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| Main Entry: | works |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | everything |
| Synonyms: | all, entirety, whole caboodle, whole shebang |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labor, chore |
| Synonyms: | assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease*, endeavor, exertion, grind, industry, job, muscle, obligation, performance, production, push, servitude, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking, functioning, grindstone, moil, pains, salt mines, slogging |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be employed; exert oneself |
| Synonyms: | buckle down*, carry on, dig, drive, drudge, freelance, hustle*, knuckle down*, labor, manage, manufacture, moonlight, ply, pursue, report, scratch, slave, slog*, specialize, strain, strive, sweat*, take on, toil, try, apply oneself, be gainfully employed, do a job, do business, earn a living, have a job, hold a job, moil, nine-to-five it, peg away, plug away, punch a clock |
| Antonyms: | idle, relax, rest, laze |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, occupation |
| Synonyms: | activity, art, calling, commitment, contract, craft, do*, duty, employment, endeavor, gig*, grind*, industry, job, line, livelihood, métier, obligation, office, practice, profession, pursuit, racket*, responsibility, skill, slot*, stint, swindle, task, thing*, trade, vocation, walk, line of business, nine-to-five, specialization |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manipulate, operate |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, act, behave, bring about, carry out, cause, contrive, control, create, direct, drive, effect, execute, force, function, go, handle, implement, manage, maneuver, move, perform, ply, progress, react, run, serve, take, tick, use, wield |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement |
| Synonyms: | act, application, article, composition, creation, deed, end product, function, handicraft, handiwork, oeuvre, opus, output, performance, piece, product, production |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cultivate, form |
| Synonyms: | dig, dress, farm, fashion, handle, knead, labor, make, manipulate, mold, process, shape, tend, till, care for |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
| Main Entry: | aggregate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, all, amount, assemblage, body, bulk, combination, conglomerate, conglomeration, gross, heap, lump, mass, mixture, pile, quantity, sum, total, totality, whole, the works, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole schmear, whole shooting match |
| Antonyms: | individual, one, part |
| Main Entry: | all |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole; totality |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, collection, ensemble, entirety, everyone, everything, gross, group, jackpot*, mass, quantity, sum, total, unit, utmost, works, across the board, integer, lock stock and barrel, sum total, wall to wall, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole nine yards, whole schmear, whole shooting match, whole show |
| Antonyms: | none, zero, zilch, zip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclusive |
| Synonyms: | absolute, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, catholic, compendious, complete, discursive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, expansive, extensive, far-reaching, full, general, global, infinite, overall, sweeping, thorough, umbrella, whole, wide, widespread, across the board, all-embracing, comprising, containing, encircling, in depth, lock stock and barrel, of great scope, synoptic, the big picture, the whole shebang, the works, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, particular, selective, specific, incomprehensive |
| Main Entry: | entirety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wholeness, whole |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, completeness, complex, ensemble, everything, fullness, gross, integrity, oneness, perfection, sum, total, totality, unity, absoluteness, allness, collectiveness, collectivity, comprehensiveness, entireness, intactness, integrality, omneity, omnitude, plenitude, sum total, the works, undividedness, universality, whole ball of wax, whole bit, whole enchilada, whole nine yards |
| Antonyms: | fraction, part, partiality, section, incompleteness |
| Main Entry: | everything |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entirety |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, all in all, all that, all things, business, complex, each thing, every little thing, fixins', lock stock and barrel, lot, many things, sum, the works, total, universe, whole, whole ball of wax, whole caboodle*, whole enchilada, whole lot, whole shebang |
| Antonyms: | nothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | factory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manufacturing plant |
| Synonyms: | branch, cooperative, firm, forge, foundry, industry, laboratory, mill, mint, shop, warehouse, works, workshop, machine shop, manufactory, salt mines, sweatshop, workroom |
| Main Entry: | gadgetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mechanism |
| Synonyms: | bells and whistles, machinery, works, appliances, contraptions, ingenious device, instrumentation |
| Main Entry: | machinery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devices performing work |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, apparatus, appliance, channel, contraption, contrivance, engine, equipment, gadget, gear, implement, instrument, materiel, means, mechanism, medium, method, motor, organ, outfit, paraphernalia, structure, system, tackle, tool, utensil, vehicle, works, accouterment, habiliments, shifts |
| Main Entry: | mill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | factory |
| Synonyms: | foundry, plant, shop, works, manufactory, sweatshop |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | blood, bloodshed, carnage, crime, death, destruction, felony, foul play*, hit*, homicide, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, rub out*, shooting, annihilation, assassination, butchery, dispatching, knifing, liquidation, offing, one-way ticket, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, amount, body, bulk, entirety, entity, epitome, gross, integral, mass, quantity, résumé, reckoning, score, structure, summary, summation, synopsis, system, tally, totality, value, whole, works*, worth, sum total |
| Antonyms: | fraction, part |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | total |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, amount, body, budget, bulk, entirety, flat out*, gross, jackpot*, mass, quantity, quantum, result, sum, tale, totality, full amount, sum total, the works |
| Antonyms: | part |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total made up of parts |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, aggregation, all, amount, assemblage, assembly, being, big picture, body, bulk, coherence, combination, complex, ensemble, entirety, entity, everything, fullness, gross, integral, jackpot*, lot, lump, oneness, organism, organization, piece, quantity, quantum, result, sum, summation, supply, system, totality, unit, unity, collectivity, hook line and sinker, linkage, lock stock and barrel, sum total, the works, whole ball of wax, whole enchilada, whole nine yards, whole shebang |
| Antonyms: | part |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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