Nouns (5)
beryllium, Be, atomic number 4
n. a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
Be, Be Inc.
n. operating system company
Verbs (30)
be
v. spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
work, be
v. exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
be, exist
v. have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
be, have the quality of being
v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
occur, be
v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
be, be identical to
v. be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
cost, be
v. be priced at; "These shoes cost $100"
live, be, have life
v. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
make up, represent, constitute, be
v. form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"
be, occupy a certain area, occupy a certain position
v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
equal, be, be identical to
v. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
personify, characterize, be, embody
v. represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (1)
abundant
adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
Fuzzynyms (172)
stand, bear, stomach, brook, suffer, endure, tolerate, abide, put up with
v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
last, endure
v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"
fit, meet, conform to
v. satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"
duplicate, twin, parallel
v. duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"
parallel
v. be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
coordinate, co-ordinate
v. be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well"
cause, create, originate
v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
name, mention, identify, give the name of, refer to by name
v. give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"
incarnate, embody, body forth, represent in bodily form
v. represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
refer to, denote, have as a meaning
v. have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' "
imply, connote
v. express or state indirectly
imply, indicate by inference
v. suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
mean, intend
v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"
signify
v. convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"
generous
adj. more than adequate; "a generous portion"
exuberant, excessive, overweening, extravagant
adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
extreme, Olympian, great, exceptional, prodigious, exceeding, surpassing
adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
giving, liberal, big, handsome, bountiful, bounteous, openhanded, free-handed, big-hearted
adj. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
charitable
adj. full of love and generosity; "charitable to the poor"; "a charitable trust"
lavish, unsparing, munificent, overgenerous, unstinted, unstinting, too generous
adj. very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
plentiful, bountiful
adj. producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful year"; "fruitful soil"
improvident
adj. not provident; not providing for the future
profligate, spendthrift, lavish, extravagant, prodical
adj. recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
good, full
adj. having the normally expected amount; "gives full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here"
sufficient
adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"
easy, prosperous, comfortable, substantial, well-off, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-situated, well-to-do
adj. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"
plush, lush, lavish, lucullan, plushy
adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
galore, abounding
adj. existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey galore"
replete, full
adj. filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach"
steep, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious
adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"
expensive
adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
overpriced
adj. too costly for the value; "overpriced items at resort shops"
incongruous, unreasonable, absurd
adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
hideous, horrid, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
blind, unreasonable, unreasoning
adj. not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
thin, sparse
adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
moderate, temperate
adj. not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"
fair, fairish, reasonable
adj. not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
outermost, outmost
adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center
considerable
adj. large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem"
eventful, consequential
adj. having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision"
big, momentous
adj. of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event"
generous
adj. willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation"
beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic
adj. generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions"
free
adj. able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
pale, pastel, whitish, palish, light-colored, light-coloured
adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
numerous
adj. amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"
diverse, divers
adj. many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"
myriad, infinite, countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable
adj. too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"
several
adj. of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many: "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident"
motley, sundry, miscellaneous, assorted, mixed
adj. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards
significant, substantial
adj. fairly large; "won by a substantial margin"
voluminous
adj. large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt"
fertile, prolific
adj. bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"
Synonyms (2)
ample
adj. more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply"
rich
adj. possessing material wealth; "her father is extremely rich"; "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"
Antonyms (15)
differ
v. be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"
scarce
adj. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
meager, meagre, meagerly, meagrely
adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
absent
adj. not in a specified place physically or mentally
scotch, sparing, economical, frugal, stinting
adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
slight, insubstantial
adj. having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
uncommon
adj. not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"
be abundant
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