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| Main Entry: | warm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | heat up |
| Synonyms: | bake, chafe, cook, fix, heat, melt, microwave, prepare, thaw, toast, put on the fire, warm over, warm up |
| Antonyms: | chill, cool, freeze |
| Main Entry: | warm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moderately hot |
| Synonyms: | balmy, broiling, clement, close, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, lukewarm, melting, mild, pleasant, scorching, snug, summery, sunny, sweaty, sweltering, temperate, tepid, thermal, perspiring, roasting, sizzling, sweating, toasty, warmish |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | warm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, kind |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, amiable, amorous, ardent, cheerful, compassionate, cordial, fervent, genial, gracious, happy, heartfelt, hearty, hospitable, kindhearted, kindly, loving, pleasant, responsive, sincere, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, warmhearted, wholehearted, empathetic |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cold, cool, uncaring, unfeeling, unfriendly, unkind |
| Main Entry: | warm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | amorous, angry, animated, ardent, earnest, effusive, emotional, excitable, excited, fervent, fervid, glowing, heated, hot*, intense, irascible, keen, lively, nutty*, passionate, spirited, stormy, vehement, vigorous, violent, zealous, gung-ho |
| Antonyms: | cool, indifferent, unenthusiastic, uninterested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm, clubby |
| Antonyms: | complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | affectionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having or showing fondness |
| Synonyms: | dear, devoted, doting, fond, friendly, kind, loving, mushy*, partial, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, all over, attached, caring, crazy over, huggy, lovey-dovey, nutty about, soft on |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, cold, cool, disliking, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, charming, cheerful, complaisant, cool*, cordial, cozy, delightful, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy*, pleasant, pleasing, princely*, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning, buddy-buddy*, clubby, copacetic, downright neighborly, home cooking, pussycat, sweet-tempered |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | bake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook in oven |
| Synonyms: | heat, melt, scorch, simmer, stew, warm |
| Main Entry: | compassionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having tender feelings |
| Synonyms: | benevolent, bleeding heart*, charitable, forbearing, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, merciful, piteous, responsive, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted, all heart, being big, commiserative, going easy on, living with, old softie, pitying, soft shell |
| Antonyms: | cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cordial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, sociable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, cheerful, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy*, polite, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, buddy-buddy*, clubby, heart-to-heart, red-carpet, welcoming |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable, uncordial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cuddly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huggable, embraceable |
| Synonyms: | lovable, plump, soft, warm, caressible, cuddlesome, kissable, snuggly |
| Antonyms: | despicable, disgusting |
| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirring, susceptible, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous, emotive, falling apart, hot-blooded, roused, stirred, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| Main Entry: | enthusiastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, excited |
| Synonyms: | agog, animated, anxious, ardent, avid, concerned, crazy about*, devoted, eager, earnest, ebullient, exhilarated, exuberant, fanatical, fascinated, fervent, fervid, forceful, gung ho*, hearty, intent, keen, lively, nutty*, obsessed, passionate, pleased, rabid, red-hot*, rhapsodic, spirited, thrilled, unqualified, vehement, vigorous, wacky*, warm, wholehearted, willing, zealous, athirst, attracted, bugged, dying to, gaga, gone on, keyed up, tantalized, titillated |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, weary, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inspire; upset |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, agitate, amaze, anger, animate, annoy, arouse, astound, awaken, bother, chafe, delight, discompose, disturb, electrify, elicit, energize, evoke, fire, fluster, foment, galvanize, goad, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, intensify, irritate, jar, jolt, kindle, madden, mock, move, offend, precipitate, provoke, quicken, rouse, start, stimulate, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate, vex, warm, whet, work up, worry, feed the fire, stir up, touch off, wake up, waken |
| Antonyms: | bore, calm, compose, deaden, lull, moderate, pacify, quiet, repress, tranquilize |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, showy, significant, silver-tongued*, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm, allusive, pictorial, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fervent/fervid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic, excited |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, fiery, glowing, heartfelt, hearty, hot*, impassioned, intense, passionate, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous, dying to, falling all over oneself, go great guns, hot-blooded, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | cool, discouraged, dispirited, impassive, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | have a liking or taste for |
| Synonyms: | addicted, affectionate, amorous, devoted, doting, enamored, indulgent, loving, mushy*, partial, predisposed, responsive, romantic, sentimental, sympathetic, tender, warm, adoring, attached, caring, keen on, lovesome, lovey-dovey, silly over |
| Antonyms: | hostile, hating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely nice and happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, blithe, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chipper*, congenial, convivial, cordial, easygoing, favorable, friendly, gentle, glad, good-natured, gracious, hearty, high, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, kind, kindly, merry, neighborly, perky, pleasant, sociable, sunny*, up*, upbeat, upper*, warm, chirpy, enlivening, sunny side up, warm-hearted |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cold, cool, cranky, irritable, moody, unfriendly, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gladden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | please |
| Synonyms: | brighten, cheer, delight, elate, hearten, warm, make happy |
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