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Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor.
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Austere
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Synonyms: forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned, subdued
ant.: mild, indulgent, luxurious, flamboyant |
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Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
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Beneficient
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Syn.: humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable
ant.: selfish, cruel, harmful,deleterious |
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Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
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cadaverous
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Syn.: corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly
ant.: Robust, portly, rosy, the picture of health |
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to prepare by combining ingredients, makeup (as a dish), to devise, invent, fabricate
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Concoct
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syn.: create, fashion, rustle up
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coarse, unfeeling,; stupid
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Crass
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syn.: crude, vulgar, tasteless, lavish, obtuse
Ant.: refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant |
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to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterated, to cause to deteriorate
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Debase
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syn.: cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate
Ant.: elevate, uplift, improve, enhance |
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to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
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Desecrate
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Syn.: profane, defile, violate
Ant.: revere, honor, venerate, consecrate |
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to confuse; to disturb the composure of
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Disconcert
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syn.: upset, rattle, ruffle, faze, perturbed
Ant.: relax, calm, put at ease |
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grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
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Grandiose
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Syn.: majestic, bombastic, highfalutin
ant.: simple, modest, unaffected, humble |
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Trifling, unimportant
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Inconsequential
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syn.: trivial, negligible, petty, paltry
Ant.: important, essential, crucial,vital |
