Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | additional, added |
| Synonyms: | alternative, another, auxiliary, else, extra, farther, fresh, further, more, new, spare, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | included, related |
| Main Entry: | additional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extra, supplementary |
| Synonyms: | added, affixed, appended, further, increased, more, new, on the side, option, other, over-and-above, padding, perk, spare, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | necessary |
| Main Entry: | alternative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possible choice |
| Synonyms: | back-up, druthers, opportunity, option, other, other fish in sea, other fish to fry, pick, preference, recourse, redundancy, selection, sub, substitute, take it or leave it |
| Notes: | alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things' |
| Antonyms: | compulsion, constraint, necessity, obligation, restraint |
| Main Entry: | another |
| Part of Speech: | preposition, determiner |
| Definition: | additional, different |
| Synonyms: | a distinct, a further, a separate, added, else, farther, fresh, further, more, new, one more, other, some other, that |
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dissimilar, unlike |
| Synonyms: | a far cry from, altered, antithetic, at odds, at variance, changed, clashing, colorful, contradistinct, contradistinctive, contrary, contrasting, contrastive, deviating, differential, discrepant, disparate, distant, distinct, distinctive, divergent, divers, diverse, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, individual, like night and day, mismatched, mismated, offbeat, opposed, other, otherwise, particular, peculiar, poles apart, single, unalike, unequal, unrelated, unsimilar, variant, various |
| Antonyms: | alike, correspondent, homogeneous, like, resembling, same, similar |
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | separate, distinct |
| Synonyms: | another, another story, atypical, bizarre, discrete, diverse, especial, express, extraordinary, individual, novel, original, other, out of the ordinary, particular, peculiar, rare, several, singular, something else, special, specialized, specific, startling, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unique, unusual, various |
| Antonyms: | conventional, correspondent, harmonious, normal, same, standard, unified, united |
| Main Entry: | extra |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accessory; excess |
| Synonyms: | added, additional, ancillary, another, auxiliary, beyond, button, extraneous, extraordinary, fresh, further, fuss*, gingerbread, gravy, ice*, in addition, in reserve, in store, inessential, lagniappe, leftover, more, needless, new, one more, optional, other, over and above, perk*, plus, redundant, reserve, spare, special, superfluous, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, tip, unnecessary, unneeded, unused |
| Antonyms: | basic, elementary, essential, fundamental, integral, necessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | additional |
| Synonyms: | added, another, auxiliary, else, extra, farther, further, increased, more, new, other, renewed, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | old, used |
| Main Entry: | further |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | additional |
| Synonyms: | added, another, else, extra, farther, fresh, in addition, more, new, other, supplementary |
| Notes: | farther is generally preferred over further when the context is distance in space or time; use farther when talking about physical distance and use further when talking about abstract ideas or extent/degree |
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