| Main Entry: | soft spot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | raw spot |
Synonyms: |
exposed nerve, in the gut, nerve ending, raw, raw nerve, sore point, sore spot, tender spot, the quick, weakness, where it hurts, where one lives |
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
Synonyms: |
amore, ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen* |
Antonyms: |
animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
Synonyms: |
appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, craving, demand, fondness, gluttony, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ravenousness, relish, soft spot, stomach, sweet tooth, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest |
Antonyms: |
antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | fondness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking or taste for |
Synonyms: |
affection, attachment, devotion, fancy, kindness, love, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, soft spot, susceptibility, tenderness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred, loathing |
| Main Entry: | inclination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tendency, bent |
Synonyms: |
affection, appetite, aptitude, aptness, attachment, attraction, bias, capability, capacity, cup of tea, desire, disposition, drift, druthers, fancy, fondness, groove*, idiosyncrasy, impulse, leaning, liking, mind, movement, partiality, penchant, persuasion, pleasure, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant*, soft spot, stomach*, susceptibility, taste, temperament, thing*, trend, turn*, type, urge, velleity, weakness, whim, will, wish |
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
Synonyms: |
affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, palate, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, proneness, propensity, relish, soft spot, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, velleity, weakness, will |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration; very strong liking |
Synonyms: |
adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, case*, cherishing, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, lust, mad for, partiality, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot, taste, tenderness, weakness, worship, yearning, zeal |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, preference |
Synonyms: |
affection, appetence, appetite, attachment, bent*, comprehension, cup of tea, desire, disposition, druthers, fancy, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, palate, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, prepossession, relish, soft spot, stomach*, tendency, thing*, type, understanding, weakness, zest |
Antonyms: |
disinclination, dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
strength, strong point |
| Main Entry: | chink in one's armor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak point |
Synonyms: |
Achilles' heel, failing, foible, frailty, shortcoming, soft spot, underbelly, vulnerable place, weak link, weak side, weakness |