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Исторический словарь английских синонимов и антонимов. Том 1. A – E.
Виктор Евгеньевич Никитин
Этот словарь синонимов и антонимов назван историческим, поскольку он охватывает общий английский язык, а также региональные и идиоматические слова и выражения, которые были зафиксированы за последние сто лет. Он будет интересен как изучающим английской язык, так и специалистам, исследующим историю английского языка.

Виктор Никитин
Исторический словарь английских синонимов и антонимов. Том 1. A – E.

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Aback.
SYN: Backwards, rearwards, aft, abaft, astern, behind, back.
ANT: Onwards, forwards, ahead, before, afront, beyond, afore.
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Abandon.
SYN: Leave, forsake, desert, renounce, cease, relinquish, discontinue, castoff, resign, retire, quit, forego, forswear, depart from, vacate, surrender, abjure, repudiate.
ANT: Pursue, prosecute, undertake, seek, court, cherish, favor, protect, claim, maintain, defend, advocate, retain, support, uphold, occupy, haunt, hold, assert, vindicate, keep.
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Abandoned.
SYN: Profligate, wicked, vicious, unprincipled, reprobate, incorrigible, sinful, graceless, demoralized, dissolute, depraved, bad, licentious, corrupt.
ANT: Virtuous, conscientious, correct, upright, worthy, righteous, self-controlled, high-principled, steady, good.
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Abase.
SYN: Degrade, disgrace, bring low, reduce, humble, demean, stoop, humiliate, depress, lower, sink, dishonor.
ANT: Promote, exalt, honor, raise, elevate, dignify, aggrandize.
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Abasement.
SYN: Degradation, depression, disgrace, humiliation, abjection, dishonor, shame.
ANT: Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity, aggrandizement.
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Abash.
SYN: Confound, confuse, discompose, bewilder, daunt, cow, humble, disconcert, dishearten, motility, shame, humiliate.
ANT: Countenance, cheer, uphold, encourage, rally, inspirit, animate, incite, embolden, abet, buoy.
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Abate.
SYN: Terminate, remove, suppress, lower, reduce, mitigate, diminish, moderate, lessen, subside, decrease.
ANT: Prolong, continue, revive, develop, increase, aggravate, magnify, brew, ferment, rage, extend, enlarge, amplify, raise, enhance.
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Abbreviate.
SYN: Shorten, reduce, abridge, contract, curtail, epitomize, condense, prune, compress.
ANT: Lengthen, prolong, extend, enlarge, produce, elongate, amplify, expand, dilate.
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Abbreviation.
SYN: Abridgment, reduction, contraction, curtailment, abstract, summary, epitome, condensation, compression.
ANT: Elongation, prolongation, extension, production, amplification, enlargement, expansion, dilation, expatiation, explication, dilution.
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Abderite.
SYN: Cynic, sardonic, derisive, sarcastic, jocular, flippant, nonchalant, sportive, sprightful, buoyant.
ANT: Lachrymose, plaintive, maundering, querimonious, plaintive, dolesome, lackadaisical, grumbling, croaking, lugubrious.
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Abdicate.
SYN: Abandon, relinquish, resign, surrender, vacate.
ANT: Retain, maintain, claim, occupy, assert, grasp, seize, usurp.
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Abdomen.
SYN: Belly, paunch.
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Abduction.
SYN: Abstraction, subtraction, deprivation, ablution, rape, seizure, appropriation.
ANT: Addition, adduction, replacement, restitution, restoration, surrender, reinstatement.
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Aberrant.
SYN: Erratic, devious, divergent, incontinuous, desultory, disconnected, wandering, idiotic, inconsistent, inconsecutive, abnormal, exceptional.
ANT: Continuous, rectilineal, true, consistent, uniform, consecutive, normal, natural, faithful, regular.
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Aberration.
SYN: Wandering, divergence, deviation, desultoriness, rambling, disconnectedness, hallucination, inconsecutiveness, idiocy, insanity, exception, abnormity.
ANT: Uniformity, consecutiveness, continuity, connectedness, principle, law, order, type, norm, project, line, tenor, progression, rectilinearity, regularity.
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Abet.
SYN: Aid, support, promote, countenance, uphold, assist, instigate, encourage, incite, advocate, sanction, subsidize, embolden.
ANT: Thwart, contradict, obstruct, oppose, baffle, confound, discourage, disapprove, disconcert, counteract, deter, dissuade, frustrate, impede, denounce, expose.
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Abettor.
SYN: Supporter, advocate, instigator, promoter, assistant, companion, accomplice, ally, encourager, associate, adviser, confederate, 'participes criminis', coadjutor, accessary, helper.
ANT: Opponent, counteracter, foe, adversary, detector, baffler, antagonist, disconcerter, dissuader, rival.
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Abeyance.
SYN: Suspension, reservation, dormancy, expectation, intermission.
ANT: Revival, renewal, operation, resuscitation, action, enjoyment, possession, exercise, force.
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Abhor.
SYN: Hate, abominate, detest, loathe, despise, dislike, eschew, nauseate.
ANT: Love, admire, enjoy, approve, affect, covet, relish, crave, desire.
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Abide.
SYN: Dwell, stay, inhabit, continue, rest, tarry, lodge, reside, live, wait, sojourn, remain, expect, endure, tolerate, anticipate, confront, await, bear, face, watch.
ANT: Deport, migrate, move, journey, proceed, resist, mislike, forefend, avoid, shun, reject, abandon, forfeit.
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Ability.
SYN: Power, cleverness, faculty, skill, capacity, talent, expertness, aptitude, dexterity, efficiency, competency, qualification.
ANT: Weakness, incapacity, imbecility, inability, unreadiness, maladroitness.
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Abject.
SYN: Degraded, outcast, miserable, vile, pitiable, worthless, despicable, groveling, fawning, squalid, base-minded, slavish, beggarly, servile, cringing, low, wretched, sordid.
ANT: Honorable, dignified, eminent, exalted, esteemed, worthy, venerable, noble, princely, illustrious, independent, self-assertive, self-reliant, vain, arrogant, insolent, haughty.
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Abjure.
SYN: Renounce, deny, apostatize, discard, recant, disclaim, disavow, repudiate, revoke, retract, disown.
ANT: Profess, assert, demand, vindicate, claim, cherish, advocate, retain, acknowledge, appropriate, hug.
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Able.
SYN: Strong, powerful, clever, skillful, talented, capable, fitted, efficient, effective, learned, gifted, masterly, telling, nervous, vigorous.
ANT: Weak, inefficient, unskillful, silly, stupid, incapable, ineffective, unqualified.
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Ablution.
SYN: Washing, purification, cleansing, abstersion, defecation.
ANT: Pollution, soilure, defilement, dirt, contamination, taint, stain.
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Abnegation.
SYN: Denial, disallowance, renunciation, abjuration, stint, abstinence.
ANT: Assertion, vindication, claim, indulgence, concession, license.
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Abnormal.
SYN: Irregular, erratic, peculiar, unusual, exceptional, monstrous, aberrant, devious, divergent, eccentric, strange.
ANT: Typical, normal, regular, ordinary, usual, natural, customary, illustrative.
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Aboard.
SYN: Afloat.
ANT: Ashore.
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Abode.
SYN: Home, stay, placate, residence, domicile, habitation, lodging, berth, quarters: with the idea of permanence.
ANT: Halt, perch, tent, bivouac, caravansary: with the idea of transience.
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Abolish.
SYN: Destroy, eradicate, invalidate, make void, obliterate, extirpate, abrogate, annul, subvert, cancel, revoke, quash, nullify, overthrow, annihilate, supersede, suppress, expunge.
ANT: Support, sustain, cherish, promote, continue, confirm, restore, repair, revive, reinstate, enact, institute, re-enact.
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Abominable.
SYN: Abhorrent, foul, accursed, detestable, hateful, horrible, loathsome, odious, offensive, execrable, nauseous, impure.
ANT: Delectable, desirable, admirable, enjoyable, lovable, charming, delightful, grateful, pure.
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Abominate.
SYN: Abhor, loathe, detest, execrate, hate.
ANT: Desire, like, long for, love.
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Abomination.
SYN: Loathing, detestation, hatred, abhorrence, plague, nuisance, evil, annoyance, infliction, curse.
ANT: Love, affection, desire, enjoyment, longing, acquisition, gratification, blessing, treat, delight, benefit.
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Aboriginal.
SYN: Primordial, primeval, pristine, autochthonic, immemorial, indigenous, native, original.
ANT: Subsequent, adventitious, imported, exotic, immigrant, recent, upstart, modern, late, novel, fresh.
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Abortion.
SYN: Failure, miscarriage, misadventure, downfall, mishap, misproduction, defect, frustration, blunder, mess.
ANT: Success, consummation, completion, achievement, realization, perfection, exploit, feat, development.
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Abound.
SYN: Stream, swell, flow, increase, overflow, superabound, luxuriate, teem, swarm, flourish, prevail, be plentiful, wanton, revel, multiply.
ANT: Fall, waste, dry, lack, wane, evaporate, drain, die, decay, vanish, lessen, decrease.
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About.
SYN: Almost, with respect to, near, nearly, touching, concerning, surrounding, relative to, relating to, in relation to, approximately, touching, roughly, generally.
ANT: Afar, away or afar from, precisely, exactly.
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Above-named.
SYN: Above-mentioned, above-described, above-cited, named above, aforesaid, mentioned above.
ANT: Named below, described below.
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Above.
SYN: Over, beyond, exceeding.
ANT: Below, within, beneath.
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Abreast.
SYN: Beside, alongside.
ANT: Ahead, astern.
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Abridge.
SYN: Abbreviate, diminish, shorten, lessen, curtail, restrict, contract, condense, epitomize, compress.
ANT: Amplify, expand, spread out.
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Abridgment.
SYN: Abstract, abbreviation, contraction, summary, synopsis, epitome, compendium, analysis, outline, digest.
ANT: Amplification, expatiation, expansion, disquisition, dilution, comment, annotation, exposition, paraphrase.
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Abroach.
SYN: Aflow, afloat, abroad, revealed.
ANT: Close, fast, tight, secret, reserved.
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Abroad.
SYN: Far, away, apart, dispersed, aloof, adrift, about, distracted, confused.
ANT: Near, close, housed, collected, fast.
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Abrogate.
SYN: Abolish, cancel, set aside, annul, repeal, expunge, rescind.
ANT: Enact, re-enact, confirm, enforce, continue, revive.
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Abrogation.
SYN: Abolition, repeal, discontinuance, disestablishment.
ANT: Institution, establishment, enactment, confirmation, continuance, sanction.
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Abrupt.
SYN: Sudden, steep, precipitous, craggy, coarse, curt, blunt, violent, harsh, unceremonious, rugged, rough.
ANT: Undulating, easy, gliding, polished, smooth, blending, courteous.
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Abscond.
SYN: Decamp, bolt, depart, disappear, steal away, run off, hide, withdraw, retreat.
ANT: Show, emerge, appear.
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Absence.
SYN: Want, departure, Inattention, nonexistence, failure, separation, lack, nonappearance, distraction.
ANT: Presence, supply, appearance, existence, manifestation, evidence, attention, immanence, inherency, consideration.
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Absent \a.\
SYN: Not present, gone away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless, listless, preoccupied.
ANT: Present, in this place, here, attentive.
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Absent.
SYN: Keep away, depart, withdraw.
ANT: Be present, stay, remain, [See ABSCOND].
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Absolute.
SYN: Perfect, complete, unconditional, irrelative, irrespective, supreme, despotic, autocratic, certain, authoritative, unqualified, unequivocal, irresponsible, arbitrary.
ANT: Imperfect, incomplete, conditional, conditioned, contingent, relative, dependent, constitutional, dubious, accountable, responsible.
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Absolve.
SYN: Acquit, release, exonerate, liberate, exempt, discharge, exculpate, pardon, forgive, free, clear.
ANT: Charge, accuse, compel, bind, obligate, convict, condemn, inculpate, impeach, oblige.
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Absonant.
SYN: Dissonant, discordant, contrariant, repugnant, inconsonant, inharmonious, incompatible, inappropriate, impertinent.
ANT: Consonant, agreeable, consistent, harmonious, compatible, appropriate, pertinent, congruous, suitable, proper.
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Absorb.
SYN: Swallow, drown, consume, imbibe, engross, drink in, suck up, engulf, monopolize, exhaust.
ANT: Eject, emit, exude, disgorge, dissipate, distract, distil, disperse.
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Abstain.
SYN: Refrain, forbear, refuse, demur, avoid, cease, stop, keep back, desist, discontinue, withhold, scruple.
ANT: Indulge, exceed, reveal, wanton.
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Abstemious.
SYN: Abstinent, moderate, self-denying, sober, temperate, sparing, frugal.
ANT: Sensual, self-indulgent, gluttonous, greedy, intemperate.
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Absterge.
SYN: Wipe, cleanse, purify, sponge, scour, scrub.
ANT: Foul, bespatter, contaminate, bedaub, soil, pollute, begrime.
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Abstersive.
SYN: Scouring, purifying, detergent, cathartic.
ANT: Contaminative, offensive, corruptive.
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Abstinent.
SYN: Temperate, abstemious, continent, sober, self-denying, austere.
ANT: Self-indulgent, sensual, intemperate, epicurean, dissipated, incontinent, debauched.
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Abstract \v.\
SYN: Separate, detach, part, eliminate, draw away, remove, take away, appropriate, purloin, steal, thieve, draw from.
ANT: Add, unite, conjoin, adduce, impose, restore, surrender, return, Abstract \n.\ [See ABRIDGMENT].
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Abstraction.
SYN: Separation, parloining, removal, appropriation, generalization, classification, reverie, absorption, inattention, absence.
ANT: Addition, conjunction, union, adduction, importation, restoration, restitution, individualization, enumeration, analysis, specification, observation, attention, Abstracted, [See ABSTRACT and ABSTRACTION].
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Abstruse.
SYN: Hidden, recondite, difficult, profound, deep, curious, obscure, mystical, occult, hard, dark.
ANT: Patent, popular, superficial, simple, obvious, trite, intelligible, lucid, plain, easy, manifest, clear.
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Absurd.
SYN: Irrational, ridiculous, monstrous, senseless, asinine, stupid, chimerical, unreasonable, preposterous, silly, nonsensical, foolish.
ANT: Sensible, rational, reasonable, consistent, sound, substantial, logical, wise, sagacious, reflective, philosophical.
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Abundance.
SYN: Plenty, largeness, copiousness, sufficiency, plentitude, exuberance, ampleness, profusion, luxuriance, wealth.
ANT: Rarity, scarcity, paucity, deficiency, scantiness, dearth, failure, poverty.
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Abundant.
SYN: Plentiful, copious, plenteous, large, ample, overflowing, teeming, full, lavish, luxuriant, bountiful, abounding, profuse, liberal, rich.
ANT: Rare, scarce, scant, deficient, short, insufficient, niggardly, sparing, dry, drained, exhausted, impoverished.
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Abuse \v.\
SYN: Injure, damage, spoil, maltreat, treat-all, ill-use, ill-treat, retile, scandalize, disparage, reproach, upbraid, asperse, malign, slander, vituperate, prostitute, defame, pervert, misuse, misemploy, vilify.
ANT: Tend, protect, conserve, consider, regard, shield, cherish, praise, extol, laud, vindicate, panegyrize, respect.
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Abuse \n.\
SYN: Mistreatment, invective, ill-treatment, opprobrium, scurrility, vituperation, ribaldry, obloquy, reproach, insolence, misusage, ill-usage.
ANT: Good-usage, good-treatment, kindness, praise, deference, respect.
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Abusive.
SYN: Insulting, insolent, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, vituperative, rude, denunciatory, scurrilous.
ANT: Respectful, kind, panegyrical, laudatory, attentive.
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Abut.
SYN: Extend, project, impinge, approximate.
ANT: Recurve, retreat, diverge, return, recede.
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Abyss.
SYN: Gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth.
ANT: Surface, cavity, depression, indentation.
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Academical.
SYN: Collegiate, classical, learned.
ANT: Illiterate, uncollegiate.
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Academy.
SYN: School, seminary, college, university, educational, establishment, institute.
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Accede.
SYN: Assent, consent, acquiesce, comply with, accept, concur, approve, coincide.
ANT: Dissent, decline, withdraw, refuse, protest, demur.
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Accelerate.
SYN: Hasten, urge, expedite, quicken, speed, urge on, press forward, hurry, promote, dispatch, facilitate.
ANT: Delay, obstruct, impede, clog, retard, hinder, shackle, drag.
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Accent.
SYN: Stress, rhythm, pulsation, beat, emphasis.
ANT: Smoothness, inaccentuation, monotony, equableness, babble, flow.
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Accept.
SYN: Welcome, hail, admit, recognize, avow, acknowledge, take, accede to, receive, assent to.
ANT: Refuse, decline, reject, disown, disavow, ignore, repudiate.
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Acceptable.
SYN: Grateful, pleasant, welcome, agreeable, pleasure, seasonable, gratifying.
ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant.
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Acceptation.
SYN: Meaning, significant, signification.
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Access.
SYN: Approach, admit, course entrance, avenue, admittance, mod way, passage, road.
ANT: Exit, egress, departure, exclusion, repulse.
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Accessible.
SYN: Affable, approachable, easy, conversible.
ANT: Distant, cold, difficult, unapproachable.
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Accession.
SYN: Arrival, addition, increase, influx, augmentation, reinforcement, enlargement, extension.
ANT: Departure, abandonment, resignation, retirement, diminution, decrease, efflux, ebb, drain, subsidence.
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Accessary, [See ACCESSORY].
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Accessory \a.\
SYN: Assistant, additive, additional, auxiliary, supplementary, conducive.
ANT: Essential, inherent, immanent, incorporate, superfluous, irrelevant, malapropos, obstructive, cumbersome.
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Accessory \n.\
SYN: Accomplice, associate, abettor, ally, colleague, confederate, helper.
ANT: Foe, antagonist, adversary, rival.
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Accident.
SYN: Chance, fortuity, disaster, incident, adventure, casualty, hazard, contingency, calamity, misadventure, mishap.
ANT: Law, purpose, appointment, ordainment, provision, preparation.
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Acclamation.
SYN: Applause, homage, gratulation, salutation, joy, commendation, plaudit, hosannas, cheer, shouting, exultation, triumph, approval.
ANT: Obloquy, censure, execration, contumely, outcry, sibilation, denunciation.
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Acclivity.
SYN: Ascent, rise, incline.
ANT: Declivity, descent.
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Accommodate.
SYN: Convenience, oblige, adapt, supply, reconcile, suit, fit, adjust, furnish, serve, harmonize.
ANT: Inconvenience, disoblige, disturb, misfit, incommode, deprive, aggravate.
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Accommodating.
SYN: Kind, unselfish, obliging, polite, yielding, conciliatory.
ANT: Disobliging, selfish, churlish, rude, imperious, dictatorial, exacting, inconsiderate, unaccommodating.
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Accompany.
SYN: Follow, consort, attend, join, coexist, escort, convoy.
ANT: Desert, abandon, leave, avoid, eschew, quit, discard.
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Accomplish.
SYN: Execute, perfect, perform, fulfil, [See DO], carry out, attain, realize, consummate, achieve, finish, complete.
ANT: Fail of, frustrate, defeat, disconcert, destroy, baffle, mar, spoil.
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Accomplice.
SYN: Abettor, confederate, accessory, ally, associate, partner, colleague, coadjutor, assistant, 'particips criminit'.
ANT: Rival, foe, adversary, antagonist.
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Accord.
SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, tally, answer, comport, consist, conform, grant, concede, surrender, allow.
ANT: Disagree, differ, misfit, miscomport, misconform, withhold, deny, refuse.
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Accordingly.
SYN: Agreeably, suitably, conformably, hence, consequently.
ANT: [See AGREEABLY].
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Accordant.
SYN: Compatible, consonant, harmonious, consistent, consenting, acquiescent.
ANT: [See COMPATIBLE].
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Accost.
SYN: Address, salute, invoke, hail, greet, stop, apostrophize, speak to, call to.
ANT: Shun, avoid, elude, pass, ignore.
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Account \n.\
SYN: Narration, report, rehearsal, story, statement, narrative, recital, relation, description, motive, value, importance, advantage, ground, reason, profit.
ANT: Silence, suppression, project, misannouncement, of no account, attempt, without value, deed, project.
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Account \v.\
SYN: Deem, esteem, consider, regard, hold, judge, rate, estimate, value, reckon, explain, solve.
ANT: Disesteem, misestimate, mystify, understate, undervalue, perplex, darken.
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Accountable.
SYN: Responsible, liable, amenable, punishable, answerable, accredited, delegated, subordinate.
ANT: Autocratic, Independent, irresponsible, absolute, supreme, despotic.
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Accoutre.
SYN: Adorn, fit out, equip, furnish, dress, furnish with arms.
ANT: [See ADORN].
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Accredit.
SYN: Believe, trust, entrust, delegate, depute, commission, authorize.
ANT: Disbelieve, distrust, suspect, recall, supersede, discard, dismiss.
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Accredited.
SYN: Authorized, commissioned, acknowledged, confidential, trusted.
ANT: Unauthorized, unacknowledged, distrusted.
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Accumulate.
SYN: Collect, gamer, grow, mass, heap, store, bring together, hoard, gather, agglomerate, husband, augment, amass, increase.
ANT: Dissipate, disperse, diminish, scatter, expend, waste.
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Accumulation.
SYN: Heap, collection, store, mass, aggregation, hoard, pile.
ANT: Segregation, separation, unit, individual.
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Accuracy.
SYN: Exactness, correctness, strictness, precision, exactitude, nicety, fidelity.
ANT: Inexactness, looseness, slovenliness, incorrectness.
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Accurate.
SYN: Careful, exact, faithful, precise, correct, close, truthful, strict, just, actual, nice.
ANT: Careless, inexact, faulty, incorrect, inaccurate, loose, defective.
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Accusation.
SYN: Charge, indictment, imputation, impeachment, arraignment.
ANT: Acquittal, absolution, vindication, discharge.
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Accuse.
SYN: Charge, incriminate, impeach, arraign, tax, taunt, censure, cite, summon, criminate.
ANT: Defend, vindicate, discharge, acquit, absolve, condone, pardon, exonerate, release.
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Accustom.
SYN: Habituate, familiarize, form, inure, train, reconcile.
ANT: Disaccustom, dishabituate, estrange, wean, alienate.
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Ace.
SYN: Unit, atom, point, title, jot, item.
ANT: Numbers, quantity, bulk, gum, mass, collection, aggregate, total.
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Acerbity.
SYN: Harshness, acridity, tartness, acidity, bitterness, acrimony, crabbedness, moroseness, sourness, roughness.
ANT: Sweetness, mildness, softness, mellowness, gentleness, amiableness.
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Ache \n.\
SYN: Pain, suffering, smart, anguish, pang.
ANT: [See PAIN].
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Achieve.
SYN: Accomplish, [See DO], gain, perform, execute, effect, fulfil, finish, attain, win.
ANT: [See DO].
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Achievement.
SYN: Exploit, feat, attainment, accomplishment, performance.
ANT: [See ATTAIN and ATTAINMENT].
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Articular.
SYN: Spinous, sagittate, prickly, thorny, sharp-pointed, hastate, bristly.
ANT: Obtuse, blunt, abrupt.
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Acid.
SYN: Sharp, acidulous, acetous, vinegarish.
ANT: Mellow, luscious, mealy, rich.
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Acknowledge.
SYN: Avow, admit, recognize, own, accept, profess, endorse, grant, concede, concern.
ANT: Disavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate, ignore, deny.
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Acknowledged.
SYN: Agreed, settled, understood, decided, customary.
ANT: Not agreed, undecided, unsettled, not customary.
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Acme.
SYN: Summit, zenith, climax, apex, pitch, culmination, meridian.
ANT: Base, floor, ground, foundation, nadir, depth, depression, foot, root.
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Acquaint.
SYN: Advertise, inform, impart, make known, divulge, teach, notify, apprise, advise, tell.
ANT: Misinform, deceive, delude, mislead, misguide, hoodwink.
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Acquaintance.
SYN: Knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionship.
ANT: Ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience. It has also the colloquial meaning of a person with whom one is acquainted.
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Acquiesce.
SYN: Assent, concur, repose, agree, yield, be resigned, comply.
ANT: Dissent, demur, object.
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Acquire.
SYN: Gain, earn, procure, obtain, get, realize, win, reap.
ANT: Lose, forfeit, surrender, miss, forego.
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Acquirement.
SYN: Knowledge, at, entertainment, accomplishment, learning, erudition, acquisition.
ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius.
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Acquit.
SYN: Discharge, exonerate, absolve, exculpate, release, dismiss, liberate, pardon,.
ANT: Charge, accuse, impeach, constrain, implicate, bind, compel, condemn, oblige, sentence.
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Acquittance.
SYN: Release, receipt, discharge.
ANT: Bond, claim, charge, obligation.
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Acrid.
SYN: Harsh, sour.
ANT: Mellow, sweet, luscious.
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Acrimonious.
SYN: Sharp, biting, stinging, pungent, acrid, ill-natured, sarcastic.
ANT: Smooth, sweet, pleasant, goodnatured, bland.
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Acrimony.
SYN: Sharpness, bitterness, sourness, causticity, acerbity, asperity, tartness, ill-feeling, hostility, animosity.
ANT: Smoothness, courtesy, mildness, blandness, pleasantness, friendship, amiability.
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Across.
SYN: Athwart, against, transversely. Transverseness to a line of movement becomes opposition.
ANT: Lengthwise, along, concurrently, parallel.
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Act. \v.\ [See DO].
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Act \n.\
SYN: Deed, performance, action, movement, proceeding, exercise, operation, play.
ANT: Inaction, rest, repose, cessation, suspension, quiet, immobility, inertia, quiescence.
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Action. [See ACT].
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Active.
SYN: Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert, dexterous, supple, wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent.
ANT: Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy.
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Activity.
SYN: Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness, alertness, celerity, rapidity.
ANT: Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, heaviness, sluggishness, lassitude.
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Actor.
SYN: Doer, worker, agent, performer, principal, player, tragedian, comedian.
ANT: [See AGENT].
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Actual.
SYN: Developed, positive, unquestionable, demonstrable, certain, real, authentic.
ANT: Potential, undeveloped, hypothetical, supposition, possible, virtual, theoretical, fabulous, fictitious, unreal.
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Actually.
SYN: Verity, truly, decidedly, assuredly, positively.
ANT: Potentially, hypothetically, theoretically.
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Actuate.
SYN: Urge, instigate, stir, induce, influence, incline, dispose, incite, impel, prompt, drive.
ANT: Deter, discourage, retard, inhibit, hinder, prevent, impede, dissuade.
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Acuity.
SYN: Pointedness, acylation, acumination.
ANT: Bluntness, hebetude, obtuseness.
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Aculeated.
SYN: Armed, spinous, acuminated, punctuous.
ANT: Unarmed, blunt, obtuse, stingless, pointless.
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acumen.
SYN: Point, penetrativeness, sharpness, discernment, talent, sagacity.
ANT: Bluntness, obtuseness, stupidity, dulness, indiscernment, hebetude.
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Acute.
SYN: Pointed, penetrating, sagacious, perspicacious, keen, astute, piercing, sharp, shrewd, keen-sighted, severe, distressing.
ANT: Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, undiscerning, heavy, chronic, stolid.
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Acutely.
SYN: Sharply, deeply, painfully, poignantly, intensely.
ANT: Bluntly, obtusely, stupidly, stolidly, pleasantly.
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Adage.
SYN: Maxim, saying, motto, saw, apothegm, aphorism, byword, proverb, dictum.
ANT: Discourse, disquisition, yarn, harangue.
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Adapt.
SYN: Fit, accommodate, suit, adjust, conform, admeasure, harmonize, attune.
ANT: Misfit, misconform, misapply.
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Adaptation.
SYN: Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence.
ANT: Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation, mismeasurement.
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Add.
SYN: Adduce, adjoin, increase, extend, enlarge, sum up, cast up, subjoin, amplify, annex.
ANT: Deduct, subtract, dissever, abstract.
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Addendum.
SYN: Acquisition, improvement, supplement, complement, desideratum, concomitant, annexation, appendage.
ANT: Surplusage, detriment, deterioration, detraction, drawback.
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Addicted.
SYN: Given, accustomed, prone, inclined, disposed, habituated.
ANT: Unaddicted, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, averse, free.
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additament.
SYN: Adjunct, annexation, supplement, addition, acquisition, increase, augmentation, accession.
ANT: Deduction, detraction, drawback, decrement, deterioration.
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Addition.
SYN: Accession, enlargement, increase, extension, accretion, appendage.
ANT: [See ADDITAMENT].
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Address \n.\
SYN: Tact, manners.
ANT: Awkwardness, unmannerliness.
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Address \v.\
SYN: Accost, greet, salute, approach, apostrophize, appeal, hail, woo, court.
ANT: Elude, avoid, shun, ignore, pass.
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Adduce.
SYN: Allege, apply, cite, advance, offer, introduce, produce, add, import, name, mention, quote.
ANT: Retract, except, withdraw, deduct, deduce, suppress.
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Adept.
SYN: Expert, adroit, handy, master, performer, professor, artist.
ANT: Awkward, clumsy, inexpert, tyro, novice, lubber, blunderer.
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Adequate.
SYN: Equal, sufficient, fit, satisfactory, full, competent, capable, able.
ANT: Unequal, insufficient, incompetent, inadequate.
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Adhere.
SYN: Stick, cohere, cleave, hold, attach, unite, fix, join, cling.
ANT: Disunite, part, separate, divide, secede, sunder, sever.
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Adherence.
SYN: Adhesion, attachment, devotion, fidelity, cleaving to, constancy, endearment.
ANT: Separation, disunion, unfaithfulness, desertion, treachery.
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Adherent.
SYN: Follower, supporter.
ANT: Denial, protestation, negation, contradiction, rejection.
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Admit.
SYN: Receive, pase, permit, accept, grant, concede, allow, acknowledge, confess, own, avow, suffer.
ANT: Exclude, debar, disallow, reject, deny, discharge, dismiss, eject, extrude, repudiate, disavow, disown.
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Admittance.
SYN: Introduction, entrance, pass, permit, passport, privilege, acceptance, welcome, reception.
ANT: Exclusion, denial, ejection, prohibition, bar, hindrance, rejection, repudiation.
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Admonish.
SYN: Remind, forewarn, advise, warn, dissuade, caution, counsel, reprove, censure, rebuke.
ANT: Encourage, instigate, abet, incite, urge, applaud, countenance.
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Admonition.
SYN: Warning, advice, counsel, caution, reproof.
ANT: Applauding, encouraging, inciting, urging, countenancing.
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Ado.
SYN: Hubbub, commotion, fuse, excitement.
ANT: Calm, composure, quiet, orderliness, staidness, tranquillity.
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Adopt.
SYN: Assume, select, affiliate, take, elect, arrogate, choose, endorse, avow, appropriate.
ANT: Reject, decline, repudiate, disavow, discard, renounce, abandon, disown, disclaim.
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Adore.
SYN: Admire, hallow, glorify, praise, venerate, reverence, worship, idolize.
ANT: Abhor, despise, disesteem, abominate, execrate, blaspheme.
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Adorn.
SYN: Beautify, bedeck, ornament, decorate, embellish, deck, garnish, gild, enrich.
ANT: Mar, spoil, deform, deface, disfigure, impoverish, denude, despoil, strip, bare, disembellish.
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Adrift.
SYN: Loose, afloat, agog, abroad, abroach, distracted, disordered.
ANT: 'fait victorious', tight, right, lashed, moored, secure, collected, composed.
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Adroit.
SYN: Handy, skillful, dexterous, expert, proficient, clever.
ANT: Awkward, clumsy, unskillful, inexpert, lubberly.
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Adscititious.
SYN: Adventitious, superfluous, redundant, alien, artificial, spurious, smuggled.
ANT: Essential, necessary, veritable, regular, ingenerate, ingrained, congenital, fundamental, genuine, inherent, proper.
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Adulation.
SYN: Flattery, compliment, sycophancy, courtship, incense, praise, blandishment, fawning, cringing.
ANT: Detraction, obloquy, defamation, calumny, traducement, sarcasm, ridicule, satire, bespatterment.
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Adult.
SYN: Man, woman.
ANT: Youth, stripling, boy, child, infant.
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Adulterate.
SYN: Debase, corrupt, deteriorate, vitiate, contaminate.
ANT: Make pure, genuine, undeteriorate.
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Adulterated.
SYN: Impure, ingenuine, spurious, concocted, mixed, falsified, deteriorated, garbled, vitiated.
ANT: Pure, genuine, original, unmixed, unadulterated, undeteriorated, sound.
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Adumbration.
SYN: Shadow, foreshadowing, presage, prognostic, delineation, premonition, hint, sketch, prototype, suggestion.
ANT: Body, substance, fulfillment, realization, substantiation, antitype.
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Advance \v.\
SYN: Propel, elevate, promote, further, lend, propagate, progress, increase, prosper, rise.
ANT: Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw, recall, depress, degrade, suppress, oppose, retreat, decrease.
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Advancement, [See ADVANCE].
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Advantage.
SYN: Gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good, avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition.
ANT: Loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback.
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Advent.
SYN: Approach, arrival, accession, coming.
ANT: Departure, exit, exodus, retirement, relinquishment, quittance.
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Adventitious.
SYN: Extrinsic, redundant, superfluous, adscititious irregular, casual, imported.
ANT: Regular, proper, pertinent, essential, appropriate, necessary, Intrinsic.
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Adventure.
SYN: Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance.
ANT: Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course.
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Adventurous.
SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant, fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous.
ANT: Timid, unenterprising, inadventurous, cowardly, nervous, hesitating, cautious.
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Adversary.
SYN: Antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant.
ANT: Accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally, accomplice.
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Adverse.
SYN: Opposed to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite, conflicting, contrary, unfavorable.
ANT: Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky.
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Adversity.
SYN: Ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow.
ANT: Good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement.
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Advert to.
SYN: Refer to, allude to, notice, remark, glance at, regard, touch upon, hint at.
ANT: Ignore, pass, drop, omit, overlook.
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Advertent.
SYN: Attentive, regardful, mindful, watchful, thoughtful, observant, considerate.
ANT: Inattentive, inadvertent, casual, thoughtless, heedless, inobservant, inconsiderate.
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Advertise.
SYN: Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim, promulge.
ANT: Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misinform.
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Advice, [See ADVISE].
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Advise.
SYN: Admonish, warn, deliberate, counsel, persuade, urge, prompt, instigate, incite, instruct, acquaint, inform.
ANT: Dissuade, deter, expostulate, remonstrate, prohibit, inhibit, restrain.
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Advisable.
SYN: Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent, beneficial, profitable.
ANT: inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable, unprofitable.
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Advocate \n.\
SYN: Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer, defender, maintainer.
ANT: Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer.
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Advocate \v.\ [See NOUN.]
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Afar.
SYN: Abroad, away, aloof.
ANT: Near, at home, close.
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affable.
SYN: Courteous, accessible, condescending, conversible, gracious, sociable, gentle, complaisant, urbane, polite, easy, approachable.
ANT: Exclusive, discourteous, distant, inaccessible, unapproachable, inconversible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious.
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Affair.
SYN: Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction.
ANT: Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance.
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Affect.
SYN: Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern, interest, feign, pretend.
ANT: Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate.
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Affectation.
SYN: Pretence, artifice, hypocrisy, assumption, simulation, mannerism, euphuism, airs.
ANT: Genuineness, naturalness, un affectedness, simplicity, artlessness.
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affectibility.
SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility, excitability, irritability, nervousness.
ANT: Insensibility, insensateness, hebetude, unimpressibleness, callousness.
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Affection.
SYN: Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity.
ANT: Insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion.
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Affiance.
SYN: Homage, trust, confidence, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting.
ANT: Unfealty, disloyalty, treason, suspicion, Infidelity, falseness.
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Affiliate.
SYN: Annex, graft, incorporate, unite, adopt, inoculate.
ANT: Dismember, disannex, disaffiliate, sever, transplant, separate, disjoin, disunite.
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Affiliation, [See AFFILIATE].
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Affinity.
SYN: Relationship, relation, kindred, conformity, connection, alliance, similarity, analogy, homogeneity, harmony, correlativeness, sympathy, interdependence, interconnection, intercommunity.
ANT: Dissimilarity, discordance, disconnection, independence, antagonism, antipathy, repugnance, interrepulsiveness.
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Affirm.
SYN: Assert, swear, testify, tell, aver, propound, asseverate, depose, state, declare, endorse, maintain.
ANT: Deny, dispute, doubt, demur, negative, contradict, gainsay, oppugn, impugn, oppose.
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Affix.
SYN: Attach, annex, subjoin, adjoin, connect, fasten, unite, append.
ANT: Detach, disunite, separate, remove, disengage, unfasten.
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Affliction.
SYN: Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow.
ANT: Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more (or, positively:), boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure.
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Affluence.
SYN: Abundance, plenty, wealth, riches, opulence.
ANT: Want, scarcity, penury, indigence, poverty, impecuniosity, straitness, lack.
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Afflux.
SYN: Accession, importation, augmentation, increase, addition, influx.
ANT: Decrease, detriment, detraction, diminution, exhaustion, failure, ebb.
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Afford.
SYN: Produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer, extend.
ANT: Withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge.
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Affranchise.
SYN: Free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, qualify, open.
ANT: Enthral, enslave, subjugate, disfranchise, disqualify, close.
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Affray.
SYN: Broil, tumult, brawl, melee, fracas, disturbance, uproar, quarrel, strife, wrangle, altercation.
ANT: Order, tranquillity, pacification, dispersion, quelling.
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Affright.
SYN: Startle, astonish, terrify, alarm, dismay, cow, frighten, scare.
ANT: Encourage, embolden, reassure.
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Affront.
SYN: Outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, Indignity.
ANT: Homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment.
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Afire.
SYN: Ablaze, alight, burning, ignited.
ANT: Out, extinguished, quenched.
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Afloat.
SYN: Adrift, abroad, at sea, abroach, loose, distracted, dazed.
ANT: Ashore, snug, tight, close, fast, collected, concentrated.
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Afoot.
SYN: Working, launched, afloat, agoing, inaugurated, started, instituted, established.
ANT: Uncommenced, Incomplete, projected, proposed, contemplated, designed.
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Afore.
SYN: Precedent, antecedent, foregoing, ahead, afront, before, beyond, sooner.
ANT: Behind, following, subsequently, after, astern, aback, rearwards.
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Aforesaid.
SYN: Above-mentioned, stated, forenamed, foregoing, preceding, forementioned.
ANT: Following, subjoined, aftercited, forthcoming.
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Afraid.
SYN: Fearful, apprehensive, timid, timorous, cowardly, fainthearted, cautious, careful, frightened, alarmed, terrified, suspicious, distrustful, anxious.
ANT: Fearless, inapprehensive, unsolicitous, easy, indifferent, secure, confident, bold, hopeful, eager, reckless, audacious, venturesome.
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Afresh.
SYN: Anew, again, frequently, repeatedly, intermittently.
ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, connectedly.
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Aft, [See ABAFT].
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After.
SYN: Behind, following, succeeding.
ANT: Afore, before, Introducing, preceding.
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Again.
SYN: Anew, afresh, repeatedly, frequently.
ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, once.
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Against.
SYN: Over, opposite, abutting, opposing, resisting, despite, across, athwart, counter.
ANT: With, for, accompanying, aiding, suiting, promoting.
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Agape.
SYN: Astare, agog, astonished, curious, inquisitive, entertained, amused, eager.
ANT: Incurious, listless, lukewarm, absent.
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Age.
SYN: Period, generation, era, epoch, date, century, antiquity, senility, eldership, seniority.
ANT: Youth, infancy, boyhood, childhood, moment, instant.
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Aged.
SYN: Old, ancient, antiquated, elderly, senile, patriarchal, primeval, time-honored, olden.
ANT: Juvenile, youthful, young, upstart, recent, fresh.
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Agency, [See AGENT].
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Agent.
SYN: Doer, performer, actor, force, means, instrument, influence, cause, promoter, operator.
ANT: Counteragent, counteractor, counteraction, opponent, neutralizer.
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Agglomerate.
SYN: Accumulate, conglomerate, lump, agglutinate, entangle, heap, confuse, amalgamate.
ANT: Scatter, dissipate, sift, separate, disentangle, disject, divide, disunite, part, unravel, detach, difference.
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Aggrandize.
SYN: Promote, dignify, exalt, ennoble, enrich, advance, augment, make great, magnify, elevate, signalize.
ANT: Depress, degrade, enfeeble, Impoverish, debase, humiliate, lower, abase, disgrace, dishonor.
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Aggravate.
SYN: Exasperate, provoke, wound, heighten, intensify, irritate, make worse, increase, enhance embitter, magnify.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, diminish, palliate, neutralize, soften, lessen, alleviate, attenuate, mitigate.
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Aggregate, Aggregation.
SYN: Sum, result, total, mass, whole, totality, collection, amount, collation, combination.
ANT: Dissipation, dispersion, separation, division, segregation, disunion, individual, unit, element, ingredient, item.
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Aggression.
SYN: Invasion, attack, offence, onslaught, encroachment, assault, provocation, incursion.
ANT: Resistance, retaliation, repulsion, withdrawal, retreat, evacuation, accession, acceptance, qualification.
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Aggrieve.
SYN: Wound, trouble, annoy, hurt, vex, disappoint, molest, maltreat, grieve, afflict, injure, wrong.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, console, satisfy, compensate.
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Aghast.
SYN: Affrighted, astonished, astare, dumbfounded, bewildered, horror-struck.
ANT: Cool, fearless, unaffected, unmoved, indifferent, unexcited, unalarmed.
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Agile.
SYN: Nimble, active, fleet, brisk, alert, featly, lithe, prompt, ready, quick, supple, nimble, swift, sprightly.
ANT: Slow, heavy, awkward, inert, clumsy, bulky, ponderous, elephantine.
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Agitate.
SYN: Disturb, trouble, excite, ruffle, stir, fluster, oscillate, instigate, convulse, shake.
ANT: Calm, compose, allay, pacify, smooth, It is sometimes used of argumentative consideration, as, to agitate a question.
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Ago.
SYN: Past, gone, since.
ANT: Coming, future, hence, hereafter.
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Agog.
SYN: Abroad, abroach, astir, adrift, agoing.
ANT: Asleep, indifferent, incurious, somnolent, heedless, collected, cool.
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Agony.
SYN: Pain, torture, torment, distress, woe, throe, suffering, pang, excruciation.
ANT: Assuagement, comfort, peace, ease, relief, gratification, enjoyment, rapture, ecstasy, composure.
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Agree.
SYN: Suit, tally, accord, fit, harmonize, combine, assent, concur, acquiesce, admit, consent, conform, consort, comport, coincide.
ANT: Differ, disagree, revolt, protest, decline, refuse, dissent, demur.
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Agreeable.
SYN: Obliging, pleasant, accommodating, grateful, acceptable, welcome, suitable, consistent, consonant, amiable, gratifying, pleasing, good-natured, complaisant.
ANT: Disobliging, unpleasant, unaccommodating, disagreeable, obnoxious, ungrateful, unwelcome, unacceptable, offensive.
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Agreeably.
SYN: Suitably, conformably, consistently, accordingly, pleasantly, acceptably, gratefully.
ANT: Unsuitably, inconsistently, impertinently, inappropriately, inharmoniously, unbefittingly, unpleasantly.
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Agreement.
SYN: Contract, compact, bond, concord, concurrence, conformity, harmony, unison, consonance, bargain, covenant, obligation, undertaking, treaty.
ANT: (As without legal force or bond). Understanding, promise, parole.
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Agriculture.
SYN: Cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage.
ANT: Sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture.
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Aground.
SYN: Strained, ashore.
ANT: Afloat, off.
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Ahead.
SYN: Forward, afore, afront, onwards.
ANT: abaft, astern, behind, aback, aft.
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Aid.
SYN: Help, assist, succour, support, befriend, co-operate, contribute favor, foster, protect, abet, encourage, instigate, subsidize.
ANT: Oppose, resist, counteract, discourage, thwart, withstand, confront, deter, baffle.
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Ailment.
SYN: Complaint, sickness, illness, disease.
ANT: Recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor, salubriousness.
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Aim \n.\
SYN: Tendency, intent, aspiration, bent, drift, object, scope, goal, purpose, mark, end, design, intention.
ANT: Shunning, disregarding, disaffecting, overlooking, avoiding.
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Aim \v.\
SYN: Seek, level, propose, design, affect, intend, mean, purpose.
ANT: Shun, disregard, disaffect, ignore, overlook, avoid.
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Airy.
SYN: Light, ethereal, spiritual, joyous, sprightly, lively, animated, frolicsome, fairy-like.
ANT: Dull, inert, stony, ponderous, plow, heavy, cheerless, sullen, dolesome, lugubrious, leaden, wooden.
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Akin.
SYN: Related, agnate, cognate, homogeneous, similar, consanguineous, congenial, allied, sympathetic.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, uncongenial, hostile, unallied, antagonistic, unsympathetic, dissimilar.
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Alacrity.
SYN: Quickness, readiness, briskness, activity, cheerfulness, compliance, willingness, promptitude.
ANT: Slowness, reluctance, repugnance.
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Alarm \n.\
SYN: Apprehension, fright, fear, timidity, consternation, tocsin, war-cry, war-note, reveille, dread, affright, disquietude, dismay.
ANT: Confidence, security, quiet.
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Alarm \v.\
SYN: Warn, wake, terrify, intimidate, frighten.
ANT: Compose, embolden, reassure, rally.
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Alarming.
SYN: Terrible, fearful, frightful, portentous, ominous, threatening.
ANT: Soothing, assuring, encouraging, inviting, propitious, hopeful, alluring, enticing, attractive.
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Alert.
SYN: Active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready, wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively.
ANT: Slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish, inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy.
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Alien.
SYN: Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent.
ANT: Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane, akin, apropos, naturalized.
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Alienate.
SYN: Estrange, abalienate, transfer, wean, disaffect, convey.
ANT: Conciliate, retain, endear, entail, bind, secure.
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Alienation.
SYN: Insanity, aberration, hallucination, derangement, imbecility.
ANT: Sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality.
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Alight.
SYN: Perch, drop, descend, dismount.
ANT: Mount, ascend, spring, soar, start.
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Alike.
SYN: Resembling, similar, together, twin-fellow, analogous, identical, equal, equivalent, same, homogeneous, akin, equally.
ANT: Unlike, heterogeneous, apart, dissimilar, variously, differently, unequally.
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Aliment.
SYN: Food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance, nourishment.
ANT: Poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion.
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Alive.
SYN: Quick, living, breathing, warm, lively, vivacious, alert, existing, existent, safe, subsisting, active, brisk, animated.
ANT: Dead, departed, cold, lifeless, defunct, inanimate, dispirited, du.
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All.
SYN: Whole, complete, entire, total, every, integral, perfect, full.
ANT: [(preceding)], Some, part.
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Allay.
SYN: soothe, alleviate, repress, mitigate, quiet, moderate, appease, compose, soften, pacify, mollify, assuage, tranquilize, palliate, culm.
ANT: Excite, rouse, aggravate, stir, kindle, fan, impassion, provoke, incite.
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Allege.
SYN: Declare, affirm, assert, asseverate, depose, plead, cite, quote, assign, advance, maintain, say.
ANT: Contradict, gainsay, refute, deny, disprove, neutralize, quash, repel.
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Allegiance.
SYN: Subjection, obedience, loyalty, fealty, homage.
ANT: Disloyalty, rebellion, resistance, disaffection, malcontentment, treason.
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Allegory.
SYN: Parable, metaphor, fable, illustration, image.
ANT: History, fact, narrative.
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Alleviate.
SYN: Lighten, lessen, assuage, mitigate, soothe, moderate, relieve, remit, diminish.
ANT: Aggravate, enhance, increase, embitter, augment.
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Alliance.
SYN: Compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership, league, combination, coalition, confederation, friendship, relation, relationship.
ANT: Disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism, separation, estrangement, hostility.
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Allot.
SYN: Assign, grant, award, give, apportion, deal, dispense, parcel, distribute, divide, mete out, portion out.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, retain, appropriate, resume, misapportion, misdeal.
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Allotment.
SYN: Piece, assignment, parcel, award, apportionment.
ANT: Misappropriation, seizure, encroachment.
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Allow.
SYN: Concede, apportion, allot, assign, afford, tolerate, authorize, grant, remit, recognize, acknowledge, avow, confess, admit, permit, suffer, sanction, yield.
ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, refuse, deny, disallow, repudiate, protest, Withstand, resist, disapprove, reject.
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Allowance, [See ALLOW].
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Alloy.
SYN: Admixture, deterioration, adulteration, drawback, diminution, decrement, impairment, debasement, depreciation, disparagement.
ANT: Purity, genuineness, enhancement, integrity.
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Alloyed.
SYN: Mixed, deteriorated, impaired, diminished, adulterated.
ANT: Pure, absolute, perfect, complete, genuine, unmixed, unimpaired, undeteriorated, undiminished, unadulterated, enhanced.
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Allude.
SYN: Point, indicate, suggest, hint, signify, insinuate, refer, imply, intimate.
ANT: Specify, demonstrate, declare, mention, state.
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Allure.
SYN: Entice, seduce, attract, tempt, decoy, inveigle, wheedle, lure, cajole.
ANT: Alarm, deter, terrify, scare, warn.
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Allurement, [See ALLURE].
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Allusion.
SYN: Reference, insinuation.
ANT: Specification, demonstration, mention.
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Ally.
SYN: Friend, companion, supporter, aider, abetter, accomplice, assistant, confederate, helper, associate, accessory, colleague, coadjutor.
ANT: Foe, enemy, opponent, adversary, baffler, counteractor, antagonist.
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Aloof.
SYN: Apart, away, separately.
ANT: Close, near, together.
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Aloud.
SYN: Audibly, loudly, clamorously, sonorously, vociferously, obstreperously.
ANT: Softly, silently, inaudibly, suppressedly.
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Alter.
SYN: Substitute, change, vary, modify, exchange, diversify, remodel.
ANT: Retain, perpetuate, conserve, stereotype, arrest, solidify, stabilitate.
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Alterable.
SYN: Variable, mutable, changeable, movable, revocable.
ANT: Invariable, immutable, fixed, unchangeable, permanent, perpetual, unalterable, immovable.
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Alteration.
SYN: Variation, difference, diversification, shifting, modification, change, permutation, mutation, mutability.
ANT: Retention, perpetuation, conservation, changelessness, identity, stabilisation, fixity, permanence.
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Altercation.
SYN: Dispute, wrangle, contentious, quarrel, dissension, commotion, variance, disturbance, affray, controversy, brawl.
ANT: Unanimity, concord, compromise, agreement, reconciliation, consonance, conversation, harmony.
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Alternative.
SYN: Choice, resource, opinion.
ANT: Compulsion, quandary, necessity, fix.
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Altiloquence.
SYN: Bombast, inflatedness, turgidity, euphuism, magniloquence.
ANT: Plain-spokenness, vernacular, mother tongue.
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Altitude.
SYN: Height, tallness, verticality, ascent, loftiness, eminence, elevation.
ANT: Lowness, depression, descent, declination, depth.
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Altogether.
SYN: Collectively, combined, in one, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, completely, utterly, thoroughly.
ANT: Separately, individually, partially.
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Amalgamate.
SYN: Fuse, commix, mix, compound, unite, consolidate, incorporate.
ANT: Separate, disintegrate, decompose, disunite, dissipate, detach, disperse, analyze.
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Amalgamation, [See AMALGAMATE].
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amass.
SYN: Collect, accumulate, aggregate, heap, gather, store up, hoard, pile up.
ANT: Divide, dissipate, waste, scatter, disperse, parcel, portion, spend.
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Amazement.
SYN: astonishment, awe, wonder, bewilderment, surprise, stupefication, marvel.
ANT: Expectation, preparation, anticipation, familiarity, calmness, composure, coolness, self-possession.
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Amazing.
SYN: Astounding, astonishing, bewildering, marvellous, prodigious, miraculous, vast, portentous, ominous, striking, wonderful, surprising, astounding, extraordinary.
ANT: Common, ordinary, familiar, trivial, commonplace, customary, frequent, usual.
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Ambagious.
SYN: Tortuous, indirect, anfractuous, circumlocutory, circuitous, periphrastic, ambiguous, unintelligible, pointless, disjointed.
ANT: Simple, straightforward, plain, direct, obvious, intelligible, lucid, condensed, pointed, terse, pungent, telling.
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Ambiguous.
SYN: Equivocal, vague, doubtful, enigmatical, uncertain, obscure, unintelligible, perplexing, indistinct, dubious.
ANT: Univocal, obvious, plain, clear, unambiguous, indisputable, necessary, unmistakable, unequivocal, lucid.
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Ambition.
SYN: Aspiration, emulation, appetition.
ANT: Indifference, inappetency, contentment, moderation.
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Ameliorate.
SYN: Improve, raise, better, advantage, promote, advance, amend, rectify, meliorate.
ANT: Debase, depress, deteriorate, injure, impair, vitiate, spoil, mar.
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Amenable.
SYN: Liable, dependent, responsible, answerable, accountable, subject, pliant, impressible, ductile, docile.
ANT: Independent, autocratic, unamenable, irresponsible, refractory, obstinate.
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Amend.
SYN: Improve, mend, repair, correct, rectify, better, ameliorate, reform.
ANT: Deteriorate, degenerate, neglect, aggravate, tarnish, blemish, spoil, corrupt, vitiate, impair, mar.
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Amends.
SYN: compensation, satisfaction, acknowledgment, atonement, expiation, recompense, indemnity, remuneration, apology, reparation, restitution.
ANT: Insult, fault, offense, injury.
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Amenity.
SYN: Pleasantness, mildness, blandness, graciousness, gentility, compliableness, courtesy, obligingness.
ANT: Unpleasantness, moroseness, harshness, austerity, roughness, ungraciousness, bearishness, rigor, asperity, angularity, discourtesy.
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Amerce.
SYN: Find, bind, mulct, condemn.
ANT: Remit, acquit, absolve, indemnify, release.
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Amiable.
SYN: Lovable, good, kind, benevolent, charitable, delectable, engaging, fascinating, agreeable, lovely, pleading, charming, attractive.
ANT: Churlish, disagreeable, hateful, abominable, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, unamiable.
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Amicable.
SYN: Friendly, propitious, favorable, kind, cordial, neighborly, sociable.
ANT: Unfriendly, unpropitious, unfavorable, unkind, cold, distant, antagonistic, hostile, adverse.
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Amidst.
SYN: Between, among, betwixt.
ANT: Outside, without, beyond.
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Amiss.
SYN: Wrong, untrue, wide, bad, false, defective, short, inappropriate, inopportune, injudicious, untimely, abortive.
ANT: Right, true, good, complete, effective, successful, satisfactory, consummate, expedient, appropriate, opportune.
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Amity.
SYN: Friendliness, peace, sociableness, good will.
ANT: Coolness, distance, indifference, hostility, opposition, acrimony, antagonism, asperity, hatred, dislike, repugnance, unfriendliness.
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Among, [See AMIDST].
SYN: Pardon, acquittal, remission, condonation, oblivion, dispensation, absolution.
ANT: Penalty, retaliation, punishment, retribution, requital, visitation, infliction, exaction, trial, account.
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Amorphous.
SYN: Shapeless, unarranged, unformed, incompact, inchoate, incomplete, unordered, floating, unmoulded, natant, discurrent.
ANT: systematized, arranged, compact, finished, shapely, crystallized, de-, stereotyped, moulded.
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Amount \v.\
SYN: Reach, rise, come, attain, extend.
ANT: Fall, recede, relapse, decline, fail.
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Amount \n.\
SYN: Total, aggregate, sum, whole, quantity, totality, equality.
ANT: Failure, decrease, deficiency, portion, instalment, deficit, insufficiency.
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Ample.
SYN: Large, bountiful, liberal, copious, spacious, roomy, diffusive, full, complete, sufficient, plentiful, abundant,.
ANT: Narrow, niggardly, insufficient, stingy, scant, mean, stint, bare.
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Amplification, [See AMPLIFY].
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Amplify.
SYN: Enrich, enlarge, increase, augment, multiply, dilate, develop, swell, expatiate, expand, discuss, unfold, extend.
ANT: Retrench, amputate, curtail, condense, abbreviate, epitomize, gath, er, collect, sum.
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Amplitude, [See AMPLE].
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Amputate.
SYN: Prune, lop, curtail, clip, remove.
ANT: Extend, enlarge, augment, elongate, amplify, t rain, trail, develop, pra duce.
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Analogy.
SYN: Relation, resemblance, proportion, similarity, similitude, coincidence, affinity, comparison, parity.
ANT: Disproportion, dissimilarity, disharmony, irrelativeness, heterogeneousness, incongruity, inaffinity.
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Analysis.
SYN: Dissection, separation, anatomy, segregation, decomposition, resolution, partition.
ANT: Composition, synthesis, aggregation, combination, coalition, amalgamation, coherence.
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Anarchy.
SYN: Disorder, tumult, rebellion, riot, misgovernment, insubordination.
ANT: Order, subjection, government, organization, control, law.
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Anatomy.
SYN: Dissection, division, segregation, analysis, resolution, dismemberment.
ANT: Synthesis, collocation, organization, union, construction, structure, form, body.
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Ancient.
SYN: Old, antiquated, oldfashioned, antique, obsolete, old-time, aged, primeval, primordial, immemorial, time-honored.
ANT: New, young, modern, juvenile, upstart, fresh, parvenu.
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Ancillary.
SYN: Assistant, subservient, promotive, auxiliary, accessory, conducive, available, useful, applicable.
ANT: insubservient, redundant, inappropriate, irrelevant, alien, inoperative, unconducive, adverse, counteractive, obstructive, impertinent, preventive.
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Anew.
SYN: afresh, again, repeatedly.
ANT: Of old, continuously, uninterruptedly.
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anfractuosity.
SYN: Tortuousness, ambiguousness, angularity, ambiguity, circumlocution, disjointedness.
ANT: Straightforwardness, directness.
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Angelic.
SYN: Pure, ethereal, spiritual, lovely, heavenly, seraphic, rapturous, divine.
ANT: Foul, hideous, demoniacal, diabolical, hellish, fiendish.
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Anger \n.\
SYN: Ire, incentment, vexation, grudge, pique, exasperation, indignation, enmity, displeasure, irritation, passion, spleen, gall, resentment, rage, animosity, fury, choler, wrath.
ANT: Peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, appeasement, forgiveness, goodwill, patience, forbearance, reconciliation, conciliatoriness, mildness.
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Anger \v.\
SYN: Enrage, vex, kindle, fret, ruffle, chafe, infuriate, exasperate, provoke, irritate, incense, wound, inflame, imbitter.
ANT: To appease, compose, forbear, allay, soothe, calm, conciliate, heal.
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Angry.
SYN: Wrathful, irate, resentful, ireful, incensed, furious, irascible, choleric, moody, nettled, touchy, sullen, piqued, excited, provoked, raging, chafed, hasty, hot, exasperated, indignant, passionate.
ANT: Peaceful, forgiving, forbearing, calm, good-tempered, unresentful.
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Anguish.
SYN: Pain, pang, wound, sorrow, distress, grief, discomfort, torture, excruciation, agony, torment.
ANT: Ease, pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy, rapture, relief, solace, comfort, assuagement.
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Animadversion.
SYN: Rebuke, disapproval, censure, blame.
ANT: Praise, approval, encouragement, eulogy.
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Animate.
SYN: Enliven, Inspirit, instigate, quicken, exhilarate, embolden, rouse, revivify, cheer, gladden, stir, prompt, incite, stimulate.
ANT: Dishearten, deter, cow, stifle, depress, damp, deaden, discourage.
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Animated.
SYN: Boused, excited, inspirited, exhilarated, enlivened, vivacious, stirred, lively, brisk, enlivening, inspiring, spirited.
ANT: Sluggish, indolent, indifferent, dull, languid, flat, tame.
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Animation.
SYN: Life, vivacity, liveliness, airlines, cheerfulness, briskness, alacrity, buoyancy, spirit, exhilaration, sprightliness, promptitude, alertness, activity.
ANT: Expiration, spiritlessness, dulness, dolefulness, deadness, stolidity, inertness.
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Animosity.
SYN: Hatred, antipathy, dissention, aversion, acrimony, feud, strife, rancor, antagonism, bitterness, acerbity, hostility, enmity, malice, anger, malevolence, ill-will, malignity, feeling against.
ANT: Congeniality, companionship, friendship, sympathy, fellow-feeling, unanimity, harmony, concord, regard, alliance, kindliness.
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Annals.
SYN: Chronicles, memorials, records, registers, history, archives.
ANT: Tradition, legend, romance, lays.
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Annex.
SYN: Add, attach, fasten, affix, subjoin, append, connect, unite.
ANT: Withdraw, detach, disconnect, separate, disengage, disunite, remove.
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Annihilate.
SYN: Abolish, destroy, bring to nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface.
ANT: Keep, conserve, preserve, foster, tend, protest, cherish, develope, stabilitate, augment, cultivate, perpetuate.
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Annotation.
SYN: Explanation, criticism, remark, note, commentary, elucidation, observation, comment.
ANT: Statement, assertion, proposition, narrative, text.
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Announce.
SYN: Declare, propound, give notice, enunciate, advertise, publish, report, notify, make known, give out, reveal, herald, proclaim, intimate, promulgate.
ANT: Conceal, suppress, hush, stifle, withhold, shroud, bury, burke.
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Annoy.
SYN: Tease, vex, irritate, disturb, affront, molest, pain, disquiet, incommode, tantalize, bother, weary, inconvenience, plague, discommode, harass, chafe, trouble.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, appease, regard, quiet, accommodate, study, tend, foster, cherish, smooth, gratify.
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Annoyance.
SYN: Trouble, discomfort, vexation, worry, nuisance, bother, uneasiness, plague, bore.
ANT: Joy, gladness, gratification, delight, ease, pleasure.
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Annul.
SYN: Cancel, obliterate, make void, quash, nullify, revoke, rescind, destroy, set aside, abrogate, extinguish, abolish, repeal.
ANT: Foster, protect, conserve, confirm, maintain, enact, re-enact, institute, establish.
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Anomalous.
SYN: Irregular, abnormal, exceptional, unusual, eccentric.
ANT: Regular, normal, usual, ordinary, common, wonted, in the order of things.
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Anomaly.
SYN: Irregularity, abnormity, exception, informality, peculiarity, eccentricity.
ANT: Conformity, regularity, illustration, conformance, exemplification, specimen.
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Anon.
SYN: Soon, shortly, presently.
ANT: Hereafter.
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Anonymous.
SYN: Nameless, unattested, authorless, unidentified, unauthenticated.
ANT: Authenticated, attested, identified, authorized, verified, signed.
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Answer.
SYN: Reply, response, counter-argument, confutation, acceptance, (as of a challenge), tally, counterpart, solution, vindication, apology, exculpation, defense, rejoinder, repartee, retort.
ANT: Challenge, question, defiance, summons, interrogation, query.
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Answerable.
SYN: Liable, amenable, accountable, responsible, correspondent, agreeing.
ANT: Independent, unanswerable, irresponsible, different, unsuitable, disagreeing, dissimilar.
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Antagonism.
SYN: Hostility, opposition, animosity, enmity.
ANT: Amity, alliance, association.
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Antagonist.
SYN: Adversary, opponent, rival, competitor, foe, enemy.
ANT: Aider, abettor, accomplice, accessory, ally.
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Antagonistic.
SYN: Adverse, opposing, inimical, hostile, repugnant, contrary.
ANT: Favoring, aiding, harmonious, friendly, agreeable to.
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Antecedence.
SYN: Anteriority, priority, precursorship, premonition, Introduction, preparation, pre-existence.
ANT: Posteriority, subsequence, succession, sequel, supervention, consequence.
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Antecedent, [See ANTERIOR].
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Anterior.
SYN: Prior, foregoing, antecedent, previous, precursive, precedent, earlier, Introductory, preliminary, former.
ANT: Posterior, later, subsequent, consequent, succeeding.
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Anticipate.
SYN: Forestall, prejudge, expect, foretaste, apprehend, prevent, prearrange, prepare, prejudge, meet, obviate, intercept, forecast.
ANT: Remember, recollect, remedy, recall, undo, cure, misapprehend.
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Anticipation.
SYN: Prevention, expectation, forestallment, awaiting, preoccupation, preconception, foresight, forethought, foretaste, prelibation, preclusion, pregustation, antepast, forecast, provision.
ANT: Surprise, unpreparedness, Un-expectedness, inexpectation, actual enjoyment, non-expectation, realization, consummation.
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Antipathy.
SYN: Repugnance, dislike, hatred, detestation, contrariety, aversion, distaste, uncongeniality, antagonism, hostility, opposition, abhorrence.
ANT: Sympathy, kindliness, congeniality, fellow-feeling, affinity, harmony.
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Antiquated.
SYN: By-gone, quaint, old-fashioned, obsolete.
ANT: Fashionable, modish, stylish, modern.
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Antique.
SYN: Archaic, ancient, ancestral.
ANT: Modern, recent, new-fangled.
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Antithesis.
SYN: Contrast, opposition, contradiction, antagonism.
ANT: Identity, sameness, convertibility, coincidence, coalescence.
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Anxiety.
SYN: Care, trouble, eagerness, disquiet, apprehension, carefulness, diffidence, solicitude, misgiving.
ANT: Carelessness, ease, confidence, contentment, acquiescence, contentedness, apathy, light-heartedness, nonchalance.
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Anxious.
SYN: Solicitous, careful, uneasy, concerned, restless, watchful, disturbed, unquiet.
ANT: Without care, careless, inert, ease, unconcerned, calm, composed.
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Apace.
SYN: Rapidly, fast, astride, eagerly, ahead, expeditiously, speedily.
ANT: Slowly, imperceptibly, leisurely, creepingly, crawlingly, sluggishly, tardily.
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Apart.
SYN: Aloof, away, separately, secret, asunder, privately, aside, secretly, separate.
ANT: Close, together, united, along with, hand ill hand.
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Apartment.
SYN: Room, chamber, hall, lodging, berth.
ANT: Resident, dweller, lodger, occupant, inmate, tenant, housebuilding.
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Apathy.
SYN: Indifference, insensibility, unfeelingness in company, insusceptibility, unconcern, sluggishness, hebetude.
ANT: Anxiety, care, eagerness, interestedness, sensibility, susceptibility, sensitiveness, irritability, curiosity.
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Apathetic.
SYN: Unfeeling, stoical, cold, frigid, indifferent, impassive, insensible, insensitive.
ANT: Anxious, careful, sympathetic, sensitive, susceptible.
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Ape \v.\
SYN: Mimic, imitate, simulate, personate, represent.
ANT: Not to imitate, vary, modify, change.
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Aperture.
SYN: Opening, gap, chasm, fissure, cleft.
ANT: Closure, blocking up, seclusion, imperviousness, blank wall, shutting up.
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Apex, [See ACME].
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Aphorism.
SYN: Adage, apothegm, maxim, saying, precept, rule, proverb.
ANT: Lecture, exhortation, dissertation, disquisition.
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Apiece.
SYN: Distributively, individually, separately, severally, analytically.
ANT: Collectively, together, accumulatively, indiscriminately, confusedly, synthetically.
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Apocalypse.
SYN: Revelation, manifestation, unveiling, exhibition, divestment, exposure, disclosure.
ANT: Concealment, suppression, obscuration, veiling, shrouding, eclipse, envelopment.
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Apocryphal.
SYN: Obscure, doubtful, unauthorized, unauthentic, spurious, legendary, uncertain, unauthenticated, unverified.
ANT: Palpable, accepted, authorized, authentic, genuine, current, undisputed, verified, attested.
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Apologue.
SYN: Fable, fiction, parable.
ANT: Precept, history, narrative.
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Apology.
SYN: Defense, justification, plea, exculpation, excuse, vindication, acknowledgment, confession.
ANT: Charge, imputation, impeachment, offense, incrimination, injury, accusation, wrong, insult.
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Apostate, [See FEATURE].
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Apothegm.
SYN: Proverb, adage, dictum, maxim, saw, saying.
ANT: (As not so condensed), Exhortation, sermon, discourse, disquisition.
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Appal.
SYN: Affright, alarm, terrify, scare, daunt, cow, shock, frighten, discouraged, dishearten, horrify, dismay, astound.
ANT: Encourage, rally, assure, embolden, reassure.
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Apparel.
SYN: Clothes, robes, vesture, vestments, raiment, garniture, habiliments, habit, dress, clothing, caparison, trappings, housings.
ANT: Nudity, disinvestiture, deshabille, tatters, rags.
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Apparent.
SYN: Obvious, plain, conspicuous, manifest, appearing, unmistakable, clear, probable, seeming, presumable, likely, patent, ostensible, visible, evident, indubitable, notorious, certain.
ANT: Uncertain, dubious, inapparent, minute, unobservable, improbable, insupposable, hidden, real.
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Appeal.
SYN: Accost, address, apostrophize, invite, cite, invoke, urge, refer, call upon, entreat, request, resort.
ANT: Deprecate, repudiate, protest, disavow, disclaim, defy, abjure.
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Appearance.
SYN: Advent, coming, arrival, presence, apparition, aspect, Manifestatlon, probability, likeness, exhibition, mien, manner, semblance, air, show, look, pretense, likelihood, presumption.
ANT: Departure, disappearance, unlikelihood, non-appearance, concealment, evanition.
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Appease.
SYN: Pacify, assuage, mitigate, conciliate, propitiate, moderate, satisfy, stay, allay, quiet, soften, calm, compose, soothe, hush, cool, tranquilize.
ANT: Excite, provoke, aggravate, exasperate, inflame, embitter, incense, intensify, stimulate, kindle.
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Appellation.
SYN: Name, patronymic, cognomen, style, description, designation, title, denomination, term.
ANT: Namelessness, non-description, anonymousness.
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Append.
SYN: Affix, supplement, subjoin, attach.
ANT: Separate, disengage, disconnect, detach.
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Appendage.
SYN: Addition, annexation, adjunct, supplement.
ANT: Subtraction, separation, amalgamation, disconnection, detachment, disjunction, division, incorporation.
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Appended.
SYN: Added, joined, affixed, subjoined, attached, appended, additional, concomitant.
ANT: Detracted, disconnected, separated, disjoined, divided.
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Appendix, [See APPENDAGE].
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Appertaining, [See CONCERNING].

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