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| Main Entry: | moment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
| Synonyms: | bit, breathing, crack, date, flash, instant, jiffy*, juncture, minute, occasion, point, second, shake, split second*, stage, tick*, time, twinkle*, twinkling*, while, wink*, hour, jiff, no time, nothing flat, point in time, sec, three winks, trice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | advantage, avail, concern, consequence, gravity, import, magnitude, note, pith, profit, seriousness, significance, substance, use, value, weight, worth, momentousness, signification, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | unimportance, triviality |
| Main Entry: | emphasis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, prominence |
| Synonyms: | accent, attention, force, headline, highlight, insistence, intensity, moment, power, priority, significance, strength, stress, weight, accentuation, decidedness, impressiveness, positiveness, preeminence, underlining, underscoring |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
| Synonyms: | access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease*, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight*, connections, in, ropes |
| Antonyms: | impotence, incapacity, inferiority, weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jiffy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instant |
| Synonyms: | breath, crack, flash, minute, moment, second, shake*, split second*, twinkling*, jiff, trice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
| Synonyms: | breath, breathing, crack, flash, instant, jiffy*, moment, second, shake, split second, twinkling*, bat of an eye, min, mo, nothing flat, sec, short time, sixtieth of hour, sixty seconds |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake*, fighting chance*, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack* |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | while |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time interval |
| Synonyms: | bit, instant, interim, meantime, moment, occasion, period, space, spell, stretch, time |
| Notes: | awhile is an adverb and so must occur as a modifier to a verb; while is a noun meaning 'period of time' |
| Main Entry: | worth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value, estimation associated with something |
| Synonyms: | account, aid, assistance, avail, benefit, caliber, class, consequence, cost, credit, dignity, equivalence, excellence, goodness, help, importance, mark, merit, moment, note, perfection, price, quality, rate, significance, stature, use, usefulness, utility, valuation, virtue, weight, desirability, meaningfulness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | split second |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very short time |
| Synonyms: | flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, moment, twinkling, bat of an eye, blink of an eye, fraction of a second, half a second, microsecond, millisecond, nanosecond, nothing flat |
| Main Entry: | twinkling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a very short time |
| Synonyms: | blink, flash, instant, moment, second, shake, split second |
| Antonyms: | eternity, lifetime, aeon |
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in time; particular day or time |
| Synonyms: | age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, hour, year |
| Main Entry: | importance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance, weight |
| Synonyms: | accent, attention, bearing, caliber, concern, consequence, denotation, distinction, drift*, effect, emphasis, force, gist*, gravity, import, influence, interest, moment, point, precedence, preponderance, priority, purport, sense, seriousness, standing, stress, substance, tenor, usefulness, value, concernment, materiality, momentousness, notability, paramountcy, preponderancy, relevance, signification, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attraction, curiosity |
| Synonyms: | absorption, activity, affection, care, case, concern, consequence, diversion, enthusiasm, excitement, game, hobby, importance, into, matter, moment, note, notice, passion, pastime, preoccupation, pursuit, racket, recreation, regard, relaxation, significance, sport, suspicion, sympathy, thing, attentiveness, concernment, engrossment, interestedness, leisure activity, relevance |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, indifference, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | magnitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | consequence, degree, eminence, grandeur, greatness, import, mark, moment, note, pith, significance, weight, momentousness, signification, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | occasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | break*, convenience, demand, excuse, incident, instant, moment, need, occurrence, opening, opportunity, possibility, season, shot*, show, time, use |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | second |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortest interval of time |
| Synonyms: | flash, instant, jiffy*, moment, shake*, split second, twinkling*, wink, bat of an eye, nothing flat, sec |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | level, period within structure or |
| Synonyms: | degree, division, footing, grade, juncture, lap, leg, length, moment, node, notch, phase, plane, point, rung, standing, status, step, point in time, system date |
| Main Entry: | tick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clicking sound; one beat |
| Synonyms: | beat, blow, clack, click, flash, instant, minute, moment, pulse, rap, second, shake, tap, throb, twinkling, wink, clicking, metallic sound, pulsation, tapping, ticktock |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, life, life span, lifetime, moment, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, while, chronology, hour, lastingness, many a moon, month, week, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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