| Main Entry: |
stage
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrange, produce |
| Synonyms: | bring out, do, engineer, execute, give, mount, open, orchestrate, organize, perform, play, present, put on, show |
| Antonyms: | close |
| Main Entry: | mount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | affix, frame |
| Synonyms: | emplace, exhibit, fit, install, place, position, prepare, produce, put in place, put on, set up, show, stage |
| Antonyms: | dismount, unfix |
| Main Entry: | perform |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, depict as entertainment |
| Synonyms: | act out, appear as, be on, bring down the house, discourse, display, do a number, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, execute, exhibit, give, go on, ham it up, ham, impersonate, offer, personate, play, playact, present, produce, put on, render, represent, show, stage, tread the boards |
| Antonyms: | direct |
| Main Entry: | present |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | introduce; demonstrate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, adduce, advance, allege, cite, declare, display, do, do the honors, exhibit, expose, expound, extend, fix up, get together, give, give an introduction, hold out, imply, infer, intimate, lay, make a pitch, make known, manifest, mount, offer, open to view, perform, pitch, pose, produce, proffer, proposition, put forward, put on, raise, recount, relate, roll out, show, stage, state, submit, suggest, tender, trot out |
| Antonyms: | refrain, subdue, withhold |
| Main Entry: | produce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put on a public performance |
| Synonyms: | act, come through, direct, do, exhibit, make, mount, percolate, perform, perk, play, present, pull off, show, stage |
| Antonyms: | act, play |
| Main Entry: | represent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | present image of; symbolize |
| Synonyms: | act as, act as broker, act for, act in place of, appear as, assume the role of, be, be agent for, be attorney for, be proxy for, betoken, body, buy for, copy, correspond to, do business for, emblematize, embody, enact, epitomize, equal, equate, exemplify, exhibit, express, factor, hold office, imitate, impersonate, mean, perform, personify, play the part, produce, put on, reproduce, sell for, serve, serve as, show, speak for, stage, stand for, steward, substitute, typify |
| Main Entry: | show |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | actively exhibit something |
| Synonyms: | afford, air, arrive, attend, bare, blazon, brandish, deal in, demonstrate, display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, flaunt, flourish, lay bare, lay out, mount, offer, parade, present, produce, proffer, put on, reveal, sell, set out, show off, showcase, sport, spread, stage, streak, submit, supply, trot out, unfold, unfurl, unveil, vaunt, wave |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | theatrical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dramatic |
| Synonyms: | affected, amateur, artificial, campy, ceremonious, comic, dramaturgic, exaggerated, ham, hammy, histrionic, legitimate, mannered, melodramatic, meretricious, operatic, ostentatious, pompous, schmaltzy, show, showy, staged, stilted, superficial, theatric, thespian, tragic, unnatural, unreal, vaudeville |
| Antonyms: | comedic, real, undramatic, untheatrical |
| Main Entry: | unnatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not regular; artificial |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, affected, anomalous, assumed, bizarre, concocted, contrary, contrived, ersatz*, extraordinary, fabricated, factitious, false, feigned, forced, freakish, freaky, imitation, incredible, insincere, irregular, labored, made-up, make-believe, odd, outlandish, outrageous, perverse, perverted, phony, preposterous, pseudo*, put-on, queer, staged, stiff, stilted, strained, strange, studied, supernatural, synthetic, theatrical, unaccountable, uncanny, unconforming, unorthodox, unusual |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, genuine, natural, real |