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affair - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity
Synonyms: assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking, hap, office function
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illicit sexual relationship
Synonyms: amour, extracurricular activity*, fling, hanky-panky*, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, relationship, rendezvous, romance, two-timing, affaire, carrying on, goings-on, playing around, thing together
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: party or celebration
Synonyms: do, entertainment, function, gathering, reception, shindig, soiree
Main Entry: adultery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extramarital affair
Synonyms: affair, cheating, extracurricular activity*, fling, fornication, hanky-panky*, infidelity, matinee*, relationship, thing*, two-timing, carrying on, immorality, playing around
Antonyms: faithfulness
Main Entry: amour
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: romance
Synonyms: affair, entanglement, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship
Antonyms: dislike, hate, hatred
Main Entry: assignation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clandestine meeting
Synonyms: affair, appointment, date, engagement, love nest*, one-night stand*, quickie, rendezvous, tryst, heavy date, illicit meeting, secret meeting
Main Entry: binge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spree
Synonyms: affair, bender, blind*, bout*, carousal, drunk*, fling, jag*, orgy*, toot*, compotation
Antonyms: saving
Main Entry: circumstance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: situation, condition
Synonyms: Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at
Main Entry: entanglement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complication, predicament
Synonyms: affair, association, cobweb, complexity, confusion, difficulty, embarrassment, embroilment, imbroglio, intricacy, intrigue, involvement, jumble, knot, liaison, mesh, mess, mix-up, muddle, snare, tangle, toil, trap, web, enmeshment, ensnarement, entrapment, tie-up
Antonyms: simplicity, disentanglement
Main Entry: episode
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adventure; scene
Synonyms: affair, business, chapter, circumstance, doings, event, experience, goings-on, happening, incident, installment, interlude, matter, occasion, occurrence, part, passage, section, thing*, what's going down
Main Entry: gala
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: festival
Synonyms: affair, ball, bash, blast*, blowout*, carnival, celebration, dance, do, festivity, fete, fiesta, function, get-together, hop, jamboree, pageant, party, prom, roast, shindig*, to-do*, clambake, moveable feast, stag, wingding
Main Entry: gathering
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assemblage, accumulation
Synonyms: acquisition, affair, aggregate, aggregation, association, band, body, bunch, caucus, collection, company, concentration, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, crowd, crush, drove, flock, function, gain, get-together, group, heap, herd, horde, huddle, junction, knot, levy, mass, meet, meeting, muster, parley, party, pile, powwow*, rally, roundup, society, stock, stockpile, swarm, throng, turnout, union, clambake, social function
Main Entry: happening
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: occurrence
Synonyms: accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing*
Antonyms: method, plan, system
Main Entry: infidelity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disloyalty to an obligation
Synonyms: adultery, affair, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, faithlessness, falsity, lewdness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness, bad faith, extramarital relations, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness
Antonyms: faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty
Main Entry: love affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: love relationship
Synonyms: adultery, affair, amour, courtship, dalliance, devotion, entanglement, extracurricular activity*, fling, flirtation, hanky-panky, infidelity, intrigue, involvement, liaison, love, passion, relationship, romance, seduction, thing, tryst, affair of the heart, affaire de coeur, forbidden love, illicit love, ménage à trois, romantic affair, sexual relationship outside of marriage, triangle
Main Entry: occurrence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: happening, development
Synonyms: accident, adventure, affair, appearance, circumstance, condition, contingency, emergency, episode, event, exigency, existence, incidence, incident, instance, juncture, manifestation, occasion, pass, piece, proceeding, routine, scene, situation, state, thing*, transaction, materialization, transpiration
Main Entry: project
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: undertaking, work
Synonyms: activity, adventure, affair, aim, assignment, baby*, blueprint*, business, concern, deal, design, enterprise, exploit, feat, game plan, intention, job, matter, occupation, outline, pet*, plan, program, proposal, proposition, scheme, setup, strategy, task, thing*, venture
Main Entry: session
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: meeting, gathering
Synonyms: affair, assembly, concourse, conference, discussion, get-together, hearing, huddle, jam session*, meet, period, showdown, sitting, term
Notes: cession is the act of ceding; a session is a meeting for execution of a group's functions or a meeting devoted to a particular activity
Main Entry: shindig
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: party
Synonyms: affair, ball, banquet, barbecue, bash*, blowout*, celebration, dance, dinner, feast, festivity, function, gala, get-together, reception, shindy, social gathering
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