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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prepared; available |
| Synonyms: | accessible, adjusted, all set, all systems go, anticipating, apt, arranged, at beck and call, at fingertips, at hand, at the ready, champing at bit, close to hand, completed, convenient, covered, equal to, equipped, expectant, fit, fixed for, handy, in line, in order, in place, in position, in readiness, in the saddle, near, on call, on hand, on tap, on the brink, open to, organized, primed, qualified, ripe, set, waiting, wired |
| Antonyms: | immature, slow, unavailable, unprepared, unready, unripe, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | approximate |
| Synonyms: | about, all but, almost, around, as good as, close to, in the neighborhood of, just about, most, near, nearly, practically, roughly |
| Antonyms: | definite, exact, precise |
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, pennywise, penurious, petty, pinchpenny, rapacious, saving, scrimping, scurvy, selfish, skimping, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aligned; not curved |
| Synonyms: | beeline, collinear, consecutive, continuous, direct, erect, even, horizontal, in a line, in a row, in line, inflexible, invariable, level, like an arrow, lineal, linear, near, nonstop, perpendicular, plumb, precipitous, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, running, sheer, short, smooth, solid, square, straightforward, successive, through, true, unbent, unbroken, uncurled, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unswerving, upright, vertical |
| Antonyms: | curved, indirect, twisted |
| Main Entry: | substitute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alternative |
| Synonyms: | acting, additional, alternate, another, artificial, backup, counterfeit, dummy, ersatz*, experimental, false, imitation, makeshift, mock, near, other, provisional, proxy, pseudo*, replacement, representative, reserve, second, sham, simulated, spurious, stopgap, substitutive, supplemental, supplementary, supposititious, surrogate, symbolic, temporary, tentative, vicarial, vicarious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thereabout |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | about there |
| Synonyms: | almost, approximately, around, close at hand, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, just about, near, nearby, nearly, roughly |
| Main Entry: | threatening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, ominous |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, minatory, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, troublesome |
| Synonyms: | arduous, close, critical, dangerous, distressing, disturbing, exacting, hazardous, near, perilous, precarious, punishing, rough, sticky, tense, ticklish, tough, tricky, trying, upsetting, worrisome |
| Notes: | the choice of 'tight' or 'tightly' depends on whether it is the result or the application that is emphasized; if it is an enduring state, you would use 'tight' |
| Antonyms: | easy, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | bordering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | next to |
| Synonyms: | abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bounding, edging, near, neighboring, next door, on the edge of, skirting, touching |
| Antonyms: | apart, far, faraway, separate |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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