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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended in space or time |
| Synonyms: | continued, deep, distant, drawn out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, longish, outstretched, prolonged, protracted, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, short |
| Main Entry: | long |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire, crave |
| Synonyms: | ache, aim, aspire, covet, dream of, hanker, have a yen for, hunger, itch, lust, miss, pine, sigh, spoil for, suspire, thirst, want, wish, yearn |
| Antonyms: | despise, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | aspire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim, hope |
| Synonyms: | be ambitious, be eager, crave, desire, dream, hanker, long, pursue, seek, strive, struggle, try, want, wish, yearn |
| Main Entry: | bulky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge |
| Synonyms: | awkward, beefy, big, colossal, cumbersome, cumbrous, enormous, gross, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, immense, large, long, mammoth, massive, ponderous, substantial, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, voluminous, weighty |
| Antonyms: | insubstantial, miniature, small, thin, tiny |
| Main Entry: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
| Synonyms: | circumlocutory, copious, diffusive, digressive, discursive, dull, exuberant, lavish, lengthy, long, long-winded, loose, meandering, palaverous, profuse, prolix, rambling, random, redundant, vague, verbose, waffling, windy |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, brief, short, succinct |
| Main Entry: | dragging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiresome, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | boring, drawn-out, dull, going slowly, humdrum, lengthy, long, overlong, prolonged, protracted, tedious, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | energizing, lively |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conjure up scenario |
| Synonyms: | be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, brainstorm, build castles in air, conceive, concoct, cook up, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker, hatch, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, search for pot of gold, sigh, stargaze, sublimate, think, think up, thirst, visualize |
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be jealous of another |
| Synonyms: | be envious, begrudge, covet, crave, desire, die over, eat one's heart out, grudge, hanker, have hard feelings, hunger, long, lust, object to, resent, thirst, turn green, want, yearn |
| Notes: | jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person |
| Antonyms: | be confident, be content |
| Main Entry: | extended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lengthened |
| Synonyms: | continued, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enlarged, lengthy, long, prolonged, protracted, spread, spread out, stretched out, unfolded, unfurled, very long |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, compressed, condensed, contracted, curtailed, cut, lessened, reduced, shortened |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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