| Main Entry: | even |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | balance, make smooth |
Synonyms: |
align, equal, equalize, flatten, flush, grade, lay, level, match, pancake, plane, regularize, roll, square, stabilize, steady, symmetrize, uniform |
Antonyms: |
break, furrow, lump, roughen |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
Synonyms: |
black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
Antonyms: |
morning |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
nighttripping, noctambulous, noctilucent, noctilucous, noctivagant, nocturnal, nowanights, pannychous, thestreen, vespertine, yestreen
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| Concept: | Evening. [Midnight] |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cockshut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime., afternoon, postmeridian, p.m., autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer., midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night, middle of th night; winter; killing time.
-adjectives
vespertine, autumal, nocturnal.
-phrases
"midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd" [Young].
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Antonyms: |
morning |
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| Main Entry: | align |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | line up, arrange next to |
Synonyms: |
adjust, allineate, coordinate, even, even up, fix, make parallel, order, range, regulate, straighten |
Antonyms: |
divide, mess up, separate |
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make equal; cause to have equilibrium |
Synonyms: |
accord, adjust, attune, cancel, collate, come out, come out even, compensate, correspond, counteract, counterbalance, equalize, equate, even, harmonize, level, make up for, match, neutralize, nullify, offset, oppose, pair off, parallel, poise, readjust, redeem, set, square, stabilize, steady, tie, weigh |
Antonyms: |
disproportion, overbalance, unbalance |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
Synonyms: |
caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
Antonyms: |
brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | equalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make the same; balance |
Synonyms: |
adjust, commeasure, communize, compare, coordinate, democratize, emulate, equal, equate, establish, even, even up, handicap, level, match, parallel, regularize, rival, smooth, socialize, square, standardize, trim |
Antonyms: |
disproportion, imbalance, unmatch, vary |
| Main Entry: | equate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | balance; think of together |
Synonyms: |
agree, assimilate, associate, average, be commensurate, compare, consider, correspond to, correspond with, equalize, even, hold, level, liken, make equal, match, offset, pair, paragon, parallel, regard, relate, represent, similize, square, tally, treat |
Antonyms: |
disagree, imbalance, unliken |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make smooth |
Synonyms: |
allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, calm, even, flatten, flush, iron, level, plane, press, quiet, relieve, steam, still, suppress |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
Antonyms: |
rough |