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Collins Junior Illustrated Thesaurus

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She was a nice girl, but they couldn’t stand her piercing laugh.

➔ ear-splitting

An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another. When a headword has an antonym, the antonym is shown at the end of the entry.

hot (2) ADJECTIVE

You say food is hot if it has a strong spicy taste.

peppery

The meal was a bit too peppery for me.

spicy

Dad likes his curries really spicy.

ANTONYM: mild

Word list entries

There are special themed entries throughout this thesaurus to support your writing.

At these entries you will find lists of things, such as parts of the body, colours and different types of animal. You might also find labelled illustrations to help you understand the words in the list. The word list pages are listed on the Contents (#u6bf386da-a27e-53ad-8b3c-a380bbbd3234) page.

Online resources

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accident (1) NOUN

An accident is something nasty that happens by chance.

calamity

The flooding river caused a calamity and the house was wrecked.

catastrophe

That plane crash was a catastrophe.

collision

Mark damaged his bike in a collision with the gatepost.

crash

There was a bad crash on the motorway.

disaster

Tom’s walk ended with a disaster when he fell in the canal.

mishap

“Just a mishap,” said Dad, after his keys fell down the drain.

accident (2) NOUN

If something happens by accident, it was not planned.

chance

The friends met by chance at the disco.

coincidence

Ben and Rosie got the same answers by coincidence.

afraid ADJECTIVE

Someone who is afraid thinks that something nasty might happen.

anxious

Mole felt anxious in the wild wood.

nervous

“You don’t need to be nervous,” said the dentist. “This won’t hurt a bit.”

panic-stricken

They were panic-stricken when they heard the ice crack.

petrified

Emma was petrified during her ride on the big dipper.

scared

Goldilocks was scared when the three bears found her.

worried

Our cat was worried when the pet-shop owner picked up her kittens.
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