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guts
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guts
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, boldness |
| Synonyms: | audacity, backbone*, courage, daring, dauntlessness, effrontery, forcefulness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, heart*, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, pluck, resolution, sand*, spine, spirit, spunk*, willpower |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, fear, timidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean out, strip |
| Synonyms: | bowel, decimate, despoil, dilapidate, disembowel, draw, dress, empty, eviscerate, exenterate, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | audacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recklessness, daring |
| Synonyms: | adventurousness, audaciousness, boldness, bravery, courage, dauntlessness, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, nerve, rashness, valor, venturesomeness |
| Antonyms: | care, carefulness, caution, reserve, timidity |
| Main Entry: | audacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, presumptuousness |
| Synonyms: | assurance, audaciousness, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, cockiness, crust, defiance, disrespectfulness, effrontery, forwardness, gall, guts*, gutsiness, hardiness, impertinence, impudence, insolence, moxie, nerve, rudeness, shamelessness, spunk, stuff*, temerity |
| Antonyms: | gentility, humility, meekness, modesty, timidity, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, control |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authorization, beef, charge, clout*, command, credit, domination, dominion, edge, esteem, force, goods*, government, guts*, influence, juice*, jump, jurisdiction, leg up, license, mastery, might, might and main, permission, permit, pizzazz*, pow, powerhouse, prerogative, prestige, punch, right, ropes, rule, say, say-so, steam, strength, strong arm, stuff*, supremacy, sway, upper hand, warrant, weight, what it takes, whip hand, word, zap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | backbone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength of character |
| Synonyms: | courage, determination, firmness, fortitude, grit, guts, hardihood, heart, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moral fiber, nerve, pluck, resolution, resolve, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, tenacity, toughness, will, willpower |
| Antonyms: | ineptness, powerlessness, spinelessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pungency; stinging sensation |
| Synonyms: | burn, edge, guts*, kick, piquancy, punch, spice, sting, zap, zip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bowels |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insides |
| Synonyms: | belly, core, deep, depths, entrails, guts, hold, innards, interior, intestines, penetralia, recesses, viscera, vitals |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
| Synonyms: | blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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