Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
| Synonyms: | adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exuberant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse |
| Synonyms: | abundant, affluent, copious, diffuse, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, fecund, fertile, fruitful, fulsome, lavish, lush, luxuriant, opulent, overdone, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, prodigal, prolific, rampant, rich, riotous, superabundant, superfluous, teeming |
| Antonyms: | insufficient, lacking, needing, wanting |
| Main Entry: | nauseating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nauseous |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, detestable, disgusting, distasteful, fulsome, loathsome, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening |
| Main Entry: | oily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | bland*, cajoling, coaxing, compliant, fulsome, glib, gushing, hypocritical, ingratiating, insinuating, obsequious, plausible, servile, slick, smarmy, smooth, smooth-tongued, suave, supple, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | hateful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overblown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive, too much |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bombastic, disproportionate, euphuistic, flowery, fulsome, grandiloquent, hyped up, immoderate, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, overdone, pompous, pretentious, profuse, rhetorical, sonorous, superfluous, turgid, undue, verbose, windy |
| Antonyms: | underrated, undervalued |
| Main Entry: | plentiful/plenty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, chock-full, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush*, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lousy with, lush, luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, prodigal, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superabundant, superfluous, swarming, swimming, teeming |
| Antonyms: | few, lacking, little, needing, rare, scarce, wanting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, excessive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, crawling with, dime a dozen, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fulsome, galore, generous, immoderate, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, openhanded, opulent, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profusive, prolific, riotous, sumptuous, superfluous, swarming, teeming, thick with, unstinting |
| Antonyms: | lacking, sparse, wanting |
| Main Entry: | suave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming, smooth |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, bland, civilized, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, diplomatic, distingué, fulsome, genial, glib, gracious, ingratiating, obliging, oily, pleasant, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, refined, smooth-tongued, sociable, soft*, soft-spoken, sophisticated, unctuous, urbane, well-bred, worldly |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, unpolished, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plentiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant |
| Synonyms: | abounding, ample, appreciable, bounteous, bountiful, bumper, chock-full, competent, complete, copious, enough, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flowing, flush, fruitful, full, fulsome, generous, improvident, inexhaustible, infinite, large, lavish, liberal, lousy with, lush, luxuriant, no end, overflowing, plenteous, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, replete, rife, sufficient, superabundant, superfluous, swarming, swimming, teeming, unlimited, well-provided |
| Antonyms: | meager, scarce |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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