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| Main Entry: | alienate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause unfriendliness, hostility |
| Synonyms: | break off, come between, disaffect, disunite, divide, divorce, estrange, part, separate, turn off, wean, make indifferent, set against, turn away, withdraw the affections of |
| Antonyms: | disarm, be friendly |
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| Main Entry: | antisocial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonparticipating; avoiding company |
| Synonyms: | alienated, ascetic, austere, cold, cynical, introverted, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, retiring, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, withdrawn, asocial, eremetic, hermitlike |
| Notes: | to be antisocial is to be hostile to or disruptive of the established social order, marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores; while being unsociable means one is not disposed to seek the company of others or is reserved |
| Antonyms: | friendly, sociable, fun-loving, participating |
| Main Entry: | contumacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | headstrong, obstinate |
| Synonyms: | alienated, contrary, disaffected, factious, froward, haughty, inflexible, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, intransigent, irreconcilable, mutinous, obdurate, perverse, pig-headed, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, seditious, stubborn, unyielding, estranged |
| Antonyms: | following, obedient, subordinate, tractable, willing |
| Main Entry: | disloyal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
| Synonyms: | alienated, apostate, cheating, disaffected, faithless, false, perfidious, recreant, seditious, snaky*, subversive, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, untrue, untrustworthy, wormlike, double-crossing, estranged, treasonable, unloyal, unpatriotic |
| Antonyms: | faithful, loyal, true, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
| Synonyms: | alienated, belligerent, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, contending, estranged, insurrectionary, troublemaking |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | friendless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without companionship or confidant |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, adrift, alienated, all alone, all by one's self, alone, cut off*, deserted, estranged, forlorn, forsaken, isolated, lonely, lonesome, marooned, ostracized, shunned, solitary, unattached, without ties |
| Antonyms: | attached, befriended, beloved, liked, loved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rebellious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | alienated, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, fractious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restless, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, threatening, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, warring, anarchistic, attacking, individualistic, insurrectionary, rioting, sabotaging, treasonable |
| Antonyms: | compliant, governable, manageable, obedient |
| Main Entry: | foreign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | from another country, experience |
| Synonyms: | alien, alienated, antipodal, barbarian, barbaric, borrowed, different, distant, exotic, expatriate, external, extraneous, extrinsic, far, far-fetched, faraway, immigrant, imported, inaccessible, offshore, outlandish, outside, overseas, remote, strange, unaccustomed, unexplored, unfamiliar, unknown, adopted, derived, estranged, exiled, extralocal, far-off, from abroad, nonnative, nonresident, not domestic, not native, transoceanic |
| Antonyms: | local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, nasty |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, alienated, antagonistic, biting, caustic, crabby, divided, embittered, fierce, freezing, hateful, intense, irreconcilable, morose, sardonic, severe, sore, sour, stinging, sullen, virulent, vitriolic, begrudging, estranged, rancorous, resentful, with chip on shoulder |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, content, genial, kind, nice, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | antagonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause problem; oppose |
| Synonyms: | alienate, anger, annoy, counteract, estrange, insult, irritate, neutralize, offend, repel, struggle, work against |
| Antonyms: | agree, aid, help |
| Main Entry: | cede |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, surrender |
| Synonyms: | abdicate, accord, alien, alienate, allow, capitulate, communicate, concede, convey, deed, drop, fold*, give in*, grant, hand over*, leave, relinquish, renounce, resign, transfer, vouchsafe, waive, yield, abalienate, come across with, fork over, give up, make over, part with, remise, sign over, throw in the sponge, throw in the towel |
| Antonyms: | defend, fight, gain, guard, win, take over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disaffect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose affection for, estrange |
| Synonyms: | agitate, alienate, antagonize, discompose, disquiet, disturb, disunite, divide, repel, upset, wean, disunify |
| Antonyms: | content, please, make happy |
| Main Entry: | dissociate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | part company with; separate |
| Synonyms: | abstract, alienate, break off, detach, disassociate, disband, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disperse, disrupt, distance, disunite, divide, divorce, estrange, isolate, quit, scatter, segregate, set apart, uncouple, unfix |
| Antonyms: | associate, attach, join |
| Main Entry: | estrange |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy the affections of |
| Synonyms: | alien, alienate, antagonize, break up, disaffect, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, leave, part, separate, sever, split, sunder, turn off*, wean, withdraw, withhold, disunify, drive apart, make hostile, put on the outs, set at odds |
| Antonyms: | engage, marry, unite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | penalize in monetary way |
| Synonyms: | alienate, amerce, confiscate, dock*, exact, extort, levy, mulct, punish, seize, tax, hit with, make pay, pay through the nose, sconce, sequestrate, slap with, throw book at |
| Antonyms: | award, compensate, reimburse, reward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turn off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disgust |
| Synonyms: | alienate, bore, disenchant, disinterest, displease, irritate, lose one's interest, make one sick, nauseate, offend, put off, repel, sicken |
| Antonyms: | appeal, cheer, delight, enchant, fascinate |
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| Main Entry: | discord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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quarrelsome, agonistic, airborne, alienated, antipersonnel, antitank, armed, armed to the teeth, armigerous, astrive, at daggers drawn, at enmity, at issue, at loggerheads, at odds, at open war with, at variance, at variance with, at war, at war with, barratrous, battailous, bellicose, belligerent, bristling with arms, cankered, cantankerous, chivalrous, cold-hearted, combative, competitive, contending, contentious, cool, cornobbled, crabbed, cross, curst, disaffected, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disproportionate, disproportionated, divergent, embattled, estranged, exceptional, gladiatorial, hostile, ill-assorted, ill-sorted, ill-timed, improper, in arms, in bad odor with, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent with, inimical, internecine, intrusive, irreconcilable, irreducible, knock-down-drag-out, laquearian, manubiary, martial, militant, military, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, not on speaking terms, on bad terms, out of character, out of its element, out of joint, out of keeping, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, palestric, palestrical, pugilistic, pugnacious, repugnant to, rival, soldier-like, soldierly, stipendiarian, strategic, strategical, stratonic, sword in hand, tactical, tauromachian, together by the ears, top-secret, triphibian, unaccommodating, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, uncommensurable, unconformable, uncongenial, unconsonant, under arms, unfit, unfitting, unfriendly, unharmonious, unpacific, unpeaceful, unsuitable, unsuited, up in arms, up in arms against, warlike
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