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| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest, concern |
| Synonyms: | affliction, aggravation, alarm, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, bother, burden, chagrin, charge, consternation, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, discomposure, fretfulness, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tend to |
| Synonyms: | attend, consider, foster, mind, minister, mother, nurse, nurture, protect, ride herd on*, sit, tend, treasure, wait on, watch, baby sit, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, mind the store, pay attention to, provide for, take pains, watch over |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
| Synonyms: | alertness, caution, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, forethought, heed, interest, management, nicety, precaution, prudence, regard, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness, circumspection, fastidiousness, meticulousness, pains, particularity, scrupulousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard highly |
| Synonyms: | cherish, desire, enjoy, like, love, prize, respect, want, be crazy about, be fond of, find congenial, hold dear, take to |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, not care |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, protection, safekeeping, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, ministration, superintendence, wardship |
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch*, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love*, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot*, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen*, amore |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
| Synonyms: | angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer*, drag*, dread, flap*, foreboding, fuss, goose bumps*, jitters, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, uneasiness, watchfulness, all-overs, ants in pants, botheration, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, fidgets, fretfulness, heebie-jeebies, jumps, nail-biting, needles, shakes, shivers, unease, willies, worriment |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | auspices |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection; support |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, authority, backing, care, charge, control, countenance, guidance, influence, patronage, sponsorship, supervision |
| Main Entry: | bother |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble, inconvenience |
| Synonyms: | ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bellyache*, bustle, care, concern, difficulty, distress, drag*, exasperation, flurry, fuss, headache*, irritant, irritation, nudge, nuisance, pain, pain in the neck*, pest, plague, pother*, pressure, problem, strain, to-do*, trial, trouble, vexation, worry, botheration, molestation, perplexity, worriment |
| Antonyms: | aid, convenience, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | burden |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental weight; stress |
| Synonyms: | Herculean task, accountability, affliction, albatross*, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, care, charge, clog, concern, deadweight, difficulty, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, millstone, misfortune, mishap, obstruction, onus, punishment, responsibility, sorrow, strain, task, tax, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, weary load, work, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, relief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | alertness, apprehension, awareness, care, cognizance, concern, heed, realization, recognition, regard, sensibility, carefulness, heedfulness, mindfulness |
| Antonyms: | stupidity, senselessness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, control, custody, economy, governing, guardianship, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, protection, safekeeping, salvation, saving, storage, supervision, upkeep, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, directing, guarding, preserval, preserving, protecting, safeguarding, stewardship, supervising, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, waste, spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | deliberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serious thought, discussion |
| Synonyms: | application, attention, calculation, care, caution, cogitation, conference, consideration, consultation, debate, forethought, heed, meditation, prudence, purpose, rap, reflection, speculation, study, ventilation, wariness, brainwork, carefulness, cerebration, circumspection, confabulation, ratiocination |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
| Synonyms: | activity, alertness, application, attention, care, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, industry, intensity, intent, keenness, quickness, vigor, assiduity, assiduousness, attentiveness, briskness, carefulness, heedfulness, intentness, laboriousness, pertinacity, sedulousness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | discretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, attention, calculation, care, concern, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, gumption, heed, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom, canniness, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, considerateness, good sense, heedfulness, judiciousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | disquiet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry; mental upset |
| Synonyms: | ailment, alarm, angst, anxiety, care, concern, disquietude, distress, disturbance, fear, ferment, foreboding, nervousness, restlessness, solicitude, storm, trouble, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, concernment, fretfulness, inquietude, restiveness |
| Antonyms: | calm, ease, peace, collectedness |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, moratorium, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, shrinkage, supervision, thrift, carefulness, miserliness, niggardliness, parcity, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | faithfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devotion |
| Synonyms: | adherence, adhesion, allegiance, ardor, attachment, care, constancy, duty, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, piety, truth, dependability, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, disloyalty, treachery, falseness, inconstancy |
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, care, caution, clairvoyance, discernment, discretion, economy, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity, canniness, carefulness, circumspection, discreetness, far-sightedness, long-sightedness, prenotion |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bereavement, care, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness, bemoaning, bewailing, deploring, infelicity, lamentation, mournfulness, repining |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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