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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
| Synonyms: | absence, blunder, default, defect, error, fault, loss, mishap, mistake, omission, oversight, slip, want |
| Antonyms: | success, triumph, win |
| Main Entry: | miss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want; feel a loss |
| Synonyms: | crave, desire, long, need, pine, wish, yearn |
| Antonyms: | don't want |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin chance |
| Synonyms: | fail, flounder, goof, miscarry, miss |
| Antonyms: | do well, succeed |
| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a woman |
| Synonyms: | babe*, bimbo, chick*, dame, dish, doll*, doxy, female, floozy, gal, girl, honey*, lady, lassie, miss, moll, skirt, sweet thing, tootsie |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass over, often by jumping |
| Synonyms: | hurdle, leap, miss, negotiate, overleap, surmount, vault |
| Antonyms: | hit, run into |
| Main Entry: | damsel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maiden |
| Synonyms: | colleen, lady, lass, lassie, miss, virgin, woman, young girl, young woman |
| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want |
| Antonyms: | abundance, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
| Synonyms: | absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | disregard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ignore; make light of |
| Synonyms: | blink at, brush aside, brush away, brush off, cold-shoulder, contemn, despise, discount, disdain, disobey, disparage, fail, forget, have no use for, laugh off, leave out of account, let go, let off easy, let pass, live with, look the other way, miss, neglect, omit, overlook, overpass, pass over, pay no attention to, pay no heed to, pay no mind, pooh-pooh, scorn, shut eyes to, slight, snub, take no notice of, tune out, turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear, vilipend, wink at |
| Notes: | ignore is properly used of things that are present in our surroundings; but for things like rules, conventions, stipulations, contracts, the right word is disregard |
| Antonyms: | attend, esteem, note, pay attention, regard, respect |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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