Nouns (4)
lie
n. position or manner in which something is situated
dead
n. people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
prevarication, lie
n. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
Verbs (15)
lie
v. be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"
lie
v. be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"
lie
v. be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
lie
v. be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant"
lie, tell a lie
v. tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"
lie, lie down
v. assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better"
rest, lie
v. have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"
lie, dwell, consist, belong, lie in
v. originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"
Adverbs (15)
once, when
adv. "once we are home, we can rest"
short, dead, abruptly, suddenly
adv. quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
plumb, dead, altogether, perfectly, completely, entirely, totally, utterly, absolutely
adv. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
Adjectives (32)
dead
adj. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
dead, utter
adj. "dead silence"; "utter seriousness"
dead, extinguished
adj. physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
dead, inanimate
adj. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
dead, lifeless
adj. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
dead, nonresilient
adj. lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
dead, wiped out
adj. not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
dead, unerring
adj. unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
down, dead, out of service, crashed
adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
standing, still, dead, stagnant
adj. not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"
dead, anechoic, sound-absorbent
adj. (unreverberant)
beat, dead, knocked out, bushed, dead tired, all in
adj. very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
Fuzzynyms (165)
line
n. a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
band, banding, stripe
n. an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
victim
n. an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
fatality, human death
n. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on
n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
dissembling, pretense, feigning
n. pretending with intention to deceive
blind, subterfuge
n. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"
lounge
v. sit or recline comfortably; "He was lounging on the sofa"
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"
dodge, parry, sidestep, duck, hedge, skirt, fudge, evade, circumvent, elude, put off
v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
warp, falsify, distort, garble
v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
color, colour, distort
v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
strain, deform, distort
v. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
lounge, loaf, lurk, mill about, mill around, tarry, linger, footle, loiter, lollygag, lallygag, be about, mess about, hang around
v. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
relax, unbend, make less tight
v. make less tight; "relax the tension on the rope"
relax, loosen, become loose, become looser
v. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
relax, unstrain, unlax, unwind, make relaxed, loosen up
v. cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"
put out, extend, stretch forth, hold out, stretch out
v. thrust or extend out; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting"
repose, lie when dead
v. lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum"
repose, lay, put down
v. put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
relax, loosen, become loose, become looser
v. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
stretch, stretch out, unfold
v. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"
inactive, dormant
adj. of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano"
cold, deceased, departed, asleep, gone, at peace, at rest
adj. dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"
dropped
adj. (used of a mammal) born
slain
adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"
corrupt, crooked
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
adulterate, debased, adulterated
adj. mixed with impurities
immoral
adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
ungodly, sinful, iniquitous, peccant
adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"
corrupt, tainted, putrid, decomposed, rotten
adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
rotting, carious, decayed, decaying
adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay
quick, quickly, promptly
adv. with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"
clean, good, sound, through, thoroughly, soundly
adv. "He was soundly defeated"; "We beat him good"; "She is sound asleep"; "I'm soaked through"
altogether, all, completely, wholly
adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea"
sure, for sure, surely, certainly, for certain
adv. definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"
indubitably
adv. in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted; "it was immediately and indubitably apparent that I had interrupted a scene of lovers"
undoubtedly, doubtless, beyond any doubt, beyond question, without doubt
adv. "It's undoubtedly very beautiful"
positively
adv. extremely; "it was positively monumental"
undeniably
adv. to an undeniable degree or in an undeniable manner; "she is undeniably the most gifted student in the class"
decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, definitely
adv. "It was decidedly too expensive"
assuredly
adv. without a doubt; "the grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone"
decisively
adv. with finality; conclusively; "the voted settled the argument decisively"
just, exactly, precisely
adv. indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt"
strictly, stringently
adv. in a stringent manner; "the laws are stringently enforced"; "stringently controlled"
unquestionably, unimpeachably
adv. without question; "Fred Winter is unquestionably the jockey to follow"; "they hired unimpeachably first-rate faculty members"
completely
adv. "He had filled out the form completely"
right, fully, all the way
adv. to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form); "fully grown"; "he didn't fully understand"; "knew full well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged"
Synonyms (91)
implicit, unquestioning
adj. being without doubt or reserve; "implicit trust"
independent
adj. not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
infinite
adj. total and all-embracing; "God's infinite wisdom"
pure, unmixed, undiluted
adj. (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
syntactically independent
adj. (grammar) standing apart from a normal syntactical relation with other sentence elements: e.g. "joking apart" in "joking apart, we'd better go now"
total, unqualified
adj. not limited or restricted; "an unqualified denial"
asphyxiating
adj. tending to deprive of oxygen; "asphyxiating gasses"
choking, stifling, smothering, suffocating
adj. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
panting, gasping, out-of-breath, pursy, short-winded, winded
adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively
limp, flaccid
adj. lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip"
inflexible
adj. incapable of being bent or deformed
springless
adj. lacking in elasticity or vitality; "went off with springless steps"
unresponsive
adj. (economics) slow to react to changing conditions: "an inelastic price structure"; "inelastic demand for a commodity"
accurate
adj. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"
fine, subtle
adj. minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"
hairsplitting, finespun
adj. developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
nice, meticulous, punctilious
adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
pinpoint
adj. meticulously precise; "pinpoint accuracy"
very
adj. precisely as stated; "the very center of town"
bad, defective
adj. not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
still, static, inactive, at rest, motionless
adj. not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"
becalmed
adj. rendered motionless for lack of wind
frozen, rooted, stock-still
adj. absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment"
immobile, unmoving
adj. (nonmoving)
inert
adj. unable to move or resist motion
sitting
adj. not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target"
slack
adj. flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water"
stationary
adj. standing still; "the car remained stationary with the engine running"
nonresonant
adj. not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate
weary, aweary
adj. physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic"
blear, bleary, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed
adj. tired to the point of exhaustion
blown, out of breath
adj. (tired)
bored, world-weary
adj. tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"
wasted, haggard, drawn, careworn, worn
adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
drooping, flagging
adj. weak from exhaustion
washed-out, burned-out, burnt-out, burned out, burnt out, exhausted, spent, worn-out, fagged, fatigued, played-out, played out, washed out, worn out
adj. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"
footsore
adj. having sore or tired feet
jaded, wearied
adj. exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron
travel-worn
adj. tired by travel
unrefreshed, unrested
adj. not rested or refreshed;
Antonyms (20)
living
n. people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
truth, true statement
n. a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"
stand, stand up, be upright, be standing
v. be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!"
sit
v. be seated
rise, arise, get up, stand up, get to one's feet
v. rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
live
adj. exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
hot
adj. connected to a power source: "a live wire"; "a hot wire"
animate, alive
adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
vital
adj. full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world"
progressive, reformist
adj. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
lie when dead
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