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interlude - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | interlude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, break |
| Synonyms: | breathing space*, delay, episode, halt, hiatus, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, lull, meantime, meanwhile, recess, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, wait, idyll, interregnum, parenthesis |
| Notes: | an interval is a gap in time or space, whereas an interlude (literally 'between games') generally functions to fill such a gap, thus occupy an interval |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny entertainment |
| Synonyms: | ball*, burlesque, camp, drollery, farce, fun, high time, hilarity, hoopla, humor, interlude, jesting, joking, picnic, satire, slapstick, takeoff, travesty, vaudeville, witticism, chaffing, comic drama, comicality, comicalness, drollness, facetiousness, field day, fun and games, funnies, funniness, gag show, grins, high camp, humorousness, laughs, light entertainment, merry-go-round, play on, schtick, send-up, sitcom, wisecracking, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | tragedy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | downtime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time during which an activity is stopped |
| Synonyms: | break, breathing spell, free time, freedom, halt, interim, interlude, intermission, letup, lull, pause, recess, repose, respite, rest, spare time, spell, stay, suspension, time on one's hands, time out, time to burn, time to kill |
| Main Entry: | episode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure; scene |
| Synonyms: | affair, business, chapter, circumstance, doings, event, experience, goings-on, happening, incident, installment, interlude, matter, occasion, occurrence, part, passage, section, thing*, what's going down |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | farce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, satire |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, burlesque, camp, caricature, comedy, horseplay*, interlude, joke, mock, mockery, parody, play, sham*, skit, slapstick, travesty, broad comedy, buffoonery, high camp, low camp, pratfall comedy, ridiculousness |
| Antonyms: | sobriety, tragedy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void, clove, discontinuity, interspace |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | interim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, breather, coffee break, downtime*, gap, hiatus, interlude, interruption, lacuna, layoff, letup*, meantime, meanwhile, pause, time*, time-out, breathing spell, cutoff, interregnum, take ten |
| Antonyms: | continuation, permanence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intermission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, recess |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, breather, cessation, doldrums, downtime*, interim, interlude, interruption, interval, layoff, lull, pause, quiescence, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait, abeyancy, break-off, breathing spell, dormancy, interregnum, latency, let-up, parenthesis, quiescency |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interval |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, pause |
| Synonyms: | breach, breathing space*, comma, delay, distance, downtime, five*, gap, hiatus, interim, interlude, intermission, interruption, lacuna, layoff, letup, lull, meantime, opening, period, playtime, rest, season, space, spell, ten*, term, time, time-out, wait, while, interregnum, parenthesis, pausation |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pause |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wait, delay |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, break, breathing space*, caesura, cessation, coffee break, comma*, deadlock, discontinuance, downtime*, freeze*, gap, gridlock*, halt, happy hour*, hesitancy, hesitation, hiatus, hitch*, hush*, interim, interlude, intermission, interruption, interval, lacuna, lapse, layoff, letup*, lull, recess, respite, rest, stand, standstill, stay, stillness, stopover, stoppage, suspension, break-off, breathing spell, cutoff, interregnum, pausation, rest period, time out |
| Antonyms: | continuation, persistence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | time-out |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suspension of activity |
| Synonyms: | break, breather, halt, interlude, intermission, letup, lull, pause, recess, rest, spell, breathing spell, short break |
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | short, light sleep |
| Synonyms: | break, catnap, doze, few z's, forty winks*, interlude, intermission, microsleep, nod, pause, respite, rest, shuteye, siesta, snooze*, spot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inactivity |
| Synonyms: | break, breather*, breathing space*, calm, calmness, cessation, coffee break, comfort, composure, downtime*, doze, ease, forty winks*, halt, holiday, hush, idleness, interlude, intermission, interval, leisure, letup*, lull, nap, pause, peace, quiescence, quiet, recess, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, respite, silence, sleep, slumber, standstill, stay, stillness, stop, time off, vacation, cutoff, dreaminess, motionlessness, quietude, siesta, somnolence, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | action, activity, energy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, period |
| Synonyms: | bit, bout, course, go, hitch, interlude, intermission, patch, relay, season, shift, space, stint, streak, stretch, term, time, tour, tour of duty, trick, turn, while |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interruption of activity |
| Synonyms: | blow, breather, breathing space, caesura, coffee break, downtime*, halt, hiatus, interlude, intermission, interval, lacuna, layoff*, letup*, lull, pause, recess, respite, rest, suspension, ten*, time off, apnea, cutoff, time out |
| Antonyms: | continuation, continuity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intrigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, amour, attachment, case, flirtation, infatuation, interlude, intimacy, liaison, romance |
| Main Entry: | liaison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
| Synonyms: | amour, encounter, entanglement, fling, interlude, intrigue, romance, illicit romance |
| Main Entry: | recess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, interval in action |
| Synonyms: | breather*, cessation, closure, coffee break, downtime*, halt, happy hour*, hiatus, holiday, interlude, intermission, layoff, letup, lull, pause, respite, rest, stop, suspension, ten*, time-out, vacation, break-off, breathing spell, cutoff, interregnum |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = 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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