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| Main Entry: | diversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change in a course, path |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, departure, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, red herring*, variation, deflection, fake out, turning |
| Antonyms: | conforming, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | diversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment, recreation |
| Synonyms: | amusement, ball, delight, disport, dissipation, distraction, enjoyment, frivolity, fun, game, gratification, high time*, hoopla*, levity, pastime, picnic*, play, pleasure, relaxation, relish, sport, beguilement, delectation, divertissement, field day, fun and games, grins, laughs, merry-go-round, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | chore, task, vocation, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hobby |
| Synonyms: | amusement, diversion, kick*, occupation, pastime, recreation, shot*, sideline, thing*, schtick, side interest |
| Antonyms: | profession, vocation, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect course |
| Synonyms: | back road, branch, bypass, circuit, crotch, deviation, divergence, diversion, fork, service road, substitute, alternate route, bypath, byway, circuitous route, circumbendibus, circumnavigation, circumvention, roundabout way, runaround, secondary highway, temporary route |
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, variance, variation, deflection, hereticism, turning |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness, uniformity, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | digression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation; straying |
| Synonyms: | aside, departure, detour, difference, divergence, diversion, episode, excursion, footnote, incident, note, rambling, variation, wandering, apostrophe, deflection, discursion, divagation, drifting, excursus, obiter dictum, parenthesis |
| Antonyms: | directness, straightness |
| Main Entry: | distraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having one's attention drawn away |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abstraction, agitation, amusement, bewilderment, commotion, complication, confusion, disorder, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, entertainment, frenzy, game, interference, interruption, pastime, preoccupation, recreation, beguilement, divertissement, engrossment, perplexity |
| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | ball*, bash*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, gaiety, game, high time*, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, blow out*, clambake, divertissement, fun and games, good time, grins, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, regalement, wingding |
| Antonyms: | chore, drudgery, labor, task, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, play |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, ball*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, escapade, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gambol, game*, high jinks, holiday, horseplay*, jesting, joke, joking, jollity, joy, laughter, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nonsense, pastime, picnic*, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, riot, romp, solace, sport, tomfoolery*, treat, buffoonery, clowning, foolery, good time, grins, jocularity, junketing, living it up, playfulness, romping, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | sadness, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hobby |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasurable pastime |
| Synonyms: | amusement, art, avocation, bag*, craft, craze, distraction, diversion, fad*, fancy, fun, game, interest, kick*, labor of love*, obsession, occupation, play, quest, relaxation, shot, sideline, specialty, sport, thing*, vagary, weakness, whim, whimsy, divertissement, favorite occupation, leisure activity, leisure pursuit, pet topic, schtick |
| Antonyms: | profession, vocation, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | amusement, animation, bliss, charm, cheer, comfort, delight, diversion, ecstasy, elation, exultation, felicity, festivity, frolic, fruition, gaiety, gem, gladness, glee, good humor, gratification, hilarity, humor, indulgence, jewel, liveliness, luxury, merriment, mirth, pride, prize, rapture, refreshment, rejoicing, revelry, satisfaction, solace, sport, transport, treasure, treat, wonder, alleviation, delectation, exulting, jubilance, pride and joy, ravishment, regalement |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | pastime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leisure activity |
| Synonyms: | amusement, distraction, diversion, entertainment, fun, game, hobby, play, recreation, relaxation, sport, fun and games |
| Antonyms: | profession, task, work |
| Main Entry: | recreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sports, games, special interests |
| Synonyms: | R and R*, amusement, avocation, ball*, disport, dissipation, distraction, diversion, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, exercise, festivity, frolic, fun, game, hilarity, hobby, holiday, jollity, mirth, pastime, picnic, play, playtime, pleasure, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, rollick, sport, vacation, divertissement, field day, fun and games, laughs, leisure activity, rec |
| Antonyms: | labor, profession, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | red herring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading clue |
| Synonyms: | attention-grabber, bait, commotion, curve ball, deviation, distraction, distractor, disturbance, diversion, diversionary tactic, false clue, false face, false trail, fool's errand, gimmick, interruption, maneuver, ploy, smoke screen, wild-goose chase* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relaxation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment; resting or recovering |
| Synonyms: | amusement, diversion, enjoyment, fun, leisure, mitigation, pleasure, reclining, recreation, refreshment, relief, repose, rest, alleviation, assuagement, loosening, requiescence |
| Antonyms: | labor, work, intensification |
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Notes: | relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great appreciation of something |
| Synonyms: | appetite, bias, diversion, enjoyment, fancy, flair, flavor, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, love, loving, partiality, penchant, pleasure, predilection, prejudice, propensity, savor, smack, stomach, tang, taste, zest, delectation, enjoying, palate, sapidity, sapor |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | run-around |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance |
| Synonyms: | delay, detour, difficulty, diversion, escape, evasion, inertia, postponement, roundabout, come-off, elusion, escaping, eschewal, shunning |
| Antonyms: | challenge, facing, meeting |
| Main Entry: | sideline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secondary occupation |
| Synonyms: | distraction, diversion, hobby, recreation, subsidiary, leisure activity, leisure pursuit, moonlighting, second job, side job, side project |
| Main Entry: | amusement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, making someone laugh |
| Synonyms: | action, ball*, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, fun, gratification, high time*, hilarity, hoopla*, laughter, merriment, mirth, picnic*, play, pleasing, pleasure, beguilement, field day, fun and games, gladdening, grins, laughs, merry go round, regalement, whoopee |
| Antonyms: | boredom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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