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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | care, commitment, committal, concern, custody, deadweight, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, ought, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility, assignment |
| Synonyms: | burden, business, calling, charge, chore, commission, commitment, committal, contract, devoir, dues, engagement, function, hook*, job, load, millstone, minding the store, mission, must, need, obligation, occupation, office, onus, ought, pains, part, province, role, service, station, string, taking care of business, task, trouble, trust, undertaking, weight, work |
| Antonyms: | disregard, irresponsibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | have |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure, bear |
| Synonyms: | allow, be compelled to, be forced to, be one's duty to, be up to, become, consider, enjoy, entertain*, experience, fall on, feel, know, leave, let, meet with, must, need, ought, permit, put up with, rest with, see, should, suffer, sustain, think about, tolerate, undergo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | must |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, essential |
| Synonyms: | charge, commitment, committal, condition, devoir, duty, fundamental, imperative, necessary, need, obligation, ought, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, right, sine qua non |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, requirement |
| Synonyms: | charge, commitment, committal, compulsion, demand, desideratum, devoir, duty, essential, exigency, extremity, longing, must, obligation, occasion, ought, requisite, right, the urge, urgency, use, weakness, wish |
| Notes: | knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of |
| Antonyms: | have |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
| Synonyms: | IOU, accountability, accountableness, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit, commitment, committal, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, devoir, due bill, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, ought, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding |
| Main Entry: | zero |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nothing |
| Synonyms: | aught, blank, bottom, cipher, insignificancy, love*, lowest point, nada, nadir, naught, nil, nix, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, oblivion, ought, rock bottom, scratch, shutout, void, zilch, zip, zot |
| Antonyms: | anything, being, something, thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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accusable, accusative, accusatory, accused, accusing, anapologetical, criminatory, denunciatory, imputable, imputative, in custody, in detention, in the house of detention, in the lockup, in the watch, inexcusable, recriminatory, suspected, under a cloud, under surveillance, under suspicion, unjustifiable, unpardonable, vicious
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| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
accountable, affianced, amenable, answerable, beholden to, behooving, binding, bound, bound by, bound to, casuistical, chargeable on, committed, compromised, conscientious, due to, dutiful, ethical, ethological, imperative, in duty bound, in for it, incumbent on, indebted to, liable, meet, moral, obligatory, obliged to, peremptory, pledged, promised, promising, promissory, responsible, right, saddled with, stringent, tied by, tied down, under hand and seal, under obligation, upon oath, votive
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