Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, addicted, apt, disposed, habituated, inclined, inured, liable, obsessed, prone |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate |
| Synonyms: | air, announce, be a source of, broadcast, carry, deliver, emit, express, furnish, impart, issue, notify, present, pronounce, publish, put, read, render, state, supply, transfer, transmit, utter, vent, ventilate |
| Antonyms: | conceal, keep, refrain, withhold |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, proffer |
| Synonyms: | administer, bestow, confer, dispense, display, evidence, extend, furnish, hold out, indicate, issue, manifest, minister, offer, pose, present, produce, provide, put on, render, return, set forth, show, tender, yield |
| Antonyms: | keep |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yield, collapse |
| Synonyms: | allow, bend, bow to, break, cave, cede, concede, contract, crumble, crumple, devote, fail, fall, flex, fold, fold up, give way, go, grant, hand over, lend, open, recede, relax, relent, relinquish, retire, retreat, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, surrender, weaken |
| Antonyms: | fight, hold up, withstand |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform action |
| Synonyms: | address, apply, bend, buckle down, cause, devote, direct, do, engender, lead, make, occasion, produce, throw, turn |
| Main Entry: | apt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending, inclined |
| Synonyms: | disposed, given, liable, likely, of a mind, prone, ready |
| Notes: | apt is for general probabilities, likely is for specific probabilities; liable and prone indicate a probability arising as a regrettable consequence |
| Antonyms: | disinclined, inapt |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conjectured, connoted, counted on, given, granted, hypothesized, hypothetical, inferred, postulated, presumed, presupposed, supposed, suppositional, surmised, tacit, taken as known, taken for granted, understood |
| Antonyms: | unassumed, unexpected |
| Main Entry: | axiomatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understood; aphoristic |
| Synonyms: | absolute, accepted, aphoristic, apothegmatic, assumed, certain, fundamental, given, indubitable, manifest, obvious, presupposed, proverbial, self-evident, unquestioned |
| Antonyms: | misunderstood, questionable, uncertain |
| Main Entry: | disposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclined to a type of behavior |
| Synonyms: | apt, at drop of hat, biased, fain, game for, game*, given, liable, likely, minded, of a mind to, partial, predisposed, prone, ready, subject, tending toward, willing |
| Antonyms: | indisposed, unlikely, unready, unwilling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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