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| Main Entry: | idea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint, believed abstraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ideology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beliefs |
| Synonyms: | articles of faith, credo, creed, culture, dogma, outlook, philosophy, system, theory, view, Weltanschauung, ideas, principles, tenets |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, information, intelligence, language, message, missive, news, note, précis, prophecy, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work, communiqué, hot story, ideas, info, inside story, lowdown, pipeline, poop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outward show; pretense |
| Synonyms: | aura, beard*, blind, countenance, dream, facade, front, guise, idea, illusion, image, impression, mirage, phenomenon, reflection, screen, seeming, semblance, sound, specter, vision |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | awareness, comprehension, grasp, idea, intellect, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, notion, perception, perspicacity, thought |
| Antonyms: | misunderstanding, imperception |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan of attack, resolution |
| Synonyms: | attitude, concept, course, crack, fling, go*, idea, lick, manner, means, method, mode, modus operandi, offer, procedure, program, shot, stab, style, technique, way, whack*, wrinkle*, new wrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, presumption, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view, mindset, postulation, presupposition |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something regarded as true |
| Synonyms: | assumption, concept, credence, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, fundamental, gospel, gospel truth*, hypothesis, idea, ideology, law, opinion, postulate, precept, principle, tenet, theorem, theory, say-so |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, nonbelief |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concern; something mentally examined |
| Synonyms: | development, difficulty, emergency, estate, evidence, exigency, extent, factor, fancy, idea, incident, issue, judgment, magnitude, minutiae, notion, occasion, occurrence, plan, point, problem, proposal, puzzle, scope, situation, state, thought, trouble, items, particulars, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | omission |
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, meaning |
| Synonyms: | burden, composition, constitution, gist, idea, matter, significance, subject, subject matter, substance, text, thought |
| Main Entry: | contention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | argument for idea |
| Synonyms: | advancement, affirmation, allegation, assertion, avowal, belief, charge, claim, declaration, deposition, discussion, explanation, ground, hurrah, hypothesis, idea, opinion, plea, position, profession, rumpus, stand, thesis, view, asseveration, contestation, demurrer, maintaining, predication |
| Main Entry: | cue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | signal to act |
| Synonyms: | catchword, clue, hint, idea, indication, inkling, innuendo, intimation, job, key, lead, nod, notion, prod, prompt, reminder, sign, suggestion, telltale*, warning, hot lead, in the wind, mnemonic, prompting, tip-off |
| Notes: | a queue is a line of people or vehicles waiting for something or an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a cue is a signal or stimulus that helps to solve a problem or provides information about what to do - or a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sketch, draft |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, blueprint, chart, composition, conception, constitution, construction, delineation, depiction, diagram, doodle, drawing, dummy, form, formation, idea, layout, makeup, map, method, model, outline, pattern, perspective, picture, plan, scheme, study, treatment, comp, paste-up, tracery, tracing |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
| Synonyms: | bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, nightmare, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith, mental picture |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulse, urge |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, conception, contrariness, creation, cup of tea*, desire, druthers, flash, fool's paradise, groove*, humor, idea, image, imagination, impression, inclination, irrationality, liking, mind, notion, perverseness, pleasure, thing*, thought, vagary, velleity, visualization, weakness for, whim, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
| Synonyms: | chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, inclination, invention, itch*, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, sweet tooth*, vision, yearning, yen, big eyes, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, imaginativeness, romancing |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, essence |
| Synonyms: | basis, bearing, bottom line*, burden, core, drift, force, heart, idea, import, kernel*, keynote, marrow, matter, meat*, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, pith*, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short, significance, soul, spirit, stuff*, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme, thrust, topic, upshot*, nature of the beast, nitty gritty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
| Synonyms: | advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, token, trace, warning, whiff*, whisper, wink*, wrinkle*, adumbration, flea in ear, glimmering, signification, tip-off, word to wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | image |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concept |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, conceit, conception, construct, figure, idea, impression, notion, perception, phantasm, thought, vision, intellection, mental picture, trope |
| Antonyms: | concrete, entity |
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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