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| Main Entry: | defenseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerless, vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | caught, endangered, exposed, helpless, indefensible, naked*, open, poor, unarmed, unguarded, unprotected, weak, hands tied, in line of fire, like a clay pigeon, like a sitting duck, on the line, on the spot, out on limb, pigeon*, up the creek, wide open |
| Antonyms: | powerful, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is fooled |
| Synonyms: | butt*, chump*, easy mark*, fish*, fool, mark*, patsy*, pushover*, sap*, sitting duck*, sucker, victim, pigeon* |
| Antonyms: | cognizant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fall guy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy victim |
| Synonyms: | boob, chopping block, chump, dupe, easy mark, fool, goat, mark, patsy, sacrifice, sap, scapegoat, schlemiel, sitting duck, soft touch, stooge, sucker, victim, whipping boy, can-carrier, easy touch, lamb to the slaughter, pigeon, prize sap, schmuck, trusting soul |
| Main Entry: | patsy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall guy |
| Synonyms: | boob*, chump, dupe, easy mark*, fool, goat*, gull*, pushover*, sap*, scapegoat, sitting duck*, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling, doormat, pigeon*, schmuck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid person |
| Synonyms: | chump, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, jerk, nitwit, patsy*, simpleton, sucker, weakling, pigeon* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scapegoat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes blame for |
| Synonyms: | another's action boob, chump, doormat, dupe, easy mark*, fall guy*, fool, goat*, gull*, mark*, patsy, pigeon*, pushover*, sacrifice, sap*, schmuck, sitting duck*, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stooge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dupe |
| Synonyms: | chump*, easy mark*, fall guy, flunky, fool, lackey, patsy*, pawn, puppet, pushover*, sap*, sucker, victim, pigeon* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | victim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon |
| Synonyms: | butt, casualty, clown, dupe, easy mark*, fatality, fool, gambit, gull, hireling, hunted, innocent, mark, martyr, patsy, pawn, prey, pushover*, quarry, sacrifice, scapegoat, sitting duck*, soft touch*, stooge*, sucker, underdog, wretch, babe in woods, easy make, gopher, gudgeon, immolation, injured party, pigeon*, sitting target, sufferer |
| Antonyms: | criminal, culprit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | victimize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat, fool |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, burn*, chisel*, clip*, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, dupe, exploit, fleece, flimflam*, gull, hoax, hoodwink, persecute, pick on, prey on, screw*, set up*, snow*, stiff*, sting*, sucker, swindle, take advantage of, trick, use, discriminate against, have it in for, immolate, pigeon*, rope in, stack the deck |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | easy mark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy victim |
| Synonyms: | chump, cinch, fall guy, mark, mug, patsy, pushover, scapegoat, sitting duck, soft touch, sucker, doormat, easy pickings, easy touch, jay, pigeon, prize sap, trusting soul |
| Main Entry: | pawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is a fool |
| Synonyms: | creature, dupe*, instrument, mark*, patsy*, puppet, stooge*, sucker, tool, toy, victim, pigeon* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | target |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person as object of ridicule |
| Synonyms: | butt*, byword, game, mark*, prey, quarry, scapegoat*, scorn, sitting duck*, sport, victim, pigeon* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | setup |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | gullible person |
| Synonyms: | butt*, chump*, dummy*, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fool, goat*, gull, mark*, patsy*, pushover*, sap, sitting duck, sucker, victim*, pigeon* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object of joking |
| Synonyms: | chump*, clay pigeon, derision, dupe*, easy mark*, fall guy, fool, goat, joke, laughingstock, mark, patsy, sap, setup, sitting duck*, subject, sucker, target, victim, jestee, pigeon*, softie, turkey |
* = 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
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | anatomy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abdominal, abdominous, acerebral, acrocephalic, acromegalic, adeniform, adipose, afferent, agomphious, amanous, ambidexter, anconal, anisognathous, anorchous, anurous, apellous, apocrine, apodal, asthenic, axillary, baggy, balanic, barrel, bimana, bodily, brachial, brachiate, brachycephalic, brevirostrate, buccal, bucculent, bucktoothed, bustluscious, callicolpian, callimammapygian, callipygian, celiac, cervical, chalcenterous, chiropodous, ciliary, cnemial, cock, costate, creatic, cubital, cynocephalous, dactylic, dasypygal, dentulous, diastematic, dilambdodont, dolichocephalic, dolichoderous, dolichopodous, dolichoprosopic, drooping, duck, eccrine, ectad, ectal, ectomorphic, edentulous, endomorphic, epigastric, eumorphous, eurygnathic, excerebrose, femoral, fissilingual, fogdgel, frontal, funic, funicle, gash, genial, genual, gingly, gnathic, gorbelly, gremial, gressorial, gubbertushed, hallucal, heterodont, holocrine, homodont, hypochondriac, hypogastric, hypsicephalic, iliac, intercostal, jecoral, jimberjawed, jowly, knobby, labrose, lantern, leptodactylous, leptorrhinian, leptosome, longimanous, lumbar, macrocephalic, macromastic, macrosomatous, macrotous, malar, mammiferous, mammillary, megacephalic, megapod, mentulate, merocrine, mesial, mesomorphic, metopic, monorchid, muscle, nanoid, niddle, opisthognathous, orad, orthognathous, palatine, palmiped, pancreatic, papillate, paradigitate, parenteral, parietal, pedal, pedimanous, penial, petrosal, pigeon, planisthetic, plantigrade, platyopic, plumiped, pneumatic, podical, prognathous, prosopic, pursed, pyknic, raw, renal, retrad, retromingent, round, sarcoid, sarcous, scaurous, sciapodous, shad, sloe, splanchnic, stomatic, struthonian, stumpy, subcutaneous, subpalpebral, sural, torose, totipalmate, trochocephalic, tutmouthed, uletic, umbiliform, ventral, walleyed, wallopy
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