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things [thing] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
thing [thing]
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
Example Sentences
  • But occasionally brave philosophers do leap out of their professional lanes and illuminate things for the wider public.
  • It is a plurality of different things that do not share any one element but nevertheless bear a resemblance to one another.
  • If you need to incentivise staff to hand things in then let them nominate a charity to which unclaimed goods are donated.
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Main Entry: things
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belongings
Synonyms: baggage, chattels, clothes, conditions, duds, effects, gear, goods, possessions, stuff
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*
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
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
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