English Synonyms and Antonyms

similar to the one I have in mind, but that he is the very same person. Things are analogous when they are
similar in idea, plan, use, or character, tho perhaps quite unlike in appearance; as, the gills of fishes are said to
be analogous to the lungs in terrestrial animals.
Antonyms:
different, dissimilar, distinct, heterogeneous, unlike.
Prepositions:
The specimens are alike in kind; they are all alike to me.
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ALIVE.
Synonyms:
active, breathing, live, quick, alert, brisk, lively, subsisting, animate, existent, living, vivacious. animated,
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existing,
Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living
thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of vitality and power, as in the
words "he is all alive," "thoroughly alive." So the word quick, which began by signifying "having life," is now
mostly applied to energy of life as shown in swiftness of action. Breathing is capable of like contrast. We say
of a dying man, he is still breathing; or we speak of a breathing statue, or "breathing and sounding, beauteous
battle," TENNYSON Princess can. v, l. 155, where it means having, or seeming to have, full and vigorous
breath, abundant life. Compare ACTIVE; ALERT; NIMBLE.
Antonyms:
dead, defunct, dull, lifeless, deceased, dispirited, inanimate, spiritless.
Prepositions:
Alive in every nerve; alive to every noble impulse; alive with fervor, hope, resolve; alive through all his
being.
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ALLAY.
Synonyms:
alleviate, compose, quiet, still, appease, mollify, soothe, tranquilize. calm, pacify,
Allay and alleviate are closely kindred in signification, and have been often interchanged in usage. But, in
strictness, to allay is to lay to rest, quiet or soothe that which is excited; to alleviate, on the other hand, is to
lighten a burden. We allay suffering by using means to soothe and tranquilize the sufferer; we alleviate
suffering by doing something toward removal of the cause, so that there is less to suffer; where the trouble is
wholly or chiefly in the excitement, to allay the excitement is virtually to remove the trouble; as, to allay rage
or panic; we alleviate poverty, but do not allay it. Pacify, directly from the Latin, and appease, from the Latin
through the French, signify to bring to peace; to mollify is to soften; to calm, quiet, or tranquilize is to make
still; compose, to place together, unite, adjust to a calm and settled condition; to soothe (originally to assent to,
humor) is to bring to pleased quietude. We allay excitement, appease a tumult, calm agitation, compose our
feelings or countenance, pacify the quarrelsome, quiet the boisterous or clamorous, soothe grief or distress.
Compare ALLEVIATE.
Antonyms:
agitate, excite, kindle, rouse, stir up. arouse, fan, provoke, stir,
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ALLEGE.
Synonyms:
adduce, asseverate, claim, maintain, produce, advance, assign, declare, offer, say, affirm, aver, introduce,
plead, state. assert, cite,
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To allege is formally to state as true or capable of proof, but without proving. To adduce, literally to lead to, is
to bring the evidence up to what has been alleged. Adduce is a secondary word; nothing can be adduced in
evidence till something has been stated or alleged, which the evidence is to sustain. An alleged fact stands
open to question or doubt. To speak of an alleged document, an alleged will, an alleged crime, is either to
question, or at least very carefully to refrain from admitting, that the document exists, that the will is genuine,
or that the crime has been committed. Alleged is, however, respectful; to speak of the "so-called" will or deed,
etc., would be to cast discredit upon the document, and imply that the speaker was ready to brand it as
unquestionably spurious; alleged simply concedes nothing and leaves the question open. To produce is to
bring forward, as, for instance, papers or persons. Adduce is not used of persons; of them we say introduce or