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| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
| Synonyms: | animal, body, brute, creation, fellow, individual, man, mortal, party, person, personage, soul, woman, critter, living being, living thing, lower animal, quadruped, varmint |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| 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: | beast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large wild animal; brute |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, creature, fiend, glutton, monster, monstrosity, pig, swine, beastie, critter, gargoyle, lower animal, quadruped, varmint |
| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barbarian |
| Synonyms: | animal, beast, cannibal, creature, degenerate, devil, fiend, lout, monster, ogre, ruffian, savage, swine, critter, sadist, wild animal |
| Antonyms: | gentleman, humanitarian |
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, Homo sapiens |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, biped, wight |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
| 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: | puppet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or toy manipulated by another |
| Synonyms: | creature, doll, dupe*, figurehead, instrument, jerk*, manikin, marionette, moppet, mouthpiece*, patsy*, pawn, pushover, schlemiel*, servant, soft touch*, stooge*, tool*, victim, figurine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | result |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effect brought about by something |
| Synonyms: | aftermath, arrangement, backwash*, by-product, close, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, corollary, creature, crop, decision, denouement, determination, development, emanation, end, event, eventuality, execution, finish, fruit*, fruition, harvest, issue, offshoot*, outcome, outgrowth, payoff, proceeds, product, production, reaction, repercussion, sequel, sequence, settlement, termination, upshot, aftereffect, ensual, outcropping, returns |
| Antonyms: | cause, source |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object that exists |
| Synonyms: | article, being, body, creature, existence, individual, item, material, matter, organism, presence, quantity, single, something, stuff, subsistence, substance, thing, singleton |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, idea |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word, corporeality, existent, materiality |
| Main Entry: | pawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is a fool |
| Synonyms: | creature, dupe*, instrument, mark*, patsy*, puppet, stooge*, sucker, tool, toy, victim, pigeon* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | body, character, creature, ghost, human being, individual, man, mortal, person, personage, phantom, shadow, spirit, woman, living soul, umbra |
| Main Entry: | tool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who allows himself to be used |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accomplice, agent, auxiliary, chump*, creature, dupe, easy mark*, figurehead, flunky*, go-between, greenhorn*, hireling, idiot, intermediary, lackey, mark*, medium, messenger, minion, patsy*, pawn, peon, puppet, stooge, stool pigeon*, sucker, jackal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, creature, human, individual, mortal, party, person, personage, soul |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, fantasy, inanimate, thought, immateriality |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | animal, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood*, growth, human, human being, individual, living, man, mortal, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, survival, vitality, woman, animateness, living being, living thing, metabolism, mortal being, substantiality, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, wildlife |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimacy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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