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Keen. Sharp; acute; bitter, severe, piercing, stinging; eager, vehement, fierce; prompt, ardent, cutting, biting, sarcastic, penetrating, satirical, shrewd; poignant, acrimonious, caustic; discerning, quick, astute.
Ant. Blunt, dull, languid, blind, indifferent, obtuse, undiscerning, slow, simple.
Keep. Retain, hold, reserve, detain, preserve, restrain, withhold, maintain, support, sustain, continue, guard, protect, adhere to, obey, fulfil; celebrate, honor, conduct, commemorate, solemnize; haunt, frequent; observe, perform; conceal, suppress; hinder, prevent, refrain.
Ant. Release, speed, liberate, send, dismiss; neglect, betray, abandon, discard; disregard, disobey, transgress, forsake, desert, forget.
Keeping. Charge, guardianship, custody, care; holding, preservation, restraint; maintenance, support, feed, provision; harmony, consistency, congruity, conformity, agreement.
Ant. Neglect, abuse, disregard; abandonment, destruction; non-support, betrayal; disagreement, incongruity.
Keepsake. Souvenir, token, remembrancer.
Ken. Sight, view, cognizance, knowledge, survey, range.
Ant. Ignorance, oversight, inexperience, inobservance.
Kernel. Seed, grain; nucleus; core, gist.
Ant. Peeling, meat, shell, husk.
Key. Lock opener; clue, guide, solution, explanation; keynote, tonic; wedge, clamp; lever.
Ant. Mystification, confusion, mystery, secret, problem.
Kick. Strike or thrust at with the foot; recoil; resist, rebel, spurn, be calcitrant.
Ant. Caress, soothe, flatter, obey.
Kill. Murder, massacre, assassinate, butcher, execute, despatch, slay, slaughter, put to death.
Ant. Resuscitate, vivify, reanimate, revivify, quicken, enliven.
Kin. Family, birth, blood, consanguinity, descent, race, relationship, kind, kindred, affinity, alliance.
Ant. Strangership, inaffinity, alienage, foreignership.
Kind, n. Race, family, species, breed, class, genus; character, sort, variety, nature, fashion, description, denomination, designation.
Ant. Dissimilarity, differentiation.
Kind, a. Benign, indulgent, humane, compassionate, gentle, tender, beneficent, propitious, generous, forbearing, lenient, bounteous, clement, mild, good, obliging, bland, friendly, amicable, philanthropic, charitable, sympathetic, affectionate, tender-hearted.
Ant. Harsh, severe, hard, cruel, unkind, rough, stern, forbidding, austere, crabbed, illiberal.
Kindle. Light, ignite, inflame, enkindle, set on fire; excite, arouse, awaken, stir up, stimulate, incite, animate, foment; exasperate, provoke, enrage.
Ant. Quench, suppress, extinguish, allay.
Kindness, Kindliness. Benevolence, humanity, charity, sympathy, compassion, amiability, good nature; mildness, gentleness, softness.
Ant. Harshness, cruelty, severity, sternness, roughness, austerity.
Kindred, n. Relationship, consanguinity, affinity; relations, kin, kith and kin, relatives, kinsmen, kinsfolk.
Ant. Disconnection, unrelatedness; strangers, foreigners.
Kindred, a. Related, cognate, akin, allied, congenial; responsive, sympathetic.
Ant. Unrelated, uncongenial, unallied; different, unresponsive.
Kingdom. Empire, monarchy, sovereignty, domain, dominion.
Kingly. Regal, royal, monarchical, imperial, august, sovereign, noble, splendid, magnificent, imposing, grand, majestic.
Ant. Plebeian, humble, popular, commonplace, simple, vulgar.
Knack. Toy, plaything, gimcrack; dexterity, skill, adroitness, facility, aptness, aptitude, expertness, quickness.
Ant. Clumsiness, awkwardness, ineptitude.
Knave. Villain, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, cheat, scamp, miscreant, swindler, scapegrace.
Ant. Gentleman, hero; gull, dupe, simpleton.
Knavish. Trickish, cheating; mischievous, roguish, waggish; fraudulent, villainous.
Ant. Honest, upright, honorable.
Knot, n. Tie, bond, intricacy, connection; entanglement, complication; joint; group, band, clique, gang, crew.
Ant. Loosening, unfastening, unraveling, dispersion; solution, simplification; evenness, smoothness; individual.
Knotty. Knotted, difficult, intricate, perplexed, tough, hard, complicated.
Ant. Plain, simple, obvious, easy, smooth, uninvolved.
Know. Perceive, apprehend, understand; be convinced or assured; acquaint, recognize; distinguish, comprehend.
Ant. Be ignorant or illiterate, overlook, misunderstand, misconstrue.
Knowing. Intelligent, skilful, competent, well-informed, proficient, qualified, experienced, accomplished; conscious, percipient, thinking; cunning, expressive, significant; shrewd, astute, discerning, sagacious.
Ant. Simple, innocent, gullible, stolid, silly; dull, stupid, inefficient; unresponsive, non-suggestible.
Knowledge. Learning, wisdom, scholarship, science, comprehension, cognition, erudition, intelligence, light, lore, perception recognition, acquaintance, intuition, experience, information, apprehension, notice, understanding, conversance, cognizance, familiarity, instruction, enlightenment; acquirements, attainments.
Ant. Ignorance, illiteracy, unfamiliarity, rudeness, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding.