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bearing - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | bearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's conduct, posture |
| Synonyms: | address, air, aspect, attitude, behavior, carriage, demeanor, deportment, display, front, look, manner, mien, poise, port, pose, presence, set, stand, comportment |
| Main Entry: | bearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance |
| Synonyms: | application, connection, import, meaning, pertinence, reference, relation, weight, relevance |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring |
| Synonyms: | buck, carry, convey, deliver, ferry, fetch, lug, move, pack, take, transfer, transport, tote |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | refuse, take, throw away |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | support mentally |
| Synonyms: | cherish, entertain, exhibit, harbor, have, hold, hold up, maintain, possess, shoulder, sustain, uphold, weigh upon |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
| Synonyms: | abide, admit, allow, brook, encounter, experience, permit, stomach, suffer, tolerate, undergo, put up with |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, evade, shun |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give birth |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, create, develop, engender, form, fructify, generate, invent, make, produce, propagate, provide, reproduce, yield, be delivered of, bring forth, parturitate |
| Antonyms: | be unproductive |
| Main Entry: | bearing/bearings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | position, usually of water vehicle |
| Synonyms: | aim, course, direction, location, orientation, position, situation, track, way, whereabouts, point of compass |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | arm, band, bar, bearing, block, bolster, boom, bracket, buttress, clamp, girder, grip, guy, lever, mainstay, peg, prop, reinforcement, rib, shore, skid, splice, splint, staff, stanchion, stay, strut, truss, underpinning, vice, bracer, cantilever, rafter, stave, stirrup, strengthener, sustainer |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | typical feature, trait |
| Synonyms: | affection, aspect, attribute, badge, bag, bearing, bent, caliber, cast, complexion, component, disposition, distinction, earmark, endowment, essence, essential, faculty, flavor, frame, idiosyncrasy, inclination, individuality, mannerism, mark, mood, nature, originality, peculiarity, personality, point, property, quality, specialty, streak, stripe, style, symptom, temperament, tendency, thing, tinge, tone, trademark, turn, virtue, differentia, lineament, particularity, singularity, thumbprint |
| Antonyms: | abnormality |
| Main Entry: | cogency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | bearing, concern, connection, conviction, force, pertinence, point, potency, power, punch, strength, validity, convincingness, forcefulness, relevance, validness |
| Antonyms: | impotence, weakness, ineffectiveness, invalidity |
| Main Entry: | demeanor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | behavior, manner |
| Synonyms: | address, air, attitude, bearing, carriage, conduct, deportment, disposition, mien, poise, port, presence, set, comportment |
| Main Entry: | deportment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carriage, manner of person |
| Synonyms: | actions, address, air, appearance, aspect, bearing, behavior, cast, conduct, demeanor, mien, port, posture, set, stance, comportment |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, fecund, flowering, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, plentiful, pregnant, producing, productive, prolific, rank, rich, teeming, virile, yielding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, feracious, flowing with milk and honey, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, plenteous, procreant, proliferant, puberal, pubescent, spawning, uberous, vegetative, with child |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | gait |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way an animal or person moves, walks |
| Synonyms: | amble, bearing, canter, carriage, clip, gallop, get along, lick, march, motion, movement, pace, run, speed, step, stride, tread, trot, walk |
| Main Entry: | gist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, essence |
| Synonyms: | basis, bearing, bottom line*, burden, core, drift, force, heart, idea, import, kernel*, keynote, marrow, matter, meat*, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, pith*, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short, significance, soul, spirit, stuff*, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme, thrust, topic, upshot*, nature of the beast, nitty gritty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manners |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | polite, refined social behavior |
| Synonyms: | amenities, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, ceremony, civilities, comportment, conduct, courtesy, culture, decorum, demeanor, deportment, dignity, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good breeding, good form, mien, mores, p's and q's, polish, politeness, politesse, propriety, protocol, refinement, social graces, sophistication, taste, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | mien |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's presence, manner |
| Synonyms: | act, address, air, appearance, aspect, aura, bearing, carriage, countenance, demeanor, deportment, expression, front, image, look, mannerism, port, set, style |
| Main Entry: | passive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lifeless, inactive |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, motionless, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unflappable, yielding, acquiescent, going through motions, hands off, moony, nonresistant, poker-faced*, unassertive, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it |
| Antonyms: | active, dynamic, lively |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, forbearance, fortitude, grit*, guts*, heart, humility, intestinal fortitude*, leniency, long-suffering, moderation, moxie*, passiveness, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch*, staying power*, stoicism, submission, tolerance, yielding, even temper, gutsiness, imperturbability, legs, longanimity, nonresistance, passivity, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | agitation, frustration, impatience, intolerance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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