| Concept: | Dearness. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
dearness; high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse.
-verbs
be dear; cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look up., overcharge, bleed, fleece, extort., pay too much, pay through the nose, pay too dear for one's whistle.
-adjectives
dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; dear bought; unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, extortionate., at a premium., not to be had, not to be had for love or money; beyond price, above price, priceless, of priceless value.
-adverbs
dear, dearly; at great cost, heavy cost; a grands frais.
-phrases
prices looking up; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle [French]; le cout en ote le gout; vel prece vel pretio; too high a price to pay, not worth it.
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Antonyms: |
cheapness |
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| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness in feeling |
Synonyms: |
affection, dearness, familiarity, friendship, intimacy |
| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
accolent, adjacent, adjoining, affluent, approaching, approximative, asymptotical, at hand, cheek by jowl, close, close at hand, convergent, converging, equidistant, handy, home, imminent, impending, inby, intimate, limitrophe, near, near at hand, near run, near the mark, neighboring, neolocal, nigh, penadjacent, propinquant, proximal, proximate, subcontiguous, vicinage, vicinal, youward
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| Concept: | Nearness. |
| Category: | 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
nearness; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity., short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span., purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland; whereabouts., bystander; neighbor, borderer., approach; convergence; perihelion.
-verbs
-adjectives
near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.
-adverbs
near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at the point of; next door to; within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way., about; hereabouts, thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh.
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Antonyms: |
distance |
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