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| Main Entry: |
spleen
 [spleen] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate |
| Synonyms: | anger, caprice, choler, depression, dislike, grudge, hatred, hostility, ire, lien, malice, melancholy, milt, rancor, resentment, spite, whim, wrath |
| Antonyms: | good humor |
| Main Entry: | enmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hatred, animosity |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, alienation, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bitterness, daggers, detestation, dislike, hate, hostility, ill will, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignancy, malignity, rancor, spite, spleen, uncordiality, unfriendliness, venom |
| Antonyms: | affinity, fellowship, friendship, good will, kindness, love |
| Main Entry: | grudge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard feelings |
| Synonyms: | animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bitterness, bone to pick, dislike, enmity, grievance, hate, hatred, ill will, injury, injustice, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, peeve, pet peeve, pique, rancor, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom |
| Antonyms: | favor, forgiveness, good will |
Example Sentences
- Symptoms include anemia, fatigue, and enlarged liver and spleen.
- The spleen is an organ that is a part of the lymph system.
- In cheetahs amyloid fibrils build up in the spleen and liver, typically following an inflammatory stomach disease.
| Main Entry: | hatred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, allergy to, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, coldness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, envy, execration, grudge, hard feelings, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, invidiousness, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignance, militancy, no use for, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom |
| Antonyms: | like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | hostility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | antagonism, meanness |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bellicosity, belligerence, bitterness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, ill will, inimicality, malevolence, malice, opposition, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, unfriendliness, venom, virulence, war, warpath |
| Antonyms: | agreeableness, friendliness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, niceness |
| Main Entry: | ill will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitter feeling |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bad blood, bad will, bitterness, blame, despite, dislike, enmity, envy, feud, grudge, hard feelings, hate, hatred, hatred; hard feelings, hostility, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, no love lost, no love lost, objection, rancor, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, unfriendliness, venom |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, friendship, good feelings, good will, liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | malice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate, vengefulness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, animosity, animus, antipathy, bad blood, bane, bile, bitterness, despite, despitefulness, dirt, dislike, down, enmity, evil, grudge, hatefulness, hatred, hostility, ill will, implacability, malevolence, maliciousness, malignance, malignity, meanness, mordacity, poison, rancor, repugnance, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, venom, viciousness, vindictiveness |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, friendliness, kindness, like, sympathy, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | prejudice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief without basis, information; intolerance |
| Synonyms: | ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity, foregone conclusion, illiberality, injustice, jaundiced eye, mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, pique, preconceived notion, preconception, prejudgment, prepossession, racism, repugnance, revulsion, sexism, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, unfairness, warp, xenophobia |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Antonyms: | fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anger |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, agitation, animosity, apoplexy, asperity, bitterness, blowup, bluster, choler, convulsion, dander, eruption, exasperation, excitement, explosion, ferment, ferocity, fireworks, frenzy, furor, fury, gall, heat*, hemorrhage, huff, hysterics, indignation, ire, irritation, madness, mania, obsession, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rampage, raving, resentment, spasm, spleen, squall, storm, tantrum, temper, umbrage, uproar, upset, vehemence, violence, wingding, wrath |
| Antonyms: | glee, happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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