| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
Antonyms: |
kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | bigotry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerance, prejudice |
Synonyms: |
Jim Crowism, bias, discrimination, dogmatism, fanaticism, injustice, narrow-mindedness, partiality, provincialism, racialism, racism, sectarianism, sexism, unfairness |
Antonyms: |
broad-mindedness, fairness, open-mindedness, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
Synonyms: |
accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Notes: | a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions |
| Main Entry: | idiom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of speaking, turn of phrase |
Synonyms: |
argot, colloquialism, dialect, expression, idiosyncrasy, jargon, language, lingo, localism, locution, parlance, patois, phrase, provincialism, set phrase, street talk, style, talk, tongue, usage, vernacular, vernacularism, word |
Antonyms: |
standard |
| Main Entry: | parlance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiom |
Synonyms: |
argot, colloquialism, dialect, diction, expression, idiosyncrasy, jargon, language, lingo, localism, locution, patois, phrase, provincialism, set phrase, speech, street talk, talk, tongue, vernacular |
| Main Entry: | bigotry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
self, arbitrary, bigoted, case, cross, dogged, dogmatic, hard, heady, hidebound, immovable, impersuasible, impervious, impervious to reason, impracticable, incorrigible, inert, infatuated, inflexible, intractable, mulish, not to be moved, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate as a mule, perverse, pervicacious, pig, prejudiced, prepossessed, recalcitrant, refractory, restiff, restive, resty, stiff, stiff, sulky, sullen, tenacious, unaffected, unchangeable, uninfluenced, unmoved, unpersuadible, unruly, untractable, unyielding, wayward, willful
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