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 (15)
afloat, floating
adj. borne on the water; floating
afloat, awash, flooded
adj. covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
afloat, floating, buoyed up
adj. borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
Fuzzynyms (65)
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?"
meaningless
adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"
peddling, small, lilliputian, little, petty, trivial, fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune
adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
superficial, trivial
adj. of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
chance, haphazard
adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"
worthless
adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
mindless, vacuous, asinine, fatuous, inane
adj. devoid of intelligence
pointless, purposeless
adj. lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
Synonyms (66)
overflowing, rife with, rich in, thick with, full of, abounding in, abounding with, bristling with, overflowing with
adj. covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
brimful, brimfull, brimming, brimful of, brimfull of, brimming with
adj. filled to capacity; "a brimful cup"; "I am brimful of chowder"; "a child brimming over with curiosity"; "eyes brimming with tears"
pregnant, charged, fraught
adj. filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"
chockablock, chock-full, choke-full, chuck-full, cram ful, chock-ful
adj. packed full to capacity; "chowder chockablock with pieces of fish"
congested, engorged
adj. overfull as with blood
teeming, teeming with, swarming, overrun with, crawling with, swarming with
adj. abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"
swamped, inundated, flooded
adj. covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
glutted, overfull
adj. exceeding demand; "a glutted market"
heavy with
adj. full of; "trees heavy with fruit"
instinct, imbued
adj. (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery"
loaded, laden
adj. filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage"
overladen, overloaded
adj. loaded past capacity
stuffed
adj. filled with something; "a stuffed turkey"
stuffed
adj. crammed with food; "a full stomach"; "I feel stuffed"
untouched, untasted
adj. still full; "an untouched cocktail in her hand"
well-lined
adj. full of money; "a well-lined purse"
based
adj. having a base; "firmly based ice"
braced, buttressed
adj. held up by braces or buttresses
dangling, hanging, pendant, suspended, pendent
adj. supported from above; "a pendant bunch of grapes"
supernatant, floating
adj. of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate; "the supernatant fat was skimmed off"
gimbaled
adj. supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips
suspended, in suspension
adj. (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; "suspended matter such as silt or mud..."; "dust particles suspended in the air"; "droplets in suspension in a gas"
underhung
adj. supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above; "underhung sliding doors"
underslung
adj. supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below
desultory, unplanned
adj. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
Antonyms (5)
differ
v. be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"
aground
adj. on a shore or reef; "a ship aground offshore"; "a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it"
sunken, submerged
adj. under water; e.g. at the bottom of a body of water; "sunken treasure"; "a sunken ship"
purposeful
adj. serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal
be afloat
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