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| Main Entry: | potential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising |
| Synonyms: | budding, conceivable, dormant, embryonic, future, hidden, imaginable, implied, inherent, latent, likely, lurking, plausible, possible, probable, quiescent, thinkable, undeveloped, abeyant, prepatent, unrealized, within realm of possibility |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impossible, lacking, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | potential |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possibility for achievement |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, power, wherewithal, potentiality, the makings, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | impossible, lack |
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| Main Entry: | attainable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | within reach; achievable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, at hand, available, duck soup*, easy, feasible, likely, obtainable, piece of cake*, possible, potential, practicable, probable, procurable, reachable, accomplishable, cherry pie, gettable, no problem, no sweat, realizable, securable |
| Antonyms: | unachieveable, unattainable, unreachable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | budding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, growing, incipient, maturing, opening, potential, promising, young, burgeoning, bursting forth, germinal, germinating, nascent, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | capability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perform |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, aptitude, art, capacity, competence, craft, cunning, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, facility, faculty, means, might, potency, potential, power, proficiency, qualification, skill, wherewithal, potentiality, qualifiedness |
| Notes: | capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities |
| Antonyms: | impotence, inability, incompetence, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | dormant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive; sleeping |
| Synonyms: | asleep, comatose, down, fallow, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, passive, potential, quiescent, slack, sluggish, suspended, torpid, abeyant, closed down, hibernating, on the shelf, out of action, prepatent, sidelined, slumbering, smoldering |
| Antonyms: | active, lively |
| Main Entry: | implied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hinted at |
| Synonyms: | constructive, hidden, implicit, indicated, indicative, indirect, inferential, inherent, intended, involved, latent, lurking, occult, parallel, perceptible, potential, suggested, tacit, understood, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, adumbrated, alluded to, allusive, connoted, figured, foreshadowed, inferred, insinuated, meant, significative, signified, symbolized, tacitly assumed, undeclared, unuttered, wordless |
| Antonyms: | stated, explicated, expressed |
| Main Entry: | latent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dormant, hidden |
| Synonyms: | concealed, covert, idle, immature, implied, inactive, inert, inferential, inherent, inoperative, intrinsic, invisible, involved, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, rudimentary, secret, sleeping, suspended, tacit, torpid, underdeveloped, underlying, undeveloped, unexpressed, unripe, unseen, veiled, abeyant, between the lines, contained, in abeyance, inferred, smoldering, suppressed, unexposed, unrealized, vestigial |
| Antonyms: | active, apparent, clear, live, manifest, obvious, open, public |
| Main Entry: | possible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely, attainable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, achievable, adventitious, advisable, available, breeze*, cinch, conceivable, credible, dependent, desirable, dormant, duck soup*, easy as pie*, expedient, feasible, fortuitous, hopeful, hypothetical, imaginable, indeterminate, latent, obtainable, piece of cake*, potential, practicable, probable, promising, pushover*, setup, snap, thinkable, uncertain, viable, welcome, workable, can do, doable, no sweat, realizable, simple as ABC, within reach |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unlikely, unattainable, ungettable, unrealizable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | potency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | authority, capability, capacity, command, control, dominion, efficacy, efficiency, energy, force, go*, hardihood, influence, juice*, kick*, might, moxie*, muscle*, pep, potential, power, puissance, punch, sinew*, snap, sock*, steam*, strength, sway, vigor, virtue, zap*, zing*, zip*, birr, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | disability, weakness, impotency, ineffectiveness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | undeveloped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | abortive, backward, embryonic, half-baked, inchoate, incipient, inexperienced, latent, potential, primitive, primordial, underdeveloped, untaught, untrained, behindhand, ignored, unactualized, unevolved, unprogressive |
| Antonyms: | adult, developed, grown, mature |
| Main Entry: | virtual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in essence |
| Synonyms: | basic, constructive, essential, fundamental, implicit, implied, in effect, indirect, potential, practical, pragmatic, tacit, in all but name, in conduct, in practice, unacknowledged |
| Antonyms: | actual, authentic, real |
| Main Entry: | would-be |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, budding, eager, enterprising, hopeful, keen, potential, promising, prospective, striving, wishful, wannabe |
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical energy, power |
| Synonyms: | arm, brunt, clout, coercion, compulsion, conscription, draft, duress, effort, enforcement, extortion, fury, impact, impetus, impulse, might, momentum, muscle, potency, potential, pressure, punch, push, sinew, sock*, speed, steam, stimulus, strain, strength, stress, stuff*, tension, trouble, velocity, vigor, violence, constrait, dynamism, exaction, full head of steam, horsepower, pains, pow, strong arm, subjection, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, competence |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, bent, capability, capacity, effectiveness, efficacy, endowment, faculty, function, gift, influence, potential, qualification, skill, talent, turn, virtue, competency, dynamism, potentiality |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, incompetence, weakness |
| Main Entry: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceivable |
| Synonyms: | feasible, imaginable, likely, mortal, possible, potential, practical, probable |
| Antonyms: | inconceivable |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generated power |
| Synonyms: | application, burn, current, electricity, force, friction, gravity, heat, juice, magnetism, potential, pressure, reaction, response, service, steam, strength, conductivity, dynamism, horsepower, kilowatts, radioactivity, rays, voltage, wattage |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical ability, capacity |
| Synonyms: | arm*, brawn, energy, force, intensity, might, muscle*, omnipotence, potency, potential, puissance, sinew*, strength, vigor, vim, virtue, weight, applied force, dynamism, forcefulness, horsepower, mechanical energy, voltage |
| Antonyms: | debility, disability, impotence, infirmity, weakness, impairment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | promise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hope, possibility |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, encouragement, flair, outlook, potential, talent, good omen |
| Antonyms: | impossibility, hopelessness |
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| Main Entry: | nonentity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
absent, airy, annihilated, azoic, baseless, blank, defunct, departed, diriment, dreamy, empty, ethereal, eviscerated, exhausted, extinct, fabulous, gone, groundless, having no foundation, hollow, ideal, imperscriptable, inane, inanimate, inorganic, leaving no trace, lost, mineral, missing, negative, nominal, not any, not one, null, nullibiquitous, obliterated, omitted, perished, potential, shadowy, supposititious, toom, unbegotten, unborn, unconceived, uncreated, ungrounded, unmade, unproduced, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vacuous, vain, virtual, visionary, without foundation
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