Synonyms
A synonym of Abhorrent.
(Loved, Admirable, Disgusting, Friendly)
What is Disgusting
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Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery: "Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?" (Serene, Insolent, Pollyannaish, Fawning, Abhorrent, Cerebral, Despondent)
What is Pollyannaish
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:
"I had worked for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room... I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed."
(Eccentric, Audacious, Consternated, Idealistic, Jaded, Obstinate, Remorseful, Upbraiding)
What is Consternated
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Dracula by Bram Stoker:
"As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal. The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace. We were both silent for a while, and as I looked towards the window I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn. There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened, I heard as from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count's eyes gleamed, and he said: -'listen to them- the children of the night. What music they make!' Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added: -' Ah sir, your dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter'."
(Pompous, Insular, Sinister, Fervent, Detached, Chagrined, Acerbic)
What is Sinister
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad:
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea- something you can set up and bow down before and offer a sacrifice too."
(Defiant, Callous, Exultant, Indomitable, Methodical, Piqued, Sardonic, Wistful)
What is Callous
(Dull, Lively, Fresh, Amused)
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Walden by Henry Thoreau: "Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rap't in a reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumaches, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveler's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time." (Serene, Fawning, Insolent, Abhorrent, Cerebral, Despondent)
What is Serene
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream"
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of the skin but by the content of their character."
(Audacious, Idealistic, Upbraiding, Pollyannaish, Serene, Insolent).
What is Idealistic
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte:
"Do you think I am an automaton? - a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you- and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you." (Fervent, Misanthropic, Sinister, Pompous, Acerbic, Chagrined)
What is Fervent
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The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien:
"Bilbo had forgotten everything else, and was dancing around, waving his arms, when, in the midst of a song, a great shout went up from the dwarves: the door! The door! They had found it at last! They had found the key-hole."
(Indomitable, Defiant, Callous, Exultant, Methodical, Piqued, Sardonic, Wistful)
A synonym of Sinister
(Kind, Dark, Nice, Encouraging)
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The Republic by Plato: "Then," I said, "the business of us who are the founders of the State will be to compel the best minds to attain that knowledge which we have already shown to be the greatest of all- they must continue to ascend until they arrive at the good; but when they have ascended and seen enough we must not allow them to do as they do now." (Abhorrent, Cerebral, Insolent, Mirthful, Despondent, Pollyannaish, Serene)
What is Cerebral
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:
"But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here."
(Jaded, Eccentric, Upbraiding, Remorseful)
What is Eccentric
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen:
"His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud."
(Chagrined, Detached, Acerbic, Misanthropic, Pompous, Sinister)
What is Acerbic
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
"I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself i'd got a strong empression that he was picking his words with care."
(Callous, Methodical, Piqued, Sardonic, Wistful)
What is Piqued
A synonym of Sardonic
(Mocking, Respectful, Wholehearted, Genuine)
What is Mocking
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King Lear by Shakespeare: "My lord, I know not what the matter is; but to my judgment your highness is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a greater abatement of kindness appears as well in the general dependents as in the duke himself also and your daughter."
(Abhorrent, Insolent, Mirthful, Fawning, Pollyannaish, Serene)
What is Fawning
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Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville:
"I would prefer not to," he said, and gently disappeared behind the screen, It would have been unwise to remonstrate with him then. But when he was again seated at his desk, I mildly expressed my surprise that he declined, considering that he was my servant, and had engaged to be such; and I intimated the possibility of his being on the verge of a change, in which case a clerk of so small requirements would I suppose be hardly desirable. He made no reply, and I quietly fell into a dreary sort of pondering and speculating."
(Obstinate, Audacious, Insolent, Remorseful, Upbraiding)
What is Obstinate
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen:
"Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter. She had been obliged to prepare for the sight of Pemberley House by a hurried and inadequate glance at the interior of the rooms, but she was determined to preserve her composure and to be as little affected as possible by the sight of a place which had already made so deep an impression on her."
(Acerbic, Sinister, Detached, Chagrined, Fervent, Misanthropic, Insular)
What is Chagrined
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger:
"I keep thinking about old Phoebe going to that museum on Saturdays the way I used to. I thought how she'd see the same stuff I used to see, and how she'd be different every time she saw it."
(Wistful, Methodical, Callous, Sardonic, Piqued)
What is Wistful
A synonym of Exultant
(Gloomy, Sorrowing, Thrilled, Dark)
What is Thrilled
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen:
"Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter. The grandeur of the entrance, and the richness of the surrounding scenery, soon gave her a very different idea of what she had been used to. The contrast to her own home, and her own little world, was so striking that she could not help feeling that she had never before seen anything so magnificent. She looked around at everything with the greatest delight, and was soon convinced that she had never been so perfectly happy before. It was a day full of joy, laughter, and the sort of light-heartedness that only comes when you are in the midst of something truly wonderful." (Abhorrent, Mirthful, Insolent, Serene, Cerebral)
What is Mirthful
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway:
"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that. But it was pleasant to think so. We were all drifting, feeling a little lost, a little sick about it all. We drank and made love, and drank again. It never made any difference. None of it meant anything."
(Obstinate, Upbraiding, Audacious, Jaded)
What is Jaded
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The Stranger by Albert Camus:
"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday."
(Fervent, Detached, Misanthropic, Insular, Acerbic, Chagrined, Sinister)
What is Detached
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"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley:
"Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishements the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
(Methodical, Sardonic, Wistful, Indomitable, Callous, Piqued)
What is Indomitable