde
114) Avidity
116) Axiom
UP-TO-DATE
OLD-FASHIONED
GRAVE-DIGGERS
BOASTING, RISE-UP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unconventional, forward-looking
Synonyms: experimental, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal,
new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art,
vanguard
Antonyms: conservative, conventional, OLD-FASHIONED
OVER-ACTIVE
CARELESSNESS
GREEDY, STUPIDITY
SHARPNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: eagerness
Synonyms: avarice, cupidity, enthusiasm, fervor, greediness, intense
desire, longing
Antonyms: apathy, indifference, CARELESSNESS
MAXIM
ANGLE, ABSURDITY
HEIGHT
GRACE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: principle
Synonyms: adage, aphorism, apothegm, device, dictum,
fundamental, law, maxim, moral, postulate, precept, proposition,
proverb, saying, theorem, truism, truth
Antonyms: ABSURDITY, ambiguity, foolishness, nonsense,
paradox
118) Banish
120)
Bagatelle
122) Banal
EXILE
EMBRACE, EXPEL
FINISH
DEPORT
Part of Speech: verb
Def: expel from place or situation
Synonyms: ban, cast out, deport, discard, discharge, dislodge,
dismiss, dispel, drive away, eject, eliminate, eradicate, evict, exclude,
excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expulse, proscribe, relegate,
remove, rusticate, sequester, shake off, shut out, transport
Antonyms: allow, keep, welcome, EMBRACE
SACK
RETICULE,NARRATION
MARSUPIAL
IMPORTANT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trinket
Synonyms: game, knickknack, toy, trifle
Antonyms:
IMPORTANT
BLATANT
BLANT, ORIGINAL
CURSING
COLOURLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: commonplace
Synonyms: bland, bromidic, common, conventional, cornball,
cornfed, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, hokey,
insipid, mundane, noplace, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pabulum,
pedestrian, platitudinous, square, stale, stereotyped, unimaginative,
unoriginal, vapid.
Antonyms: fresh, new, ORIGINAL
124) Bang
126) Baroque
128) Base
RING
BELL, WHIMPER
TWANG
FREEDOM
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: suddenly, with force
Synonyms: abruptly, hard, head on, headlong, noisily, precisely,
smack, straight, suddenly
Antonyms: slowly, WHIMPER
CULTURED
EMBELLISHED
DIFFICULT, DULL
SIMPLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: decorative, especially architecture
Synonyms: bizarre,
convoluted, elaborate, embellished, extravagant, flamboyant, florid,
gilt, grotesque, ornamented, ornate, overdecorated, rich, rococo
Antonyms: plain, unadorned, SIMPLE
ROOF
HEIGHT
TOP
CLIMAX, STAND
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vulgar, low
Synonyms: abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, contemptible,
corrupt, depraved, despicable, dishonorable, disreputable, foul,
humble, ignoble, indelicate, loathsome, lowly, mean, menial, paltry,
pitiful, plebeian, poor, scandalous, servile, shoddy, sleazy, sordid,
sorry, squalid, trashy, ugly, vile,
Antonyms: good, honest, moral, noble, CLIMAX
130) Bauble
132) Bay
134) Belie
PLAYTHING
VALUABLE, MODEST
BESIEGE
INFERIOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trinket
Synonyms: curio, doodad, gewgaw, gimcrack, knickknack, novelty,
trifle, whatnot, VALUABLE
DELTA
PLATEAU, SILENCE
SHORE
BURROW
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shoreline indentation
Synonyms: anchorage, arm, basin, bayou, bight, cove, estuary,
fiord, firth, gulf, harbor, inlet, lagoon, loch, mouth, narrows, sound,
strait
Antonym: PLATEAU.
ARGUE
JUSTIFY, ADMIRE
APPROVE
DENY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disprove
Synonyms: confute, contradict, contravene, controvert, deny,
disaffirm, disagree, explode, gainsay, negate, negative, oppose,
repudiate
Antonyms: attest, prove, JUSTIFY
136) Bellicose
138)
Benefactor
140) Benign
TRANSFORMED
DAZZLING, NOVEL
TORMENT
PEACEFUL
Definition: belligerent
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, battleful,
combative, hostile, pugnacious, quarrelsome, threatening, warlike
Notes: bellicose orients 'prone to fighting' toward an individual
while belligerent refers to an organized body, - a person is bellicose,
a nation is belligerent. Antonyms: calm, easygoing, pacific,
pacifistic, passive, PEACEFUL
SUB-DIVISOR
BENEFICIARY
BENEDICTION,BENEFIT
BENEFICENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: closing prayer
Synonyms: amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus,
benison, blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation,
laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: anathema, execration, BENEFICIARY
MALEVOLENT
BEGINNING, NOVICE
SYMPATHETIC
NIGHTLY
Definition: kindly
Synonyms: amiable, beneficent, benevolent, benignant,
complaisant, congenial, favorable, friendly, generous, genial, gentle,
good, gracious, kind, liberal, merciful, mild, obliging, sympathetic
Notes: benign refers to a trait or characteristic; benignant to a
tendency or disposition
Antonyms: hateful, hostile, hurtful, injurious, malignant, unkind,
MALEVOLENT
142)
Bequeath
144) Berserk
146) Bewitch
BENEATH
MISUSE, USURP
DISHONESTY
DEFEAT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give in a will
Synonyms: bestow, commit, devise, endow, entrust, grant, hand
down, hand on, impart, leave, leave to, legate, pass on, transmit, will
Antonyms: take, USURP
CALM
CRAZED, INSANE
MANIACAL
UNRIVALLED
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize hatefully
Synonyms: bawl out, blister, call down, castigate, censure, chew
out, chide, cuss out, eat out, jaw, jump all over, rail at, rate, rebuke,
reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, scold, scorch, upbraid,
vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, hail, praise, CALM
DISENCHANT
RAPTURE, PROFIT
AVAIL
ENCHANT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: charm
Synonyms: allure, attract, bedevil, beguile, captivate, capture,
control, dazzle, draw, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, entrance,
fascinate, hex, hypnotize, knock dead, slay, spellbind, take, trick,
vamp, voodoo, wile
Antonyms: DISENCHANT, disgust, turn off
148) Bigotry
150) Bizarre
152) Bland
CHAUVINISM
PREJUDICE
TOLERANCE
REMORSE, RACISM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intolerance, prejudice
Synonyms: bias, discrimination, dogmatism, fanaticism, injustice,
narrow-mindedness, partiality, provincialism, racialism, racism,
sectarianism, sexism, unfairness
Antonyms: broad-mindedness, fairness, open-mindedness,
TOLERANCE
NORMAL
WEIRD, QUEER
CONCEALED
APPROVED
Definition: strange, wild
Synonyms: bugged out, comical, curious, eccentric,
extraordinary,fantastic,freakish, grody, grotesque, kooky, ludicrous,
odd, oddball, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, queer, ridiculous, weird
Notes: a bazaar is a shop or market while bizarre means odd or
unusual, macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring
horror;bizarre=unusual/odd
Antonyms: NORMAL, reasonable, usual
TASTELESS
DULL, TIMIT
STIMULATING
BORING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: tasteless; undistinctive
Synonyms: banal, boring, dull, flat, flavorless, humdrum, insipid,
monotonous, nerdy, nothing, pabulum, sapless, tame, tedious,
unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting, unstimulating, vanilla, vapid,
waterish, watery, weak, wimpy,
Antonyms: delicious, distinctive, sharp, tasty, STIMULATING
154) Blas
156) Bleak
158) Bliss
UNCARING
ARDENT, APATHETIC
FORMAL
SUPERFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nonchalant
CHEERFUL
ERUPT, DISMAL
DESOLATE
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: barren
Synonyms: austere, bare, blank, blighted, bombed, bulldozed,
burned, chilly,cleared, cold,deforested, desert, deserted, desolate,
dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, scorched, stripped,
unpopulated, unsheltered, wild, windswept
Antonyms: appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny,
CHEERFUL
MERGE
DISSEMINATE, DULL
SUFFERING
ECSTASY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ecstasy
Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness, euphoria, felicity, gladness,
happiness, joy, paradise, rapture
Antonyms: grief, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, upset , DULL
160)
Blooming
162)
Boisterous
164) Boorish
FADING
FLOWERING
QUIET, MILD
FLOURISHING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flower; flourish
Synonyms: be in flower, bear fruit, blossom, blow, bud, burgeon,
burst, develop, effloresce, fructify, germinate, grow, open, prosper,
sprout, succeed, tassel out, thrive, wax
Antonyms: shrink, shrivel, wither, FADING
CALM
ROARING, TODAY
AIRY
NOISY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: noisy and mischievous
Synonyms: bouncy, brawling, clamorous, disorderly, effervescent,
impetuous, loud, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, riotous,
rollicking, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, unrestrained,
unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild
Antonyms: CALM, quiet, restrained, silent
UNTROUBLED,JUVENILE
CIVILIZED
UNCIVILZED
WELL-MANNERED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, awkward
Synonyms: barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, cloddish, clodhopping,
clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gruff, inurbane, loutish,
lowbred, oafish, ornery, rude, swinish, ugly, uncouth, ungracious,
unpoised, unpolished, unrefined,
Antonyms: charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined,
sophisticated ,WELL-MANNERED
166) Brawl
168) Brevity
170) Brief
AGREE
POLISH, GLAZE
MODEST
SCUFFLE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: nasty fight
Synonyms: affray, altercation, argument, battle, bickering, broil,
clash, disorder, dispute, donnybrook, feud, fight, fracas, fray, fuss,
hassle, melee, quarrel, rhubarb, riot, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle,
squabble, tumult, uproar, wrangle
Antonyms: peace, truce ,AGREE
PROLIXITY
CLOWN, RUSTIC
SPOIL
SHORTNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shortness, briefness
Synonyms: conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness,
curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness,
pointedness, succinctness, terseness, transience, transitoriness
Antonyms: lengthiness, longevity, permanence , PROLIXITY
LONG, EXPANDED
ELABORATE
DETAILED
BLANK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: short, compressed
Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, boiled down, breviloquent,
brusque, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, hasty,
laconic, limited, little, pithy, sharp, skimpy, small, snippy, succinct,
surly, terse, to the point
Antonyms: lengthy, long , ELABORATE
172) Brusque
174) Bucolic
SWEEP, SUDDEN
OBSEQUIOUS
IMMEDIATE
HUSK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: curt, surly
Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, crusty, discourteous, gruff,
hasty, impolite, sharp, short, snappy, snippy, tart, terse, unmannerly
Antonyms: courteous, kind, polite, tactful , OBSEQUIOUS
RUSTIC, PASTORAL
VINDICTIVE
URBAN
UNEDUCATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rural or rustic
Synonyms: Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, countrified, country,
pastoral
Antonym: URBAN
EXAMINE
DIG OUT
176) Burry
EXHUME, DRAW
ENCLOSE
178) Busy
180)
Cadaverous
BULLY
CURB, INDOLENCE
OCCUPIED
ENGAGED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: engaged, at work
Synonyms: active, assiduous, at it, buried, diligent, employed,
engaged, engrossed, having a full plate, hustling, industrious,
occupied, overloaded, persevering, slaving, snowed, swamped, tied
up, unavailable, working
Antonyms: idle, quiet, unbusy, unemployed, unengaged ,
INDOLENCE
SANGUINE
BURNISHED, LUCID
JARGON
DEPENDABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pale, corpselike
Synonyms: ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive,
dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly,
ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick,
skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted
Antonyms: flushed, lifelike, lively , SANGUINE
INABILITY
BRAVE
182) Calibre
DISTINCT, YIELDING
TEMPERAMENT
184) Callow
HOLLOW
SALLOW
EXPERIENCED
CLIMB, FERTILE
Definition: immature
Synonyms: crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune,
jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, puerile, raw, sophomore,
tenderfoot, unfledged, unripe, untrained, untried, young
Notes: callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while
shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge
Ant: EXPERIENCED, initiated, sophisticated
RAPPORT,SOCIABILITY
186)
Camaraderie
188) Candor
FRIENDSHIP
HOSTILITY
LEADERSHIP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendship
Synonyms: cheer, companionability, companionship, comradeship,
conviviality, esprit de corps, fellowship, gregariousness, intimacy,
jollity, sociability, togetherness
Antonyms: bad blood, dislike, hate , HOSTILITY
DISHONESTY
HONESTY, PERFUME
OPENNESS
FLAVOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complete honesty
Synonyms: artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness,
frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, openness,
outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, truthfulness,
unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity
Ant: artifice, deception, falsehood, DISHONESTY
190)
Capricious
192) Captive
194) Carnage
CONSISTENT,ADAMANT
PERMANENT
CONTINUOUS
TEMPORARY
Part of Speech: adjective Def: given to sudden behavior change
Synonyms: arbitrary, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety,
effervescent, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, impulsive,
inconstant, lubricious, mercurial,moody,mutable, odd, queer,
unpredictable, unreasonable, unstable, vagarious
Antonyms: constant, dependable, sensible, staid, steadfast, steady ,
CONSISTENT
ENCHANT
ARREST, DAZZLE
TANTALIZE
DISGUST
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: physically held by force
Synonyms: bound, caged, confined, enslaved, ensnared, imprisoned,
incarcerated, incommunicado, jailed, penned, restricted,
subjugated, under lock and key
Antonyms: free, independent, loose , DISGUST
MASSACRE, PARODY
DELIVERANCE
REBUKE
SLAUGHTER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: massacre
Synonyms: annihilation, blitz, blood, butchering, butchery, crime,
extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing,
liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine,
search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, warfare, wasting
Antonyms: DELIVERANCE
196)
Carnivorous
198) Cascade
200)
Castigate
VEGETARIAN
MERRY-MAKING
FLESH-EATING
DEJECTED, PASSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eating animal flesh
Synonyms: cannibal, flesh-eating, hungry, omnivorous, predatory,
rapacious
Antonyms: vegetarian , VEGETARIAN
RAPIDS
TRICKLE, FALL
DIAMOND
BUNCH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something falling, especially water
Synonyms: avalanche, cataract, chute, deluge, downrush, falls,
flood, force, fountain, outpouring, precipitation, rapids, shower,
spout, torrent, watercourse, waterfall
Antonyms: TRICKLE
PRAISE
OPINE, EXHORT
SQUEAL
COMPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize severely
Synonyms: baste, bawl out, beat, berate, blister, cane, censure,
chasten, chastise,correct, criticize, discipline, drub, excoriate, flay,
flog, lambaste, lash, lay out, lean on, penalize, pummel, punish, rail,
rate, ream, rebuke,reprimand,scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge,
thrash,upbraid, whip
Antonyms: compliment, laud, PRAISE
202) Casual
204)
Cataclysm
206)
Categorical
INFORMAL
RESERVE, OFFHAND
RELATION
NON-CHALANT
Definition: chance, random
Synonyms: accidental, adventitious,contingent, extemporaneous,
extempore, fluky, fortuitous, impromptu, improvised, impulsive,
incidental, infrequent, spontaneous, uncertain, unexpected
Notes: casual means suited for everyday use, informal or occurring
by chance - while causal means involving or constituting a cause
Antonyms: deliberate, painstaking, RESERVE
PEACE, DELUGE
QUIBBLE
CONJECTURE
STIMULATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disaster
Synonyms: calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion,
crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, holy
mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess,
upheaval, waterloo, woe
Antonyms: boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder ,
PEACE
BRANDED
CLASSIFIED, TRAGIC
SATIRICAL
QUALIFIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: explicit, unconditional
Synonyms: absolute, certain, definite, definitive, direct, downright,
emphatic, express, forthright, no holds barred, positive, specific,
sure, ultimate, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmitigated.
Antonyms: ambiguous, conditional, equivocal, implied, qualified,
questionable, tentative, uncategorical, vague , QUALIFIED
208) Cautious
LOOSE, RECKLESS
WAVERING
DISHONEST
WATCHFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, guarded
Synonyms: alert, cagey, calculating, chary, circumspect,
considerate, gingerly, heedful, judicious, politic, provident, prudent,
pussyfoot, safe, shrewd, tentative, vigilant, wary, watchful
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, imprudent, incautious, rash,
thoughtless, uncareful, unguarded, unobservant, RECKLESS
MOURNING
MATRIMONY, CELEBRITY
210) Celibacy
212) Censor
CHERISHING
ASSOCIATION
ACCEPT
BAN, ALLOW
SUPPRESS
PURGE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: forbid; ban; selectively remove
Synonyms: abridge, black out, blacklist, bleach, bleep, conceal,
control, cork, criticize, cut, decontaminate, delete, edit, examine,
excise, expurgate, exscind, inspect, launder, narrow, oversee, purge,
purify, repress, restrain, restrict, review, revile, sanitize, suppress,
withhold
Antonyms: ALLOW, endorse, permit, sanction
214)
Centrifugal
CENTRIPETAL
ATTRACTED, LASTING
IMPORTANT
MATHEMATICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: radiating from a central point
Synonyms: deviating, diffusive, divergent, diverging, eccentric,
efferent, outward, radial, spiral, spreading
Notes: centrifugal force pulls away or pushes outward; centripetal
draws toward or pulls inward
Antonyms: CENTRIPETAL
216) Chaffing
CAPITALISTIC
HAPPILY, SNEERING
SERIOUS
LIGHT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: joke, ridicule
Synonyms: banter, deride, fun, jeer, jolly, josh, kid, mock, rag,
rally, razz, rib, scoff, taunt, tease
Notes: to chafe means to rub until sore or worn; to chaff means to
tease good-naturedly
Antonyms ; SERIOUS
218) Cheerful
SANGUINE
LUSTRE, GRIN
SATURNINE
FIERY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, bright, bucked, buoyant,
cheery, chipper, effervescent, enlivening, hilarious,
hopeful,jaunty,jocund, jolly, joyful, lighthearted, lively, merry,
peppy, perky, rosy, sanguine, snappy, sparkling, sprightly, upbeat,
vivacious, winsome, zappy, zingy, zippy
Ant: cheerless, depressed, gloomy, SATURNINE
SERIOUSLY
QUIETLY, LIVELY
B
HEARTLESSLY
GLOOMY
VELVET-LIKE
PROMINENT
E
CONVINCING
OBEDIENT, ROUGH
220) Cheerly
222) Chenille
224) Cherry
HARD
SOFT, WRONG
SMALL
REDDISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bright red color
Synonyms: blooming, blushing, bright red, cerise, claret, crimson,
dark red, erubescent, incarnadine, reddish, rosy, rubescent,
rubicund, ruddy
Antonyms: HARD
226) Chic
BITTER
MODERN, STYLISH
OLD
LATEST
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fashionable
Synonyms: current, dap, dapper, dashing, elegant, exclusive,
faddish, last word, latest thing, mod, modern, modish, natty, sharp,
smart, stylish, swank, trendy, voguish, with-it
Antonyms: dull, old-fashioned, out-moded, unfashionable , OLD
SOFTDRINK, POLITE
SOFTF OOD
SMALL QUANTITY
HUGE AMOUNT
ECONOMICAL
UNNATURAL
IMAGINARY
228) Chicken
food
REALISTIC,WONDERFUL
230)
Chimerical
232) Churlish
ACCOMMODATING
POLITE, HELPFUL
HAPPY
RELIGIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, boorish
Synonyms: base, blunt, brusque, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed,
crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff,
grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, sullen,
surly, ugly, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly,
unpolished, unsociable, vulgar
Antonyms: gentle, nice, pleasant, POLITE
234)
Circumlocuti
on
AMASS, AMBIGUITY
EFFUSION
SIMPLICITY
COMPLEXITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: indirect speech
Synonyms: beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness,
discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase,
periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology, verbality,
verbiage, wordiness
Antonyms: conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness,
SIMPLICITY
236)
Clandestine
OPEN, SURREPTITOUS
CONCOURSE
PERPETRATE
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mark off, delimit
Synonyms: bar, bound, confine, define, delineate, demarcate,
encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hamper, hem in, limit,
nail down, outline, prelimit, restrain, restrict, surround, trammel
Antonyms: free, loose, OPEN
238)
Clemency
240)
Cognizant
242) Come
CORPORAL
COMPROMISE
SENSIBILITY,INTOLERANCE
TRANSFORMATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forgiveness
Synonyms: caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness,
fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence,
justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness,
mercy, mildness, moderation, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance,
toleration
Antonyms: no mercy , INTOLERANCE
RUMINATE
UNAWARE, ABRIDGE
INCAUTIOUS
CONSCIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aware
Synonyms: acquainted, alive, apprehensive, au courant, awake,
conscious, conversant, down with, familiar, grounded, informed,
judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, savvy,
sensible, sentient, versed, wise to, with it, witting
Antonyms: ignorant, UNAWARE, unfamiliar, uninformed,
unknowledgeable, unwitting
PLAY
FAST, GO
GOT
APPROACH
Part of Speech: verb
Def: advance, approach
Synonyms: appear, arrive, attain, be accessible, be at disposal, be
convenient, be handy, be obtainable, be ready, become, burst, check
in, enter, get, get in, happen, hit, hit town, make it, materialize,
move, near, occur, originate, reach, show
Antonyms: depart, go, leave, recede, retreat, GO
244)
Commend
246)
Competent
248)
Compliant
SUSPEND
ADMONISH, HATE
DISLIKE
PRAISE
Part of Speech: verb Def: recommend, praise
Synonyms: acclaim, accredit, advocate, applaud, approve, boost,
build, build up, compliment, countenance, endorse, eulogize, extol,
kudize, laud, pat on the back, puff up, sanction, speak highly of,
stroke, support
Antonyms: censure, criticize, disapprove, rebuke, reprimand,
DISLIKE
DULL
DELIGENT
INEFFICIENT
NOBLE, SKILFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: able
Synonyms: adapted, adequate, appropriate, capable, clever,
complete, crisp, decent, dynamite, efficient, endowed, enough, equal,
fireball, fit, fool, good, polished, proficient, qualified, satisfactory,
savvy, skilled, sufficient, suitable.
Antonyms: inadequate, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inept,
unable, INEFFICIENT
DEFECTIVE, ADAMANT
ELEMANTRY
APPRECIATIVE
REJECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obedient
Synonyms: docile, easy, flexible, manageable, meek, submissive,
tractable, willing, yielding
Antonyms: recalcitrant, ADAMANT
250)
Concluding
252) Confess
254) Conquer
INFERENCE
INCIPIENT
PREMISE, NADIR
ENDING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: finish, come to an end
Synonyms: achieve, bring down curtain, call it a day, cease, cinch,
clinch, close, close out, complete, consummate, crown, desist, draw
to close, end, halt, stop, terminate, ultimate, wrap up
Antonyms: begin, commence, introduce, preface, start, INCIPIENT
DENY
REFUSE, CONTEST
CONTEND
ADMIT
Part of Speech: verb
Def: admit, confirm
Synonyms: acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow,
blow, chirp, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, evince, fink,
grant, manifest, narrate, post, profess, prove, recognize, relate,
reveal, snitch, squeal, unload, vent, weasel
Antonyms: conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate,
secrete, DENY
CONCUR
TRIUMPH, ATTACK
CAPITAL
CAPITULATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: defeat, overcome
Synonyms: beat, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, control, crush,
discomfit, drub, foil, frustrate, humble, lick, master,
outwit,overpower,override, overthrow, prevail, quell, rout, subdue,
surmount, thwart, trash, triumph, vanquish, whip, map, worst
Antonyms: capitulate, fail, give up, lose, retreat, succumb,
surrender, yield, CAPITULATE
256)
Considerable
258)
Conspicuous
260)
Controvert
INADEQUATE
INATTENTIVE
USUAL, COMMON
SIGNIFICANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abundant, large
Synonyms: ample, appreciable, astronomical, big, comfortable,
commodious, extensive, goodly, great, hefty, huge, lavish, major,
marked, much, noticeable, plentiful, pretty, reasonable, respectable,
sizable, substantial, tidy, tolerable
Antonyms: inconsiderable, insignificant, little, slight, small,
undistinguished, INADEQUATE
INDIFFERENT
HARMLESS
INSIGNIFICANT
UNKNOWN, EVIDENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obvious, easily seen
Synonyms: apparent, clear, discernible, distinct, evident, manifest,
noticeable, patent, perceptible, plain, visible
Antonyms: concealed, hidden, imperceptible, inconspicuous,
obscure, secret, unnoticeable, unremarkable, unseen,
INSIGNIFICANT
AGREE
DENY, PRESUME
DEVOUR
CONFINE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inhibit
Synonyms: astringe, choke, circumscribe, clench, compress,
concentrate, condense, confine, constringe, contract, cramp, curb,
limit, narrow, pinch, restrain, restrict, shrink, squeeze, strangle,
strangulate, tense, tighten, tuck. Antonyms: expand, free, loosen,
open, release, AGREE
262) Copious
264)
Corpulence
266)
Consummate
PLENTIFUL, LITTLE
ACCOMMODATIVE
ABUNDANT
HUGE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abundant
Synonyms: ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, extensive,
exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush,
luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix,
replete, rich, superabundant, verbose, wordy
Antonyms: lacking, meager, needing, needy, poor, rare, scarce,
wanting, LITTLE
SLENDER
CHEERFUL, GUILT
POVERTY
INTERFERENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overweight
Synonyms: adiposity, breadth, bulkiness, corpulence , distension,
flab, flesh, fleshiness, girth, grossness, heaviness, heftiness, inflation,
largeness, plumpness, portliness, protuberance, pudginess,
rotundity, size, stoutness, tumidity,
Antonyms: skinniness, slimness, thinness, underweight, SLENDER
COPULATE
NOVICE
INSEMINATE
MATE, MIX
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ultimate, best
Synonyms: able, absolute, complete, conspicuous, faultless, finished,
flawless, gifted, ideal, impeccable, inimitable, matchless, peerless,
perfect, perfected, polished, ripe, skilled, superb, superlative,
talented, trained, transcendent, unmitigated, unqualified,
unsurpassable, utter,
Ant: incomplete, unfinished, worst, INSEMINATE
268) Cordial
270) Court
272) Coy
ANTIPATHIC
NON-SERIOUS
INDIFFERENT
AWKWARD,GRACIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: friendly, sociable
Synonyms: affable,affectionate,agreeable, amicable, cheerful,
clubby, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial,
glowing, gracious, happy, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial.
Antonyms: aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent,
inhospitable, uncordial, unfriendly, unpleasant, INDIFFERENT
TRIBUNAL
CLAIM, SUPPLY
ACCEPT
REJECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: yard, garden of building
Synonyms: cloister, close, compass, courtyard, curtilage, enclosure,
forum, patio, piazza, plaza, quad, quadrangle, square, street
Antonym: REJECT
MODEST
DEMURE, BRAZEN
TIMID
BOISTEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very modest
Synonyms: backward, bashful, blushing, coquettish, demure,
diffident, evasive, flirtatious, humble, kittenish, overmodest,
prudish, rabbity, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shrinking, shy,
skittish, timid, unassertive
Antonyms: aggressive, forward, immodest, impudent, unshy,
BRAZEN
274) Craven
276)
Credulous
278) Cryptic
GREEDY
GENEROUS
COWARD
TACKY, BRAVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak, timid
Synonyms: cowardly, dastardly, fearful, gutless, lily-livered,
poltroonish, pusillanimous, scared, timorous, wimpish, wimpy,
wussy.
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, heroic, strong, BRAVE
INNOCENT
UNBELIEVING
CREDULENT
WORTH, CREDITABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gullible, naive
Synonyms: accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable,
overtrusting, simple, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning,
unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary
Notes: credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible'
Antonyms: skeptical, suspecting, UNBELIEVING
ARTIFICIAL, CANDID
SUPERFICIAL
ATTRACTIVE
MYSTERIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic,
dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, incomprehensible,
murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, occult, oracular,
puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear,
unfathomable, uninformative.
Antonyms: clear, obvious, plain, CANDID
280) Culpable
282) Cupidity
284) Curtail
ARROGANT
INNOCENT, CULPRIT
INFORMAL
VAGABOND
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: responsible for action
Synonyms: amiss, answerable, at fault, blamable, blameful,
blameworthy, caught, censurable, demeritorious, dirty, guilty,
impeachable, indictable, liable, off base, punishable, reprehensible,
responsible, sinful, unholy, wrong
Antonyms: blameless, inculpable, innocent, not guilty, right,
INNOCENT,
CURIOSITY
WINE-WORSHIPPING
ATROCITY, CLARITY
GENEROSITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: greed, strong desire
Synonyms: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity,
covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger,
infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning
Antonyms: dislike, distaste, GENEROSITY
TRIM
REDUCE, MUTTER
ATTACH
EXTEND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cut short; abridge
Synonyms: abbreviate, chop, clip, contract, cramp, cut, decrease,
diminish, dock, downsize, halt, lessen, lop, minify, pare down, put in
nutshell, reduce, retrench, roll back, shorten, slash, trim, truncate
Antonyms: extend, increase, lengthen, EXTEND
286) Dainty
288) Damp
290) Dapper
HARDWORKING
VIGOROUS
THREAD BEAR
HARSH, EXQUISITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: delicate, fragile, fine
Synonyms: airy, attractive, beautiful, bonny, charming, choice,
comely, cute, delectable, delightful,
diaphanous,elegant,ethereal,exquisite, fair, frail, graceful,
lacy,lovely, neat, nice, palatable, petite, pleasing, precious, pretty,
rare, refined, savory, select, soft, subtle, superior, sweet,
Ant: clumsy, coarse, harsh, heavy, VIGOROUS
SOGGY
MOIST, DEEP
BURRIED
ARID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wet, humid
Synonyms: clammy, cloudy, dank, dewy, drenched, dripping,
drippy, drizzly, irriguous, misty, moist, muggy, oozy, saturated,
soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, steam bath, steamy, sticky,
vaporous, waterlogged, wettish
Antonyms: arid, dessicated, dried, dry, ARID
UNTIDY
MOIST, USEFUL
INEVITABLE
HINDER
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: well-groomed, neat
Synonyms: bandbox, brisk, chic, classy, clean, dainty, dashing,
doggy, jaunty, natty, nice, nifty, nimble, nobby, posh, prim, rakish,
ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, smart, snazzy, snug, spiff, spiffy, spruce,
spry, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, trim
Antonyms: dirty, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, scruffy, shabby,
sloppy, tousled, UNTIDY
292)
Dauntless
294) Dead
296) Dearth
COURAGEOUS
STRONG, STIRRED
FAMOUS
COWARDLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: bold, courageous
Synonyms: aweless, brave, daring, doughty, fearless, gallant, game,
heroic, indomitable, intrepid, invincible, lionhearted, resolute,
stouthearted, unafraid, unconquerable, undaunted, unfearing,
unflinching, valiant, valorous
Antonyms: afraid, daunted, discouraged, fearful, frightened,
intimidated, scared, COWARDLY
SLOW
FAST, QUICK
DYE
RISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: no longer alive
Synonyms: asleep, bloodless, breathless, buried, cadaverous, cold,
defunct, departed, erased, expired, extinct, gone, inanimate, inert,
late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, offed, perished,
reposing, stiff, unanimated, wasted
Antonyms: alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living,
subsisting, QUICK
SCARCITY,ABUNDANCE
EXTRAVAGANCE
SUFFICIENCY
SHORTAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: insufficiency, scarcity
Synonyms: absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness,
famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need,
paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness,scantness,shortage,
slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want
Antonyms: ABUNDANCE, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency
298) Debar
ENERGY
ENTITLE, RECITE
DEVIATE
DENY
Part of Speech: verb
Def: prohibit
Synonyms: blackball, deny, deprive, exclude, forbid, hinder,
preclude, prevent, refuse, reject, suspend
Notes: debar means to bar from a place or prevent from exercising
a right; disbar means to expel from the bar or legal profession
Antonym: ENTITLE
PROTECTION
STRENGTHENING
Antonym: STRENGTHENING
SECURING
OCCUPYING,WEAKNESS
300)
Debilitating
302)
Deciduous
HILLY, EVERGREEN
DECISIVE
DIVISIBLE
HUNGRY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not around for long
Synonyms: brief, deciduous , ephemeral, evanescent,
fleeting,fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, of short
duration, over in a heartbeat, passing, quick, short, temporary,
transient, transitory
Antonyms: enduring, ethereal, lasting, lengthy, permanent,
EVERGREEN
304)
Defection
306) Deficit
308)
Degenerate
UNITE
STRENGTHEN
JOIN, SEPARATE
DESERTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abandonment
Synonyms: alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction,
desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, estrangement,
failing, failure, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreancy,
rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, severance, sundering,
tergiversation, withdrawal
Antonyms: joining, JOIN,
SUPERFLUOUS
SURPLUS, EXPLICIT
IMPLICIT
SHORTFALL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shortage of something needed, required
Synonyms: arrears, dead horse, defalcation, default, deficiency,
dues, inadequacy, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, paucity, red
ink, scantiness, shortcoming, shortfall, underage
Antonyms: enough, excess, plenty, superfluousness, SURPLUS,
DISINTEGRATE
ENRICH, IMPROVE
CONSECRATE
SPOIL
Def: corrupt, deteriorated
Synonyms: base, debased, debauched, decadent, demeaned,
depraved, dissolute, effete, fallen, flatitious, mean, miscreant,
nefarious, overripe, perverted, retrogressive, vicious, villainous,
Notes: to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a
scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to be lowered, or
reduced in value';
Antonyms: moral, upright, virtuous, IMPROVE
310)
Deleterious
312) Deluge
314) Demon
FATAL
NOURISHING, VITAL
INJURIOUS
PERNICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: harmful, damaging
Synonyms: bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful,
injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial,
prejudicious, ruining, ruinous
Antonyms: aiding, assisting, helpful, NOURISHING,
ECSTATIC
RAVAGE, ARROGANT
DEARTH
INUNDATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: downpour, flood of something
Synonyms: avalanche, barrage, cataclysm, cataract, drencher, flux,
inundation, niagara, overflowing, overrunning, pour, rush, spate,
torrent
Antonym:
DEARTH
GIANT
GENTLE, ANGEL
SATAN
HOBGOBLIN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: evil, devilish being or influence
Synonyms: Satan, archfiend, beast, brute, fiend, goblin, hellion,
imp, incubus, little devil, malignant spirit, monster, rascal, rogue,
succubus, vampire, villain
Antonyms: angel, god, ANGEL
316) Demure
318)
Deprecate
320) Derision
SEDATE
CLOSE, INDECOROUS
OPEN
SHY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reserved, affected
Syn: backward, bashful, blushing, close, coy, decorous, diffident,
earnest, humble, modest, nice, prim, prissy, proper, prudish,
reticent, retiring, sedate, serious, shy, skittish, sober, solemn, staid
Note:demur is verb 'to object or voice opposition' while demure is
adj meaning 'modest, shy'
Ant: aggressive, bold, extroverted, INDECOROUS
UPHOLD
RECOMMEND
APPROVE, AGREE
REDUCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: belittle, condemn
Synonyms: cut down to size, depreciate, derogate, detract,
disapprove of, discommend, discountenance, disesteem, disfavor,
disparage, expostulate, frown, mudsling, not go for, object.
Antonyms: approve, build up, commend, compliment, endorse,
laud, praise, APPROVE
CONTEMPT
RIDICULE, DIVISION
SEGREGATION
RESPECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult, disrespect
Synonyms: Bronx cheer, backhanded compliment, brickbat,
comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, disdain, disparagement, jab,
jest, laughter, mockery, object of ridicule, pilgarlic, raillery, ridicule,
satire, scoffing, scorn, slap, sneering
Antonyms: adulation, commendation, compliment, flattery, praise,
RESPECT
322)
Descendant
324) Deserted
326)
Despicable
ANCESTOR
ANCIENT, ISSUE
SOPHISTICATED
BROOD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person in line of ancestry
Synonyms: brood, child, children, heir, issue, kin, offshoot,
offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed,
Antonyms: ascendant, predecessor, ANCESTOR
SYMPATHIZER
FAVOURITE
FLATTERER
LOYALIST, CULPRIT
Definition: abandon, defect
Syn:abscond, apostatize, beach, betray, bolt, chuck, decamp, depart,
escape, fly, forsake, jilt,leave, light, maroon, quit, relinquish,
renounce, resign, strand,tergiversate, vacate Notes: impoverished
stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's';that rich
gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in
two of them
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, stay, LOYALIST
WORTHY
CONTEMPTIBLE
EARN, PURITY
VANE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hateful; beyond contempt
Synonyms: abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, contemptible,
degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, down,
ignominious, infamous, insignificant, loathsome, low, mean, pitiful,
reprehensible, shameful, sordid, vile,
Antonyms: desirous, honorable, likeable, loveable, respectable,
virtuous, WORTHY
328)
Desultory
330) Devious
332) Devotion
DISCONNECTED
LACKING ORDER
PERTINENT, RANDOM
FREQUENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: random
Synonyms: aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard,
orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without
purpose
Antonym:
PERTINENT,
INDIRECT
DIRECT, RANDOM
ABNORMAL
ZIGZAG
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, crafty
Syn: artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, duplicitous, errant,
erring, evasive, fishy, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere,
oblique,obliquitous, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd,
sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous.
Antonyms: artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward,
trustworthy, truthful, DIRECT
LOYALTY
DISREGARD, REGARD
DEDICATION
DENY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: commitment; loyalty
Synonyms: adherence, adoration, affection, allegiance, ardor,
attachment, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference,
devotement, devoutness, earnestness, enthusiasm, faithfulness,
fealty, fervor, fidelity, intensity, piety, sanctity, service, sincerity,
spirituality, worship, zeal
Ant:apathy,carelessnes,indifference, DISREGARD,
334)
Dexterity
336)
Diacritical
338) Didactic
FACILITY
PURITY, CLUMSINESS
ADROITNESS
FAMILIARITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: aptitude, ability
Synonyms: address, adroitness, aptness, art, artistry, cleverness,
craft, cunning, deftness, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, facility,
finesse, handiness, ingenuity, knack, mastery, neatness, nimbleness,
proficiency, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, tact, touch
Antonyms:awkwardness, CLUMSINESS, ineptness
SCATHING
MORDANT, CRITIQUE
ORDINARY
MORDENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: distinguishing
Synonyms: discriminating, marking
Antonym:
ORDINARY
MISLEADING
WARBLING
ALLEGIANCE
UNFAIR, IGNORABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: educational
Synonyms: academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening,
exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral,
moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive,
schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly,
teachy
Antonym: MISLEADING
340)
Diffidence
342) Dilate
344)
Dilettante
ACUTENESS
SHYNESS, HINDRANCE
SHARPNESS
BOLDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hesitancy; lack of confidence
Synonyms: backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear,
hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness,
reluctance, reserve, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness,
timorousness, unassertiveness
Antonyms: BOLDNESS, confidence
INFLATE
EXPAND, DELAY
PERFORMANCE
CONTRACT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stretch, widen
Synonyms: amplify, augment, be profuse, broaden, develop,
distend, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, extend, increase,
inflate, lengthen, prolong, protract, swell
Antonyms: compress, constrict, contract, lessen, reduce,
CONTRACT
STUPID
RAPID, TIDY
PROFESSIONAL
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amateurish
Synonyms: artsy fartsy, dabbling, half-baked, rookie, tenderfoot,
unaccomplished, ungifted, unskilled
Antonyms: professional, STUPID
346) Diminish
348) Din
350) Disabuse
DECREASE
INCREASE
LOWER
RISE, FINISH
Part of Speech: verb
Def:become or cause to be less
Synonyms: abate, abbreviate, attenuate, become smaller, close,
contract, curtail, cut, decrease, depreciate, drain, dwindle, ebb,
extenuate, lower, minify, moderate, recede, reduce, retrench,shrink,
shrivel, slacken, subside, taper, temper, wane
Antonyms: develop, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, INCREASE,
lengthen, prolong
CLAMOR
RACKET, UPROAR
FEEBLE
SILENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: loud, continuous noise
Synonyms: babel, bedlam, boisterousness, brouhaha, buzz, clamor,
clangor, clash, clatter, commotion, confusion, crash, disquiet, jangle,
music, outcry, pandemonium, percussion, racket, row, shout, sound,
stridency, tintamarre, tintinnabulation, tumult, uproar
Antonym: SILENCE
IMPOSE
DECEIVE, UNTIE
CRUSH
ENFORCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: free from belief
Synonyms: correct, debunk, disenchant, disillusion, enlighten,
expose, free, liberate, rectify, rid
Antonym: DECEIVE
352)
Disconsolate
354) Discount
356) Disdain
DESERTED
JOYOUS, FREE
ALONE
FRUSTRATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: depressed, unhappy
Synonyms: bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, crushed,
dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited,
distressed, doleful, downcast, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, inconsolable,
melancholy, miserable, ripped, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone,
woeful, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, consoled, happy, JOYOUS
PROFIT
ACCOUNT, INTEREST
PREMIUM
DEDUCTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reduction in cost
Synonyms: abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, cut
rate, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback,
exemption, markdown, modification, percentage, premium,
qualification, rebate, remission, rollback, salvage, something off,
subtraction, tare
Antonyms: increase, premium, rise, PREMIUM
HAUGHTTINESS
ERRONEOUS
RESPECT, CONTEMPT
DESPISE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: hate; indifference
Synonyms: antipathy, arrogance, aversion, contempt, contumely,
derision, despisal, despisement, disparagement, hatred, haughtiness,
hauteur, insolence, loftiness, ridicule, scorn, sneering,
snobbishness,superbity, superciliousness
Antonyms: admiration, esteem, favor, like, love, praise, RESPECT
358) Dissipate
360) DistaffSide
362) Docile
ACCUMULATE
DISTIL, PERCOLATE
EMANATE
LAVISH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: expend, spend
Synonyms: be wasteful with, burn up, consume, deplete, indulge
oneself, kiss goodbye, lavish, misspend, misuse, run through,
squander, throw away, trifle away, use up, waste
Antonyms: ACCUMULATE, collect, gather, hoard, save
OBSERVE, CONVERSE
SPEAR-SIDE
FRIENDLY-SIDE
BLUNT-SIDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: women's side of family
Synonyms: womanhood, womankind, womenfolk, womenfolks
Antonyms: SPEAR-SIDE
SMOOTH, HUMBLE
AUTHORITATIVE
LITTORAL
VENIAL
Part of Speech: adjective Def: compliant, submissive
Synonyms: accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable,
biddable, complacent, cool, docious, ductile, gentle, humble,
manageable, meek, mellow, obedient, pliable, pliant, resigned, tame,
teachable, tractable, usable, willing,yielding
Ant: determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate,
AUTHORITATIVE
364)
Dogmatic
366) Droll
368) Dull
PEREMPTORY
SPELLBOUND,SIMPLE
UNSCRUPULOUS
UNCERTAIN
Def: dictatorial, opinionated
Syn: arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, bigoted, bullheaded, cocksure,
despotic, doctrinaire, domineering, egotistical, emphatic, fanatical,
fascistic, imperious, intolerant, obdurate, obstinate, peremptory,
pigheaded, prejudiced, stubborn, tenacious, tyrannical, unequivocal,
Ant: amenable, doubting, flexible, indecisive, manageable, obedient,
UNSCRUPULOUS
TOY, ROLLER
WHIMSICAL
CUSTOMARY
SHOUT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amusing, farcical
Synonyms: absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical,
diverting, eccentric, entertaining, funny, gelastic, humorous, jocular,
joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint,
queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical
Antonyms: dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny, CUSTOMARY
PALE
WISE, SHINING
COLOURFUL
FOOLISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unintelligent
Synonyms: addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy,
daft, dense, dim, doltish, dumb, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent,
insensate, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse, scatterbrained,
shallow, simple, sluggish, stolid, stupid, tedious, unintellectual,
vacuous, wearisome, witless
Ant: intelligent, keen, sharp, smart, SHINING
370) Dunce
372) Durable
374) Dwarf
FOOL
IDIOT, LOVER
GENIUS
LUNATIC
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stupid person
Synonyms: ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, buffoon, dimwit,
dolt, donkey, dope, dork, dullard, dunderhead, fool, goof, idiot,
ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, knucklehead, lame-brain, lightweight,
moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, pinhead,
scatterbrain, schnook, simpleton, twit
Antonyms: brain, GENIUS
SOUND
STOUT, WEAK
STRONG
PERMANENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: sturdy, long-lasting
Synonyms: abiding, constant, dependable, diuturnal, enduring, fast,
firm, fixed, impervious, lasting, perdurable, perduring, permanent,
persistent, reliable, resistant, sound, stable, stout, strong,
substantial, tenacious, tough
Antonyms: fragile, impermanent, poorly made, temporary,
undependable, unsturdy, WEAK
HIGH
BIG, TALL
GIANT
MEDIUM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: miniature, tiny
Synonyms: baby, diminutive, low, petite, pocket, small, undersized
Notes: a dwarf is smaller and not proportioned like an average
person; a midget is smaller but is proportioned like an average fullgrown person; a pygmy is perfectly proportioned but smaller than
a midget
Antonyms: big, giant, huge, large, TALL
376) Dwindle
378)
Dysfunctional
380) Earnest
WITHER, SHRINK
FURNISH
DIMINISH
THRIVE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: waste away; taper off
Synonyms: abate, bate, become smaller, close, contract, decay,
decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, diminish, drain,drop,
ebb, fade,fall, grow less, lessen, peter out, pine, shrink, shrivel, sink,
slack off, subside, taper,wane, weaken,wither
Antonyms: develop, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, increase, save,
swell, THRIVE
ABNORMAL
DISTURBING
NORMAL, SICK
TROUBLED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: socially impaired
Synonyms: broken, debilitated, decayed, defective, deteriorated,
flawed, inhibited, maladjusted, malfunctional, sick, undermined,
unfit, wounded
Antonyms: NORMAL,
HONEST
INTENT, LEGAL
WELL-KNOWN
INSINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very enthusiastic
Synonyms: ardent, busy, devoted, diligent, eager, fervent, fervid,
heartfelt, impassioned, industrious, keen, passionate, perseverant,
purposeful, sedulous, sincere, urgent, vehement, warm,
wholehearted, zealous
Antonyms: flippant, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unpassionate,
unpurposeful, INSINCERE
382)
Ebullient
384)
Effeminate
386)
Egregious
RESTRAINED
OBSCURE
EXUBERANT, TIMID
LENIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: enthusiastic
Synonyms: agitated, bouncy, brash, buoyant, chipper, chirpy,
effervescent, effusive, elated, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, frothy,
gushing, irrepressible, vivacious, zestful, zippy
Antonyms: apathetic, disinterested, unenthusiastic, RESTRAINED
WOMANISH
EFFIGY, MANLY
BLANK
WARM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having female qualities
Synonyms: epicene, feminine, womanish, womanlike, womanly
Antonyms: manly, masculine, MANLY
CONSUMMATE
ENCHAIN, ORDINARY
ACQUIT
DISORDERLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: outstandingly bad; outrageous
Syn: arrant, atrocious, capital, deplorable, flagrant, glaring,
grievous, heinous, infamous, insufferable, intolerable, monstrous,
nefarious, notorious, outright, preposterous, scandalous
Antonyms: little, minor, secondary, ORDINARY
388) Embitter
390) Embroil
392)
Endogenous
REVERE
EMBALM, ALLEVIATE
VOID
HARM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: upset, alienate
Synonyms: acerbate, acidulate, aggravate, anger, annoy, bitter,
bother, disaffect, disillusion, envenom, exacerbate, exasperate,
irritate, make bitter, make resentful, poison, sour, venom,worsen
Antonyms: calm, comfort, make happy, pacify, ALLEVIATE
ENTANGLE
PERTURBATION
HARMONIZE
LOWER, CONFUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: involve in dispute; complicate
Synonyms: cause trouble, compromise, confound, confuse, derange,
disorder, disturb, disunite, encumber, enmesh, ensnare, entangle,
implicate, incriminate, involve, mire, muddle, perplex, snarl, tangle,
trouble
Antonyms: exclude, uncomplicate, HARMONIZE
ENDOGAMOUS
EXOGENOUS
EXOPATHIC,EXOSMOSIS
EXOGAMOUS
Antonym:
EXOGENOUS
394) Enervate
396) Engross
398) Ennoble
RELAX
STRENGTHEN
MITIGATE
GRAPPLING, WEAKEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tire, wear out
Synonyms: debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue,
incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary
Notes: enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' and innervate
means 'supply with energy'
Antonyms: activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven,
STRENGTHEN
INVOLVE
ENTANGLE
INCREASE
IMMERSE, WEARY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold one's attention
Synonyms: absorb, apply, arrest, assimilate, attract, be hung,
bewitch, busy, captivate, consume, corner, engage, engulf,
enrapture, enthrall, fascinate, fill, grip, hog, immerse, involve,
monopolize, occupy, preoccupy
Antonyms: forget, ignore, reject, repulse, WEARY
DIGNITY
EXALT, DEGRADE
QUIBBLE
IMPROVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: honor
Synonyms: dignify, exalt, praise
Ant: DEGRADE
400) Entice
402)
Ephemeral
404) Equable
REPEL
LURE, CHARM
DISPOSSESS
COAX
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: allure; persuade
Synonyms: attract, bait, bat eyes at, beguile, cajole, coax, decoy,
draw, entrap, inveigle, lead on, lure, prevail on, seduce, tempt, toll,
turn on, wheedle
Antonyms: disgust, dissuade, REPEL, repulse, turn away, turn off
TEMPORARY
TEMPTATION
EVERLASTING
POLITE, CIRCULAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: momentary, passing
Synonyms: brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious,
fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient,
transitory, unenduring, volatile
Ant: enduring, eternal, everlasting, interminable, lasting, long,
permanent, EVERLASTING
NON-UNIFORM
UNEQUAL
UNEQUATED
EXTREME, IDENTICAL
Definition: steady, calm
Synonyms: agreeable, consistent, constant, imperturbable,
methodical, orderly, placid, regular, serene, stabile,
stable,temperate,tranquil, unchanging, unexcitable, unflappable,
uniform,
Notes: equable means steady or unvarying and far from
extremes;equitable means fair and impartial
Ant: changeable, excitable, fluctuating, irregular, spasmodic,
vacillating, variable, NON-UNFORM
406)
Equilibrium
408)
Equivocal
410)
Erroneous
STABILITY
SYMMETRY
SUPPLY, DEMAND
IMBALANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: balance; evenness
Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure, cool, coolness,
counterbalance, counterpoise, equanimity, equipoise, poise, polish,
rest, serenity, stability, stasis, steadiness, steadying, symmetry
Antonyms: IMBALANCE, unevenness
EVADE
CLEAR, UNIVERSAL
AMAZING
CONVENTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, uncertain
Syn: ambiguous, ambivalent,clouded,disreputable, dubious, evasive,
fishy, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled,
muzzy, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, suspect, suspicious,
tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unexplicit, unintelligible, vague.
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain,
CLEAR
CORRECT
ACCURATE
MUNDANE
ASTRAY, FAULTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong, incorrect
Synonyms: all off, amiss, askew, awry, defective, fallacious, false,
faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, invalid, misguided, mistaken, off,
specious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, untrue, wrong number
Antonyms: correct, right, true, valid, ACCURATE
412)
Erudition
414) Esoteric
416) Etiolate
IGNORANCE
EVICT, SCHOLARSHIP
DUBIOUS
DEMOLISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: higher education
Synonyms: bookishness, brains, cultivation, culture, enlightenment,
intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy,
lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarliness, scholarship, science,
studiousness
Antonyms: IGNORANCE
EXTERNAL
FAMILIAR, NATIVE
PLEASANT
CONCENTRIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, abstruse, acroamatic,
arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner,
inscrutable, mystic, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret
Antonyms: common, FAMILIAR, known, obvious, public,
unmysterious
TAIL-END
MOBILIZE
LUBRICATE, WHITEN
STAIN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: weaken
Synonyms: blanch, bleach, diminish, enervate, exhaust, fade, faint,
pale, sicken, wan, whiten
Antonym: STAIN
418)
Euphemistic
420)
Euphoria
422)
Evanescent
EUPHUISTIC
TREE-LIKE
TRANSCENDENTAL
FINAL, BAWDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: polite
Synonyms: affected, delicate, euphemious, extenuative, figurative,
indirect, inoffensive, metaphorical, mild, refined, softened, vague
Antonym: BAWDY
STRIDENT
LETHARGIC,LITERARY
SIGNIFICANT
MUSICAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: extreme happiness
Synonyms: bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, elation, exaltation,
exhilaration, exultation, frenzy, glee, health, high spirits,
intoxication, joy, joyousness, jubilation, madness, rapture,
relaxation, transport
Ant: depression, despair, misery, LETHARGIC
EVENING
PERMANENT
SPREADING OVER
NASCENT, ODOROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: transient
Synonyms: brief, disappearing, fading, fleeting, momentary,
passing, short-lived, temporary, tenuous, vanishing
Antonyms: PERMANENT
424) Exalt
426) Excited
428)
Excoriate
ENNOBLE
GLORIFY, EXTOL
DEPRECIATE
SIMPLIFY
Definition: promote, praise
Synonyms: acclaim, advance, aggrandize, apotheosize, applaud,
bless, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, ennoble, erect, eulogize,
extol, glorify, halo, honor, idolize, intensify, laud, magnify, raise,
revere, sublime, transfigure,
Notes: exalt means to elevate, praise, or raise a person or thing;
exult means to rejoice greatly
Ant: castigate, condemn, criticize, DEPRECIATE
COOL, IMPASSIVE
COMPOSED
CALM
INCITED
Part of Speech: verb Def: inspire; upset
Synonyms: accelerate, agitate, amaze, anger, animate, annoy,
arouse, astound, awaken, bother, disturb, electrify, fluster, foment,
galvanize, goad, infuriate, jar, jolt, kindle, madden, mock, move,
offend, precipitate, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate,vex.
Ant: calm, COMPOSED, deaden,lull, moderate,
PRAISE
ENHANCE, VANISH
SPOILED
ENCOURAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: scrape layers off
Synonyms: abrade, chafe, flay, fret, gall, peel, rub, scarify, scratch,
skin, strip
Antonym: PRAISE
430)
Exculpate
432) Execrate
434) Exhibit
ACCUMULATE
RELAX, INCREASE
RELEASE
BLAME
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: forgive
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, condone, discharge,
disculpate, dismiss, excuse, exonerate, explain, free, justify, pardon,
rationalize, release, remit, vindicate, Notes: to exculpate is 'to free
from accusation or blame' while exonerate is literally 'to free from
a burden'
Antonyms: blame, condemn, sentence, BLAME
CURSE
EXPRESS, DISOBEY
HATE
ACCLAIM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hate
Synonyms: abhor, abominate, accurse, anathematize, censure,
condemn, curse, damn, denounce, deplore, despise, detest, excoriate,
imprecate, loathe, objurgate, reprehend, reprobate, reprove, revile,
vilify
Antonyms: like, love, ACCLAIM
CONCEAL
PREVENT
WITHDRAW
CONCEDE, REVEAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: viewing; presentation
Synonyms: display, exhibition, exposition, fair, illustration, model,
performance, show
Antonyms: concealment, cover, hiding, CONCEAL
436) Exhume
438) Exodus
440)
Exorbitant
DECIPHER
DIG, INTEGRATE
ADMIT
ENTER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dig up, especially the dead
Synonyms: disclose, disembalm, disentomb, disinhume, disinter,
resurrect, reveal, unbury, uncharnel, unearth
Antonyms: bury, ENTER
RESTORATION
RETURN
HOME-COMIMG
INFLUX,WITHDRAWAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving
Synonyms: departure, egress, egression, emigration, evacuation,
exit, exiting, flight, going out, journey, migration, offgoing,
retirement, retreat, withdrawal
Antonyms: arrival, entrance, INFLUX
MODERATE
ENORMOUS
EXCESSIVE,BARBARIC
IMPORTANT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: extravagant, excessive
Synonyms: absonant, dear, enormous, exacting, expensive,
extortionate, extreme, high, highway robbery, immoderate,
inordinate, outrageous, overboard, preposterous, pricey, towering,
undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, wasteful
Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive, low, MODERATE, reasonable,
sensible
442) Exotic
444)
Expurgate
446)
Extemporane
ous
UGLY
REGIONAL, LOCAL
CONVENTIONAL
STRANGE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: not native or usual; mysterious
Synonyms: alien, alluring, avant garde, bizarre, colorful, curious,
different, enticing, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extrinsic,
fascinating, foreign, glamorous, imported, introduced, outlandish,
peculiar, peregrine, romantic, strange, striking, unfamiliar, unusual,
Ant: familiar, normal, ordinary, CONVENTIONAL
STAIN, ADMIT
ENTERTAIN
RENEW
COUNTERFEIT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: censor, cut
Synonyms: bleep, blip, blue pencil, bowdlerize, clean up, cleanse,
decontaminate, lustrate, purge, purify, sanitize, screen, scrub,
squash, sterilize
Antonyms: allow, permit, ENTERTAIN
OFFHAND
INSULTING
DELIGHTFUL,FAMOUS
REHEARSAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unrehearsed, improvised
Synonyms: automatic, casual, expedient, extempore, immediate,
impromptu, improv, improvisatory, improviso, informal, jamming,
makeshift, offhand, snap, spontaneous, loud, tossed off, unplanned,
unprepared, unstudied.
Antonyms: planned, prepared, read, rehearsed, written,
REHEARSAL
448) Exterior
450)
Extraneous
452)
Extricate
INTERNAL, INNER
INTERIOR
INWARD
OUTER
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: outside
Synonyms: exoteric, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial,
extraterritorial, extrinsic, foreign, marginal, outdoor, outer,
outermost, outlying, outmost, outward, over, peripheral, superficial,
surface
Antonyms: central, INTERIOR, middle
ESSENTIAL
SUPERFLUOUS
INACTIVE, AMAZING
EXTRAORDINARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unneeded; irrevelant
Synonyms: accidental, additional, adventitious, extra, foreign,
immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite,
inappropriate,incidental, peripheral, pointless, redundant,
superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential
Antonyms: appropriate, basic, ESSENTIAL, integral, necessary,
needed, pertinent, relevant
ENTANGLE
RELEASE, MANIFEST
PALPABLE
SEPARATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get out of a situation; relieve of responsibility
Synonyms: clear, deliver, detach, difference, differentiate,
disburden, discumber, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage,
disentangle, disinvolve, extract, liberate, loose, loosen, release,
remove, rescue, resolve, separate, sever, untie, withdraw.
Antonyms: ENTANGLE, involve
454)
Extrovert
456) Fable
458)
Fabulous
BOASTER, MIXER
INTROVERT
SOCIAL
GREGARIOUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sociable person
Synonyms: exhibitionist, gregarious person, showboat
Antonyms: INTROVERT
ALLEGORY
FACT, PEEVISH
FORGE
PARABLE
Definition: fantasy, story
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication,
falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash,
invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, whopper, yarn
Notes: a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or
fairy tale) is told as amusement
Antonyms: truth, FACT
LITERARY
COMMONPLACE
REAL, POOR
AMAZING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amazing, wonderful
Synonyms: aces, astonishing, astounding, awesome, best,
breathtaking, extravagant, fab, fantastic, fictitious, greatest,
immense, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous,
outrageous, phenomenal, primo, unbelievable, unreal.
Ant: common, normal, ordinary, simple, POOR
460) Fact
462)
Fallacious
464)
Falsehood
FABLE
STORY, ILLUSION
FICTION
EVENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verifiable truth; reality
Synonyms: actuality, appearance, authenticity, basis, bottom line,
case, certainty, certitude, evidence, experience, genuineness, gospel,
intelligence, law, palpability, permanence, scene, scripture, solidity,
Antonyms: fabrication, lie, FICTION
ERRONEOUS
JEALOUS, FAULTY
0
1
Definition: false, wrong
Synonyms: beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive,
delusory, erroneous, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory,
incorrect, invalid, irrational, phony, reasonless, sophistical
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable
to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous;
Antonyms: correct, real, TRUE, truthful
FAMILIARITY
FAME, INJUSTICE
FANCY
TRUTH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation,
distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication,
fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fiction,
figment, fraud, mendacity, perjury, pretense, prevarication,
untruism, untruth, yarn
Antonyms: TRUTH
466)
Fantastic
468) Fatuous
470) Feckless
PRACTICAL, USEFUL
THEORETICAL
WORTHY
EXCEPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strange, different; imaginary Syn:
absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric,
erratic, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative,
implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, unbelievable, unlikely,
unreal, weird.
Antonyms: common, commonplace, conventional, customary,
familiar, ordinary, plain, PRACTICAL
PRE-DESTINED
IMPATIENT
PURPOSEFUL
GRATUITOUS, FITFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, birdbrained, boneheaded, brainless,
dense, dull, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, inane, insensate, jerky,
lamebrained, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, mindless, moronic, puerile,
sappy, silly, simple, vacuous, witless
Antonyms: aware, bright, intelligent, keen, sensible, smart
,PURPOSEFUL
SPOTLESS
GENUINE, SMOOTH
EFFICIENT
PURE
Definition: without purpose
Synonyms: aimless, carefree, careless, feeble, fustian, futile,
hopeless, incautious, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual,
irresponsible,meaningless, reckless, shiftless, uncareful, useless,
weak, wild,
Notes: feckless means ineffective or having no real worth; reckless
means marked by unthinking boldness or with defiant disregard for
danger
Ant: competent, effective, effectual, EFFICIENT
472) Feeble
474)
Felonious
476)
Ferocious
OBSCENE
STRONG, MIGHTY
DARING
MINUTE
Def: not strong; ineffective
Synonyms: aged, ailing, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering,
dopey, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated,
exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, impotent,
insufficient, lame, languid, paltry, poor, puny, sapless, tame, thin,
unconvincing, vitiated, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy, woozy,
Ant: able, effective, healthy, hearty, STRONG
CRIMINAL
FICTITIOUS
WICKED
POPULAR, MORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: criminal
Synonyms: base, corrupt, evil, illegal, illicit, lawbreaking,
villainous, wrongful, MORAL
SAVAGE
FIERCE, CRUEL
SYMPATHETIC
DOCILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: violent, barbaric
Syn: barbarous, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful,
implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous,
pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, relentless, ruthless, savage,
tigerish, truculent, voracious, wild, wolfish
Antonyms: gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender,
SYMPATHETIC
478) Festive
MERRY
JUBILANT, JOYOUS
HOLIDAY
SOMBER
Part of Speech: adjective Def: decorated, celebratory
Syn: blithe, bouncy, carnival, carnivalesque, cheery, chipper,
chirpy, convivial, festal, gala, gay, gleeful, grooving, happy, hearty,
holiday, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, juiced up,
jumping, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, perky, rocking, snappy,
swinging, upbeat, zippy
Ant: depressed, gloomy, SOMBER, undecorated
OBJECT OF LOVE/HATE
480) Fetish
482) Fickle
OBJECT OF BENEFIT
OBJECT OF DISPUTE
OBJECT OF HARM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obsession
Synonyms: bias, desire, fixation, leaning, luck, mania, partiality,
penchant, periapt, predilection, prejudice, preoccupation,
prepossession, proclivity, propensity, stimulant
Antonym: OBJECT OF BENEFIT
CONTINUE
CONSTANT
PERPETUAL,CONNECT
CAPRICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: vacillating, blowing hot and
cold
Syn: arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, coquettish,
faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, lubricious,
mercurial, mutable, quicksilver, sneaking, ticklish, unfaithful.
Antonyms: aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable,
steady, CONSTANT
484) Filthy
486)
Flagitious
488) Flexible
FOUL
RHETORICAL
CLEAN, REFLECT
GRIMY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dirty, polluted
Syn: begrimed, black, blackened, cruddy, crummy, disheveled, fecal,
feculent, foul, grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene,
offensive, putrid, repulsive, revolting, scummy, sleazy, slimy,
slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smoky, soily, sooty, squalid, unkempt,
unwashed, verminous, vile,
Antonyms: CLEAN, pure, sterile, unpolluted
PENNON
DEFEATED
BENEFICIAL
HEATED, SINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: corrupt
Synonyms: atrocious, criminal, flagrant, heinous, infamous, rotten,
scandalous, vicious, villainous, wicked
Antonyms: BENEFICIAL
BRITTLE
RIGID, HARD
SOLID
MEEK
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: pliable, bendable
Synonyms: adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible,
extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty,
limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy,
springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractile,
whippy, willowy, yielding
Ant: brittle, inflexible, resistant, RIGID, stiff.
490) Flippant
492) Flurry
494) Flux
CONSIDERATE
SAUCY, PERT
CROSS
RUDE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irreverent
Synonyms: brassy, breezy, cocky, disrespectful, flighty, fresh,
frivolous, glib, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, nervy,
offhand, pert, playful, rude, smart-alecky, superficial
Antonyms: courteous, respectful, reverent, serious,
CONSIDERATE
PELT
SOLACE, SEDATE
SOOTHE
PUNGENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: commotion, burst
Synonyms: ado, agitation, brouhaha, bustle, confusion, disturbance,
excitement, ferment, flap, flaw, fluster, flutter, furor, fuss, gust,
haste, hurry, outbreak, pother, spell, spurt, squall, turbulence,
turmoil, whirl, whirlwind
Antonyms: calm, calmness, quiet, SOOTHE
STILLNESS
MOTION, SWERVE
WINCE
GLIDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of constant change
Synonyms: alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity, instability,
modification, motion, mutability, mutation, transition, unrest
Antonyms: constancy, stability, steadiness, STILLNESS
496) Forge
498) Foster
500)
Frangible
CONTINUE
DISSOLVE
QUIET, INVITE
PREVENT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: counterfeit
Synonyms: coin, copy, design, duplicate, fabricate, fake, falsify,
fashion, feign, frame, imitate, invent, make, produce, reproduce,
scratch, trace, transcribe, trump up
Antonym:
DISSOLVE
CURB
CONTROL, CHECK
REPRESS
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: promote, support
Synonyms: advance, back, champion, cherish, cultivate, encourage,
feed, foment, forward, further, harbor, nurse, nurture, serve,
stimulate, uphold
Antonyms: condemn, discourage, REPRESS
FRAGILE, TANGIBLE
TRACTABLE
UNSUITABLE
UNBREAKABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fragile
Synonyms: breakable, brittle, crumbly, dainty, delicate, feeble,
flimsy, frail, friable, weak
Antonym: UNBREAKABLE
DRIBBLE
SIGNIFICANT
CRIB, LIGHT-TALK
DAWDLE
Antonyms:SIGNIFICANT
502) Fribble
504)
Frivolous
506) Frugal
PALTRY
SUPERFICIAL
FROLIC, SERIOUS
ALERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: trivial, silly
Syn: barmy, childish, facetious, featherbrained, flighty, flip,
flippant, foolish, gay, harebrained, idiotic, idle, impractical, juvenile,
light, minor, niggling, nonserious, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful,
pointless, puerile, scatterbrained, unprofound, volatile, whimsical
Ant:grave, mature, sensible, SERIOUS, thoughtful.
CHARITABLE
EXTRAVAGANT
GENEROUS
GAUDY, THRIFTY
Part of Speech: adjective Def: economical
Syn: Spartan, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, discreet, meager,
meticulous, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, preserving, provident,
prudent, scrimping, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tightwad, unwasteful,
wary
Antonyms: generous, lavish, spendthrifty, uneconomical, wasteful ,
EXTRAVAGANT
508) Fugitive
510) Fume
512) Furtive
EVANESCENT
CAPTIVE, UNKEMPT
SMART
EXALTED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: fleeing, transient
Synonyms: avoiding, brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant,
erratic, escaping, evading, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious,
impermanent, lamster, momentary, moving, on the lam, passing,
planetary temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering,
wanted
Ant: confronting, facing, permanent, CAPTIVE,
FROWN
CHAFE, COMPLY
DUPE
SMELL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get very upset about
Synonyms: anger, blow up, boil, bristle, burn, chafe, chomp at the
bit, get hot, get steamed up, rage, rant, rave, seethe.
Antonyms: be calm, be happy, COMPLY
HIDDEN
RELEASE, OPEN
CLOSED
CONCEDED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: sneaky, secretive
Syn: artful, calculating, cautious, clandestine, cloaked,
conspiratorial, covert,cunning,disguised, elusive, evasive, foxy,
guileful, hidden, insidious, masked, scheming, shifty, skulking,
slinking, sly, stealthy, sub-rosa, surreptitious, under wraps,
undercover, underhand, underhanded, wily
Ant:aboveboard, forthright, honest, OPEN truthful
514) Gall
516) Garbled
518)
Gasconade
AUDACITY, HUMILITY
PRUDENCE
IRRITATE
BOLDNESS
Part of Speech: noun Def: nerve, brashness
Syn: acrimony, animosity, arrogance, bitterness, brass, brazenness,
cheek, conceit, confidence, crust cynicism, effrontery, haughtiness,
hostility, impertinence, impudence, insolence, malevolence, malice,
overbearance, pomposity, presumption, rancor, sauciness, spite,
venom
Antonyms: modesty, reservations, IRRITATE
DISTORTED
CONFUSED
TWISTED
IMPURE, CLEAR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mix up, misrepresent
Synonyms: belie, color, confuse, corrupt, distort, doctor, falsify,
jumble, misinterpret, mislead, misquote, misstate, mutilate, obscure,
pervert, slant, tamper with, twist, warp
Antonyms: decipher, order, pronounce, represent, translate,
unscramble, CLEAR
MODESTY
SEIZURE
CLEANLINESS
ILLUSIVE, RUDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boast
Synonyms: avowal, bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado,
exaggeration, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension,
pride, pride and joy, rodomontade,swank, treasure, vaunt
Antonyms: MODESTY
520)
Gaucherie
522) Genuine
524)
Germinate
TACT
CULMINATE
DWINDLE
QUIET, BOORISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social error
Synonyms: blooper, blooper, blunder, botch, breach, break, bungle,
colossal blunder, error, flop, flub, gaffe, gaffe, goof, hash,
impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion, mess, misconduct,
misjudgment, misstep, mistake, offense, oversight, slip, solecism.
Antonym: TACT
ROTTEN
BOGUS
UNSOUND
IMPURE, FACTUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: authentic, real
Syn: absolute, accurate, actual, authenticated, bona fide, certain,
certified, demonstrable, exact, existent, factual, honest, indubitable,
legit, legitimate, literal, palpable, precise, sterling, unadulterated,
unalloyed, unimpeachable, unvarnished, valid, veritable
Ant: counterfeit, false, illegitimate, sham, BOGUS
SHOOT, SPROUT
ALIEN
DECAY
DEVELOP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: grow
Synonyms: bud, develop, generate, live, originate, pullulate, shoot,
sprout, swell, vegetate
Antonyms: halt, slow, stop, thwart , DECAY
526) Gingerly
528) Glamour
530) Glossy
LIGHTLY, CAREFULLY
DEFINITELY
DELICATELY
ROUGHLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful
Synonyms: calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate,
dainty, delicate, discreet, fastidious, guarded, hesitant, reluctant,
safe, squeamish, suspicious, timid, wary
Antonyms: careless, rash, rough, uncareful, uncautious,
ROUGHLY
SILENCE, INCUBATE
MURMUR
WHISPER
CHARM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sophisticated style
Synonyms: allure, allurement, animal magnetism, appeal,
attraction, beauty, bewitchment, charisma, charm, color,
enchantment, fascination, interest, magnetism, prestige, ravishment,
romance.
Antonyms: drab, dullness, plainness, ugliness , SILENCE
SHINING
DULL, FLAT
APPARENT
GLASSY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shiny
Synonyms: bright, brilliant, burnished, chatoyant, glassy, glazed,
gleaming, glistening, lustrous, polished, reflecting, silken, silky,
sleek, slick, smooth
Antonyms: drab, DULL, mate, muted
532) Gluttony
534) Gossip
536)
Grandiose
VORACITY
FRAGILITY, GARB
DEVOID
ABUNDANCE
Synonyms:
-nouns: greed; greediness; voracity., epicurism; edacity, gulosity,
crapulence; guttling, guzzling;
-adjectives gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing; edacious,
omnivorous, crapulent, swinish., pampered; overfed, overgorged.
Antonym: FRAGILITY
TACITURNITY
RUMOUR, ODIOUS
SHRINK
BABBLE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: talk about others; rumor
Synonyms: account, babble, blather, blether, calumny, chatter,
chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation,
earful, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, meddling, news, prate,
prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale,
talk, wire
Antonyms: fact, TACITURNITY
GRAND
IMITATION
POMPOUS
PRESSIVE, SIMPLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: theatrical, extravagant
Syn: affected, ambitious, august, bombastic, cosmic, egotistic,
flamboyant, fustian, grand, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent,
majestic, monumental, noble, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious,
royal, splashy, stately, unfathomable.
Ant: calm, moderate, small, SIMPLE
WRETCHED, INGRATITUDE
538)
Gratitude
540) Gratuity
542)
Gregarious
UNFAITHFULNESS
APPRECIATION
WICKEDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appreciation
Synonyms: acknowledgment, appreciativeness, grace, gratefulness,
honor, indebtedness, obligation, praise, recognition, requital,
response, responsiveness, sense of obligation, thankfulness, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: ingratitude, thanklessness, UNFAITHFULNESS
ANNUITY
STIPEND
DISCOUNT, WAGES
RETIREMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gift, tip
Synonyms: alms, benefaction, bonus, boon, bounty, contribution,
donation, fringe benefit, largesse, offering, perquisite, present,
recompense, reward, salve, sweetener, token
Antonym:
WAGES
SOCIAL, AFFABLE
FRIENDLY
CHEAP
ANTISOCIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly
Synonyms: affable, clubby, companionable, convivial, cordial, fun,
outgoing, sociable, social
Antonyms: cold, cool, introverted, unfriendly, unhospitable,
unsociable, ANTISOCIAL
544) Grisly
546) Grudge
548) Grumpy
PLEASANT
BOORISH, GRIM
HORRID
UGLY
Definition: horrifying
Synonyms: abominable, appalling, awful, bloody, disgusting,
dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly,grim, grody, gruesome, hideous,
horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening,
terrible, terrifying, yucky Notes: grisly (from Germanic gri- 'fear,
terror') is 'gruesome' while grizzly means 'streaked with gray'
Antonyms: nice, pleasing, pretty, PLEASANT
ILL-WILL
GOODWILL
ESSENCE
GUILE, RESENTMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hard feelings
Syn: animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, bone to
pick, dislike, enmity,grievance, hate, hatred, injury, injustice,
malevolence,malice, maliciousness, malignancy, peeve, pique,rancor,
resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom
Ant: favor, forgiveness, good will , GOODWILL
GRUDGE
AFFABLE, LUMP
FAST
GORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in a bad mood
Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, crotchety, disgruntled,
dissatisfied, griping, grouchy, grumbling, irritable, peevish, pettish,
petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent
Antonyms: happy, nice, pleasant , AFFABLE
550) Guilty
INNOCENT
PURE, VIRTUOUS
ANGELIC
CULPABLE
Definition: blameworthy; found at fault
Syn: accusable, caught, censurable, censured, chargeable,
condemned, contrite, convictable, convicted, culpable, delinquent,
depraved,doomed, erring, evil, felonious, impeached, incriminated,
iniquitous, judged, liable, licentious, offending, proscribed,
regretful, remorseful, reprehensible, responsible, rueful, sentenced,
sheepish,
Ant: guiltless, INNOCENT, moral, right, sinless.
RIGIDITY
STUPIDITY
NO RESULTS
STICKING, GUESS
LUMP
552)
Grumption
554) Gusty
POPULATED, DIRTY
FLURRY
COURAGE
CALM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: windy
Synonyms: airy, blowy, blustering, blustery, breezy, hearty, robust,
squally, stormy, tempestuous
Antonyms: CALM, quiet
556)
Hackneyed
558) Hail
560) Hamper
CLICHED, BANAL
TRANSFERRED
DELAYED
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clichd, tired
SUMMON
SIGNAL, IGNORE
THROW
COME
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: torrent
Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, broadside, cannonade,
hailstorm, pelting, rain, salvo, shower, storm, volley
Antonym: IGNORE
HINDER, OBSTRUCT
SUPPLY
PRIOR
PROMOTE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: basket for storage
Synonyms: bassinet, carton, crate, creel, laundry basket, pannier
Antonym: PROMOTE
562) Hapless
564) Harass
566)
Hardworking
LUCKY, AMIABLE
FOTUNATE
FRIGID
WOEFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unfortunate
Synonyms: behind the eightball, cursed, hexed, infelicitous, jinxed,
jonah, loser, luckless, miserable, poor fish, sad sack, snakebit,
unhappy, unlucky, untoward, voodooed, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: fortuitous, FOTUNATE, lucky, well-off
SOOTHE
PESTER, CLOSELY
LAUDABLE
ANNY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: badger
Syn: annoy, attack, bait, bedevil, beleaguer,bother, bullyrag, despoil,
distress, disturb, exasperate, exhaust, fatigue, foray, gnaw, harry,
hassle, heckle, hound, intimidate, irk, irritate, jerk around,
macerate, maraud, noodge, perplex, persecute, pester, plague, raid,
ride, strain, stress, worry
Antonyms: aid, assist, facilitate, help, SOOTHE
DILIGENT, SLOTH
PERSEVERING
INDUSTRIAL
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conscientious
Synonyms: assiduous, dedicated, diligent, persevering, sedulous
Antonyms: lazy, SLOTH
568) Haughty
570) Hazy
572)
Headstrong
PITIABLE
SCARED, HUMBLE
COWARDLY
DISOBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant
Synonyms: assuming, conceited, contemptuous, detached,
disdainful, distant, egotistic, egotistical, high, high and mighty,
imperious, indifferent, lofty, overbearing, overweening, proud,
reserved, scornful, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up,
supercilious, superior, uppity
Antonyms: humble, meek, shy, timid, HUMBLE
FOGGY
VAGUE, CLEAR
CLARIFY
BLEARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cloudy
Syn: bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, clouded, crepuscular, dim,
dull, dusky, faint, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, fumy, fuzzy, gauzy,
indefinite,indistinct, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, obscure,
opaque, overcast, rimy, screened, shadowy,smoggy, smoky, soupy,
steaming, unclear, vague, vaporous, veiled
Antonyms: CLEAR, sunny, uncloudy, unhazy
OBSTINATE
STUBBORN
WILFUL, PEAK
SUBMISSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stubborn
Syn: bullheaded, contrary, determined, foolhardy, froward,
heedless, imprudent, impulsive, intractable, mule, mulish, murder,
obstinate, rash, reckless, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable,
unruly, unyielding, willful
Antonyms: calm, docile, moderate, obedient, submissive, tolerant,
SUBMISSIVE
574) Hectic
576) Heed
578) Hegira
INFIDEL
DISBELIEVER
FRANTIC, FEVERISH
CALM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: frantic, turbulent
Synonyms: animated, boisterous, burning, chaotic, confused,
disordered, excited, exciting, fervid, fevered, feverish, flurrying,
flustering, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hassle, heated, madhouse,
nutsy, restless, riotous, tumultuous, unsettled, wild, woolly, zoolike
Antonyms: CALM, easeful, leisurely, unhurried
REGARD
OBSERVE, FOLLOW
NOTICE
IGNORE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: care, thought
Syn: application, attention, carefulness, caution, cognizance,
concentration, concern,consideration, debate, deliberation, ear,
heedfulness, interest, listen up, mark, note, notice, observance,
observation, regard, remark, respect, study
Antonyms: carelessness, disregard, heedlessness, inattention,
indifference, neglect, IGNORE
OASIS
RETURN
CALM, NOISE
ARRIVAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving
Syn: abandonment, decampment, desertion,egress, egression,
embarkation, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus,
expatriation, farewell, flight, getaway, going, migration,
parting,passage, powder, quitting, recession, removal, retirement,
retreat, sailing, separation, stampede, start.
Antonyms: arrival, coming, entrance, RETURN
580) Hearsay
582)
Heterogeneou
s
584)
Hibernate
INNATE, INBRED
ACQUIRED
EFFECTED
POLISHED
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unsubstantiated information
Synonyms: clothesline, comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, mere talk,
report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, talk of the town, word of
mouth
Antonyms: evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth, ACQUIRED
HOMOGENOUS
SIMILAR, DIFFERENT
COLOURFUL
NATURAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: assorted, miscellaneous
Synonyms: amalgamate, composite, confused, conglomerate,
contrary, contrasted, different, discordant, discrepant, disparate,
dissimilar, divergent, diverse, diversified, incongruous, jumbled,
mingled, mixed, mongrel, mosaic, motley, unallied, unlike,
unrelated, variegated
Ant: HOMOGENOUS, identical, pure, single
AESTIVATE
CONNOTE
IMITATE, IMPLICATE
INVOLVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie dormant; sleep through cold weather
Synonyms: hide, hole up, immure, lie torpid, sleep, vegetate, winter
Antonym: AESTIVATE
586)
Hilarious
588)
Hindrance
590)
Histrionic
FUNNY, DELIRIOUS
HYSTERICAL
CONFUSED
SOLEMN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very funny
Synonyms: amusing, comical, convivial, entertaining, exhilarated,
frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jocular, jolly, jovial,
joyful, joyous, laughable, lively, merry, mirthful, noisy, priceless,
riot, rollicking, scream, uproarious, witty
Ant: grave, serious, somber, tragic, SOLEMN
AGREEMENT
COOPERATION
PERSUASION, AID
OBSTACLE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: obstruction, difficulty
Syn: albatross, baggage, ball and chain, bar, barrier, catch, check,
clog, crimp, cumbrance, deterrent, drag, drawback, encumbrance,
excess baggage, foot dragging, gridlock, handicap, hitch, impedance,
impediment, interference
Ant: advance, AID, assistance, encouragement, expedition, help,
promotion, push
STRAIGHTFORWARD
HOARD, HANG
FATTEN
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overly dramatic
Synonyms: melodramatic, overacting, overplayed, theatrical,
thespian
Antonym: HANG
592) Holy
594) Hoot
596) Host
DIVINE
HOARY
DUPE, PROFANE
SAINTLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: religious, sacred
Syn: angelic, believing, blessed, chaste, clean, consecrated,
dedicated, devoted, devotional, devout, divine, faithful,
faultless,glorified,godlike, godly, good, hallowed, humble,
immaculate, innocent, just, messianic, unworldly, upright,
venerable, venerated, virtuous
Ant: depraved, immoral, irreligious, PROFANE
HONOUR
UPROAR, JOSTLE
TINT
INSULT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cry
Synonyms: boo, catcall, heckle, hiss, howl, jeer, razz, scoff at, scorn,
scream, shout down, whistle Antonym: HONOUR
ACCOMPLICE
ENLARGED
SPREAD, DIFFUSED
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who entertains, performs
Synonyms: anchor, anchor person, emcee, entertainer, innkeeper,
keeper, manager, moderator, owner, person of the house, presenter,
proprietor
Antonyms: guest, visitor, DIFFUSED
598) Hover
600) Huddle
602) Hump
FLUTTER
OCCUPY
DRIFT, SHED
LEAVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hang, float over
Synonyms: be suspended, brood over, dance, drift, flicker, flit,
flitter, flutter, fly, hang about, linger, poise, wait nearby, waver
Antonyms: lie, rest, settle, LEAVE
BUNCH, GATHER
JUMBLE
SCATTER
CLUMP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assemblage, crowd, often disorganized
Synonyms: bunch, chaos, cluster, clutter, confab, conference,
confusion, disarray, discussion, disorder, gathering, group, heap,
jumble, mass, meeting, muddle
Antonyms: SCATTER
PROTUBERANCE
TUMULT
DEPRESSION
FEEBLE, MOUND
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swelling, projection
Synonyms: bulge, bump, convexedness, convexity, dune, elevation,
eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, hill, hummock, hunch, knap,
knob, knurl, kyphosis, mound, prominence, protrusion,
protuberance, ridge, swell, tumescence
Antonyms: DEPRESSION
604) Hurt
606) Hybrid
608)
Hypercritical
CURE
TREAT, HEAL
INJURE
CRIPPLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: physically or mentally injured
Syn: aching, aggrieved, agonized, battered, bleeding, bruised,
buffeted, burned, busted up, contused, crushed, cut, damaged,
disfigured, distressed, disturbed, grazed, harmed, hit, impaired, in
pain, indignant, lacerated, marred.
Antonyms: comforted, cured, healed, healthy, ok, pleased,
remedied, well, HEAL
MONGREL
MIXTURE, PURE
SINCERE
COMPOSITION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: composite, mixture
Synonyms: amalgam, bastard, combination, compound, cross,
crossbreed, half-blood, half-breed, half-caste, incross,
miscegenation, mongrel, mule, outcross
Antonyms: homogeneous, pedigreed, PURE, purebred,
thoroughbred, unmixed
DECEPTIVE
DISHONEST
IMITATION, DISLIKED
TOLERANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: captious
Synonyms: carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding,
faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hard to please, niggling, nit-picking,
overcritical, persnickety
Antonym: DISLIKED
610)
Hypocritical
612)
Hypothesis
614) Ignite
0
INSINCERE, AMIABLE
INSULTING
SINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, pretending
Syn: affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious,
deceptive, deluding, dissembling,double, duplicitous, faithless, false,
feigning, fishy, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, lying, moralistic, oily,
pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, smooth, snide, specious,
spurious, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable
Ant:actual, authentic, SINCERE, honest, just, real,
FACT, THEORY
CONCLUSION
SUPPRESSED
ASSUMPTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: theory
Syn: antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution,
axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data,
deduction, demonstration, derivation,explanation,foundation,
ground, guess, inference, lemma, philosophy, plan,
Antonyms: calcualtion, measurement, proof, reality, truth, FACT
KINDLY
EXITE, AGITATE
EXTINGUISH
ROUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: set on fire
Synonyms: burn, burst into flames, catch fire, enkindle, fire, flare
up, inflame, kindle, light, put match to, set alight, set fire to, start
up, take fire, touch off
Antonyms: EXTINGUISH, put out
616)
Ignominious
618) Illegible
HONOURABLE
INSULTING,DEJECTED
FAVOURABLE
CIVILIZED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: humiliating
Synonyms: discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, embarrassing,
inglorious, shameful Antonym: HONOURABLE
CLEAR
IMITABLE, CLEAN
READABLE
OBSCURE
Definition: unreadable
Synonyms: cacographic, crabbed, cramped, difficult to read, faint,
indistinct, obscure, scrawled, unclear, undecipherable, unintelligible
Notes: eligible means qualified for or allowed or worthy of being
chosen while illegible means hard to read or not legible; illegible
refers to bad handwriting, unreadable refers to poor writing Ant:
decipherable, READABLE, understandable
DECEPTIVE
EXCLUDING, NOT CERTAIN
620) Illusive
TRANSPARENT
NOT DECEPTIVE
622)
Immaculate
624) Impair
626)
Impeccable
UP-TO-DATE
SIGNIFICANT
UNTIDY, EXPRESSIVE
FLAWLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very clean; unspoiled
Synonyms: bright, clean, errorless, exquisite, faultless, flawless,
impeccable, irreproachable, neat, pure, snowy, spotless, spruce,
stainless, taintless, trim, unexceptionable, unsoiled.
Antonyms: dirty, filthy, foul, tainted, unclean, unsterile, UNTIDY
ENFEEBLE, IMPROVE
HEEDLESS
PAMPER
DEMOLISH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: harm, hinder
Synonyms: blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate,
decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, ding,
disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, reduce,
rough up, spoil, tarnish, total, tweak, undermine, unfit, vitiate,
weaken, worsen
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, IMPROVE
GOOD
SOUND, FAULTY
CANDID
CORRECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: above suspicion; flawless
Syn: accurate, aces, clean, correct, errorless, exact, exquisite,
faultless, fleckless, immaculate, incorrupt, infallible, innocent,
irreproachable, nice, perfect, precise, pure, right, sinless, stainless,
ten, unblemished, unerring, unflawed.
Ant: blemished, corrupt, defective, FAULTY
628) Impede
630)
Impervious
632) Imprint
DEMOTE
PROMOTE, EXALT
SOAR
DISAPPROVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: obstruct, hinder
Synonyms: bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off,
cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit,
disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze, flag one, freeze, hamper,
interfere, oppose, rattle, restrain, retard.
Antonyms: advance, aid, assist, facilitate, forward, help, support,
PROMOTE
INGRESSIVE
POROUS, PASSAGE
OOZE
IMPULSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to be penetrated
Synonyms: closed to, hermetic, immune, impassable, impassive,
impenetrable, impermeable, imperviable, inaccessible, invulnerable,
resistant, sealed, tight, unaffected, unapproachable, unmoved,
unpierceable,
Antonyms: exposed, open, penetrable, responsive, sensitive,
vulnerable, POROUS
REMOVE
ERASE
EXTINGUISH
REFUTE, EMBOSE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impression; symbol
Synonyms: banner, dent, design, effect, emblem, heading, impress,
indentation, influence, mark, name, print, sign, signature, stamp,
trace, trademark
Antonyms: ERASE
634)
Incandescenc
e
636) Incite
638)
Indestructible
ICINESS
ARDOUR, IMPEL
NDR
GLOW
BRIGHTNESS
INDUCE, PROVOKE
INSTIGATE
INCULCATE
CALM
Part of Speech: verb Def: encourage, provoke
Syn: abet, activate, actuate, agitate, animate, arouse, coax, craze,
drive, encourage, excite, exhort, foment, force, forward, further,
goad, impel, induce, inflame, influence, inspire, inspirit, instigate,
motivate, persuade, prick, promote,
Antonyms: delay, deter, discourage, prohibit, CALM
IMMORTAL
REBIRTH, FRAGILE
FRAGMENTARY
ENTITY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: lasting, unable to be destroyed
Synonyms: abiding, deathless, durable, enduring, everlasting,
immortal, immutable, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible,
indissoluble, inexterminable, inextinguishable, inextirpable,
irrefragable, irrefrangible, nonperishable, permanent, perpetual,
unalterable, unbreakable
Antonyms: breakable, destructible, FRAGILE
SLUGGISH
PRUDENCE
NO RESULTS
VAIN, ACTIVE
FIXED
640) Inert
642) Infallible
644)
Ingenuity
DUBIOUS
MISTAKING, ERRING
UNRELIABLE
PERFECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unerring, dependable
Syn: acceptable, accurate, agreeable, apodictic, authoritative,
certain, correct, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, exact,
faultless, flawless, foolproof, handy, helpful, impeccable,
incontrovertible, inerrable, inerrant, perfect, positive, reliable,
satisfactory, satisfying, sure,
Antonyms: erring, fallible, faulty, ERRING
SKILLFULNESS
CUNNING
SENTIMENTAL
CERTAIN, DULLNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cleverness
Synonyms: ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, brightness,
brilliance, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption,
intelligence, inventiveness, resourcefulness, shrewdness, skill,
smartness, talent, wisdom, wit
Antonym:
DULLNESS
646) Inhibit
648)
Iniquitous
650) Innate
REFRAIN
DISCARD, ACTIVATE
SURRENDER
GUARD
Part of Speech: verb
Def: restrict, prevent
Synonyms: arrest, avert, bar, bit, bridle, check, constrain, cramp,
curb, discourage, enjoin, faze, forbid, frustrate, hang up, hinder,
impede, interdict, keep in, obstruct, outlaw, prohibit, repress,
restrain, sandbag, stop, stymie, suppress, ward,
Ant: aid, allow, approve, assist, free, ACTIVATE
INQUIRY
ENQUIRY, FREE
UNJUST
INQUISITIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unjust
Synonyms: evil, sinful, unfair, vicious, wicked
Antonym:
UNJUST
INBORN
ACQUIRED
SOBRIETY
PLOT, INHERENT
Definition: inherited, native
Synonyms: congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional,
elemental, essential, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indigenous,
ingrained, inherent, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, natural, normal,
Notes: the word innate means 'inborn' and should apply to living
things; inherent is 'essential, intrinsic'and applies to nonliving
things like ideas
Antonyms: ACQUIRED, extrinsic, learned
652)
Inquisitive
654)
Insatiable
656) Insolent
UNINTERESTED
DULL, INDOLENT
CAREFUL
CURIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: curious
Syn: analytical, challenging, forward,impertinent, inquiring,
inquisitorial, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome,
meddling, nosy, peering, personal, poking, presumptuous, probing,
prying, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, sifting, snooping,
speculative
Ant: incurious, indifferent, UNINTERESTED
DIMINISHABLE
GREEDY, GLOWING
SUCCULENT
LIMITLESS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: voracious, wanting
Synonyms: clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent,
gluttonous, greedy,importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate,
pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable,
unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, urgent.
Antonyms: fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable, satisfied,
DIMINISHABLE
PROUD, HUMBLE
ASHAMED
IGNORANT
INSULTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold, disrespectful
Syn: abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy, brazen, breezy,
contemptuous, contumelious, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful,
fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate,
insulting, nervy, offensive, overbearing, peremptory, pert,
procacious, rude, smart, uncivil
Ant: cowardly, HUMBLE, modest, polite,
658)
Insouciant
660) Instill
662)
Interpolate
NONCHALANCE
UNCONCERNED
DEER, CHEAP
FRETFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easygoing, casual
Synonyms: airy, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, free and easy,
gay, heedless, jaunty, lighthearted, nonchalant, thoughtless,
unconcerned, untroubled, unworried
Antonyms: anxious, nervous, FRETFUL
EXTRACT
ERADICATE
EXPRESS, EXPAND
IMBUNE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: implant, introduce
Syn: catechize, diffuse, disseminate, engender, engraft, imbue,
impart, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix,
infuse, inject, inoculate, inseminate, insert, insinuate, inspire,
interject, intermix, program, suffuse.
Antonyms: dislodge, halt, stop, uproot, EXTRACT
INTRODUCE
STUDIED, DELETE
SOLVE
INSERTION
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: add
Synonyms: admit, annex, append, enter, fill in, include, inject,
insert, insinuate, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interlope,
interpose, introduce, intrude, throw in
Antonyms: erase, remove, subtract , DELETE
664) Intrepid
666) Inured
668)
Invincible
DOUGHTY
FEARFUL, MUTINY
VORACIOUS
FEARLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brave, nervy
Synonyms: audacious, bodacious, bold, courageous, daring,
dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, heroic,
impavid, lionhearted, nerveless, plucky, resolute, stalwart, unafraid,
undaunted, unflinching, valiant, valorous
Antonyms: cowardly, meek, timid, FEARFUL
ACCUSTOMED
SENSITIVE, INSIGHT
WORTHLESS
HABITUAL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: accustom
Synonyms: acclimate, familiarize, habituate, harden, make ready,
season, toughen, train
Antonym: SENSITIVE
INVULNERABLE
VISIBLE, WANTON
ANCIENT
CONQUERABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indestructible
Synonyms: bulletproof, impassable, impregnable, indomitable,
insuperable, inviolable,invulnerable, irresistible, powerful, strong,
unassailable, unattackable, unbeatable, unconquerable,
undefeatable, untouchable, unyielding
Antonyms: beatable, breakable, CONQUERABLE, destructible,
670) Irk
672)
Irrational
ANNOY
IOTA, AMUSE
EXODUS
IRRITATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: aggravate; rub the wrong way
Synonyms: abrade, annoy, bother, discommode, disturb, fret, gall,
harass, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make waves, miff,
nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, trouble, vex
Antonyms: delight, please, AMUSE
LOGICAL
UNREASONABLE
ABSURD, CRAZY
USELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: illogical, senseless
Synonyms: aberrant, absurd, brainless, cockamamie, crazy,
delirious, demented, disconnected, disjointed, distraught, fallacious,
injudicious, insane, invalid, kooky, loony, mad, mindless,
nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, raving,
Antonyms: LOGICAL, rational, reasonable, reflective, sensible,
sound, stable
REPLACEABLE
ILLEGIBLE,APPLICABLE
674)
Irreparable
DEMOLISHED
CORRECTABLE
676)
Irreverent
678) Itinerant
680) Jagged
PIOUS, PROFANE
UNCIVIL
IMPIOUS
FAMOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disrespectful
Synonyms: aweless, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, flippant, fresh,
iconoclastic, impertinent, impious, impudent, insolent, irreverential,
mocking, profane, rude, sacrilegious, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy
Antonyms: religious, respectful, reverent, PIOUS
WANDERING
STATIONARY
INCURSION, EVEN
MOVABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: roaming
Synonyms: afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy,
journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, peripatetic, ranging,
roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant,
wandering, wayfaring
Antonyms: permanent, settled, STATIONARY
SERRATED
SMOOTH, UNEVEN
ROUGH
HINDERED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ragged, notched
Synonyms: asperous, barbed, broken, cleft, craggy, denticulate,
harsh, indented, irregular, pointed, ridged, rough, rugged, scabrous,
serrated, snaggy, spiked, toothed, uneven, unlevel, unsmooth
Antonyms: even, SMOOTH
682)
Jaundiced
684) Jealousy
686)
Jeopardy
STOPPED, YOUNG
UNBIASED
PESSIMISTIC
PLEASURE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: tainted, prejudiced
Synonyms: biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, disapproving,
distorted,envious,grudging, hostile, intolerant, jealous, opprobrious,
partial, partisan, preconceived, prepossessed, resentful, skeptical,
spiteful, suspicious, tendentious, unfair, unfriendly, unindifferent,
warped, yellow
Antonyms: clean, fresh, UNBIASED, unprejudiced
SUSPICION
GENEROSITY
ALLIANCE
BIT, ENVY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: envy
Synonyms: backbiting, begrudging, covetousness, enviousness, evil
eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudgingness, jaundiced eye,
resentfulness, resentment, spite
Antonym: GENEROSITY
PERIL
VULNERABILITY
BRAVERY, THREAT
SAFETY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: danger, trouble
Synonyms: accident, chance, endangerment, exposure, hazard,
insecurity, liability, peril, precariousness, risk, venture, vulnerability
Antonyms: protection, SAFETY
688) Jittery
690) Jovial
CONFUSED, BOLD
STRONG
HARDY
TIMID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nervous
Synonyms: anxious, apprehensive, edgy, excitable, fidgety, highstrung, jumpy, on edge, on pins and needles, panicky, quivering,
restless, shaky, skittish, spooked, tense, trembling, uneasy,uptight
Antonym: BOLD
GENERAL, SAGACITY
GLOOMY
FIXED
CHEERFUL
Definition: happy
Syn: affable, airy, amiable, animated, bantering, blithe, blithesome,
bouncy, buoyant, chaffing, cheery, chipper,
companionable,convivial,cordial, daffy, facetious, festal, festive,
jocose, jocund,jokey, jolly, joshing, jubilant, larking, lighthearted,
Notes: jovial refers to a mood or disposition, jocular to a conduct
or manner
Antonyms: sad, unhappy, GLOOMY
PRUDENT, SENSIBLE
ACCUSED
692)
Judicious
TIMELY
UNWISE
694) Just
696)
Juxtaposition
s
698) Key
FAIR
UNJUST
OUTFLOW
SOOTHE, UNIFORM
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: fair, impartial
Syn: aloof, blameless, condign, conscientious, decent, dependable,
dispassionate, due, equal, equitable, ethical, evenhanded, good,
honest, honorable, lawful, nonpartisan, objective, pure, reliable,
right, righteous, rightful, rigid, scrupulous, strict, tried,
true,trustworthy
Antonyms: inequitable, partial, unfair, UNJUST
UNITY, OPPOSITION
SEPARATION
DIFFERENCE
CONFIRMATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adjacency
Synonyms: abutment, contact, nearness, proximity, touching
Antonym: SEPARATION
SOLUTION
STRANGERS, CLASS
MYSTERY
RESOLUTION
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: essential, important
Synonyms: basic, chief, crucial, decisive, fundamental,
indispensable, leading, main, major, material, pivotal, primary,
principal, vital
Antonyms: inessential, insignificant, nonessential, unimportant,
MYSTERY
700) Kith
RELATIVE
SON, STRANGERS
OUTFIT
NATIVES
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blood relative
Synonyms: affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin,
extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinsfolk, kinship,
kinsperson, member, people, race, relation, relationship
Notes: your family or relatives are kin ; your friends, neighbors,
and acquaintances are kith
Antonym: STRANGERS
IGNORANCE, ILLITERACY
702)
Knowledge
704)
Laborious
FOOLISHNESS
AWARENESS
BACKWARDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's understanding; information
Syn: ability, accomplishments, acquaintance,
apprehension, attainments, awareness, cognition,comprehension,
consciousness, discernment, doctrine, dogma, education,
enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, grasp, insight,
instruction,
Antonyms: IGNORANCE
DILIGENT, LAZY
FRIVOLITY
MENIAL
ARDUOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hard, difficult
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, effortful,
fatiguing, forced, heavy, herculean, labored, onerous, operose,
ponderous, rough go, stiff, strained, strenuous, tiresome, toilsome,
tough, tough job, wearing, wearisome,
Antonyms: easy, effortless, facile, simple, trivial, LAZY
706) Lacerate
708)
Lachrymose
710) Laconic
HEAT, HEAL
TEAR
AFFLICT
DESTROY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tear, cut; wound
Synonyms: claw, gash, harm, hurt, injure, jag, lance, maim,
mangle, mutilate, puncture, rend, rip, score, serrate, slash, stab,
torment, torture
Antonym: HEAL
JOYFUL, TEARFUL
WEEPING
GLOOMY
AMAZING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crying
Synonyms: sad, tearful, teary, weeping, weepy
JOYFUL
Antonym:
CURT, TERSE
WORDY
ROBUST
TEASING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: short, to the point
Synonyms: breviloquent, brief, brusque, compact, compendiary,
compendious, concise, crisp, curt, pithy, sententious, short and
sweet, succinct, terse
Antonyms: long-winded, verbose, WORDY
INSULT
ACKNOWLEDGE
DISAGREE
EXPLOSION, PRAISE
NO RESULTS
Antonym: PRAISE
712) Lambast
714) Languid
716) Languor
CHEERFUL
PROGRESSIVE
FASHIONABLE,GLOOMY
VIGOROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: drooping, dull, listless
Syn: apathetic, blahs, comatose, dopey, easy, enervated, faint,
feeble, lackadaisical, languishing, languorous, lazy, leaden, lethargic,
limp, moony, sluggish, snoozy, spiritless, supine, torpid, weary
Notes: languid is limp or listless; limpid means clear or calm
Antonyms: alert, animated, energetic, lively, spirited, vivacious,
CHEERFUL
INTOXICANT
SHREWD, LODGING
CELERITY
ANIMAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lethargy
Synonyms: apathy, dullness, fatigue, idleness, inaction, inactivity,
laziness, listlessness, sluggishness, tiredness, torpor, weakness
Antonym: CELERITY
718)
Lascivious
720)
Laudable
LEWD, LUSTFUL
CHASTE
CALUMNIOUS
IMMORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sexually aroused; displaying excessive interest in
sex
Syn: bawdy, blue, bodily, carnal, coarse, crude, fleshly, immoral,
indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,
licentious,lubricious,lustful, nasty, obscene,ribald, scurrilous,
sensual, smutty, steamy, unchaste, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton
Antonyms: chaste, decent, moral, CHASTE
NEGLIGIBLE, ADMIRABLE
COMMENDABLE
PRAISEWORTHY
BLAMEFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: admirable
Synonyms: commendable, creditable, deserving, estimable,
excellent, mean, meritable, meritorious, of note, praisable,
praiseworthy, stellar, terrific, thankworthy, worthy
Notes: laudable means deserving praise; laudatory means
expressing praise
Antonyms: bad, BLAMEFUL
PRAISING,ACCEPTABLE
722)
Laudatory
SEDATIVE
DEFAMATORY
ESSENTIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: complimentary
Synonyms: acclamatory, adulatory, approbative, approbatory,
approving, commendatory, encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering,
laudative, panegyrical, praiseful
Notes: laudable means deserving praise; laudatory means
expressing praise
Antonyms: blaming, castigating, DEFAMATORY
724) Lax
726) Lechery
728)
Legendary
SLACK, CASUAL
BRIGHT
COMFORTABLE
STRICT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slack, remiss
Synonyms: behindhand, broad, careless, casual, delinquent, derelict,
disregardful, flaccid, forgetful, general, imprecise, inaccurate,
indefinite, indifferent, inexact, lenient, neglectful, negligent,
nonspecific, oblivious, regardless, shapeless, slipshod, sloppy, soft,
unmindful, vague,
Antonyms: hard, rigid, STRICT, tight
PURITY
EXCESSIVENESS
SEXUALITY,COMFORT
ABDUCTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lewdness
Synonyms: carnality, debauchery, lasciviousness, libertinism,
licentiousness, lust, lustfulness, raunchiness, salaciousness,
wantonness
Antonym: PURITY
PRACTICAL
HISTORICAL
MYTHOLOGICAL
LEVY, OLD
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: fictitious but well known
Synonyms: allegorical, apocryphal, created, customary, doubtful,
dubious, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fanciful, figmental, imaginary,
imaginative, improbable, invented, mythical, mythological, related,
romantic, storied, told, traditional, unhistoric, unreal, unverifiable
Antonyms: factual, real, true, HISTORICAL
730)
Lethargic
732) Levity
734)
Licentious
LISTLESS
INVIGORATING
LABORIOUS, SLOTHFUL
SLUGGISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lazy, sluggish
Syn: apathetic, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant,
draggy, drowsy, dull, enervated, impassive, indifferent, inert,
languorous, listless, moony, nebbish, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy,
slow, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stretchy,
stupefied, supine, torpid, wimpy
Ant: active, INVIGORATING, lively, vivacious
SERIOUSNESS
FLIPPANCY, HOLD
RESTRICTION
FRIVOLITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: funniness, silliness
Synonyms: absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness,
festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity,
giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs,
lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling,
triviality, volatility, wit
Antonyms: gravity, SERIOUSNESS
VOLUPTUOUS
LIBERTINE, CHASTE
DEBAUCHEE
IMMORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: immoral, uncontrolled
Synonyms: abandoned, amoral, animal, carnal, corrupt,
debauched, depraved,desirous,disorderly, dissolute, fast, fleshly,
impure, incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine,
libidinous, lickerish, promiscuous, reprobate, salacious, satyric,
scabrous, sensual, uncurbed,
Ant: CHASTE, controlled, good, innocent, moral
736) Limber
738) Linger
740) Lithe
AGILE, NIMBLE
INFLEXIBLE
RELAX
SLAKEN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flexible
Synonyms: agile, deft, elastic, graceful, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
loose, nimble, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, spry, supple
Antonyms: rigid, stiff, straight, unbending, INFLEXIBLE
DEPART, PERSIST
DAWDLE
DELAY
ATTACH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: loiter, delay
Synonyms: amble, be dilatory, crawl, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drift,
falter, hesitate, hobble, idle, lag, loll, lumber, mope, mosey, plod,
poke, procrastinate, putter, remain, saunter, shuffle, slouch, stagger,
stay, stop, stroll, tarry, tool, totter, trail, traipse, trifle, trudge,
vacillate, wait,
Antonyms: go, hurry, leave, rush, DEPART
LIMBER, LAZY
BENDING
SMALL
STIFF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flexible, graceful and slender
Synonyms: agile, lean, lightsome, limber, lissome, loose, nimble,
pliable, pliant, slight, slim, spare, supple, thin
Antonyms: awkward, fat, STIFF, thick
742) Livelong
744) Loath
746) Longing
LONG LIFE
SHORT LIFE
ALIVE, DEAD
PART OF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lasting
Synonyms: constant, continuing, deep-rooted, enduring, for life,
inveterate, lifetime, livelong , long-lived, old, perennial, permanent,
persistent
Antonyms: short-lived, temporary, tenuous, PART OF
DETEST, EAGER
BURDEN
FLEXIBLE
PROMISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: against, averse
Synonyms: afraid, counter, disinclined, hesitant, indisposed,
opposed, remiss, resisting, uneager
Notes: loath is an adjective meaning 'unwilling, reluctant,
disinclined'; whereas loathe is a verb meaning 'to dislike intensely,
to feel revulsion toward, to despise'
Antonyms: approving, for, unopposed, EAGER
CRAVING
AVERSION
SADNESS, ANALYSE
LENGTHY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: strong desire
Synonyms: ambition, aspiration, coveting, craving, fire in the belly,
hankering, hunger, hungering, itch, pining, thirst, urge, wish,
yearning, yen
Antonyms: dislike, hate, hatred, AVERSION
748)
Lopsided
UNEVEN, ALONE
BALANCED
SLANTED
DISTORTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: leaning, falling to one side; larger on one side
Synonyms: askew, asymmetrical, awry, cockeyed, crooked,
disproportional, disproportionate, inclinatory, irregular,
nonsymmetrical, overbalanced, squint, tilting, unbalanced, unequal,
uneven, unsteady, warped
Antonyms: even, level, straight, BALANCED
GENETIC
SEX-APPEAL
ATHEIST
MONOCLE, RAVINE
NDR
Antonym:
750)
Lorgnette
752) Loyal
UNFAITHFUL
REBELLIOUS
UNFRIENDLY, STEADfast
COURAGEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: faithful, dependable
Synonyms: allegiant, ardent, attached, behind one, believing,
coming through, constant, devoted, dutiful, firm, patriotic, resolute,
staunch, steadfast, steady, true, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing,
unswerving, unwavering
Antonyms: disloyal, undependable, unfaithful, REBELLIOUS
754)
Lugubrious
DESPONDENT
DISCONSOLATE
BLUE, LEWD
BLITHE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless
Synonyms: atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal,
dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal,
gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad,
sinister, sombre, threatening
Antonyms: hopeful, optimistic, BLITHE
SPLENDOUR
LIE, HIDE
NO RESULTS
GLOOM
GLOSS
Antonym:
756) Lustre
758) Macabre
GRUESOME
ATTRACTIVE
SPLENDOUR, TRASH
MORBID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eerie; deathlike
Syn: cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly,
ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible,
horrid,lurid,morbid, offensive, scary, spookish, spooky, terrible,
Notes: macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror;
bizarre means odd or unusual
Ant: common, living, normal, ATTRACTIVE
760) Madness
762) Magnate
764) Main
CLEVERNESS, SANITY
SHREWDNESS
CUNNINGNESS
LUNACY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insanity
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, craziness, delirium, delusion,
dementia, derangement, fanaticism, foolishness, hysteria,
irrationality, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental
illness, neurosis, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, stupidity,
unbalance
Antonym: SANITY
METAL
POOR, DAUB
ATTRACT
REPEL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: important
person, usually in business
Syn: aristocrat, bigwig, businessperson,capitalist, captain of
industry, chief, figure, financier, industrialist, leader, merchant,
mogul, name, noble, notable, peer, personage, plutocrat, tycoon
Antonyms: lowly, POOR
LAME, SUBSTANCE
GLOOM
RESTORE
FOREMOST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: principal, predominant
Synonyms: capital, cardinal, central, chief,
Notes: main means most important element, while a mane is long
coarse hair growing along the top and sides of an animal's neck or
the growth of hair covering the head of a human being
Antonyms: auxiliary, extra, insignificant, minor, secondary,
subordinate, unimportant, RESTORE
ASSISTANT,SUPERVISOR
766)
Malefactor
768)
Malicious
770)
Malignant
PERFORMER
MALINGERER
BENEFACTOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: criminal
Syn: con, convict, culprit, delinquent, evildoer, felon, hellhound,
hoodlum, jailbird, lawbreaker, outcast, outlaw, prisoner, rapscallion,
rascal, rogue, rounder, ruffian, scamp, scoundrel, sinner, thug,
transgressor, varlet, villain, wretch, wrongdoer
Antonym: BENEFACTOR
BOASTFUL
INDIFFERENT
KIND, GENEROUS
VICIOUS
Definition: hateful
Syn: awful, baleful, beastly, bitter, catty, cussed, deleterious,
despiteful, detrimental, envious, evil, injurious, jealous, low,
malevolent, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noxious,
ornery, pernicious, petty, poisonous, rancorous, resentful, spiteful,
uncool, vengeful, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked
Ant: benevolent, friendly, good, kind, GENEROUS
VIRULENT
BENIGN, PRUNE
SWALLOW
DEADLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: diseased
Synonyms: cancerous, deadly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal,
mortal, pestilential, poisonous
Antonyms: BENIGN, harmless, uncancerous
772) Mangy
774)
Marauder
BRAVERY, DISEASED
SMALL
DOG
CLEAN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scruffy
Synonyms: decrepit, dirty, Impoverished, indigent, mean, poor,
ragtag, shabby, shoddy, sick, squalid, tattered
Antonyms: kempt, neat, CLEAN
GUARD, LOOTER
REFRACTORY
TALKATIVE
FAILURE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pillager, raider
Synonyms: bandit, buccaneer, corsair, freebooter, looter, outlaw,
pirate, plunderer, ravager, robber, thief
Antonym: GUARD
STRICT-DISCIPLINARIAN
776) Martinet
LOOSE-DISCIPLINARIAN
MUSICAL-INSTRUMENT
SWEET-DISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disciplinarian
Synonyms: authoritarian, bully, despot, drill sergeant, drillmaster,
enforcer, hard master, slavedriver, stickler, taskmaster, tyrant
Antonym: LOOSE-DISCIPLINARIAN
778) Mask
DEFACE, CONCEAL
EXPOSE
HIDDEN
DISGUISE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false face, cover
Synonyms: affectation, appearance, aspect, beard, blind,
camouflage, concealment, disguise, disguisement, dissembling,
dissimulation,domino, facade, fig leaf, front, guise, hood,
masquerade, pose, posture, pretense, pretext, screen,semblance,
simulation, veneer, visage, visor, window dressing Antonym:
EXPOSE
MATRON, VELVET
SUNNY
SHADY
VESPER
NO RESULTS
Antonym:
780) Matin
SCANTY, DISSOLVE
AMPLE
BENIGN
SPARSE
NO RESULTS
782) Meagre
Antonyms:
784) Meek
786)
Mellifluous
788) Menial
ARROGANT
DIFFUSE
BOORISH, DOCILE
MILD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy; compliant
Syn: acquiescent, deferential, docile, forbearing, gentle, humble,
lenient, longanimous, lowly, manageable, mild, milquetoast, modest,
nothing, orderly, pabulum, passive, patient, peaceful, plain,
resigned, serene, tame, timid, tolerant, unassuming, unpretentious,
unresisting, weak
Ant: bold, emboldened, immodest, ARROGANT
MUTUAL, COMMON
HOARSE
CONTENTED
WITTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: smooth and sweet sounding
Synonyms: agreeable, dulcet, euphonic, fluid, harmonic, honeyed,
mellifluent, mellow, pleasing, resonant, songful, soothing,
symphonious, tuned, tuneful
Antonym: HOARSE
HUMBLE, SERVILE
NOTION
NOBLE
DEGRADING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowly, low-status
Synonyms: abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading,
demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble,
ignominious, low, mean, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry,
subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile
Antonyms: elevated, skilled, superior, NOBLE
790) Miasmic
792) Militant
794)
Minuscule
SULTRY
SALUBRIOUS
OPPRESSIVE
HEARSAY, ZEALOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: catching, spreading
Syn: communicable, contagious, contaminating, corrupting,
defiling, diseased, epidemic, infective, mephitic, miasmic ,
noxious,pestilent,pestilential, poisoning, polluting, toxic,
transmittable, virulent
Notes: diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread
by air or water are infectious
Ant:antiseptic, germless, harmless, SALUBRIOUS
RELIGIOUS,SPIRITUAL
COMBATIVE
PACIFIST
AGGRESSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, combative
Syn: active, assertive, assertory, bellicose, belligerent, combating,
contending, contentious, embattled, fighting, gladiatorial, martial,
militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy,
truculent, vigorous, warlike, warring
Ant: compliant, peaceful, peaceloving, PACIFIST
MAJUSCULE
RETICULE, MINIMAL
MAXIMUM
MANIKIN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very small
Synonyms: diminutive, insignificant, microscopic, minute, small,
tiny, unimportant
Notes: a majuscule is a capital letter; a minuscule is a lowercase
one
Antonyms: huge, MAJUSCULE
796) Miserly
798) Malady
800)
Modicum
GENEROUS, LIBERAL
SPENDTHRIFT
CHARITABLE
SCROOGEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: greedy, stingy
Synonyms: abject, avaricious, beggarly, cheapskate, churlish, close,
covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious,
penurious, skinflint, sordid, tightfisted, ungenerous
Antonyms: GENEROUS, giving, liberal
ROBUST, HEALTHY
WEAK
STRONG
WRONG
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease
Synonyms: ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, cancer,
complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder,
distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, illness, infection, infirmity,
inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus
Antonym: HEALTHY
BIG
A LARGE AMOUNT
COLOSSAL, HUGE
A SMALL AMOUNT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bit, small amount
Synonyms: atom, crumb, dash, drop, fraction, fragment, grain,
inch, iota, jot, little, minim, mite, molecule, ounce, particle, pinch,
scrap, shred, smidge, speck, tinge, touch, trifle, whit
Antonyms: lot, A LARGE AMOUNT
802) Mollify
804)
Monandry
TWIST, CONTINUE
TERMINATE
HARDSHIP
HARDEN
Part of Speech: verb
Def: pacify, soothe
Syn: abate, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, assuage, blunt,
calm, compose, conciliate, cushion, decrease, diminish, dulcify, ease,
lessen, lighten, lull, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, pacify,
placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, relieve, soften
Antonyms: agitate, depress, exasperate, harass, incite, provoke,
trouble, upset, worry, HARDEN
MONASTERY, WEEKLY
POLYANDRY
POLYGAMY
DRIPPING
NO RESULTS
Antonym:
PROLGUE,CATALOGUE
806)
Monologue
DIALOGUE
RECLUSE
EPILOGUE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: speech by one person
Synonyms: address, descant, discourse, disquisition, harangue,
lecture, sermon, soliloquy, speech, stand-up bit, talk
Notes: monologue comes from Greek and soliloquy from Latin,
but both mean 'speaking alone' Antonyms: DIALOGUE
808)
Moribund
810) Mortal
VITAL, CREATIVE
DYING
SUPERFLUOUS
DISABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dying
Synonyms: at death's door, declining, done for, doomed, expiring,
fading, fated, going, mortal, passing, perishing
Antonym: VITAL
ETERNAL, SPIRITUAL
IMMORTAL
DIVINE
TRANSITORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: deadly
Syn: bitter, deathly, destructive, dire, extreme, fatal, grave, great,
grievous, grim, intense, last, lethal, malignant, monstrous,
mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous,
relentless, remorseless, ruthless.
Antonyms: invigorating, lifegiving, permanent, refreshing,
IMMORTAL
EXCELLENT, SUPERIOR
812)
Mundane
HEAVENLY
WORDLY
EXTRAORDINARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ordinary
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, earthly, everyday, lowly, normal,
prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly
Antonyms: exciting, extraordinary, HEAVENLY, supernatural,
wonderful
814)
Munificent
816) Nadir
818) Naivete
LIBERAL
MANIPULATE
STINGY, OBSESS
OBVIOUS
Definition: giving, generous
Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful,
charitable, free, handsome, kind, lavish, liberal, loose,
magnanimous, openhanded, philanthropic, rich, unsparing,
unstinting
Notes:magnanimous means noble and generous in spirit;
munificent means very liberal in giving or bestowing - very
generous - lavish
Antonyms: careful, greedy, mean, selfish, STINGY
PROGRESS, LIBERTY
ZENITH
MODERNITY
DEPRESSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lowest point
Synonyms: all-time low, base, bottom, floor, low point, record low,
rock bottom, zero level
Notes:zenith derived from Arabic samt ar-ras 'the way or road
above one's head'; zenith technically is the point directly above the
observer and nadir is the point directly below
Antonym: ZENITH
WISDOM, NOVEL
IGNORANCE
CREDULITY
THOUGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: innocence, gullibility
Synonyms: artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity,
frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness,
openness, simplicity
Antonyms: experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication,
WISDOM
820) Nasty
822)
Nebulous
824) Negation
TERRIBLE, AWFUL
NAUGHTY
UNPLEASANT
ENJOYABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disgusting, offensive
Synonyms: awful, beastly, dirty, disagreeable, fierce, filthy, foul,
gross, grubby, hellish, horrible, horrid, icky, impure, loathsome,
lousy, malodorous, mephitic, obnoxious, obscene,ornery, outrageous,
soiled, squalid, stinking, tough, unappetizing, unclean, uncleanly,
ungodly,
Ant: great, magnificent, pleasing, ENJOYABLE
STARS, CURVED
HOME-SICKNESS
CRYSTAL-CLEAR
UNDER-AGE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: confused, obscure
Synonyms: ambiguous, amorphous, cloudy, dark, dim, hazy,
imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, murky,
shadowy, shapeless, uncertain, unclear, unformed, vague
Antonyms: apparent, definite, obvious, plain, CRYSTAL-CLEAR
AFFIRMATION
CONTRADICT
NEGATIVE, PROPOSAL
VIOLATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: contradiction, denial
Synonyms: antithesis, antonym, blank, cancellation, contrary,
converse, counterpart, disavowal, disclaimer, gainsaying, inverse,
negatory, neutralization,nothingness,nullification, nullity, opposite,
opposition,proscription,refusal, rejection, renunciation, repudiation,
reverse
Antonyms: allowance, approval, AFFIRMATION
826) Neurotic
828) Nimble
830)
Nocturnal
ANXIOUS, DISTURBED
QUITE
FLOODED
RATIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mentally maladjusted
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, anxious, basket case, bundle of
nerves, choked, clutched, compulsive, deviant, disordered,
disoriented, distraught, disturbed, hysteric, inhibited, manic,
nervous, nervous wreck, obsessive, overwrought, psychoneurotic,
unhealthy, unstable, upset, uptight
Antonyms: adjusted, balanced, sane, RATIONAL
AGILE, SLOW
ACTIVE
SWIFT
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: dexterous, smart
Synonyms: active, adept, adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, clever,
deft, handy, light, lissome, lithe, lively, proficient, prompt, quick,
ready, skillful, sprightly, spry, swift, vigilant.
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, lumbering, SLOW, undexterous,
unhandy
NIGHTY, DAILY
FALLOW
ANNUAL
UNNECESSARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happening at night
Synonyms: after dark, late, night, night-loving, nightly, nighttime
Notes: nocturnal means belonging to or active during the night;
diurnal means belonging to or active during the day
Antonym: DAILY
832) Nominal
834)
Nonchalant
836) Notion
HUGE, CLEAR
REAL
SOLID
IGNORABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: supposed, theoretical
Synonyms: alleged, apparent, as advertised, formal, given,
honorary, mentioned, named, ostensible, pretended, professed,
puppet, purported, seeming, simple, stated, suggested.
Notes: nominal means insignificantly small; minimal means the
least possible or smallest in amount and degree Ant: actual, real,
HUGE
EXCITED
COOL, EXCLAIM
LOUD
TYPICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: easygoing, laid back
Syn: airy, aloof, apathetic, calm, careless, casual, cold, collected,
composed, cool, detached, disimpassioned, disinterested,
dispassionate, easy, effortless, happy, impassive, imperturbable,
incurious, indifferent, mellow, neglectful, negligent, neutral,
offhand, placid, serene, smooth.
Antonyms: intense, jumpy, nervous, EXCITED
BELIEF, STINGY
MISAPPREHENSION
FATE
CONCEPT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, idea
Synonyms: angle, apprehension, approach, assumption, awareness,
clue, comprehension, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness,
consideration, cue, discernment, flash, image, imagination,
impression, inclination, indication, inkling, insight, intellection,
intimation, intuition, Antonym: MISAPPREHENSION
838) Novel
840) Noxious
842) Nurture
TRADITIONAL
CUSTOMARY, OLD
ANCIENT
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: new, original
Synonyms: atypical, breaking new ground, contemporary,
different, far cry, fresh, innovative, modernistic, neoteric,
newfangled, odd, offbeat, peculiar, rare, recent, singular, strange,
uncommon, unfamiliar, unique, unusual
Antonyms: common, customary, familiar, old, ordinary, overused,
used, usual, TRADITIONAL
NASAL
NEXUS, NOTARY
SANITARY
SNEEZING
Definition: deadly, injurious
Syn: baneful, corrupting, dangerous, deleterious, destructive,
detrimental, fetid, foul, harmful, hurtful, insalubrious, insalutary,
noisome,
Notes: noxious means injurious to physical or mental health;
obnoxious means very offensive, objectionable, or unpleasant
Antonyms: curing, good, healthy, helpful, hygienic, pure, sterile,
wholesome, SANITARY
NOURISH
FOSTER
NEGLECT, RUIN
SUSTAIN
Part of Speech: noun Def: development, nourishment
Syn: breeding, care, diet, discipline, edibles, education, feed, food,
instruction, nutriment, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands,
victuals
Notes: cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture
means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with
nourishment
Ant: deprivation, ignorance, neglect, NEGLECT
844) Obese
846) Obey
848)
Objurgation
FAT, THIN
OBLIQUE
EXPLODE
OBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very overweight
Synonyms: adipose, avoirdupois, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavy,
outsize, paunchy, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout
Antonyms: emaciated, skinny, underweight, THIN
ATTRACT, DISOBEY
REPEL
DIFFUSE
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: conform, give in
Synonyms: abide by, accede, accept, accord, acquiesce, adhere to,
agree, answer, assent, comply, concur, discharge, embrace, execute,
follow, fulfill, heed, keep, mind, observe, perform, respond, serve,
submit, surrender.
Antonyms: DISOBEY, mutiny, rebel
REBUKE
ELEGY, HATE
PRAISE
DEJECTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: condemnation
Synonyms: accusation, animadversion, arraignment, attack,
attribution, castigation, censure, charge, chiding, complaint,
criticism, denunciation, depreciation, diatribe
Antonyms: applause, commendation, exaltation, exculpation,
exoneration, PRAISE, thanks
850)
Obligatory
852) Oblique
854) Obloquy
COMPULSORY
PROMISE
DEVOTEDLY, CASUAL
OPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: essential, required
Synonyms: binding, coercive, compulsatory, compulsory, de
rigueur, enforced, imperative, imperious, mandatory, necessary,
requisite, unavoidable
Antonyms: nonessential, OPTIONAL, unrequired, voluntary
STRAIGHTFORWARD
INDIRECT, HEIGHT
CLEAR
CONVERTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slanting; at an angle
Synonyms: angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry,
bent, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining,
leaning, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping,
strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping. Antonym:
STRAIGHTFORWARD
HATE, PRAISE
CIRCLE
CURE
COMPULSORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: calumny
Synonyms: abuse, animadversion, aspersion, bad press, censure,
criticism, defamation, disgrace, humiliation, ignominy, insult,
invective, reproach, slander, vituperation
Antonym: PRAISE
856) Obscene
858) Obsess
860) Obsolete
DECENT, INDECENT
LEWD
AFFAIR
VULGAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indecent, offensive, immoral
Syn: atrocious, barnyard, bawdy, coarse, crude, disgusting, evil,
filthy, foul, gross, heinous, hideous, horrible, immodest, improper,
impure, lascivious, lewd, licentious, loathsome, lustful, nasty,
noisome, outrageous, porno, profane
Ant: clean, DECENT, innocent, moral, upright
HAUNT, HARASS
DIVERT
NOTICE
REACH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: preoccupy
Synonyms: beset, consume, dominate, engross, grip, harass, haunt,
hold, infatuate, possess, torment
Antonym: DIVERT
CONDUCTIVE
RARE, USELESS
RECENT
EXTINCT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: no longer in use, in vogue
Syn: anachronistic, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique,
archaic, dated, dead, dinosaur, discarded, disused, done for, dusty,
extinct, fossil, kaput, moldy, outmoded, stale, superannuated
Notes: things that are no longer used are obsolete ;things that are
becoming obsolete are obsolescent
Ant: contemporary, current, modern, RECENT
AGREEING,ACCEPTING
862)
Obstinate
864) Obvious
ACCOMMODATING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: stubborn, determined
Syn: adamant, cantankerous, contradictory, contrary,
contumacious, convinced, dogged, dogmatic, firm, hard, hardened,
immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, mulish,
obdurate, opinionated, opinionative, unflinching, unyielding.
Ant: agreeable, amenable, flexible, YIELDING
OBSCURE
EXPLICIT, PLAIN
CLEAR
EVIDENT
Definition: apparent, understandable
Syn: accessible, barefaced, bright, clear, conclusive, conspicuous,
discernible, distinct, distinguishable, evident, explicit,
exposed,glaring, noticeable, observable, open, overt, palpable,
Notes: oblivious means lacking all memory or lacking active
conscious awareness, while obvious means easily perceived or
understood
Ant: ambiguous, indefinite, OBSCURE, unclear,
MEDIOCRACY
RULE-BY-ONE
NDR
866)
Ochlocracy
YIELDING
STUBBORN
TECHNOCRACY
RULE-BY-MANY
Ant
868) Odious
FAMILIAR, PLEASANT
INSIGNIFICANT
CACOPHONY
DETESTFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hateful, horrible
Syn: abhorrent, abominable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, foul,
hateable, horrid, loathsome, mean, obnoxious, offensive, ornery,
pain in the neck, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting,
unpleasant, vile
Antonyms: agreeable, delightful, great, likeable, loveable, pleasing,
PLEASANT
INTRUSIVE
ALOOF, ALIGHT
870) Officious
872)
Omission
MEDDLESOME
RESPONSIBLE
INSERTION, UNWRAP
SOLEFUL
LUSH
REMOVAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: something forgotten
Syn: blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm,
default, disregard, disregardance, elision, excluding, exclusion,
failing, failure, gap, ignoring, inadvertence, inadvertency, lack,
lapse, missing, neglect, passing over, preclusion, preterition,
prohibition,
Ant: addition, inclusion, INSERTION
874)
Omniscient
876) Onrush
878) Opiate
IGNORANT
INFALLIBLE
EXALTED, ANCIENT
INFORMED
Def: all-knowing
Synonyms: all-seeing, almighty, infinite, knowledgeable,
pansophical, preeminent, wise
Notes: omnipresent means present in all places at the same time;
omniscient means infinitely wise or all-knowing; omnipotent means
having unlimited power
Antonyms: stupid, unknowing, IGNORANT
FLOW, OBSTRUCTION
FORCE
BLOCKED
VIOLENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rush
Synonyms: attack, avalanche, blitz, charge, dash, deluge, flood,
flow, flux, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, onslaught, push,
race, scramble, stampede, storm, stream, surge, swiftness
Antonym: OBSTRUCTION
SLEEPY, DULLNESS
ENERGETIC
DISPARATE
STIMULANT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drug
Synonyms: anodyne, depressant, dope, dormitive, downer,
hypnotic, narcotic, opium, sedative, soporific, tranquilizer
Antonym: STIMULANT
880)
Opportune
882)
Opprobrium
FAVOURABLE
CASUAL, CHOICE
LUCKY
AWKWARD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: advantageous, lucky
Synonyms: appropriate, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable,
felicitous, fit, fitting, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, helpful, pat,
proper, propitious, seasonable, suitable, timely, timeous
Antonyms: disadvantageous, inauspicious, inopportune, unlucky,
unsuitable, AWKWARD
PRAISE, HATRED
LIKING
SHAME
INSULT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disgrace
Synonyms: black eye, blemish, debasement, debasing, degradation,
discredit, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humiliation, ignominy, ill
repute, infamy, obloquy, shame, stain, stigma, tarnish
Antonym: PRAISE
SUBDUE
SUBJUGATE
DEPRESS, CLUTCH
LIBERATE
NRD
884) Opress
886)
Optimum
OPTIMAL, WORST
UTMOST
IDEAL
OPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: best
Synonyms: ace, capital, choice, choicest, excellent, flawless,
greatest, highest, ideal, matchless, maximum, optimal, peak,
peerless, perfect, select, solid gold, superlative
Antonyms: least, poorest, WORST
POVERTY
AFFLUENCY,GOOD LUCK
888)
Opulence
RHAPSODY
CACOEPY, HARPY
NDR
890)
Orthoepy
INTERFERENCE
HINDRANCE
SYMPHONY
HERESY
892)
Ostentatious
894) Outwit
896) Overt
MODEST, BOASTFUL
CENTRE
HEIGHT
DISOBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: flashy, showy
Syn: boastful, classy, conspicuous, dashing, egotistic, exhibitionistic,
extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, flaunted, fussy, garish, gaudy,
gay, glittery, grandiose, highfaluting, jaunty, loud, obtrusive,
peacocky, pompous, pretentious, splashy, tony, uptown, vain, vulgar
Antonyms: MODEST, plain, quiet, reserved
LAUGHT, VICTORY
DEFEAT
WIN
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get the better of; figure out before another
Synonyms: baffle, bewilder, cap, cheat, circumvent, confuse,
deceive, defeat, defraud, dupe, end-run, fake out, finagle, goose,
gull, hoax, hoodwink, mislead, outdo, outfox, outgeneral, outguess,
outjockey, outmaneuver, outthink,
Antonym: DEFEAT
DEEP, SHALLOW
SECRET
UNWRITTEN
OPEN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obvious, unconcealed
Syn: apparent, clear, definite, manifest, observable, open, patent,
plain, public, visible
Notes: covert (concealed, covered, hidden) is the opposite of overt
(apparent, open to view, plain) overt means apparent or open to
view or plain or public; avert means to prevent or turn away
Antonyms: concealed, hidden, private, SECRET
898)
Overwhelm
900) Pageant
SWAMP, TRAVEL
GATHER
REINSTATE
SHATTER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flood, beat physically
Synonyms: bury, conquer, crush, defeat, deluge, destroy, drown,
drub, engulf, inundate, massacre, overcome, overflow, overpower,
overrun, overthrow, rout, smother, submerge, swamp, thrash,
Antonyms: underwhelm, REINSTATE
DISPLAY
FLEXIBLE
DRABNESS, HEAVY
SPECTACLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spectacle or contest
Synonyms: celebration, charade, display, exhibition, exposition,
extravaganza, fair, motorcade, parade, pomp, procession, ritual,
show Antonym: DRABNESS
RIGID, PALE
RUDDY
NO RESULTS
902) Palid
PAL
PALL
904) Palliate
906) Paltry
EXTENUATE
DELICIOUS
AGGRAVATE, BUY
APPEASE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gloss over; cover up
Syn: abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, camouflage, cloak, conceal,
condone, cover, diminish, disguise, dissemble, ease, exculpate,
excuse, extenuate,gloze, hide, justify, lessen, lighten, mask,
minimize, mitigate, moderate, mollify, prettify, relieve.
Antonyms: accuse, blame, condemn, AGGRAVATE
WORTHY, MEAN
PERMEATE
BOON
NEEDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: poor; worthless
Syn: base, beggarly, cheap, common,contemptible, derisory,
despicable, inconsiderable, ineffectual, insignificant, limited, low,
mean, measly, minor, miserable, narrow, petty, piddling, pitiful,
puny, set, shabby, shoddy, slight, small, trashy, trifling, trivial,
unconsequential, unimportant, vile.
Ant: important, rich, significant, WORTHY
OBLIQUITY, CONTRAST
908)
Parallelism
DISPARITY
ACCEPTANCE
DIVERGENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: likeness
Syn: affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogousness, analogy,
appearance, carbon, clone, comparableness, comparison,
conformity, copy, correspondence, counterpart, delineation,
depiction, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form,
guise, identity, image.
Antonym: DIVERGENCE
GENEROUS,HEREDITARY
910)
Parsimonious
912) Patchy
914) Paucity
RELIGIOUS-MINDED
PATRIMONY
SELFISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: penny-pinching
Synonyms: avaricious, chintzy, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean,
miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, scrimpy, selfish, skinflint,
sparing, tightfisted, tightwad
Antonyms: generous, lavish, liberal, GENEROUS
CLEAR, SIMPLE
UNIFORM
ATTRACTIVE
REPAIRED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: spotty, not consistent
Synonyms: erratic, fitful, irregular, random, sketchy, uneven,
variable, varying
Antonyms: consistent, continuous, regular, unspotted, UNIFORM
SURPLUS, SCARCITY
PRESENCE
RICHNESS
DEARTH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lack, scarcity
Synonyms: absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness,
insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity,
scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness,
sparseness, sparsity
Antonyms: abundance, affluence, plenty, SURPLUS
916) Pedigree
918)
Pejorative
920)
Penchant
ILLEGITIMACY
LINEAGE
REFINE, CONSPIRE
BLOODLINE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: purebred
Synonyms: full-blooded, pedigreed, pure-blood, thoroughbred
Antonyms: base-born, lowly, ILLEGITIMACY
CRITICAL
DOWNGRADED
DECORATED
MELIORATE,MILITANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: negative, belittling
Synonyms: debasing, deprecatory, depreciatory, derisive,
derogatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, disadvantageous,
disparaging, irreverent, rude, slighting, uncomplimentary,
unpleasant
Ant: complimentary, positive, DECORATED
LIKING, AFFINITY
ATTACHMENT
IMMEDIATE
DISLIKE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fondness, inclination
Synonyms: affection, affinity, attachment, bias, disposition,
druthers, inclining, itch, leaning, liking, partiality, predilection,
predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, taste, tendency, tilt,
weakness, yen
Antonyms: DISLIKE, hate, hatred, indifference
922) Penury
AFFLUENCE
DELICACY
PAUPER,DEGENERATE
POVERTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: poverty
Synonyms: barrenness, dearth, destitution, indigence, insufficiency,
need, privation, scantiness
Antonyms: AFFLUENCE, wealth
PRE-GREEK
POST-GREEK
LUNAR, APHELION
ANTI-HELLENIST
NO RESULTS
924)
Perihelion
926)
Perennial
PIERCING
PERMANENT
PREJUDICED
SEVERE, SEASONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: enduring, perpetual
Syn: abiding, annual, ceaseless, chronic, constant, continual,
continuing, deathless, durable, eternal, everlasting, immortal,
imperishable, incessant, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, longstanding,
old, perdurable, permanent, persistent, recurrent, seasonal,
sustained, unceasing, unchanging.
Antonyms: changing, intermittent, SEASONAL
928)
Pernicious
930) Perilous
932)
Permeable
INNOCUOUS
HEALTHY
HYGIENIC, FINE
FEEBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, hurtful
Synonyms: baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious,
destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous,
injurious, killing, lethal, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign,
malignant, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, noisome, noxious, offensive,
pestiferous, pestilent
Ant: helpful, innocuous, kind, lovable, HEALTHY
HAZARDOUS
DANGEROUS
SACRED, SECURE
RISKY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous
Synonyms: chancy, delicate, dicey, dynamite, exposed, hazardous,
insecure, loaded, on thin ice, playing with fire, precarious, risky,
rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touchy, treacherous, uncertain,
unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable,
Antonyms: ok, safe, SECURE
IMPENETRABLE
PERVADE
TRANSFERABLE
DELICATE,PROMISING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: absorbent, penetrable
Synonyms: absorptive, accessible, enterable, passable, pervious,
porose, porous, spongelike, spongy
Antonyms: IMPENETRABLE, unpermeable
934)
Pernicious
DEADLY
DELETERIOUS
LETHAL, DANGEROUS
HARMLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, hurtful
Synonyms: baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious,
destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous,
injurious, killing, lethal, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign,
malignant, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, nefarious, sinister, toxic,
venomous, virulent, wicked
Ant: helpful, innocuous, lovable, HARMLESS
DULL-WITTED
LUCID, PENETRATING
NO RESULTS
SHARP-WITTED
BRIGHT
936)
Perspicatious
938)
Persuasive
CONVINCING
LOGICAL
DISAGREEABLE
FORCEFUL, DUBIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: effective, influential
Syn: actuating, alluring, cogent, compelling, conclusive, convictive,
convincing, credible, effectual, efficacious, efficient,
eloquent,energetic, enticing, forceful, forcible, impelling, impressive,
inducing, inspiring, inveigling, logical
Antonyms: dampening, discouraging, disheartening, dissuasive,
ineffective, DUBIOUS
940)
Pertinacious
942)
Pessimist
944)
Philistine
SUPERFICIAL
ESSENTIAL
REVENGEFUL
HOSTILE, EXPERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: resolute
Synonyms: attentive, determined, dogged, persistent, tenacious
Antonym: SUPERFICIAL
PERILOUS
HOPEFUL
CYNICAL, DEPRESSED
SUPPRESSED
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who expects bad outcome
Synonyms: complainer, crepehanger, cynic, defeatist, depreciator,
downer, gloomy, killjoy, misanthrope, party pooper, sourpuss, wet
blanket, worrier.
Antonyms: optimist, HOPEFUL
WEST ASIAN
BRIGHTEN
CULTURED, LOVER
SPARING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: coarse
Syn: barbarian, barbaric, base, bawdy, boorish, brutish, cheap,
churlish, common, crass, crude, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, immodest,
impolite, improper, impure, incult, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, low,
lowbred, mean, nasty, obscene, offensive, raffish, raw, ribald, rough,
roughneck. Antonym: CULTURED
946) Piquant
948) Platonic
950) Pliant
SHARP, POIGNANT
INSIPID
QUESTIONING
WITTY
Part of Speech: adjective Def: flavorful, biting
Syn: interesting, lively, peppery, poignant, provocative, pungent,
racy, savory, sharp, snappy, sparkling, spicy, spirited, stimulating,
stinging,
Notes: having a sharp taste is pungent and having a pleasingly
sharp taste is piquant ; pungent first meant 'keenly painful or
distressing'
Antonyms: bland, dull, INSIPID
SENTUAL, LUNATIC
COURAGEOUS
EXCITED
MORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: expressing nonphysical love
Synonyms: ideal, idealistic, intellectual, quixotic, spiritual,
transcendent, visionary
Antonyms: physical, SENTUAL
RIGID, GENEROUS
TIMID
LONELY
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: yielding under influence
Synonyms: compliant, docile, obedient, pliable, tractable, yielding
Antonym: RIGID
952) Poltroon
954)
Ponderous
956) PostScript
HERO, REGIMENT
CANVAS
CLOTH
BOX
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chicken
Synonyms: coward, craven, dastard, milksop, varlet, weakling,
yellowbelly
Antonym: HERO
SIMPLE
THOUGHTLESS
EMPTY, LIGHT
DIFFICULT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: heavy, cumbersome
Synonyms: awkward, bulky, burdensome, clumsy, cumbrous, dull,
graceless, hefty, huge, laborious, lifeless, lumbering, massive,
onerous, oppressive, substantial, troublesome, unhandy, unwieldy,
weighty
Antonyms: airy, buoyant, delicate, light, unburdensome, SIMPLE
INTRODUCTION
LEARNER, DELAYED
SALUTATION
PRE-DAWN
ddddddd
958) Precede
ADVANCE, FOLLOW
LEAVE
RETURN
CONCEAL
Definition: go ahead of
Syn: antecede, antedate, anticipate, forerun, foreshadow, guide,
harbinger, head, herald, introduce, lead, light the way, outrank,
pace, pave the way, pioneer, predate, preexist, preface,
Antonyms: FOLLOW, go after
960) Preclude
962)
Predicament
ADMIT, HINDER
DEBAR
CASUAL
DISAGREE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inhibit; make impossible
Synonyms: avert, cease, check, debar, deter, discontinue, exclude,
forestall, forfend, hinder, impede, interrupt, make impracticable,
obviate, prevent, prohibit, quit, restrain, stop, ward
Antonyms: allow, permit, support, ADMIT
FIRMNESS
CONFIDENCE
COMFORT,CERTAINTY
DILEMMA
Part of Speech: noun
Def: difficult situation
Syn: asperity, circumstance, clutch, condition, crisis, deadlock,
dilemma, emergency, exigency, hardship, hole, hot water, imbroglio,
impasse, juncture, large order, lot, muddle, pass,perplexity, pickle,
pinch, plight, position, posture, puzzle.
Antonyms: fix, good fortune, solution, COMFORT
964)
Preeminent
966)
Prejudice
SUPERIOR,DOMINANT
PEERLESS
FOREMOST
INFERIOR
Part of Speech: adjective Def: most important; superior
Syn: capital, chief, consummate, distinguished, dominant, excellent,
foremost, incomparable, main, major, matchless, outstanding,
paramount, peerless, predominant, principal, renowned, stellar,
supreme, surpassing, towering, transcendent, ultimate, unequalled,
unmatchable.
Antonyms: inferior, low, INFERIOR, unknown
BIAS, BIGOTRY
PREDISPOSE
SWAY
OBJECTIVITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief without basis, information; intolerance
Syn: ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion,
bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment,
discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity
Antonyms: fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance,
OBJECTIVITY
FORETHOUGHT
UNINTENTIONAL
DELIBERATE
NDR
PROFOUND,INTRODUCTION
968) Prepense
970) Presage
972)
Pretentious
974) Pride
INDICATION, BENEFIT
FULFILMENT
RASH
SHORTAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: prediction, indication
Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice,
bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger,
intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion,
presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning
Antonym: FULFILMENT
SHOWINESS,IMMORAL
UNREASONABLE
UNASSURING
UNASSUMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: snobbish, conceited
Synonyms: affected, arty, assuming, aureate, bombastic,
conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned,
flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, magniloquent,
mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous,
rhetorical, showy, specious
Antonyms: humble, modest, UNASSUMING
HUMBLENESS
HUMILITY
DARING, SHAME
DELIGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: self-esteem
Synonyms: delight, dignity, ego, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face,
gratification, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, pridefulness, repletion,
satisfaction, sufficiency
Antonyms: HUMILITY
976) Primeval
978) Pristine
980)
Proclivity
PRIMITIVE, MODERN
PREHISTORIC
TREMENDOUS
ZENITH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ancient
Synonyms: earliest, early, first, old, original, prehistoric, primal,
primary, primitive, primordial, pristine
Antonyms: MODERN, new
PURE, UNSPOILED
PEAK
RELIGIOUS
CULTIVATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clean, pure; primeval
Synonyms: earliest, early, first, immaculate, intact, natural,
original, primal, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless,
stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, uncorrupted,
undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied,
untainted, untarnished.
Antonym: CULTIVATED
FAVOURITISM
JOINING
INSULT, ACCLIVITY
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inclination, tendency
Synonyms: bias, cup of tea, disposition, druthers, facility, inclining,
leaning, liableness, penchant, predilection, predisposition,
proneness, propensity, thing for, type, weakness
Antonyms: disinclination, ACCLIVITY
982) Prodigal
984) Profane
986)
Progressive
FRUGAL, RECKLESS
PREFACE
HASTY
SENSATIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wasteful
Synonyms: dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate,
improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift,
squandering, wanton
Antonyms: careful, thrifty, FRUGAL
RESPECTFUL
PIOUS, DARING
HOLY
OBSCENE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion
Syn: abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, foul, godless, heathen,
idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent,
irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory,
raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty.
Antonyms: clean, moral, sacred, PIOUS
ADVANCING
REGRESSIVE
SEPARATING
HEADING, COMPANY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:liberal; growing
Synonyms: accelerating, advanced, advancing, broad, continuing,
continuous, developing, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising,
escalating, gradual, graduated, increasing, intensifying, lenient,
modern, ongoing, onward, radical
Antonyms: conservative, moderate, REGRESSIVE
988) Prolific
990) Prolix
992) Prompt
BARREN
PRODUCTIVE
CREATIVE, FERTILE
USELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fruitful, productive
Synonyms: abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious,
creative, fecund, fertile, generating, generative, luxuriant, profuse,
proliferant, rank, reproducing, reproductive, rich, spawning,
swarming, teeming, yielding
Ant: barren, fruitless, impotent, BARREN
FOOLISH, PITHY
LUCID
CALLOUS
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy
Synonyms: diffuse, lengthy, rambling, tedious, verbose
Antonym: PITHY
STIMULATE, ASSIST
DEFEND
INSTANT
DISSUADE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: early, responsive
Synonyms: alert, apt, brisk, eager, efficient, expeditious, immediate,
instant, instantaneous, on time, precise, punctual, quick, rapid,
ready, smart, speedy, swift, timely, unhesitating, vigilant, watchful,
willing
Antonyms: late, negligent, slow, tardy, DISSUADE
FORTUNE,REMOTENESS
994)
Propinquity
996)
Proponent
998)
Proselyte
CLOSENESS
DIVERSITY
ASSOCIATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proximity
Synonyms: adjacency, closeness, contiguity, nearness
Antonym: REMOTENESS
COMPOUND
INGREDIENT
EXPONENT,ESSENTIAL
OPPONENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who advocates, supports cause
Synonyms: advocate, backer, champion, defender, enthusiast,
exponent, expounder, friend, partisan, patron, protector, second,
seconder, spokesperson, subscriber, supporter, upholder, vindicator
Antonyms: enemy, foe, OPPONENT
DULL, TRANSLATE
FAVOUR
HEIGHTEN
RENEGADE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: convert
Synonyms: disciple, follower, neophyte
Antonym:
RENEGADE
1000) Protg
CORTEGE
PRODUCING, PATRON
CARNAGE
PROTOTYPE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dependent, pupil
Synonyms: apprentice, charge, discovery, star student, student,
ward
Notes:prodigy refers to a person with exceptional talents, protg
is a male who is guided or helped by someone, and protge is the
female version Antonym: PATRON
1002)
Protract
PROLONG
DEFEND
EXTENT, RELEASE
SHORTEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: extend, draw out
Synonyms: continue, cool*, defer, delay, drag on, drag out, draw,
elongate, hold off, hold up, keep going, lengthen, pad, postpone,
procrastinate, prolong, prolongate, put off, put on hold, spin out,
stall, stretch, stretch out
Antonyms: abbreviate, curtail
1004)
Provident
DISTANT, RETIRED
FORESIGHTED
RASH
RELAX
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, frugal
Synonyms: canny, cautious, discreet, economical, expedient, farsighted, foresighted, judicious, penny-pinching, politic, prepared,
prudent, sagacious, saving, shrewd, sparing, thrifty, tight,
unwasteful, vigilant, well-prepared, wise
Antonyms: careless, improvident, spendthrift, wasteful
1006)
Provocation
1008)
Prudent
1010)
Psychotic
DESTRUCTION
PEACE,PACIFICATION
VOCATION
INCITEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: incitement, stimulus
Synonyms: affront, annoyance, bothering, brickbat, casus belli,
cause, challenge, dare, defy, grabber, grievance, grounds,
harassment, incentive, indignity, inducement, injury, instigation,
insult, irking, justification, motivation, offense, provoking, reason,
taunt, vexation, vexing
Antonyms: prevention, repression, suppression
CAUTIOUS
FRUGAL, THRIFTY
EXTRAVAGANT
COOL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wise, sensible in action and thought
Synonyms: advisable, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect,
discerning, discreet, economical, far-sighted, frugal, hedging one's
bets, judgmatic, judicious, leery, playing safe, politic, provident,
reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, shrewd, sound, sparing,
tactical, thinking twice, thrifty, vigilant, wary
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound
judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in
speech, conduct or dress
SANE, MENTAL
SPIRITUAL
Antonyms:
careless, imprudent, incautious,
unwise
HUMANE
BRUTAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mentally deranged
Synonyms: certifiable, crazy, demented, distracted, flipped-out,
insane, lunatic, mad, manic-depressive, mental, non compos mentis,
nuts, off one's rocker, over the edge, psycho, psychopathic,
schizophrenic, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
1012) Puerile
1014)
Puissant
MOANING
PANTING, RIFE
MATURE
CHILDISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: childish
Synonyms: babyish, babylike, callow, foolish, green*, immature,
inane, inexperienced, infantile, irresponsible, jejune, juvenile, naive,
petty, ridiculous, silly, trivial, unfledged, ungrown, weak, young
Antonyms: adult, mature
HEALTHY
INDIFFERENT
WEAK, STRONG
PATIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strong
Synonyms: able, able-bodied, active, athletic, big*, capable,
durable, enduring, energetic, firm, fixed, forceful, forcible, hale,
hard as nails, hardy, hearty*, heavy*, heavy-duty, in fine feather,
mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, reinforced, robust, rugged,
secure, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stark, staunch, steady,
stout, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough*, unyielding,
vigorous, well-built, well-founded, well-made
PUNCTUAL,PUNCTURED
1016)
Punctilious
CARELESS
POINTED
METICULOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, finicky
Synonyms: ceremonious, conscientious, conscionable, conventional,
exact, formal, formalistic, fussy, good eye, heedful, meticulous, nice,
observant, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking,
particular, persnickety, precise, proper, punctual, right on,
scrupulous, strict
Antonyms: careless, easy-going, informal, uncaring
1018)
Punitive
1020)
Pusillanimou
s
REWARDING
PUNISHING
HARSH, CORRECTIVE
WITTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerning punishment
Synonyms: castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in
retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory,
revengeful, vindictive
Notes: penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means
'serving to punish'
Antonyms: beneficial, rewarding
TIMID, COURAGEOUS
SHARP
POOR
INTELLIGENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: afraid, chicken, cowardly, gutless, tame, timid, timorous
FORMAL
REMARKABLE, DISPUTED
1022)
Putative
COMPROMISED
UNDISPUTED
1024) Quaint
1026) Quaver
1028) Quell
ORDINARY, USUAL
CASUAL
INFORMAL
CHARMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strange, odd
Synonyms: bizarre, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, fanciful,
fantastic, freakish, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, laughable, oddball,
off the beaten track, offbeat, original, outlandish, peculiar, queer,
singular, special, unusual, weird*, whimsical
Antonyms: common, conventional, regular, usual
URGE, STEADY
SHAKY
CUDDLE
SWIFT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sway
Synonyms: falter, note, oscillate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver,
shudder, tremble, tremor, trill, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble
PRAISE
RECOMMEND
INCITE, CONTRACT
SUPPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defeat, suppress
Synonyms: annihilate, conquer, crush, extinguish, hush up, kill,
overcome, overpower, put down, put the lid on, queer, quench, shut
down, silence, sit on, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, subjugate,
vanquish
Antonyms: succeed, win
1030)
Quiescence
1032) Quiver
1034) Raffish
TRANQUILLITY
REPOSE, CALM
TURBULENCE
VITALITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: repose
Synonyms: calm, dormancy, inaction, inactivity, quiet, rest
REST, QUAKE
VIBRATE
DELAY
TREMBLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shaking, vibration
Synonyms: convulsion, flash, glimmer, glitter, oscillation,
palpitation, pulsation, shake, shimmer, shiver, shudder, sparkle,
spasm, throb, tic, tremble, tremor, twinkle
Antonyms: quiet, stillness
REPUTABLE
COMMONER
RIGHT, WASTEFUL
SWEET
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unmindful of social conventions
Synonyms: bohemian*, careless, casual, coarse, dashing, devil-maycare, disreputable, fast*, gay, jaunty, rakish, sporty, tasteless,
tawdry, unconventional, uncouth, vulgar, wild
Antonyms: behaved, couth, proper
1036) Rancor
1038) Rear
FARM, AFFECTION
LOUD
FLAY
HEAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bitterness, hatefulness
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism,
antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bile, dudgeon, enmity, grudge,
hardness of heart, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill
will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness,
resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite,
spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness,
variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence
Antonyms: kindness, love, respect, sympathy
FRONT, FOREGROUND
FOREHEAD
FORWARD
BACKWARD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: back, end
Synonyms: aft, after, astern, backward, behind, dorsal, following,
hind, hinder, hindermost, hindmost, last, mizzen, posterior, postern,
rearmost, rearward, retral, reverse, stern, tail
Notes: one rears children and raises crops
Antonyms: beginning, front
REFORMED
BACK-SLIDING
DIVISION,RECIPROCATION
RECITATION
NDR
1040)
Recidivist
EXPOSED,CONDITIONAL
1042)
Recondite
1044) Rectify
1046)
Refractory
REFORM
SIMPLE
REFORMULATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, academic, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic,
concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, esoteric, hard, heavy*,
hermetic, hidden, involved, little-known, mystic, mystical, occult,
orphic, pedantic, profound, scholarly, secret
Antonyms: obvious, plain, simple, straightforward
CORRECT, FALSIFY
CONFUSE
MODIFY
AMEND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: correct a situation; make something right
Synonyms: adjust, amend, clean up, clean up act, debug, dial back,
doctor, emend, fix, fix up, go over, improve, launder, make good,
make up for, mend, pay one's dues, pick up, put right, recalibrate,
redress, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, scrub, shape up,
square, straighten out, straighten up, turn things around
Antonyms: damage, ruin, worsen
PERMEABLE
PASSABLE
REFRACTION
MANAGEABLE,WHOLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stubborn
Synonyms: disobedient, headstrong, mulish, obstinate,
unmanageable, unruly
1048)
Regenerate
1050)
Relegate
1052)
Reminisce
REVIVE, RENOVATE
DISSIPATE
STUFFED
PASSIONATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: breathe new life into
Synonyms: change, exhilarate, inspirit, invigorate, produce, raise
from the dead, reanimate, reawaken, reconstruct, recreate,
reestablish, refresh, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, renew, renovate,
reproduce, restore, revive, revivify, uplift
Antonyms: destroy, kill, ruin
PROMOTE, DEMOTE
RETROGRESS
TOIL
RELAY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: assign, transfer
Synonyms: accredit, charge, commend, commit, confide, consign,
credit, delegate, entrust, hand over, pass on, refer, turn over
Notes: as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to
represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or
authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for
decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in rank
Antonyms: assume, hold, keep
REMIND, RETRACE
FORGET
CURTAIL
REMAKE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go over in one's memory
Synonyms: bethink, call up, cite, hark back, live in the past, look
back, mind, muse over, recall, recollect, remember, remind, retain,
retrospect, review, revive, think back
Antonyms: forget, repress
1054)
Renegade
1056) Replete
1058)
Reprimand
NEGATE, NOVICE
RENEWAL
GOAD
LOYAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rebellious
Synonyms: apostate, backsliding, disloyal, dissident, heterodox,
mutinous, outlaw, radical, reactionary, rebel, recreant,
revolutionary, runaway, schismatic, traitorous, unfaithful,
untraditional
Antonyms: obedient, passive, submissive
REPEAT, PET
REPEL
ATTRACT
EMPTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: full, well-stocked
Synonyms: abounding, abundant, alive, awash, brimful, brimming,
charged, chock-full, complete, crammed, crowded, filled, full up,
glutted, gorged, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, loaded, luxurious,
overfed, overflowing, packed, plenteous, rife, sated, satiated, stuffed,
swarming, teeming, thronged, well-provided
Antonyms: empty, needy, wanting
ENCOURAGE
RECOMMEND
RELEASE, PRAISE
REPROACH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: oral punishment
Synonyms: admonishment, admonition, bawling out, blame, calling
down, castigation, censure, chiding, comeuppance, dressing-down,
going over, grooming, hard time, lecture, piece of one's mind,
ragging, rap, rebuke, reprehension, reproof, scolding, slap on wrist,
talking-to, telling-off, tongue-lashing, what for
Antonyms: forgiveness, praise, reward
1060) Repose
1062)
Repugnant
1064)
Resident
COMPOSE, REST
AGITATE
DEPOSE
OPPOSE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: restfulness; calm
Synonyms: ease, inaction, inactivity, leisure, peace, quiet, quietness,
quietude, refreshment, relaxation, relaxing, renewal, requiescence,
respite, rest, restoration, sleep, slumber, stillness, tranquillity
Antonyms: agitation, disturbance, upset, worry
LIKING, LOVING
CARING
PLEASING
REPULSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, obnoxious; hostile
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, adverse, against, alien,
antagonistic, antipathetic, averse, conflicting, contradictory,
counter, creepy*, different, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful,
extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, foul, hateful, horrid, in opposition,
incompatible, inconsistent, inconsonant, inimical, invidious,
loathsome, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, odious,
offensive, opposed, opposite, repellent, revolting, revulsive,
sickening, unconformable, unfitted, unfriendly, vile
Antonyms: friendly, good, nice, pleasant
DWELLER, NATIVE
PUNCTUAL
PERMANENT
TRANSITORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person living in a particular place
Synonyms: citizen, denizen, dweller, habitant, householder,
indweller, inhabitant, inmate, liver, local, lodger, native, occupant,
resider, squatter, suburbanite, tenant, urbanite
1066) Respite
1068)
Restoration
1070) Retain
BREAK
CONTINUATION
PAUSE, INGREDIENT
RELAXATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pause, suspension in activity
Synonyms: acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather,
breathing space, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay,
deliverance, discharge, downtime, ease, exculpation, five,
forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interregnum,
interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup, lull, moratorium,
pardon, postponement, protraction, recess, relaxation, release,
relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten, time, time out, truce
Antonyms: continuation
LEXICON, BALM
HOARDING
DEPREDATION
ERADICATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the act of restoring
Synonyms: alteration, cure, healing, rebuilding, reclamation,
recovery, reestablishment, reformation, rehabilitation, rejuvenation,
remaking, remodeling, renewal, renovation, return, revival
REJECT, REFUSE
SPARE
RENOUNCE
REJECT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold on to physically or mentally
Synonyms: absorb, bear in mind, cling to, clutch, contain, detain,
enjoy, grasp, hand onto, have, hold, hold fast, husband, keep, keep
in mind, keep possession, maintain, memorize, mind, own, possess,
preserve, put away, recall, recognize, recollect, remember,
reminisce, reserve, restrain, retrospect, save, withhold
Antonyms: free, let go, lose, release, spend
1072)
Reticent
1074)
Retrograde
1076)
Reverberate
DISCRETION
FRANKNESS, REPORT
ORDER
RESERVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secretive, quiet
Synonyms: bashful, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, dried up,
dummied up, hesitant, mum, reserved, restrained, shy, silent,
taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, unforthcoming,
unspeaking, uptight*
Antonyms: communicative, forward, unrestrained
DECLINING
REDUCED, WITHERED
INSULTING
PROGRESSING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reverting
Synonyms: backward, catabolic, contrary, declining, deteriorating,
inverse, inverted, lapsing, receding, reversed, sinking, slipping,
worsening
Antonyms: forward, positive
RESOUND, ECHO
EARNEST
SILENCE
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: vibrate in sound
Synonyms: echo, react, rebound, recoil, redound, reecho, resound,
ring
Antonyms: quieten
1078) Reverie
1080) Rife
1082) Robust
DAY-DREAMING
ABSTRACTION
CANCEL, ALERTNESS
MUSING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daydream
Synonyms: absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castlebuilding, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess,
dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention,
meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe
dream, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering
Antonyms: nightmare
RAMPANT
COMMON, CASUAL
DIRECT
SCANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overflowing
Synonyms: abounding, abundant, alive, common, current,
epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous,
numerous, pandemic, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent,
profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, swarming,
teeming, thronged, ubiquitous, universal, widespread
Antonyms: low, scarce
IDOLIZE
LOWER PART
AUTOMATIC, WEAK
RESTORED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy, strong
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, booming, brawny,
built, concentrated, fit, fit as fiddle, flourishing, full-bodied, hale,
hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, in fine fettle, in good health, in good
shape, in the pink, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful,
powerhouse, prospering, prosperous, roaring, robustious,
robustuous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping,
sturdy, thriving, tiger, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zappy,
zippy
Antonyms: flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak
1084) Rotund
1086) Rout
1088)
Rubicund
REMAINING, GIRTH
CRAMMED
ANGULAR
EXCOMMUNICATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fat
Synonyms: beefy, big, broad, burly, chunky, dumpy, elephantine,
fleshy, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, obese, overweight, plump,
plumpish, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, round, solid, stout, tubby,
weighty
FAILURE, DEFEAT
SUCCESS
DISEASE
DECAY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overwhelming defeat
Synonyms: beating, clobbering, comedown, confusion, debacle,
disaster, drubbing, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow,
retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, shutout, thrashing, trashing, upset,
vanquishment, walkover, washout, waxing, whipping
Notes: a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming
defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks
buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the
form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an
WANTED,
established DANGEROUS
line of travel or access -INDICATIVE
or a road, course, or way for
PALLID
travel
from one place to another DETESTFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flushed
Synonyms: colored, florid, healthy, red, reddish, rosy, rubescent,
ruddy
1090)
Rudeness
1092) Rueful
1094) Rustic
INCIVILITY
AFFILIATION
CRUDENESS
HOSTILITY,COURTESY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impoliteness
Synonyms: acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity,
bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness,
crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery,
grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence,
intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness,
shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness,
unmannerliness, vulgarity
CONTENT, DOLEFUL
AMBITIOUS
ACTIVE
PASSIONATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: regretful
Synonyms: apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, mournful,
remorseful, repentant, sad, sorrowful, sorry
RURAL, FARM
COUNTRY
BACKWARD
URBAN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: country, rural
Synonyms: Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, artless, austere,
bucolic, countrified, homely, homespun, homey, honest, natural,
outland, pastoral, picturesque, plain, primitive, provincial, simple,
sylvan, unaffected, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, verdant
Antonyms: city, metropolitan, suburban, urban
1096)
Sacerdotal
1098)
Sacrosanct
1100) Sag
FRANK
LAYMAN, REGION
RELIGIOUS-MINDED
PRIESTLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: religious
Synonyms: apostolic, clerical, ministerial, priestly, sacred
SACRED
HALLOWED
DIVINE, UNHOLY
TRANSPARENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sacred
Synonyms: blessed, consecrated, divine, godly, hallowed, holy,
pious, pure, religious, revered, sacramental, saintly, sanctified,
spiritual, unprofane, venerated
SINK, DROP
RISE
DROOP
HIGH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drop, decline
Synonyms: basin, cant, concavity, depression, dip, distortion,
downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, droop, fall, fall-off,
hollow, list, settling, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinking, slant, slip,
slump, tilt
Antonyms: increase, rise
1102) Sage
ROGUE, FOOL
EGOIST
SNUB
EXPERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wise
Synonyms: astute, aware, careful, clever, contemplative, cunning,
discerning, educated, enlightened, experienced, foresighted,
informed, insightful, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, knowing,
knowledgeable, learned, perceptive, reflective, sagacious, sapient,
scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sound, thoughtful,
understanding
EXPERIENCED PERSON
1104) SaladDays
1106) Sallow
MORNING
HARVESTING TIME
MONDAY-TUESDAY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: best time of life
Synonyms: bloom, flower of life, heyday of youth, prime of life,
school days, springtime of life, tender age, younger days, youth
SICKLY
PALLID, WAN
RUDDY
DEEP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pale, unhealthy
Synonyms: anemic, ashen, ashy, bilious, colorless, dull, greenishyellow, jaundiced, muddy, pallid, pasty, wan, waxy, yellowish
Antonyms: colorful, dark, flushed, healthy
1108)
Salubrious
1110) Sanctify
1112)
Sanguine
BITTER, CHRONIC
RECOVERY
CUNNIG
MIASMIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: health-giving
Synonyms: beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic,
invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome
Notes: salacious means characterized by lust or suggestive of or
tending to moral looseness, while salubrious means favorable to
health or promoting health
Antonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome
VENERATE
POLLUTE
PATRONIZE, CLEANSE
PURIFY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold in highest esteem
Synonyms: absolve, anoint, bless, cleanse, consecrate, dedicate,
deify, enshrine, glorify, hallow, purify, set apart, worship
Antonyms: desecrate, dishonor, disrespect
OPTIMISTIC, HOPEFUL
PESSIMISTIC
SECLUDE
PRAISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy; optimistic
Synonyms: animated, assured, buoyant, cheerful, confident,
enthusiastic, expectant, hopeful, lively, positive, secure, self-assured,
self-confident, spirited, undoubtful, upbeat
Notes: sanguinary means accompanied by bloodshed or eagerness
to resort to violence and bloodshed, while sanguine means
confidently optimistic and cheerful or inclined to a healthy reddish
color
Antonyms: depressed, pessimistic, sad, unhappy
1114)
Sardonic
1116) Scanty
1118) Schism
SWEET, NASTY
BITTER
AGREEABLE
CONTEMPTUOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sarcastic
Synonyms: acerbic, arrogant, biting, bitter, carping, caustic,
cynical, derisive, disrespectful, evil, irascible, mean, mocking,
mordant, nasty, offensive, salty, satirical, scorching, scornful, sharp,
smart-alecky, sneering, taunting, wise*
Notes: sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while
sardonic means 'bitterly scornful, cynically disdainful'
SKIMPY
PLENTIFUL
SPARSE, UGLY
INADEQUATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inadequate
Synonyms: bare, barely sufficient, close, deficient, exiguous, failing,
insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare,
restricted, scant, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare,
sparing, sparse, stingy, thin, tight, wanting
Notes: scanty means barely adequate or sufficient; scant means
less than the correct or full amount; skimpy means containing little
excess
Antonyms: abundant, ample, plentiful
TOGETHER, UNION
SCATTERED
JOINTLY
ALLIANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: separation
Synonyms: alienation, break, breakup, difference, disagreement,
discord, dissension, disunion, division, divorce, faction, fissure,
fracture, gap, parting, rift, rupture, secession, splinter group, split
1120) Scold
1122) Scream
1124)
Scurrilous
PRAISE, REJECT
ENAMOUR
REBUKE
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: find fault with
Synonyms: abuse, admonish, asperse, berate, blame, castigate,
cavil, censure, chasten, chide, criticize, denounce, disparage, dress
down, expostulate, give a talking-to, jump on, keep aft, lay down the
law, lecture, light into, nag, objurate, preach, put down, rail, rake
over the coals, rate, ream, rebuke, recriminate, reprimand,
reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, take to task, taunt, tell off,
upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, flatter, praise
CRY, GIGGLE
WAIL
SEDIMENT
CREEP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outcry
Synonyms: cry, high-pitched shout, holler*, howl, screech, shriek,
wail, yell, yelp
DECENT, SAVAGE
DESCENT
VOLATILE
DASHING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foul-mouthed, vulgar
Synonyms: abusive, coarse, contumelious, defamatory, dirty, filthy,
foul, gross, indecent, infamous, insulting, invective, lewd, low, nasty,
obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, raunchy,
ribald, salacious, scabrous, scandalous, shameless, slanderous,
smutty, truculent, vituperative, vituperatory, vituperous
Antonyms: clean, polite, upright
1126) Sedate
1128)
Sedulous
1130) Senile
SEDENTARY
SEDITION, MOROSE
FRENETIC
SATIRE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: calm, collected
Synonyms: cold sober, composed, cool, cool as cucumber, decorous,
deliberate, demure, dignified, dispassionate, earnest, grave,
imperturbable, laid-back*, no-nonsense, placid, proper, quiet,
seemly, serene, serious, sober, solemn, somber, staid, steady,
tranquil, unflappable, unruffled
Antonyms: agitated, excitable, excited, lively, upset
PERSEVERING
DELIBERATE
PIOUS, WRONG
INDOLENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: assiduous
Synonyms: active, busy, determined, diligent, hard-working,
industrious, laborious, persevering, plugging, tireless
SNAKY, WORM
DOWNCAST
JUVENILE
RIDE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: failing in physical and mental capabilities due to old
age
Synonyms: aged, ancient, anile, decrepit, doddering, doting,
enfeebled, feeble, imbecile, in second childhood, infirm, old,
senescent, shattered, sick, weak
Antonyms: alert, well, young
1132)
Sententious
1134) Shallow
1136) Shrill
SYNTAX
STRIDENT, STERN
PROLIX
LAXITY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compact
Synonyms: aphoristic, concise, pithy, pointed
HIGH, HIDDEN
DEEP
HOLLOW
TRIVIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not deep
Synonyms: cursory, depthless, empty, flat, hollow, inconsiderable,
sand bar, shelf, shoal, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial,
unsound
Notes: callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while
shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge
Antonyms: deep
WEAK, MUFFLED
INAUDIBLE
BLUNT
INTENSE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: high-pitched, harsh in sound
Synonyms: acute, argute, blaring, blatant, cacophonous, clanging,
clangorous, deafening, discordant, ear-piercing, earsplitting, high,
metallic, noisy, penetrating, piercing, piping, raucous, screeching,
sharp, strident, thin, treble
Antonyms: low, soft
1138)
Similitude
1140) Slacken
1142) Slur
COMPARISON
DIFFERENCE
ILLUSTRATION
MISMATCH,EQUALITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: semblance
Synonyms: alikeness, copy, likeness, replica, representation,
resemblance, similarity, simulation
FOLLOW
PEEPED UP
FAST, SLOW
SWIFT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: decrease
Synonyms: abate, diminish, ease, flag, let up, loose, loosen, mitigate,
moderate, reduce, relax, relent, remit, retard, sag, slack, slake, slow,
soften, subside, temper, untighten, weaken
Antonyms: tighten
VIRTUE, PROMISE
CREDIT
REMEMBRANCE
INSULT
Main Entry:
slur [slur] Show IPA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult
Synonyms: accusation, affront, animadversion, aspersion, bar
sinister, black eye, blemish, blot, blur, brand, brickbat, calumny,
dirty dig, discredit, disgrace, dump, expose, hit, innuendo,
insinuation, knock, obloquy, odium, onus, put-down, rap, reflection,
reproach, slam, smear, stain, stigma, stricture, zinger
Antonyms: compliment, flattery, praise
1144) Smile
GRIN, FROWN
CRY
SHOUT
BEAM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put on a happy expression
Synonyms: be gracious, beam, express friendliness, express
tenderness, grin, laugh, look amused, look delighted, look happy,
look pleased, simper, smirk
Antonyms: frown, glower
1146)
Solicitude
SOLITARY, COMPANY
NONCHALANT
SERIOUSNESS
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: worry, anxiety
Synonyms: TLC, attention, attentiveness, care, compunction,
concern, concernment, considerateness, consideration, disquiet,
disquietude, heed, presentiment, qualm, regard, scruple, tender
loving care, unease, uneasiness, watchfulness
Antonyms: calm, contentedness, ease, peacefulness
POROUS, DREAMY
ORIFICE
1148)
Soporific
STIMULATING
FICTION
1150) Sparse
1152)
Specious
1154)
Spurious
ASSUALT, DENSE
POINTED
DEFICIENT
SPAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very few and scattered
Synonyms: dispersed, exiguous, few and far between, inadequate,
infrequent, meager, occasional, poor, rare, scant, scanty, scarce,
scrimpy, skimpy, spare, sporadic, thin, uncommon
Antonyms: full, lush, plentiful
COMMODIOUS, SPICY
ARGUMENTATIVE
DOUBTFUL
AUTHENTIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: misleading
Synonyms: apparent, apparently right, beguiling, captious,
casuistic, colorable, deceptive, delusive, empty, erroneous, fallacious,
false, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, inaccurate, incorrect, likely,
nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, plausible, presumable,
presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophistic, sophistical,
sophisticated, spurious, unsound, untrue, vain, wrong
Antonyms: real, true, valid, credible
FALSE, GENUINE
SIMPLE
SYSTEMATIC
BOGUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: counterfeit, fake
Synonyms: affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard*, bent,
bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy*, ersatz, faked,
false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe,
mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*,
simulated, specious, substitute, unauthentic, ungenuine, unreal
Antonyms: authentic, genuine, real, true
1156) Stale
1158)
Sterilize
1160) Stodgy
NEW, FRESH
LATEST
CURRENT
TASTELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: old, decayed
Synonyms: dried, dry, faded, fetid, flat, fusty, hard, insipid,
malodorous, musty, noisome, parched, rank, reeking, smelly, sour,
spoiled, stagnant, stenchy, stinking, tasteless, watery, weak, zestless
Antonyms: fresh, new
QUIETEN, RILE
SAVE
FERTILIZE
LENIENT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make clean or unproductive
Synonyms: alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean,
decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix, fumigate,
incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay
Antonyms: dirty
GRITTY, MUDDY
EATABLE
DIGESTIBLE
CLOUDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, stuffy
Synonyms: banausic, boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored,
monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, ponderous, staid,
tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired,
uninteresting, weighty
Antonyms: adventurous, exciting, ready, willing
1162)
Stringent
1164)
Stubborn
1166)
Subsistence
MUSICAL
PLEASANT
MELODIOUS
STABLE, LOUD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rigid, tight
Synonyms: acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the
numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on,
demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting,
forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad,
picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict,
tough, unpermissive, valid
Notes: stringent often means simply ' strict , strictly regulated' and
also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is
permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which
SUBORN is enforced
OBSTINATE
something
Antonyms:
flexible, inexact, tolerant
DUCTILE, STUB
FIFE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obstinate, unyielding
Synonyms: adamant, balky, bullheaded, cantankerous,
contumacious, cussed, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, hardheaded,
headstrong, inexorable, inflexible, insubordinate, intractable,
mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ornery*, persevering, persistent,
pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant,
refractory, relentless, rigid, self-willed, set in one's ways, singleminded, steadfast, stiff-necked, tenacious, tough, unbending,
unmanageable, unreasonable, unshakable, untoward, willful
NOURISHMENT
DEPRIVATION
Antonyms:
broad-minded, complacent,
compliant, giving, willing,
yielding
CARE, PURPOSE
LIVELIHOOD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: provisions for survival
Synonyms: affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter,
bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food,
fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood,
living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension,
property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance,
support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal
1168)
Succinctness
1170)
Superficial
1172) Supine
SERIOUSNESS, INNER
SONOROUS
REDUNDANCY
TERSENESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shortness, briefness
Synonyms: conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness,
curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness,
pointedness, succinctness , terseness, transience, transitoriness
Antonyms: lengthiness, longevity, permanence
ARTIFICIAL, DEEP
SHALLOW
REAL
EXTERNAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without depth, detail
Synonyms: apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, depthless,
desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous,
general, glib, half-baked, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive,
lightweight, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, ostensible,
outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, quick-fix,
seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep, slapdash, slight,
smattery, summary, surface, tip of the iceberg, trivial, uncritical,
warped
Notes: superficial means not deep or penetrating emotionally or
SUPERIOR, LUPINE
PROSTRATE
intellectually
or of little substance or
significance, while superfluous
means
more than is wanted or is sufficient
PAINFUL
FOOD or rendered unnecessary
by
superabundance
Part
of Speech: adjective
Antonyms:
analytical,
Definition: lying
downcareful,
deep,
detailed,
genuine, thorough
Synonyms: decumbent, flat, flat on one's back, horizontal, level,
procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, stretched out
Notes: prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is
also true for prostrate , but only in expressing adoration or begging
for protection; supine is lying on your back
supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face
downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while
recumbent is lying flat in any position
1174) Surfeit
1176)
Sycophant
1178)
Synthetic
SUPERIOR, FINED
HIGH
UNDERFED
TALL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: excess
Synonyms: bellyful, glut, overabundance, overflow, overfullness,
overindulgence, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plenitude, plethora,
profusion, remainder, repletion, satiety, satisfaction, saturation,
superabundance, superfluity, surplus, up to here
Notes: plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is
too much of a good thing
Antonyms: base, core, lack, main, necessity, need, want
CRITIC, PROOF
WITNESS
DAIS
LIBERRAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who caters to another
Synonyms: adulator, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker,
brownnoser, doormat, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, groupie,
groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, lackey, minion, parasite, politician,
puppet, slave
COSMETIC, PLASTIC
AFFABLE
NATURAL
ARTIFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: artificial
Synonyms: constructed, counterfeit, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious,
fake, false, hokey, made, makeshift, manufactured, mock, phony,
plastic, unnatural
Antonyms: genuine, natural, real
1180)
Taciturn
1182)
Talented
1184)
Tautology
RESERVED, CHATTY
GROWN UP
SCHEME
AGREE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncommunicative
Synonyms: aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, closemouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, laconic, mum,
mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing,
speechless, tight-lipped, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn
Antonyms: communicative, fluent, talkative, wordy
FOOLISH
BAD WORKMAN
NOVICE, IGNORANT
BRILLIANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gifted
Synonyms: able, accomplished, adept, adroit, artistic, brilliant,
capable, clever, cut out for, endowed, expert, having a knack,
ingenious, intelligent, masterly, proficient, shining at, skilled, smart
REPETITION
BREVITY, VACUITY
SLAVERY
TIMITNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indirect speech
Synonyms: beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness,
discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase,
periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology , verbal
evasion, verbality, verbiage, wordiness
Antonyms: conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness
1186)
Temerity
1188) Tender
1190)
Tantalize
CAUTION
COLLECTIVITY
RASHNESS, BOLDNESS
GRATITUDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nerve, audacity
Synonyms: assurance, boldness, brass, carelessness, daring,
effrontery, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hastiness,
heedlessness, impertinence, impetuosity, imprudence, impudence,
impulsiveness, indiscretion, intrepidity, intrusiveness,
overconfidence, pluck, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation,
presumption, rashness, recklessness, rudeness, thoughtlessness,
venturesomeness
Notes: temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or
hesitancy
COMPASSIONATE
FRAIL,
PAINFUL
Antonyms:
care, caution, cowardice,
forethought,
hesitation
FRAGILE
RETRACT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fragile, soft
Synonyms: breakable, dainty, delicate, effete, feeble, frail, supple,
weak
Antonyms: hard, rough, tough
PROVOKE, UNRAVEL
EXCITE
GRATIFY
ABUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: provoke, tease
Synonyms: annoy, badger, baffle, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, charm,
entice, fascinate, frustrate, gnaw, harass, harry, keep hanging, lead
on, make mouth water, pester, plague, taunt, thwart, titillate,
torment, torture, worry
Antonyms: disenchant, repulse, turn off
1192) Terrible
1194)
Threnody
1196) Torsion
HORRIBLE,AWESOME
DELIGHTFUL
HIDEOUS
ALARMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, horrible
Synonyms: abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awful, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous,
disturbing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful,
ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrid,
horrifying, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious,
offensive, petrifying, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious,
severe, shocking, unfortunate, unnerving, unpleasant, unwelcome,
vile
Antonyms: good, great, nice, wonderful
PARODY, TRAGEDY
PAEAN
LONG-JUMP
SCENERY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: song
Synonyms: dirge, elegy, poem, requiem
STRAIGHTENING
TALK, TURN
EMOTION
TENSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: labyrinth; confusion
Synonyms: bewilderment, convolution, entanglement, hodgepodge,
imbroglio, intricacy, jungle, knot, meander, meandering, mesh,
miscellany, morass, muddle, network, perplexity, puzzle, quandary,
skein, snarl, tangle, torsion , twist, uncertainty, web, winding
1198)
Tractable
1200) Tragic
1202)
Tranquillity
INEXORABLE
COUNTABLE
PLATEAU, LEVEL
HILLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: manageable
Synonyms: acquiescent, amenable, biddable, complaisant,
compliant, controllable, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, going
along with, governable, hanging loose, malleable, meek, obedient,
persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, putty in hands, rolling with
punches, subdued, submissive, tame, tractile, willing, workable,
yielding
Antonyms: intractable, obstinate, stubborn, uncontrollable,
unmanageable, unruly
FUNNY, COMIC
LIGHT
HUMOROUS
CATASTROPHE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: catastrophic, very bad
Synonyms: adverse, anguished, appalling, awful, calamitous,
cataclysmic, crushing, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate,
destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn,
grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heart-rending, heartbreaking,
ill-fated, ill-starred, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful,
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible,
unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful
DEARNESS, WEEPING
AWAKENESS
CALMNESS
PERMANENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stillness
Synonyms: calm, calmness, hush, inaction, inactivity, lull,
noiselessness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiet,
quietness, quietude, serenity, still, tranquility, untroubledness
1204)
Transparent
1206) Treason
1208)
Trenchant
TRANSLUCENT,VAGUE
BLIND
OPAQUE
OBVIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: see-through
Synonyms: cellophane, clear, crystal-clear, crystalline, diaphanous,
filmy, gauzy, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid,
pellucid, permeable, plain, sheer, thin, tiffany, translucent,
transpicuous, vitreous
Notes: translucent means light passes through but without clarity;
transparent means light passes through with clarity
Antonyms: blocked, cloudy, dark, opaque
COFFER
EXCUSE, FEALTY
CONCLUSION
WORRY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disloyalty
Synonyms: breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception,
disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lse- majest,
mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act,
seditiousness, subversion, traitorousness, treachery
Antonyms: allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty
SHARP, ENERGETIC
COWARD
LACKING CONFIDENCE
LACKING BITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sarcastic, scathing
Synonyms: acerbic, acid, acidulous, acute, astringent, biting,
caustic, clear, clear-cut, crisp, critical, crushing, cutting, distinct,
driving, dynamic, effective, effectual, emphatic, energetic, explicit,
forceful, forcible, graphic, hurtful, impressive, incisive, intense,
keen, mordant, penetrating, piquant, pointed, potent, powerful,
pungent, razor-sharp, salient, salty, sardonic, sententious, severe,
sharp, significant, strong, tart, to the point, unequivocal, unsparing,
vigorous, weighty, well-defined
Antonyms: frivolous, gentle, impotent, kind, nice, weak
1210) Tribute
1212)
Triumph
1214)
Truculent
PRAISE, GRATITUDE
CONDEMNATION
ACCLAIM
COMPLIMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: testimonial, praise
Synonyms: accolade, acknowledgment, applause, appreciation,
citation, commendation, compliment, encomium, esteem, eulogy,
gift, gratitude, honor, laudation, memorial, offering, panegyric,
recognition, recommendation, respect, salutation, salvo
Antonyms: accusation, blame, criticism
DEFEAT, SURRENDR
GIVE UP
RETREAT
VICTORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme happiness
Synonyms: celebration, elation, exultance, exultation, festivity, joy,
jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, merriment, pride, rejoicing, reveling
Antonyms: sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
PEACEFUL
AGGRESSIVE, FAKE
RESOLUTE
DESIROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: belligerent, hateful
Synonyms: abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered,
barbarous, bellicose, browbeating, brutal, bullying, caustic,
combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cross, defiant,
ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hostile, inhuman, inhumane,
intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordacious, mordant,
obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude,
savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying,
terrorizing, trenchant, violent, vituperative, vituperous
Antonyms: cooperative, gentle, mild, nice, tame
1216)
Tumbledown
1218) Turbid
1220)
Turbulent
UPROAR, CLAMOUR
DILAPIDATED
UNSTABLE
STURDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ruinous
Synonyms: annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting,
dilapidated, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful,
harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous,
noxious, pernicious, ramshackle, rundown, shattering, suicidal,
unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful
VOGUE, OBEDIENT
MUDDY
CLUMSY
CLEAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cloudy
Synonyms: confused, dark, dense, heavy, impure, muddled, muddy,
murky, obscure, polluted, roily, sedimentary, thick, unclear,
unsettled
Notes: turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid
means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical
bodies
Antonyms: clear
DISTURBED, TOPPLE
CALM
SPOTLESS
RAGING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unsettled, raging (referring to weather)
Synonyms: agitated, bitter, blustering, blustery, boiling, bumpy,
choppy, coarse, confused, destructive, disordered, disturbed, fierce,
foaming, furious, howling, inclement, moiling, noisy, restless,
riotous, roaring, rough, ruffled, rugged, stirred up, stormful,
storming, stormy, swirling, tempestuous, thunderous, tremulous,
tumultous/ tumultuous, unstable, violent, wild
Antonyms: calm, mild, moderate, settled
1222)
Turmoil
1224) Tyro
1226)
Ugliness
TUMULT, CHAOS
FERMENT
TRANQUILLITY
RAPID
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chaos
Synonyms: agitation, ailment, anxiety, anxiousness, bedlam, bustle,
commotion, confusion, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress,
disturbance, dither, ferment, flap, flurry, free-for-all, fuss, hassle*,
hectic, hubbub, lather, mix-up, noise, pandemonium, pother,
restiveness, restlessness, riot, row, ruckus, stir, strife, to-do, topsyturvy, trouble, tumult, turbulence, unrest, uproar, violence, whirl
Notes: tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion
and agitation for people and things; tumultuous can describe things
and people
EXPERT
Antonyms: calm, harmony, order,THREE-PRONGED
peace
TIMID, BRAVE
HUNTER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginner
Synonyms: abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, buckwheater, cadet,
colt, greenhorn, learner, neophyte, new kid on the block, newcomer,
novice, novitiate, pupil, recruit, rookie, starter, student, tenderfoot,
trainee
BANAL, SMOOTH
SHRIVEL
PULCHRITUDE
GROTESQUE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unattractiveness
Synonyms: disfigurement, hideousness, homeliness, monstrousness,
offensiveness, plainness, repulsiveness, unseemliness, unsightliness
Antonyms: attraction, attractiveness, beauty, fairness,
handsomeness
1228)
Umbrage
1230)
Unctuous
1232)
Unearth
COMMANDER
PRIDE, REMOTE
CAPSIZE
SHYNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal displeasure
Synonyms: anger, annoyance, chagrin, exasperation, fury, grudge,
high dudgeon, huff, indignation, injury, ire, irking, irritation, miff,
nettling, offense, pique, provoking, rage, resentment, sense of injury,
vexation, wrath
Antonyms: happiness, like, love, pleasure
ROUGH, SMOOTH
REFINED
OVERTURN
SOPHITICATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: oily
Synonyms: fatty, greasy, oleaginous, slick
DISCLOSE, RECTIFY
CREATE
CONCEAL
EXPLORE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dig up
Synonyms: ascertain, bring to light, catch on, delve, determine,
discover, disinter, dredge up, excavate, exhibit, exhume, expose,
ferret, find, find out, hear, hit upon, learn, reveal, root, see, see the
light, show, spark, spotlight*, strike, stumble on, turn up, unbury,
uncover, uproot
Antonyms: bury
1234)
Ungainly
1236)
Universal
1238)
Unmarred
CLUMSY, SIMPLE
DECORATED
GRACEFUL
HEALTHY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy
Synonyms: awkward, gawky, graceless, klutzy, lumbering,
uncoordinated, ungraceful
Antonyms: agile, coordinated, graceful
LOCAL, NATIONAL
SUBSIDIARY
REGIONAL
HEAVENLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: worldwide, entire
Synonyms: accepted, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-over,
astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive,
cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean,
extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane,
omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping,
terrestrial, total, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted,
usual, whole, widespread, worldly
Antonyms: confined, local, partial, particular
SPOILED, MARRED
DESTROYED
DAMAGED
RESERVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: good
Synonyms: acceptable, ace*, admirable, agreeable, bad*, boss*,
bully, capital, choice, commendable, congenial, crack*, deluxe,
entire, excellent, exceptional, favorable, first-class*, first-rate,
flawless, gnarly, gratifying, great, honorable, intact, marvelous,
neat*, nice, perfect, pleasing, positive, precious, prime*, rad,
recherch, reputable, satisfactory, satisfying, select, shipshape,
sound, spanking, splendid, sterling, stupendous, super, supereminent, super-excellent, superb, superior, tip-top, unblemished,
unbroken, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured,
1240) Unruly
1242)
Unsullied
1244)
Unwitting
WILD, MANAGEABLE
DISORDERLY
GOVERNED
OBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disobedient
Synonyms: assertive, bawdy, disorderly, drunken, forward,
fractious, headstrong, heedless, impervious, impetuous, imprudent,
impulsive, incorrigible, inexorable, insubordinate, intemperate,
intractable, lawless, mean, mutinous, obstreperous, opinionated,
ornery, out of control, out of line, perverse, quarrelsome, rash,
rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy,
turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unyielding,
violent, wayward, wild, willful
Antonyms: compliant, obedient, yielding
SPOTLESS, CLEAR
SKILLED
EXPERT
TARNISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clean
Synonyms: chaste, immaculate, pristine, pure, spotless,
unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, unsoiled, untarnished
Antonyms: sullied, tarnished
INTERNATIONAL
INTERNAL
TRANSPARENT
BRAVE, EMOTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without fully realizing
Synonyms: accidental, aimless, chance, comatose, forgetful,
haphazard, ignorant, inadvertent, incognizant, inconversant,
innocent, involuntary, numb, oblivious, senseless, unacquainted,
unaware, unconscious, undesigned, unfamiliar, uninformed,
uninstructed, unintended, unintentional, unknowing, unmeant,
unmindful, unplanned, unsuspecting, unthinking
Antonyms: conscious, intentional, realizing, witting
1246) Urbane
1248) Usurp
1250)
Vaccillate
POLITE, DISTURBED
DISCOURTEOUS
RAISE
POLISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: civilized
Synonyms: affable, balanced, bland, civil, cosmopolitan, courteous,
cultivated, cultured, debonair, elegant, genteel, gracious, mannerly,
metropolitan, obliging, poised, polished, polite, refined, smooth,
sophisticated, suave, well-bred, well-mannered
Notes: urban refers to a city; urbane means polished and smooth,
as in a person's demeanor
Antonyms: uncivilized, uncouth, unsophisticated
INHERIT, ASSUME
ORIGIN
CUSTOM
GRAB
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take over
Synonyms: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge
in, butt in, clap hands on, commandeer, cut out, displace, elbow in,
get hands on, grab, grab hold of, highjack, infringe upon, lay hold
of, muscle in, preempt, seize, squeeze in, supplant, swipe, take, work
in, worm in, wrest
Antonyms: give in, relinquish, surrender
WAVER
UNOCCUPIED
RESOLVE, DECRY
OSCILLATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go back and forth
Synonyms: alternate, be indecisive, be irresolute, change, change
mind, dither, fence-straddle, fluctuate, hedge, hem and haw,
hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, pussyfoot around, reel, rock, run hot
and cold, seesaw, shilly-shally, stagger, straddle, sway, swing, waffle,
waver, whiffle, yo-yo
Antonyms: remain, stay
1252) Vague
1254)
Valedictory
1256)
Validate
CONFUSING
FUZZY, CERTAIN
HAZY
SUSPECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not definite or clear
Synonyms: ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, bewildering,
bleary, blurred, cloudy, dark, dim, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious,
enigmatic, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, generalized, hazy, ill-defined,
impalpable, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct,
inexplicable, lax, loose, misunderstood, muddy, nebulous, obscure,
perplexing, problematic, puzzling, questionable, shadowy,
superficial, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, undetermined, unexplicit,
unintelligible, unknown, unsettled, unspecified, unsure
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, sure
SALUTATORY
BIDDING
FAREWELL,DEFECTIVE
EFFECTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: farewell
Synonyms: departing, final, goodbye, last, parting, terminal
Notes: a closing address is valedictory and valedictorian means
'farewell'; a welcoming address is salutatory
Antonyms: welcoming
LEGALISE, SPURIOUS
DISPROVE
DISALLOW
CORROBORATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ascertain the truth, authenticity of something
Synonyms: John Hancock, approve, authenticate, authorize, bear
out, certify, confirm, constitute, corroborate, endorse, give stamp of
approval, give the go-ahead, give the green light, give the nod,
justify, legalize, legitimize, make binding, make legal, make stick,
okay*, ratify, rubber-stamp, sanction, set seal on, sign off on,
substantiate, verify
Antonyms: refuse, reject, veto
1258)
Vanguard
1260)
Vanquish
REAR, ADVANCE
NEGLECT
SABOTAGE
FRONT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forefront
Synonyms: front, lead, leaders, leading
Antonyms: followers, rear
DEBASE, WITHDRAW
SURRENDER
CHARGE
DEFEAT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defeat soundly
Synonyms: bear down, beat, conquer, crush, humble, overcome,
overpower, overturn, overwhelm, put down, quell, reduce, repress,
rout, subdue, subjugate, subvert, surmount, trample, triumph over
Antonyms: fail, lose, surrender
INDIFFERENCE,APATHY
1262)
Vehemence
HAPLESSNESS
PASSION
COWARDICE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intensity
Synonyms: ferociousness, fervor, fierceness, frenzy, impetuosity,
violence
1264) Venial
1266) Verbose
1268) Vilify
CORRUPT, CLEAN
NERVOUS
STAID
SLIGHT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pardonable
Synonyms: all right, allowable, defensible, excusable, explainable,
forgivable, justifiable, minor, not serious, not too bad, okay,
permissible, slight, tolerable, trivial, understandable
Notes: venal is 'corruptible, unscrupulous'; venial is 'forgivable;
not criminal'
COMPACT, BRIEF
CONCISE
BOSOM
VERBAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy, long-winded
Synonyms: bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air,
fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious,
magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix,
redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative,
talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking
Antonyms: concise, succinct
LAUD, DEFAME
SMEAR
SLANDER
ACCEPT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: criticize very harshly
Synonyms: abuse, asperse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, berate, blister,
call down, caluminate, censure, curse, cuss, damn, debase, decry,
defame, denigrate, denounce, dig*, disparage, dress down, dump on,
give a black eye, jinx, knock*, libel, malign, mistreat, mudsling, pan,
put a whammy on, put down*, rag on, rap, revile, rip up, roast, run
down, scorch, skin alive, slam*, slander, slur, smear, speak ill of, tear
down, tear into, traduce, vituperate, voodoo
Antonyms: compliment, praise
1270)
Vindicate
1272) Virtue
1274)
Virulence
CENSURE
ERADICATE
FAVOUR, INDICATE
CENSOR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: prove one's innocence
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, advocate, argue, assert, bear out, claim,
clear, confute, contend, corroborate, defend, disculpate, disprove, do
justice to, establish, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, extenuate, free,
free from blame, guard, justify, maintain, plead for, protect, prove,
rationalize, refute, rehabilitate, second, shield, substantiate, support,
uphold, warrant, whitewash
Antonyms: accuse, blame, convict, punish, sentence
VICE, FRAUD
WICKEDNESS
CRIME
INTEGRITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: honor, integrity
Synonyms: advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity,
consideration, credit, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, faith,
faithfulness, fineness, fortitude, generosity, good point, goodness,
high-mindedness, hope, ideal, incorruptibility, innocence, justice,
kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity,
quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance,
trustworthiness, uprightness, value, worth, worthiness
Antonyms: dishonor, evil, immorality, vice
MALIGNANCY
ROBUST
BENEVOLENCE
TWIST, DEATH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: resentment
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance,
antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure,
dudgeon, embitterment, exacerbation, exasperation, fog*, fury, gall,
grudge, huff, hurt, ill feeling, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation,
malice, malignity, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation,
pique*, rage, rancor, rancorousness, resentfulness, rise, spite,
umbrage, vehemence, vexation, virulency, wrath
1276) Vividly
1278)
Vociferate
1280)
Voluptuous
UNINTENTIONALLY
UNIMPRESSIVELY
UNSCRUPULOUSLY
UNWILLINGLY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: clearly
Synonyms: distinctly, graphically, perceptibly, sharply, strongly
BORE, PLOUGH
LEVEL
DRAW
WHISPER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: holler
Synonyms: bawl, bellow, call, clamor, cry, howl, protest, shout,
shriek, utter, yell
VOLUNTARY
ASCETIC, INDULGENT
LUMP-SUM
VOLUBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: given to sensual pleasure; pleasurable to the senses
Synonyms: appealing, attractive, delightful, desirable, enticing,
erotic, fleshly, hedonist, hedonistic, indulgent, lubricious, luxurious,
pleasing, salacious, self-indulgent, sensuous, sexy, sybaritic, wanton
Antonyms: flat, underdeveloped
1282) Vouch
1284) Waive
1286) Wane
REPUDIATE
RESPONSIBLE
CARE, CROUCH
AFFIRM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give assurance
Synonyms: act as a witness, affirm, answer for, assert, asseverate,
assure, attest to, avert, avow, back, be responsible for, bear
testimony, certify, confirm, contend, corroborate, cosign, declare,
get behind, give an affidavit, guarantee, maintain, okay*, predicate,
profess, prove, put forth, rubber-stamp, say so, sign for, sponsor,
stand up for, substantiate, support, swear to, swear up and down,
testify, uphold, verify, vow, warrant, witness
Antonyms: deny, disavow, refute, reject, renounce
YIELD, RENOUNCE
DEMAND
RESPOND
RELINQUISH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up; let go
Synonyms: abandon, allow, cede, defer, delay, disclaim, disown,
dispense with, forgo, grant, hand over, hold off, hold up, leave,
neglect, postpone, prorogue, put off, refrain from, reject, relinquish,
remit, remove, renege, renounce, reserve, resign, set aside, shelve,
stay, surrender, suspend, table, turn over, yield
Antonyms: claim
WIDEN, FATTEN
PROSPER
SWELL
REDUCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: diminish, lessen
Synonyms: abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down,
die out, dim, draw to a close, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade, fade
away, fail, fall, fall short, let up, moderate, peter out, relent, shrink,
sink, slack off, slacken, subside, taper off, waste away, weaken, wind
down, wither
Notes: wane means to gradually decrease in strength or size, while
wax means to increase in size or strength
Antonyms: grow, increase, raise, rise
1288) Warp
1290) Wax
1292) Wean
SWIM, WOOF
CAUTIOUS
EQUIP
SOON
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bend, distort
Synonyms: bastardize, brutalize, color, contort, corrupt, crook,
curve, debase, debauch, deform, deprave, deviate, misrepresent,
misshape, pervert, swerve, torture, turn, twist, vitiate, wind
Notes: the warp are parallel strands; strands threaded over and
under are weft or woof
Antonyms: straighten
CANDLE
DARKNESS, HONEY
WANE
VAIN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become large, fuller
Synonyms: augment, become, build, come, develop, dilate, enlarge,
expand, fill out, get bigger, get to, grow, grow full, heighten,
increase, magnify, mount, multiply, rise, run, swell, turn, upsurge
Notes: wane means to gradually decrease in strength or size, while
wax means to increase in size or strength
Antonyms: shrink
WED, WITHDRAW
ATTACH
RELUCTANCE
SUCKLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detach
Synonyms: discourage, halt, remove, unaccustom
Notes: the etymological notion of wean is 'becoming accustomed'
and we use it as a verb meaning 'to cause to give up something'; the
verb ween means 'to think, suppose, or imagine something'
1294)
Wholesale
1296) Wicked
1298) Wise
TOTAL, PARTIAL
RETAIL
RETAIN
GLUTTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all-inclusive
Synonyms: broad, bulk, complete, comprehensive, extensive, farreaching, general, in bulk, in quantity, in the mass, indiscriminate,
large-scale, mass, overall, quantitative, sweeping, total, wideranging, widespread
Antonyms: part, partial, retail
FAITHFUL
PIOUS, NICE
RELIGIOUS
DEJECTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: corrupt, bad
Synonyms: abandoned, abominable, amoral, arch, atrocious, bad
news, base, contemptible, debased, degenerate, depraved, devilish,
dissolute, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, gross, guilty,
heartless, heinous, immoral, impious, impish, incorrigible, indecent,
iniquitous, irreligious, low-down, mean, mischievous, nasty,
naughty, nefarious, profane, reprobate, rotten, scandalous,
shameful, shameless, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous,
vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, worthless
Antonyms: decent, good, moral, nice
STUPID, IDIOT
MAD
FOOLISH
SMART
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intelligent, reasonable
Synonyms: astute, aware, calculating, careful, clever, cogitative,
contemplative, crafty, cunning, discerning, discreet, educated,
enlightened, erudite, experienced, foresighted, grasping, informed,
insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable,
perceptive, perspicacious, politic, prudent, rational, reflective,
sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sensing, sharp,
shrewd, smart, sophic, sound, tactful, taught, thoughtful,
understanding, wary, well-informed, witty
Antonyms: foolish, ignorant, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable,
unwise
1300) Woeful
1302) Woo
1304) Yearn
SMILING, CHEERFUL
DEMANDING
LIVELY
GLOOMY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: terrible, sad
Synonyms: afflicted, agonized, anguished, appalling, awful, bad,
calamitous, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, disappointing,
disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful,
feeble, gloomy, grieving, grievous, grim, heartbreaking,
heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy*,
mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
plaintive, poor, racked, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tortured,
tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched
Antonyms: glad, happy, joyful
PURSUE, COURT
SHUN
UNJUST
COAX
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: seek as romantic partner
Synonyms: address, aim for, beg, bill and coo, butter up, caress,
charm, chase, court, cultivate, curry favor, date, entreat, go steady,
importune, keep company, make advances, make love, press one's
suit with, propose, pursue, run after, rush, seek in marriage, seek
the hand of, set one's cap for, solicit, spark*, spoon
Antonyms: ignore
DESIRE, UNJUST
STIFF
LOATHE
THIRST
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire strongly
Synonyms: ache, be desirous of, be eager for, be passionate, chafe,
covet, crave, dream, hanker, have a crush on, have a yen for, hunger,
itch, languish, long, lust, pine, set one's heart on, thirst, want, wish
for
Antonyms: dislike, hate
1306) Yoke
1308) Yummy
1310) Zealot
INDEPENDENCE
FREEDOM
COLONIAL
CRUNCH, STRAIN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bondage, bond
Synonyms: burden, chain, coupling, enslavement, helotry, knot,
ligament, ligature, link, nexus, oppression, peonage, serfdom,
service, servility, servitude, slavery, tie
Notes: a yoke is a crossbar joining animals or something
figuratively holding things together; a yolk is the yellow of an egg
DELICIOUS
HUMOROUS
DISGUSTING
HEAVENLY, TRAGIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: delicious ( )
Synonyms: ambrosial, appetizing, choice, delectable, delightful,
divine, enticing, fit for a king, good, heavenly, juicy, luscious,
mouthwatering, nectarous, out of this world, palatable, piquant,
pleasant, rich, sapid, savory, scrumptious, spicy, succulent, super,
sweet, tasteful, tasty, tempting, toothsome
DEVOTEE, BIGOT
MODERATE
PLIANT
FANATIC
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiast
Synonyms: activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac,
militant, nut, radical, ultra*, young Turk
Antonyms: moderate
1312) Zenith
PINNACLE, NADIR
AFFORD
NAUGHT
INFINITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: top
Synonyms: acme, altitude, apex, apogee, cap, capper, capstone,
climax, crest, crown, culmination, elevation, eminence, height, high
noon, high point, meridian, payoff, peak, pinnacle, roof, summit,
tiptop, topper, vertex
Notes: zenith derived from Arabic samt ar-ras 'the way or road
above one's head'; zenith technically is the point directly above the
observer and nadir is the point directly below
Antonyms: bottom, nadir