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consanguine/consanguineous
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of the same blood or origin; specifically : descended from the same ancestor
<felt just as close to his adopted brother as he did to his two consanguineous siblings> Synonyms biological (also biologic), birth, natural Antonyms adopted, adoptive, nonbiological Related Words legitimate Near Antonyms illegitimate |
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endogamy
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marriage within a specific group as required by custom or law
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progenitor
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a : an ancestor in the direct line : forefather b : a biologically ancestral form 2 : precursor, originator <progenitors of socialist ideas — Times Literary Supplement> <progenitor cells> the progenitors of modern art wild cats that were the progenitors of the house cat Synonyms father, forebear (also forbear), forebearer, forefather, grandfather, primogenitor, ancestor Antonyms descendant (also descendent) Related Words antecessor, predecessor [archaic]; ancestress, foremother, grandmother, matriarch; grandsire [archaic], patriarch, sire [archaic]; ancestry, antecedents, roots Near Antonyms children, family, issue, lineage, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, stock; daughter, heir, inheritor, scion, son, successor |
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chortle
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to laugh because you are amused or pleased by something
He chortled, “You're going to love this.” <audiences might chortle gently during the movie's amusing bits, but there are few knee-slappers> Synonyms break up, cackle, laugh, chuckle, crack up, giggle, hee-haw, roar, scream, snicker, titter, twitter Related Words grin, smile Near Antonyms bawl, blubber, cry, sob, weep; howl, scream, squall, wail, yowl; bleat, pule, whimper, whine; sniffle, snivel; groan, moan, sigh |
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flippant
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lacking proper respect or seriousness
He made a flippant response to a serious question. <his flippant comment that the poor save on taxes offended many people> As far as he was concerned, we were an unforgivably flippant bunch. Louche. Our shared political stance … struck him as pathetically naive. —Mordecai Richler, GQ, November 1997 Synonyms cute, facetious, flip, pert, smart, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smart-assed, smarty-pants, wise, wiseass Antonyms earnest, sincere Related Words flighty, frivolous; cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impish, impudent, mischievous, playful, roguish, sassy, saucy, waggish; disrespectful, rude; breezy, casual, glib, inappropriate, thoughtless |
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gibe
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intransitive verb
: to utter taunting words transitive verb : to deride or tease with taunting words <teammates gibing each other when one fouls up an important play> Synonyms deride, ridicule (or jibe), jeer, laugh (at), mock, scout, shoot down, skewer Related Words scoff (at), scorn, sneer (at); bad-mouth, belittle, decry, disparage, pooh-pooh (also pooh), put down; chaff, jive, josh, kid, quiz, rally, razz, rib, ride, tease, tweak, twit; bait, barrack [chiefly British], bug, catcall, harass, harry, hassle, heckle, needle, pester, rag, target, taunt, torment; ape, burlesque, caricature, imitate, lampoon, mimic, parody, parrot, pillory, satirize, take off (on), travesty Near Antonyms applaud, approve, commend, endorse (also indorse), sanction |
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raillery
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: good-natured ridicule : banter 2 : jest <Luke had to put up with a lot of raillery from his sister the first time he asked a girl for a date.> Synonyms backchat, badinage, chaff, give-and-take, jesting, joshing, persiflage, banter, repartee Related Words barb, crack, dig, gag, gambit, jest, joke, laugh, pleasantry, quip, sally, waggery, wisecrack, witticism; drollness, facetiousness, funniness, hilariousness, humorousness, richness; fooling, kidding, mocking, razzing, ribbing, ridiculing; humor, wit, wordplay; nothings; chatter, chitchat, gossip, small talk |
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riposte
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: a fencer's quick return thrust following a parry 2 : a retaliatory verbal sally : retort 3 : a retaliatory maneuver or measure <he's known for having a brilliant riposte to nearly any insult> Synonyms comeback, repartee, retort Related Words squelch; back talk; crack, quip, sally, wisecrack, witticism, zinger; cut, insult, put-down |
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simper
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intransitive verb
: to smile in a silly manner transitive verb : to say with a simper <simpered an apology> : a silly smile : smirk He simpered and smirked while he talked to the boss. She simpered that she had gone to all this trouble for a reason. |
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interstice
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a small space that lies between things : a small break or gap in something
<there's an occasional interstice in the tedium, but most of the novel is boring> <pesky weeds growing in the interstices between the flagstones> Synonyms discontinuity, hiatus, hiccup (also hiccough), interim, interlude, intermission, interregnum, interruption, gap, interval, parenthesis Antonyms continuation, continuity Related Words caesura, comma, interspace, lag, pause, space, time lag, window; entr'acte; bumper; adjournment, discontinuance, lapse, suspension; lull, recess, respite, rest; subinterval Near Antonyms continuum, run, stretch; procession, progression |
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rent
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: an opening made by or as if by rending 2 : a split in a party or organized group : schism 3 : an act or instance of rending |
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unstinting
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: not restricting or holding back : giving or being given freely or generously <an unstinting volunteer> <unstinting praise>
<a group of school volunteers who are unstinting with their time> Synonyms bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, fulsome, liberal, munificent, open, openhanded, unselfish, unsparing, generous Antonyms cheap, close, closefisted, costive, illiberal [archaic], mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, selfish, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous Related Words extravagant, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profuse; altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical); big, greathearted, largehearted, magnanimous, openhearted; compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindly, samaritan, sympathetic Near Antonyms mean, petty, small; frugal, spare, sparing, thrifty; chary, stinting; acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious; begrudging, envious, grudging, resentful |
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venal
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willing to do dishonest things in return for money
<that judge is known for being venal and easily bought> Synonyms bribable, corruptible, dirty, purchasable Antonyms incorruptible Related Words temptable; hack, mercenary; crooked, cutthroat, dishonest, Machiavellian, unethical, unmoral, unprincipled, unscrupulous; corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, defiled, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, perverse, perverted, reprobate, sleazy, vitiated, warped; bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, sinful, vicious, wicked Near Antonyms ethical, honest, principled, scrupulous; good, moral, righteous, upright, virtuous |
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baleful
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: threatening harm or evil
: harmful or deadly the baleful effects of water pollution <a dark, baleful sky portending a tornado> Synonyms ominous, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening Antonyms unthreatening Related Words black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched; discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious; ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky; evil, malign, malignant Near Antonyms auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous |
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minatory
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having a menacing quality : threatening
<the novel's protagonist is haunted by a minatory black specter> Synonyms baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening Antonyms unthreatening Related Words black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched; discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious; ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky; evil, malign, malignant Near Antonyms auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous |
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unctuous
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used to describe someone who speaks and behaves in a way that is meant to seem friendly and polite but that is unpleasant because it is obviously not sincere
<an unctuous effort to appear religious to the voters> <an unctuous appraisal of the musical talent shown by the boss's daughter> Synonyms artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-dealing, double-faced, fake, feigned, hypocritical, Janus-faced, jive [slang], left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, phony (also phoney), phony-baloney (or phoney-baloney), pretended, two-faced, insincere Antonyms artless, candid, genuine, heartfelt, honest, sincere, undesigning, unfeigned Related Words affected, assumed, claptrap, contrived, forced, mechanical, put-on, simulated, strained, unnatural; empty, hollow, meaningless; deceitful, devious, dishonest, false, untruthful; facile, glib, superficial; bogus, sham; campy, facetious, jocular, tongue-in-cheek; canting, pharisaical, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure Near Antonyms direct, forthright, frank, heart-to-heart, open, plain, straightforward |
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assay
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: examination and determination as to characteristics (as weight, measure, or quality)
3 : analysis (as of an ore or drug) to determine the presence, absence, or quantity of one or more components; also : a test used in this analysis 4 : a substance to be assayed; also : the tabulated result of assaying <a metallurgist did an assay on the metal and determined it contained nickel> <the poem about a frustrated man's last assay at greatness> Synonyms anatomizing, anatomy, analysis, breakdown, deconstruction, dissection Related Words assessment, diagnosis, evaluation, examination, inspection, investigation, muster, scrutiny; arrangement, assortment, cataloging (or cataloguing), categorization, classification, codification, indexing; enumeration, inventory, itemization, tabulation; division, reduction, segmentation, separation, subdivision Near Antonyms agglomeration, aggregation, amalgamation, assimilation, coalescence, conglomeration, consolidation, integration, synthesis, unification |
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peruse
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: to look at or read (something) in an informal or relaxed way
: to examine or read (something) in a very careful way He perused the newspaper over breakfast. <perused the manuscript, checking for grammatical errors> To refresh my memory of the old days, I asked for some Dailies of the thirties from the morgue, sat down at the large round oak table at the end of the editorial room on the second floor, and began riffling through the musty pages. Soon a burly middle-aged man appeared and seated himself at the table to peruse some recent issues of the paper and take notes. —Arthur Miller, Timebends, 1987 Synonyms read, pore (over) Related Words browse, dip (into), leaf (through), scan, skim, speed-read, thumb (through), turn over; devour, gobble (up); slog (through), wade (through); reread; proofread; decipher; review, study; apprehend, comprehend, get, grasp, make, make out, perceive, see, tumble (to), understand |
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adventitious
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: coming from another source and not inherent or innate <a Federal house without adventitious later additions> 2 : arising or occurring sporadically or in other than the usual location <adventitious roots> <the point of view that art should be for art's sake and that moral considerations are adventitious to the study of art> Synonyms accidental, extrinsic, alien, extraneous, external, foreign, supervenient Antonyms inherent, innate, intrinsic Related Words exterior, outside; immaterial, inapplicable, insignificant, irrelevant; nonessential, unessential, unnecessary Near Antonyms congenital, deep-seated, inborn, inbred; inside, interior, internal; basic, essential, necessary |
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kismet
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: a power that is believed to control what happens in the future
<he always said that it was kismet that they met at a showing of their favorite movie> Synonyms circumstance, destiny, doom, fortune, fate, lot, portion Related Words accident, casualty [archaic], chance, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard, luck; predestination; aftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, development, effect, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshot |
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belabor
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: to talk about (something) for too long : to repeat or stress (something) too much or too often
: to attack or criticize (someone) Her habit of belaboring the obvious makes her a very boring speaker. Please don't belabor the point. He uses his newspaper column to belabor writers for even the most minor grammatical errors. Synonyms dwell (on or upon), harp (on) Antonyms disregard, forget, ignore, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, slur (over) Related Words accent, accentuate, emphasize, pay (up), point (up), stress, underline, underscore Near Antonyms acclaim, commend, compliment, hail, laud, praise |
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cavil
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to complain about things that are not important
I don't intend to cavil or compromise. A customer caviled about the price. Synonyms carp, quibble, fuss, niggle, nitpick Related Words criticize, fault; beef, bellyache, *****, complain, crab, croak, gripe, grouse, growl, grumble, kick, kvetch, moan, squawk, squeal, wail, whimper, whine, yammer, yawp (or yaup), yowl; murmur, mutter Near Antonyms applaud, commend, compliment, praise, recommend; approve, back, champion, endorse (also indorse), support |
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enjoin
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: to direct or order (someone) to do something
: to prevent (someone) from doing something; especially : to give a legal order preventing (someone) from doing something He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie. The judge enjoined them from selling the property. Synonyms call (for), claim, clamor (for), command, demand, exact, insist (on), press (for), quest, stipulate (for) Antonyms mind, obey Related Words ask, plead (for), request, want; cry (for), necessitate, need, require, take, warrant; requisition; impose; badger, dun, harass, hound Near Antonyms give up, relinquish, surrender, yield |
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exhort
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to try to influence (someone) by words or advice : to strongly urge (someone) to do something
He exhorted his people to take back their land. She exhorted her listeners to support the proposition. Synonyms egg (on), encourage, urge, goad, nudge, press, prod, prompt Related Words drive, propel, spur, stimulate; hurry, hustle, push, rush; adjure, beseech, implore, importune; blandish, cajole, coax, soft-soap, wheedle; high-pressure, nag, needle, pressure; foment, incite, instigate, provoke, stir (up) Near Antonyms deter, discourage, dissuade; brake, check, constrain, curb, hold back, inhibit, restrain |
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reproof
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: criticism or blame
: a statement that criticizes or blames someone The fear of reproof prevented them from complaining. <even in church we were not free from Mother's familiar reproof of our ingrained tendency to fidget in our seats> Synonyms commination, condemnation, denunciation, excoriation, objurgation, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, censure, riot act, stricture Antonyms citation, commendation, endorsement (also indorsement) Related Words admonishment, admonition, castigation, chastisement, damnation, punishment, remonstrance; business, devil, dressing-down, lash, lecture, lesson, rap, scolding, talking-to, tongue-lashing; belittlement, criticism, deprecation, depreciation, disparagement, pan Near Antonyms acclamation, honor, tribute; encomium, eulogy, panegyric, plaudit(s), praise; approval, blessing, sanction |
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askance
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in a way that shows a lack of trust or approval
<we looked askance at the dealer's assertion that the car had never been in an accident> Synonyms distrustfully, doubtfully, doubtingly, dubiously, mistrustfully, sideways, skeptically, suspiciously, with a grain of salt Antonyms trustfully, trustingly Related Words hesitantly, hesitatingly, incredulously, questioningly, quizzically, unbelievingly; charily, guardedly, warily; captiously, critically, cynically, deprecatingly, disapprovingly, disparagingly, negatively, reproachfully, reproachingly, reprovingly, unfavorably; anxiously, apprehensively, uncomfortably, uneasily Near Antonyms approvingly, favorably, positively; confidently, sanguinely; credulously, uncritically, unquestioningly |
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carom
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a : a shot in billiards in which the cue ball strikes each of two object balls b : a shot in pool in which an object ball strikes another ball before falling into a pocket — compare combination shot 2 : a rebounding especially at an angle |
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gyrate
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: winding or coiled around : convoluted <gyrate branches of a tree>
: to move back and forth with a circular motion |
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sidle
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intransitive verb
: to go or move with one side foremost especially in a furtive advance transitive verb : to cause to move or turn sideways He sidled up to me and slipped me a note. She sidled over and whispered, “Do you see that guy?”. She sidled through the narrow opening. |
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periphrastic
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: formed by the use of function words or auxiliaries instead of by inflection <more fair is a periphrastic comparative> |
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fey
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a : able to see into the future : visionary b : marked by an otherworldly air or attitude c : crazy, touched 3 a : excessively refined : precious b : quaintly unconventional : campy |
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fetter
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: a chain or shackle for the feet 2 : something that confines : restraint <a time-honored tradition is fine as long as it doesn't become a fetter that prevents us from trying something new> <claims that government regulations are unnecessary fetters that keep him from achieving his business goals> Synonyms check, circumscription, condition, constraint, curb, restriction, limitation, restraint, stricture Related Words exception, proviso, qualification, reservation, stipulation, strings; ban, prohibition, proscription Near Antonyms freedom, latitude |
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forfend
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b : to ward off : prevent
2 : protect, preserve <a place of refuge where the settlers could forfend themselves from attack> Synonyms bulwark, cover, fence, fend, defend, guard, keep, protect, safeguard, screen, secure, shield, ward Antonyms assail, assault, attack Related Words avert, prevent; oppose, resist, withstand; battle, contend, fight, war; conserve, preserve, save; buffer, palisade, picket, wall Near Antonyms bombard, storm; beset, besiege, overrun; capitulate, cave, submit, yield |
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dolor
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mental suffering or anguish : grief
<her sad poems grew out of a deep dolor that lasted for months> Synonyms affliction, anguish, dolefulness, sorrow, grief, heartache, heartbreak, sorriness, woe Antonyms blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, delight, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, pleasure, rapture, rapturousness Related Words agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment; blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness; contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame; melancholia, self-pity Near Antonyms gaiety (also gayety), gayness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness; hopefulness, optimism, sunniness; enjoyment; content, contentedness, contentment |
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threnody
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: a song of lamentation for the dead : elegy
<the composer's cello concerto was composed as a moving threnody for his late wife> Synonyms dirge, elegy, requiem, lament Related Words taps; elegiac (also elegiacal), monody Near Antonyms encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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renitent
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: resisting physical pressure 2 : resisting constraint or compulsion : recalcitrant synonym ascetic, recalcitrant |
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untoward
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: difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly, intractable 2 a : marked by trouble or unhappiness : unlucky b : not favorable : adverse, unpropitious <untoward side effects> 3 : improper, indecorous There was nothing untoward about his appearance. <tried to reason with the untoward child> Synonyms balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, disobedient, wayward, willful (or wilful) Antonyms amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly, submissive, tractable Related Words noncooperative, uncooperative; insurgent, mutinous; adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding; fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild; perverse, resistant, wrongheaded; bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty; undisciplined; dissident, nonconformist; discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly Near Antonyms acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging; yielding; behaved, disciplined, well-bred; courteous, polite, respectful; kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient; decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper; controllable, governable, manageable, trainable |
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anterior
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a : situated before or toward the front b : situated near or toward the head or part most nearly corresponding to a head 2 : coming before in time or development the anterior part of the brain <the anterior chamber of the eye is bounded in front by the cornea> Synonyms front, fore, forward, frontal, frontward (or frontwards) Antonyms aft, after, hind, hinder, hindmost, posterior, rear, rearward Related Words ventral Near Antonyms dorsal |
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fortnight
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a period of 14 days : two weeks
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penultimate
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: occurring immediately before the last one : next to the last
the penultimate syllable of the word Belle was the penultimate person to die, just hours before a slave, fifty-three-year-old Alba, wandered in delirium away from his cabin and sat down to death in front of Carlyle's airing-out cottage. —Edward P. Jones, The Known World, 2003 |
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fealty
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a : the fidelity of a vassal or feudal tenant to his lord b : the obligation of such fidelity 2 : intense fidelity He swore fealty to the king. <as much as I wanted to back my friend up, my fealty to the truth was greater, and I could not lie for him> Synonyms adhesion, allegiance, attachment, commitment, constancy, dedication, devotedness, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fidelity, loyalty, piety, steadfastness, troth Antonyms disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, treachery, unfaithfulness Related Words affection, fondness; determination, firmness, resolution; dependability, reliability, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness Near Antonyms alienation, disaffection, estrangement, separation |
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indubitable
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: too evident to be doubted : unquestionable
<the indubitable fact that there are no more woolly mammoths or saber-toothed tigers around> Synonyms accomplished, certain, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable, irrefragable, positive, sure, unanswerable, unarguable, unchallengeable, undeniable, unquestionable Antonyms answerable, arguable, contradictable, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtable, moot, negotiable, problematic (also problematical), questionable, refutable Related Words unambiguous, unequivocal; absolute, clear, conclusive, decisive, definite, hands-down; uncontested, uncontradicted, undisputed, unquestioned Near Antonyms controversial, debated, disputed; doubtful, dubious, iffy, inconclusive, indecisive, uncertain; ambiguous, equivocal; academic (also academical), hypothetical, speculative, theoretical (also theoretic) |
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discursive
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: talking or writing about many different things in a way that is not highly organized
<the speaker's discursive style made it difficult to understand his point> Synonyms desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, wandering Related Words circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout Near Antonyms coherent, consistent, logical; direct, focused (also focussed), straightforward, undeviating |
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stultify
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: to cause to appear or be stupid, foolish, or absurdly illogical 3 a : to impair, invalidate, or make ineffective : negate b : to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on The government has been stultified by bureaucracy. |
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apothegm
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a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism
<her mother endlessly repeated the apothegm “cleanliness is next to godliness”> Synonyms adage, aphorism, saying, byword, epigram, maxim, proverb, saw, sententia, word Related Words bromide, cliché (also cliche), commonplace, platitude, wheeze; expression, felicity; axiom, motto, precept, truism, truth; formula; comment, note, reflection, remark |
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epigram
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: a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought 2 : a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying 3 : epigrammatic expression <Benjamin Franklin's famous epigram, “Remember that time is money”.> Synonyms adage, aphorism, apothegm, byword, saying, maxim, proverb, saw, sententia, word Related Words bromide, cliché (also cliche), commonplace, platitude, wheeze; expression, felicity; axiom, motto, precept, truism, truth; formula; comment, note, reflection, remark |
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decamp
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: to break up a camp 2 : to depart suddenly : abscond She took the papers and decamped. He decamped to Europe soon after news of the scandal broke. |
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recant
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: to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce 2 : revoke Church officials asked the minister to recant. Witnesses threatened to recant their testimony when the court released their names to the paper. Synonyms abnegate, forswear (also foreswear), abjure, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, retract, take back, unsay, withdraw Antonyms adhere (to) Related Words contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative; abandon, bolt, forsake, give up, relinquish, spurn, surrender; controvert, disagree (with), disprove, dispute, rebut, refute; back down, back off, backtrack; disallow, recall, revoke Near Antonyms acknowledge, admit, affirm, assert, avow, claim, contend, declare, maintain, proclaim, profess, state, vouch, vow; back, confirm, defend, endorse (also indorse), espouse, maintain, support, uphold; accept, adopt, embrace |
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recidivism
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a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially : relapse into criminal behavior
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pedagogue
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teacher
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