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| Main Entry: | willing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable, ready |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, active, amenable, cheerful, compliant, content, deliberate, desirous, disposed, eager, energetic, enthusiastic, fair, favorable, feeling, forward, game, happy, inclined, intentional, like-minded, obedient, one, pleased, predisposed, prepared, prompt, prone, reliable, responsible, tractable, unasked, voluntary, willful, zealous, consenting, go along with, in accord with, in favor, in the mood, unbidden, unforced, well-disposed, witting |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, unprepared, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause |
| Synonyms: | authorize, bid, bring about, command, decree, demand, determine, direct, effect, enjoin, exert, insist, intend, ordain, order, request, resolve, decide on |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choose |
| Synonyms: | crave, desire, elect, incline, like, opt, please, prefer, want, wish, be inclined, have a mind to, see fit |
| Antonyms: | neglect, pass |
| Main Entry: | will |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, bequeath to another |
| Synonyms: | bequest, confer, cut off, devise, disinherit, leave, legate, transfer, disherit, pass on, probate |
| Antonyms: | keep, receive |
| Main Entry: | conciliatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | placid, yielding |
| Synonyms: | calm, civil, disarming, pacific, peaceable, quiet, willing, appeasing, assuaging, irenic, mollifying, placating, placatory, propitiative |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, fighting, stubborn, refusing |
| Main Entry: | content |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | appeased, at ease, can't complain, comfortable, complacent, contented, fat dumb and happy, fulfilled, gratified, pleased as punch, satisfied, smug, tickled pink*, willing |
| Antonyms: | depressed, disagreeable, discontent, dissatisfied, disturbed, needy, unhappy, upset, wanting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desirous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, amorous, anxious, avid, covetous, craving, desiring, eager, enthusiastic, grasping, greedy, hot*, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, passionate, ready, stimulated, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning, prehensile, turned on |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, unambitious, unhopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclined to a type of behavior |
| Synonyms: | apt, biased, game*, given, liable, likely, minded, partial, predisposed, prone, ready, subject, willing, at drop of hat, fain, game for, of a mind to, tending toward |
| Antonyms: | indisposed, unlikely, unwilling, unready |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | docile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant, submissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, childlike, complacent, cool, ductile, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laid-back, manageable, meek, mellow, mild, obedient, obliging, orderly, pliable, pliant, quiet, resigned, soft, tame, teachable, tractable, usable, well-behaved, willing, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, docious, easily influenced, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, stubborn, uncooperative, unyielding |
| 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: | glad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy, delightful |
| Synonyms: | animated, beaming, beautiful, blithesome, bright, can't complain, cheerful, cheering, cheery, contented, exhilarated, felicitous, floating on air, gay, genial, gleeful, gratified, gratifying, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, pleasant, pleased, pleased as punch, pleasing, radiant, rejoicing, sparkling, tickled, tickled pink*, tickled to death, up, willing |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inclined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a preference |
| Synonyms: | apt, bent on, disposed, given, likely, predisposed, prone, tending, willing, in the mood |
| Main Entry: | intentional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deliberate |
| Synonyms: | advised, calculated, considered, intended, planned, premeditated, proposed, studied, voluntary, willful, willing, aforethought, designed, designful, done on purpose, meant, meditated, prearranged, purposed, unforced, witting |
| Antonyms: | accidental, unintentional, unplanned |
| Main Entry: | obedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-behaved; submissive |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, amenable, at one's beck and call, attentive, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, deferential, devoted, docile, docious, duteous, dutiful, faithful, governable, honoring, in one's clutches, in one's pocket, in one's power, law-abiding, loyal, obeisant, obliging, observant, on a string, pliant, regardful, resigned, respectful, reverential, sheeplike, subservient, tame, tractable, under control, venerating, well-trained, willing, wrapped around finger, yielding |
| Antonyms: | contrary, disobedient, insolent, misbehaving, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious |
| Main Entry: | obliging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, helpful |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, agreeable, amiable, cheerful, civil, complaisant, considerate, cooperative, courteous, easy, easygoing, good-humored, good-natured, hospitable, kind, lenient, mild, polite, willing, eager to please |
| Antonyms: | disobliging, inconsiderate, mean, uncooperative, unfriendly, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | prepared |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready in body or mind |
| Synonyms: | able, adapted, available, disposed, fit, fixed, framed, handy, inclined, minded, on guard*, planned, predisposed, primed, processed, put up, qualified, set, up*, willing, wired, adjusted, all bases covered, all set, all systems go, arranged, gaffed, groomed, in order, in readiness, of a mind, prepped, psyched-up, rehearsed, rigged, set-up, sewed-up, stacked, up on |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, neglectful, unprepared, unready |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prompt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | early, responsive |
| Synonyms: | alert, apt, brisk, eager, efficient, expeditious, immediate, instant, instantaneous, on the ball*, on the nose*, on time, precise, punctual, quick, rapid, ready, smart, speedy, swift, timely, vigilant, watchful, wide-awake, willing, on the button, on the dot, unhesitating |
| Antonyms: | late, negligent, slow, tardy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager |
| Synonyms: | enthusiastic, keen, longing, ready, willing, champing at the bit, itching |
| Antonyms: | reluctant |
| Main Entry: | resigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enduring, passive |
| Synonyms: | adapted, agreeable, amenable, calm, compliant, cordial, deferential, docile, genial, gentle, long-suffering, manageable, obedient, patient, peaceable, philosophical, pliant, quiescent, quiet, ready, reconciled, satisfied, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, tolerant, tractable, willing, yielding, accommodated, acquiescent, adjusted, biddable, nonresisting, relinquishing, renouncing, stoical, unassertive, unprotesting, unresisting, well-disposed |
| Antonyms: | intolerant |
| Main Entry: | studied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
| Synonyms: | advised, affected, calculated, conscious, considered, deliberate, examined, investigated, planned, premeditated, prepared, purposeful, reviewed, studious, thoughtful, voluntary, willful, willing, aforethought, designed, gone into, plotted, prepense, thought-about, thought-out, thought-through, well-considered |
| Antonyms: | natural, spontaneous, unintentional, unplanned |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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