| Main Entry: | ramification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consequence, development |
Synonyms: |
bifurcation, branch, branching, breaking, complication, consequence, divarication, division, excrescence, extension, forking, offshoot, outgrowth, partition, radiation, result, sequel, subdividing, subdivision, upshot |
Antonyms: |
cause |
| Main Entry: | complexity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complicatedness |
Synonyms: |
complication, convolution, elaboration, entanglement, intricacy, involvement, multiplicity, ramification |
Antonyms: |
clarity, directness, ease, obvious, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | difficulty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental burden |
Synonyms: |
ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bafflement, bother, care, charge, complication, crisis, depression, discouragement, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, frustration, grievance, hangup, harassment, imbroglio, inconvenience, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, misery, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape*, setback, strain, strait, stress, strife, struggle, to-do, trouble, vicissitude, weight, worry |
Antonyms: |
calmness, contentment, peace, pleasure, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, alterity, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divagation, divergency, diversity, division, fork, mutation, otherness, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, turning, unlikeness, variety, varying |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | division |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something produced from separating |
Synonyms: |
affiliate, associate, border, boundary, branch, category, chunk, class, compartment, cut, degree, demarcation, department, divide, dividend, divider, dividing line, divvy, end, fraction, fragment, grouping, head, kind, lobe, lump, member, moiety, offshoot, parcel, partition, piece, piece of action, portion, rake-off, ramification, section, sector, segment, share, slice, sort, split, subdivision, wedge |
| Notes: | a part is any of the components of a whole; a portion is a part allotted to or regarded as belonging to someone; a piece is a part separated from the whole; a division is a part formed by classifying, cutting, partitioning - and so is a section, though it is generally smaller; a segment is a part separated along natural lines of division; a fragment is a small part, usually broken off |
Antonyms: |
system, whole |
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result |
Synonyms: |
aftereffect, aftermath, backlash, backwash, can of worms, causatum, chain reaction, conclusion, consequence, corollary, denouement, development, end, end product, event, eventuality, fallout, flak, follow through, follow-up, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, precipitate, pursuance, ramification, reaction, reflex, repercussion, response, sequel, sequence, side effect, spin-off, upshot, waves |
Antonyms: |
beginning, cause, commencement, foundation, origin, source, start |
| Main Entry: | implication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, suggestion |
Synonyms: |
assumption, conclusion, connection, connotation, entanglement, guess, hint, hypothesis, incrimination, indication, inference, innuendo, intimation, involvement, link, meaning, overtone, presumption, ramification, reference, significance, signification, undertone, union |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expansion, development; extent |
Synonyms: |
advance, advancement, compass, diffusion, dispersion, dissemination, enlargement, escalation, expanse, extension, increase, period, profusion, proliferation, radiation, ramification, range, reach, scope, span, spreading, stretch, suffusion, sweep, term, transfusion, transmission |
Antonyms: |
stagnation, suppression |
| Main Entry: | radiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissemination |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, circulation, diffraction, diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, distribution, divarication, divergence, emission, polarization, propagation, ramification, scattering, spread, transmission |
| Main Entry: | consequences |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result |
Synonyms: |
consecution, contrecoup, corollary, emanation, importance, ramification, residual, residue, residuum, sequela, weight |
Antonyms: |
causes |