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| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Notes: | relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften, soften down; foment, stupe, poultice; assuage, allay., cheer, comfort, console; enliven; encourage, bear up, pat on the back, give comfort, set at ease; gladden the heart, cheer the heart; inspirit, invigorate., remedy; cure (restore) [more]; refresh; pour balm into, pour oil on., smooth the ruffled brow of care, temper the wind to the shorn lamb, lay the flattering unction to one's soul., disburden (free) [more]; take off a load of care., be relieved; breathe more freely, draw a long breath; take comfort; dry the tears, dry the eyes, wipe the tears, wipe the eyes.
-adjectives
-phrases
"here comes a man of comfort" [Measure for Measure].
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| Antonyms: | aggravation |
| Main Entry: | assist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, abetment, facilitation |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, stop, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | assistance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance, abetment, facilitation |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | contour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outline, profile |
| Synonyms: | curve, delineation, figuration, figure, form, relief, shape, silhouette, lineament, lines |
| Main Entry: | détente |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peace |
| Synonyms: | amity, harmony, relaxation, relief, tranquility, truce, cooling off, equal power |
| Main Entry: | dole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allowance, allocation |
| Synonyms: | allotment, alms, apportionment, benefit, charity, dispensation, distribution, division, donation, gift, grant, gratuity, handout, living wage, mite, modicum, parcel, pittance, portion, quota, relief, share, subsistence, trifle |
| Main Entry: | donation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift |
| Synonyms: | a hand, aid, allowance, alms, appropriation, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, bequest, boon, charity, contribution, do one's part, dole, endowment, gifting, grant, gratuity, handout, help, helping hand* largess, lump, offering, philanthropy, pittance, present, presentation, ration, relief, subscription, subsidy, subvention, write-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, easement, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, optimism, promotion, refreshment, relief, reward, softening, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging, consoling, enlivening, inspiritment, invigoration, reassurance, reassuring, relieving, shot in the arm, solacing |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | ball*, bash*, big time*, blast*, celebration, cheer, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, gaiety, game, high time*, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, blow out*, clambake, divertissement, fun and games, good time, grins, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, regalement, wingding |
| Antonyms: | chore, drudgery, labor, task, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake*, fighting chance*, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack* |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | panacea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cure-all |
| Synonyms: | cure, elixir, nostrum, patent medicine, relief, remedy, catholicon |
| Main Entry: | philanthropy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humanitarianism |
| Synonyms: | alms, altruism, assistance, benefaction, charity, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, generosity, helping hand, relief, alms-giving, beneficence, gifting, good works |
| Main Entry: | recreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sports, games, special interests |
| Synonyms: | R and R*, amusement, avocation, ball*, disport, dissipation, distraction, diversion, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, exercise, festivity, frolic, fun, game, hilarity, hobby, holiday, jollity, mirth, pastime, picnic, play, playtime, pleasure, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, rollick, sport, vacation, divertissement, field day, fun and games, laughs, leisure activity, rec |
| Antonyms: | labor, profession, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
| Synonyms: | aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, change, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, payment, recompense, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, balancing, conciliation, offsetting, quittance, rectification, reestablishment, reworking |
| Antonyms: | hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | relaxation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment; resting or recovering |
| Synonyms: | amusement, diversion, enjoyment, fun, leisure, mitigation, pleasure, reclining, recreation, refreshment, relief, repose, rest, alleviation, assuagement, loosening, requiescence |
| Antonyms: | labor, work, intensification |
| Main Entry: | remedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cure, solution |
| Synonyms: | antidote, assistance, corrective, counteractive, cure-all*, drug, elixir, fix, improvement, medicine, panacea, pill, quick fix*, redress, relief, restorative, support, therapy, treatment, biologic, counteractant, counteraction, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, medicament, medicant, pharmaceutical, pharmacon, physic |
| Antonyms: | disease, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving from danger |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, emancipation, exploit, feat, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving, disembarrassment, disentanglement, extrication, heroics, reclaiming |
| Antonyms: | danger, peril |
| Main Entry: | resource |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supply drawn upon, either material or nonmaterial |
| Synonyms: | ability, appliance, artifice, assets, capability, capital, cleverness, contraption, contrivance, course, creation, device, expedient, fortune, hoard, ingenuity, initiative, makeshift, means, measure, method, mode, nest egg*, property, recourse, refuge, relief, reserve, riches, shift, source, step, stock, stockpile, store, stratagem, substance, substitute, support, surrogate, system, talent, way, wealth, worth, inventiveness, quick-wittedness, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | product |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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