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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
| Synonyms: | affectable, affected, feeling, impressible, influenceable, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, suggestible, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable, wax-like |
| Antonyms: | insusceptible, obstinate, stubborn, unimpressionable, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | intoxicated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely happy |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, affected, beside oneself, captivated, concerned, delirious, dizzy, drunk, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, euphoric, excited, exhilarated, galvanized, high*, infatuated, interested, moved, piqued, quickened, sent, stimulated, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | involved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | implicated in action |
| Synonyms: | affected, caught, concerned, eat sleep and breathe, embarrassed, embroiled, enmeshed, entangled, hooked, immersed in, incriminated, interested, into, knee-deep in, mixed up in, mixed up with, occupied, participating, taking part in, tangled, up to here in, up to one's neck in |
| Antonyms: | blameless, exonerated |
| Main Entry: | labored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult to understand, unclear |
| Synonyms: | affected, arduous, awkward, clumsy, contrived, effortful, forced, hard, heavy, inept, maladroit, operose, overdone, overwrought, ponderous, stiff, strained, strenuous, studied, toilsome, unnatural, uphill, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, natural, relaxed |
| Main Entry: | overcome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelmed; visibly moved |
| Synonyms: | affected, at a loss for words, beaten, blown-away, bowled-over, buried, conquered, defeated, overthrown, run-over, speechless, swamped, swept off one's feet, taken, unable to continue |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, unbothered, unconcerned, unflappable, unmoved |
| Main Entry: | overwrought |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted and excited |
| Synonyms: | affected, agitated, all shook up, beside oneself, crazy, distracted, emotional, excitable, fired-up, flipped out, frantic, freaked-out, high*, hot under collar, hot-and-bothered, hyper, in a state, keyed-up, nervous, neurotic, on edge, overexcited, overstrung, overworked, spent, steamed up, stirred, strung-out, tense, tired, uneasy, unstrung, uptight*, weary, wired, worked-up, worn, wound-up |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, cool, rested, unruffled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, false |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, forged, imitation, pseudo, put-on, sham*, spurious, trick |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | precious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely sophisticated and picky |
| Synonyms: | affected, alembicated, artful, artificial, chichi*, choosy, dainty, delicate, fastidious, finicky, fragile, fussy, la-di-da, nice, ostentatious, overnice, overrefined, particular, persnickety*, precieux, pretentious, refined, showy, stagy, studied |
| Antonyms: | defective, deficient, impaired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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