| Main Entry: | abandon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | careless disregard for consequences |
Synonyms: |
disregard, freedom, impulse, licentiousness, recklessness, spontaneity, thoughtlessness, uninhibitedness, unrestraint, wantonness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
restraint, self-restraint |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
Synonyms: |
bareness, bleakness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, forlornness, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitariness, solitude, waste, wildness, wreck |
Antonyms: |
civilization |
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, discomposure, disturbance, dither, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, kicks, melodrama, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, wildness |
Antonyms: |
apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| Main Entry: | ferocity |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fierceness |
Synonyms: |
barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutality, cruelty, ferociousness, murderousness, savagery, viciousness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | intensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion, force |
Synonyms: |
acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, deepness, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferociousness, ferocity, fervency, fervor, fierceness, fire, force, forcefulness, fury, high pitch, intenseness, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, sharpness, strain, strength, tenseness, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, weightiness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
apathy, dullness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, moderation |
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon, indulgence |
Synonyms: |
anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, effrontery, excess, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, irresponsibility, lawlessness, laxity, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxation, relaxedness, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
reason |
| Main Entry: | tempest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wild storm; commotion |
Synonyms: |
blizzard, bluster, chaos, convulsion, cyclone, disturbance, ferment, furor, gale, hurricane, squall, tornado, tumult, typhoon, upheaval, uproar, wildness, windstorm |
Antonyms: |
calm |
| Main Entry: | tumult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uproar, confusion |
Synonyms: |
ado, affray, agitation, altercation, babel, bedlam, brawl, clamor, commotion, convulsion, din, disorder, disturbance, dither, excitement, ferment, fight, fracas, fuss, hassle*, jangle, lather, maelstrom, noise, outbreak, outcry, pandemonium, paroxysm, pother, quarrel, racket, riot, row, ruction, seething, stir, strife, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unsettlement, upheaval, upturn, wildness |
| Notes: | tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion and agitation for people and things; tumultuous can describe things and people |
Antonyms: |
calmness, order, peace |
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
Synonyms: |
abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bestiality, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, brute force, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, destructiveness, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fierceness, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, murderousness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, savagery, severity, sharpness, storm, storminess, struggle, terrorism, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, wildness |
Antonyms: |
passivity, peace, peacefulness |