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| Main Entry: | incubus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil spirit |
| Synonyms: | demon, devil, fiend, goblin, hobgoblin, nightmare, succuba, succubus |
| Main Entry: | demon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil, devilish being or influence |
| Synonyms: | Satan, beast, brute, fiend, goblin, hellion, imp, incubus, monster, rascal, rogue, villain, archfiend, little devil, malignant spirit, succubus, vampire |
| Antonyms: | angel, god |
| Main Entry: | nightmare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad dream or experience |
| Synonyms: | dream, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, horror, illusion, incubus, ordeal, phantasm, torment, trial, tribulation, vision, succubus |
| Antonyms: | daymare |
| Main Entry: | onus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | bar sinister, black eye*, blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, duty, encumbrance, fault, guilt, incubus, liability, load, millstone*, obligation, odium, oppression, responsibility, slur, spot, stain, stigma, task, tax, weight, culpability, deadweight |
| Antonyms: | aid, benefit, blessing, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest, concern |
| Synonyms: | affliction, aggravation, alarm, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, bother, burden, chagrin, charge, consternation, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, discomposure, fretfulness, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness |
| 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: | responsibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accountability, blame |
| Synonyms: | albatross*, authority, burden, care, charge, constraint, contract, duty, encumbrance, engagement, fault, guilt, importance, incubus, liability, obligation, onus, pledge, power, rap, restraint, trust, amenability, answerability, boundness, culpability, holding the bag, incumbency, obligatoriness, subjection |
| Antonyms: | exemption, freedom, immunity, irresponsibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | load |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden, pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, albatross, care, charge, drag, drain, duty, encumbrance, incubus, liability, millstone*, obligation, onus, oppression, responsibility, task, tax, trouble, trust, weight, worry, cumber, deadweight, excess baggage |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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