Definition Dictionary

The direct opposite of something.

The highest point or culminating stage of something.

The highest or most perfected expression of something; also elevation to divine status.

To understand or perceive something; also to take someone into custody.

Worried that something unpleasant may happen.

One word family: also includes apprehension.

To inform someone of something.

To take something for one's own use, sometimes without permission.

The taking of something for one's own use; also money set aside for a purpose.

A varied collection or an ordered arrangement of things.

To regard something as caused by, belonging to, or created by a particular source.

One word family: also includes ascription.

To absorb new information or incorporate something into a larger whole.

Something accepted as true for the purpose of reasoning, without necessarily having been established.

To reduce the force, intensity, or extent of something.

To regard something as caused by or belonging to someone or something.

One word family: also includes attribution.

Strongly disinclined or opposed to something.

A strong dislike that creates a wish to avoid something.

To contradict an appearance or suggest that something is misleading.

To make someone or something seem less valuable or important.

To leave something to another person through a will or as a legacy.

Left without something needed or valued, often through loss.

To give or confer something, often as an honor.

To support or strengthen something.

To polish a surface or improve the appearance of something.

Very pale, thin, and corpse-like in appearance.