| Main Entry: | swell |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wonderful |
Synonyms: |
awesome, cool*, dandy*, deluxe, desirable, excellent, exclusive, fashionable, fine, fly*, grand, groovy*, keen, marvelous, neat, nifty, plush, posh, ritzy, smart, stylish, super, terrific |
Antonyms: |
bad, horrible, shabby |
| Main Entry: | acceptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cooking with gas, cool*, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip*, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome |
Antonyms: |
disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome |
| Main Entry: | agreeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasing |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, dandy, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, fair, fine, gratifying, hunky-dory, mild, nice, peach, peachy*, pleasant, pleasurable, pleasureful, pussycat, ready, satisfying, spiffy, swell*, to one's liking, to one's taste, welcome |
Antonyms: |
disagreeable, discordant, distasteful, harsh, hateful, mean, nasty, offensive, unpleasant |
| Main Entry: | all right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, adequate, appropriate, average, decent, fair, fit, fitting, good, hunky-dory, okay, okey-dokey, passable, proper, satisfying, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, unexceptional, unobjectionable |
Antonyms: |
unsatisfactory |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | cool |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excellent |
Synonyms: |
boss*, dandy, divine, glorious, hunky-dory, keen, marvelous, neat, nifty, sensational, swell |
Antonyms: |
poor, square, uncool, unpopular |
| Main Entry: | dandy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, excellent |
Synonyms: |
capital, cool*, exemplary, famous, first-class, first-rate, five-star, fly*, glorious, grand, great, groovy*, hunky-dory, keen, marvelous, model, neat, nifty, paragon, peachy*, prime, splendid, sup rior, swell, terrific |
Antonyms: |
bad, inferior, not good, second-rate, unacceptable |
| Main Entry: | dapper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-groomed, neat |
Synonyms: |
bandbox, brisk, chic, chichi, classy, clean, dainty, dashing, doggy, dressed to kill, dressed to nines, jaunty, natty, nice, nifty, nimble, nobby, posh, prim, rakish, ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, smart, snazzy, snug, spiff, spiffy, spruce, spry, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, trim, turned out, well turned out |
Antonyms: |
dirty, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, scruffy, shabby, sloppy, tousled, ungroomed, wrinkled |
| Main Entry: | far-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional and offbeat |
Synonyms: |
Bohemian, avant-garde, boss*, contemporary, cool, cool*, deep, deep*, excellent, fabulous, fantastic, groovy, groovy*, hip*, hippie, mod, modern, modernistic, neat, nifty, offbeat, out in left field, out of this world, rad, rad, radical, sensational, strange, super, swell, trendy, ultamodern, unconventional, unorthodox, very unconventional, way-out, weird, wild, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | gnarly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cool, excellent |
Synonyms: |
boss*, finest, great, hairy*, keen, magnificent, marvelous, neat, nifty, sensational, superb, swell, wonderful |