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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, corporeality, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, existent, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, materiality, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aspect, characteristic |
| Synonyms: | article, attribute, detail, element, facet, factor, feature, item, particular, point, property, quality, statement, thought, trait |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, obsession |
| Synonyms: | attitude, bee in bonnet, craze, fad, fetish, fixation, hang-up, idée fixe, impression, mania, notion, opinion, phobia, preoccupation, quirk, style, thought |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | thing/things |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal possessions |
| Synonyms: | apparel, attire, baggage, belongings, chattels, clothes, clothing, duds, effects, equipment, gear, goods, habiliments, impedimenta, luggage, odds and ends, paraphernalia, personal effects, personals, property, raiment, stuff, trappings, tricks |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, action, deed, doing, execution, exploit, feat, move, operation, performance, step, thing, undertaking |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inactivity, inertia, quiet, quiet, repose, rest, stoppage, suspension |
| Main Entry: | addiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a habit of activity, often injurious |
| Synonyms: | bag*, bent, craving, dependence, enslavement, fixation, hang-up, hook, inclination, jones, kick*, monkey on back, monkey*, obsession, shot*, sweet tooth, thing* |
| Notes: | addiction is mainly physical while dependency is mostly psychological |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adornment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a decoration |
| Synonyms: | accessory, dingbat, doodad, embellishment, fandangle, floss, frill, frippery, furbelow, gewgaw, jazz, ornament, thing, trimming |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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