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| Main Entry: |
rest
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be calm; sleep |
| Synonyms: | be at ease, be comfortable, breathe, compose oneself, doze, dream, drowse, ease off, ease up, idle, laze, lean, let down, let up, lie by, lie down, lie still, loaf, loll, lounge, nap, nod, put feet up, recline, refresh oneself, relax, repose, sit down, slack, slack off, slacken, slumber, snooze, spell, stretch out, take a break, take a nap, take five, take it easy, take life easy, take ten, take time out, unbend, unlax, unwind, wind down |
| Antonyms: | activate, be active, carry out, do, energize |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depend, hinge |
| Synonyms: | base, be based, be contingent, be dependent, be founded, be seated on, be supported, be upheld, bottom, count, establish, found, ground, hang, lie, predicate, rely, reside, stay, turn |
| Main Entry: | resting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taking rest |
| Synonyms: | asleep, at ease, at rest, comfortable, crashed, dozing, dreaming, drowsing, lounging, lying down, napping, quiet, recessing, reclining, relaxing, reposing, sleeping, snoozing, stretched out, taking a break, taking it easy, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | resting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | situated |
| Synonyms: | established, located, lying, placed, reposing, seated, set on, settled on, supported by |
| Main Entry: | resting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | abed, incumbent, lying, nonactive, reclining, repose, static, upon |
| Antonyms: | active |
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| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
at a loose ends, at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at one's ease, at rest, becalmed, calm, cataleptic, cubatory, deliberate, fixed, hypnagogic, immovable, leisurely, lodged, mawmsey, motionless, moveless, picktooth, quiescent, quiet, recumbent, reposing, restful, semisomnous, silent, sleeping, slow, somnifugous, stagnant, standing still, stationary, still, still as a mouse, still as a post, still as a statue, still as death, stock still, undisturbed, unmoved, unruffled, unstrained, untraveled
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| Main Entry: | abide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop temporarily and wait for |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, bide, expect, linger, pause, remain, rest, sojourn, stay, stick around, stop, tarry, wait |
| Antonyms: | carry on, continue, go, move |
| Main Entry: | asleep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | catching some zzz's, comatose, conked, crashed, dormant, dozing, dreaming, flaked out, getting shut-eye, hibernating, in dreamland, in repose, inactive, inert, napping, on the kip, out cold, out like a light, out of it, out*, reposing, resting, sacked out, sleeping, slumbering, snoozing, snoring, somnolent, taking forty winks |
| Antonyms: | attentive, awake, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build plan or opinion on |
| Synonyms: | construct, depend, derive, establish, found, ground, hinge, locate, plant, predicate, prop, rest, set up, station, stay |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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