| Main Entry: | composition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written or musical creation |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, article, cantata, chart, concerto, dissertation, drama, essay, exercise, exposition, fiction, getup, literary work, manuscript, melody, music, novel, number, opus, paper, piece, play, poetry, rhapsody, romance, score, setup, short story, song, stanza, study, symphony, theme, thesis, tune, verse, work, writing |
| Main Entry: | drool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire, lust after |
Synonyms: |
dote on, enthuse, fondle, gush, lick chops, make much of, pet, rave, rhapsodize, rhapsody, slobber over, spoil, want |
| Main Entry: | ecstasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bliss |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, cool*, delectation, delight, delirium, ebullience, elation, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness, happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, paradise, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven, trance, transport, twilight zone |
| Notes: | enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to stand outside the ordinary self' |
Antonyms: |
despair, sorrow, torment, trouble, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yelling, raving |
Synonyms: |
bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, vociferation |
Antonyms: |
calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | rapture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness and delight in something |
Synonyms: |
at-oneness, beatitude, bliss, buoyancy, cheer, cloud nine, communion, contentment, cool*, delectation, ecstasy, elation, elysium, enchantment, enjoyment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glory, good spirits, gratification, heaven, inspiration, joy, jubilation, nirvana, paradise, passion, pleasure, ravishment, rhapsody, satisfaction, seventh heaven, spell, transport, well-being |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight |
Synonyms: |
ardor, bliss, cloud nine, ecstasy, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, fervor, happiness, heaven, passion, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven |
Antonyms: |
boredom, dislike, indifference |
| Main Entry: | bombast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boasting |
Synonyms: |
altiloquence, balderdash, bluster, bombastry, braggadocio, cotton, exaggeration, fustian, gasconade, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, pad, padded, pomposity, rage, rant, rave, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, stuff, stuffed, tumidity, turgidity, tympany |
Antonyms: |
plain speaking |
| Main Entry: | composition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
abeam, aboard, adrift, aerostatic, afloat, aft, air, airborne, amphibious, antiknock, automotive, aweigh, bumped, bumper, coasting, crank, dirigible, fast, fore, fore, head, hypersonic, in, inboard, leeward, loaded, loxodromic, maritime, midship, mothball, naufragous, nautical, naval, navicular, navigable, off, omniphibious, onboard, outboard, over, polar, pteric, raked, revehent, sailing, seafaring, seagoing, seaworthy, shipboard, shipshape, sonic, souped, stock, stroked, supersonic, tender, transonic, upwind, velivolant, volant, volitorial, windward
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| Concept: | Composition. |
| Category: | 4. CONCRETE QUANTITY |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
composition, constitution, crasis; combination; inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception; embodiment; formation.
-verbs
be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of; consist of, be resolved into., include (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into., compose, constitute, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of (be a component).
-adjectives
containing, constituting.
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