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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male or female colleague, friend |
| Synonyms: | assistant, associate, cohort, companion, compeer, comrade, concomitant, confrere, consort, coordinate, counterpart*, coworker, double, duplicate, equal, instructor, lecturer, match, mate, member, partner, peer, professor, reciprocal, twin |
| Antonyms: | enemy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
| Synonyms: | buck, cadet, chap, child, dude*, fellow, gamin, guy, half-pint, junior, lad, little guy, little shaver, master, punk*, puppy, runt, schoolboy, shaver, small fry, sonny, sprout*, squirt, stripling, tadpole, whippersnapper, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | girl |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complementary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | filling, completing |
| Synonyms: | commutual, complemental, completing, completory, conclusive, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, crowning, equivalent, fellow, integral, integrative, interconnected, interdependent, interrelated, interrelating, matched, mated, paired, parallel, reciprocal |
| Notes: | something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces completeness or perfection in something |
| Antonyms: | independent, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | concomitant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contributing, accompanying |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adjuvant, agreeing, ancillary, associated with, associative, attendant, attending, belonging, coefficient, coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coincident, coincidental, collateral, complementary, concordant, concurrent, conjoined, conjoined with, connected, contemporaneous, contemporary, coordinate, corollary, coterminous, coupled with, fellow, in tempo, in time, incident, isochronal, isochronous, joint, satellite, synchronal, synchronous, synergetic, synergistic |
| Antonyms: | accidental, chance, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | confederate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abettor |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accomplice, ally, associate, coconspirator, collaborator, colleague, conspirator, fellow, fellow traveler, partner |
| Main Entry: | counterpart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | match; identical part or thing |
| Synonyms: | analogue, carbon copy, complement, copy, correlate, correlative, correspondent, dead ringer, ditto*, doppelganger, duplicate, equal, equivalent, fellow, like, look alike, mate, obverse, opposite, opposite number, peas in a pod, pendant, ringer, spit and image, spitting image, supplement, tally, twin, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | opposite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
| Synonyms: | animal, body, brute, creation, critter, fellow, individual, living being, living thing, lower animal, man, mortal, party, person, personage, quadruped, soul, varmint, woman |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copy, reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, analogue, carbon, carbon copy, chip off the old block, clone, companion, coordinate, copycat, correlate, counterfeit, counterpart, counterscript, dead ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplication, facsimile, fake, fellow, germination, imitation, knockoff, likeness, lookalike, match, mate, obverse, parallel, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate, reciprocal, recurrence, repetition, replica, replication, repro, ringer, second, similarity, spitting image, stat, twin |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
| Antonyms: | archetype, model, original, prototype |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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