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Severe or stern in manner;without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor.
SYN: forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic
ANT:mild, indulgent, luxurious, flamboyant |
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Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good.
SYN: magnanimous, charitable, humanitarian
ANT: selfish, cruel, harmful, deleterious. |
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Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
SYN: corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly.
ANT: robust, portly, rosy, the picture of health |
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To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise or fabricate.
SYN: create, fashion, rustle up |
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Coarse, unfeeling, stupid
SYN: crude, vulgar, tasteless, oafish, obtuse
ANT: refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant |
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To lower in character, quality or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
SYN: profane, defile, violate
ANT: revere, honor, venerate, consecrate |
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To confuse; to disturb the composure of
SYN: upset, rattle, ruffle, faze, perturb
ANT: relax, calm, put at ease |
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Grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
SYN: majestic, bombastic, highfalutin
ANT: simple, modest, unaffected, humble |
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Trifling, unimportant
SYN: trivial, negligible, petty, paltry
ANT: important, essential, crucial, vital |
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A breaking of a law or obligation
SYN: violation, transgression, breach, offense |
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To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
SYN: lessen, relieve, alleviate, diminish
ANT: aggravate, intensify, irritate, exacerbate |
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