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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expensive |
| Synonyms: | an arm and leg, cher, dear, excessive, executive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, high, high-priced, highly priced, inordinate, precious, premium, pricey, steep, stiff*, top, valuable |
| Antonyms: | cheap, inexpensive, reasonable |
* = 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: | ecstatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, blissful |
| Synonyms: | athrill, beatific, crazy, delirious, dreamy, elated, enraptured, enthusiastic, entranced, euphoric, fervent, floating, flying high, frenzied, gone*, high*, in exaltation, in seventh heaven, joyful, joyous, mad, on cloud nine, out, overjoyed, pleased as punch, rapturous, ravished, rhapsodic, sent, sunny, thrilled, tickled pink, tickled to death, transported, turned on, upbeat, wild |
| Antonyms: | despaired, sorrowful, tormented, troubled, unhappy |
* = 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
| Main Entry: | elevated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | highly moral or dignified |
| Synonyms: | animated, big-time, bright, elated, eloquent, eminent, ethical, exalted, exhilarated, formal, grand, grandiloquent, heavy, high, high-flown, high-minded, honorable, inflated, lofty, noble, righteous, stately, sublime, superb, upright, upstanding, virtuous |
| Antonyms: | base, immoral, lowly, undignified |
| Main Entry: | elevated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | raised up |
| Synonyms: | aerial, high, high-rise, lifted, raised, stately, tall, towering, upheaved, uplifted, upraised, uprisen |
| Antonyms: | base, decreased, dropped, lessened, lowered, lowly |
| Main Entry: | eminent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very important; famous |
| Synonyms: | VIP, august, big-gun, big-league, big-name, big-time, celeb, celebrated, celebrious, conspicuous, distinguished, dominant, elevated, esteemed, exalted, famed, grand, great, high, high-ranking, illustrious, leonine, lionlike, lofty, name, noble, notable, noted, noteworthy, of note, outstanding, page-oner, paramount, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, redoubted, renowned, star, superior, superstar, well-known |
| Notes: | if you mean 'famous' or 'superior,' you want eminent; if you mean 'impending, about to happen' that is imminent; and if you mean 'present, inherent,' your word is immanent |
| Antonyms: | disrespected, inferior, undistinguished, unimportant, unnotable |
| Main Entry: | exalted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | praised; held in high esteem |
| Synonyms: | astral, august, dignified, elevated, eminent, exaggerated, excessive, first, grand, high, high-minded, high-ranking, highest, highest-ranking, honorable, honored, ideal, illustrious, immodest, imposing, inflated, intellectual, leading, lofty, magnificent, noble, number one, outstanding, overblown, pompous, prestigious, pretentious, proud, self-important, sublime, superb, superior, top-drawer, top-ranking, uplifting |
| Antonyms: | condemned, criticized, debased, denounced, humiliated |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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