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| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essential nature |
| Synonyms: | character, entity, essence, individuality, marrow, personality, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance, texture, essentia, essentiality |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate object |
| Synonyms: | animal, beast, body, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing, conscious thing, living thing |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | be |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist |
| Synonyms: | abide, act, breathe, continue, do, endure, go on, hold, inhabit, last, live, move, obtain, persist, prevail, remain, rest, stand, stay, subsist, survive, be alive, have being, have place |
| Main Entry: | be |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen |
| Synonyms: | befall, come about, occur, transpire, come to pass, take place |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate being; mammal |
| Synonyms: | beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, mutt*, pet, stray, critter, invertebrate, living thing, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing |
| Antonyms: | plant, mineral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | as |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | in the role of |
| Synonyms: | being, in the character of, under the name of |
| Notes: | use 'like' when no verb follows; use 'as' when a clause follows (which has a subject and a verb) |
| Main Entry: | because |
| Part of Speech: | conjuction, preposition |
| Definition: | on account of |
| Synonyms: | as, being, considering, for, over, seeing, since, through, whereas, as a result of, as long as, as things go, by cause of, by reason of, by virtue of, due to, for the reason that, for the sake of, in as much as, in behalf of, in that, in the interest of, in view of, now that, on the grounds that, owing to, thanks to |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, individuality, journey, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race*, real world*, reality, something, subsistence, survival, world, hand one is dealt, lifing, the big game |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in existence |
| Synonyms: | actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current, existing, immediate, instant, living, present, real, remaining, surviving, existent, in current use, not lost, present-day, subsisting, undestroyed |
| Antonyms: | dead, extinct, gone |
| Main Entry: | for |
| Part of Speech: | conjunction |
| Definition: | in consequence of the fact that |
| Synonyms: | as, because, being, considering, inasmuch as, now, since, whereas, as long as |
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, Homo sapiens |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, biped, wight |
| Antonyms: | abstract, immortal, inanimate, nonentity, plant |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman, singleton |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | animal, being, body, character, creature, earthling, human, individual, man, party, person, personage, soul, woman, living soul, naked ape |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
| Main Entry: | organism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | living thing |
| Synonyms: | animal, being, body, creature, entity, person, plant, structure, morphon |
| Antonyms: | concept, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, customer, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman, gal, living soul |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line*, brass tacks*, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world*, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
| Antonyms: | belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | something |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entity |
| Synonyms: | article, being, commodity, existence, individual, object, substance, thing, existent |
| Antonyms: | nothing |
| Main Entry: | texture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charactertistics of a surface |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, flexibility, form, framework, grain, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, touch, warp, weave, web, essentiality, fineness, intermixture, tissue, woof |
| Main Entry: | vitality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, spirit |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, audacity, bang, being, bloom, bounce, clout, continuity, drive, endurance, existence, exuberance, fervor, force, go, guts*, intensity, life, liveliness, pep, pizzazz*, power, pulse, punch, snap, sparkle, spunk*, stamina, starch*, steam, strength, stuff*, verve, vigor, vim, vivacity, zest, zing*, zip*, get-up-and-go, lustiness, robustness, venturesomeness, vivaciousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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