English Synonyms and Antonyms

submerged wreck. To plunge is to immerse suddenly and violently, for which douse and duck are colloquial
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terms. Dip is used, also, unlike the other words, to denote the putting of a hollow vessel into a liquid in order
to remove a portion of it; in this sense we say dip up, dip out. Compare synonyms for BURY.
Preposition:
The object is immersed in water.
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IMMINENT.
Synonyms:
impending, threatening.
Imminent, from the Latin, with the sense of projecting over, signifies liable to happen at once, as some
calamity, dangerous and close at hand. Impending, also from the Latin, with the sense of hanging over, is
closely akin to imminent, but somewhat less emphatic. Imminent is more immediate, impending more remote,
threatening more contingent. An impending evil is almost sure to happen at some uncertain time, perhaps very
near; an imminent peril is one liable to befall very speedily; a threatening peril may be near or remote, but
always with hope that it may be averted.
Antonyms:
chimerical, doubtful, problematical, unexpected, unlikely. contingent, improbable,
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IMPEDIMENT.
Synonyms:
bar, clog, encumbrance, obstacle, barrier, difficulty, hindrance, obstruction.
Difficulty makes an undertaking otherwise than easy. That which rests upon one as a burden is an
encumbrance. An impediment is primarily something that checks the foot or in any way makes advance slow
or difficult; an obstacle is something that stands across the way, an obstruction something that is built or
placed across the way. An obstruction is always an obstacle, but an obstacle may not always be properly
termed an obstruction; boxes and bales placed on the sidewalk are obstructions to travel; an ice-floe is an
obstacle to navigation, and may become an obstruction if it closes an inlet or channel. A hindrance (kindred
with hind, behind) is anything that makes one come behind or short of his purpose. An impediment may be
either what one finds in his way or what he carries with him; impedimenta was the Latin name for the baggage
of a soldier or of an army. The tendency is to view an impediment as something constant or, at least for a time,
continuous; as, an impediment in one's speech. A difficulty or a hindrance may be either within one or
without; a speaker may find difficulty in expressing himself, or difficulty in holding the attention of restless
children. An encumbrance is always what one carries with him; an obstacle or an obstruction is always
without. To a marching soldier the steepness of a mountain path is a difficulty, loose stones are impediments, a
fence is an obstruction, a cliff or a boulder across the way is an obstacle; a knapsack is an encumbrance.
Antonyms:
advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, help, relief, succor.
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IMPUDENCE.
Synonyms:
assurance, impertinence, intrusiveness, presumption, boldness, incivility, officiousness, rudeness, effrontery,
insolence, pertness, sauciness. forwardness,
Impertinence primarily denotes what does not pertain or belong to the occasion or the person, and hence
comes to signify interference by word or act not consistent with the age, position, or relation of the person
interfered with or of the one who interferes; especially, forward, presumptuous, or meddlesome speech.