Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, ruthless |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, antagonistic, austere, bitter, bleak, brutal, callous, cold, cold fish, cold-blooded, dark, disagreeable, distressing, dour, exacting, grievous, grim, hard as nails, hard-boiled, harsh, hostile, inclement, intemperate, intolerable, obdurate, painful, perverse, pitiless, rancorous, resentful, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, strict, stringent, stubborn, thick-skinned, tough, unfeeling, unjust, unkind, unpleasant, unrelenting, unsparing, unsympathetic, vengeful |
| Antonyms: | merciful, mild, nice, pleasant, sensitive, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | inclement |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bitter, nasty (weather) |
| Synonyms: | brutal, cold, foul, hard, harsh, intemperate, raw, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stormy, tempestuous, violent, wintry |
| Antonyms: | clear, mild, nice, sunny |
| Main Entry: | inclement |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, merciless |
| Synonyms: | callous, draconian, harsh, intemperate, pitiless, rigorous, ruthless, savage, severe, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful |
| Antonyms: | kind, merciful, nice, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | inflammatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instigative, angering |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, demagogic, exciting, explosive, fiery, incendiary, incitive, inflaming, insurgent, intemperate, provocative, rabble-rousing, rabid, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious |
| Antonyms: | calming, mitigating, placating, pleasing, tranquilizing |
| Main Entry: | inordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive, extravagant |
| Synonyms: | disproportionate, dizzying, exorbitant, extortionate, extreme, gratuitous, immoderate, intemperate, irrational, outrageous, overindulgent, overmuch, preposterous, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus, too much, towering, uncalled-for, unconscionable, uncurbed, undue, unmeasurable, unreasonable, unrestrained, untempered, unwarranted, wanton, wasteful |
| Antonyms: | moderate, ok enough, reasonable, warranted |
| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | lavish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profuse; splendid |
| Synonyms: | abundant, bountiful, copious, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, first-class, free, generous, gorgeous, grand, immoderate, impressive, improvident, inordinate, intemperate, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, munificent, openhanded, opulent, plentiful, plush, posh, prodigal, profligate, profusive, prolific, riotous, ritzy, sumptuous, swanky, thriftless, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsparing, unstinging, wasteful, wild |
| Antonyms: | economical, scanty, scarce, small, spare |
| Main Entry: | prodigal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasteful |
| Synonyms: | dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, wanton |
| Antonyms: | careful, thrifty |
| Main Entry: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed, overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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