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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distinctive, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | alone, characteristic, definite, diacritic, diagnostic, different, discrete, distinct, especial, express, idiosyncratic, indivisible, lone, odd, only, original, own, particular, peculiar, personal, personalized, proper, reserved, respective, secluded, select, separate, several, single, singular, sole, solitary, special, specific, uncommon, unique, unitary, unusual |
| Antonyms: | common, general, ordinary |
| Main Entry: | alone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | separate; apart |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, batching it, by itself/oneself, companionless, deserted, desolate, detached, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, hermit, in solitary, individual, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, me and my shadow, me myself and I, on one's own, onliest, only, shag, single, sole, solitary, solo, stag, traveling light, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattached, unattended, unescorted, unmarried, widowed |
| Antonyms: | together |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate object |
| Synonyms: | animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, living thing, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, creature, human, individual, mortal, party, person, personage, soul |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, fantasy, immateriality, inanimate, thought |
| Main Entry: | certain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | referring to a specifically known amount |
| Synonyms: | a couple, a few, defined, divers, express, individual, many, marked, numerous, one, particular, precise, regular, several, singular, some, special, specific, specified, sundry, upwards of, various |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | typical; distinguishing |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, diagnostic, differentiating, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, especial, essential, exclusive, fixed, idiosyncratic, inborn, inbred, indicative, individual, individualistic, individualizing, ingrained, inherent, innate, local, marked, native, normal, original, particular, peculiar, personal, private, proper, regular, representative, singular, special, specific, symbolic, symptomatic, unique |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, uncharacteristic, untypical |
| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
| Synonyms: | animal, body, brute, creation, critter, fellow, individual, living being, living thing, lower animal, man, mortal, party, person, personage, quadruped, soul, varmint, woman |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | detailed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itemized, particularized |
| Synonyms: | abundant, accurate, all-inclusive, amplified, at length, blow-by-blow, circumstantial, circumstantiated, clocklike, complete, complicated, comprehensive, copious, definite, described, developed, disclosed, elaborate, elaborated, enumerated, exact, exhausting, exhaustive, finicky*, full, fussy*, individual, individualized, intricate, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, point-by-point, precise, seriatim, specific, specified, thorough, unfolded |
| Antonyms: | brief, cursory, inexhaustive, nonspecific, sparing, uncomplicated, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dissimilar, unlike |
| Synonyms: | a far cry from, altered, antithetic, at odds, at variance, changed, clashing, colorful, contradistinct, contradistinctive, contrary, contrasting, contrastive, deviating, differential, discrepant, disparate, distant, distinct, distinctive, divergent, divers, diverse, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, individual, like night and day, mismatched, mismated, offbeat, opposed, other, otherwise, particular, peculiar, poles apart, single, unalike, unequal, unrelated, unsimilar, variant, various |
| Antonyms: | alike, correspondent, homogeneous, like, resembling, same, similar |
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