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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | balderdash, baloney, bilge, bunkum, claptrap, crap, hogwash, rubbish, trash |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | large, great |
| Synonyms: | a whale of a, ample, awash, brimming, bulky, bull*, burly, capacious, chock-full, colossal, commodious, considerable, copious, crowded, enormous, extensive, fat, full, gigantic, heavy-duty, heavyweight, hefty, huge, hulking, humongous*, husky, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mondo, monster*, oversize, packed, ponderous, prodigious, roomy, sizable, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, super colossal, thundering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, walloping, whopper, whopping |
| Antonyms: | itsy, little, small, tiny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | buck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male animal |
| Synonyms: | bull, stag |
Example Sentences
- My bull terrier jumping into the swimming pool to recover her tennis ball.
- Bull fighting isn't the same here as in other countries.
- It's the smallest three-dimensional sculpture ever made: a bull the size of a red blood cell.
| Main Entry: | cattle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bovine animals |
| Synonyms: | beasts, bovid mammals, bulls, calves, cows, dogies, herd, livestock, longhorn, moo cows, oxen, shorthorns, stock, strays |
| Main Entry: | detective |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | investigator of crime |
| Synonyms: | P. I., Sherlock Holmes, agent, analyst, bird dog, bloodhound, bull*, constable, cop, dick, eavesdropper, eye*, fed, fink, flatfoot, gumshoe, informer, nark, peeper, plainclothes officer, police officer, private eye, private investigator, prosecutor, reporter, roper, scout, sergeant, shadow*, shamus, shoofly, sleuth, slewfoot, snoop, spy, tail |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense communicated |
| Synonyms: | amphibiology, balderdash, baloney, bull*, drivel, equivocation, flimflam, gibberish, jazz, mumbo jumbo, rigmarole |
| Antonyms: | sense, straight talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | beefy, big, blimp, bovine, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, bull, burly, butterball, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, gargantuan, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, inflated, jelly-belly, lard, large, meaty, obese, oversize, paunchy, plump, plumpish, ponderous, porcine, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, solid, stout, swollen, thickset, weighty, whalelike |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, slight, slim, thin |
| Main Entry: | gobbledygook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bull*, bunk, cant, drivel, gibberish, hooey, macaronics, rigmarole, rubbish* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | great |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very large |
| Synonyms: | abundant, ample, big, big league, bulky, bull, colossal, considerable, decided, enormous, excessive, extended, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fat, gigantic, grievous, high, huge, humongous, husky, immense, inordinate, jumbo, lengthy, long, major league, mammoth, mondo, numerous, oversize, prodigious, prolonged, pronounced, protracted, strong, stupendous, terrible, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous |
| Antonyms: | few, little, miniature, minute, short, small |
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