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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.
