| meanie | | |
| n. (person) | 1. meanie, meany, unkind person | a person of mean disposition. |
| ~ oppressor | a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures. |
| bully | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo | a cruel and brutal fellow. |
| ~ aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker | someone who attacks. |
| ~ bullyboy | a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction. |
| ~ muscleman, muscle | a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard.; "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him" |
| ~ skinhead | a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations. |
| ~ plug-ugly, tough guy | someone who bullies weaker people. |
| n. (person) | 2. bully | a hired thug. |
| ~ hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm | be bossy towards.; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" |
| ~ intimidate | make timid or fearful.; "Her boss intimidates her" |
| ~ domineer, tyrannise, tyrannize | rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her" |
| v. (communication) | 4. browbeat, bully, swagger | discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate. |
| ~ blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, palaver | influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.; "He palavered her into going along" |
| adj. | 5. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell | very good.; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
| delineate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. define, delineate | show the form or outline of.; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object" |
| ~ show | make visible or noticeable.; "She showed her talent for cooking"; "Show me your etchings, please" |
| v. (stative) | 2. define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify | determine the essential quality of. |
| ~ determine | fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.; "the tree determines the border of the property" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ redefine | give a new or different definition to.; "She redefined his duties" |
| v. (creation) | 3. delineate, limn, outline | trace the shape of. |
| ~ lipstick | form by tracing with lipstick.; "The clown had lipsticked circles on his cheeks" |
| ~ contour | form the contours of. |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| v. (contact) | 4. delineate, describe, draw, line, trace | make a mark or lines on a surface.; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" |
| ~ mark | make or leave a mark on.; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" |
| ~ construct | draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions.; "construct an equilateral triangle" |
| ~ inscribe | draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible. |
| ~ circumscribe | draw a line around.; "He drew a circle around the points" |
| ~ circumscribe | to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect. |
| ~ draw | engage in drawing.; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" |
| ~ draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse" |
| ~ write | mark or trace on a surface.; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet" |
| v. (communication) | 5. delineate | describe in vivid detail. |
| ~ describe, depict, draw | give a description of.; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" |
| adj. | 6. delineate, delineated, represented | represented accurately or precisely. |
| ~ depicted, portrayed, pictured | represented graphically by sketch or design or lines. |
| ~ described | represented in words especially with sharpness and detail.; "the vividly described wars" |
| ~ diagrammatic, diagrammatical | shown or represented by diagrams. |
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