| Concept: | [Relative quantity] Degree. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE QUANTITY |
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-adverbs
by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto; however, howsoever; step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop; a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di grado in grado.
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| Concept: | Height. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high., over, upwards; from top to bottom (completely).
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| Antonyms: | lowness |
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| Concept: | Importance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-adverbs
materially; in the main; above all, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all.
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| Antonyms: | unimportance |
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| Concept: | Success. |
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-adverbs
successfully; well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly; a merveille, beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose; to one's heart's content.
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| Antonyms: | failure |
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| Concept: | Superiority. [Supremacy] |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT |
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beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par; upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its height., [in a superior or supreme degree] eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more.
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