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superbness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence |
| Synonyms: | arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
| Synonyms: | be in line for, claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts, entitlement, guerdon, interest, merits, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, rights, satisfaction, title, vengeance, what is coming to one |
| Main Entry: | guerdon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | due |
| Synonyms: | be in line for, claim, comeuppance, compensation, desert, deserts, entitlement, interest, merits, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, reward, right, rights, satisfa |
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| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Apollonian, adonic, aesthetic, artistic, artistical, aspectabund, attractive, beaming, beamy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, becoming, bleached blond, blooming, bonny, bright, cherry, comely, curious, dainty, dapper, dazzling, delicate, eesome, elegant, enchanting, esthetic, fair, featous, fine, fit to be seen, gimp, glossy, glowing, good looking, goodly, gorgeous, graceful, gracile, grand, handsome, harmonious, in full bloom, jaunty, jimp, leggiadrous, lovely, magnificent, natty, neat, not amiss, ornamental, passable, penciled, personable, pictorial, picturesque, pretty, proper, quaint, refined, resplendent, rich, rosy, rosy, sabi, seemly, shapely, shining, showy, sightly, sleek, smart, snod, sparkling, specious, splendid, spotless, spruce, sublime, superb, svelte, symmetrical, tempean, tidy, tight, tretis, tricksy, trim, undefaced, undeformed, unkempt, unspotted, venust, wabi, well, well, well
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| Main Entry: | credit |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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accredited, bailable, chalked up, credential, creditable, credited, crediting
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| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Manichaean, above par, admirable, advantageous, agathokakological, beneficent, beneficial, benignant, best, better, bosker, capital, cardinal, choice, commendable, costly, crack, edifying, eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious, elect, estimable, eumoirous, excellent, exhimious, exquisite, fair, favorable, fine, first, fresh, genuine, good, good as gold, harmless, high, in fair condition, in good condition, inestimable, inimitable, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, invaluable, nice, of great price, of the first water, of value, par excellence, picked, pleasing, praiseworthy, precious, precious as the apple of the eye, priceless, prickmedainty, prime, profitable, propitious, rare, salutary, satisfactory, select, serviceable, sound, standard, superexcellent, superfine, superlatively good, tidy, tip, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unobnoxious, unparagoned, unparalleled, up to the mark, useful, valuable, very best, worth its weight in gold
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| Concept: | Beauty. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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beauty, the beautiful, to kalon, le beau ideal., [Science of the perception of beauty] callaesthetics., pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned; symmetry; comeliness, fairness; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification., concinnity, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi, style., Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus., peacock, butterfly; flower, flow'ret gay rose, lily, garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel (ornament); work of art., anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower., pleasurableness., beautifying; landscape gardening; decoration; calisthenics.
-verbs
be beautiful; shine, beam, bloom; become one (accord); set off, grace., render beautiful; beautify; polish, burnish; gild (decorate); set out., "snatch a grace beyond the reach of art" [Pope].
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beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant; attractive (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scottish]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical (regular); harmonious (color); sightly., fit to be seen, passable, not amiss., goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; jantyk jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy., bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom., brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek., rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious., artistic, artistical; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious., enchanting (pleasure-giving) [more]; becoming (accordant); ornamental., undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless (perfect).
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auxilium non leve vultus habet [Ovid]; "beauty born of murmuring sound" [Wordsworth]; "flowers preach to us if we will hear" [C.G. Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Vergil]; "none but the brave deserve the fair" [Dryden]; "thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty" [Byron].
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| Antonyms: | ugliness |
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| Concept: | Credit. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account., letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance, securities., creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee; dun; usurer.
-verbs
keep an account with, run up an account with; intrust, credit, accredit., place to one's credit, place to one's account; give credit, take credit; fly a kite.
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crediting, credited; accredited.
-adverbs
on credit; to the account of, to the credit of; a compte.
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| Antonyms: | debt |
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| Concept: | Good. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
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-nouns
good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest., boon (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure trove., good fortune (prosperity); happiness., [Source of good] goodness [more]; utility; remedy; pleasure giving.
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well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the best; to one's advantage; in one's favor, in one's interest.
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so far so good; magnum bonum.
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| Antonyms: | evil |
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