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| Main Entry: |
top
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | best, most important; highest |
| Synonyms: | apical, capital, chief, crack, crowning, culminating, dominant, elite, excellent, fine, finest, first, first-class, first-rate, five-star, foremost, greatest, head, lead, leading, loftiest, maximal, maximum, outside, paramount, preeminent, primary, prime, principal, ruling, sovereign, superior, supreme, tiptop, top-drawer, top-notch, topmost, upper, uppermost |
| Antonyms: | least, low, lower, lowest, second-rate, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highest rank |
| Synonyms: | best, captain, chief, choice, cream, elite, first place, flower, head, lead, leader, pick, pride, prime, prize, utmost |
| Antonyms: | bottom, lowest |
| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | place on or reach highest part |
| Synonyms: | ascend, cap, climb, cloak, clothe, cover, crest, crown, face, finish, garnish, piggyback, protect, reinforce, roof, scale, spread over, superimpose, surmount, tip |
| Antonyms: | descend, drop, fall, lower |
Example Sentences
- Seven-figure salaries could become more common in higher education as colleges try to attract top talent.
- Top reason is that one of the major causes of accidents is complacency.
- Earth's horizon interrupts the blackness of space at the top of the frame.
| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surpass |
| Synonyms: | bash, be first, beat, best, better, blow away, clobber, eclipse, exceed, excel, fake out, finagle, fox*, go beyond, goose, outdo, outfox, outshine, outstrip, overrun, run circles around, shut out, total*, transcend |
| Antonyms: | fall behind, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove the upper part |
| Synonyms: | amputate, cream, crop, curtail, cut off, decapitate, detruncate, dock, file off, lop off, pare, pollard, prune, ream, scrape off, shave off, shear, shorten, skim, trim, truncate |
| Antonyms: | add, replace |
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| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
| Main Entry: | acme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pinnacle of achievement or physical object |
| Synonyms: | apogee, capstone, climax, culmination, height, high point, highest point, meridian, optimum, peak, summit, top, ultimate, vertex, zenith |
| Antonyms: | nadir |
| Main Entry: | answer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reply, react |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, answer back, argue, back at you, back talk, be in touch, claim, comeback, contest, counterclaim, defend, deny, disprove, dispute, echo, explain, feedback, field the question, get back at, get back to, give a snappy comeback, parry, plead, rebut, refute, rejoin, remark, resolve, respond, retaliate, retort, return, sass, say, settle, shoot back, solve, squelch, talk back, top* |
| Notes: | an answer is something said, written, or done in return; a reply is an answer that satisfies a detail in a question |
| Antonyms: | ask, question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | principal, superior |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, champion, chief, consummate, expert, finished, first, foremost, greatest, head, highest, leading, main, major, master, preeminent, premier, primary, top |
| Antonyms: | inferior |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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