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| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
| Synonyms: | action, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement, activeness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness, immobility, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special interest or pursuit |
| Synonyms: | act, avocation, bag*, bit*, deed, endeavor, enterprise, entertainment, game, hobby, job, labor, occupation, pastime, project, racket, scene*, scheme, stunt, task, trip, undertaking, venture, work, zoo, ballgame |
| Antonyms: | hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, game, happening, haste, hoopla*, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket*, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, ballgame, big idea, functioning, going, hopper, in the works |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inaction, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage, inactivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | addict |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has compulsion toward |
| Synonyms: | activity, buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fiend, follower, freak*, habitué, hound*, junkie*, nut, practitioner, zealot, often injurious aficionado |
| Notes: | an edict is a formal or authoritative proclamation; an addict is someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or someone who is a devoted supporter or fan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | agility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental nimbleness, deftness |
| Synonyms: | activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, liveliness, promptness, quickness, swiftness, briskness, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, promptitude, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | department |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of interest, expertise |
| Synonyms: | activity, administration, assignment, avocation, bailiwick, berth, bureau, business, capacity, class, classification, domain, dominion, duty, field, function, jurisdiction, line, niche, occupation, office, province, realm, responsibility, slot, specialty, sphere, spot, station, vocation, walk of life, wing, incumbency |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, application, attention, care, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, industry, intensity, intent, keenness, quickness, vigor, assiduity, assiduousness, attentiveness, briskness, carefulness, heedfulness, intentness, laboriousness, pertinacity, sedulousness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's spirit and vigor |
| Synonyms: | élan, activity, animation, application, ardor, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, fortitude, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip*, birr, forcefulness, get-up-and-go, operativeness, toughness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, laziness, lethargy, inactivity, tiredness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure, undertaking |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, affair, attempt, baby*, bag*, bit*, business, campaign, cause, company, concern, crusade, deal, deed, do*, effort, endeavor, engagement, essay, establishment, firm, flier*, follow through*, game*, happening, hazard, house, move, operation, outfit, performance, plan, plunge*, program, project, proposition, purpose, pursuit, risk, scheme, speculation, stake, striving, stunt, task, thing*, trade, try, venture, work, ballgame, big idea, biggie, pet project |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resourcefulness, energy |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, pluck, push, readiness, resource, spirit, vigor, zeal, adventurousness, get-up-and-go, inventiveness, self-reliance, venturesomeness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity |
| Main Entry: | enthusiasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keen interest, excitement |
| Synonyms: | élan, activity, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, intensity, interest, joy, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph*, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat*, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zest, ardency, fieriness, impetuosity, joyfulness, zealousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness, aloofness, coldness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, disturbance, dither*, drama, elation, emotion, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do*, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, discomposure, excitation, kicks, melodrama, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exercise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, effort |
| Synonyms: | act, action, activity, constitutional*, daily dozen*, discharge, discipline, drill, examination, exertion, labor, lesson, movement, occupation, operation, performance, problem, pursuit, recitation, study, task, test, theme, toil, training, workout, calisthenics, drilling, exercising, gym, schoolwork, warm-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, application, attempt, effort, elbow grease*, employment, endeavor, exercise, industry, labor, operation, strain, stretch, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, trouble, use, hard pull, long pull, pains, utilization |
| Antonyms: | idleness, laziness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitement, feel, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, reflex, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, titillation, excitability, excitation, innervation, motility, motor response, receptivity, responsiveness, sensuality, tactility, tangibility |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | function |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, job |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, affair, behavior, business, charge, concern, duty, employment, exercise, faculty, goal, mark, mission, object, objective, occupation, office, operation, part, post, power, province, purpose, raison d'être, responsibility, role, service, situation, target, task, use, utility, work |
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit, vitality |
| Synonyms: | activity, animation, bang, drive, energy, force, hardihood, life, moxie*, oomph*, pep, potency, push, snap*, starch*, tuck*, verve, vigor, vivacity, zest, birr, get-up-and-go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoopla |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, brouhaha, bustle, buzz*, commotion, drama, elation, emotion, feeling, fever, fireworks*, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, hysteria, passion, racket, rage, ruckus, rumpus, stir, thrill, excitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | activity, application, attention, care, determination, diligence, effort, energy, enterprise, labor, patience, perseverance, persistence, toil, vigor, zeal, assiduity, dynamism, intentness, inventiveness, pains, tirelessness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy, worthlessness, unemployment |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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