experience [ iks'piəriəns] n.经验，感受；经历
experience [iks'piəriəns] 经验,经历
experience [iks'piəriəns] vt.试验
前事不忘,后事之师 Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
With the experience of specialist 由专家设计制作
business background 工作经历
business experience 工作经历
business history 工作经历
employment experience工作经历
employment record 工作经历
employment 工作
experience 经历
specific experience 具体经历
work experience 工作经历
work history 工作经历
work 工作,起作用
for more specialized work 为更专门的工作
for prospects of promotion 为晋升的前途
for higher responsibility 为更高层次的工作责任
for wider experience 为扩大工作经验
due to close-down of company 由于公司倒闭
due to expiry of employment 由于雇用期满
offered a more challenging opportunity 获得的更有挑战性的工作机会
sought a better job 找到了更好的工作
to look for a more challenging opportunity 找一个更有挑战性的工作机会
to seek a better job 找一份更好的工作
experience is the extract of suffering.
经验是受苦的结晶
We have over ten years of experience in teaching quality English and have successfully managed schools in different parts of the world.
我们从事了10年多的英语教学，教学质量高，教学经验丰富，在世界各地有成功地办学的范例。
Experience Point：经验点数。常出现在角色扮演游戏中，以数值计量人物的成长，经验点数达到一定数值后常常会升级，这时人物就会变得更强大。
前事不忘,后事之师
Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
business experience 工作经历
employment experience 工作经历
experience 经历
specific experience 具体经历
work experience 工作经历
for wider experience 为扩大工作经验
experience curve 经验曲线
Any government, which is blind to this point, may pay a heavy price.
任何政府忽视这一点都将付出巨大的代价。
15.Nowadays, many students always go into raptures at the mere mention of the coming life of high school or college they will begin. Unfortunately, for most young people, it is not pleasant experience on their first day on campus.
当前，一提到即将开始的学校生活，许多学生都会兴高采烈。然而，对多数年轻人来说，校园刚开始的日子并不是什么愉快的经历。
By taking a major-related part-job, students can not only improve their academic studies, but gain much experience, experience they will never be able to get from the textbooks.
通过做一份和专业相关的工作，学生不仅能够提高他们的专业能力，而且能获得从课本上得不到的经验。
Although parent would be able to devote much more time and energy to their children, it must be admitted that, parent has less experience and knowledge about how to educate and supervise children, when compared with professional teachers working in kindergartens or nursery schools.
尽管父母能在他们孩子身上投入更多时间和精力，但是必须承认，与工作在幼儿园的专职教师相比，他们在如何管理教育孩子方面缺乏知识和经验。
It is suggested that governments ought to make efforts to reduce the increasing gap between cities and countryside. They ought to set aside an appropriate fund for improvement of the standard of peasants' lives. They ought to invite some experts in agriculture to share their experiences, information and knowledge with peasants, which will contribute directly to the economic growth of rural areas.
建议政府应该努力减少正在拉大的城乡差距。应该划拨适当的资金提高农民的生活水平；应该邀请农业专家向农民介绍他们的经验，知识和信息，这些将有助于发展农村经济。
The senior and junior students could share their own experience about how to overcome the difficulty they have ever met, how to adjust to the new environment with the new students.
高年级学生可以与新生一起分享他们的经历：如何克服遇到的困难，如何适应新的环境。
managerial experiences 管理经验
What an experience.
多么难忘的经历啊。
Experience is born of practice.
经验来源于实践。
One of the few experiences which never pall is the experience for watching one's own interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts.
令人永不生厌的不多的几种体验之一，是观察自己的头脑，看它是如何产生新的兴趣、对新的刺激作出反应及发展新的思想。
You cannot create experience, you must undergo it.
你不能创造经验，你必须经历它。
No theory is as good as experience. No concept is as good as facts.
理论不等于实践。概念不等于事实。
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
我们参照过去的经验而非未来的事件生活，不管那些事件如何必然发生。
When your soul experiences thirst, it needs water to quench it, no matter the water is poisonous or not.
心灵感到干渴时需要水来止渴，无论这水是否有毒。
Considerable experience is required to become a general in the army.
要成为一名将军，需要相当的经验。
She experienced pain in thinking of her husband who had passed away years ago.
她丈夫于几年前去世， 她经历了一段思念亡夫的悲痛过程。
He has plenty of teaching experience.
他很有教学经验。
Travelling experiences by bike are quite exciting.
骑自行车旅行是一种令人兴奋的体验。
During my journey around the world I had many colorful experiences and enjoyed many dramatic situations.
在我周游世界的过程中，经历了许多多姿多彩、精彩分呈的场面。
Learning a foreign language was one of the most difficult yet most rewarding experiences of my life.
学习外语是我一生中最艰苦也是最有意义的经历。
Don't correct him all the time; he'll learn by experience.
别总是纠正他，他会从经验中学习的。
Margaret Rudland, head teacher in Hammersmith, also thinks children must experience actual peer relations.
海默斯密斯学校校长玛格利特.鲁兰也认为孩子们必须与同龄人交往。
He has a wealth of experience in this area.
他在这领域有丰富的经验。
Do you have previous experience of this type of work?
你以前有过从事这类工作的经历吗？
Some of the students had experienced what hard times meant before they entered the university.
有些大学生在进入大学之前体验过艰苦的生活。
Our country has experienced great changes in the last thirty years.
我国在过去30年中经历了巨大变化。
He liked the job because he could utilize his skill and experience in it.
他喜欢这工作，因为用得上他的技术和经验。
The significance for college students of doing a part-time job is more than money and experience.
大学生打工的意义还不仅在于钱和经验。
What I lack in experience I make up in curiosity.
我用好奇心来弥补我所缺乏的经验。
He was appointed general manager for his rich experience as well as excellent educational background.
他由于学历高和工作经验丰富而被任命为总经理。
This work needs experience plus care.
这工作不仅需要经验，而且需要细心。
The standard of performance has gone up since last year, as the players have gained more experience.
由于演员更有经验了，自去年以来表演水平提高了。
It can be an enormously enlightening and exciting experience.
这是一次极有启发性、极令人兴奋的体验。
the opportunity to work alongside experienced musicians
与资深音乐家一起工作的机会
Many jukus offer high salaries to recruit experienced teachers.
许多课外补习学校高薪招聘有经验的教师。
The old farmer has rich experience in forecasting the weather.
这位老农在预报天气方面有着丰富的经验。
Young people must have real opportunities to widen their experience and skills.
年轻人必须有真正的机会来拓宽他们的经验和技能。
Don't be keen to plunge into argument with him. He's an experienced speaker.
不要贸然和他辩论，他可是个有经验的演说家。
But she doesn't have much experience.
但她没有太多经验。
It was a terrible experience.
那是一次可怕的经历。
Gutman argues convincingly that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of and so was crucial in sustaining — the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression from one generation to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning out of their African and American experiences.
加特曼确凿地说明黑人家庭的稳定鼓励了黑人文化遗产的传递和维护，这些遗产包括从一代传到另一代的民间传说，音乐，和宗教表述，这些遗产使非洲和美洲的奴隶们特色显著。
Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is based in earning, spending, organizing, marrying, taking part in political activities, fighting and so on , is not very dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system derived from the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience.
即使社会系统的民间知识中像挣钱，花费，组织，婚嫁，政治活动的参与，以及战斗等等，都与从社会科学中衍生出来更加精细的社会系统描述相差不多，尽管它是建立在一个不太完善的个人经验上的模型。
But do not the challenge and the excitement of the critical problem as such lie in that ambivalence of attitude which allows us to recognize the intelligence and even the splendor of Meredith’s work, while, at the same time, we experience a lack of sympathy, a failure of any enthusiasm of response?
但是难道这不是关键问题的挑战和刺激而就其本身而言是存在于矛盾的态度里面。这样的态度让我们认识到Meredith’s作品中智慧和卓越，然而与此同时，我们有了缺乏同情和不能有任何热情反应的经历。
To proceed thus is to set up a fivefold hypothesis that enables you to gather from the innumerable items cast up by the sea of experience upon the shores of your observation only the limited number of relevant data—relevant, that is, to one or more of the five factors of your hypothesis.
为了继续进行，要创立一种5重假设，使你能够从经验的海洋中搜集到无尽的细节，然后抛到观察的海岸上，只有有限的相关数据，也就是说，在假设中的五个因素里面有一个或多个。
In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
在过去，孩子们对出生和死亡非常熟悉，是他们生活的一部分。现在的孩子也许是从未目睹婴儿的降生和亲人的死亡的第一代美国人。
In addition to giving a general introduction to computer, the course also provides practical experience.
课程除了一般介绍电脑知识外，还提供实际操作的机会。
Her rich experience gave her an advantage over other applicants for the job.
她丰富的经验使她比其他求职者具有有利条件。
I know from my own experience how difficult the work can be.
从我自己的经验我明白这项工作会有多难。
He experienced great difficulty in getting a visa to leave the country.
他申请出国签证经历了很大的困难。
He has gained rich experience in these years.
这些年来，他取得了丰富的经验。
We learn from the past, experience the present and hope for success in the future.
我们从过去中学习，体验现在，展望未来的成功。
我是根据我的经验才这样说的。
I'm telling you this from my experience.
Are you sure about it? (确实是这样吗?)
I'm telling you this from my experience. (我是根据我的经验才这样说的。)
Let me offer you some advice. From my experience... (我给你一个建议，据我的经验来看……)
This experience will make me show my true color.
这种经历将使我暴露我的本性。
Experience is the best teacher.
实践出真知。
Experience teaches.
吃一堑，长一智。
Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
Experience is a school from which one can never graduate.
经验无止境。
Experience is the best teacher.
经验是良师。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
智慧来自经验。
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
吃亏学乖代价高，笨汉非此学不好。
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
亲身经验，才是经验。
Experience must be bought.
若要得经验，必须化代价。
Experience teaches.
经验给人教训。
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问，胜于有学问而无经验。
Knowledge comes from experience alone.
知识来自经验。
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
谚语言短简，得自老经验。
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
聪明人循理智办事，平常人照经验办事，蠢人按需要办事，畜生凭本能办事。
No wonder you're so experienced.
怪不得你这么有经验。
Happiness is not something you experience; it's something you re-member.
O.Levant, Ameican pianist
幸福不是你经历的事，而是你记得的事。
美国钢琴家利万特.
Experience proves that most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.
Paul Meyer, French linguist
经验证明，大部分时间都是被一分钟一分钟地而不是一小时一小时地浪费掉的。一只底部有个小洞的桶和一只故意踢翻的桶同样会流空。
法国语言学家梅耶.P.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon,British Philosopher
旅游对年轻人是一种教育，对老年人是一种体验。
英国哲学家培根.F.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Janes Anthony Froude, British historian
从经验中学习收效很慢，而且要以错误为代价。
英国历史学家弗路德J.A.
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
Charles Bernard, French philosopher
经验是智慧之父，记忆是知识之母。
法国哲学家贝尔纳.c.
All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience.
Philip Sideney ,British satesman
凡是没有实际经验的，都只是口头智慧。
英国政治家锡得尼D ..
Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that ,it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen, British novelist
经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义，事实上，直到那时才算得上经验。
英国小说家鲍恩E.
Experience is the child of thought , and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman
经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。英国政治家迪斯雷利B .
Experience is the na me give their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, British playwriter and poet
经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。
英国剧作家、诗人王尔德O.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Dan Stanfort, American brsinessman
经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。
美国实业家斯坦福。D.
Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues .
Bendict de spinoza, Dutch philosopher
经验给我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制的东西，莫过于自己的舌头.
荷兰哲学家斯宾诺沙B
Experience never misleads; what you are missed by is only your judgement, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experements.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter
经验永远不会对你做错误的引导；把你引导错的只是你自己的判断，而你的判断之所以对你发生误导的作用，乃是由于它根据那种并非借着实验而产生的经验来预料的结果。
意大利画家达芬奇
Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence.
Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
英国哲学家、数学家罗素.B.
I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry, Americna statesman
我只拿一盏灯来指引我的脚步，而那盏灯就是经验，对于未来，我只是能以过去来判断。
美国政治家享利.P.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness5 of warning.
James Russell Lowell, British Poet and critic
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
英国诗人、批评家洛威尔.J. R .
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
Samuel Smiles, British writer
实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
英国作家斯迈尔斯. S .
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience .
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer
谚语是从长期经验中获得的短句。
班牙作家塞万提斯,M.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and nathematician
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力又缺乏经验，而有经验的人又缺乏想象力。
英国哲学家、数学家怀特海.A . N.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana, Spain-born American philosopher and poet
教育之艰苦在于从意念中获得经验。
西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人桑塔亚那,G.
To make good use of life.one should have in youth the experience of advanced years ,and in old age the vigor of youth.
Stanislars I, Polish king
青年而有老年之经验，老年而有青年之朝气，就能使人生发挥更大的作用。
波兰国王斯坦尼劳斯一世
To most men , experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has passed.
Samuel Tylor Coleridge, British poet
对于大多数人，经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。
英国诗人柯勒津治. S .T .
Too much experience is a dangerous thing.
Oscar Wilde, British dramatist
经验过多反而危险。
英国剧作家王尔德. O.
We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience.
Abraham Lincoln , American president
除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外，我们对今后的事一无所知。
美国总统林肯. A .
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced.
Len Tolstoy, Russian writer
艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。
俄国作家托尔斯泰。L
- feel like a square peg in a round hole 感到格格不入，不适合
After graduation, I remained as a teacher in college.
Whenever our former classmates have a get-together, I always feel like a square peg in a round hole.
All they talk about are ways to make money, expensive hotels, luxurious entertainment,
things I have no experiences to share with them.
In consideration of your extensive experience in the field, we are glad to appoint you as our agent.
考虑到你们在这一业务范围的丰富经验，我们很高兴指定你们为我们的代理。
According to our experience, these handicrafts can find a ready market in Japan.
根据我们的经验，这些手工艺品在日本销路很好。
We learn that you have years of experience in pushing the sale of porcelain products.
我们得知你们在推销瓷器方面很有经验。
You are experienced in promoting the sale of our craft paper.
你方在推销我们的牛皮纸方面很有经验。
We are well established in manufacturing …… to which we have devoted years of experience and research. You may rest assured that whatever we offer you excels in workmanship and function.
我们专门生产……，在这方面有多年的研究经验。你们可以放心，我们提供的设备工艺精、性能好。
饱经风霜 [bǎo jīng fēng shuāng] /weather-beaten/having experienced the hard ship of life/
不经一事不长一智 [bù jīng yī shì bù zhǎng yī zhì] /you can't gain knowledge without practice/wisdom comes from experience/
感受 [gǎn shòu] /feel/experience/
见识 [jiàn shi ] /(n) knowledge and experience/(v) increase one's knowledge/
教训 [jiào xun ] /(teach someone or learn a) lesson (i.e. obtain wisdom from an experience)/
经历 [jīng lì] /experience/go through/
经验 [jīng yàn] /to experience/experience/
老成 [lǎo chéng] /(adj) experienced; trained/
历 [lì] /to experience/to undergo/to pass through/all/each/every/calendar/
历险 [lì xiǎn] /to experience adventures/
内行 [nèi háng] /(n) expert/(adj) experienced/
涉 [shè] /involve/concern/wade/to experience/
身世 [shēn shì] /one's life experience/one's lot/
识见 [shí jiàn] /knowledge and experience/
体会 [tǐ huì] /know (through learning or by experience)/
体验 [tǐ yàn] /to experience for oneself/
狭隘 [xiá ài] /(adj) narrow; tight/(adj) narrow (minded); lacking in experience/
新鲜 [xīn xiān] /fresh (experience, food, etc.)/freshness/
形而上学 [xíng ér shàng xué] /(saying) outside actual experience; metaphysics/
有经验 [yǒu jīng yàn] /experienced/
阅历 [yuè lì] /to see/to experience/
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems.
如果你想在谈话中用幽默来使人发笑，你就必须知道如何识别共同的经历和共同的问题。
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties.
如果你是你谈话对象集体中的一员，你就能够了解你们所共有的经历和问题，你就可对餐厅极难吃的食物或者总裁在选择领带方面差劲的品味进行评头论足。
Last year Japan experienced 2125 incidents of school violence, including 929 assaults on teachers.
去年日本发生了2125起校园暴力事件，其中包括929起袭击老师事件。
Given all these disadvantages, central bankers seem to have had much to boast about of late. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 2.3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5% this July.
尽管有这么多不利因素，中央银行家们似乎对近来的形势有了不少值得夸耀的东西。西方七大工业国去年的平均通货膨胀率降至仅2.3％，接近30年来的最低水平。今年7月略微升高到2.5％。
This is a long way below the double-digit rates which many countries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s.
这远远低于许多国家在70年代和80年代早期经历的两位数的膨胀率。
This account of yourself is actually a sketch of your working life and should include education, experience and references.
你的简历实际上是对你的职业生涯的简单描述，它包括教育、经验和证明人。
Such an account is valuable.
这个描述是很有价值的，
It can be referred to in filling out standard application blanks and is extremely helpful in personal interviews.
在填写标准的申请表格时它可提供参考，在面试时更是起极大的作用。
While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your "wares" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
在与你谈话时，你未来的雇主将根据你的教育、你的经验和你其他的资历来确定雇用你是否值得，因此你必须把你的“商品”和能力以有序而合理连贯的方式陈列出来。
The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles.
成长过程不是道路本身，而是当遭遇新的情况或未曾预料的坎坷时所持的态度和情感，是慎重行事还是勇往直前。
In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
在这个过程中，旅行永远不会真的结束；总会有新的方法去体验世界，新的思想去尝试，新的挑战去面对。
Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious?
自以为行动敏捷而又好奇吗？
If so, then we tend to take more chances and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences.
如果这样，我们就会去抓住更多机会，更加勇于面对陌生的体验。
That experiences influence subsequent behaviour is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering.
Learning could not occur without the function popularly named memory.
过去的经历会影响日后的行为，这就表明存在着一种明显但却非凡的脑力活动——记忆。
如果没有大家称之为记忆的功能，学习便不能发生。
Typically, the decision to cross a street is based on remembering many earlier experiences.
最典型的是，决定过街也要凭借许多对以前经历的记忆。
Yet, dramatic instances of sudden forgetting can be seen to be adaptive.
然而戏剧性地突然遗忘的例子也可被看做具有适应性。
In this sense, the ability to forget can be interpreted to have survived through a process of natural selection in animals.
从这个意义上说，遗忘能力可解释为动物在自然选择的过程中幸存下来的能力。
Indeed, when one's memory of emotionally painful experience lead to serious anxiety, forgetting may produce relief.
的确，如果记住一段痛苦的情感经历会导致严重的焦虑，那么遗忘倒可以使人得到解脱。
{adj: actual, factual} existing in act or fact
"rocks and trees...the actual world"
"actual heroism"
"the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"
{adj: acute} having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
"acute appendicitis"
"the acute phase of the illness"
"acute patients"
<-> chronic
{adj: airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick} experiencing motion sickness
{adj: alarmed} experiencing a sudden sense of danger
{adj: amateur, recreational, unpaid} engaged in as a pastime
"an amateur painter"
"gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals"
"recreational golfers"
"reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating"
"unpaid extras in the documentary"
{adj: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible} arousing or provoking laughter
"an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"
"an amusing fellow"
"a comic hat"
"a comical look of surprise"
"funny stories that made everybody laugh"
"a very funny writer"
"it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"
"a mirthful experience"
"risible courtroom antics"
{adj: analytic, analytical} of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
"`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"
<-> synthetic
{adj: anguished, tormented, tortured} experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
"an anguished conscience"
"a small tormented schoolboy"
"a tortured witness to another's humiliation"
{adj: apperceptive} able to relate new percepts to past experience
{adj: apt, liable} at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
"he is apt to lose"
"she is liable to forget"
{adj: barren, destitute, devoid, innocent} completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
"a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"
"a life empty of happiness"
"innocent of literary merit"
"void of understanding"
{adj: beatific} experiencing or bestowing celestial joy
"beatific peace"
{adj: beneficial, good} promoting or enhancing well-being
"an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"
"the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"
"the experience was good for her"
{adj: bewildering} causing bafflement
"the play was at the same time a bewildering and an exciting experience"
{adj: bruising} causing mental or emotional injury
"a bruising experience"
"protected from the bruising facts of battle"- John Mason Brown
{adj: chaste} morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
"a holy woman innocent and chaste"
<-> unchaste
{adj: comfortable, comfy} providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
"comfortable clothes"
"comfortable suburban houses"
"made himself comfortable in an armchair"
"the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable"
"are you comfortable?"
"feeling comfy now?"
<-> uncomfortable
{adj: condolent} expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one
{adj: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide} of worldwide scope or applicability
"an issue of cosmopolitan import"
"the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
"universal experience"
{adj: credulous} showing a lack of judgment or experience
"so credulous he believes everything he reads"
{adj: dedifferentiated} having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function
"the hebephrenic--the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients"
{adj: delirious, hallucinating} experiencing delirium
{adj: disconcerting, upsetting} causing an emotional disturbance
"his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen
"an upsetting experience"
{adj: discontented, discontent} showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing
"saw many discontent faces in the room"
"was discontented with his position"
<-> contented
{adj: displeased} not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure
<-> pleased
{adj: distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way} facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
"distressed companies need loans and technical advice"
"financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"
"we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"
"it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"
"found themselves in a bad way financially"
{adj: distrustful} having or showing distrust
"a man of distrustful nature"
"my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo
"vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson
<-> trustful
{adj: educated, enlightened} having or based on relevant experience
"an educated guess"
"an enlightened electorate"
{adj: educative} resulting in education
"an educative experience"
{adj: enormous, tremendous} extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
"an enormous boulder"
"enormous expenses"
"tremendous sweeping plains"
"a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman
"a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
{adj: experienced, experient} having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
<-> inexperienced
{adj: experiential, existential} derived from experience or the experience of existence
"the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington
"formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey
{adj: experiential} relating to or resulting from experience
"a personal, experiential reality"
{adj: extensive, extended} large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
"an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"
"extended farm lands"
"surgeons with extended experience"
"they suffered extensive damage"
{adj: extraordinary, over-the-top, sinful} far more than usual or expected
"an extraordinary desire for approval"
"it was an over-the-top experience"
{adj: familiar} within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
"familiar ordinary objects found in every home"
"a familiar everyday scene"
"a familiar excuse"
"a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"
<-> strange
{adj: fearful} experiencing or showing fear
"a fearful glance"
"fearful of criticism"
{adj: formative, shaping, plastic} forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
"a formative influence"
"a formative experience"
{adj: formative} susceptible to alteration by development and experience
"formative years"
{adj: freaky} strange and somewhat frightening
"the whole experience was really freaky"
{adj: freshman, first-year} used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college)
"a freshman senator"
"freshman year in high school or college"
{adj: funny} experiencing odd bodily sensations
"told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
{adj: gladsome} experiencing or expressing gladness or joy
"a gladsome smile"
"a gladsome occasion"
{adj: hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious} tough and callous by virtue of experience
{adj: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic} guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
"a hardheaded appraisal of our position"
"a hard-nosed labor leader"
"completely practical in his approach to business"
"not ideology but pragmatic politics"
{adj: inadequate, poor, short} not sufficient to meet a need
"an inadequate income"
"a poor salary"
"money is short"
"on short rations"
"food is in short supply"
"short on experience"
{adj: inexperienced, inexperient} lacking practical experience or training
<-> experienced
{adj: innovative, innovational, groundbreaking} being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
"stylistically innovative works"
"innovative members of the artistic community"
"a mind so innovational, so original"
{adj: insomniac, sleepless, watchful} experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
"insomniac old people"
"insomniac nights"
"lay sleepless all night"
"twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
{adj: intimate, knowledgeable, versed} thoroughly acquainted through study or experience
"this girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson
"knowledgeable about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read
{adj: introspective, introverted, self-examining} given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
<-> extrospective
{adj: joyless} not experiencing or inspiring joy
"a joyless man"
"a joyless occasion"
"joyless evenings"
<-> joyous
{adj: long-familiar, well-known} frequently experienced; known closely or intimately
"a long-familiar face"
"a well-known voice reached her ears"
{adj: mellow, mellowed} having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
"mellow wisdom"
"the peace of mellow age"
{adj: mellow} having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience
"mellow wisdom"
"the peace of mellow age"
{adj: mind-blowing} intensely affecting the mind or emotions
"spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience"
"a mind-blowing horror story"
{adj: naive, naif} marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
"a teenager's naive ignorance of life"
"the naive assumption that things can only get better"
"this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
<-> sophisticated
{adj: new} unfamiliar
"new experiences"
"experiences new to him"
"errors of someone new to the job"
{adj: objective} belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
"objective benefits"
"an objective example"
"there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
{adj: old, older} old in experience
"an old offender"
"the older soldiers"
{adj: pleased} experiencing or manifesting pleasure
<-> displeased
{adj: polished, refined, svelte, urbane} showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
"his polished manner"
"maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
{adj: prickling, stinging, tingling} causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks
"a prickling blush of embarrassment"
"the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"
"the stinging windblown sleet"
{adj: psychedelic} (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair
"a psychedelic experience"
{adj: rational} having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion)
"a rational analysis"
{adj: raw, new} lacking training or experience
"the new men were eager to fight"
"raw recruits"
{adj: sad} experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
"feeling sad because his dog had died"
"Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
<-> glad
{adj: sage} having wisdom that comes with age and experience
{adj: seasoned, veteran} rendered competent through trial and experience
"troops seasoned in combat"
"a seasoned traveler"
"veteran steadiness"
"a veteran officer"
{adj: sensory, sensorial} involving or derived from the senses
"sensory experience"
"sensory channels"
<-> extrasensory
{adj: shared} have in common; held or experienced in common
"two shared valence electrons forming a bond between adjacent nuclei"
"a shared interest in philately"
<-> unshared
{adj: skilled} having or showing or requiring special skill
"only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"
"a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"
"a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"
"a skilled trade"
<-> unskilled
{adj: sorrowful} experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
"sorrowful widows"
"a sorrowful tale of death and despair"
"sorrowful news"
"even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
<-> joyful
{adj: superior} of high or superior quality or performance
"superior wisdom derived from experience"
"superior math students"
<-> inferior
{adj: synesthetic, synaesthetic} relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense
"synesthetic response to music"
"synesthetic metaphor"
{adj: transcendent} beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
"philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston
"the unknowable mysteries of life"
{adj: traumatic} psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child";
{adj: trial-and-error} relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory
"they adopted a trial-and-error procedure"
{adj: triumphant, victorious} experiencing triumph
{adj: trustworthy, trusty} worthy of trust or belief
"a trustworthy report"
"an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion"
<-> untrustworthy
{adj: uncomfortable} providing or experiencing physical discomfort
"an uncomfortable chair"
"an uncomfortable day in the hot sun"
<-> comfortable
{adj: unhappy} experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
"unhappy over her departure"
"unhappy with her raise"
"after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"
"had an unhappy time at school"
"the unhappy (or sad) news"
"he looks so sad"
<-> happy
{adj: uninitiate, uninitiated, naive} not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
"it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"
"he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"
{adj: unique} highly unusual or rare but not the single instance
"spoke with a unique accent"
"had unique ability in raising funds"
"a frankness unique in literature"
"a unique dining experience"
{adj: unperplexed} experiencing no difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
<-> perplexed
{adj: unseasoned, untested, untried, young} not tried or tested by experience
"unseasoned artillery volunteers"
"still untested in battle"
"an illustrator untried in mural painting"
"a young hand at plowing"
{adj: usual} occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure
"grew the usual vegetables"
"the usual summer heat"
"came at the usual time"
"the child's usual bedtime"
<-> unusual
{adj: vicarious} experienced at secondhand
"read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"
{adj: vivid} having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience
"a vivid recollection"
{adj: worldly-wise} experienced in and wise to the ways of the world
{adv: cumulatively} in a cumulative manner
"mind has become self-reproducing through man's capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively"
{adv: lightly, light} with few burdens
"experienced travellers travel light"
{n: Black Death, Black Plague} the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
{n: Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck} United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973)
{n: Coriolis effect} (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
{n: Daniel, Book of Daniel, Book of the Prophet Daniel} an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar
{n: Heller, Joseph Heller} United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999)
{n: Kesey, Ken Kesey, Ken Elton Kesey} United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001)
{n: Locke, John Locke} English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
{n: London, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney} United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
{n: Lorentz force} the force experienced by a point charge moving along a wire that is in a magnetic field; the force is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic field
"the Lorentz force can be used to suspend a current-carrying object between two magnets"
{n: Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim} Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)
{n: Pentecostal religion} any fundamentalist Protestant church that uses revivalistic methods to achieve experiences comparable to the Pentecostal experiences of the first Christian disciples
{n: Scientology, Church of Scientology} a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment
{n: Sufi} a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam; a Muslim who seeks direct experience of Allah; mainly in Iran
{n: acidity, acidulousness} the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth
{n: acquired taste} a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience
"martinis are an acquired taste"
{n: advantage, vantage} the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
"the experience gave him the advantage over me"
<-> disadvantage
{n: airsickness, air sickness} motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence)
{n: algolagnia, algophilia} sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain
{n: anhedonia} an inability to experience pleasure
{n: anxiety} a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
{n: appalling} an experience that appalls
"is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"
{n: apperception} the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
{n: astringency, astringence} a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
{n: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication} an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
"he hoped it was an augury"
"it was a sign from God"
{n: background} a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
"he is a lawyer with a sports background"
{n: bitter, bitterness} the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
{n: born-again Christian} a Christian who has experienced a dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus
{n: bummer} an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing
"having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"
{n: callowness, jejuneness, juvenility} lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
{n: calvary, martyrdom} any experience that causes intense suffering
{n: car sickness} motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car
{n: chemical terrorism} terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare; can undermine the personal security of citizens
"a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced"
{n: chromesthesia, chromaesthesia} a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations
{n: colored hearing, colored audition} a form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli
{n: comfort woman, ianfu} a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II
"she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman"
{n: constancy, perceptual constancy} (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
{n: cooking, cookery, preparation} the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
"cooking can be a great art"
"people are needed who have experience in cookery"
"he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
{n: daisy chain} (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences
{n: deja vu} the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
{n: diary, journal} a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
{n: dust storm, duster, sandstorm, sirocco} a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
"it was the kind of duster not experienced in years"
{n: empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism} (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
{n: enjoyer} a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something
{n: entasis} a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight
{n: eremitism} monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience
{n: experience} an event as apprehended
"a surprising experience"
"that painful experience certainly got our attention"
{n: experience} the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
"a man of experience"
"experience is the best teacher"
<-> inexperience
{n: experience} the content of direct observation or participation in an event
"he had a religious experience"
"he recalled the experience vividly"
{n: exposure} the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
"she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
{n: expressionism} an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
{n: familiarization, familiarisation} the experience of becoming familiar with something
{n: fatigue} (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something
"he was suffering from museum fatigue"
"after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"
"the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"
"political fatigue"
{n: fear, fearfulness, fright} an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
<-> fearlessness
{n: feast} something experienced with great delight
"a feast for the eyes"
{n: feeling} a physical sensation that you experience
"he had a queasy feeling"
"I had a strange feeling in my leg"
"he lost all feeling in his arm"
{n: feeling} the experiencing of affective and emotional states
"she had a feeling of euphoria"
"he had terrible feelings of guilt"
"I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
{n: flash, flashing} a short vivid experience
"a flash of emotion swept over him"
"the flashings of pain were a warning"
{n: flashback} an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
{n: forwarding, furtherance, promotion} the advancement of some enterprise
"his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career"
{n: frustration, defeat} the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
{n: gender identity} your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence
{n: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre} a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
"it aroused specters from his past"
{n: gladness, gladfulness, gladsomeness} experiencing joy and pleasure
{n: good time, blast} a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
"we had a good time at the party"
"celebrating after the game was a blast"
{n: government, governing, governance, government activity} the act of governing; exercising authority
"regulations for the governing of state prisons"
"he had considerable experience of government"
{n: ground effect} apparent increase in aerodynamic lift experienced by an aircraft flying close to the ground
{n: growing pains} pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
{n: hallucinogen, hallucinogenic drug, psychedelic drug, psychodelic drug} a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences
{n: happiness} emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
<-> sadness
{n: high point} the most enjoyable part of a given experience
"the trumpet solo was the high point of the concert"
{n: home theater, home theatre} television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater
{n: implosion therapy, flooding} a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
{n: inexperience, rawness} lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
"procedural inexperience created difficulties"
"their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"
<-> experience
{n: information} knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
{n: insecurity} the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
{n: intelligence} the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
<-> stupidity
{n: intern, interne, houseman, medical intern} an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
{n: jamais vu} the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy
{n: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty} the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
"the nub of the story"
{n: knock} a bad experience
"the school of hard knocks"
{n: life, living} the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
{n: light} mental understanding as an enlightening experience
"he finally saw the light"
"can you shed light on this problem?"
{n: loss} the experience of losing a loved one
"he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather"
{n: memoir} an account of the author's personal experiences
{n: memory image} a mental image of something previously experienced
{n: memory, remembering} the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
"he can do it from memory"
"he enjoyed remembering his father"
{n: memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity} the power of retaining and recalling past experience
"he had a good memory when he was younger"
{n: mountain sickness} nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet
{n: near-death experience} the experience of being close to death but surviving
{n: noise, dissonance, racket} the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
"modern music is just noise to me"
{n: ordeal} a severe or trying experience
{n: otherness, distinctness, separateness} the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
{n: out-of-body experience} the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body
{n: overexposure} the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience
"an overexposure to violence on television"
{n: pain threshold} the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced
"some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people"
{n: past master} someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity
{n: percept, perception, perceptual experience} the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
{n: performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action} the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
"they criticised his performance as mayor"
"experience generally improves performance"
{n: phenomenology} a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account
{n: pleasure, pleasance} a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
"he was tingling with pleasure"
<-> pain
{n: positivism, logical positivism} the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
{n: probability} the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event
"for a while mutiny seemed a probability"
"going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost"
<-> improbability
{n: proverb, adage, saw, byword} a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
{n: psychedelic rock, acid rock} a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience
{n: quackery, empiricism} medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
{n: rationalism} (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
{n: reaction} an idea evoked by some experience
"his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do"
{n: real world, real life} the practical world as opposed to the academic world
"a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world"
{n: reliance, trust} certainty based on past experience
"he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"
"he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"
{n: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang} the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
{n: reliving, re-experiencing} a recurrence of a prior experience
"the reliving of a strong emotion can be therapeutic"
{n: reminder} an experience that causes you to remember something
{n: retrospection} memory for experiences that are past
"some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"
{n: sadness, unhappiness} emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
<-> happiness
{n: salt, saltiness, salinity} the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
{n: screen memory} an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance
{n: seasickness, mal de mer, naupathia} motion sickness experienced while traveling on water
{n: sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum} an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
"a sensation of touch"
{n: smart money} money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information)
{n: smart money} people who are highly experienced or who have inside information
"the smart money said Truman would lose the election"
{n: sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity} the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
<-> naivete
{n: sour, sourness, tartness} the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
{n: stream of consciousness} the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
{n: stupidity} a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
<-> intelligence
{n: subjectivism} (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
{n: survivor guilt} a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died
"survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust"
{n: sweet, sweetness, sugariness} the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
{n: symptom} (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
{n: synesthetic metaphor} a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities
{n: tabula rasa} a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
{n: taste} a brief experience of something
"he got a taste of life on the wild side"
"she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
{n: teacher} a personified abstraction that teaches
"books were his teachers"
"experience is a demanding teacher"
{n: threshold} the starting point for a new state or experience
"on the threshold of manhood"
{n: thrill} something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
"the thrills of space travel"
{n: time} a person's experience on a particular occasion
"he had a time holding back the tears"
"they had a good time together"
{n: time} the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
{n: tradecraft} skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage
"instructional designers are trained in something that might be called tradecraft"
"the CIA chief of station accepted responsibility for his agents' failures of tradecraft"
{n: transcendence, transcendency} a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
{n: trip, head trip} an exciting or stimulating experience
{n: trip} a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
"an acid trip"
{n: trust, trustingness, trustfulness} the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
"the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity"
<-> distrust
{n: unfriendliness} dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness
<-> friendliness
{n: veteran, old-timer, oldtimer, old hand, warhorse, old stager, stager} an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service
{n: vibration} a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively
"that place gave me bad vibrations"
{n: vision, visual sensation} the perceptual experience of seeing
"the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"
"he had a visual sensation of intense light"
{n: vision} a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
"he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
{n: voice} something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
"the wee small voice of conscience"
"the voice of experience"
"he said his voices told him to do it"
{n: warrior} someone engaged in or experienced in warfare
{n: web log, blog} a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies
"postings on a blog are usually in chronological order"
{n: wisdom, sapience} ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
{n: wisdom, wiseness} the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
<-> folly
{n: withdrawal symptom} any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug
{n: woodcraft} skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
{n: world, reality} all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
"his world was shattered"
"we live in different worlds"
"for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
{v: apperceive} perceive in terms of a past experience
{v: break} weaken or destroy in spirit or body
"His resistance was broken"
"a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
{v: choke} breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
"She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
{v: come near} almost do or experience something
"She came near to screaming with fear"
{v: come, follow} to be the product or result
"Melons come from a vine"
"Understanding comes from experience"
{v: come} experience orgasm
"she could not come because she was too upset"
{v: defervesce} experience an abatement of a fever
{v: determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate} shape or influence ; give direction to
"experience often determines ability"
"mold public opinion"
{v: develop, acquire, evolve} gain through experience
"I acquired a strong aversion to television"
"Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"
"Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"
"develop a passion for painting"
{v: dream} experience while sleeping
"She claims to never dream"
"He dreamt a strange scene"
{v: enrich} make better or improve in quality
"The experience enriched her understanding"
"enriched foods"
<-> deprive
{v: experience, receive, have, get, undergo} of mental or physical states or experiences
"get an idea"
"experience vertigo"
"get nauseous"
"undergo a strange sensation"
"The chemical undergoes a sudden change"
"The fluid undergoes shear"
"receive injuries"
"have a feeling"
{v: experience, undergo, see, go through} go or live through
"We had many trials to go through"
"he saw action in Viet Nam"
{v: experiment, try out} try something new, as in order to gain experience
"Students experiment sexually"
"The composer experimented with a new style"
{v: extrapolate} gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating
{v: fall in love} begin to experience feelings of love towards
"She fell in love with her former student"
{v: feel, experience} undergo an emotional sensation
"She felt resentful"
"He felt regret"
{v: feel} undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"
"her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"
"she felt his contempt of her"
{v: glow, beam, radiate, shine} experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
"She was beaming with joy"
"Her face radiated with happiness"
{v: have, experience} undergo
"The stocks had a fast run-up"
{v: hit, strike, come to} cause to experience suddenly
"Panic struck me"
"An interesting idea hit her"
"A thought came to me"
"The thought struck terror in our minds"
"They were struck with fear"
{v: humble} cause to be unpretentious
"This experience will humble him"
{v: isolate} separate (experiences) fromt he emotions relating to them
{v: know, experience, live} have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
"I know the feeling!"
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