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padded
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuffed |
| Synonyms: | cushioned, filled, quilted |
| Main Entry: | pad |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | elaborate, amplify |
| Synonyms: | augment, bulk, embellish, embroider, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, fill out, flesh out, fudge, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, overdraw, overstate, protract, spin, stretch |
| Antonyms: | simplify, uncomplicate |
| Main Entry: | pad |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk quietly; walk ploddingly |
| Synonyms: | creep, go barefoot, hike, march, patter, pitter-patter, plod, pussyfoot, sneak, steal, traipse, tramp, trek, trudge |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, bent, bribable, crooked, debauched, double-dealing, exploiting, extortionate, faithless, fast and loose, fixed, foul, fraudulent, gone to the dogs, inconstant, iniquitous, knavish, mercenary, nefarious, on the take, open, padded, perfidious, praetorian, profiteering, racket up, reprobate, rotten, shady, snide, suborned, tainted, treacherous, two-faced, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, wide open |
| Antonyms: | decent, honest, honorable, principled, pure, trustworthy, truthful, uncorrupt, upright |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having little effect on senses |
| Synonyms: | aside, bated, bland, bleached, blurred, breathless, deadened, deep, delicate, dim, distant, dull, dusty, faded, faltering, far-off, feeble, gentle, hazy, hoarse, hushed, ill-defined, imperceptible, inaudible, indistinct, lenient, light, low, low-pitched, mild, moderate, muffled, murmuring, muted, muttering, obscure, out of earshot, padded, pale, piano, quiet, remote, shadowy, slight, smooth, soft, softened, soothing, stifled, subdued, tenuous, thin, unclear, vague, wan, weak, whispered |
| Notes: | faint (verb) means to pass out from weakness or to lose consciousness - faint (adjective) means barely perceptible or lacking clarity or distinctness; feint (noun) means any distracting or deceptive maneuver - feint (verb) means to deceive by a mock action |
| Antonyms: | clear, distinct, heavy, loud, strong |
| Main Entry: | full |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brimming, filled |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, adequate, awash, big, bounteous, brimful, burdened, bursting, chock-full, chockablock, competent, complete, crammed, crowded, entire, extravagant, glutted, gorged, imbued, impregnated, intact, jam-packed, jammed, jammed full, laden, lavish, loaded, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, padded, plenteous, plentiful, plethoric, profuse, replete, running over, sated, satiated, satisfied, saturated, stocked, stuffed, sufficient, suffused, surfeited, teeming, voluminous, weighted |
| Antonyms: | empty, incomplete, void |
| Main Entry: | lengthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended |
| Synonyms: | diffuse, dragging, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, interminable, lengthened, long, long-winded, longish, overlong, padded, prolix, prolonged, protracted, tedious, tiresome, verbose, very long, wearisome, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, curtailed, shortened |
| Main Entry: | redundant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive; repetitious |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, de trop, diffuse, extra, extravagant, inessential, inordinate, iterating, long-winded, loquacious, oratorical, padded, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, reiterating, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautological, unnecessary, unwanted, verbose, wordy |
| Antonyms: | concise, essential, single, singular |
| Main Entry: | venal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bribable, corruptible |
| Synonyms: | amoral, bent*, buyable, conscienceless, corrupt, crooked, dishonest, double-dealing, immoral, mercenary, on the take, padded, purchasable, unethical, unprincipled, unprofessional, unscrupulous |
| Notes: | venal is 'corruptible, unscrupulous'; venial is 'forgivable; not criminal' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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