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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contained |
| Synonyms: | admitted, built in, combined, comprehended, comprised, constituted, counted, covered, embodied, enclosed, encompassed, entered, incorporated, inserted, involved, numbered, part of, subsumed |
| Antonyms: | excluded, left out, rejected |
| Main Entry: | numbered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited in number |
| Synonyms: | categorized, checked, contained, counted, designated, doomed, enumerated, fated, fixed, included, indicated, marked, specified, told, totalled |
| Antonyms: | infinite, unlimited, unnumbered |
| Main Entry: | under |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | secondary |
| Synonyms: | amenable, belonging, collateral, consequent, corollary, dependent, directed, following, governed, in the power of, included, inferior, junior, lesser, low, lower, obedient, obeying, reporting, sub, subject, subjugated, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, substract, subsumed |
| Antonyms: | major, primary |
| Main Entry: | covered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attended to |
| Synonyms: | accounted for, examined, explored, included, investigated, marked, noted, observed, recorded, regarded, reported, scrutinized, surveyed, written |
| Antonyms: | passed over, unheeded, unnoticed |
| Main Entry: | enclosed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | placed within |
| Synonyms: | buried, confined, contained, embedded, encased, enfolded, immured, implanted, imprisoned, included, inserted, interred, jailed, locked in, packed up, penned in, shut up, stuffed in, wrapped up |
| Main Entry: | herein |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in this place |
| Synonyms: | here, in this, in view of this, included, within |
| Main Entry: | retained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kept |
| Synonyms: | confined, contained, detained, had, held, held back, included, maintained, owned, possessed, received, remembered, reserved, restrained, saved, secured, sustained, treasured, withheld |
| Antonyms: | lost, refused, wasted |
| Main Entry: | add |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjoin, increase; make further comment |
| Synonyms: | affix, annex, ante, append, augment, beef up, boost, build up, charge up, continue, cue in, figure in, flesh out, heat up, hike, hike up, hitch on, hook on, hook up with, include, jack up, jazz up, join together, pad, parlay, piggyback, plug into, pour it on, reply, run up, say further, slap on, snowball, soup up, speed up, spike, step up, supplement, sweeten, tack on, tag |
| Notes: | ad is short for advertisement while add means 'to join or unite' so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deduct, diminish, lessen, reduce, remove, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | comprise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up, consist of |
| Synonyms: | add up to, amount to, be composed of, be contained in, compass, compose, comprehend, constitute, contain, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, engross, form, hold, include, incorporate, involve, span, subsume, sum up, take in |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' comprise means literally 'embrace': a zoo comprises mammals, reptiles, and birds (because it 'embraces' or includes them), but animals do not comprise ('embrace') a zoo, they constitute a zoo |
| Antonyms: | except, exclude, fail, fall short, lack, need, want |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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