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| Main Entry: | spark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash, trace |
| Synonyms: | atom, beam, fire, flare, flicker, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, hint, jot, nucleus, ray, scintilla, scrap, sparkle, spit, vestige, scintillation |
| Main Entry: | spark |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start, inspire |
| Synonyms: | animate, excite, kindle, precipitate, provoke, stimulate, stir, trigger, set in motion, set off, touch off |
| Antonyms: | cease, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | agent provocateur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret agent |
| Synonyms: | agitator, firebrand, goad, incendiary, instigator, operative, rabble-rouser, radical, ringleader, spark, spy, troublemaker, intelligence agent, noncooperator, provocateur, provocative agent, provoker |
| Main Entry: | animate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring to life |
| Synonyms: | activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform, inspire, instigate, invigorate, kindle, move, quicken, revive, rouse, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vivify, inspirit, liven, make alive, revivify, vitalize |
| Antonyms: | deaden, discourage, kill |
| Main Entry: | arouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, entice |
| Synonyms: | agitate, alert, animate, awaken, call, challenge, electrify, enliven, foment, foster, goad, incite, inflame, instigate, kindle, move, provoke, rally, rouse, send, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, thrill, turn on, warm, whet, whip up, work up, fire up, heat up, wake up, waken |
| Antonyms: | bore, calm, lull, quiet |
| Main Entry: | bud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | new sprout on plant |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, embryo, germ, nucleus, shoot, spark, floret, incipient flower |
| Main Entry: | coin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, invent |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm*, compose, conceive, contrive, counterfeit, dream up, fabricate, forge, formulate, frame, head trip, make up, make up off the top of one's head, manufacture, mint, mold, originate, spark, spitball, stamp, strike, think up, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | court |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fawn over, pay attention to |
| Synonyms: | allure, ask in marriage, attract, beseech, bid, bootlick, captivate, charm, chase, cultivate, curry favor, date, entice, entreat, flatter, follow, gallant, go out with, go steady, go together, go with, grovel, importune, invite, keep company with, make love to, make overture, make time with, pander to, pay addresses to, pay court to, please, pop the question*, praise, propose, pursue, run after*, seek, seek the hand of, serenade, set one's cap, solicit, spark, spoon, sue, sweetheart, take out, woo |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceive, dream up |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, arrange, blueprint*, brainstorm*, cast, chart, cogitate, come up with, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up*, craft, create, design, discover, forge, form, formulate, frame*, get off*, hatch, head trip, imagine, improvise, intrigue, invent, machinate, make up, mastermind*, plan, play it by ear*, plot, prepare, project, scheme, shape, spark, vamp, whip up*, work out, dope out*, fake it, think up, throw together, trump up |
| Antonyms: | borrow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | enliven |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inspire, vitalize |
| Synonyms: | animate, brighten, buck up, buoy, cheer, cheer up, divert, entertain, excite, exhilarate, fire, galvanize, gladden, hearten, invigorate, pep up*, perk up*, pick up, quicken, refresh, rejuvenate, renew, restore, rouse, spark, spice, stimulate, vivify, work up*, zap*, brace up, fire up, give a lift, give life to, inspirit, jazz up, juice up, let sunshine in, put pep into, recreate, snap out of it, spice up, vivificate, wake up |
| Antonyms: | bore, dull, enervate, exhaust, fatigue, subdue, tire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | goad |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | egg on, incite |
| Synonyms: | animate, annoy, arouse, bully, coerce, drive, encourage, excite, exhort, force, harass, hound, impel, instigate, irritate, lash, move, needle*, press, prick*, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, sound, spark*, spur, stimulate, sting*, tease, thrust, trigger, turn on*, urge, whip*, work up, worry, fire up, goose*, inspirit, key up, put up to, rowel, sic |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | improvise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make up |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, brainstorm, coin, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, extemporize, fake, invent, jam*, knock off*, slapdash*, spark, wing it*, dash off, do off top of head, do offhand, fake it, improv, improvisate, make do, speak off the cuff, throw together |
| Antonyms: | design, devise, plan, premeditate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, stimulus |
| Synonyms: | animus, approach, awakening, brainstorm*, creativity, elevation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exaltation, fancy, flash*, genius, hunch*, illumination, impulse, incentive, influence, insight, motivation, motive, muse, notion, revelation, rumble, spark, spur, stimulation, thought, vision, whim, afflatus, arousal, brainchild, deep think, inflatus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inspire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encourage, stimulate |
| Synonyms: | affect, animate, arouse, carry, cause, elate, embolden, enliven, exalt, excite, exhilarate, galvanize, get*, hearten, imbue, impress, infect, inflame, influence, inform, infuse, instill, invigorate, motivate, occasion, produce, provoke, quicken, reassure, set up, spark, spur, stir, strike, sway, touch, trigger, urge, work up, be responsible for, commove, endue, enkindle, fire up, give impetus, give one an idea, give rise to, inspirit, start off |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minimum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lowest amount |
| Synonyms: | atom, bottom, dab, depth, dot, gleam, grain, hair, iota, jot, least, lowest, margin, modicum, molecule, nadir, particle, pittance, point, scintilla, scruple, shadow, smidgen, soupçon, spark, speck, trifle, whit, narrowest, slightest, smallest |
| Antonyms: | maximum, most, largest |
| Main Entry: | motivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate, instigate |
| Synonyms: | actuate, arouse, bring, cause, dispose, draw, drive, egg on*, excite, fire, galvanize, goad, impel, incite, incline, induce, inspire, lead, move, persuade, pique, predetermine, predispose, prompt, propel, provoke, quicken, rouse, sound, spark, spur, suggest, sway, trigger, whet, give incentive, goose*, innervate, innerve, inspirit, prevail upon, set afoot, set astir, touch off |
| Antonyms: | depress, disconcert, discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nucleus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | core; basis for something's |
| Synonyms: | center, crux, embryo, focus, foundation, germ, heart, hub, kernel, matter, nub, pivot, premise, principle, seed, spark, beginning bud |
| Antonyms: | exterior, outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | ray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beam; indication |
| Synonyms: | bar, blaze, blink, emanation, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, hint, light, patch, radiance, radiation, scintilla, shaft, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, trace, wave, incandescence, irradiation, moonbeam, pencil, sunbeam |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | seethe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be very angry |
| Synonyms: | be furious, be incensed, be livid, be mad, be on the warpath, blow one's stack, blow up*, boil, breathe fire, bristle, burn, ferment, flare, flip, foam, foam at mouth, froth, fume, hit the ceiling*, rage, see red, simmer, smolder, spark, stew*, storm |
| Antonyms: | be happy |
* = 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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