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Nouns (2)

n. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"

n. a return or service that does not land within the in-bounds limits

Verbs (32)

v. reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"

live, lead a life

v. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"

experience, know, live

v. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"

live, be, have life

v. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

live, exist, survive, subsist

v. support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

out, come out, be disclosed, be revealed

v. be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"

go, last, hold out, hold up, live, endure, survive

v. continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"

shack, people, live, dwell, reside, inhabit, populate, make one's home

v. inhabit or live in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"

Adverbs (6)

live

adv. not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"

out

adv. outside of an enclosed space: "She is out"

out, away

adv. away from the reference point: "He kicked his legs out"

out, away from home

adv. "They went out last night"

Adjectives (44)

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"

live

adj. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"

live

adj. highly reverberant; "a live concert hall"

out

adj. not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"

out

adj. no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"

out

adj. directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"

out

adj. out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out"

living, live

adj. possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"

out, exterior

adj. outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull"

out, outlying

adj. outer or outlying; "the out islands"

out, unfashionable

adj. (unpopular)

out, retired

adj. not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"

live, alive, eruptive

adj. actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"

out, extinct, extinguished, quenched

adj. being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"

out, gone, away

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

out, kayoed, KO'd, stunned, knocked out

adj. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

live, lively, bouncy, resilient, springy, whippy

adj. elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"

out, taboo, tabu, prohibited, forbidden, proscribed

adj. excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

Fuzzynyms (67)

hold, obtain, prevail

v. be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds"

run, persist, die hard, endure, prevail

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

last, endure

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

brave, weather, endure, brave out

v. face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

preserve, continue, bear on, carry on, uphold

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

stay, abide, bide

v. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

survive, outlive, outlast

v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

occupy, inhabit

v. be present in; be inside of

tenant

v. occupy as a tenant

staff, provide with staff

v. provide with staff; "This position is not always staffed"

stay, quell, appease

v. overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"

hot

adj. connected to a power source: "a live wire"; "a hot wire"

living, animate

adj. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"

live, alive, eruptive

adj. actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"

living, live

adj. possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"

living, animate

adj. endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"

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"

defunct

adj. having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

obsolete

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

spongy, squashy, squishy

adj. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"

fleshy, pulpy

adj. like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness

wildcat, unauthorized

adj. without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"

banned, prohibited

adj. forbidden by law

illegitimate, outlaw, unlawful, illicit, outlawed

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

wrong, incorrect

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

unutterable, ineffable, unspeakable, unnameable

adj. too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"

Synonyms (120)

hold, keep, maintain

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

sleep in, live in

v. live in the house where one works; "our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her"

live out, sleep out

v. work in a house where one does not live; "our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home"

echoing, reechoing

adj. (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with echoing halls"

resonant

adj. inducing resonance; "resonant frequency"

resounding, resonating, reverberating, reverberative

adj. characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"

antique, old-fashioned, out-of-date, outmoded, demode, old-hat, passe, passee, old hat, out of fashion, out of style, démodé

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

dated

adj. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

dowdy, frumpy, frumpish

adj. primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

prehistoric

adj. no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"

outward, departing, outbound, outward-bound

adj. that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships"

effluent, outflowing

adj. that is flowing outward

past, retiring, preceding

adj. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

attempted

adj. tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder"

defeated, frustrated, disappointed, foiled, thwarted

adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

undone, ruined, done for, sunk, washed-up

adj. doomed to extinction

down-and-out

adj. lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)

empty-handed, unrewarded

adj. having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed"

failing, failed

adj. unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"

hitless, scoreless, goalless

adj. having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"

self-defeating

adj. acting to defeat its own purpose; "it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events"

unfulfilled, unrealized

adj. of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions"

unplaced

adj. not one of the first three in a race or competition

winless

adj. having no wins; "the team had a very disappointing winless season"

living

adj. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";

viable

adj. capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus"

vital

adj. full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world"

outer

adj. being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"

outside

adj. originating or belonging beyond some bounds:"the outside world"; "outside interests"; "an outside job"

outermost, outmost

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

outside

adj. on or toward an outer edge; "an outer lane"; "the outside lane"

satellite

adj. surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; "a city and its satellite communities"

disliked

adj. regarded with aversion; "he was intensely disliked"

less-traveled

adj. not visited by many travelers; "the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries"

erupting

adj. currently erupting

disconnected

adj. not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is disconnected"

drained, run-down

adj. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

invalid, irrelevant

adj. no longer having force or currency: "a dead issue"; "a dead law"

out of play

adj. (of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"

lacking, wanting, nonexistent, missing

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

truant, awol

adj. absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

comatose

adj. in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient"

senseless, insensible

adj. unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"

nonconscious

adj. concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness; "nonconscious psychic processes"

out cold

adj. (unconscious)

semicomatose

adj. in a state of partial coma

subconscious

adj. just below the level of consciousness

chewy

adj. (of a consistency) requiring chewing; "chewy caramels"

ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile

adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"

elasticized

adj. made with strands or inserts of elastic; "slacks with an elasticized waistband"

expandable, expandible, expansible, expansile

adj. (of gases) capable of expansion

plastic, fictile, moldable

adj. capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"

flexible, stretchable, stretchy

adj. capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape

rubbery, rubberlike

adj. having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness

springlike

adj. resembling a spring or the action of a spring

stretch

adj. easily stretched; "stretch hosiery"

viscoelastic

adj. having viscous as well as elastic properties

unmentionable

adj. unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation; "unmentionable words"

untouchable

adj. forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable"

Antonyms (10)

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"

recorded

adj. set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music"

adj. holding office; "the in party"

internal

adj. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"

inside

adj. relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter"

safe

adj. having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball"

present

adj. spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation"

permissible

adj. that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"

in, inside an enclosed space

adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"

live out

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