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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the air, winged |
| Synonyms: | aerial, aeronautical, airborne, avian, drifting, express, flapping, fleet, floating, fluttering, gliding, hovering, mercurial, mobile, on the wing, plumed, soaring, speedy, streaming, swooping, volant, volar, volitant, waving, winging, zooming |
| Antonyms: | ground, grounded |
| Main Entry: | fly |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run or pass swiftly |
| Synonyms: | barrel, bolt, breeze, career, dart, dash, elapse, flee, flit, glide, go like the wind, hasten, hurry, hustle, make off, pass, race, roll, run its course, rush, scamper, scoot, shoot, slip away, speed, sprint, tear, whiz*, zoom* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fly |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | escape, flee |
| Synonyms: | abscond, avoid, bolt, break, clear, clear out, cut and run, decamp, disappear, get away, hasten away, hide, hightail, light out, make a getaway, make a quick exit, make off, run for it, run from, run*, skedaddle, skip, steal away, take flight, take off, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | confront, face, remain, stay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aerial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occurring in the air |
| Synonyms: | aeriform, aeronautical, airy, atmospheric, birdlike, ethereal, flying, lofty, pneumatic, up above, vaporous |
| Antonyms: | ground |
| Main Entry: | ascension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | going up |
| Synonyms: | ascent, climbing, escalating, flying, mounting, rise, rising, scaling, soaring, towering |
| Notes: | ascension is 'rising'; accension is 'kindling' or 'being kindled' |
| Antonyms: | declension, decline, descendancy |
| Main Entry: | blissful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | beatific, cool*, crazy, delighted, dreamy, ecstatic, elated, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, floating*, flying*, gone*, heavenly, in ecstasy, in seventh heaven, in the twilight zone, joyful, joyous, mad*, on cloud nine, rapturous, sent, spaced-out, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | grieving, miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, upset, wretched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under the influence of medication |
| Synonyms: | benumbed, blown away, coked, comatose, dazed, doped, dopey, floating*, flying*, high*, junked-up, loaded, narcotized, on a trip, out of it, ripped, smashed, spaced-out, stoned, strung out, stupefied, unconscious |
| Antonyms: | clean, undrugged |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drunk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intoxicated by alcohol |
| Synonyms: | bashed, befuddled, boozed up, buzzed, crocked, feeling no pain, flushed, flying*, fuddled, glazed, groggy, high*, inebriated, juiced, laced, liquored up, lit, lush, muddled, plastered, potted, seeing double, sloshed, stewed, stoned, tanked, three sheets to the wind, tight*, tipsy, totaled, under the influence, under the table, wasted* |
| Notes: | as an adjective, drunken can only precede the noun, while drunk follows a verb |
| Antonyms: | sober, straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy |
| Synonyms: | animated, aroused, blissful, cheered, delighted, ecstatic, elevated, enchanted, enraptured, euphoric, exalted, excited, exhilarated, exultant, fired up, flying high, flying*, gleeful, high, hopped up, in heaven, in high spirits, in seventh heaven, intoxicated, joyful, joyous, jubilant, looking good, on cloud nine, overjoyed, proud, puffed up, roused, set up, transported, turned-on |
| Antonyms: | depressed, down, sad, sorrowful, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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