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| Main Entry: | ground |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth, land |
| Synonyms: | arena, dirt, dust, field, landscape, park, real estate, sod, soil, terra firma, terrain, turf, loam, old sod, sand |
| Antonyms: | sky, heavens |
| Main Entry: | ground |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | base, set; educate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, bottom, coach, discipline, establish, familiarize, fit, fix, found, indoctrinate, inform, initiate, instruct, introduce, predicate, prepare, prime, qualify, rest, settle, stay, teach, train, tutor |
| Main Entry: | ground |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | restrict; drop in place |
| Synonyms: | bar, beach, bring down, dock, down, fell, floor, land, level, prevent, strand, knock down, mow down |
| Antonyms: | free, liberate, let go |
| Main Entry: | grind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crush, pulverize |
| Synonyms: | abrade, atomize, attenuate, beat, bray, crumble, crumple, disintegrate, file, granulate, grate, mill, pound, powder, pulverize*, rasp, reduce, scrape, shiver, triturate, chop up, comminute, kibble, levigate, pestle, roll out* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | estate, domain |
| Synonyms: | acreage, area, campus, country, district, environs, habitat, land, lot, premises, property, real estate, realm, sphere, spot, terrace, terrain, territory, tract, zone, fields, gardens, holding |
| Main Entry: | grind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sharpen |
| Synonyms: | abrade, file, gnash, grate, grit, polish, rub, scrape, smooth, whet, give an edge to, sand |
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis, premise |
| Synonyms: | account, antecedent, argument, base, bedrock*, call, cause, chapter and verse*, demonstration, dope*, evidence, excuse, factor, footing, foundation, goods*, groundwork, inducement, information*, infrastructure, justification, motive, occasion, pretext, proof, rationale, reason, root*, seat, test, testimony, trial, underpinning, wherefore, why, determinant, info, numbers, straight stuff, substratum, whyfor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | oppress |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, harass, hound, persecute, plague, trouble, tyrannize, vex, hold down |
| Antonyms: | free, liberate |
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sediment |
| Synonyms: | deposit, dregs, lees, precipitate, precipitation, residue, grouts, leavings, settlings |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build plan or opinion on |
| Synonyms: | construct, depend, derive, establish, found, ground, hinge, locate, plant, predicate, prop, rest, set up, station, stay |
| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowest; fundamental |
| Synonyms: | basal, base, basement, basic, ground, last, lowest, primary, radical, underlying, foundational, lowermost, meat-and-potatoes, nethermost, rock-bottom, undermost |
| Antonyms: | highest, top, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | dust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny particles in the air |
| Synonyms: | ashes, dirt, earth, filth, grime, grit, ground, powder, refuse, smut, soil, soot, cinders, dust bunnies, flakes, fragments, gilings, granules, lint, loess, sand |
| Main Entry: | fell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chop down |
| Synonyms: | bowl over*, bring down, cleave, cut, cut down, dash, demolish, down, drop, flatten, floor*, gash, ground, hack, hew, level, mangle, prostrate, pull down, raze, sever, shoot, slash, split, sunder, tumble, blow down, cause to fall, knock down, knock over, lay low*, mow down, rive, shoot down*, strike down, throw down |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, erect, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flatten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | level out |
| Synonyms: | abrade, compress, crush, debase, deflate, depress, fell, floor, flush, grade, ground, iron out, lay, plane, plaster*, prostrate, raze, roll, smash, smooth, squash, straighten, subdue, trample, beat down, even out, knock down, lay low, mow down, spread out |
| Antonyms: | break, elevate, raise, round, make uneven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | floor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bottom of a room; level of a multistory building |
| Synonyms: | basement, canvas, carpet, cellar, deck, flat, flooring, ground, landing, mat, mezzanine, nadir, rug, stage, story, tier, upstairs, boards, downstairs, lowest point |
| Antonyms: | ceiling |
| Main Entry: | floor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perplex, confound |
| Synonyms: | baffle, beat, bewilder, bowl over*, bring down*, conquer, defeat, discomfit, disconcert, down, drop, dumbfound, fell, flatten, ground, level, nonplus, overthrow, prostrate, puzzle, stump, throw, bring up short, knock down, lay low* |
| Antonyms: | clear up, explain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | groundwork |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basis, fundamentals |
| Synonyms: | background, base, bedrock*, cornerstone*, footing, foundation, ground, infrastructure, origin, preparation, root, underpinning, ABCs, preliminaries, substratum, understructure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | headway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, ground, improvement, increase, march, proficiency, progression, promotion, way, anabasis |
| Antonyms: | block, hindrance, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, assignment, assumption, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark*, speculation, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, term, theorem, thesis, apriority, attribution, lemma, presupposition, starting point, tentative law |
| Antonyms: | measurement, proof, reality, truth, calcualtion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incentive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lure, inducement |
| Synonyms: | bait, catalyst, come-on*, consideration, drive, encouragement, enticement, excuse, exhortation, goad, ground, impetus, impulse, incitement, influence, insistence, inspiration, instigation, motivation, motive, persuasion, provocation, purpose, rationale, reason, spring, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus, temptation, urge, whip, allurement, carrot*, determinant, reason why |
| Notes: | the temporal orientation of incentive is toward the future; that of inducement is toward the past |
| Antonyms: | block, hindrance, turn-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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