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grounded
adjective as in aware
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alive, appreciative, apprehensive, attentive, awake, cognizant, conscious, familiar, informed, mindful, receptive, wise
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acquainted, alert, appraised, apprised, au courant, cool, enlightened, go-go, groovy, heedful, hip, in the know, in the picture, into, know the score, know what's what, know-how, knowing, latched on, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, savvy, sensible, sentient, sharp, tuned-in, up on, wise to, wised up, with it
adjective as in cognizant
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apprehensive, conscious, informed, judicious, knowledgeable, observant
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acquainted, alive, au courant, awake, conversant, down with, familiar, hep to, hip to, in on, in the know, in the picture, knowing, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, savvy, sensible, sentient, tuned-in, up on, versed, wise to, with it, witting
adjective as in confined
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bound, chilled, compassed, cramp, detained, hampered, held, hog-tied, iced, immured, incarcerated, indisposed, invalided, jailed, pent, sick
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bedfast, bedridden, bottled-up, cooped up, flattened out, in chains, in jail, incommodious, laid up, locked up, on ice, sealed up, shut-in
adjective as in familiar
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abreast, apprised, at home with, au courant, au fait, cognizant, conscious, in on, in the know, informed, introduced, kept posted, mindful, no stranger to, plugged in, tuned-in, up, up on, versed in, well up in, with it
adjective as in initiated
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accepted, acknowledged, admitted, coached, confirmed, conscripted, inducted, installed, tutored
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adjective as in learned
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accomplished, educated, scholarly, scientific, studied, well-educated
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abstruse, academic, bookish, brainy, conversant, deep, erudite, esoteric, expert, highbrow, in the know, intellectual, judicious, literary, literate, omniscient, pansophic, pedantic, philosophic, philosophical, polymath, professorial, recondite, sage, sapient, sharp, skilled, solemn, solid, sound, studious, well-grounded, well-read, well-rounded
adjective as in punished
adjective as in rooted
adjective as in stranded
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cast away, godforsaken, high and dry, homeless, left at the altar, left in the lurch, out in left field, passed up, penniless, run aground
adjective as in stuck
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adjective as in versant
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abreast, acquainted, apprised, at home with, au courant, au fait, aware, cognizant, conscious, conversant, in on, in the know, informed, introduced, kept posted, mindful, no stranger to, plugged in, tuned-in, up, up on, versed in, well up in, with it
Example Sentences
Even after independence, the workings of American politics remained grounded in a logic of violence toward adversaries.
AB 1454 would require school districts to adopt instructional materials grounded in what supporters call the “science of reading,” which is based on research about how young children learn to read.
Accustomed to winning seasons with the Las Vegas Aces, Plum sought solace after several losses, and Hamby grounded her.
He keeps us grounded in the smaller social and familial dramas, with a few fun guest stars that nod to the year in which the story takes place: 1930.
Moraes's role, however, was grounded in law and most of his decisions were later upheld by the rest of the Supreme Court.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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