Related Searches
Nearby Words
Related Questions
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wonder about |
| Synonyms: | ask oneself, brood, cudgel, marvel, mull over, muse, ponder, rack one's brains, study, think about, think hard |
| Antonyms: | not care |
| Main Entry: | scion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot, descendant |
| Synonyms: | begotten, branch, brood, child, chip off old block, graft, heir, heiress, issue, junior, offspring, progeny, seed, shoot, slip, sprout, successor, twig |
| Antonyms: | cause, root, source |
| Main Entry: | seed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, descendants, heirs, issue, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, race, scions, spawn, successors |
| Notes: | cede means to give over, surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another - while a seed is a small hard fruit or a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat a spore is a lone reproductive cell capable of producing a plant without combining with another cell; a seed develops from sexual recombination of genes from within one plant or two separate plants |
| Antonyms: | ancestor, parent |
| Main Entry: | sulk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pout |
| Synonyms: | be down in the mouth, be in a huff, be morose, be out of sorts, be silent, brood, frown, gloom, glower, gripe, grouse, grump, look sullen, lower, moon*, mope, scowl, take on |
| Antonyms: | be happy, grin, smile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | think |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contemplate |
| Synonyms: | analyze, appraise, appreciate, brood, cerebrate, cogitate, comprehend, conceive, consider, deduce, deliberate, estimate, evaluate, examine, figure out, have in mind, ideate, imagine, infer, intellectualize, judge, logicalize, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, rack one's brains, rationalize, reason, reflect, resolve, revolve, ruminate, sort out, speculate, stew, stop to consider, study, take under consideration, turn over, use one's head, weigh |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | worry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make anxious, troubled |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, annoy, attack, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, bite one's nails, bother, brood, bug*, chafe, concern oneself, depress, despair, disquiet, distress, disturb, dun, feel uneasy, fret, gnaw at, go for, goad, harass, harry, hassle, have qualms, hector, importune, irritate, needle, oppress, persecute, perturb, pester, plague, stew, sweat out, take on, tantalize, tear, tease, test, torment, torture, trouble, try, unsettle, upset, vex, wince, writhe, wrong |
| Antonyms: | reassure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | young |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate beings that are not mature |
| Synonyms: | babies, baby, brood, family, infants, issue, litter, little ones, offspring, progeny |
| Notes: | to be young is to be immature or not old; to be youthful is having the attractive qualities of a young person |
| Antonyms: | parent |
| Main Entry: | incubate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hatch |
| Synonyms: | breed, brood, nurture, produce |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
