WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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acute, bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, cutting, dandy, discriminating, exquisite, great, groovy, incisive, keen, knifelike, lament, lancinate, lancinating, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, slap-up, smashing, stabbing, swell,
1. NOUN. (keen)
a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
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2. VERB. (keen)
express grief verbally
"we lamented the death of the child"
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keen, elegy, lament, dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody, lament, lamentation, plaint, wail, lament, lamentation, plaint, wail, lamentation, mourning, mourner, griever, sorrower, lamenter,
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3. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (keen)
having a sharp cutting edge or point
"a keen blade"
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4. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (keen)
as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
"a cutting wind"
"keen winds"
"knifelike cold"
"piercing knifelike pains"
"piercing cold"
"piercing criticism"
"a stabbing pain"
"lancinating pain"
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5. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (keen)
very good
"he did a bully job"
"a neat sports car"
"had a great time at the party"
"you look simply smashing"
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