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1. cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
2. liveliness; briskness. |
alacrity
We accepted the invitation with alacrity. Synonyms: eagerness, keenness; fervor, zeal, sprightliness, agility. Antonyms: apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference |
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unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others
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altruism
syn: benevolence, charity, humanitarianism, kindness, magnanimity, philanthropy, ant: egoism |
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1. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful:
2. without thought or regard; carefree; heedless: |
blithe
Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit. A blithe indifference to anyone's feelings. syn: animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful ant: heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy |
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1. having the same measure; of equal extent or duration.
2. corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: |
commensurate
Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked. syn: appropriate, coextensive, comparable, compatible, consistent ant: inadequate, inappropriate, unacceptable, unfitting |
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a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words
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conundrum
What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper. syn: brain-teaser, closed book, enigma, mystery |
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1. to express earnest disapproval of.
2. to urge reasons against; protest against |
deprecate
The depreciation on my car makes it worth less. syn:cut down to size, depreciate, derogate, detract, disapprove of ant: approve, build up, commend, compliment |
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to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
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enervate
Prolonged exposure to the sun and dehydration enervated the shipwrecked crew, leaving them almost too weak to hail the passing vessel. syn: debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate ant: activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven, strengthen |
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1. thin or slender in form, as a thread.
2. lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: 3. thin in consistency; rare or rarefied. 4. of slight importance or significance; unsubstantial: 5. lacking in clarity; vague: |
tenuous
a tenuous argument. He holds a rather tenuous position in history. He gave a rather tenuous account of his past life. syn: aerial, airy, attenuated, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine ant: healthy, significant, stable, strong, substantial, thick |
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally
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facetious
a facetious remark. syn: amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful ant:formal, grave, serious, unfunny |
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existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute
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inherent
an inherent distrust of strangers. syn:built-in, characteristic, congenital, essential, fixed, fundamental ant: acquired, added, external, extrinsic, incidental, learned |
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existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent
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ubiquitous
ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants. syn:all-over, everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive, ubiquitary, universal ant: rare, scarce |
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a tendency to undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism
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zealot
The Baptist zealot was intolerant of others' religious views. syn:activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac ant:moderate |
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an expression of a general truth or principle, esp. an aphoristic or sententious one:
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maxim
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. syn: adage, aphorism, apophthegm, axiom, belief |
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extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous:
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nefarious
a nefarious plot. syn: abominable, atrocious, base, corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, detestable ant: good, honorable, respectable, virtuous, worthy |
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characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning. servilely compliant or deferential:
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obsequious
an obsequious bow. obsequious servants. syn: abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant ant:arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous |
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1.a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
2.lacking in or hostile to culture. 3.smugly commonplace or conventional. |
philistine
syn: barbarian, base, bawdy, boorish, brutish, cheap, churlish, common, crass ant:civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
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bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice
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rancor
syn: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, aversion ant:kindness, love, respect, sympathy |
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vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous
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ribald
syn:base, bawdy,devilish, earthy, lewd, licentious, indecent ant:chaste, clean, decent |
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1. not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
2. lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary. |
transitory
syn:impermanent, momentary, temporal, transient ant: permanent |
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native or indigenous, using plain, everyday language
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vernacular
a vernacular poem. a vernacular speaker. syn:native, colloquial, common, dialectal, domesticated, idiomatic, indigenous, informal, ingrained, inherent |