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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
Weak matches
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
A titanic, multi-decade undertaking, the “Life” was grounded in the crucial years Richardson spent with Cooper and Picasso and surely counts among the most significant artist biographies of our time.
So far, the FAA hasn’t grounded any flights for staffing reasons.
But it is so firmly grounded in truthful and complicated detail drawn from Mr. Dunne’s actual experience that it makes its powerful moral argument without any need for grandstanding or preaching.
“I believe so much of it is pure old-fashioned antisemitism grounded in bad information and untruths.”
That is what ended the shutdown in 2019: A spate of sickouts by air-traffic controllers grounded flights headed to some destinations and led to major delays at airports throughout the country.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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