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| Main Entry: | general |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, accepted |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, broad, commonplace, conventional, customary, everyday, extensive, familiar, generic, habitual, humdrum, inclusive, natural, normal, ordinary, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill*, typical, uneventful, universal, usual, wide, widespread, wonted, matter-of-course |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, individual, novel, rare, uncommon, unique, unusual, unaccepted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | general |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexact, approximate |
| Synonyms: | ill-defined, inaccurate, indefinite, loose, uncertain, vague, imprecise, not partial, not particular, not specific, undetailed, unspecific |
| Antonyms: | definite, exact, individual, limited, particular, singular, specific, circumscribed |
| Main Entry: | general |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | across-the-board*, all-around*, all-inclusive*, ample, blanket, broad, catholic, collective, diffuse, ecumenical, encyclopedic, endless, extensive, far-reaching, generic, global, inclusive, indiscriminate, infinite, limitless, miscellaneous, overall, panoramic, sweeping, total, ubiquitous, universal, unlimited, wide, worldwide, all-embracing, comprehending, taken as a whole, unconfined |
| Antonyms: | limited, circumscribed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge |
| Synonyms: | big cheese*, big wheel*, bigwig*, boss, captain, commander, dictator, director, general, governor, head, honcho*, leader, manager, monarch, overlord, overseer, president, principal, proprietor, ringleader, ruler, sovereign, superintendent, supervisor, big gun, chieftain, foreperson, head honcho, head person, key player, suzerain, top brass, top cat |
| Antonyms: | apprentice, employee, servant, subordinate, underling, worker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cognate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike, associated |
| Synonyms: | affiliated, agnate, akin, allied, analogous, comparable, connected, general, generic, incident, kindred, like, related, same, similar, universal, connate, connatural, consanguine |
| Notes: | A doublet is one of two or more words derived ultimately from a single source: abbreviate/abridge, fragile/frail, guardian/warden. The doublets may or may not show much resemblance and they also vary in closeness of meaning. Somewhere along their line of development they diverge and go off in different paths. The term cognate is usually reserved for two or more words in different languages that share a common ancestor as English father, Latin Pater, Greek pater, Spanish and Italian padre, French pere, and German Vater. |
| Antonyms: | dissimilar, unconnected, unlike, disassociated, unalike, unallied |
| Main Entry: | communal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | collective; shared |
| Synonyms: | common, community, cooperative, general, joint, mutual, neighborhood, public, communistic, conjoint, conjunct, intermutual |
| Antonyms: | individual, personal, private, unshared |
| Main Entry: | comprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclusive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, catholic, compendious, complete, discursive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, far-reaching, full, general, global, infinite, overall, sweeping, thorough, umbrella, whole, wide, widespread, across the board, all-embracing, comprising, containing, encircling, in depth, lock stock and barrel, of great scope, synoptic, the big picture, the whole shebang, the works, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, particular, selective, specific, incomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, customary, doing, extant, fad, fashionable, general, hot*, in vogue, instant, mod*, modern, now*, ongoing, popular, present, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread, common knowledge, cutting-edge, existent, going around, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, leading-edge, on front burner, present-day |
| Antonyms: | antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | customary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | SOP*, accepted, according to Hoyle*, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers*, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, normal, ordinary, orthodox, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, standard, standard operating procedure*, traditional, understood, universal, wonted, in a rut, in the groove, playing it safe, same old, stipulated |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encyclopedic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comprehensive |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, broad, catholic, complete, discursive, exhaustive, extensive, general, thorough, universal, vast, widespread, all-embracing, all-encompassing, thorough-going, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | brief, incomplete, summary, uncomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, pandemic, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | limited |
| Main Entry: | extensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | far-reaching, thorough |
| Synonyms: | all-inclusive, big, blanket*, boundless, broad, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, considerable, extended, far-flung*, general, great, hefty, huge, inclusive, indiscriminate, large, lengthy, long, major, pervasive, prevalent, roomy, sizable, spacious, sweeping, universal, unrestricted, vast, voluminous, wholesale, wide, widespread, across the board, all-encompassing, comprising, expanded, large-scale, protracted, scopic, scopious, unexclusive, wall to wall, wide-ranging |
| Antonyms: | limited, narrow, restricted, short, uncomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frequent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, repeated |
| Synonyms: | commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, profuse, recurrent, redundant, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various, a good many, iterated, pleonastic, recurring, reiterated, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unusual, unrepeated |
| Main Entry: | global |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide, all-encompassing |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-inclusive, all-out, blanket, catholic, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, earthly, ecumenical, encyclopedic, exhaustive, general, grand, international, mundane, overall, planetary, spherical, sweeping, thorough, total, universal, unlimited, world, pandemic, unbounded |
| Antonyms: | individual, limited, local |
| Main Entry: | inclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all-encompassing, all-embracing |
| Synonyms: | across-the-board*, all-around, blanket*, broad, comprehensive, encyclopedic, full, general, global, overall, sweeping, umbrella*, whole, all the options, all together, ball-of-wax, catchall, in toto, wall-to-wall, without exception |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, narrow, incomprehensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indefinite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ambiguous, vague |
| Synonyms: | broad, confused, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, evasive, general, ill-defined, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inexhaustible, infinite, innumerable, intangible, loose, obscure, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undependable, undetermined, unknown, unlimited, unsettled, unsure, wide, imprecise, indeterminable, unfixed, unspecific |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, distinct, sure |
| Main Entry: | indeterminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain, vague |
| Synonyms: | general, inconclusive, indefinite, indistinct, inexact, undefined, undetermined, unspecified, borderless, imprecise, unfixed, unstipulated |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, determined, exact, fixed, measurable, sure |
| Main Entry: | indiscriminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random, chaotic |
| Synonyms: | aimless, assorted, broad, careless, confused, desultory, extensive, general, haphazard, heterogeneous, hit-or-miss*, jumbled, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, motley*, multifarious, promiscuous, purposeless, shallow, spot, superficial, sweeping, uncritical, unplanned, varied, variegated, wholesale*, wide, designless, imperceptive, mingled, unconsidered, undiscriminating, unmethodical, unselective, unsystematic |
| Antonyms: | chosen, critical, definite, discriminatory, methodical, particular, selective, specific, systematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lax |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slack, remiss |
| Synonyms: | broad, careless, casual, delinquent, derelict, devil-may-care*, easygoing, flaccid, forgetful, general, inaccurate, indefinite, indifferent, inexact, lenient, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, regardless, shapeless, slipshod, sloppy, soft, unmindful, vague, yielding, any way, asleep on job, behindhand, disregardful, imprecise, nonspecific, overindulgent, paying no mind |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, strict, tight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | leader |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who guides |
| Synonyms: | boss, captain, chief, commander, conductor, dean, dignitary, director, eminence, forerunner, general, governor, guide, harbinger, head, herald, lead, lion*, luminary, manager, mistress, notable, officer, pacesetter, pilot, pioneer, precursor, president, principal, rector, ringleader, ruler, shepherd, skipper, superintendent, superior, chieftain, controller, counsellor, doyen, exec, notability |
| Antonyms: | follower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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