Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance |
| Synonyms: | abundance, excess, extravagance, luxury, overflowing, plethora, superabundance, superfluous, surplus, surplusage. superabundance |
| Antonyms: | lack, shortage |
| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant thing |
| Synonyms: | advantage, betterment, comfort, convenience, enhancement, enrichment, excellence, extravagance, facility, frill, improvement, luxury, merit, quality, service, superfluity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | abomination, inconvenience |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
| Synonyms: | balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
| Antonyms: | dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| Main Entry: | exuberance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profusion |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, copiousness, effusiveness, exaggeration, excessiveness, fulsomeness, lavishness, lushness, luxuriance, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, richness, superabundance, superfluity, teemingness |
| Antonyms: | insufficiency, lack, need, want |
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overweight, adipose tissue |
| Synonyms: | blubber, bulk, cellulite, corpulence, excess, fatness, flab, flesh, grease, lard, obesity, overabundance, overflow, paunch, plethora, suet, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, tallow |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming flow, quantity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alluvion, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drencher, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, freshet, glut, inundation, multitude, niagara, outgushing, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, tsunami, wave |
| Main Entry: | frill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury, nice touch |
| Synonyms: | amenity, decoration, doodad, extravagance, fandangle, flounce, foppery, frippery, fuss, garbage*, garnish, gathering, gimcrack, gingerbread, jazz, lace, ruffle, superfluity, thing*, tuck |
| Antonyms: | plainness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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