HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of CHARACTER products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | keh'rihkter |
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| Rhymes | abductor, accelerator, accelerometer, and 628 more rhymes in ter... |
| Meaning | A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something. |
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| Examples | "the radical character of our demands" |
| Synonyms | quality, lineament |
| Broader | property, attribute, dimension |
| Narrower | texture |
| Adjectives | characteristic |
| Verbs | characterize, characterise; characterize, characterise |
| Meaning | The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions. |
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| Examples | "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer |
| Synonyms | fiber, fibre |
| Part of | personality |
| Parts | thoughtfulness; responsibility, responsibleness; integrity |
| Broader | trait |
| Narrower | spirit |
| Meaning | An actor's portrayal of someone in a play. |
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| Synonyms | role, theatrical role, part, persona |
| Broader | portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation |
| Narrower | bit part, minor role; heavy; hero; ingenue; title role, name part; heroine; villain, baddie |
| Meaning | A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities). |
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| Examples | "a real character"; "a strange character" |
| Synonyms | eccentric, type, case |
| Broader | adult, grownup |
| Meaning | Good repute. |
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| Examples | "he is a man of character" |
| Broader | repute, reputation |
| Meaning | A formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability. |
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| Examples | "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively" |
| Synonyms | reference, character reference |
| Broader | recommendation, testimonial, good word |
| Verbs | characterise |
| Meaning | A written symbol that is used to represent speech. |
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| Examples | "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| Synonyms | grapheme, graphic symbol |
| Broader | written symbol, printed symbol |
| Narrower | allograph; check character; superscript, superior; subscript, inferior; ASCII character; ligature; capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule; small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule; type; percent sign, percentage sign; asterisk, star; dagger, obelisk; double dagger, double obelisk, diesis; letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character; space, blank; phonetic symbol; mathematical symbol; rune, runic letter; pictograph; ideogram, ideograph; radical; stenograph |
| Verbs | character |
| Meaning | (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes. |
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| Category | genetics, genetic science |
| Broader | attribute |
| Narrower | unit character |
| Meaning | Engrave or inscribe characters on. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe |
| Nouns | character |
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