| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, one for the books, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rara avis, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, something else, spectacle, stunner, uniqueness |
Antonyms: |
normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | phenomena |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something known through senses |
Synonyms: |
development, experience, phantasm, phenomenality, wonder |
| Main Entry: | act of God |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divine act |
Synonyms: |
accident, circumstances beyond one's control, earthquake, force majeure, freak accident, hurricane, inevitable accident, marvel, natural disaster, phenomenon, supernatural event, tornado, unavoidable casualty, unforeseen event, vis major, wonder |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | development |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, incident |
Synonyms: |
change, circumstance, conclusion, denouement, event, eventuality, eventuation, issue, materialization, occurrence, outcome, phenomenon, result, situation, transpiration, turn of events, upshot |
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
Synonyms: |
accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, conjuncture, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder |
| Main Entry: | expert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | master, specialist |
Synonyms: |
ace*, adept, artist, artiste, authority, buff, connoisseur, doyen, graduate, guru*, hot shot, old hand, old pro, phenomenon, pro, professional, proficient, shark, virtuoso, whiz*, wizard |
Antonyms: |
amateur, apprentice, ignoramus, novice |
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | event; detail of action |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair, being, case, circumstance, conception, consideration, construction, creation, data, datum, deed, entity, episode, evidence, experience, factor, fait accompli, feature, happening, incident, information, item, manifestation, occurrence, organism, particular, performance, phenomenon, point, proceeding, specific, statistic, transaction, truism |
Antonyms: |
lie |
| Main Entry: | form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate body and its condition |
Synonyms: |
anatomy, being, build, condition, fettle, figure, fitness, frame, health, object, outline, person, phenomenon, physique, shape, silhouette, thing, torso, trim* |
| Main Entry: | happening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
Synonyms: |
accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing* |
Antonyms: |
method, plan, system |