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grounded
adjective as in aware
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alive, appreciative, apprehensive, attentive, awake, cognizant, conscious, familiar, informed, mindful, receptive, wise
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acquainted, alert, appraised, apprised, au courant, cool, enlightened, go-go, groovy, heedful, hip, in the know, in the picture, into, know the score, know what's what, know-how, knowing, latched on, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, savvy, sensible, sentient, sharp, tuned-in, up on, wise to, wised up, with it
adjective as in cognizant
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apprehensive, conscious, informed, judicious, knowledgeable, observant
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acquainted, alive, au courant, awake, conversant, down with, familiar, hep to, hip to, in on, in the know, in the picture, knowing, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, savvy, sensible, sentient, tuned-in, up on, versed, wise to, with it, witting
adjective as in confined
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bound, chilled, compassed, cramp, detained, hampered, held, hog-tied, iced, immured, incarcerated, indisposed, invalided, jailed, pent, sick
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bedfast, bedridden, bottled-up, cooped up, flattened out, in chains, in jail, incommodious, laid up, locked up, on ice, sealed up, shut-in
adjective as in familiar
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abreast, apprised, at home with, au courant, au fait, cognizant, conscious, in on, in the know, informed, introduced, kept posted, mindful, no stranger to, plugged in, tuned-in, up, up on, versed in, well up in, with it
adjective as in initiated
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accepted, acknowledged, admitted, coached, confirmed, conscripted, inducted, installed, tutored
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adjective as in learned
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accomplished, educated, scholarly, scientific, studied, well-educated
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abstruse, academic, bookish, brainy, conversant, deep, erudite, esoteric, expert, highbrow, in the know, intellectual, judicious, literary, literate, omniscient, pansophic, pedantic, philosophic, philosophical, polymath, professorial, recondite, sage, sapient, sharp, skilled, solemn, solid, sound, studious, well-grounded, well-read, well-rounded
adjective as in punished
adjective as in rooted
adjective as in stranded
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cast away, godforsaken, high and dry, homeless, left at the altar, left in the lurch, out in left field, passed up, penniless, run aground
adjective as in stuck
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adjective as in versant
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abreast, acquainted, apprised, at home with, au courant, au fait, aware, cognizant, conscious, conversant, in on, in the know, informed, introduced, kept posted, mindful, no stranger to, plugged in, tuned-in, up, up on, versed in, well up in, with it
Example Sentences
Planes were grounded, construction work halted, and car honking discouraged as the Suneung, an eight-hour university placement exam billed as one of the toughest in the world, kicked off on Thursday.
In an odd twist the photo was first published on Telegram by the former opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, who was arrested when his Ryanair flight over Belarus was forcibly grounded.
The winds were so fierce that retardant-dropping aircraft were grounded, at least temporarily.
For him, "Southern society revived the genius of medieval civilization" and even surpassed it by imposing a racial hierarchy confirmed by ideas grounded in "science."
At the end of the talks I give about the early African American liberal tradition, I remind people that many of these thinkers, despite the severity of their circumstances, remained committed to bringing about change through political processes grounded in the liberal principles that inspired America’s founding documents.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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