Related Searches
Nearby Words
draining
| Main Entry: |
draining
|
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiring |
| Synonyms: | debilitating, depleting, exhausting, fatiguing, sapping, taxing, tiresome, wearing, wearying |
| Main Entry: | drain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seep, discharge liquid |
| Synonyms: | abate, decline, decrease, diminish, dwindle, effuse, exude, filter off, flow, flow out, leak, leave dry, ooze, osmose, percolate, reduce, run off, taper off, trickle, well |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | refinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleansing |
| Synonyms: | clarification, cleaning, depuration, detersion, distillation, draining, filtering, processing, purification, rarefaction, rectification |
| Antonyms: | corruption, dirtying, pollution |
| Main Entry: | ruinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous, devastating |
| Synonyms: | annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous, noxious, pernicious, shattering, suicidal, unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful |
| Main Entry: | evacuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal |
| Synonyms: | clearing, discharge, draining, emptying, expulsion |
| Main Entry: | pouring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | streaming |
| Synonyms: | discharging, draining, flooding, flowing, gushing, raining, rainy, running, rushing, showering, spilling, spouting, spurting |
| Main Entry: | wearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiring |
| Synonyms: | draining, exhausting |
| Main Entry: | exhausting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiring |
| Synonyms: | debilitating, depleting, draining, fatiguing, sapping, taxing, tiresome, wearing, wearying |
| Main Entry: | fatiguing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiring |
| Synonyms: | debilitating, depleting, draining, exhausting, sapping, taxing, tiresome, wearing, wearying |
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.
