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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fame |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, celebrity, distinction, eminence, glory, honor, illustriousness, kudos, luster, mark, note, notoriety, preeminence, prestige, prominence, prominency, rep, reputation, repute, stardom, éclat |
| Antonyms: | anonymity, obscurity, unimportance |
| Concept: | Choice. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
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-adjectives
optional; discretional (voluntary)., eclectic; choosing; preferential; chosen; choice (good).
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| Antonyms: | absence of choice |
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| Concept: | Credit. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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-adjectives
crediting, credited; accredited.
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| Antonyms: | debt |
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| Concept: | [Relative quantity] Degree. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE QUANTITY |
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comparative; gradual, shading off; within the bounds (limit).
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| Concept: | Difference. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION; RELATIONS |
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differing; different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform; daedal., other, another, not the same; unequal; unmatched; widely apart, poles apart, distinctive, characteristic; discriminative; distinguishing.
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| Antonyms: | identity, uniformity, similarity |
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| Concept: | [Results of comparison] Discrimination. |
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discriminating; dioristic, discriminative, distinctive; nice.
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| Antonyms: | indiscrimination |
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| Concept: | Dissimilarity. |
| Category: | 3. PARTIAL RELATION |
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dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind (class); unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented; original., nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale " [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo., diversified.
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| Antonyms: | similarity |
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| Concept: | [Motion further off] Divergence. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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diverging; divergent, radiant, centrifugal; aberrant.
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| Antonyms: | convergence |
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| Concept: | Elegance. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Cieceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical., graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical., felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed.
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| Antonyms: | inelegance |
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