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| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restfulness; calm |
| Synonyms: | ease, inaction, leisure, peace, quiet, refreshment, relaxation, renewal, respite, rest, restoration, sleep, slumber, stillness, inactivity, quietness, quietude, relaxing, requiescence, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, disturbance, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relax; recline |
| Synonyms: | deposit, lie, loaf, loll, lounge, place, rest, settle, slant, sleep, slumber, stretch, tilt, lay down, lie down, settle down, stretch out, take it easy |
| Antonyms: | energize, be active, be busy |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
repose; rest, rest and be thankful; take a rest, take one's ease., relax, unbend, slacken; take breath (refresh) [more]; rest upon one's oars; pause (cease) [more]; stay one's hand., lie down; recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair; go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep [more]., take a holiday, shut up shop; lie fallow (inaction) [more].
-adjectives
reposing; unstrained.
-adverbs
at rest.
-phrases
"the best of men have ever loved repose" [Thompson]; "to repair our nature with comforting repose" [Henry VIII].
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| Antonyms: | exertion |
| Main Entry: | calm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quietness, composure |
| Synonyms: | calmness, doldrums, hush, lull, patience, peace, peace of mind, quiet, repose, rest, restraint, serenity, silence, stillness, stoicism, tranquility, dispassion, impassivity, imperturbation, peacefulness, placidity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, anger, madness, restlessness, terror, turbulence, violence, storminess |
| Main Entry: | composure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calmness, collectedness |
| Synonyms: | accord, aplomb, assurance, balance, calm, contentment, control, cool*, coolness, dignity, ease, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, fortitude, harmony, moderation, nonchalance, peace of mind, poise, polish, presence of mind, quiet, repose, sang-froid, self-assurance, self-control, self-possession, serenity, sobriety, stability, tranquility, cool head, coolheadedness, dispassion, even temper, imperturbability, inexcitability, levelheadedness, placidity, quietude, sedateness |
| Antonyms: | agitation, excitement, upset, arousal, discomposure, perturbedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist, reside |
| Synonyms: | abide, be, dwell, lie, repose, rest, subsist, be contained in, be expressed by, be found in, inhere |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deposit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | locate, put in place for safekeeping |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, amass, bank, collect, commit, deliver, ditch, drop, entrust, garner, hoard, install, invest, keep, lay, park, place, plant*, plunk*, precipitate, repose, rest, salt away*, save, settle, squirrel away*, store, stow, transfer, treasure, give in trust, lay away, plop, plunk down, put aside, put by, sit down, sock away, stash, stock up |
| Antonyms: | take away, take out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | downtime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time during which an activity is stopped |
| Synonyms: | break, breathing spell, free time, freedom, halt, interim, interlude, intermission, letup, lull, pause, recess, repose, respite, rest, spare time, spell, stay, suspension, time on one's hands, time out, time to burn, time to kill |
| Main Entry: | leisure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
| Synonyms: | chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off*, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
| Antonyms: | employment, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lounge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie about, waste time |
| Synonyms: | bum*, dawdle, goof off*, idle, kill time*, loaf, loiter, loll*, recline, relax, repose, saunter, sprawl, fritter away, goldbrick, laze, pass time, take it easy |
| Antonyms: | do, hustle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quiet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calmness, silence |
| Synonyms: | calm, cessation, ease, hush, lull, peace, relaxation, repose, rest, serenity, still, stillness, stop, termination, dead air, noiselessness, quietness, quietude, soundlessness, speechlessness, tranquillity |
| Notes: | quiet (noun) is the absence of sound - (verb) to make calm, still, or quiet - (adjective) free of noise or uproar or making little if any sound; quite means to the greatest extent or actually, really, or truly |
| Antonyms: | clamor, clangor, noise, loudness |
| Main Entry: | recline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie down |
| Synonyms: | cant, heel, lean, lie, list, loll, lounge, repose, rest, slant, slope, sprawl, stretch, tilt, tip, be recumbent, lay down, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | straighten, sit up |
| 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: | 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: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suspension of consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bedtime, catnap, coma, dormancy, doze, dream, dullness, few z's, forty winks*, hibernation, lethargy, nap, nod, repose, rest, sack time, sandman, shuteye, siesta, slumber, slumberland, snooze, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bed down, bunk*, catch a wink, catch forty winks, catnap, conk out*, cop some z's, crash*, doze, dream, drop off*, drowse, fall asleep, fall out*, flop*, hibernate, hit the hay*, hit the sack, languish, nap, nod, nod off, oversleep, relax, repose, rest, retire, sack out, saw wood, slumber, snooze, snore, take a nap, turn in*, yawn, zonk out, zzz |
| Antonyms: | wake, waken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slumber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleep |
| Synonyms: | coma, doze, forty winks*, languor, lethargy, nap, repose, rest, snooze, stupor, torpor, dormancy, drowse, inactivity, sack time, shut-eye |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stretch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, elongate |
| Synonyms: | amplify, bridge, cover, develop, distend, drag out, draw, draw out, expand, fill, go, grow, inflate, lengthen, magnify, make, open, overlap, pad, prolong, protract, pull, pull out, pyramid, rack, range, reach, recline, repose, run, span, spread, strain, swell, tighten, unfold, unroll, widen, branch out, burst forth, crane, lie out, make taut, make tense, prolongate, shoot up, spin out, spread out, spring up, string out, tauten |
| Antonyms: | compress, concentrate |
| Main Entry: | tact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finesse, thoughtfulness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, address, adroitness, amenity, care, common sense, consideration, control, courtesy, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, gallantry, head, horse sense*, intelligence, judgment, penetration, perception, perspicacity, poise, policy, presence, prudence, refinement, repose, savoir faire, sensitivity, skill, smoothness, suavity, subtlety, understanding, aptness, delicatesse, good taste, politicness, tactfulness, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness, tactlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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