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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very fast |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, alacritous, barrelling, breakneck, cracking, double-quick, expeditious, express, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, hasty, headlong, hurried, in nothing flat, like crazy, like mad, nimble, on the double, precipitate, prompt, pronto, quick, rapid, ready, screaming, shaking a leg, short, short-lived, snappy, spanking, speedball, speedy, sudden, supersonic, unexpected, winged |
| Antonyms: | delayed, slow, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | displease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make unhappy |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, anger, annoy, antagonize, bother, cap, chagrin, cool, curdle, cut to the quick, disappoint, discontent, disgruntle, disgust, disoblige, dissatisfy, enrage, exasperate, fret, frustrate, gall, hurt, incense, irk, irritate, nettle, offend, perplex, pique, play dirty, provoke, put out, repel, revolt, rile, roil, sound, turn off, upset, vex, wing*, worry, zing |
| Antonyms: | appease, calm, compose, delight, humor, make happy, please, satisfy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flutter, move rapidly |
| Synonyms: | dance, dart, flash, fleet, flicker, float, fly, hover, hurry, pass, run, rush, sail, scud, skim, speed, sweep, whisk, whiz, wing, zip |
| Main Entry: | fly |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take to the air, usually employing wings |
| Synonyms: | aviate, barnstorm, bend the throttle, buzz*, circle, circumnavigate, climb, control, cross, dart, dash, dive, drift, flat-hat, fleet, flit, float, flutter, glide, hop, hover, hurry, jet, jet out, jet over, maneuver, mount, operate, pilot, reach, remain aloft, rush, sail, scud, seagull, shoot, skim, skirt, sky out, soar, speed, swoop, take a hop, take flight, take off, take wing, travel, whisk, whiz*, whoosh, wing in, wing*, zip, zoom* |
| Antonyms: | land, stay on ground, walk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move smoothly and quickly on a surface |
| Synonyms: | coast, decline, descend, drift, flit, float, flow, fly, glissade, roll, run, sail, scud, shoot, skate, skim, skip, skirr, slide, slink, slip, slither, smooth along, soar, spiral, stream, trip, waft, wing |
| Main Entry: | harm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure; cause evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blemish, bruise, cripple, crush, damage, dilapidate, discommode, disserve, do violence to, dump on, get, hurt, ill-treat, impair, incommode, inconvenience, louse up, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mess up*, misuse, molest, muck up, mutilate, nick, outrage, prejudice, put down, ruin, sabotage, sap*, scathe, shatter, shock, spoil, stab, tarnish, total, trample, traumatize, tweak*, undermine, vandalize, vitiate, wing*, wound, wreck, wrench, wrong, zing |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, benefit, care, fix, help, improve, mend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause physical pain; experience pain |
| Synonyms: | abuse, ache, afflict, ail, be sore, be tender, belt, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, cramp, cut, cut up, damage, disable, do violence, flail, flog, harm, impair, injure, kick, lacerate, lash, maltreat, mar, maul, mess up, nip, pierce, pinch, pommel, prick, pummel, punch, puncture, punish, rough up, shake up, slap, slug, smart, spank, spoil, squeeze, stab, sting, tear, throb, torment, torture, total, trouble, wax, whack, whip, wing, wound, wrack up, wring |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, cure, heal, help, relieve, remedy, soothe |
| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, think up |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, author, bear, bring into being, coin, come up with, come upon, compose, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, dream up, envision, execute, fake, fashion, find, forge, form, formulate, frame, hatch, imagine, improve, improvise, inaugurate, initiate, jam*, knock off, make, make up, mint, off-the-cuff, originate, plan, produce, project, toss off, turn out, wing* |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | steal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | race |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run, speed in competition |
| Synonyms: | boil, bolt, bustle, career, chase, compete, contest, course, dart, dash, fling, fly, gallop, haste, hasten, hie, hurry, hustle, lash, outstrip, plunge ahead, post, pursue, rush, scamper, scramble, scud, scuttle, shoot, skim, sprint, spurt, swoop, tear, whisk, wing |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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