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particulars is circumstantial, detailed, particular; an examination so extended is critical, exact, precise.
Compare FINE.
Antonyms:
See synonyms for LARGE.
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MISFORTUNE.
Synonyms:
adversity, disappointment, ill fortune, ruin, affliction, disaster, ill luck, sorrow, bereavement, distress,
misadventure, stroke, blow, failure, mischance, trial, calamity, hardship, misery, tribulation, chastening, harm,
mishap, trouble, chastisement, ill, reverse, visitation.
Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or
consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be
born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss
of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes
adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster
are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and
failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and
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tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with
beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an
affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure
for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.
Antonyms:
blessing, consolation, gratification, pleasure, success, boon, good fortune, happiness, prosperity, triumph.
comfort, good luck, joy, relief,
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MOB.
Synonyms:
canaille, dregs of the people, masses, rabble, crowd, lower classes, populace, the vulgar.
The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich
and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose.
A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob.
Compare PEOPLE.
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MODEL.
Synonyms:
archetype, facsimile, original, representation, copy, image, pattern, standard, design, imitation, prototype,
type. example, mold,
A pattern is always, in modern use, that which is to be copied; a model may be either the thing to be copied or
the copy that has been made from it; as, the models in the Patent Office. A pattern is commonly superficial; a
model is usually in relief. A pattern must be closely followed in its minutest particulars by a faithful copyist; a
model may allow a great degree of freedom. A sculptor may idealize his living model; his workmen must
exactly copy in marble or metal the model he has made in clay. Compare EXAMPLE; IDEA; IDEAL.
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MODESTY.
Synonyms:
backwardness, constraint, reserve, timidity, bashfulness, coyness, shyness, unobtrusiveness. coldness,
diffidence,
Bashfulness is a shrinking from notice without assignable reason. Coyness is a half encouragement, half
avoidance of offered attention, and may be real or affected. Diffidence is self-distrust; modesty, a humble
estimate of oneself in comparison with others, or with the demands of some undertaking. Modesty has also the
specific meaning of a sensitive shrinking from anything indelicate. Shyness is a tendency to shrink from
observation; timidity, a distinct fear of criticism, error, or failure. Reserve is the holding oneself aloof from
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others, or holding back one's feelings from expression, or one's affairs from communication to others. Reserve
may be the retreat of shyness, or, on the other hand, the contemptuous withdrawal of pride and haughtiness.
Compare ABASH; PRIDE; TACITURN.
Antonyms:
abandon, confidence, haughtiness, pertness, arrogance, egotism, impudence, sauciness, assumption,
forwardness, indiscretion, self-conceit, assurance, frankness, loquaciousness, self-sufficiency, boldness,
freedom, loquacity, sociability. conceit,
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MONEY.
Synonyms:
bills, cash, funds, property, bullion, coin, gold, silver, capital, currency, notes, specie.
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