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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inspect, examine |
| Synonyms: | analyze, ascertain, audit, balance account, candle, case, compare, confirm, correct, count, enquire about, eyeball, find out, frisk, go through, investigate, keep account, look at, look over, look see, make sure, monitor, note, overlook, probe, prove, quiz, review, scout out, scrutinize, study, take stock, tell, test, try, verify |
| Main Entry: | backward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slow in growth |
| Synonyms: | arrested, behind, checked, delayed, dense, dull, feeble-minded, imbecile, late, moronic, stupid, subnormal, underdeveloped, underprivileged, undeveloped |
| Antonyms: | developing, fast, intelligent, smart |
| Main Entry: | intermittent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irregular, sporadic |
| Synonyms: | alternate, arrested, broken, by bits and pieces, checked, cyclic, cyclical, discontinuing, discontinuous, epochal, every other, fitful, here and there, hit-or-miss, infrequent, interrupted, isochronal, isochronous, iterant, iterative, metrical, now and then, occasional, on and off, periodic, periodical, punctuated, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rhythmical, seasonal, serial, shifting, spasmodic, stop-and-go |
| Antonyms: | constant, continual, continuing, perpetual, regular |
| Main Entry: | limited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restricted, definite |
| Synonyms: | bound, bounded, checked, circumscribed, confined, constrained, controlled, curbed, defined, delimited, determinate, finite, fixed, hampered, hemmed in, local, modified, narrow, particular, precise, qualified, reserved, restrained, sectional, topical |
| Antonyms: | indefinite, limitless, unbounded, unlimited, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | numbered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited in number |
| Synonyms: | categorized, checked, contained, counted, designated, doomed, enumerated, fated, fixed, included, indicated, marked, specified, told, totalled |
| Antonyms: | infinite, unlimited, unnumbered |
| Main Entry: | pent-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | held within |
| Synonyms: | bottled-up, bridled, checked, constrained, curbed, held in check, held-back, inhibited, repressed, restrained, restricted, smothered, stifled, suppressed |
| Antonyms: | public, released |
| Main Entry: | plaid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | checkered |
| Synonyms: | checked, tartan, variegated |
| Notes: | tartan is the name for the cloth and plaid as the name for the particular pattern, but the words are often used interchangeably so that tartan can mean any checkered pattern and plaid can mean any checkered fabric |
| Main Entry: | safe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not dangerous |
| Synonyms: | certain, checked, clear, competent, decontaminated, dependable, harmless, healthy, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, neutralized, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, pure, reliable, risk-free, riskless, secure, sound, tame, trustworthy, uninjurious, unpolluted, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | dangerous, harmful, poisonous, unsafe |
| Main Entry: | silent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet; speechless |
| Synonyms: | bashful, buttoned up, checked, clammed up, close, closed up, closemouthed, curbed, dumb, dummied up, faint, hush, hushed, iced, inarticulate, incoherent, inconversable, indistinct, inhibited, laconic, mousy, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonvocal, not talkative, reserved, restrained, reticent, shy, silentious, soundless, still, struck dumb, taciturn, tongue-tied, unclear, uncommunicative, unheard, unsociable, unspeaking, voiceless, wordless, zipped |
| Antonyms: | clamorous, communicative, noisy, talkative |
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