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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obedience, compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, capitulation, complaisance, condescension, docility, obeisance, submission, yielding |
| Notes: | deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar |
| Antonyms: | disobedience, impoliteness, noncompliance |
| Main Entry: | ductile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliant, flexible |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, amenable, biddable, docile, extensile, malleable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliable, responsive, submitting, supple, tractable, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, inflexible, intractable, stiff, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not difficult |
| Synonyms: | accessible, apparent, basic, child's play, cinch, clear, easily done, effortless, elementary, evident, facile, inconsiderable, light, little, manageable, manifest, mere, no bother, no problem, no sweat, no trouble, not burdensome, nothing to it, obvious, painless, paltry, picnic, piece of cake, plain, plain sailing, pushover, royal, simple, simple as ABC, slight, smooth, snap, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, uninvolved, untroublesome, wieldy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complex, complicated, demanding, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, laborious, uneasy |
| Main Entry: | effective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, persuasive |
| Synonyms: | able, active, adequate, capable, cogent, compelling, competent, convincing, direct, effectual, efficacious, efficient, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, having lead in pencil, impressive, live, moving, on the ball, operative, playing hardball, potent, powerful, powerhouse, practical, producing, resultant, serviceable, serving, sound, striking, sufficient, telling, trenchant, useful, valid, virtuous, wicked*, yielding |
| Notes: | effective means 'having a (desired) result or effect,' effectual is 'succeeding in producing a desired result or effect,' and efficacious means the same as effectual as well as 'serving as an effective solution or remedy' |
| Antonyms: | fruitless, impotent, incapable, ineffective, unproductive, useless, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliant, rubbery |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, bouncy, buoyant, ductile, extendible, extensible, flexible, irrepressible, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, resilient, rubberlike, springy, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tempered, yielding |
| Antonyms: | inelastic, rigid, stiff, tense, unflexible, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | elastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, tolerant |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adjustable, airy, animated, bouncy, buoyant, complaisant, compliant, ebullient, effervescent, expansive, flexible, gay, high-spirited, lively, recuperative, resilient, soaring, spirited, sprightly, supple, variable, vivacious, volatile, yielding |
| Antonyms: | difficult, inflexible, intolerant, unadaptable, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | flabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | baggy, fat |
| Synonyms: | drooping, enervated, flaccid, flexuous, floppy, gone to seed, hanging, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, out of condition, out of shape, pendulous, rusty, sagging, shapeless, slack, sloppy, soft, tender, toneless, unfit, yielding |
| Antonyms: | firm, lean, slim, taut, thin, tight |
| Main Entry: | flexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable, bendable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | brittle, inflexible, resistant, rigid, stiff, unbendable, unpliable, unyielding |
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