(with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear.
Example: “the concern she’d felt for him had wholly dissipated”
Synonyms: disappear, vanish, evaporate, dissolve, melt away, melt into thin air, be dispelled.
Antonyms: grow, develop.
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(of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.
Example: “a plausible explanation”
Synonyms: credible, reasonable, believable, likely, feasible, probable, tenable, possible.
Antonyms: unlikely, improbable.
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believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
Example: “he was brutally cynical and hardened to every sob story under the sun”
Synonyms: sceptical, doubtful, distrustful, suspicious, disbelieving, unbelieving, scoffing.
Antonyms: optimistic, credulous.
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disagreeable to taste, smell, or look at.
Example: “they looked at the scanty, unsavoury portions of food doled out to them”
Synonyms: unpalatable, unappetizing, unpleasant, distasteful, disagreeable, uninviting, unappealing, unattractive.
Antonyms: tasty, appetizing.
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causing repulsion or horror; grisly.
Example: “the most gruesome murder”
Synonyms: grisly, ghastly, frightful, horrid, horrifying, fearful, hideous, macabre, spine-chilling, horrible.
Antonyms: pleasant.
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arouse the curiosity or interest of; fascinate.
Example: “I was intrigued by your question”
Synonyms: interest, be of interest to, fascinate, be a source of fascination to, arouse someone’s curiosity.
Antonyms: bore.
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full of energy, enthusiasm, and determination.
Example: “a spirited campaigner for women’s rights”
Synonyms: lively, vivacious, vibrant, full of life, vital, animated, high-spirited, sparkling.
Antonyms: timid, apathetic, lifeless.
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confined to bed by sickness or old age.
Example: For six years she had been helpless and bedridden in that little room.
Synonyms: confined to bed, housebound, out of action/commission, disabled, incapacitated, paralysed.
Antonyms: healthy, strong
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express passionate grief about.
Example: “he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter”
Synonyms: mourn, grieve (for/over), weep for, shed tears for, sorrow, wail, moan, groan, weep.
Antonyms: celebrate, rejoice.
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very great in amount, scale, or intensity.
Example: “Penny put in a tremendous amount of time”
Synonyms: very great, huge, enormous, immense, colossal, massive, prodigious, stupendous.
Antonyms: tiny, small, slight, soft.
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