| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | What one intends to do or achieve: aim, ambition, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, point, purpose, target, view, why. Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore. See PLANNED, PURPOSE. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Free from bias in judgment: disinterested, dispassionate, equitable, fair, fair-minded, impartial, indifferent, just, nonpartisan, square, unbiased, unprejudiced. Idioms: fair and square. See FAIR. 2. Composed of or relating to things that occupy space and can be perceived by the senses: concrete, corporeal, material, phenomenal, physical, sensible, substantial, tangible. See BODY, MATTER. 3. Having verifiable existence: concrete, real, substantial, substantive, tangible. See REAL. 4. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, tough-minded, unromantic. See EXCITE, REAL.
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