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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | smelling organ of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adenoids, beak, bill*, horn, muzzle, nares, nostrils, olfactory nerves, proboscis, schnoz, smeller, sneezer, sniffer, snoot, snout, snuffer, whiffer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination; talent |
| Synonyms: | ability, aim, aptitude, bag*, disposition, druthers, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, head-set, inclining, knack, leaning, mind-set, nose, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propensity, set, tack, tendency, thing for, tilt, turn, weakness for |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | front of boat |
| Synonyms: | beak, bowsprit, fore, forepart, head, nose, prow, stem |
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skill |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capability, capacity, cleverness, dexterity, facility, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, intelligence, knack, knowing way around, leaning, nose*, peculiarity, penchant, pistol, power, predilection, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, readiness, reason, right stuff, sense, strength, talent, turn, what it takes, wits |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
| Antonyms: | inability, incompetence, ineptness, lack, need |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talent, aptitude |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acquirement, aptness, attainment, attribute, bent, capability, capacity, endowment, faculty, flair, forte, genius, head*, instinct, knack, leaning, nose*, numen, power, propensity, set, specialty, turn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | instinct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gut feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, faculty, feeling, funny feeling, gift, gut reaction, hunch, impulse, inclination, intuition, knack, know-how, nose*, predisposition, proclivity, savvy*, sense, sentiment, sixth sense, talent, tendency, urge |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intuition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
| Synonyms: | ESP, clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling*, foreknowledge, gut reaction, hunch, innate knowledge, inspiration, instinct, intuitiveness, nose*, penetration, perception, perceptivity, premonition, presentiment, second sight, sixth sense |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason, reasoning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, talent |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capacity, command, dexterity, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, handiness, hang of it, head*, ingenuity, know-how, mastership, nose*, propensity, quickness, readiness, savvy*, set, skill, skillfulness, trick, turn |
| Antonyms: | inability, ineptitude, lack, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | interfere, snoop |
| Synonyms: | busybody, butt in, intrude, meddle, nose*, peek, pry, tamper |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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