ANT: Overlook, disregard, dishonor, despise, contemn.
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KEY: Respect \n.\
SYN: Reference, i elation, regard, honor, deference.
ANT: Irrelativeness, disregard, contempt, dishonor, insult,
contumely, disrespect.
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KEY: Respectable \a.\
SYN: Worthy, good, considerable, laudable.
ANT: Unworthy, bad, unrespectable, mean, inconsiderable.
=
KEY: Respective.
SYN: relative, appertaining.
ANT: Absolute, irrespective.
=
KEY: Respite, [See REPRIEVE].
=
KEY: Resplendent.
SYN: Brilliant, gorgeous, luminous, glittering, flashing, burnished.
ANT: Dead, dull, lustreless, sombre.
=
KEY: Respond.
SYN: Answer, reply, rejoin, correspond, tally, accord, meet, suit.
ANT: Propound, disagree, disaccord, jar, differ.
=
KEY: Response, [See ANSWER].
=
KEY: Responsible, [See ACCOUNTABLE].
=
KEY: Responsive.
SYN: Answering, correspondent, echoing, sympathetic, obedient.
ANT: Alien, unsympathetic, strange, irresponsive.
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KEY: Rest \n.\
SYN: Quiet, repose, cessation, tranquillity, peace, security, pause,
interval, intermission.
ANT: Tumult, commotion, agitation, disquiet, unrest, insecurity,
continuity, uninterruptedness, progression, restlessness.
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KEY: Restitution.
SYN: Restoration, return, indemnification, reparation, compensation,
amends.
ANT: Fraud, deprivation, wrong, robbery, abstraction, injury.
=
KEY: Restive.
SYN: Stubborn, obstinate, uneasy, balky, recalcitrant.
ANT: Docile, manageable, tractable.
=
KEY: Restless.
SYN: Unquiet, uneasy, disturbed, sleepless, agitated, roving,
incessant, tossing.
ANT: Calm, quiet, reposing, still, motionless.
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KEY: Restoration.
SYN: Recovery, replacement, renewal, renovation, redintegration,
re-establishment, return, revival, restitution, reparation,
compensation, amends.
ANT: Loss, lapse, forfeiture, displacement, deterioration,
impairment, deprivation, abandonment, departure, injury, waste,
abstraction, seizure, wrong.
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KEY: Restorative.
SYN: Compensatory, remedial, reparatory, invigorating.
ANT: Exhaustive, debilitating, wasting, consumptive.
=
KEY: Restore.
SYN: Return, replace, refund, repay, reinstate, re-establish, renew,
repair, recover, heal, cure, refresh.
ANT: Abstract, remove, displace, appropriate, alienate, deprive,
impair, wound, injure, dilapidate, shatter.
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KEY: Restrain.
SYN: Check, repress, hinder, limit, confine, restrict, withhold, curb,
coerce, prohibit, narrow, circumscribe, reduce.
ANT: Promote, advance, urge, incite, aid, liberate, indulge, loose,
vent, amplify, enlarge, expand, extend.
=
KEY: Restraint, [See CHECK \n.\].
=
KEY: Restrict, [See RESTRAIN].
=
KEY: Result \v.\
SYN: Terminate, end, ensue, eventuate.
ANT: Originate, arise, precede, spring, commence, start, begin.
=
KEY: Result \n.\
SYN: Termination, end, issue, effect, consequence, product, fruit,
outcome, upshot, development, conclusion, remainder.
ANT: Beginning, commencement, initiative, cause, rise, spring,
origin, operation, causation, tendency, production, antecedent,
premonition, prognostic, indication.
=
KEY: Resume.
SYN: Recommence, renew, return, begin again.
ANT: Drop, discontinue, intermit, interrupt.
=
KEY: Resumption, [See RESUME].
=
KEY: Resurrection.
SYN: Rising, renovation, resuscitation, regeneration.
ANT: Death, burial, interment, {[ex]?}, tinction.
=
KEY: Resuscitate.
SYN: Revive, re-excite, reanimate, reinvigorate, revivify.
ANT: Extinguish, lay, prostrate, quench.
=
KEY: Retain.
SYN: Keep, hold, restrain.
ANT: Abandon, forfeit, surrender.
=
KEY: Retaliate.
SYN: Avenge, retort, repay, requite.
ANT: Pardon, condone, forgive.
=
KEY: Retaliation.
SYN: Revenge, repayment, retribution, requital, reprisals,
reciprocation.
ANT: Pardon, condonation, forgiveness, r mission.
=
KEY: Retard.
SYN: Clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer.
ANT: Accelerate, expedite, promote.
=
KEY: Retentive.
SYN: Preservative, close, tenacious, mindful.
ANT: Loose, leaky, oblivious.
=
KEY: Reticence.
SYN: Reserve, silentness, refrain, repressiveness.
ANT: Unreserve, abandon, garrulity, freedom.
=
KEY: Reticent.
SYN: Silent, taciturn, voiceless, still, re-.
=
KEY: Retinue.
SYN: Retainers, attendant, suite, pomp, followers, tail, satellites,
escort, cortege.
ANT: Nonattendance, unstateliness, solitariness.
=
KEY: Retire.
SYN: Withdraw, retreat, depart, secede, shrink, repair.
ANT: Approach, advance.
=
KEY: Retirement.
SYN: Solitude, privacy, departure, seclusion, recess, concavity,
retreat.
ANT: Publicity, approach, advance, prominence, protrusion,
convexity.
=
KEY: Retort \n.\
SYN: Rejoinder, replicable, repartee, reciprocation, retaliation,
reply, answer.
ANT: Concession, confession, acquiescence, acceptance.
=
KEY: Retort \v.\ [See REPLY and RETALIATE].
=
KEY: Retract.
SYN: Withdraw, recal, revoke, unsay, disavow, recant, abjure,
renounce.
ANT: Reiterate, repeat.
=
KEY: Retreat \v.\ [See RETIRE].
=
KEY: Retreat \n.\
SYN: Retirement, departure, withdrawal, seclusion, solitude, privacy,
asylum, shelter, refuge, recess, [See RETIRE].
=
KEY: Retrench.
SYN: Reduce, abbreviate, diminish, limit, contract, curtail, lessen,
economize.
ANT: Enlarge, increase, extend, expand, multiply, amplify, augment.
=
KEY: Retrenchment \n.\
SYN: curtailment, diminution, reduction.
ANT: Enlargement, expansion, extension.
=
KEY: Retribution.
SYN: Penalty, repayment, reward, compensation, punishment,
visitation.
ANT: Condonation, remission, pardon, reprieve, non-retribution,
sparing.
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KEY: Retrievable.
SYN: Recoverable, redeemable, hopeful, salvable, reformable,
amendable.
ANT: Hopeless, desperate, irredeemable, irrecoverable, reprobate,
lost, irreformable, unamendable.
=
KEY: Retrieve.
SYN: Recover, regain, rescue, repair, restore.
ANT: Lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, impair, deteriorate.
=
KEY: Retrogression.
SYN: Retreat, retirement, decline, relapse.
ANT: Advance, progress, improvement, amelioration.
=
KEY: Retrospect.
SYN: Review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration.
ANT: Prognostication, anticipation, speculation, forecasting,
prophecy, prospect.
=
KEY: Return.
SYN: Recur, revert, reappear, come back, repay, requite, recompense,
retaliate, render, restore, yield, produce, give back, repay.
ANT: Depart, remove, vanish, disappear, retain, appropriate,
misappropriate, alienate, withhold.
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KEY: Reveal.
SYN: Unveil, disclose, show, communicate, divulge, discover, expose,
unearth, make known.
ANT: Hide, obscure, conceal, suppress, cover, cloak.
=
KEY: Revel.
SYN: Carouse, feast, banquet, luxuriate, wallow.
ANT: Fast, abstain, nauseate.
=
KEY: Revelation.
SYN: Discovery, disclosure, divine communication, apocalypse.
ANT: Concealing, veiling, shrouding, keeping back.
=
KEY: Revelry.
SYN: Carousal, noisy, festivity, feast, orgies, wassail.
ANT: Fast, abstinence.
=
KEY: Revenge \n.\
SYN: Retaliation, vengeance, retribution, requital.
ANT: Condonation, pardon, compassion, remission.
=
KEY: Revenge \v.\ [See RETIREMENT].
=
KEY: Revengeful.
SYN: Vindictive, unforgiving, uncompassionate, spiteful, resentful.
ANT: Unvindictive, forgiving, compassionate, unresentful, generous,
chivalrous.
=
KEY: Revenue.
SYN: Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment.
ANT: Outgoings, expenditure, waste, deductions, exhaustion, expense,
impoverishment.
=
KEY: Reverberate.
SYN: Echo, recoil, reflect, revert, resound.
ANT: Strike, impinge, beat.
=
KEY: Reverberation, [See ECHO].
=
KEY: Reverence.
SYN: Honor, awe, veneration, adoration, deference, devotion, respect,
worship, homage.
ANT: Dishonor, contempt, slight, irreverent, contumely, contumacy.
=
KEY: Reverie.
SYN: Dream, daydream, trance, vision, phantasy, ideality,
woolgathering, wandering, musing.
ANT: Study, attention, diligence, application.
=
KEY: Reverse \v.\
SYN: Invert, derange, upset, overturn, subvert, annul,
counterchange.
ANT: Order, arrange, place, collocate, range.
=
KEY: Reverse \n.\
SYN: Inversion, derangement, counterchange, counterposition,
opposition, contrariety, contradiction, alteration, change,
mutation, rear, back, evolution, counterexhibition.
ANT: Version, arrangement, sequence, order, collocation, position,
perpetuation, continuance, stability, identity, uniformity,
regularity, obverse, front.
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KEY: Reversible.
SYN: Changeable, exchangeable, counterchangeable, alterable,
mutable, revocable, discretional.
ANT: Perpetual, unalterable, unchangeable, irreversible, absolute,
undiscretional.
=
KEY: Revert.
SYN: Return, refer, accrue, reaccrue, recur.
ANT: Depart, escheat, ignore, drop, dismiss, discard.
=
KEY: Review \v.\
SYN: Reconsider, revise, examine, survey, inspect.
ANT: Discard, dismiss, overlook, skim, disregard, misexamine.
=
KEY: Review \n.\
SYN: Resurvey, retrospect, reconsideration, revisal, re-examination,
critique, criticism.
=
KEY: Revile.
SYN: Reproach, asperse, upbraid, malign, slander, calumniate, vilify,
abuse, blaspheme.
ANT: Flatter, compliment, eulogize, panegyrize, laud, extol.
=
KEY: Revise.
SYN: Alter, amend, re-examine, [See ECHO].
=
KEY: Revive.
SYN: Reanimate, revivify, resucitate, refresh, reassure, recover,
awake, live.
ANT: Extinguish, kill, depress, exhaust, discourage, droop, fade,
wither, decline, die.
=
KEY: Revivify, [See REVIEW].
=
KEY: Revocable, [See REVIVE].
=
KEY: Revoke.
SYN: Recal, withdraw, cancel, annul, rescind, repeal, declare void.
ANT: Sanction, enact, perpetuate, enforce, reiterate, renew.
=
KEY: Revolt \v.\ int.
SYN: Rebel, struggle, kick, resist, rise, recalcitrate.
ANT: Acquiesce, obey, submit.
=
KEY: Revolt \n.\
SYN: Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny.
ANT: Submission, acquiescence, loyalty.
=
KEY: Revolting.
SYN: Shocking, repulsive, disgusting, offensive, horrible, hideous,
abhorrent.
ANT: Attractive, genial, pleasing, charming, captivating.
=
KEY: Revolution.
SYN: Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion,
revolt, reconstitution, emeute.
ANT: Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance,
stabilisation, perpetuation, suppression.
=
KEY: Revolve.
SYN: Contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel,
rotate, circulate.
ANT: Discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider.
=
KEY: Revulsion \n.\
SYN: Revolution, abhorrence, estrangement, antagonism.
ANT: Coincidence, harmony, acquiescence, sympathy, reconcilement,
familiarity, reciprocity.
=
KEY: Reward \v.\
SYN: Compensate, honor, decorate, remunerate, pay, recompense.
ANT: Punish, misrequite.
=
KEY: Rhetorical.
SYN: Declamatory, persuasive, oratorical, lively, animated,
spirited.
ANT: logical, calm, cool, deliberate.
=
KEY: Rich.
SYN: Wealthy, opulent, affluent, abundant, generous, productive,
copious, fertile, fruitful, valuable, costly, high-flavored,
luscious, oleaginous, vivid, deep, bright, superb, gorgeous.
ANT: Poor, impoverished, impecunious, needy, indigent, reduced,
exhausted, unproductive, scanty, niggardly, barren, sterile,
unfruitful, valueless, tasteless, watery, pale, beggarly, nude, bald,
cold.
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KEY: Riches.
SYN: Wealth, opulence, affluence, wealthiness, richness, plenty,
abundance, treasure, possessions.
ANT: Poverty, pauperism, impecuniosity, neediness, indigence,
destitution, necessity, lack, privation, beggary, insolvency.
=
KEY: Riddance.
SYN: Quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape.
ANT: Entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance.
=
KEY: Riddle.
SYN: Puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, problem, paradox.
ANT: Solution, explanation, statement, proposition, axiom.
=
KEY: Ridicule \n.\
SYN: Derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery,
irony, satire, sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect.
ANT: Veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage.
=
KEY: Ridicule \v.\
SYN: Lampoon, deride, mock at, laugh at, jeer, [See
REVOKE and REVERSIBLE].
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KEY: Ridiculous.
SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, droll, contemptible, preposterous, absurd,
grotesque, trifling, trivial.
ANT: Serious, grave, important, weighty, considerable, venerable,
imposing, majestic.
=
KEY: Rifle \v.\ [See RANSACK].
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KEY: Right \n.\
SYN: Rectitude, correctness, straightness, integrity, justice, truth,
propriety, fitness, suitableness, claim, power, privilege.
ANT: Wrong, incorrectness, perverseness, crookedness, disintegrity,
injustice, falsehood, impropriety, unfitness, usurpation,
encroachment, force, violence.
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KEY: Right \a.\
SYN: Straight, upright, direct, lawful, correct, exact, just, fair,
fit, proper, suitable, equitable.
ANT: Crooked, indirect, wrong, unlawful, inexact, unjust, unfair,
unfit, improper, unsuitable.
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KEY: Righteous.
SYN: Upright, just, godly, virtuous, uncorrupt, rightful, equitable,
truthful, conscientious.
ANT: Unrighteous, perverse, evil, unjust, ungodly, vicious, corrupt,
wrongful, false, unconscientious, unprincipled, unjustifiable,
abandoned, profligate, dishonorable, unfair.
=
KEY: Righteousness \n.\ [See PIETY and HONESTY].
=
KEY: Rigid.
SYN: Stiff, unpliant, unflexible, stubborn, tough, stark, staunch,
unswerving, exact, unbending, undeviating, austere.
ANT: Pliant, docile, flexible, variable, mild, lenient, inexact,
yielding, inconstant, inconsistent.
=
KEY: Rigor \n.\ [See RIGID and ASPERITY].
=
KEY: Rill.
SYN: Streamlet, brook, brooklet, creek, rivulet.
ANT: River, large stream.
=
KEY: Kind.
SYN: Skin, peel, bark, husk.
ANT: Kernel, meat, wood, pulp, fruit.
=
KEY: Riot.
SYN: Noise, uproar, tumult, fray, outbreak, mutiny, row, revel,
disturbance, turbulence.
ANT: Peace, pacification, sobriety, quiescence, orderliness.
=
KEY: Ripe.
SYN: Perfect, developed, full, matured, seasoned, ready, prepared,
mellow, mature, advanced, consummate.
ANT: Raw, crude, Immature, imperfect, undeveloped, blighted,
unseasoned, sour, unready, unfit, unprepared, unmellowed, green,
withered.
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KEY: Rise \v.\
SYN: Ascend, mount, float, soar, grow, arise, tower, slope, appear,
emerge, spring, originate, extend, expand, swell, increase, excel,
prosper, climb.
ANT: Descend, decline, sink, drop, diminish, fall, subside, crouch,
nestle, dip, set, wane, vanish, disappear, terminate, end, debouch,
contract, decrease, fail.
=
KEY: Rise \n.\
SYN: Spring, fountain head, source, [See RIGID and ASPERITY].
=
KEY: Risible.
SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, [See RIDICULOUS].
=
KEY: Risk \n.\
SYN: Hazard, danger, peril, exposure, jeopardy.
ANT: Safety, security, insurance, protection, prophylactic.
=
KEY: Risk \v.\
SYN: Hazard, peril, jeopard, venture, stake, [See HAZARD].
=
KEY: Rite.
SYN: Form, custom, ceremony, observance, usage, celebration.
ANT: Inobservance, disuse, obsoleteness, nonobservance,
noncelebration, desuetude.
=
KEY: Rival \n.\
SYN: Antagonist, competitor, cosuitor.
ANT: Adherent, supporter, comrade, coadjutor, neutral.
=
KEY: Rival \v.\
SYN: Emulate, challenge, equal, contend, strive, compete.
ANT: Succumb, surrender, yield, promote, reverence, retire, defer.
=
KEY: Road.
SYN: Public way, highway, route, thoroughfare, course, pathway,
path.
=
KEY: Roam.
SYN: Wander, rove, range, stroll, ramble, stray, saunter.
ANT: Hurry, speed, fly, hasten, press.
=
KEY: Roar.
SYN: Howl, vociferate, peal, yell, boom, resound, [See BAWL].
=
KEY: Rob.
SYN: Plunder, deprive, denude, strip, pillage, defraud, cheat,
impoverish.
ANT: Compensate, endow, enrich, invest, indemnify.
=
KEY: Robber.
SYN: Thief, depredator, plunderer, freebooter, brigand, pirate,
highwayman, footpad.
ANT: Guard, escort, protector.
=
KEY: Robbery.
SYN: Theft, larceny, pillage, plundering, depredation, spoliation.
ANT: Guarding, protecting, indemnifying, compensating, enriching.
=
KEY: Robe.
SYN: Invest, clothe, deck, drape, array.
ANT: Divest, disrobe, unclothe, denude, strip.
=
KEY: Robust.
SYN: Strong, lusty, brawny, able-bodied, sturdy, sinewy, muscular,
hale, hearty, vigorous, sound, iron.
ANT: Weak, frail, puny, fragile, weakly, delicate, sickly.
=
KEY: Rogue.
SYN: Vagabond, scamp, rascal, villain, cheat, swindler, sharper.
ANT: True-penny, gentleman.
=
KEY: Roguery.
SYN: Trickery, cheating, chicanery, swindling, vagabondism, mischief,
fraud, knavery.
ANT: Honesty, integrity, honor, uprightness, conscientiousness.
=
KEY: Roll \v.\
SYN: Revolve, wheel, rotate, turn over and over, rock,
trundle wallow.
=
KEY: Roll \n.\ [See RECORD].
=
KEY: Rollicking.
SYN: Roystering, frolicsome, hoydenish, blustering.
ANT: Staid, sedate, demure.
=
KEY: Romance.
SYN: Fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade,
balderdash.
ANT: History, narrative, truth, fact.
=
KEY: Romantic.
SYN: Fabulous, rhapsodical, wild, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious,
sentimental.
ANT: Historical, literal, truthful, unromantic, unvarnished,
unadorned.
=
KEY: Room.
SYN: Space, ground, compass, extent, locality, opportunity,
capability, occasion, margin, capacity, admission.
ANT: Restriction, limitation, confinement, incapability, exclusion,
neutralization.
=
KEY: Roomy, [See SPACIOUS].
=
KEY: Root.
SYN: Radix, radicle, stem, origin, source, spring, rise, commencement,
parent.
ANT: Branch, ramification, outcome, product, issue, progeny.
=
KEY: Rooted.
SYN: Fixed, established, grounded, based, inveterate, domiciled,
naturalized, installed.
ANT: Unestablished, insecure, uncertain, wavering, unsettled,
oscillating, dubious, precarious, superficial, specious, propped,
bolstered, shored.
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KEY: Rot.
SYN: Putrefaction, corruption, putrescence, mouldiness, mildew,
decay.
ANT: Integrity, wholesomeness, soundness, vigor, preservation,
purity, healthiness, sweetness.
=
KEY: Rotation.
SYN: Turn, series, order, succession, revolution, course, reversion,
recurrence.
ANT: Simultaneity, perpetuity, constancy, non-intermittence,
contemporaneousness.
=
KEY: Rotten, [See PUTRID].
=
KEY: Rotundity.
SYN: Roundness, convexity, circularity, sphericity, globosity,
prominence, protuberance, intumescence.
ANT: Concavity, flatness, angularity.
=
KEY: Rough.
SYN: Uneven, harsh, bristly, scabrous, rugged, knotty, unpolished,
boisterous, tempestuous, stormy, coarse, craggy, gruff, crude,
severe, shaggy, disordered, unrefined, uncourteous, rude, unshaped,
churlish, blunt.
ANT: Even, smooth, level, polished, glabrous, glossy, glassy, silky,
sleek, velvety, calm, tranquil, refined, courteous, courtly, shapely,
shaped, finished, oily, specious.
=
KEY: Round.
SYN: Circular, globular, spherical, entire, complete, rotund, smooth,
plump.
ANT: Flat, angular, concave.
=
KEY: Roundabout, [See CIRCUITOUS].
=
KEY: Rouse.
SYN: Wake, excite, agitate, startle, surprise.
ANT: Compose, allay, calm, soothe, quiet, repress, Rout, [See
CIRCUITOUS].
=
KEY: Route.
SYN: Way, course, passage, march, path, track, direction.
=
KEY: Routine.
SYN: Round, course, succession, order, rule, custom, system, sequence,
gradation, rotation, stereotype, prescription, tenor, uniformity,
method, settlement, regulation.
ANT: Casualty, chance, lottery, fortune, impulse, interest,
individuality, merit, spontaneity, alterableness, margin, deviation,
modification.
=
KEY: Rove, [See ROAM].
=
KEY: Row \n.\
SYN: Series, order, rank, sequence, continuation, continuity, file,
string, concatenation, thread.
ANT: Dissociation, disconnection, rupture, intermission, hiatus,
solution, failure, gap, discontinuance, dissolution, inconsequence,
derangement, deviation, flexion, deflexion, irregularity, sinuosity,
flexuosity.
=
KEY: Row \n.\ [See RIOT].
=
KEY: Royal, [See REGAL].
=
KEY: Rubbish.
SYN: debris, waste matter, fragments, litter, dross, refuse,
lion sense, trash.
ANT: [met.] see Cream and Nonsense.
=
KEY: Rubicund.
SYN: Ruddy, flushed, red, sanguine, blushing.
ANT: Pale, wan, pallid, exsanguineous.
=
KEY: Ruddy, [See RUBICUND].
=
KEY: Rude.
SYN: Impertinent, rough, uneven, shapeless, unfashioned,
artless, unpolished, uncouth, inelegant, rustic, coarse, vulgar,
clownish, raw, unskilful, untaught, illiterate, ignorant, uncivil,
saucy, impolite, impudent, insolent, surly, {[currifb]?}, churlish,
brutal, uncivilized, barbarous, savage, violent, tumultuous,
turbulent, Impetuous, boisterous, harsh, inclement, severe,
Insulting, grotesque, barbaric, archaic.
ANT: Modest, bashful, civil, courteous, ceremonious, deferential,
smooth, even, artistic, polished, fashioned, courtly, elegant,
high-wrought, polite, accommodating, considerate, refined, gentle,
peaceful, culm, genial, balmy, halcyonic, serene, placid, modern,
modish, fashionable.
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KEY: Rudiment.
SYN: Principle, begin, ning, germ, seed, embryo, element, nucleus,
initiation, commencement.
ANT: Perfection, completion, development, expansion, organization,
fruit, maturity, consummation, product, issue.
=
KEY: Rudimental, [See ELEMENTARY].
=
KEY: Rue, [See REPENT].
=
KEY: Ruffle.
SYN: Wrinkle, roughen, dis, compose, disturb, agitate, disorder,
derange, disarrange, confute, excite.
ANT: Smooth, allay, equalize, compose, quiet, arrange, conciliate.
=
KEY: Ruffian.
SYN: Villain, cutthroat, brutal fellow, bully.
=
KEY: Rugged.
SYN: Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard,
crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt,
untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficult.
ANT: Even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine,
finished, soft, mild, courtly, courteous, [See {[caitubtroka %]?}].
=
KEY: Ruin.
SYN: Fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse,
desolation, downfall, perdition, subversion, decay, decadence,
prostration, dilapidation, disorganization.
ANT: Rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery,
stabilisation, conservation, regeneration, revivification,
reparation, renascence, organization, construction.
=
KEY: Ruinous, [See PERNICIOUS].
=
KEY: Rule \n.\
SYN: Regulation, law, precept, principle, maxim, practice, guide,
canon, order, method, direction, authority, control, mastery,
government, decision, determination, habit.
ANT: Irregularity, nonconformity, exception, deviation,
eccentricity.
=
KEY: Rule \v.\
SYN: Govern, manage, control, direct, command, dominate,
[See CONTROL and GOVERN].
=
KEY: Ruling.
SYN: Governing, reigning, controlling, masterful, predominant,
regulating, prevalent.
ANT: Obeying, yielding, subservient.
=
KEY: Ruminate.
SYN: Muse, meditate, ponder, think, reflect, cogitate, brood.
ANT: Unbend, relax, idle, gape, woolgather.
=
KEY: Rumor.
SYN: Report, repute, hearsay, publication, bruit.
ANT: Authentication, verification, proof, evidence, notoriety.
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KEY: Rumple.
SYN: Ruffle, wrinkle, crease, crumple, pucker, corrugate, derange,
roughen.
ANT: Smooth, flatten, arrange.
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KEY: Run.
SYN: Course, go, speed, hasten, hurry, fly,
rush, escape, retreat, pass, proceed, flow, ooze, leak, melt, fuse,
confuse, blend, extend, reach, work, operate, traverse, tend,
incline.
ANT: Walk, saunter, lounge, drag, stay, stop, halt, hobble, resist,
hold, stanch, stand, fail, drop, expire, disincline, hesitate.
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KEY: Rupture.
SYN: Breaking, bursting, tearing, laceration, partition, disruption,
breach, dissolution, fracture, break, severance, disseverance,
discerption, disorganization, separation, dilaceration,