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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | Siberia, demilitarized zone, left field, nothingness, nowhere, oblivion, out there |
| Antonyms: | certainty, certitude, sureness, surety |
| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistent inability to remember |
| Synonyms: | absentmindedness, abstraction, amnesia, blackout, blank, blockout, carelessness, dreaminess, fugue, heedlessness, hypomnesia, inattention, lapse of memory, laxness, lethe, limbo, loss of memory, negligence, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, paramnesia, repression, short memory, suppression |
| Antonyms: | attentiveness, heed, mindfulness, remembering |
| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, blazes, bottomless pit, difficulty, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, grave, hell-fire, infernal regions, inferno, limbo, lower world, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, place of torment, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | heaven |
| Main Entry: | neglect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure, default |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, chaos, delay, delinquency, dereliction, dilapidation, forgetfulness, lapse, laxity, laxness, limbo, neglectfulness, negligence, omission, oversight, pretermission, remissness, slackness, slovenliness |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, completion, finish, success |
| Main Entry: | oblivion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nothingness, obscurity |
| Synonyms: | blackness, darkness, eclipse, emptiness, extinction, limbo, nihility, nirvana*, nonexistence, nothing, nowhere, nullity, out there, void |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | purgatory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, abyss, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, fire and brimstone, infernal regions, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, pit, place of torment, suffering, underworld |
| Main Entry: | dead time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unproductive time |
| Synonyms: | downtime, insensitive time, limbo, time delay |
| Main Entry: | fool's paradise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusory state of happiness |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air, chimera, delusive contentment, dreamscape, false hope, fond illusion, limbo, pipe dream, quixotic ideal, utopia |
| Main Entry: | back burner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduced priority |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, cold storage, limbo, suspension |
| Antonyms: | front burner |
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