" way "

1: a passage cleared for public vehicular travel;

  * e.g., " ... the town honored the local sports hero by naming after him a short way connecting two shopping centers "

•  Synonyms : 

•  arterial,

•  artery,

•  avenue,

•  boulevard,

•  carriageway,

•  drag,

•  drive,

•  expressway,

•  freeway,

•  high road,

•  highway,

•  pass,

•  pike,

•  road,

•  roadway,

•  route,

•  row,

•  street,

•  thoroughfare,

•  thruway,

•  trace,

•  turnpike

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

2: a usual manner of behaving or doing;

  * e.g., " ... she's set in her ways and is not about to change "

•  Synonyms : 

•  custom,

•  fashion,

•  habit,

•  habitude,

•  pattern,

•  practice,

•  ritual,

•  second nature,

•  trick,

•  wont

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

3: an established course for traveling from one place to another;

  * e.g., " ... took the regular way to work "

•  Synonyms : 

•  approach,

•  avenue,

•  passage,

•  path,

•  route

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a regular stopping place;

  * e.g., " ... a way station for truck drivers "

•  Synonyms : 

•  station,

•  stop

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a regular stopping place;

  * e.g., " ... a way station for truck drivers "

•  Synonyms : 

•  stations,

•  stops

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: the state of containing unborn young within the body;

  * e.g., " ... noticing the telltale bump, we guessed that she was in the family way again "

•  Synonyms : 

•  gestation,

•  gravidity,

•  pregnancy

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: the state of not being protected from injury, harm, or evil;

  * e.g., " ... got everyone out of harm's way just minutes before the house was ripped apart by the tornado "

•  Synonyms : 

•  danger,

•  distress,

•  endangerment,

•  imperilment,

•  jeopardy,

•  peril,

•  risk,

•  trouble

•  Antonyms : 

•  safeness,

•  safety,

•  secureness,

•  security

1: the right to one's attention before other things considered less important;

  * e.g., " ... the bill for emergency aid was immediately granted right-of-way "

•  Synonyms : 

•  precedence,

•  priority

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to a great degree;

  * e.g., " ... Oh, I'm just way thrilled to be here! the pageant contestant gushed "

•  Synonyms : 

•  achingly,

•  almighty,

•  archly,

•  awful,

•  awfully,

•  badly,

•  beastly,

•  blisteringly,

•  bone,

•  colossally,

•  corking,

•  cracking,

•  damn,

•  damned,

•  dang,

•  deadly,

•  desperately,

•  eminently,

•  enormously,

•  especially,

•  ever,

•  exceedingly,

•  extra,

•  extremely,

•  fabulously,

•  fantastically,

•  far,

•  fiercely,

•  filthy,

•  frightfully,

•  full,

•  greatly,

•  heavily,

•  highly,

•  hugely,

•  immensely,

•  incredibly,

•  intensely,

•  jolly,

•  majorly,

•  mightily,

•  mighty,

•  monstrous,

•  mortally,

•  most,

•  much,

•  particularly,

•  passing,

•  rattling,

•  real,

•  really,

•  right,

•  roaring,

•  roaringly,

•  seriously,

•  severely,

•  so,

•  sore,

•  sorely,

•  spanking,

•  specially,

•  stinking,

•  such,

•  super,

•  supremely,

•  surpassingly,

•  terribly,

•  that,

•  thumping,

•  too,

•  unco,

•  uncommonly,

•  vastly,

•  very,

•  vitally,

•  whacking,

•  wicked,

•  wildly

•  Antonyms : 

•  little,

•  negligibly,

•  nominally,

•  slightly,

•  somewhat

1: in progress;

  * e.g., " ... construction of the new shopping mall is under way "

•  Synonyms : 

•  afoot,

•  under weigh

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion;

  * e.g., " ... some new and way-out suggestions for naming the baby "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bizarre,

•  bizarro,

•  cranky,

•  crazy,

•  curious,

•  eccentric,

•  erratic,

•  far-out,

•  funky,

•  funny,

•  kinky,

•  kooky,

•  odd,

•  off-kilter,

•  off-the-wall,

•  offbeat,

•  out-of-the-way,

•  outlandish,

•  outré,

•  peculiar,

•  quaint,

•  queer,

•  queerish,

•  quirky,

•  remarkable,

•  rum,

•  screwy,

•  spaced-out,

•  strange,

•  wacky,

•  weird,

•  weirdo,

•  wild

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion;

  * e.g., " ... the night watchman calls the police if he notices any out-of-the-way activity taking place during his shift "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bizarre,

•  bizarro,

•  cranky,

•  crazy,

•  curious,

•  eccentric,

•  erratic,

•  far-out,

•  funky,

•  funny,

•  kinky,

•  kooky,

•  odd,

•  off-kilter,

•  off-the-wall,

•  offbeat,

•  outlandish,

•  outré,

•  peculiar,

•  quaint,

•  queer,

•  queerish,

•  quirky,

•  remarkable,

•  rum,

•  screwy,

•  spaced-out,

•  strange,

•  wacky,

•  way-out,

•  weird,

•  weirdo,

•  wild

•  Antonyms : 

•  common,

•  ordinary,

•  plain,

•  usual

2: noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced;

  * e.g., " ... there was nothing out-of-the-way about the hitchhiker's appearance that might arouse suspicion "

•  Synonyms : 

•  curious,

•  extraordinary,

•  funny,

•  odd,

•  offbeat,

•  peculiar,

•  queer,

•  rare,

•  singular,

•  strange,

•  unaccustomed,

•  uncommon,

•  uncustomary,

•  unique,

•  unusual,

•  weird

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)