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stranded - 13 thesaurus results
Main Entry: stranded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: marooned, abandoned
Synonyms: aground, ashore, beached, godforsaken*, helpless, high and dry, homeless, penniless, shipwrecked, wrecked, cast away, grounded, left at the altar, left in the lurch, on the rocks, out in left field, passed up, run aground, sidelined, sidetracked
Antonyms: found
Main Entry: aground
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: on the bottom of
Synonyms: ashore, beached, disabled, high and dry, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, wrecked, foundered, grounded, marooned, reefed, swamped
Antonyms: afloat
Main Entry: beached
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grounded
Synonyms: abandoned, aground, ashore, deserted, high and dry, stranded, wrecked, marooned
Antonyms: at sea
Main Entry: isolated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unique; private
Synonyms: abandoned, abnormal, alone, anomalous, apart, backwoods*, confined, deserted, detached, exceptional, far-out, forsaken, hidden, incommunicado*, lonely, lonesome, out-of-the-way*, outlying, random, remote, retired, secluded, segregated, single, solitary, special, stranded, unaccompanied, unrelated, untypical, unusual, withdrawn, off beaten track, screened, sequestered, unfrequented
Antonyms: included, incorporated, public, mingling
Main Entry: poverty-stricken
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very poor
Synonyms: bad off*, bankrupt, beggarly, broke*, broke, destitute, distressed, down-and-out*, hard up*, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, short*, stranded*, strapped*, strapped, suffering, wanting, beggared, dirt poor, down and out, impencunious, in dire circumstances, in great need; financially poor, in want, miserably poor, moneyless, necessitous, needful, stone broke, unmoneyed
Antonyms: rich, wealthy
Main Entry: shipwrecked
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sunk
Synonyms: stranded, wrecked, cast away, grounded, marooned, reefed
Main Entry: high and dry
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abandoned and helpless
Synonyms: aground, deserted, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, foundered, marooned
Antonyms: well provided for
Main Entry: desert
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abandon, defect
Synonyms: abscond, bail out*, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out*, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, go, jilt, leave, leave in the lurch, light, maroon, opt out, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, split*, strand, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, walk, apostatize, crawl out, give up, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, leave high and dry, leave stranded, play truant, run out on, sneak off, take a hike, violate oath
Notes: that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them
Antonyms: aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support
Main Entry: ground
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: restrict; drop in place
Synonyms: bar, beach, bring down, dock, down, fell, floor, land, level, prevent, strand, knock down, mow down
Antonyms: free, liberate, let go
Main Entry: maroon
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abandon
Synonyms: beach, desert, forsake, isolate, leave, strand, cast ashore, cast away, leave high and dry
Antonyms: care, help, maintain, rescue, save, take care
Main Entry: wreck
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ruin, destroy
Synonyms: bash, batter, beach, break, capsize, crack up*, crash, cripple, dash, decimate, demolish, devastate, disable, do in*, efface, founder, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mess up*, ravage, raze, sabotage, scuttle, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, strand, subvert, total*, trash*, undermine, vandalize, wrack*, dilapidate, pile up*, put out of commission, run aground, shipwreck, smash up, take apart, take out, tear up, torpedo*, wrack up
Antonyms: build, create, repair
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Main Entry: pain
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
unpalatable, a prey to, a prey to grief, abhorrent, accursed, aching, acute, affecting, afflicted, afflicting, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, algedonic, amyctic, annoying, anxious, aponic, appalling, awkward, between hawk and buzzard, biting, bitter, bothering, broken, calamitous, careworn, carking, causing pain, caustic, chagrined, cheerless, comfortless, concerned, consuming, corroding, cruel, crushed, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, cut up, cutting, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desolating, devoted, dire, disagreeable, disastrous, discontented, disgusting, disheartening, dismal, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, distressing, disturbed, dolorific, dolorous, doomed, dreadful, dreary, enough to drive one mad, enough to make a person swear, enough to provoke a saint, envenomed, excruciating, execrable, fashed, fearful, frightful, full of pain, fulsome, galling, grating, grave, grievous, grim, grinding, griped, hagridden, harassing, hard, harrowing, harsh, hateful, heart, heart, heart, heart, heavy, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrified, horrifying, horror, hurting, ill, ill at ease, in a state of pain, in a taking, in a way, in despair, in grief, in limbo, in pain, in tears, infelicitous, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, invidious, irksome, irritating, joyless, kedogenous, lamentable, loathful, loathsome, lost, melancholy, melpomenish, miserable, more than flesh and blood can bear, mortifying, mournful, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, not to be borne, not to be endured, obnoxious, odious, offensive, on the rack, onerous, oppressive, out of humor, pained, painful, past bearing, pathetic, pestering, piteous, pitiable, plaguing, plaguy, plunged in grief, poor, provoking, racking, rending, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rueful, ruinous, sad, searching, severe, sharp, shocking, sickening, sore, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, steeped to the lips in misery, stinging, stranded, stricken, suffering, teasing, terrific, thankless, thrilling, tiresome, to be pitied, tormenting, torminous, torturous, touching, tragical, tremendous, troublesome, unacceptable, unaccommodating, unbearable, uncomfortable, undesirable, undesired, undone, uneasy, unendurable, unfortunate, unhappy, uninviting, unlucky, unpleasant, unpleasing, unpopular, unsatisfactory, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, victimized, vile, vulnerative, wearisome, weary, withering, wobegone, woeful, worried, worrying, wretched
Main Entry: stability
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
aground, anchored, astatic, at anchor, balanced, confirmed, constant, deep, established, fadeless, fast, firm, firm as a rock, firmly established, firmly seated, fixed, high and dry, immovable, immutable, imperishable, incommutable, incontrovertible, indeciduous, indeclinable, indefeasible, indelible, indestructible, indissoluble, indissolvable, ineradicable, inextinguishable, insusceptible, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, irreducible, irremovable, irresoluble, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, moored, obstinate, on a rock, perennial, permanent, reverseless, riveted, rooted, settled, stable, steadfast, steady, stereotyped, stranded, stuck fast, tethered, transfixed, unalterable, unaltered, unchangeable, undeviating, undying, unmitigated, unsusceptible of change, valid, vested
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