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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| 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retired, secluded, segregated, single, solitary, special, stranded, unaccompanied, unrelated, untypical, unusual, withdrawn, off beaten track, screened, sequestered, unfrequented |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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| 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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