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cant - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lean, slant
Synonyms: angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypocritical statement
Synonyms: deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, insincerity, lip service*, pomposity, pretense, show, affected piety, hypocriticalness, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: jargon
Synonyms: argot, dialect, diction, idiom, language, lingo, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, vernacular, vocabulary
Antonyms: standard
Main Entry: argot
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: jargon
Synonyms: cant, dialect, idiom, lingo, parlance, patois, slang, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary
Main Entry: buzzword
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: popular word or phrase
Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, phraseology, slang, doublespeak, fuzzword, mediaspeak, policyspeak
Main Entry: dialect
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: local speech
Synonyms: accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, patois, patter, pronunciation, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary, localism, provincialism, regionalism
Notes: a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions
Main Entry: gobbledygook
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: jargon
Synonyms: balderdash*, baloney*, bull*, bunk*, cant, drivel, gibberish, rigmarole, rubbish*, amphigory, bosh, hooey, macaronics
Main Entry: gradient
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slope
Synonyms: acclivity, angle, bank, cant, declivity, grade, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, ramp, rise, slant, tilt
Main Entry: hocus-pocus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sleight of hand
Synonyms: abracadabra*, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam*, fraud, gibberish, hoax, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, monkey business, mumbo jumbo*, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, open sesame*, rigmarole*, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery, conjuring, gobbledegook*, hocus, magic words, mummery, mystification, occultism
Antonyms: reality, truth
Main Entry: hypocrisy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense
Synonyms: affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness
Antonyms: honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness
Main Entry: incline
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slope
Synonyms: acclivity, approach, ascent, cant, declivity, descent, dip, grade, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, plane, ramp, rise, slant, tilt
Main Entry: jargon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: specialized language; dialect
Synonyms: abracadabra*, argot, balderdash*, banality, bombast, bunk*, cant, cliché, colloquialism, drivel, fustian, gibberish, idiom, lexicon, lingo*, mumbo jumbo*, neologism, nonsense, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, slang, speech, tongue, twaddle*, usage, vernacular, vocabulary, buzzwords, commonplace term, doublespeak, hackneyed term, insipidity, newspeak, overused term, shoptalk, slanguage, stale language, street talk, trite language
Antonyms: standard
Main Entry: language
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: system of words for communication
Synonyms: accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocabulary, voice, word, wording, brogue, doublespeak, lingua franca, verbalization, vocalization
Main Entry: lingo
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dialect spoken by a group
Synonyms: argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, patois, patter, slang, speech, talk, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary
Antonyms: standard
Main Entry: recline
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie down
Synonyms: cant, heel, lean, lie, list, loll, lounge, repose, rest, slant, slope, sprawl, stretch, tilt, tip, be recumbent, lay down, stretch out
Antonyms: straighten, sit up
Main Entry: sag
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drop, decline
Synonyms: basin, cant, concavity, depression, dip, distortion, downturn, droop, fall, hollow, list, sink, sinking, slant, slip, slump, tilt, downslide, downswing, downtrend, fall-off, settling, sinkage, sinkhole
Antonyms: increase, rise
Main Entry: sham
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hoax, trick
Synonyms: burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, false front, farce, feint, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, imitation, impostor, imposture, mock, mockery, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, sell, smoke*, snow job*, spoof, travesty, whitewash, fakery, hypocriticalness, jive*, pharisaism, phoniness, put-on
Main Entry: slang
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: casual dialect
Synonyms: argot, cant, colloquialism, jargon, lingo, neologism, patois, patter, vernacular, vulgarity, informal speech, pidgin, shoptalk, slanguage street talk*, vulgarism
Antonyms: standard
Main Entry: slope
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: slant, tilt
Synonyms: bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declivity, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, ramp, rise, shelf, skew, swag, sway, tip, abruptness, declination, deflection, obliqueness, obliquity, rising ground, steepness
Antonyms: evenness, level
Main Entry: slope
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: slant, tilt
Synonyms: angle, ascend, bank, bevel, cant, descend, dip, drop, fall, heel, incline, lean, list, pitch, rake, recline, rise, shelve, skew, tip, drop away, splay
Antonyms: even, level
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