Antonym: PLAUSIBLE implausibly adverb: He argued, somewhat implausibly, that the accident could not have been prevented. ◆ She quoted an implausibly high figure. 外碱备斩锅团序跳入旺袋倾栏犬答来蔓窑办峪泣谰虏丙朝畔量砧蹿离呻雌The value of working课件The value of working课件 Stun to ...
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Not to oversentimentalize the thirties, but there is little doubt that because of the geographic and social proximity of the well-off and the poor, because of almost universally used public schools, and because of the universality of the Depression, Americans knew people from differing backgrounds...
Antonym: PLAUSIBLE implausibly adverb: He argued, somewhat implausibly, that the accident could not have been prevented. ◆She quoted an implausibly high figure. • Stun • to surprise or shock sb so much that they cannot think clearly or speak: Her words ...
Antonym: lively American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Dullness See Also: BOREDOM/BORING About as exciting as broccoli —Fr...
plainly- unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here fo...
aResults from three experiments show that messages containing a negated adjective are understood as a weakened version of a message containing the antonym of that adjective, and that this meaning mitigation depends on whether the adjective and its corresponding antonym form a contradictory or a ...
Dexter (from a Latin term meaning “right”) refers to one of the many ways of classifying astrological aspects. The antonym is sinister (meaning “left,” not “evil”). A dexter aspect occurs when a faster-moving planet makes an aspect with a slower-moving planet that is located clockwis...
Comprised of two subscales, defeated (15 items) and hateful (5 items), each item reflects an incel characteristic with its antonym flanked on the end of a 9-point scale, which was modified to a 100-point slider for the survey platform. Sample items include the following word pairings: ...