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gaping
| Main Entry: |
gaping
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wide open |
| Synonyms: | broad, cavernous, chasmal, great, vast, yawning |
| Antonyms: | closed, shut |
| Main Entry: | gape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be wide open |
| Synonyms: | cleave, crack, dehisce, divide, frondesce, gap, part, split, yaw, yawn |
| Antonyms: | close |
| Main Entry: | bloody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleeding |
| Synonyms: | blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguinary, sanguine, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded |
| Main Entry: | cavernous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hollow and large |
| Synonyms: | alveolate, broad, chambered, chasmal, commodious, concave, curved inward, deep, deep-set, echoing, gaping, huge, resonant, reverberant, roomy, sepulchral, socketed, spacious, sunken, vast, wide, yawning |
| Antonyms: | filled |
| Main Entry: | discontinuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken; intermittent |
| Synonyms: | alternate, desultory, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, fitful, gaping, inchoate, incoherent, incohesive, interrupted, irregular, muddled, spasmodic, unconnected, unorganized |
| Antonyms: | agreement, antagonism, antipathy, clash, clashing, collision, connected, contention, contiguous, continuous, cooperation, difference, disaccord, disagreement animosity, discord [n1] conflict, discordance, discrepancy, disharmony, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, enmity, friction, fuss, harmony, hassle, hostility, incompatibility, incongruity, inharmony, lack of concord, mischief, opposition, peace, polarization, rancor, regular, row, ruckus, rupture, scene, spat, split, static, strife, unbroken, variance, wrangling; concept 388 'Ant. accord |
| Main Entry: | open |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfastened, unclosed |
| Synonyms: | accessible, agape, airy, ajar, bare, clear, cleared, dehiscent, disclosed, emptied, expanded, expansive, exposed, extended, extensive, free, gaping, made passable, naked, navigable, passable, patent, patulous, peeled, removed, rent, revealed, ringent, rolling, spacious, spread out, stripped, susceptible, unbarred, unblocked, unbolted, unburdened, uncluttered, uncovered, unfolded, unfurled, unimpeded, unlocked, unobstructed, unplugged, unsealed, unshut, unstopped, vacated, wide, yawning |
| Antonyms: | closed, fastened, locked, shut |
| Main Entry: | sanguinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bloody |
| Synonyms: | blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguine, sanguineous, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded |
| Notes: | sanguinary means accompanied by bloodshed or eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed, while sanguine means confidently optimistic and cheerful or inclined to a healthy reddish color |
| Main Entry: | sanguineous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bloody |
| Synonyms: | blood-soaked, blood-spattered, bloodstained, crimson, ensanguined, gaping, gory, grisly, hematic, hemic, imbrued, open, raw, sanguinary, sanguine, unstaunched, unstopped, wounded |
| Main Entry: | eye |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gaze at, scrutinize |
| Synonyms: | check out, consider, contemplate, eyeball, gape, give the eye, glance at, have a look, inspect, keep eagle eye on, leer, look at, ogle, peruse, regard, rubberneck, scan, size up, stare at, study, survey, take a look, take in, view, watch |
| Antonyms: | look away |
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