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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mystery |
| Synonyms: | abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, closed book, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, question, rebus, riddle, rune, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, sphinx, stickler, stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, twister, whodunit, why* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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adventitious, choosehow, circumstantial, conditional, contingent, crisic, critical, ectopic, entopic, exceptional, ferial, formal, given, guarded, hypothetical, incidental, modal, organic, provisional, qualifying, structural
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| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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a slave to, anaclitic, at one's beck and call, at the feet of, at the mercy of, chicken-pecked, constrained, dependent, downtrodden, enslaved, feudal, feudatory, henpecked, in harness, in leading strings, in subjection to, in the clutches of, in the hands of, in the power of, led by the nose, liable, liberticidal, mancipate, on the hip, overborne, overwhelmed, parasitical, prochnial, procrustean, stipendiary, subject, subordinate, sycophantic, the plaything of, the puppet of, the sport of, under control, under one's command, under one's orders, under one's thumb, under the lash, uxorious
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| Concept: | Business. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case., matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty., part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career., office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service (servitude); engagement; undertaking., vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade (commerce)., exercise; work (action); avocation; press of business (activity).
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pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with (do)., drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work., officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office, discharge the office, perform the office, perform the duties, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio., be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full (activity) [more]., be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.
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businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy (actively employed); on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
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in the course of business, all in one's day's work; professionally,
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"a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto quaeramus seria ludo [Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Tacitus].
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| Concept: | Imperfection. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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imperfection; imperfectness; deficiency; inadequacy (insufficiency); peccancy (badness); immaturity., fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side., mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of; one-borse shay.
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be imperfect; have a defect; lie under a disadvantage; spring a leak., not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short.
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imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped (distort); lame; injured (deteriorated); peccant (bad); frail (weak); inadequate (insufficient); crude (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement., indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing., secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].
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almost; to a limited extent, rather [more]; pretty, moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough.
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surgit amari aliquid.
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| Antonyms: | perfection |
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| Concept: | [Subject of thought, νοηματα.] Topic. |
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subject of thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum., subject, subject matter; matter, theme, νοηματα, topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem (question) [more].
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float in the mind , pass in the mind [more].
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thought of; uppermost in the mind; in petto.
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under consideration; in question, in the mind; on foot, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis; relative to.
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