Ant. Oppose, discourage, thwart, baffle, deter, confront.
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Ailing. Sick, ill, indisposed, unwell, feeble, infirm, weakly, delicate, unhealthy, pining.
Ant. Well, healthy, energetic, strong, vigorous.
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Ailment. Disease, malady, indisposition, distemper, complaint.
Ant. Health, sanity, convalescence, vigor, recovery.
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Aim. Direction, course, tendency, bent, proclivity, bearing; intention, purpose, design, scheme; reason; view, scope, drift, mark, goal, point; endeavor, attempt, aspiration, determination.
Ant. Deviation, divergence, deflection, digression, aberration; tangent; venture, leap, fluke, chance, hazard, speculation; neglect, avoidance, carelessness, oversight.
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Air. Atmosphere, gas; breeze, vapor, zephyr, wind; weather; appearance, aspect, manner, sort, style, way, behavior, carriage, bearing, expression, look, demeanor, mien, fashion; tune.
Airy. Aërial, thin, rare, ethereal; light, subtle, sublimated; sprightly, buoyant, vivacious, volatile, jolly, jovial, light-hearted; graceful, lithe, pliant, flexible, showy, jaunty, flaunting, garish; windy, empty.
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Ant. Thick, ponderous, heavy, inert, clumsy, dull, sluggish, wooden, slow, cheerless, sullen, doleful, leaden, lugubrious.
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Akin. Related, allied, homogeneous, cognate, similar, congenial, sympathetic.
Ant. Foreign, alien, hostile, heterogeneous, dissimilar.
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Alacrity. Readiness, briskness, activity, quickness, willingness, promptness, compliance, cheerfulness, eagerness, gaiety, agility.
Ant. Slowness, reluctance, repugnance, aversion, refusal, shrinking, recoil, disinclination.
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Alarm. Summons, tocsin, distress signal, war-cry; fear, terror, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, affright.
Ant. Lullaby; confidence, quiet, composure, assurance, courage.
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Alert. Lively, prompt, ready, prepared, vigilant, wide-awake, bustling, active, brisk, nimble, watchful, sprightly, agile.
Ant. Slow, lazy, absent, oblivious, sluggish, dilatory, drowsy.
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Alien, n. Foreigner, stranger.
Ant. Citizen, countryman, native, naturalized person.
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Alien, a. Strange, foreign, hostile, remote, distant, contrasted, contrary, unlike, unconnected.
Ant. Pertinent, essential; domesticated, naturalized; germane, akin, appropriate.
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Alienation. Estrangement, transfer, conveyance, disaffection, variance, rupture, breach; (relating to the mind) insanity, aberration, delusion, lunacy, delirium, mania, imbecility.