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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on foot |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulate, ambulatory, digitigrade, hiking, marching, plantigrade, promenading, roaming, strolling, strutting, wandering |
| Main Entry: | walk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move along on foot |
| Synonyms: | advance, amble, ambulate, canter, escort, exercise, file, foot, go, go on foot, hike, hit the road, hoof it, knock about, lead, leg*, locomote, lumber, march, meander, pace, pad, parade, patrol, perambulate, plod, prance, promenade, race, roam, rove, run, saunter, scuff, shamble, shuffle, slog, stalk, step, stride, stroll, strut, stump, take a walk, toddle, tour, traipse, tramp, travel on foot, traverse, tread, trek, troop, trudge, wander, wend one's way |
| Antonyms: | run |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | hiking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tramping |
| Synonyms: | backpacking, exploring, hitchhiking, marching, rambling, walking, wandering |
| Main Entry: | moving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mobile |
| Synonyms: | advancing, changing, climbing, evolving, flying, going, jumping, motile, movable, nomadic, portable, progressing, roaming, roving, running, shifting, traversing, unfixed, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, walking |
| Antonyms: | fixed, immobile, permanent, stationary, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | wayfaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling |
| Synonyms: | drifting, gadabout, globe-trotting, itinerant, itinerate, jet-setting, journeying, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, rambling, roving, rubbernecking, vagabond, vagrant, voyaging, walking, wandering |
| Antonyms: | unmoving |
| Main Entry: | afoot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling by foot |
| Synonyms: | hiking, on foot, walking |
| Main Entry: | marching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advancing |
| Synonyms: | checking, filing, hiking, pacing, parading, patrolling, policing, proceeding, stepping, tramping, walking |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, defect |
| Synonyms: | abscond, apostatize, bail out, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out, crawl out, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, give up, go, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, jilt, leave, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave stranded, light, maroon, opt out, play truant, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, run out on, sneak off, split*, strand, take a hike, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, violate oath, walk |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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