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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberated, free |
| Synonyms: | absolute, autarchic, autarchical, autonomous, freewheeling, individualistic, nonaligned, nonpartisan, on one's own, self-contained, self-determining, self-governing, self-reliant, self-ruling, self-sufficient, self-supporting, separate, separated, sovereign, unaided, unallied, unconnected, unconstrained, uncontrolled, unregimented |
| Antonyms: | dependent, subordinate, subservient |
| Main Entry: | exclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unshared, restricted |
| Synonyms: | absolute, aloof, aristocratic, chic, choice, chosen, circumscribed, clannish, classy, cliquish, closed, complete, confined, country club, discriminative, elegant, entire, exclusionary, exclusory, fashionable, full, independent, licensed, limited, narrow, only, particular, peculiar, posh, preferential, private, privileged, prohibitive, restrictive, ritzy, segregated, select, selfish, single, snobbish, socially correct, sole, swank, total, undivided, unique, upper crust, whole |
| Antonyms: | divided, part, partial, shared, unlimited, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | external |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outside, extrinsic |
| Synonyms: | alien, apparent, exterior, extraneous, foreign, independent, out, outer, outermost, outmost, outward, over, peripheral, superficial, surface, visible |
| Antonyms: | inside, internal, intrinsic |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrestrained personally |
| Synonyms: | able, allowed, at large, at liberty, casual, clear, disengaged, easy, escaped, familiar, fancy-free, footloose, forward, frank, free-spirited, free-wheeling, independent, informal, lax, liberal, liberated, loose, off the hook, on one's own, on the loose, open, permitted, relaxed, unattached, uncommitted, unconfined, unconstrained, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unregulated, unrestricted, untrammeled |
| Antonyms: | bound, confined, hindered, limited, restrained |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrestrained politically |
| Synonyms: | at liberty, autarchic, autonomic, autonomous, democratic, emancipated, enfranchised, freed, independent, individualistic, liberated, self-directing, self-governing, self-ruling, separate, sovereign, sui juris, unconstrained, unenslaved, unregimented |
| Antonyms: | barred, bound, enslaved, prevented, suppressed |
| Main Entry: | heterogeneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assorted, miscellaneous |
| Synonyms: | amalgamate, composite, confused, conglomerate, contrary, contrasted, different, discordant, discrepant, disparate, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, diversified, incongruous, independent, inharmonious, jumbled, mingled, mixed, mongrel, mosaic, motley, multifarious, multiplex, odd, opposed, unallied, unlike, unrelated, variant, varied, variegated |
| Antonyms: | homogeneous, identical, pure, single, unchanging, uniform |
| Main Entry: | nonconforming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonobservant |
| Synonyms: | independent, individualistic, marching to the beat of a different drummer, nonadhering, noncompliant, one's own sweet way, radical, unorthodox |
| Main Entry: | nonpartisan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impartial; not political |
| Synonyms: | detached, equitable, fair, free-wheeling, independent, indifferent, just, middle-of-the-road, neutral, nonaligned, nondiscriminatory, objective, on one's own, on-the-fence, playing it cool, unaffected, unaffiliated, unbiased, unbigoted, uncolored, unimplicated, uninfluenced, uninvolved, unprejudiced |
| Antonyms: | biased, decided, partial, partisan, political, prejudiced |
| Main Entry: | opposite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlike, conflicting; completely different |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, contrasted, corresponding, counter, crosswise, diametric, diametrically opposed, different, differing, dissimilar, diverse, facing, flip-side, fronting, hostile, inconsistent, independent, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, obverse, opposed, ornery*, paradoxical, polar, repugnant, retrograde, reverse, reversed, separate, unalike, unconnected, unrelated, unsimilar, violative, vis-á-vis |
| Notes: | contrary describes something that contradicts a proposition, converse is used when the elements of a proposition are reversed, opposite pertains to that which is diametrically opposed to a proposition, and reverse can mean each of those |
| Antonyms: | compatible, like, similar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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