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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobleness of character; eminence |
| Synonyms: | celebrity, chivalry, dignity, distinction, fame, generosity, glory, grandeur, heroism, high-mindedness, idealism, illustriousness, importance, loftiness, magnanimity, majesty, merit, morality, nobility, note, prominence, renown, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | rose-colored glasses |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy view of situation |
| Synonyms: | dream world, hope, idealism, idealization, rosy picture |
| Main Entry: | sanguineness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | optimism |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, good cheer, happiness, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, rose-colored glasses, sanguinity, sureness, trust |
| Main Entry: | sanguinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | optimism |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, good cheer, happiness, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, rose-colored glasses, sanguineness, sureness, trust |
| Concept: | Greatness. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD |
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-nouns
greatness; magnitude; size (dimensions); multitude (number); immensity; enormity; infinity; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance., great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap (assemblage); stock (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance (sufficiency)., principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass (whole).
-verbs
be great; run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount., enlarge (increase), (expand) [more].
-adjectives
great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith., world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many., goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark, staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary; important; unsurpassed (supreme); complete., august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic (repute)., vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous., unlimited (infinite); unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous., undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted.
-adverbs
[in a positive degree] truly (truth) [more]; decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main., [in a complete degree] entirely (completely) [more]; abundantly (sufficiently); widely, far and wide., [in a great or high degree] greatly; much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely., [in a supreme degree] preeminently, superlatively (superiority) [more]., [in a too great degree] immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance., [in a marked degree] particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously., [in an exceptional degree] peculiarly (unconformity) [more]., [in a violent degree] furiously (violence) [more]; severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance., [in a painful degree] painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.
-phrases
a maximis ad minima; "greatness knows itself" [Henry IV]; "mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed" [B. Cornwall]; minimum decet libere cui multum licet [Seneca]; "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
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| Antonyms: | smallness |
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| Concept: | Perfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
perfection; perfectness; indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability., pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of perfection; ne plus ultra; summit., cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor., model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of., masterpiece, superexcellence (goodness); transcendence (superiority).
-verbs
be perfect; transcend (be supreme)., bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete; put in trim (prepare); maturate.
-adjectives
perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate (complete); finished., best (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.
-adverbs
to perfection; perfectly; ad unguem; clean, clean as a whistle.
-phrases
"let us go on unto perfection" [ Hebrews vi, 1]; "the perfection of art is to conceal art" [Quintilian].
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| Antonyms: | imperfection |
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