Vocabolario

than

Congiunzione

Esempio: “She is taller than me.”

Sinonimi: in comparison to

Antonimi:

thank

Verbo

Esempio: “I want to thank you for your help.”

Sinonimi: express gratitude

Antonimi: insult

thanks

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Thanks for your help.”

Sinonimi: thank you

paramount

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Safety is paramount.”

Sinonimi: most important, chief

Antonimi: minor

abundance

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The garden has an abundance of flowers.”

Sinonimi: plenty, wealth

Antonimi: scarcity

oblique

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He made an oblique reference to the issue.”

Sinonimi: indirect, slanted

Antonimi: direct

deficit

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The government has a budget deficit.”

Sinonimi: shortage, lack

Antonimi: surplus

sea

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The sea is blue.”

Sinonimi: ocean

Antonimi: land

sofa

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The cat is on the sofa.”

Sinonimi: couch

rhetorical

Aggettivo

Esempio: “That was a rhetorical question, not a real one.”

Sinonimi: oratorical, persuasive

Antonimi: literal, plain

punitively

Avverbio

Esempio: “The rules were applied punitively rather than fairly.”

Sinonimi: harshly, penally

Antonimi: leniently, mercifully

uneventful

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Thankfully, the journey was uneventful.”

Sinonimi: calm, ordinary

Antonimi: dramatic, eventful

ornamental

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The garden includes ornamental trees.”

Sinonimi: decorative, fancy

Antonimi: functional, plain

microcomputer

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Early microcomputers were much slower than modern laptops.”

Sinonimi: small computer

Antonimi: mainframe

translation

Sostantivo

Esempio: “This translation is easier to understand than the older one.”

Sinonimi: rendering, interpretation

Antonimi: original

bent

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The metal rod is bent.”

Sinonimi: curved, not straight

Antonimi: straight

local

Aggettivo

Esempio: “We bought fruit from a local shop.”

Sinonimi: nearby, regional

Antonimi: foreign

frank

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Thank you for your frank opinion.”

Sinonimi: honest, direct

Antonimi: secretive, dishonest

pray

Verbo

Esempio: “They pray every morning.”

Sinonimi: worship

Antonimi:

only

Avverbio

Esempio: “I have only one question.”

Sinonimi: just

Antonimi: many

taciturnity

Sostantivo

Esempio: “His taciturnity made him seem cold at first.”

Sinonimi: reserve, reticence

Antonimi: talkativeness, loquacity

superfluous

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Most of the explanation was superfluous.”

Sinonimi: unnecessary, redundant

Antonimi: essential, necessary

redundantly

Avverbio

Esempio: “The idea was expressed redundantly several times.”

Sinonimi: repetitively, superfluously

Antonimi: succinctly, economically

misdemeanor

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The offense was classified as a misdemeanor rather than a felony.”

Sinonimi: minor offense, infraction

Antonimi: felony, major crime

flightiness

Sostantivo

Esempio: “Her apparent flightiness hid a sharp intelligence.”

Sinonimi: frivolity, fickleness

Antonimi: seriousness, steadiness

affectation

Sostantivo

Esempio: “His accent sounded more like affectation than authenticity.”

Sinonimi: pretension, artifice

Antonimi: naturalness, sincerity

predecessor

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The new model is far more efficient than its predecessor.”

Sinonimi: forerunner, previous version

Antonimi: successor

intuitively

Avverbio

Esempio: “The interface is designed so users can navigate it intuitively.”

Sinonimi: naturally, instinctively

Antonimi: deliberately, awkwardly

mere

Aggettivo

Esempio: “It was not a major issue, just a mere detail.”

Sinonimi: only, simply

Antonimi: significant

cooler

Aggettivo

Esempio: “It is much cooler today than yesterday.”

Sinonimi: less warm

Antonimi: warmer

beyond

Preposizione

Esempio: “The village lies beyond the hills.”

Sinonimi: farther than, outside

Antonimi: within

truth

Sostantivo

Esempio: “It is important to tell the truth.”

Sinonimi: fact, reality

Antonimi: lie, falsehood

those

Pronome

Esempio: “Those shoes look expensive.”

Sinonimi: those ones

Antonimi: these

these

Pronome

Esempio: “These flowers are beautiful.”

Sinonimi: these ones

Antonimi: those

below

Preposizione

Esempio: “Please read the text below.”

Sinonimi: under

Antonimi: above

superfluously

Avverbio

Esempio: “The document was superfluously long and hard to scan.”

Sinonimi: unnecessarily

Antonimi: essentially

dissemination

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The dissemination of misinformation was faster than the correction.”

Sinonimi: distribution

Antonimi: suppression

rhetorically

Avverbio

Esempio: “He asked rhetorically, knowing no one would answer.”

Sinonimi: for effect

Antonimi: literally

ingratiating

Aggettivo

Esempio: “His ingratiating manner felt calculated rather than sincere.”

Sinonimi: sycophantic

Antonimi: genuine

hypothetical

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Let’s consider a hypothetical scenario where demand doubles overnight.”

Sinonimi: theoretical

Antonimi: actual

anticlimactic

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The ending felt anticlimactic after so much build-up.”

Sinonimi: underwhelming

Antonimi: dramatic

domestically

Avverbio

Esempio: “The company expanded domestically before going global.”

Sinonimi: internally

Antonimi: internationally

least

Determinante

Esempio: “Stay here for at least ten minutes.”

Sinonimi: at minimum

Antonimi: most

delay

Sostantivo

Esempio: “The flight had a delay of two hours.”

Sinonimi: postpone

Antonimi: hurry

after

Preposizione

Esempio: “Let’s talk after the meeting.”

Antonimi: before

above

Preposizione

Esempio: “The picture is above the sofa.”

Sinonimi: over

Antonimi: below

already

Avverbio

Esempio: “I already ate breakfast.”

Sinonimi: by now

Antonimi: not yet

better

Aggettivo

Esempio: “I feel better today.”

Sinonimi: improved

Antonimi: worse

before

Preposizione

Esempio: “Wash your hands before dinner.”

Sinonimi: earlier

Antonimi: after

impressionistic

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The report offered an impressionistic overview.”

Sinonimi: evocative

Antonimi: precise

synthetically

Avverbio

Esempio: “The material was produced synthetically.”

Sinonimi: artificially

Antonimi: naturally

spare

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Do you have a spare key?”

Sinonimi: extra

Antonimi: necessary

favorite

Aggettivo

Esempio: “Blue is my favorite color.”

Sinonimi: preferred

Antonimi: least favorite

tall

Aggettivo

Esempio: “He is tall.”

Sinonimi: high

Antonimi: short

infer

Verbo

Esempio: “From the logs, we inferred that the service restarted twice.”

arbitrary

Aggettivo

Esempio: “The deadline felt arbitrary and poorly justified.”

capricious

/kəˈprɪʃəs/

Esempio: “The weather here is capricious.”

Sinonimi: arbitrary, whimsical, impulsive

empirical

/ɛmˈpɪrɪkəl/

Esempio: “We need empirical evidence.”

Sinonimi: experiential, experimental, existential

Antonimi: theoretical, theoretic

ambiguous

Aggettivo

Esempio: “His response was deliberately ambiguous.”

Sinonimi: enigmatic, ambivalent, equivocal

Antonimi: unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous