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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drab, lackluster in effect on senses |
| Synonyms: | ashen, black, blind, cloudy, cold, colorless, dark, dead, dim, dingy, dismal, dun, dusky, faded, feeble, flat, grimy, hazy, indistinct, leaden, lifeless, low, matte, mousy, muddy, muffled, murky, muted, obscure, opaque, overcast, plain, shadowy, sober, soft, softened, somber, sooty, subdued, subfusc, toned-down, unlit |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, lustrous |
| Main Entry: | lackluster |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | blah*, blind, boring, colorless, dark, dead, dim, drab, draggy, dry, flat*, ho-hum, laid-back*, leaden, lusterless, matte, muted, nothing*, obscure, pabulum, prosaic, sombre, unimaginative, uninspired, vanilla, vapid, zero* |
| Antonyms: | bright, enthusiastic, lively, shining, shiny, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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accumbent, aclinal, agroof, alluvial, applanate, calm, calm as a mill pond, campestral, champaign, couchant, decubital, decumbent, discoid, even, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a board, flat as a bowling-green, flat as a flounder, flat as a fluke, flat as a pancake, flat as my hand, flush, horizontal, jacent, level, lying, oblate, planar, plane, procumbent, prone, prostrate, raxed, rectiserial, recumbent, smooth, smooth as glass, supine, ventricumbent
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| Concept: | Business. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy (actively employed); on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
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| Concept: | [Constant antecedent] Cause. |
| Category: | 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS |
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caused; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin.
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| Antonyms: | effect |
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| Concept: | Circumstance. |
| Category: | 4. MODAL EXISTENCE; Relative |
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circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious (extrinsic); limitative.
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| Concept: | Content. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
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content, contented; satisfied; at ease, at one's ease, at home; with the mind at ease, sans souci, sine cura, easygoing, not particular; conciliatory; unrepining, of good comfort; resigned (patient); cheerful., unafflicted, unvexed, unmolested, unplagued; serene; at rest, snug, comfortable; in one's element., satisfactory, tolerable.
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| Antonyms: | discontent |
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| Concept: | Respect. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
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respecting; respectful, deferential, decorous, reverential, obsequious, ceremoniuous, bareheaded, cap in hand, on one's knees; prostrate (servile)., respected; in high esteem, in high estimation; time-honored, venerable, emeritus.
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| Antonyms: | disrespect; contempt |
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| Concept: | [Subject of thought, νοηματα.] Topic. |
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thought of; uppermost in the mind; in petto.
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