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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjust, harmonize |
| Synonyms: | attune, balance, fine-tune, inflect, regulate, restrain, revamp, switch, temper, tone, transmogrify, tune, tweak, vary |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calm, bring under control |
| Synonyms: | adjust, allay, appease, arrange, assuage, balm, becalm, check, collect, comfort, console, contain, control, cool, ease, ease up, hold in, lessen, let up, lull, mitigate, moderate, modulate, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, re-collect, reconcile, regulate, rein, relax, repress, resolve, restrain, settle, simmer down, slacken, smother, soften, solace, soothe, still, suppress, temper, tranquilize, tune down |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' |
| Antonyms: | agitate, anger, arouse, distress, excite, upset |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, speak about |
| Synonyms: | argue, chew*, comment, commentate, confab, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dilate upon, dispute, dissert, dissertate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, give a meeting, harangue, hold forth, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, sermonize, talk, treat, voice |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enunciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak clearly |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop, enounce, express, intone, lay down, modulate, outline, phonate, postulate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, show, sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice |
| Antonyms: | mispronounce, muffle, mumble |
| Main Entry: | moderate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | restrain, control |
| Synonyms: | abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, calm, chasten, check, constrain, cool out, cool*, curb, decline, decrease, die down, diminish, ease off, fall, lessen, let up, meet halfway, mitigate, modify, modulate, mollify, pacify, play down, qualify, quiet, reduce, regulate, relent, relieve, repress, slacken, slow, soft-pedal, soften, subdue, subside, tame, temper, tone down, wane |
| Antonyms: | egg on, free, incite, let go, liberate, unleash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | modify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, reduce |
| Synonyms: | abate, curb, decrease, limit, lower, mitigate, moderate, modulate, qualify, relax, remit, restrain, restrict, slacken, soften, temper, tone down |
| Antonyms: | grow, increase |
| Main Entry: | qualify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, restrict |
| Synonyms: | abate, adapt, alter, assuage, change, circumscribe, diminish, ease, limit, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, reduce, regulate, restrain, soften, temper, vary, weaken |
| Notes: | qualify means to describe the character or the qualities or peculiarities of - or to prove capable or fit, while quantify means to express as a number or measure or quantity |
| Antonyms: | allow, be lenient |
| Main Entry: | regulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, organize |
| Synonyms: | adapt, adjust, administer, allocate, arrange, balance, classify, conduct, control, coordinate, correct, determine, direct, dispose, fit, fix, govern, guide, handle, improve, legislate, measure, methodize, moderate, modulate, monitor, order, oversee, pull things together, put in order, readjust, reconcile, rectify, rule, run, set, settle, shape up, square, standardize, straighten up, superintend, supervise, systematize, temper, time, true, tune, tune up |
| Antonyms: | deregulate, disorganize, mismanage |
| Main Entry: | relax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, lessen |
| Synonyms: | abate, ease, ease off, ebb, lax, let up, loose, loosen, lose speed, lower, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, reduce, relieve, remit, slack, slacken, slow, slow down, untighten, weaken |
| Antonyms: | grow, increase |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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