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soul - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psyche, inspiration, energy |
| Synonyms: | anima, animation, animus, ardor, bosom, bottom, breast, cause, conscience, courage, disposition, ego, essence, feeling, fervor, force, genius, heart, individuality, intellect, intelligence, life, marrow, mind, nobility, personality, pith, principle, quintessence, reason, spirit, stuff, substance, thought, vital force, vitality, vivacity, animating principle, breath of life, elan vital, noumenon, pneuma, recesses of heart, secret self, spiritual being |
| Antonyms: | body |
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | body, character, creature, ghost, human being, individual, man, mortal, person, personage, phantom, shadow, spirit, woman, living soul, umbra |
| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
| Synonyms: | animal, body, brute, creation, fellow, individual, man, mortal, party, person, personage, soul, woman, critter, living being, living thing, lower animal, quadruped, varmint |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | affinity, appreciation, communion, compassion, comprehension, concord, insight, pity, rapport, recognition, soul, sympathy, warmth, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, community of interests, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, picking up on, responsiveness |
| Notes: | empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person |
| Antonyms: | apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, devil, haunt, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vision, visitor, wraith, banshee, daemon, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, vampire, zombie |
| Antonyms: | being, entity |
| Main Entry: | gist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning, essence |
| Synonyms: | basis, bearing, bottom line*, burden, core, drift, force, heart, idea, import, kernel*, keynote, marrow, matter, meat*, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, pith*, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short, significance, soul, spirit, stuff*, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme, thrust, topic, upshot*, nature of the beast, nitty gritty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | god |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural being worshipped by people |
| Synonyms: | Almighty, Creator, Father, God, Holy Spirit, Lord, Maker, deity, demon, divinity, holiness, idol, master, omnipotent, power, prime mover, providence, soul, spirit, totem, tutelary, world spirit, Absolute Being, All Knowing, All Powerful, Allah, Divine Being, Infinite Spirit, Jah, Jehovah, King of Kings, Yahweh, daemon, demigod, numen, universal life force |
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, Homo sapiens |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, biped, wight |
| Antonyms: | abstract, immortal, inanimate, nonentity, plant |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman, singleton |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | middle, lining |
| Synonyms: | belly, bowels, breast, center, contents, gut, heart, innards, interior, recess, soul, stuffing, inner portion, womb |
| Antonyms: | outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | interior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center, core |
| Synonyms: | belly, bosom, contents, heart, innards, inside, lining, marrow, midst, pith, pulp, soul, substance, viscera, within, heartland, inner parts, internals, intrinsicality |
| Antonyms: | exterior, outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | marrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart, essence |
| Synonyms: | bottom, core, cream, gist, kernel, meat, pith, quick, quintessence, quintessential, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, essentiality, virtuality |
| Main Entry: | mood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues*, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps*, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind*, humor, inclination, individuality, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish, high spirits, low spirits |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | animal, being, body, character, creature, earthling, human, individual, man, party, person, personage, soul, woman, living soul, naked ape |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
| Main Entry: | music |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sounds that are pleasant, harmonized |
| Synonyms: | a cappella, acoustic, air, chamber, classical, folk, fusion, hard rock, harmony, hymn, instrumental, jazz, measure, melody, modern, piece, popular, rap, refrain, rock, singing, song, soul, strain, swing, tune, bebop, bop, heavy metal, opera, plainsong, ragtime, rock and roll |
| Antonyms: | silence |
| Main Entry: | nitty-gritty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | basic facts |
| Synonyms: | basics, bottom line*, bottom line, brass tacks, core, essence, focus, fundamentals, gist, heart, kernel, meat, meat and potatoes, name of the game, nuts and bolts*, nuts and bolts, quintessence, reality, root, soul, substance, chief part, chief thing, cold fact, essential details, essential part, hard fact, heart of the matter, important matter, the facts, the facts, the name of the game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, customer, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman, gal, living soul |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | psyche |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innermost self; personality |
| Synonyms: | anima, animus, character, ego, individuality, mind, self, soul, spirit, spirituality, subconscious, essential nature, inner child, inner self, pneuma, true being, élan vital |
| Antonyms: | body, physicality |
| Main Entry: | quintessence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, core |
| Synonyms: | apotheosis, bottom, distillation, epitome, extract, gist, heart, kernel, last word, marrow, pith, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, ultimate, essentiality, lifeblood, quiddity, virtuality |
| Antonyms: | extra |
| Main Entry: | rapport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding between people |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, bond, compatibility, concord, empathy, groove, harmony, link, relationship, soul, sympathy, togetherness, unity, cotton, good vibes, good vibrations, hitting it off, interrelationship, same wavelength, simpatico, the groove |
| Antonyms: | coldness, unfriendliness |
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