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| Main Entry: | prospect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look for; seek |
| Synonyms: | delve, dig, explore, go into, inquire, investigate, look, look into, probe, search, sift, survey, go after |
| Antonyms: | miss, overlook |
| Main Entry: | prospect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outlook for future |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, calculation, chance, contemplation, expectancy, expectation, forecast, future, hope, likelihood, odds, opening, plan, possibility, presumption, probability, promise, proposal, thought, in the cards, irons in the fire |
| Main Entry: | prospect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | landscape, vista |
| Synonyms: | aspect, lookout, outlook, overlook, panorama, perspective, scene, sight, spectacle, view, vision, scape |
| Main Entry: | buyer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone who purchases |
| Synonyms: | client, consumer, customer, end user, patron, prospect, purchaser, representative, shopper, sucker, easy make, emptor, user, vendee |
| Antonyms: | seller, marketer |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
| Synonyms: | chance, integrity, likelihood, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, soundness, validity, believability, plausibility, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, tenability, trustworthiness |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
| Antonyms: | improbability, implausibility, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | customer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buyer of goods, services |
| Synonyms: | client, clientele, consumer, habitué, patron, prospect, purchaser, regular shopper |
| Antonyms: | owner |
| Main Entry: | delve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig into task, action |
| Synonyms: | burrow, dig, dredge, examine, excavate, explore, ferret out*, go into, inquire, investigate, look into, probe, prospect, ransack, research, rummage, search, seek, shovel, sift, spade, unearth, gouge out, jump into, leave no stone unturned, really get into, scoop out, trowel, turn inside out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, break*, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, cup, design, doom, expectation, finality, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, prospect, serendipity, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, breaks, constellation, course of events, divine decree, foreordination, inevitability, predetermination, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, world to come |
| Antonyms: | choice, free will, volition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | explore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | investigate; survey |
| Synonyms: | analyze, burrow, examine, go into*, hunt, inspect, look into, probe, prospect, question, research, scout, scrutinize, search, seek, sift, test, tour, travel, traverse, try, delve into, dig into, have a look, inquire into, leave no stone unturned, reconnoitre, turn inside out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, care, caution, clairvoyance, discernment, discretion, economy, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity, canniness, carefulness, circumspection, discreetness, far-sightedness, long-sightedness, prenotion |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time to come |
| Synonyms: | afterward, destiny, eternity, expectation, fate, hereafter, infinity, millennium, outlook, posterity, prospect, aftertime, by and by, futurity, life to come, morrow, offing, subsequent time, to be, tomorrow, world to come |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horizon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skyline, extent |
| Synonyms: | border, boundary, compass, field of vision, ken, limit, perspective, prospect, range, reach, realm, scope, sphere, stretch, vista, purview |
| Main Entry: | inquire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask; look into |
| Synonyms: | analyze, catechize, examine, explore, go over, grill, hit, inspect, interrogate, investigate, knock, probe, prospect, pry, query, question, roast, scrutinize, search, seek, sift, study, feel out, hit up, request information, seek information, test the waters |
| Antonyms: | answer, respond |
| Main Entry: | investigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | check into thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | bug, case*, check out, consider, delve, dig, examine, explore, frisk, go into, inquire, inspect, interrogate, look into, poke, probe, prospect, pry, question, read, reconnoiter, research, review, run down, scout, scrutinize, search, sift, spy, study, tap, be all ears, check over, check up, eyeball, feel out, give the once over, inquisite, listen in, look over, look-see, make inquiry, muckrake, nose around, put to the test, stake out, wiretap |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | landscape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | countryside; picture of countryside |
| Synonyms: | outlook, painting, panorama, photograph, prospect, scene, scenery, sketch, view, vista, mural |
| Main Entry: | likelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance of something happening |
| Synonyms: | direction, fair shake, fighting chance*, liability, long shot*, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, tendency, toss-up, trend, coin flip, even break, fifty-fifty*, good chance, likeliness, outside chance, plausibility, reasonableness, shot at, strong possibility |
| Antonyms: | unlikelihood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | look into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | check, research |
| Synonyms: | audit, check out, dig, examine, explore, follow up, go into, inquire, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, scrutinize, sift, study, delve into, look over, make inquiry |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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