English Synonyms and Antonyms

unmanageable or ungovernable defies control, the rebellious or seditious may be forced to submission; as, the
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man has an ungovernable temper; the horses became unmanageable; he tamed his rebellious spirit.
Insubordinate applies to the disposition to resist and resent control as such; mutinous, to open defiance of
authority, especially in the army, navy, or merchant marine. A contumacious act or spirit is contemptuous as
well as defiant. Compare OBSTINATE; REVOLUTION.
Antonyms:
compliant, docile, manageable, subservient, controllable, dutiful, obedient, tractable, deferential, gentle,
submissive, yielding.
Prepositions:
Rebellious to or against lawful authority.
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RECORD.
Synonyms:
account, enrolment, instrument, register, archive, entry, inventory, roll, catalogue, enumeration,
memorandum, schedule, chronicle, history, memorial, scroll. document, inscription, muniment,
A memorial is any object, whether a writing, a monument, or other permanent thing that is designed or
adapted to keep something in remembrance. Record is a word of wide signification, applying to any writing,
mark, or trace that serves as a memorial giving enduring attestation of an event or fact; an extended account,
chronicle, or history is a record; so, too, may be a brief inventory or memorandum; the inscription on a
tombstone is a record of the dead; the striæ on a rock-surface are the record of a glacier's passage. A register
is a formal or official written record, especially a series of entries made for preservation or reference; as, a
register of births and deaths. Archives, in the sense here considered, are documents or records, often legal
records, preserved in a public or official depository; the word archives is also applied to the place where such
documents are regularly deposited and preserved. Muniments (L. munio, fortify) are records that enable one to
defend his title. Compare HISTORY; STORY.
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RECOVER.
Synonyms:
be cured or healed, heal, recuperate, restore, be restored, reanimate, regain, resume, cure, recruit, repossess,
retrieve.
The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him
of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again
after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health. The intransitive sense, be
cured, be restored, etc., is very common; as, to recover from sickness, terror, or misfortune.
Antonyms:
die, fail, grow worse, relapse, sink.
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Prepositions:
From; rarely of; (Law) to recover judgment against, to recover damages of or from a person.
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REFINEMENT.
Synonyms:
civilization, cultivation, culture, elegance, politeness.
Civilization applies to nations, denoting the sum of those civil, social, economic, and political attainments by
which a community is removed from barbarism; a people may be civilized while still far from refinement or
culture, but civilization is susceptible of various degrees and of continued progress. Refinement applies either
to nations or individuals, denoting the removal of what is coarse and rude, and a corresponding attainment of
what is delicate, elegant, and beautiful. Cultivation, denoting primarily the process of cultivating the soil or
growing crops, then the improved condition of either which is the result, is applied in similar sense to the
human mind and character, but in this usage is now largely superseded by the term culture, which denotes a
high development of the best qualities of man's mental and spiritual nature, with especial reference to the
esthetic faculties and to graces of speech and manner, regarded as the expression of a refined nature. Culture
in the fullest sense denotes that degree of refinement and development which results from continued