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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, ministration, office, overhaul, relevance, serviceability, servicing, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work |
| Antonyms: | damage, disservice, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
| Synonyms: | account, adequacy, advantage, advantageousness, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, expediency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, productiveness, profit, relevance, service, serviceability, use, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | pertinence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistency |
| Synonyms: | applicability, congruity, importance, purpose, relevance |
| Main Entry: | concernment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | concern, consequence, import, magnitude, relevance, significance, significancy, weight, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | interestedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concern |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, attention, bearing, care, carefulness, concernment, consideration, disquiet, disquietude, distress, heed, heedfulness, interest, regard, relation, relevance, solicitude, tender loving care, unease, worry |
| Main Entry: | significancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | accent, attention, bearing, caliber, concern, concernment, consequence, denotation, distinction, drift*, effect, emphasis, force, gist*, gravity, import, influence, interest, materiality, moment, momentousness, notability, paramountcy, point, precedence, preponderance, preponderancy, priority, purport, relevance, sense, seriousness, significance, signification, standing, stress, substance, tenor, usefulness, value, weight, weightiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | importance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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all, cardinal, chief, commanding, considerable, critical, earnest, ecbatic, egregious, emphatic, essential, eventful, first, grand, grave, important, imposing, impressive, in the front rank, instant, leading, main, marked, material, memorable, momentous, monsterful, never to be forgotten, noble, not to be despised, not to be overlooked, not to be sneezed at, notable, of importance, of note, of vital importance, overruling, paramount, pregnant, pressing, primary, prime, principal, prominent, radical, rare, remarkable, salient, serious, signal, significant, solemn, stirring, substantive, superior, telling, trenchant, urgent, vital, weighty, worthy of notice, worthy of remark
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| Main Entry: | regard |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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bare, ceremonious, decorous, deferential, emeritus, in deference to, in high esteem, in high estimation, obsequious, on one's knees, prostrate, respected, respectful, respecting, reverenced, reverential, saving your grace, saving your presence, time, with all respect, with due respect, with the hightest respect
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