Synonym Dictionary

Showing obvious effort or strain instead of ease or naturalness.

Tearful or inclined to cause tears.

Lacking energy, distinction, or interest.

Using very few words.

The secretion or shedding of tears.

To express sorrow or deep regret about something.

An overwhelming victory or a very large majority in a vote.

Lacking energy or moving with relaxed slowness.

Weariness or lack of physical or mental energy.

Present but not yet visible, active, or developed.

To praise highly.

Deserving praise.

Giving or providing something in generous or abundant amounts.

Not sufficiently strict, careful, or attentive.

Relating to the making of laws or the body responsible for making them.

Less strict or severe in judgment, discipline, or enforcement.

One word family: also includes leniency.

Lacking energy or alertness.

An embankment built to prevent a river from flooding adjacent land.

Lightness of manner, especially when greater seriousness is expected.

Likely or exposed to the possibility of something, often an unfavorable outcome.

A published false statement that harms a person's reputation, especially in writing.

Open to unfamiliar ideas or ways of living rather than narrowly bound by convention.

A political tradition emphasizing individual freedom, civil liberties, and openness to reform.

To free someone or something from control, restriction, or confinement.