Vocabolario

nostalgia

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The old song filled him with nostalgia.”

Sinonimi: longing, sentimentality

Antonimi: forgetfulness

cognitive

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Sleep affects cognitive performance.”

Sinonimi: mental, intellectual

Antonimi: physical

envisage

Verbo

Esempio: “I envisage a better future.”

Sinonimi: imagine, foresee

Antonimi: ignore

contrive

Verbo

Esempio: “They contrived a clever solution.”

Sinonimi: devise, create

Antonimi: destroy

milieu

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He grew up in an academic milieu.”

Sinonimi: environment, setting

Antonimi: isolation

psychology

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Psychology studies human behavior.”

Sinonimi: study of mind

Antonimi: physics

psychologist

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The psychologist talked to the student.”

Sinonimi: therapist, mental health specialist

Antonimi: patient

intelligence

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Artificial intelligence is changing education.”

Sinonimi: smartness, mental ability

Antonimi: stupidity

personality

Sostantivo

Esempio: “She has a strong personality.”

Sinonimi: character, nature

Antonimi: facelessness

precocious

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The child was precocious and unusually articulate.”

Sinonimi: advanced, gifted

Antonimi: immature, slow-developing

ornamental

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The garden includes ornamental trees.”

Sinonimi: decorative, fancy

Antonimi: functional, plain

rudiments

Sostantivo

Esempio: “He learned the rudiments of coding in school.”

Sinonimi: basics, fundamentals

Antonimi: complexities, advanced theory

dull

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The lecture was long and dull.”

Sinonimi: boring, blunt

Antonimi: interesting, sharp

eco

prefix

Esempio: “Many people now prefer eco products.”

Sinonimi: green, environmental

Antonimi: polluting

environmentalist

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The environmentalist spoke about climate change.”

Sinonimi: green activist

Antonimi: polluter

basic

Aggettivo

Esempio: “I know only the basic rules of chess.”

Sinonimi: simple, fundamental

Antonimi: advanced

utilitarian

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The building is functional but aggressively utilitarian.”

Sinonimi: practical, functional

Antonimi: decorative, ornamental

disquieting

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The report contained several disquieting findings.”

Sinonimi: disturbing, worrying

Antonimi: reassuring, comforting

degradation

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Environmental degradation is accelerating in the region.”

Sinonimi: deterioration, decline

Antonimi: improvement, restoration

confinement

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Long periods of confinement can affect mental health.”

Sinonimi: restriction, imprisonment

Antonimi: freedom, release

sentimentally

Avverbio

Esempio: “He spoke sentimentally about his childhood home.”

Sinonimi: emotionally

Antonimi: coldly

detrimentally

Avverbio

Esempio: “Cutting corners can detrimentally affect quality.”

Sinonimi: harmfully

Antonimi: beneficially

psychiatrist

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The psychiatrist recommended a treatment plan.”

Sinonimi: mental-health doctor

apprehensive

Aggettivo

Esempio: “I felt apprehensive about the outcome of the trial.”

Sinonimi: uneasy

Antonimi: confident

stressfully

Avverbio

Esempio: “The negotiation ended stressfully, with no clear outcome.”

Sinonimi: tensely

Antonimi: calmly

sentimental

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He kept the watch for sentimental reasons.”

Sinonimi: emotional

Antonimi: unsentimental

psychiatric

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The patient was referred for a psychiatric evaluation.”

Sinonimi: mental-health related

moody

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He can be moody under stress.”

Sinonimi: temperamental

Antonimi: stable

invent

Verbo

Esempio: “He invented a new tool.”

Sinonimi: create

temperamental

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He is known for being temperamental.”

Sinonimi: moody

Antonimi: stable

understand

Verbo

Esempio: “I understand the situation.”

Sinonimi: realize, see

Antonimi: misunderstand

realize

Verbo

Esempio: “I realized my mistake.”

Sinonimi: understand, see

Antonimi: ignore

uncomfortable

Aggettivo

Esempio: “I feel uncomfortable here.”

Sinonimi: uneasy

Antonimi: comfortable

detrimental

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Constant context switching is detrimental to deep work.”

fundamental

/ˌfʌndəˈmentl/

Esempio: “Security is a fundamental requirement.”

Sinonimi: profound, significant, cardinal

healthy

/ˈhelθi/

Esempio: “Vegetables are healthy.”

Sinonimi: good, sensible, sanguine

Antonimi: unhealthy, unfit

work

/wɝːk/

Esempio: “I go to work.”

Sinonimi: cultivate, address, process

Antonimi: malfunction, stagnate, misfunction