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| Main Entry: | bald |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having no covering |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, exposed, hairless, head*, naked, smooth, stark, uncovered, baldheaded, depilated, glabrous, shaven, skin head |
| Antonyms: | hairy, hirsute |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bald |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, blunt, direct, downright, forthright, outright, plain, severe, straight, straightforward, unembellished |
| Antonyms: | adorned, decorated |
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| Main Entry: | forthright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straightforward, honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, bald, blunt, candid, categorical, direct, directly, forward, frank, open, outspoken, plain, real, simple, sincere, straight, up front, call a spade a spade, from the hip, like it is, no lie, plainspoken, undisguised |
| Antonyms: | devious, dishonest, secret, untruthful |
| Main Entry: | hairless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without growth on body part |
| Synonyms: | bald, egghead*, smooth, baldheaded, beardless, clean-shaven, cue ball, depilated, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, shaved, shaven, shorn, skinhead, smooth-faced, tonsured, whiskerless |
| Antonyms: | hairy, hirsute, furry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nothing more; absolute |
| Synonyms: | bald, bare, blunt, common, complete, entire, insignificant, little, minor, plain, poor, pure, sheer, simple, small, stark, unadorned, unadulterated, unmitigated, utter, very, pure and simple, unmixed |
| Main Entry: | nude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without clothes, covering |
| Synonyms: | au naturel*, bald, bare, bare-skinned, buck naked, dishabille*, disrobed, exposed, garmentless, in birthday suit, in one's skin, in the altogether, naked, peeled, raw, skin, stark, stark-naked, stripped, unattired, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undraped, undressed, wearing only a smile, without a stitch |
| Antonyms: | clothed, covered |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without clothing |
| Synonyms: | bald, bareskinned, denuded, disrobed, divested, exposed, in one's birthday suit, naked, nude, peeled, shorn, stripped, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undressed, unrobed |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | clothed, robed |
| Main Entry: | blatant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obvious; brazen |
| Synonyms: | arrant, bald, barefaced, brassy, clear, conspicuous, crying, flagrant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, impudent, loud, meretricious, naked, obtrusive, ostentatious, outright, overt, plain, prominent, pronounced, shameless, sheer, showy, snazzy, unmitigated, glitzy, overbold, protrusive, screaming, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, unpronounced |
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest |
| Synonyms: | absolute, bald, blunt, candid, categorical, downright, explicit, express, forthright, frank, matter-of-fact, open, outspoken, plain, point-blank, sincere, straight, straightforward, talk turkey*, unambiguous, unconcealed, unequivocal, unreserved, person-to-person, plainspoken, straight from the shoulder, undisguised |
| Antonyms: | devious, dishonest, indirect, wily |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moistureless |
| Synonyms: | arid, baked, bald, bare, barren, depleted, desert, drained, dusty, exhausted, hard, impoverished, parched, sear, stale, thirsty, torrid, anhydrous, athirst, dehydrated, desiccant, desiccated, dried-up, droughty, evaporated, juiceless, not irrigated, rainless, sapless, sapped, shriveled, unmoistened, waterless |
| Antonyms: | damp, humid, juicy, moist, soaked, soggy, watery, wet, dripping |
| Main Entry: | naked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without covering |
| Synonyms: | au naturel, bald, bare, barren, defenseless, exposed, helpless, natural, nude, open, raw, stripped, threadbare, unconcealed, uncovered, undressed, unprotected, vulnerable, bare-skinned, bared, denuded, disrobed, divested, in birthday suit, in dishabille, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, leafless, peeled, stark-naked, unclad, unclothed, undraped, unveiled, without a stitch |
| Antonyms: | clothed |
| Main Entry: | stark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | utter, absolute |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, arrant, bald, bare, blessed, blunt, complete, confounded, consummate, downright, entire, firm, flagrant, gross, infernal, out-and-out*, outright, palpable, patent, pure, rank, severe, sheer, simple, stiff, unmitigated, blasted, unalloyed |
| Antonyms: | indefinite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | au naturel, austere, bald, barren, bleak, chaste, clear, cold, depressing, desolate, dreary, empty, forsaken, grim, harsh, naked, nude, plain, raw, severe, solitary, stripped, uncovered, vacant, vacuous, void, unclad, unclothed, undraped |
| Antonyms: | clothed, covered |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest, fair |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, accurate, authentic, bald, blunt, candid, categorical, decent, equitable, fair and square, forthright, frank, good, honorable, just, moral, outright, plain, point-blank*, reliable, respectable, straightforward, summary, trustworthy, unqualified, upright, law-abiding |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, dishonest, unfair, unjust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, barren |
| Synonyms: | bald, bare, bleak, clean, dour, plain, primitive, rustic, severe, simple, spare, spartan, stark, subdued, unadorned, unembellished, vanilla*, bare-bones |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, luxurious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | austere, bald, basic, blunt, chaste, cold, essential, hard, literal, meager, mere, modest, severe, sheer, simple, spare, stark, unembellished, scant, unornamented |
| Antonyms: | adorned, decorated |
| Main Entry: | simple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, innocent |
| Synonyms: | amateur, artless, bald, basic, childish, direct, frank, green, guileless, honest, ingenuous, naive, naked, natural, plain, sincere, square, stark, trusting, unaffected, undeniable, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unvarnished, unartificial, unexperienced |
| Antonyms: | mature, older, sophisticated |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
flat, ascetic, austere, bald, chaste, cynical, dry, dull, exoteric, free from affectation, free from ornament, homely, homespun, inornate, monotonous, neat, ordinary, over, pure, puritanical, saxon, severe, simple, simplistic, unadorned, unaffected, unarrayed, undecked, ungarnished, unornamented, untrimmed, unvaried, unvarnished
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| Main Entry: | ugliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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evil, bald, beautiless, bufoniform, cadaverous, clumsy, crooked, curtailed of its fair proportions, deathlike, dingy, discolored, disfigured, dumpy, foul, frightful, gaudy, gaunt, gawky, ghastly, ghostlike, graceless, grim, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, haggard, hard, hard, homely, horrible, horrid, hulking, hulky, ill, ill, ill, inelegant, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, not fit to be seen, odious, ordinary, plain, repellent, repulsive, rickety, rough, rude, rugged, seemless, shapeless, shocking, sightless, slouching, squalid, stiff, ugglesome, ugly, ugly as a dead monkey, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a toad, ugly as sin, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, uncanny, uncomely, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unlovely, unornamental, unprepossessing, unseemly, unshapely, unsightly, unwieldy
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| Main Entry: | undress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
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Adjectives: |
bald, bald as a coot, bare, bare as the back of one's hand, barefoot, callow, defrocked, discalceate, dishabille, divested, exposed, hairless, in a state of nature, in birthday suit, in buff, in dishabille, in native buff, in nature's garb, leafless, naked, napless, nude, out at elbows, ragged, roofless, scuddy, stark naked, threadbare, undraped, undressed, with nothing on
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