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Main Entry: off
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: apart, away
Synonyms: above, absent, afar, ahead, aside, behind, below, beneath, beside, divergent, elsewhere, far, out, over, removed, up front, vanishing, away from, disappearing, farther away, gone away, in the distance, not here, to one side, turning aside
Antonyms: close, here, present
Main Entry: off
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gone; remote
Synonyms: absent, finished, inoperative, negligible, outside, postponed, slender, slight, slim, small, unavailable, canceled, not employed, not on duty, on vacation
Antonyms: here, present
Main Entry: off
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inferior; spoiled
Synonyms: bad, disappointing, poor, putrid, quiet, rancid, rotten, slack, sour, substandard, unsatisfactory, decomposed, disheartening, displeasing, low-quality, mortifying, not up to par, not up to snuff, turned, unrewarding
Antonyms: on
Main Entry: astray
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: off the path or right direction
Synonyms: adrift, afield, amiss, awry, gone, lost, off, roaming, straying, vanished, wandering, wrong, off course, off the mark
Antonyms: right, straight, on course
Main Entry: below par
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: second-rate in quality
Synonyms: below average, imperfect, inferior, lacking, off, poor, substandard, under the weather*, wanting, not oneself, off-form
Main Entry: deceptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous
Notes: deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright
Main Entry: eradicate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: destroy; remove
Synonyms: abate, abolish, annihilate, demolish, do away with, efface, eliminate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, off*, purge, raze, rub out*, scratch*, scrub, squash, stamp out*, total, trash, uproot, waste, wipe out*, blot out*, deracinate, mow down, root out*, shoot down, take out*, torpedo*, unroot, wash out, weed out
Antonyms: aid, assist, bear, create, establish, fix, help, institute, plant
Main Entry: erroneous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong, incorrect
Synonyms: amiss, askew, awry, defective, fallacious, false, faulty, inaccurate, inexact, invalid, misguided, mistaken, off, specious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, untrue, all off, all wet, flawed, way off, wrong number
Antonyms: correct, right, true, valid
Main Entry: fallacious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: false, wrong
Synonyms: deceptive, delusive, erroneous, fictitious, fishy*, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony, spurious, unfounded, unreal, unreasonable, unsound, untrue, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, ungrounded, unreasoned, way off
Antonyms: correct, real, true, truthful
Main Entry: inaccurate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: erroneous
Synonyms: all wet, careless, counterfactual, defective, discrepant, doesn't wash, fallacious, false, faulty, imprecise, in error, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, off, off base*, out*, specious, unfaithful, unreliable, unsound, untrue, way-off, wide*, wild*, wrong
Antonyms: accurate, correct, right
Main Entry: inappropriate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not proper, suitable
Synonyms: bad form, disproportionate, garbage*, ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, inapplicable, incongruous, incorrect, indecorous, inept, irrelevant, malapropos, off*, tasteless, unbecoming, undue, unfit, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely, wrong, foot-in-mouth, ill-fitted, inapropos, inconsonant, left-field, out of line, out of place, unbefitting, unfitting, unmeet, way off, wrong-number
Antonyms: appropriate, fitting, proper, suitable, ok
Main Entry: malodorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foul-smelling
Synonyms: bad, decayed, fetid, foul, frowzy, funky*, gamy*, high*, infested, lousy, mephitic, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, off*, offensive, poisonous, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, smelly, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, vile, decomposed, fusty, pestilential, polluted, reeking, stenchful
Antonyms: aromatic, fragrant, perfumed, savory, sweet
Main Entry: murder
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: killing
Synonyms: blood, bloodshed, carnage, crime, death, destruction, felony, foul play*, hit*, homicide, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, rub out*, shooting, annihilation, assassination, butchery, dispatching, knifing, liquidation, offing, one-way ticket, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works
Main Entry: murder
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: kill
Synonyms: abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, bump off*, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in*, drub*, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off*, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away*, rub out*, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, thrash*, waste*, blot out*, dust off*, garotte, take a life, take for a ride, take out*
Antonyms: guard, preserve, protect, save
Main Entry: negligible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: insignificant
Synonyms: imperceptible, inconsequential, minor, minute, off*, outside, petty, remote, slender, slight, slim, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant
Antonyms: important, major, significant
Main Entry: obliterate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: destroy
Synonyms: annihilate, ax*, black out*, bog, cancel, cover, cut, defeat, delete, do in*, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, knock off*, knock out*, level*, liquidate, nix*, obscure, off, ravage, rub out*, scratch, scrub, sink, smash, squash, total*, trash*, waste, wipe out*, zap*, KO, X-out, blot out*, blue pencil, finish off*, mark out, root out*, rub off, shoot down, take apart, take out*, torpedo*, wash out*, wipe off face of earth
Antonyms: build, construct, create
Main Entry: putrid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rotten, stinking
Synonyms: bad, corrupt, decayed, fetid, foul, high, malodorous, noisome, off, rancid, rank, rotting, smelly, spoiled, strong, tainted, contaminated, decomposed, moldered, nidorous, putrefied, reeking, whiffy
Antonyms: fresh, perfumed, sweet
Main Entry: rancid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rotten, strong-smelling
Synonyms: bad, disagreeable, disgusting, fetid, foul, frowzy, gamy, high, impure, loathsome, malodorous, moldy, musty, nasty, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, putrid, rank, repulsive, sharp, smelly, sour, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, unhealthy, carious, contaminated, curdled, decomposing, evil-smelling, feculent, fusty, nidorous, olid, polluted, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, reeky, soured, turned, whiffy
Antonyms: perfumed, sweet
Main Entry: recede
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: withdraw; diminish
Synonyms: abate, back, close, decline, decrease, depart, diminish, draw back, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall back, go back, lessen, reduce, regress, retire, retract, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, return, shrink, sink, subside, taper, wane, die off, drain away, flow back, go away, retrocede
Antonyms: advance, forge, forward, increase
Main Entry: sluggish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, slow-moving
Synonyms: apathetic, blah*, comatose, dopey*, down, dragging, heavy, inactive, indolent, inert, laid-back*, languid, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, off, phlegmatic, slack, slothful, slow, sluggard, stagnant, stiff, sullen, torpid, unresponsive, draggy, drippy, hebetudinous, languorous, mooney, pokey*, sleepyheaded, slumberous
Antonyms: active, alert, energetic, fast, lively, spirited
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