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service - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, office, overhaul, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work, applicability, ministration, relevance, serviceability, servicing |
| Antonyms: | damage, disservice, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rite of a church |
| Synonyms: | ceremonial, ceremony, formality, function, liturgy, observance, ritual, sermon, worship |
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | time in military operation |
| Synonyms: | action, active duty, combat, duty, fighting, sting |
| 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: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, appropriateness, fitness, service, usefulness, applicability |
| Main Entry: | behalf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, cause, concern, countenance, defense, encouragement, favor, furtherance, good, help, part, place, profit, recommendation, representation, sake, service, side, support, welfare, stead |
| Main Entry: | china |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishes, often valuable |
| Synonyms: | ceramics, crockery, porcelain, pottery, service, tableware, stoneware, ware |
| Notes: | earthenware is low-fired clay, porcelain is high-fired, stoneware is about halfway between earthenware and porcelain in quality and durability, and the term china can be applied to any porcelain, earthenware, or ceramicware dishes or crockery |
| Main Entry: | combat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | battle |
| Synonyms: | action, affray, battle royal*, brush, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, flap, fray, jackpot*, mix-up*, run-in*, service, skirmish, struggle, war, warfare, brush-off, shoot-out |
| Antonyms: | accord, compromise, peace, retreat, surrender, truce |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
| Synonyms: | aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots*, coalition, collaboration, combination, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, conspiracy, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, participation, partnership, reciprocity, service, society, synergy, teamwork, union, unity, coaction, coadjuvancy, combined effort, confederation, confunction, doing business with, logrolling, partisanship, playing ball, responsiveness, symbiosis, synergism, teaming, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage, blockage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commitment; loyalty |
| Synonyms: | adherence, adoration, affection, allegiance, ardor, attachment, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, earnestness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, fealty, fervor, fidelity, fondness, intensity, love, observance, passion, piety, reverence, sanctity, service, sincerity, spirituality, worship, zeal, devotedness, devotement, devoutness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, carelessness, indifference, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | electricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energized matter, power |
| Synonyms: | current, heat, juice*, light, service, spark, tension, AC, DC, electromagneticism, electron, galvanism, hot stuff, ignition, magneticism, utilities, voltage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good will*, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token, benignity, good turn, obligement |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disfavor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fuel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give energy to |
| Synonyms: | charge, fan, feed, fill 'er up, fill up, fire, gas, gas up, incite, inflame, nourish, service, stoke up, supply, sustain, tank up |
| Antonyms: | de-energize, deplete, discourage, unfuel |
| Main Entry: | homage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devotion, admiration |
| Synonyms: | adoration, adulation, allegiance, awe, deference, duty, esteem, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, honor, loyalty, obeisance, praise, respect, reverence, service, tribute, worship, genuflection, kneeling |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, disloyalty, disrespect, faithlessness, scorn, treachery |
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
| Synonyms: | allowance, appeasement, attention, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, intemperance, kindness, leniency, partiality, patience, pleasing, privilege, satisfaction, service, tolerance, understanding, babying, coddling, favoring, fondling, immoderation, intemperateness, kowtowing, lenience, pampering, permissiveness, petting, placating, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, spoiling, toadying, toleration, treating |
| Antonyms: | abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | liturgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worship, ceremony |
| Synonyms: | celebration, ceremonial, form, formality, formula, observance, rite, ritual, sacrament, service, services |
| Main Entry: | mend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correct, improve, fix |
| Synonyms: | aid, ameliorate, amend, better, condition, convalesce, cure, darn, doctor, emend, gain, heal, knit, look up, overhaul, patch, perk up, ready, rebuild, reconstruct, recover, rectify, recuperate, redress, reform, refurbish, rejuvenate, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, revamp, revise, right, service, sew, fiddle with, get better, get well, recondition, refit |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy, hurt, ruin, weaken |
| Main Entry: | military |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armed force |
| Synonyms: | air force, army, force, navy, service, troop, marines, servicepeople, soldiery |
| Main Entry: | overhaul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | redo, restore |
| Synonyms: | check, debug, do up*, doctor*, examine, fix, improve, inspect, mend, modernize, patch, rebuild, reconstruct, reexamine, renew, repair, revamp, service, survey, fiddle with, give facelift, recondition, retread |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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