| Main Entry: | bush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrubs; woodland |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, backwoods, boscage, bramble, briar, brush, chaparral, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, the wild, thicket, vine, wilderness |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
Synonyms: |
back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
Synonyms: |
bedraggle, burn out, bush, conk out, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fag, fizzle, flag, jade, knock out, languish, overtire, peter out, poop, poop out, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, tucker, weaken, wear down, weary |
Antonyms: |
energize, envigorate, refresh |
| Main Entry: | frontier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexplored, unoccupied area of land |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, backwater, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, hinterland, outback, outskirts, sticks, unknown* |
Antonyms: |
metropolis |
| Main Entry: | hedge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants |
Synonyms: |
barrier, bush, enclosure, fence, guard, hedgerow, hurdle, protection, quickset, screen, shrubbery, thicket, windbreak |
| Main Entry: | jungle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wilderness full of plant and animal life |
Synonyms: |
boscage, bush, chaparral, forest, labyrinth, maze, morass, primeval forest, tangle, undergrowth, wasteland, web, wood, zoo |
| Main Entry: | lesser |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, secondary |
Synonyms: |
a notch under, bottom, bush, bush-league, dinky, insignificant, less important, low, lower, minor, minor-league, nether, second-fiddle, second-string, slighter, small, small-fry, small-time, subjacent, subordinate, third-string, undersized |
Antonyms: |
greater, higher, major, superior |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put covering inside object |
Synonyms: |
bush, ceil, cover, encrust, face, fill, incrust, interline, overlay, panel, quilt, reinforce, sheath, stuff, wad, wainscot |
Antonyms: |
strip, unline |
| Main Entry: | plant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organism belonging to the vegetable kingdom |
Synonyms: |
annual, biennial, bush, creeper, cutting*, flower, grass, greenery, herb, perennial, seedling, shoot, shrub, slip, sprout, tree, vine, weed |
Antonyms: |
animal |
| Main Entry: | tire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exhaust, weary |
Synonyms: |
annoy, bore, burn out, bush, collapse, crawl, debilitate, deject, depress, disgust, dishearten, dispirit, displease, distress, drain, droop, drop, enervate, ennui, exasperate, fag, fail, faint, fatigue, flag, fold, give out, go stale, grow weary, harass, irk, irritate, jade, nauseate, overburden, overstrain, overtax, overwork, pain, pall, peter out, poop out, prostrate, put to sleep, sap, sicken, sink, strain, tax, vex, weaken, wear, wear down, wear out, wilt, worry, yawn |
Antonyms: |
activate, energize, fire up, invigorate, refresh |